Traditional reductive cut-elimination and CERES seem to be methods of entirely different nature and hence hard to compare. This short paper describes ongoing research that aims at comparing and possibly combining them in ways that retain that best features of each method.

We calculate the dilepton emission rate from a fireball created in an ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision. For the partonic phase, we complement the perturbative results by a phenomenological approach based on lattice QCD results, whereas in the hadronic phase temperature and finite baryon density effects on the spectral function are considered. The resulting rates are compared to data from ...

Trupti Joshi1, Yu Chen1,2, Jeffrey M. Becker2,3, Nickolai Alexandrov4, Dong Xu1,2* 1 Digital Biology Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA. 2 UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, Oak Ridge, TN, USA. 3 Departments of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knox...

The electromagnetic emission rates at SPS energies satisfy spectral constraints in leading order in the pion and nucleon densities. These constraints follow from the strictures of broken chiral symmetry. We saturate these constraints using available data, leading to model independent emission rates from a hadronic gas. With a simple fire-ball scenario, only large nucleon densities may account f...

This paper reports on the performance of a new system for recognizing textual entailment. We present a brief overview of the CERES system and summarize its semantic alignment method for determining entailment. Then, we describe the experiments that were performed, both official and subsequently, against the RTE4 test dataset. We also report on comparison runs against the previous RTE3 developme...

The radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) is a quantity of fundamental importance to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. Thus, it is necessary to measure the radiation budget components, broadband shortwave albedo and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), as accurately as possible. Measurement of OLR over the ARM surface sites has only been possible since the advent ...

Based on surface radiation balance data and meteorological observations at 19 radiation stations in China from 1993 to 2012, we assessed the applicability of seven empirical formulas for the estimation of monthly surface net long-wave radiation (Rnl). We then established a revised method applicable to China by re-fitting the formula using new observational data. The iterative solution method an...

Abstract Dawn revealed that Ceres is a compelling target whose exploration pertains to many science themes. large ice- and organic-rich body, potentially representative of the population objects brought water organics inner solar system, as well brine-rich body study can contribute ocean world science. The observations have led renewed focus on planetary brine physics chemistry based detection ...

[1] Using multiple satellite instruments, we demonstrate a new empirical method for obtaining shortwave (SW) aerosol angular distribution models (ADMs) over cloud-free oceans. We use nearly a year’s worth of multispectral Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to obtain aerosol properties within a Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) footprint and Special Sensor Mi...