With novelty being a new track, we had little prior experience to build upon. Hence we decided to begin our development experiments with a simple similarity match between the topic definition and the candidate sentence. For the available training topics, this proved to be remarkably responsive to tuning between precision-focused runs and recall-focused runs for novelty as well as the more predi...

We consider a codimension-one brane embedded in a gravity-dilaton bulk action, whose symmetries are compatible with T-duality along the space-like directions parallel to the brane, and the bulk time-like direction. The equations of motions in the string frame allow for a smooth background obtained by the union of two symmetric patches of AdS space. The Poincaré invariance of the solution appear...

Energy efficiency is of critical importance in sensornets where the working life of wireless motes, and consequently the entire network, is limited by the finite energy capacity of batteries. Radio network activity typically dominates the energy consumption profile of motes running distributed applications, and hence represents the obvious target when attempting to use energy more frugally. Sig...

Metris is a version of the Tetris game that uses a player’s musical response to control game performance. The game is driven by two factors: traditional game design and the player’s individual sense of music and sound. Metris uses tuning principles to determine relationships between pitch and the timbre of the sounds produced. These relationships are represented as bells synchronised with signi...

We present a brief review of brane-world models — models in which our observable Universe with its standard matter fields is assumed as localized on a domain wall (three-brane) in a higher dimensional surrounding (bulk) spacetime. Models of this type arise naturally in M-theory and have been intensively studied during the last years. We pay particular attention to the covariant projection appro...

We construct a broad family of exact solutions to the five-dimensional Einstein equations coupled to a scalar field with an exponential potential. Embedding a three-brane in these bulk space-times in a particular way we obtain a class of self-tuned curved brane worlds in which the vacuum energy on the brane is gravitationally idle, the four-dimensional geometry being insensitive to the value of...

This paper deals with the design of fractional order PIlDm controllers, in which the orders of the integral and derivative parts, l and m, respectively, are fractional. The purpose is to take advantage of the introduction of these two parameters and fulfill additional specifications of design, ensuring a robust performance of the controlled system with respect to gain variations and noise. A me...

This paper presents an occupancy-predictive control method for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings that incorporates the building’s thermal properties, local weather predictions, and a self-tuning stochastic occupancy model to reduce energy consumption while maintaining occupant comfort. Contrasting with existing approaches, its occupancy model requires no man...

In R.F cavity design, numerical modeling is assuming an increasingly important role with the help of sophisticated computer codes and powerful yet affordable comput ers. A description of the cavity codes in u8e in the accelerator community has been given previously. The &sent paper will address the lateat developments and discuss their applications to cavity tuning and matching problems.

We search for alternative musical scales that share the main advantages of classical scales: pitch frequencies that bear simple ratios to each other, and multiple keys based on an underlying chromatic scale with tempered tuning. We conduct the search by formulating a constraint satisfaction problem that is well suited for solution by constraint programming. We find that certain 11-note scales o...