The construction and operation of large-scale quantum information devices presents a grand challenge. A major issue is the effective control of coherent evolution, which requires accurate knowledge of the system dynamics that may vary from device to device. We review strategies for obtaining such knowledge from minimal initial resources and in an efficient manner, and apply these to the problem...

Background Decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. Fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. The current approach refl...

Network computing seeks to utilize the aggregate resources of many networked computers to solve a single problem. In so doing it is often possible to obtain supercomputer performance from an inexpensive local area network. The drawback is that network computing is complicated and error prone when done by hand, especially if the computers have diierent operating systems and data formats and are ...

radial models of dea to measure the efficiency of dmus assumed an inefficient unit to be efficient must decrease (increase) proportional all inputs (outputs) as the same. this assumption is absolutely false, unnecessary and unrealistic, therefore, to address this deficiency, and raise awareness of how to use resources, it is so realistic that expect the various inputs have different efficiency....

Pioneering dual-encoder pre-training works (e.g., CLIP and ALIGN) have revealed the potential of aligning multi-modal representations with contrastive learning. However, these require a tremendous amount data computational resources billion-level web hundreds GPUs), which prevent researchers limited from reproduction further exploration. To this end, we propose stack novel methods, significantl...