The collapse of marginally Jeans unstable primordial gas clouds in the presence of UV radiation field is discussed. Assuming that the dynamical collapse proceeds approximately in an isothermal self-similar fashion, we investigate the thermal evolution of collapsing central core until H2 cooling dominates photoheating and the temperature drops to below 10K. Consequently, the mass of the cooled c...

We describe a rendering system that converts a 3D meshed model into the stylized 2D filled-region vector-art commonly found in clip-art libraries. To properly define filled regions, we analyze and combine accurate but jagged face-normal contours with smooth but inaccurate interpolated vertex normal contours, and construct a new smooth shadow contour that properly surrounds the actual jagged sha...

We have investigated the spin-wave spectrum of copper metaborate, CuB 2 O 4 , by means of inelastic neutron scattering in the commensurate magnetic phase. We have found two branches of spin-wave excitations associated with the two magnetic sublattices Cu(A) and Cu(B), respectively. In the temperature regime 10K ≤ T ≤ 21K, where only the Cu(A) magnetic moments are ordered, the interaction betwee...

We use extensive classical molecular dynamics simulations to calculate the thermal conductivity of a model silica glass. Apart from the potential parameters , this is done with no other adjustable quantity and the standard equations of heat transport are used directly in the simulation box. The calculations have been done between 10 and 1000 Kelvin and the results are in good agreement with the...

A Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Running Anomaly. Imagine you have been disabled with ME/CFS's cluster of symptoms for 19 years. Yet, this morning you just ran an easy 10K with no flare up of your exercise intolerance symptoms during the run or post-exertional malaise after the run. Then later in the day you go browsing for books an...

We describe EMOBANK, a corpus of 10k English sentences balancing multiple genres, which we annotated with dimensional emotion metadata in the Valence-ArousalDominance (VAD) representation format. EMOBANK excels with a bi-perspectival and bi-representational design. On the one hand, we distinguish between writer’s and reader’s emotions, on the other hand, a subset of the corpus complements dimen...

We investigate induction of a bilingual lexicon from a corpus of phonemic transcriptions that have been sentence-aligned with English translations. We evaluate existing models that have been used for this purpose, and report two additional models which demonstrate performance improvements. The first performs monolingual segmentation followed by alignment, while the second performs both tasks jo...

Model checking techniques are powerful tools for the analysis and verification of concurrent systems. This paper reports on a case study applying model checking techniques to a mature, MPI-based scientific program consisting of approximately 10K lines of code. The program, BlobFlow, implements a high order vortex method for solving the twodimensional Navier-Stokes equations. Despite the complex...

Previous papers [1,2] have described our implementation of a small prototype processor and control unit for associative computing, called the ASC Procesor. That initial prototype was implemented on an Altera education board using an Altera FLEX 10K FPGA, and was limited to an unrealistic 4 Processing Elements (PEs). This paper describes a more complete implementation — a scalable ASC processor ...

This paper describes a series of experiments that were performed on the Rocky III robot.1 Rocky III is a small autonomous rover capable of navigating through rough outdoor terrain to a predesignated area, searching that area for soft soil, acquiring a soil sample, and depositing the sample in a container at its home base. The robot is programmed according to a reactive behaviorcontrol paradigm ...