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Applications of Fog Computing in Video Streaming
The purpose of this paper is to show the viability of fog computing in the area of video streaming in vehicles. With the rise of autonomous vehicles, there needs to be a viable entertainment option for users. The cloud fails to address these options due to latency problems experienced during high internet traffic. To improve video streaming speeds, fog computing seems to be the best option. Fog computing brings the cloud closer to the user through the use of intermediary devices known as fog nodes. It does not attempt to replace the cloud but improve the cloud by allowing faster upload and download of information. This paper explores two algorithms that would work well with vehicles and video streaming. This is simulated using a Java application, and then graphically represented. The results showed that the simulation was an accurate model and that the best algorithm for request history maintenance was the variable model
Conduction in jammed systems of tetrahedra
Control of transport processes in composite microstructures is critical to
the development of high performance functional materials for a variety of
energy storage applications. The fundamental process of conduction and its
control through the manipulation of granular composite attributes (e.g., grain
shape) are the subject of this work. We show that athermally jammed packings of
tetrahedra with ultra-short range order exhibit fundamentally different
pathways for conduction than those in dense sphere packings. Highly resistive
granular constrictions and few face-face contacts between grains result in
short-range distortions from the mean temperature field. As a consequence,
'granular' or differential effective medium theory predicts the conductivity of
this media within 10% at the jamming point; in contrast, strong enhancement of
transport near interparticle contacts in packed-sphere composites results in
conductivity divergence at the jamming onset. The results are expected to be
particularly relevant to the development of nanomaterials, where nanoparticle
building blocks can exhibit a variety of faceted shapes.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
Baryons still trace dark matter: probing CMB lensing maps for hidden isocurvature
Compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) are primordial fluctuations
that balance baryon and dark-matter isocurvature to leave the total matter
density unperturbed. The effects of CIPs on the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) anisotropies are similar to those produced by weak lensing of the CMB:
smoothing of the power spectrum, and generation of non-Gaussian features.
Previous work considered the CIP effects on the CMB power-spectrum but
neglected to include the CIP effects on estimates of the lensing potential
power spectrum (though its contribution to the non-Gaussian, connected, part of
the CMB trispectrum). Here, the CIP contribution to the standard estimator for
the lensing potential power-spectrum is derived, and along with the CIP
contributions to the CMB power-spectrum, Planck data is used to place limits on
the root-mean-square CIP fluctuations on CMB scales, . The resulting constraint of using this new technique improves on past work by a factor of
. We find that for Planck data our constraints almost reach the
sensitivity of the optimal CIP estimator. The method presented here is
currently the most sensitive probe of the amplitude of a scale-invariant CIP
power spectrum placing an upper limit of at 95% CL. Future
measurements of the large-scale CMB lensing potential power spectrum could
probe CIP amplitudes as low as ().Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures; comments welcome; v2 references correcte
Supplemental analysis for: "Seismic response of Cook Inlet sedimentary basin, southern Alaska"
This collection is a supplement to a manuscript in preparation by Kyle Smith and Carl Tape entitled ``Seismic response of Cook Inlet sedimentary basin, southern Alaska,'' to be submitted to Seismological Research Letters
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and progressive central nervous system (CNS) disease with a largely unknown etiology. It is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder that causes inflammation and scarring on the myelin sheaths of neuronal axons. Because it affects the CNS, it has many debilitating signs and symptoms that involve the sensory, motor, cognitive, and autonomic systems (Capriotti, Noel, & Brissenden, 2018)
Precision Management of Inputs in Cotton and Soybean Production in South Carolina
The adoption of precision agriculture technologies and developing specific product use recommendations in cotton and soybean production could help farmers reduce input costs and optimize overall farm profitability. The objectives of this research were to evaluate whether or not the use of variable rate seeding in cotton could increase profitability and to determine the rainfast interval of commonly used insecticides in cotton and soybean production. The first trial, variable rate seeding in cotton, was implemented at the Edisto Research and Education Center near Blackville, SC across five years to evaluate variable rate seeding in cotton. Results from trials in South Carolina across five years to compare variable rate seeding with six different uniform seeding rates indicated that using variable rate seeding in did not appear to improve overall profitability over the optimum uniform seeding rate, but more data are needed with the strategy under variable circumstances (additional varieties, irrigation versus dryland, etc.) to test the reliability of the approach.
The second trial, insecticide efficacy at various washoff intervals, was evaluated in cotton and soybean at the Edisto REC in 2021 and 2022. After various intervals of simulated rainfall events (ranging from \u3c 0.5 hour up to 24 hours after application of insecticide), the contact efficacy of selected insecticides against numerous important insect species in cotton and soybeans was minimally reduced, suggesting that commonly used insecticides can have a short rainfast interval (\u3c 0.5 hour) in the crops. These results should caution against the common practice of automatic reapplication of insecticide following a rainfall event and encourage an assessment of insect control before retreatment, potentially reducing input costs
Variable-cell method for stress-controlled jamming of athermal, frictionless grains
A new method is introduced to simulate jamming of polyhedral grains under
controlled stress that incorporates global degrees of freedom through the
metric tensor of a periodic cell containing grains. Jamming under
hydrostatic/isotropic stress and athermal conditions leads to a precise
definition of the ideal jamming point at zero shear stress. The structures of
tetrahedra jammed hydrostatically exhibit less translational order and lower
jamming-point density than previously described `maximally random jammed' hard
tetrahedra. Under the same conditions, cubes jam with negligible nematic order.
Grains with octahedral symmetry jam in the large-system limit with an abundance
of face-face contacts in the absence of nematic order. For sufficiently large
face-face contact number, percolating clusters form that span the entire
simulation box. The response of hydrostatically jammed tetrahedra and cubes to
shear-stress perturbation is also demonstrated with the variable-cell method.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Baryons Still Trace Dark Matter: Probing CMB Lensing Maps For Hidden Isocurvature
Compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) are primordial fluctuations that balance baryon and dark-matter isocurvature to leave the total matter density unperturbed. The effects of CIPs on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are similar to those produced by weak lensing of the CMB: smoothing of the power spectrum and generation of non-Gaussian features. Here, an entirely new CIP contribution to the standard estimator for the lensing-potential power spectrum is derived. Planck measurements of the temperature and polarization power spectrum, as well as estimates of CMB lensing, are used to place limits on the variance of the CIP fluctuations on CMB scales, Δ2rms(RCMB). The resulting constraint of Δ2rms(RCMB)\u3c4.3×10−3 at 95% confidence level (CL) using this new technique improves on past work by a factor of ∼3. We find that for Planck data our constraints almost reach the sensitivity of the optimal CIP estimator. The method presented here is currently the most sensitive probe of the amplitude of a scale-invariant CIP power spectrum, ACIP, placing an upper limit of ACIP\u3c0.017 at 95% CL. Future measurements of the large-scale CMB lensing-potential power spectrum could probe CIP amplitudes as low as Δ2rms(RCMB)=8×10−5 at 95% CL (corresponding to ACIP=3.2×10−4)
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