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Qubit Mapping Toward Quantum Advantage
Qubit Mapping is a pivotal stage in quantum compilation flow. Its goal is to
convert logical circuits into physical circuits so that a quantum algorithm can
be executed on real-world non-fully connected quantum devices. Qubit Mapping
techniques nowadays still lack the key to quantum advantage, scalability.
Several studies have proved that at least thousands of logical qubits are
required to achieve quantum computational advantage. However, to our best
knowledge, there is no previous research with the ability to solve the qubit
mapping problem with the necessary number of qubits for quantum advantage in a
reasonable time. In this work, we provide the first qubit mapping framework
with the scalability to achieve quantum advantage while accomplishing a fairly
good performance. The framework also boasts its flexibility for quantum
circuits of different characteristics. Experimental results show that the
proposed mapping method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on quantum
circuit benchmarks by improving over 5% of the cost complexity in one-tenth of
the program running time. Moreover, we demonstrate the scalability of our
method by accomplishing mapping of an 11,969-qubit Quantum Fourier Transform
within five hours
Inhibition of attachment of oral bacteria to immortalized human gingival fibroblasts (HGF-1) by tea extracts and tea components
Background: Tea has been suggested to promote oral health by inhibiting bacterial attachment to the oral cavity. Most studies have focused on prevention of bacterial attachment to hard surfaces such as enamel. Findings: This study investigated the effect of five commercial tea (green, oolong, black, pu-erh and chrysanthemum) extracts and tea components (epigallocatechin gallate and gallic acid) on the attachment of five oral pathogens (Streptococcus mutans ATCC 25175, Streptococcus mutans ATCC 35668, Streptococcus mitis ATCC 49456, Streptococcus salivarius ATCC 13419 and Actinomyces naeslundii ATCC 51655) to the HGF-1 gingival cell line. Extracts of two of the teas (pu-erh and chrysanthemum) significantly (p < 0.05) reduced attachment of all the Streptococcus strains by up to 4 log CFU/well but effects of other teas and components were small. Conclusions: Pu-erh and chrysanthemum tea may have the potential to reduce attachment of oral pathogens to gingival tissue and improve the health of oral soft tissues
BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF HIGH-LOW IMPACT AEROBIC DANCE AND STEP AEROBICS
The purpose of this study was to compare the kinematics and kinetics both in high-Iow impact aerobic dance and step aerobics. Six female subjects performed front knee lift movements under high-Iow impact aerobics and two-step heights (10, 20 cm) in step aerobics. One Peak high-speed camera (120 Hz) and one Kistler force plate (600 Hz) were synchronized to collect the data. An ANOVA for repeated measures was used to identify differences for each dependent variable. The result indicated that it is important to flex at the knee and ankle joints in order to absorb and reduce the shock in the landing phase. When compared to the low impact front knee lift, high impact front knee lift and two-step heights of step aerobics had significant shorter time to first peak impact force and higher values for first peak impact force, passive impact impulse, and total work
Propagation of Memory Parameter from Durations to Counts
We establish sufficient conditions on durations that are stationary with
finite variance and memory parameter to ensure that the
corresponding counting process satisfies () as , with the same memory parameter that was assumed for the durations. Thus, these conditions ensure that
the memory in durations propagates to the same memory parameter in counts and
therefore in realized volatility. We then show that any utoregressive
Conditional Duration ACD(1,1) model with a sufficient number of finite moments
yields short memory in counts, while any Long Memory Stochastic Duration model
with and all finite moments yields long memory in counts, with the same
Improving Automatic Jazz Melody Generation by Transfer Learning Techniques
In this paper, we tackle the problem of transfer learning for Jazz automatic
generation. Jazz is one of representative types of music, but the lack of Jazz
data in the MIDI format hinders the construction of a generative model for
Jazz. Transfer learning is an approach aiming to solve the problem of data
insufficiency, so as to transfer the common feature from one domain to another.
In view of its success in other machine learning problems, we investigate
whether, and how much, it can help improve automatic music generation for
under-resourced musical genres. Specifically, we use a recurrent variational
autoencoder as the generative model, and use a genre-unspecified dataset as the
source dataset and a Jazz-only dataset as the target dataset. Two transfer
learning methods are evaluated using six levels of source-to-target data
ratios. The first method is to train the model on the source dataset, and then
fine-tune the resulting model parameters on the target dataset. The second
method is to train the model on both the source and target datasets at the same
time, but add genre labels to the latent vectors and use a genre classifier to
improve Jazz generation. The evaluation results show that the second method
seems to perform better overall, but it cannot take full advantage of the
genre-unspecified dataset.Comment: 8 pages, Accepted to APSIPA ASC(Asia-Pacific Signal and Information
Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference ) 201
Online assessment of patients' views on hospital performances using Rasch model's KIDMAP diagram
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>To overcome the drawback of individual item-by-item box plots of disclosure for patient views on healthcare service quality, we propose to inspect interrelationships among items that measure a common entity. A visual diagram on the Internet is developed to provide thorough information for hospitals.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We used the Rasch rating scale model to analyze the 2003 English inpatient questionnaire data regarding patient satisfactory perception, which were collected from 169 hospitals, examined model-data fit, and developed a KIDMAP diagram on the Internet depicting the satisfaction level of each hospital and investigating aberrant responses with Z-scores and MNSQ statistics for individual hospitals. Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis was conducted to verify construct equivalence across types of hospitals.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>18 of the 45 items fit to the model's expectations, indicating they jointly defined a common construct and an equal-interval logit scale was achieved. The most difficult aspect for hospitals to earn inpatients' satisfaction were item 29 (staff told you about any medication side effects to watch when going home). No DIF in the 18-item questionnaire was found between types of hospitals, indicating the questionnaire measured the same construct across hospitals. Different types of hospitals obtained different levels of satisfaction. The KIDMAP on the Internet provided more interpretable and visualized message than traditional item-by-item box plots of disclosure.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>After removing misfit items, we find that the 18-item questionnaire measures the same construct across types of hospitals. The KIDMAP on the Internet provides an exemplary comparison in quality of healthcare. Rasch analysis allows intra- and inter-hospital performances to be compared easily and reliably with each other on the Internet.</p
Light scattering properties beyond weak-field excitation in a few-atom system
In the study of optical properties of large atomic system, a weak laser
driving is often assumed to simplify the system dynamics by linearly coupled
equations. Here we investigate the light scattering properties of atomic
ensembles beyond weak-field excitation through cumulant expansion method. By
progressively incorporating higher-order correlations into the steady-state
equations, an enhanced accuracy can be achieved in comparison to the exact
solutions from solving a full density matrix. Our analysis reveals that, in the
regime of weak dipole-dipole interaction (DDI), the first-order expansion
yields satisfactory predictions for optical depth, while denser atomic
configurations necessitate consideration of higher-order correlations. As the
intensity of incident light increases, atom saturation effects become
noticeable, giving rise to significant changes of light transparency, energy
shift, and decay rate. This saturation phenomenon extends to subradiant atom
arrays even under weak driving conditions, leading to substantial deviations
from the linear model. Our findings demonstrate the potential of mean-field
models as good extensions to linear models as it balances both accuracy and
computational complexity, which can be an effective tool for probing optical
properties in large atom systems. However, the crucial role of higher-order
cumulants in large atom systems under finite laser field excitations remains
unclear since it is challenging theoretically owing to the
exponentially-increasing Hilbert space in such light-matter interacting
systems.Comment: 4 figure
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