A novel arc calibration method has been developed for fusion splicing optical fibers with a large variety of glass diameters. This method heats the fiber with multiple short arcs and measures the amount of meltback at the corner of the fiber-ends. The fiber corner melting speed is found to be proportional to the fiber temperature. By varying the arc power of the multiple arcs, we can determine ...

Special-purpose constraint propagation algorithms (such as those for the element constraint) frequently make implicit use of short supports — by examining a subset of the variables, they can infer support for all other variables and values and save substantial work. However, to date general purpose propagation algorithms (such as GAC-Schema) rely upon supports involving all variables. We demons...

The admissible region is defined as the set of physically acceptable orbits (i.e., orbits with negative energies). Given additional constraints on orbital semi-major axis, eccentricity, etc, the admissible region is further constrained, resulting in the constrained admissible region (CAR). Based on known statistics of the measurement process, in this paper we replace hard constraints with a pro...

An automatic text summarization system can automatically generate a short and brief summary that contains a main concept of an original document. In this work, we explore the advantages of simple embedding features in Reinforcement leaning approach to automatic text summarization tasks. In addition, we propose a novel deep learning network for estimating Qvalues used in Reinforcement learning. ...

The present modeling deals with the physical description of the high-current (>15 kA) constricted vacuum arc, driven by a transverse magnetic field (TMF), as found in vacuum circuit breakers applying TMF arc control. The MHD approach together with detailed heat transfer and evaporation equations for the electrodes are used to describe the arc behavior self-consistently, restricting to two dimen...

We present an order-theoretic approach to the study of countably infinite locally 2-arc-transitive bipartite graphs. Our approach is motivated by techniques developed by Warren and others during the study of cycle-free partial orders. We give several new families of previously unknown countably infinite locally-2-arc-transitive graphs, each family containing continuum many members. These exampl...

The population of deep space resident space objects (RSOs) are tracked with sparse resources and thus tracking data are only collected on these objects for a relatively small fraction of their orbit revolution (i.e. a short-arc). This contributes to commonly mistagged or uncorrelated RSOs, and their associated trajectory uncertainties (covariances) to be less physically meaningful. The case of ...

In contrast to continent/continent collision, arc-continent collision generates very short-lived orogeny because the buoyancy-driven impedance of the subduction of continental lithosphere, accompanied by arc/suprasubduction-zone ophiolite obduction, is relieved by subduction polarity reversal (flip). This tectonic principle is illustrated by the early Ordovician Grampian Orogeny in the British ...

Nuclear uracil-DNA glycosylase UNG2 has anestablished role in repair of U/A pairs resulting frommisincorporation of dUMP during replication. In anti-gen-stimulated B-lymphocytes UNG2 removes uracilfrom U/G mispairs as part of somatic hypermutationand class switch recombination processes. Usingantibodies specific for the N-terminal non-catalyticdomain of UNG2, we isol...