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An artificial neural network application on nuclear charge radii
The artificial neural networks (ANNs) have emerged with successful
applications in nuclear physics as well as in many fields of science in recent
years. In this paper, by using (ANNs), we have constructed a formula for the
nuclear charge radii. Statistical modeling of nuclear charge radii by using
ANNs has been seen as to be successful. Also, the charge radii, binding
energies and two-neutron separation energies of Sn isotopes have been
calculated by implementing of the new formula in Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB)
calculations. The results of the study shows that the new formula is useful for
describing nuclear charge radii.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Spectra, vacua and the unitarity of Lovelock gravity in D-dimensional AdS spacetimes
We explicitly confirm the expectation that generic Lovelock gravity in D
dimensions has a unitary massless spin-2 excitation around any one of its
constant curvature vacua just like the cosmological Einstein gravity. The
propagator of the theory reduces to that of Einstein's gravity, but scattering
amplitudes must be computed with an effective Newton's constant which we
provide. Tree-level unitarity imposes a single constraint on the parameters of
the theory yielding a wide range of unitary region. As an example, we
explicitly work out the details of the cubic Lovelock theory.Comment: 9 pages, 2 references adde
The Investigation on Physical Education Teacher Candidate’s Resilience, Tenacity and Motivation Levels
The main purpose of this study is to examine possible relationships between resilience, tenacity and motivation of physical education teacher candidates. In addition, resilience, tenacity and motivation levels were examined according to class and gender levels. Participants of the study are 154 PE students in Ağrı province. There are 50 female participants and 104 male students. The Resilience Scale adapted to Turkish by Sarıçam et al. (2012). The Tenacity Scale-Short Form adapted to Turkish by Sarıçam et al. (2016) Stability Scale and Personal Information Form were used. To analyze the data, t test, ANOVA, Pearson moment product correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used. 99% p <.01 was taken as confidence interval in the study. According to research findings, there are statistically significant relationships in positive direction among the resilience, tenacity and motivation in the candidates of physical education teachers. When the resilience increases, tenacity and motivation levels also increase. According to gender and class level, resilience, tenacity and motivational stability do not differ statistically. The study can be expanded by adding different sections and classes
Green's Matrix for a Second Order Self-Adjoint Matrix Differential Operator
A systematic construction of the Green's matrix for a second order,
self-adjoint matrix differential operator from the linearly independent
solutions of the corresponding homogeneous differential equation set is carried
out. We follow the general approach of extracting the Green's matrix from the
Green's matrix of the corresponding first order system. This construction is
required in the cases where the differential equation set cannot be turned to
an algebraic equation set via transform techniques.Comment: 19 page
Complex Monopoles in the Georgi-Glashow-Chern-Simons Model
We investigate the three dimensional Georgi-Glashow model with a Chern-Simons
term. We find that there exist complex monopole solutions of finite action.
They dominate the path integral and disorder the Higgs vacuum, but electric
charges are not confined. Subtleties in the gauge fixing procedure in the path
integral and issues related to Gribov copies are noted.Comment: 24 pages and 3 figures, Section 5 is extended,References adde
All unitary cubic curvature gravities in D dimensions
We construct all the unitary cubic curvature gravity theories built on the
contractions of the Riemann tensor in D -dimensional (anti)-de Sitter
spacetimes. Our construction is based on finding the equivalent quadratic
action for the general cubic curvature theory and imposing ghost and tachyon
freedom, which greatly simplifies the highly complicated problem of finding the
propagator of cubic curvature theories in constant curvature backgrounds. To
carry out the procedure we have also classified all the unitary quadratic
models. We use our general results to study the recently found cubic curvature
theories using different techniques and the string generated cubic curvature
gravity model. We also study the scattering in critical gravity and give its
cubic curvature extensions.Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure, v2: A subsection on cubic curvature extensions of
critical gravity is added, v3: The part regarding critical gravity is
revised. Version to appear in Class. Quant. Gra
Effect of different segmentation methods using optical satellite imagery to estimate fuzzy clustering parameters for Sentinel-1A SAR images
Optical and SAR data are efficient data sources for shoreline monitoring. The processing of SAR data such as feature extraction is not an easy task since the images have totally different structure than optical imagery. Determination of threshold value is a challenging task for SAR data. In this study, SENTINEL-2A optical data was used as ancillary data to predict fuzzy membership parameters for segmentation of SENTINEL-1A SAR data to extract shoreline. SENTINEL-2A and SENTINEL-1A satellite images used were taken in September 9, 2016 and September 13, 2016 respectively. Three different segmentation algorithms which are selected from object, learning and pixel-based methods. They have been exploited to obtain land and water classes which have been used as an input data for parameter estimation. Thus, the performance of different segmentation algorithm has been investigated and analysed. In the first step of the study, Mean-Shift, Random Forest and Whale Optimization algorithms have been employed to obtain water and land classes from the SENTINEL-2A image. Water and land classes derived from each algorithm – are used as input data, and then the required parameters for the fuzzy clustering of SENTINEL-1A SAR image, were calculated. Lake Constance, Germany has been chosen as the study area. In this study, additionally an interface plugin has been developed and integrated into the open source Quantum GIS software platform. The developed interface allows non-experts to process and extract the shorelines without using any parameters. But, this system requires pre-segmented data as input. Thus, the batch process calculates the required parameters
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