We discuss an example from quantum physics of “positive system” in which the state (a density operator) is a square matrix constrained to be positive semidefinite (plus Hermitian and of unit trace). The positivity constraint is captured by the notion of complete positivity of the corresponding flow. The infinitesimal generators of all possible admissible ODEs can be characterized explicitly in ...

This paper describes an algorithm to attack AES using sidechannel information from the final round cache lookups performed by the encryption, specifically whether each access hits or misses in the cache, building off of previous work by Acıiçmez and Koç [AK06]. It is assumed that an attacker could gain such a trace through power consumption analysis or electromagnetic analysis. This information...

In this paper we present a method called NOVEL (Nonlinear Optimization via External Lead) for solving continuous and discrete global optimization problems. NOVEL addresses the balance between global search and local search, using a trace to aid in identifying promising regions before committing to local searches. We discuss NOVEL for solving continuous constrained optimization problems and show...

the aim of this study was to measure the alterations in serum zinc (zn) copper (cu) and iron (fe) concentrations in patients with acute and chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis. serum zinc and copper were measured by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometer and serum iron concentration was measured by the ferrozine method with commercial kits and assay was carried out by using an automatic anal...

Small transistors and high clock frequency have resulted in high power density, which makes temperature a strong constraint in today’s microprocessor design. For maximizing performance, the thermal design power must be set according to average, instead of worst case, conditions. Consequently, current processors feature temperature sensors and throttling mechanisms to keep the chip temperature a...

background & aim: in some studies, changes in trace elements of abuse of addictive substances have been mentioned. due to the effects of trace elements on the immune system and their effects on susceptibility to infectious agents, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect(s) of morphine dependency on the concentration of trace elements (copper, zinc and manganese) levels in serum ...

We evaluated a semiautomatic method for well-to-seismic tying to improve correlation results and reproducibility of the procedure. In the manual procedure, the interpreter first creates a synthetic trace from edited well logs, determines the most appropriate bulk time shift and polarity, and then applies a minimum amount of stretching and squeezing to best match the observed data. The last step...

the changing of round and back vowel /u/ to unround and front vowel [i] occurs in lori dialects as well as some other persian dialects. this vowel change includes both unrounding and fronting. this paper aimed at coming up with an inclusive ranking of constraints to explain occurrence and nonoccurrence of this vowel change in various phonological environments in silahkori dialect within optimal...

In recent years, model-based planning has moved from reasoning about models largely described with propositions (e.g. STRIPS) to reasoning about time, resources, and constraints on complex numeric quantities (Smith, Frank, & Jónsson 2000), (Fox & Long 2003). Numerous planning and scheduling systems employ underlying constraint reasoning systems to handle the richness and diversity of such const...

‎In this paper, using the idea of convexificators, we study boundedness and nonemptiness of Lagrange multipliers satisfying the first order necessary conditions. We consider a class of nons- mooth fractional programming problems with equality, inequality constraints and an arbitrary set constraint. Within this context, define generalized Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification and sh...