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Contraints on radiative dark-matter decay from the cosmic microwave background
If dark matter decays to electromagnetically-interacting particles, it can
inject energy into the baryonic gas and thus affect the processes of
recombination and reionization. This leaves an imprint on the cosmic microwave
background (CMB): the large-scale polarization is enhanced, and the small-scale
temperature fluctuation is damped. We use the WMAP three-year data combined
with galaxy surveys to constrain radiatively decaying dark matter. Our new
limits to the dark-matter decay width are about ten times stronger than
previous limits. For dark-matter lifetimes that exceed the age of the Universe,
a limit of (95% CL) is
derived, where is the efficiency of converting decay energy into
ionization energy. Limits for lifetimes short compared with the age of the
Universe are also derived. We forecast improvements expected from the Planck
satellite.Comment: replaced with version published on PR
Top quark spin and interaction in charged Higgs and top quark associated production at LHC
We study the charged Higgs production at LHC via its associated production
with top quark. The kinematic cuts are optimized to suppress the background
processes so that the reconstruction of the charged Higgs and top quark is
possible. The angular distributions with respect to top quark spin are explored
to study the interaction at LHC.Comment: 10 pages,5 figures, to appear in PR
Risk Intelligence: Making Profit from Uncertainty in Data Processing System
In extreme scale data processing systems, fault tolerance is an essential and indispensable part. Proactive fault tolerance scheme (such as the speculative execution in MapReduce framework) is introduced to dramatically improve the response time of job executions when the failure becomes a norm rather than an exception. Efficient proactive fault tolerance schemes require precise knowledge on the task executions, which has been an open challenge for decades. To well address the issue, in this paper we design and implement RiskI, a profile-based prediction algorithm in conjunction with a riskaware task assignment algorithm, to accelerate task executions, taking the uncertainty nature of tasks into account. Our design demonstrates that the nature uncertainty brings not only great challenges, but also new opportunities. With a careful design, we can benefit from such uncertainties. We implement the idea in Hadoop 0.21.0 systems and the experimental results show that, compared with the traditional LATE algorithm, the response time can be improved by 46% with the same system throughput
Handling Attrition in Longitudinal Studies: The Case for Refreshment Samples
Panel studies typically suffer from attrition, which reduces sample size and
can result in biased inferences. It is impossible to know whether or not the
attrition causes bias from the observed panel data alone. Refreshment samples -
new, randomly sampled respondents given the questionnaire at the same time as a
subsequent wave of the panel - offer information that can be used to diagnose
and adjust for bias due to attrition. We review and bolster the case for the
use of refreshment samples in panel studies. We include examples of both a
fully Bayesian approach for analyzing the concatenated panel and refreshment
data, and a multiple imputation approach for analyzing only the original panel.
For the latter, we document a positive bias in the usual multiple imputation
variance estimator. We present models appropriate for three waves and two
refreshment samples, including nonterminal attrition. We illustrate the
three-wave analysis using the 2007-2008 Associated Press-Yahoo! News Election
Poll.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-STS414 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Closed-loop control of complex networks : A trade-off between time and energy
W. L. is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 11322111 and No. 61773125). Y.-Z. S. is supported by the NSFC (Grant No. 61403393). Y.-C. L. acknowledges support from the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship program sponsored by the Basic Research Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and funded by the Office of Naval Research through Grant No. N00014-16-1-2828. Y.-Z. S. and S.-Y. L. contributed equally to this work.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Performance Evaluation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in Plate-fin Heat Exchangers with Offset Strip Fins
AbstractGenerally, the Offset Strip Fin (OSF) in a plate-fin heat exchanger provides a greater heat transfer coefficient than plain plate-fin, but it also leads to an increase in flow friction. A new parameter, called relative entropy generation distribution factor, Ψ*, is proposed to evaluate the thermodynamic advantages of OSFs. This parameter presents a ratio of relative changes of entropy generation. The relative effects of the geometrical parameters α, γ and δ are discussed. The results show that there exist the optimum values of α and γ at a certain flow condition, which obviously maximize the degree of the heat transfer enhancement of OSFs
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