We designed a cluster surface smoothing method that can fast locate the minimum of the funnels in the potential energy surface (PES). By inserting the cluster surface smoothing approach into the gradient-based local optimization (LO)-phase and the global optimization (GO)-phase as a second LO-phase, the GO-phase can focus on the global information oWalesf the PES over the various funnels. Follo...

Recently, a class of stationary black hole solutions with non-Killing horizon in the asymptotic AdS bulk space (i.e., nonequilibrium funnel) was constructed to describe far from equilibrium heat transport and particle between boundary holes via AdS/CFT correspondence. It is generally believed that temperature can not be properly defined by conventional methods used Killing horizon. In this stud...

The aim of our study is to compare the efficacy and safety of "outlet-shape" tailored stents with standard stents for the management of distal gastric cancer causing gastric outlet obstructions (GOOs) with varying gastric cavity shapes and sizes. To determine the shape and size of the GOOs, stomach opacifications were performed using contrast media before stenting. Two basic shapes of the resid...

A drift tube capable of simultaneously functioning as an ion funnel is demonstrated in proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) for the first time. The ion funnel enables a much higher proportion of ions to exit the drift tube and enter the mass spectrometer than would otherwise be the case. An increase in the detection sensitivity for volatile organic compounds of between 1 and 2 or...

Effect sizes in macroeconomic are estimated by regressions on data published by statistical agencies. Funnel plots are a representation of the distribution of the resulting regression coefficients. They are normally much wider than predicted by the t-ratio of the coefficients and often asymmetric. The standard method of meta-analysts in economics assumes that the asymmetries are because of publ...

Knowledge of objects, situations, or locations in the environment can be productive, useful, or even life-critical for mobile augmented reality (AR) users. Users may need assistance with (1) dangers, obstacles, or situations requiring attention; (2) visual search; (3) task sequencing; and (4) spatial navigation. The omnidirectional attention funnel is a general purpose AR interface technique th...

Publication and other forms of selection biases pose a threat to the validity of meta-analysis. Funnel plots are usually used to detect such biases; asymmetrical plots are interpreted to suggest that biases are present. Using 198 published meta-analyses, we demonstrate that the shape of a funnel plot is largely determined by the arbitrary choice of the method to construct the plot. When a diffe...

We consider an output regulation problem for a single input single output system with dynamics described by the heat equation on some bounded domain Ω ⊂ R with sufficiently smooth boundary. The input is formed by Neumann boundary control, the output is the surface integral of the state at the boundary. We show that the funnel controller can be applied to this system in order to track a given ou...