The detectability of planetesimal impacts on imaged exoplanets can be measured using Jupiter during the 1994 comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 events as a proxy. By integrating the whole planet flux with and without impact spots, the effect of the impacts at wavelengths from 2 4 μm is revealed. Jupiter’s reflected light spectrum in the near-infrared is dominated by its methane opacity including a deep ban...

In this paper, a new algorithm to solve the discrete logarithm problem is presented which is similar to the usual baby-step giant-step algorithm. Our algorithm exploits the order of the discrete logarithm in the multiplicative group of a finite field. Using randomization with parallelized collision search, our algorithm indicates some weakness in NIST curves over prime fields which are consider...

We study the giant magnon solutions in the near horizon geometry of the Neveu-Schwarz (NS) 5-brane background. In conformal gauge, we find magnon dispersion relation in the large angular momentum (J) limit. We further show that the giant magnon poses uniform distribution of the angular momentum along the string world-sheet as in case of AdS5 × S5 spacetime.

Modeling Microdomain Evolution on Giant Unilamellar Vesicles using a Phase-Field Approach by Anand Embar Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Duke University

Despite common belief, Baby Boomers form a sizable population of gamers. Paying attention to how this generation experiences a game can help companies that target this group of users increase their market share. To address this need, this study examines Baby Boomers’ reaction to a new way of manipulating objects in a game, namely with their eyes. In particular, the study focuses on testing the ...

Existence and uniqueness are established for a translation-invariant Gibbs measure corresponding to a spatial point process that has, in addition to inhibition and clustering, the new feature of penalizing isolated points. It is shown that this point process has the so-called two-step Markov property, and a theorem is proved that characterizes the more general m-step Markov density functions. T...

A forensic investigation of digital evidence is commonly employed as a post-event response to a serious information security incident. In fact, there are many circumstances where an organisation may benefit from an ability to gather and preserve digital evidence before an incident occurs. Forensic readiness is defined as the ability of an organisation to maximise its potential to use digital ev...

we introduce a new one-step iteration process to approximate common fixed points of twononexpansive mappings in banach spaces and prove weak convergence of the iterative sequence using (i)opial’s condition and (ii) kadec-klee property. strong convergence theorems are also established in banachspaces and uniformly convex banach spaces under the so-called condition ( a ), which is weaker thancom...

We analyze the energy and angular momenta of the two-spin spiky string moving on the AdS3×S with NS-NS field. Due to the infinite boundary of the AdS spacetime the solution will extend to infinity and it appears the divergences. After adding the counter terms we then obtain the dispersion relation of the corresponding giant magnon and see how the background field produces the correction terms. ...

The identification of time delay in the linear plant is one of the important tasks. It is especially hard problem when the plant is non-stationary. New possibility in this field is opened by application of an evolutionary algorithm. The method of identification proposed in the paper is based on three classes of input signals. In the first case we can obtain and operate on the whole unit step re...