For the past century, the total synthesis of natural products has served as the flagship of chemical synthesis and the principal driving force for discovering new chemical reactivity, evaluating physical organic theories, testing the power of existing synthetic methods, and enabling biology and medicine. This perspective article seeks to examine this time-honored and highly demanding art, disti...

In the field of character animation, this principle is classically associated with “The Dot and the Line” [Jones, 1965], in which complex narrative and character development are implemented using two very simple characters, a dot and a line (Figure 10-1). All expression is performed in motion, timing and staging alone. While technically impressive, this film is also often quoted for distilling ...

With the success of large knowledge graphs, research on automatically acquiring commonsense knowledge is revived. One kind of knowledge that has not received attention is that of human activities. This paper presents an information extraction pipeline for systematically distilling activity knowledge from a corpus of movie scripts. Our semantic frames capture activities together with their parti...

The state evolution of the initial optical noon state is investigated. The residue entanglement of the state is calculated after it is damped by amplitude and phase damping. The relative entropy of entanglement of the damped state is exactly obtained. The performance of direct application of the damped noon state is compared with that of firstly distilling the docoherence damped state then appl...

We study the effects of post-selection measurements on both the non-classicality of the state of a mechanical oscillator and the entanglement between two mechanical systems that are part of a distributed optomechanical network. We address the cases of both Gaussian and nonGaussian measurements, identifying in which cases simple photon counting and Geiger-like measurements are effective in disti...