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Snowballs Are Quasiballs

We introduce snowballs, which are compact sets in R3 homeomorphic to the unit ball. They are 3-dimensional analogs of domains in the plane bounded by snowflake curves. For each snowball B a quasiconformal map f : R3 → R3 is constructed that maps B to the unit ball.

Callable Swaps, Snowballs and Videogames

Although economically more meaningful than the alternatives, short rate models have been dismissed for financial engineering applications in favor of market models as the latter are more flexible and best suited to cluster computing implementations. In this paper, we argue that the paradigm shift toward GPU architectures currently taking place in the high performance computing world can potenti...

Word Segmentation in Natural Speech. 1 Diminutives Facilitate Word Segmentation in Natural Speech: Cross-Linguistic Evidence

Radioactivity in HgCdTe devices: potential source of “snowballs”

We hypothesize that the “snowballs” observed in HgCdTe infrared detectors are caused by natural radioactivity in the devices themselves. As characterized by Hilbert (2009) in the WFC3 flight IR array (FPA165), “snowballs” are transient events that instantaneously saturate a few pixels and deposit a few hundred thousand electrons over a ~5-pixel (~100-um) diameter region. In 2008, prior to fligh...

From single word to natural dialogue

Spoken language dialogue systems represent the peak of achievement in speech technologies in the 20 th century and appear set to form the basis for the increasingly natural interactive systems to follow in the coming decades. This chapter first presents a model of the task-oriented spoken dialogue system, its multiple aspects and some of the remaining research challenges. In the context of this...