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Domain Adaptive Neural Networks for Object Recognition
We propose a simple neural network model to deal with the domain adaptation
problem in object recognition. Our model incorporates the Maximum Mean
Discrepancy (MMD) measure as a regularization in the supervised learning to
reduce the distribution mismatch between the source and target domains in the
latent space. From experiments, we demonstrate that the MMD regularization is
an effective tool to provide good domain adaptation models on both SURF
features and raw image pixels of a particular image data set. We also show that
our proposed model, preceded by the denoising auto-encoder pretraining,
achieves better performance than recent benchmark models on the same data sets.
This work represents the first study of MMD measure in the context of neural
networks
Momentum-Resolved Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta
The non-equilibrium state of the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta
and its ultrafast dynamics have been investigated by femtosecond time- and
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy well below the critical temperature.
We probe optically excited quasiparticles at different electron momenta along
the Fermi surface and detect metastable quasiparticles near the antinode. Their
decay through e-e scattering is blocked by a phase space restricted to the
nodal region. The lack of momentum dependence in the decay rates is in
agreement with relaxation dominated by Cooper pair recombination in a boson
bottleneck limit
ALMA Science Verification Data: Millimeter Continuum Polarimetry of the Bright Radio Quasar 3C 286
We present full-polarization observations of the compact, steep-spectrum
radio quasar 3C~286 made with the ALMA at 1.3~mm. These are the first
full-polarization ALMA observations, which were obtained in the framework of
Science Verification. A bright core and a south-west component are detected in
the total intensity image, similar to previous centimeter images. Polarized
emission is also detected toward both components. The fractional polarization
of the core is about 17\%, this is higher than the fractional polarization at
centimeter wavelengths, suggesting that the magnetic field is even more ordered
in the millimeter radio core than it is further downstream in the jet. The
observed polarization position angle (or EVPA) in the core is
\,, which confirms the trend that the EVPA slowly increases
from centimeter to millimeter wavelengths. With the aid of multi-frequency VLBI
observations, we argue that this EVPA change is associated with the
frequency-dependent core position. We also report a serendipitous detection of
a sub-mJy source in the field of view, which is likely to be a submillimeter
galaxy.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in the Ap
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HIRE/PURCHASE LENDING IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
A partial-observability model finds evidence of racial discrimination by retailers of consumer durables in apartheid South Africa. In particular, black households are 13 percentage points more likely to demand a hire/purchase loan but not to have one supplied than are other households, all else equal.Consumer finance, disequilibrium models, racial discrimination, truncated and censored models, South Africa, Financial Economics,
Momentum dependent ultrafast electron dynamics in antiferromagnetic EuFe2As2
Employing the momentum-sensitivity of time- and angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy we demonstrate the analysis of ultrafast single- and many-particle
dynamics in antiferromagnetic EuFe2As2. Their separation is based on a
temperature-dependent difference of photo-excited hole and electron relaxation
times probing the single particle band and the spin density wave gap,
respectively. Reformation of the magnetic order occurs at 800 fs, which is four
times slower compared to electron-phonon equilibration due to a smaller
spin-dependent relaxation phase space
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