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    Abelian Conformal Field theories and Determinant Bundles

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    The present paper is the first in a series of papers, in which we shall construct modular functors and Topological Quantum Field Theories from the conformal field theory developed in [TUY]. The basic idea is that the covariant constant sections of the sheaf of vacua associated to a simple Lie algebra over Teichm\"uller space of an oriented pointed surface gives the vectorspace the modular functor associates to the oriented pointed surface. However the connection on the sheaf of vacua is only projectively flat, so we need to find a suitable line bundle with a connection, such that the tensor product of the two has a flat connection. We shall construct a line bundle with a connection on any family of pointed curves with formal coordinates. By computing the curvature of this line bundle, we conclude that we actually need a fractional power of this line bundle so as to obtain a flat connection after tensoring. In order to functorially extract this fractional power, we need to construct a preferred section of the line bundle. We shall construct the line bundle by the use of the so-called bcbc-ghost systems (Faddeev-Popov ghosts) first introduced in covariant quantization [FP]. We follow the ideas of [KNTY], but decribe it from the point of view of [TUY].Comment: A couple of typos correcte

    A phased array tracking antenna for vehicles

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    An antenna system including antenna elements and a satellite tracking method is considered a key technology in implementing land mobile satellite communications. In the early stage of land mobile satellite communications, a mechanical tracking antenna system is considered the best candidate for vehicles, however, a phased array antenna will replace it in the near future, because it has many attractive advantages such as a low and compact profile, high speed tracking, and potential low cost. Communications Research Laboratory is now developing a new phased array antenna system for land vehicles based on research experiences of the airborne phased array antenna, which was developed and evaluated in satellite communication experiments using the ETS-V satellite. The basic characteristics of the phased array antenna for land vehicles are described

    Fracture behavior of single crystal silicon with thermal oxide layer

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    This paper reports on the effect of oxidation on fracture behavior of single crystal silicon (SCS). SCS specimens were fabricated from (1. 0. 0) silicon-on-insulator wafer with 5-μm-thick device layer and oxide layer were thermally grown. Quasi-static tensile testing of as-fabricated, oxidized and oxidized layer removed specimens was performed. The fracture origin location transited from the surface to silicon/oxide interface and inside of silicon. The transition may be caused by surface smoothing, thickening oxide layer and formation of oxide precipitation defects in silicon during oxidation. The radius of the oxide precipitation defects was estimated, which is well agreed with the fracture-initiating crack sizes

    Construction and Expansion of Dictionary of Idiomatic Emotional Expressions and Idiomatic Emotional Expression Corpus

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    Objective: In the study of sentiment estimation from language, methods focusing on words, phrases, sentence patterns, and sentence-final expressions have been proposed. However, it is difficult to deal with a wide variety of emotional expressions by only assigning emotions to words and phrases. In particular, it is difficult to analyze metaphorical expressions and idiomatic expressions on a word-by-word basis, and it is impossible to register all expressions in a dictionary because new expressions can be created by flexibly replacing words. However, it is difficult to determine the constraints on the words to be replaced, and not all expressions can be registered in the dictionary as sentence patterns. Methods: In this paper, we construct a dictionary of idiomatic sentiment expressions, which contains idioms expressing emotions. In this paper, we construct a pseudo-emotional corpus by collecting utterances containing emotional idioms from social media and automatically assigning emotions expressed by the idioms. Results: This corpus includes expressions other than idioms, and can be an effective resource for estimating emotions in sentences that do not contain idioms. In this study, we create an emotion estimation model for utterances based on the constructed corpus, and conduct evaluation experiments to explore the problems of the idiomatic emotion corpus. In addition, using the constructed sentiment corpus, we investigate how to expand the dictionary of sentiment expressions in idiomatic phrases by using deep learning methods. Conclusion: Using the corpus of idiomatic sentiments constructed by the proposed method as training data, models with and without idioms were constructed by machine learning models. The results show that the F-values of all emotions with idioms exceed 0.8. On the other hand, when idioms were not included, the F-values tended to decrease overall. However, the F-values of emotions such as "shame" and "excitement" were around 0.7, indicating that the characteristics of emotional expressions other than idioms were expressed

    Visualization of Flow in Scroll Compressor by Radiography

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    Saving energy and resources in the air conditioning industry is required in order to protect the global environment. To save resources, miniaturization of the compressor in air conditioners is necessary. This miniaturization will increase the oil circulation rate (OCR) of the compressor because the oil separation space will be reduced. To improve the oil separation efficiency, it is necessary to understand the appearance of the flow of oil and refrigerant in the compressor chamber. This paper reports a technique to visualize the flow by using neutron radiography and X-ray radiography. Furthermore, a method to measure the oil concentration by carrying out image processing is described

    Intrapulmonary metastasis of non–small cell lung cancer: A prognostic assessment

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    AbstractObjective: According to the revised TNM classification in 1997, intrapulmonary metastasis within the same lobe of the primary tumor is designated as T4 and intrapulmonary metastasis in a different lobe is M1. However, their prognostic implications remain unclear. To assess their prognoses, we retrospectively analyzed the postoperative survival of patients with and without intrapulmonary metastasis. Methods: From January 1982 to December 1996, 2340 patients with non–small cell lung cancer underwent surgical resection. The survival of patients having complete resection (n = 1534) was analyzed according to their intrapulmonary metastasis status: patients without intrapulmonary metastasis (n = 1393), those with metastasis in the same lobe (n = 105), and those with metastasis in a different lobe (n = 18). For comparison, patients with T4 disease without intrapulmonary metastasis in the same lobe (n = 54) and those with M1 disease without metastasis in a different lobe (distant M1, n = 18) were also analyzed. Results: The overall 5-year survivals were as follows: no intrapulmonary metastasis, 60%; stage T4 disease with no intrapulmonary metastasis, 34%; pulmonary metastasis in the same lobe, 34%; pulmonary metastasis in a different lobe, 11%; and distant M1, 6%. The differences in survival between patients with no pulmonary metastasis and those with metastasis in the same lobe (P <.001, log-rank test) and between patients with metastasis in the same lobe and those with distant M1 (P <.001) were significant. In contrast, there was no significant difference between patients with metastasis in the same lobe and those with T4 disease and no intrapulmonary metastasis or between patients with metastasis to a different lobe and those with distant M1. Conclusions: Prognostically, intrapulmonary metastasis within the same lobe of the primary tumor was comparable with T4 and that in a different lobe was comparable with M1. In terms of postoperative prognosis, the revised TNM classification for intrapulmonary metastasis seems to be appropriate.J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;122:24-

    Classification of Smartphone Application Reviews Using Small Corpus Based on Bidirectional LSTM Transformer

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    This paper provides the classification of the review texts on a smartphone application posted on social media. We propose a high performance binary classification method (positive/negative) of review texts, which uses the bidirectional long short-term memory (biLSTM) self-attentional Transformer and is based on the distributed representations created by unsupervised learning of a manually labelled small review corpus, dictionary, and an unlabeled large review corpus. The proposed method obtained higher accuracy as compared to the existing methods, such as StarSpace or the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT)

    Relationship Between Personality Patterns and Harmfulness : Analysis and Prediction Based on Sentence Embedding

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    This paper hypothesizes that harmful utterances need to be judged in the context of whole sentences, and the authors extract features of harmful expressions using a general-purpose language model. Based on the extracted features, the authors propose a method to predict the presence or absence of harmful categories. In addition, the authors believe that it is possible to analyze users who incite others by combining this method with research on analyzing the personality of the speaker from statements on social networking sites. The results confirmed that the proposed method can judge the possibility of harmful comments with higher accuracy than simple dictionary-based models or models using a distributed representation of words. The relationship between personality patterns and harmful expressions was also confirmed by an analysis based on a harmful judgment model
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