Generalized Rule Induction Based on Immune Algorithm

A generalized rule induction mechanism, immune algorithm, for knowledge bases is building an inheritance hierarchy of classes based on the content of their knowledge objects. This hierarchy facilitates group-related processing tasks such as answering set queries, discriminating between objects, finding similarities among objects, etc. Building this hierarchy is a difficult task for knowledge engineers. Conceptual induction may be used to automate or assist engineers in the creation of such a classification structure. This paper introduces a new conceptual rule induction method, which addresses the problem of clustering large amounts of structured objects. The conditions under which the method is applicable are discussed.     

Flavor evolution of the neutronization neutrino burst from an O-Ne-Mg core-collapse supernova

We present results of 3-neutrino flavor evolution simulations for the neutronization burst from an O-Ne-Mg core-collapse supernova. We find that nonlinear neutrino self-coupling engineers a single spectral feature of stepwise conversion in the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy case and in the normal mass hierarchy case, a superposition of two such features corresponding to the vacuum neutrino mass-squared differences associated with solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations. These neutrino spectral features offer a unique potential probe of the conditions in the supernova environment and may allow us to distinguish between O-Ne-Mg and Fe core-collapse supernovae.     

On Recursion Operator of the q-KP Hierarchy

It is the aim of the present article to give a general expression of flow equations of the q-KP hierarchy. The distinct difference between the q-KP hierarchy and the KP hierarchy is due to q-binomial and the action of q-shift operator θ, which originates from the Leibnitz rule of the quantum calculus. We further show that the n-reduction leads to a recursive scheme for these flow equations. The recursion operator for the flow equations of the q-KP hierarchy under the n-reduction is also derived.     

Tailoring magnetism in artificially structured materials: the new frontier

The current standard of electronic devices and data storage media has reached a level such that magnetic materials have to be fabricated on a nanometer scale. In particular, the emerging concept of spintronics, which is based on fact that current carriers have not only charge but also spin, requires the assembling of nanometer-sized magnetic structures with desired magnetic properties. It is this background that motivates scientists and engineers to attempt to grow and characterize magnetic objects at smaller and smaller length scales, from 2D films and multilayers to 1D wires and eventually to 0D dots. In this article, some of the most significant progress in recent years in the effort of growing artificially structured magnetic materials are reviewed. The new structural and magnetic properties of these materials are discussed, with an emphasis on the correlation between structure and magnetism, which also serves as guidance for improving their magnetic properties. The emerging emphasis is on converting the existing knowledge into growing and studying low-dimensional complex materials, which promise to have considerably higher “tuning” ability for desired properties.     

Techniques of microwave permeability characterization for thin films

We review the microwave methods to characterize the material properties, including the established and the emerging techniques in material characterization, especially the permeability spectra of the magnetic thin films.Almost all aspects of the microwave techniques for characterizing the permeability of thin films at microwave frequencies, including the new methods developed by our group, are presented.Firstly, the introduction part is presented.Secondly, the coaxial-line with transmission/reflection methods and the pickup coil with electromagnetic induction method are presented.Thirdly, the most widely used shorted microstrip technique is discussed in detail by the equivalent circuit method, transmission line method,and electromagnetic induction method.Fourthly, the coplanar waveguide method and the near-field probe method are also introduced.Finally, the high temperature permeability characterization by using the shorted microstrip line, the near-field microwave probe, and the shorted microstrip line probe are described in detail.This paper may be useful for researchers or engineers who will build up such measurement fixture to make full use of the existing methods or to develop original methods to meet the requirements for ever-rising measurements.     

Hierarchical Clustering Method for Extraction of Knowledge from a Large Amount of Data

The introduction of information systems in the medical field has made it possible to accumulate a large amount of health care examination data. Analysis of such data could yield valuable new knowledge about health and disease. In this paper, we propose a method for the analysis of large amounts of medical and health care data, especially images or signals. The proposed method treats data in a multidimensional space without any pre-processing, and the data is classified into groups according to the criterion. The criterion used in this paper is to maximize likelihood calculated from the probability density, which is given by the Parzen estimation method. The result of classification is expressed by a binary tree structure as a hierarchy of clusters. We applied this method to computer-generated data and practical electrocardiogram data, and the results showed its validity.     

对堆叠物体保持直立下落条件的探究

相同的物体彼此堆叠,形成独立的塔.通过施加突然的水平力来卸下底部物体,以使塔架的其余部分下降到地面上,并且塔架保持直立.本实验将研究该现象并确定允许塔保持直立的条件.从项目本身出发,选择不同形状的物体进行实验,采用控制变量法对块的数量、块的规格,水平力的大小等相关变量进行实验和探究.先利用所学的动力学知识从理论上分析,...     

Darboux transformation for the non-isospectral AKNS hierarchy and its asymptotic property

In this Letter, the Darboux transformation for the non-isospectral AKNS hierarchy is constructed. We show that the Darboux transformation for the non-isospectral AKNS hierarchy is not an auto-Bäcklund transformation, because the integral constants of the hierarchy will be changed after the transformation. The transform rule of the integral constants will be also derived. By this means, the soliton solutions of the nonlinear equations derived by the non-isospectral AKNS hierarchy can be found.     

Occlusion removal technique for improved recognition of partially occluded 3D objects in computational integral imaging

In this paper, we propose an occlusion removal technique for improved recognition of 3D objects that are partially occluded in computational integral imaging (CII). In the reconstruction process of a 3D object which is partially occluded by other objects, occlusion degrades the resolution of reconstructed 3D images and thus this affects negatively the recognition of a 3D object in CII. To overcome this problem, we introduce a method to eliminate occluding objects in elemental image array (EIA) and the proposed method is applied to 3D object recognition by use of CII. To our best knowledge, this is the first time to remove occlusion in CII. In our method, we apply the elemental image to sub-image (ES) transform to EIA obtained by a pickup process and those sub-images are employed for occlusion removal. After the transformation, we correlate those sub-images with a reference sub-image to locate occluding objects and then we eliminate the objects. The inverse ES transform provides a modified EIA. Actually, the modified EIA is considered to be an EIA without the object that occludes the object to be reconstructed. This can provide a substantial gain in terms of the image quality of 3D objects and in terms of recognition performance. To verify the usefulness of the proposed technique, some experimental results are carried out and the results are presented.     

Direct perturbation method for perturbed complex Burgers equation

So far, Lou's direct perturbation method has been applied successfully to solve the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation(NLSE) hierarchy, such as the NLSE, the coupled NLSE, the critical NLSE, and the derivative NLSE. But to our knowledge, this method for other types of perturbed nonlinear evolution equations has still been lacking. In this paper, Lou's direct perturbation method is applied to the study of perturbed complex Burgers equation. By this method, we calculate not only the zero-order adiabatic solution, but also the first order modification.     

A Vector Fokas-Lenells System from the Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

With the aid of the spectral gradient method of Fuchssteiner, the compatible pair of Hamiltonian operators for the coupled NLS hierarchy is rediscovered. This result enables us to construct a hierarchy, which contains a vector generalization of Fokas-Lenells system. The vector Fokas-Lenells system is shown to be bi-Hamiltonian and to possess a Lax pair.     

Functional Information: Towards Synthesis of Biosemiotics and Cybernetics

Biosemiotics and cybernetics are closely related, yet they are separated by the boundary between life and non-life: biosemiotics is focused on living organisms, whereas cybernetics is applied mostly to non-living artificial devices. However, both classes of systems are agents that perform functions necessary for reaching their goals. I propose to shift the focus of biosemiotics from living organisms to agents in general, which all belong to a pragmasphere or functional universe. Agents should be considered in the context of their hierarchy and origin because their semiosis can be inherited or induced by higher-level agents. To preserve and disseminate their functions, agents use functional information - a set of signs that encode and control their functions. It includes stable memory signs, transient messengers, and natural signs. The origin and evolution of functional information is discussed in terms of transitions between vegetative, animal, and social levels of semiosis, defined by Kull. Vegetative semiosis differs substantially from higher levels of semiosis, because signs are recognized and interpreted via direct code-based matching and are not associated with ideal representations of objects. Thus, I consider a separate classification of signs at the vegetative level that includes proto-icons, proto-indexes, and proto-symbols. Animal and social semiosis are based on classification, and modeling of objects, which represent the knowledge of agents about their body (Innenwelt) and environment (Umwelt).     

Notes on infinite layer quantum Hall systems

We study the fractional quantum Hall effect in three-dimensional systems consisting of infinitely many stacked two-dimensional electron gases placed in transverse magnetic fields. This limit introduces new features into the bulk physics such as quasiparticles with non-trivial internal structure, irrational braiding phases, and the necessity of a boundary hierarchy construction for interlayer correlated states. The bulk states host a family of surface phases obtained by hybridizing the edge states in each layer. We analyze the surface conduction in these phases by means of sum rule and renormalization group arguments and by explicit computations at weak tunneling in the presence of disorder. We find that in cases where the interlayer electron tunneling is not relevant in the clean limit, the surface phases are chiral semi-metals that conduct only in the presence of disorder or at finite temperature. We show that this class of problems which are naturally formulated as interacting bosonic theories can be fermionized by a general technique that could prove useful in the solution of such “one and a half” dimensional problems.     

Sum rules and perfect screening conditions for the one-component plasma

First we show, from the BBGKY hierarchy and under exponential clustering assumption, that the three-dimensional one-component plasma obeys the compressibility sum rule which links the compressibility to the fourth moment of the two-point correlation function. Then it is proved that the first equation of the hierarchy is equivalent to the known value of the correlation function of momentum current and density. Finally we are concerned with the energy density, its definition, and its correlation with the numerical density and with itself.     

Induction in linear logic

Linear logic, introduced by Girardet al., has a great power of expression, but no method for induction. This paper proposes a method of induction using knowledge represented by linear logical formulas. In linear logic, the number of propositions is controlled by logical operators. When a background theory and a hypothesis prove an example, the number of propositions on each side must be equivalent.     

Green's formulation for robust phase unwrapping in digital holography

We present, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, a phase unwrapping method based on an algorithm which makes use of Green's first identity. This method aims at recovering the correct phase information encoded in a fringe pattern after digital holography (DH) numerical processing. DH provides a quantitative measurement of the three-dimensional surface profile of objects. The information about the profile can be obtained in principle from the phase-map. However, the measured phase-map provides the actual phase values wrapped mod.2π so that an unwrapping process is required in order to reconstruct the object profile.     

On Stochastic Perturbations of Dynamical Systems with a “Rough” Symmetry. Hierarchy of Markov Chains.

We consider long-time behavior of dynamical systems perturbed by a small noise. Under certain conditions, a slow component of such a motion, which is most important for long-time evolution, can be described as a motion on the cone of invariant measures of the non-perturbed system. The case of a finite number of extreme points of the cone is considered in this paper. As is known, in the generic case, the long-time evolution can be described by a hierarchy of cycles defined by the action functional for corresponding stochastic processes. This, in particular, allows to study metastable distributions and such effects as stochastic resonance. If the system has some symmetry in the logarithmic asymptotics of transition probabilities (rough symmetry),the hierarchy of cycles should be replaced by a hierarchy of Markov chains and their invariant measures.     

Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy

We have developed a digital holographic microscope (DHM), in a transmission mode, especially dedicated to the quantitative visualization of phase objects such as living cells. The method is based on an original numerical algorithm presented in detail elsewhere [Cuche et al., Appl. Opt. 38, 6994 (1999)]. DHM images of living cells in culture are shown for what is to our knowledge the first time. They represent the distribution of the optical path length over the cell, which has been measured with subwavelength accuracy. These DHM images are compared with those obtained by use of the widely used phase contrast and Nomarski differential interference contrast techniques.     

一种图像稳定程度的描述方法

提出一种数学模型描述成像系统的稳定程度，通过分析证明：当目标物体为黑白分辨率标板(只有两种亮度且为周期性结构)时，成像系统的不稳定对成像结果的影响是使图像的像素灰度值按照二项分布的规律分布，因此可以用统计参量来反映成像系统的运动速率，进而表征图像的不稳定度。为了研究在不同时刻图像稳定性的变化规律，引入了统计学中表征数据离散程度的参量“标准偏差”作为描述因子。通过实验，直观地描述了一个佩肯棱镜系统的稳像过程，得出了变化曲线。曲线的波动与所观察到的图像稳定度的变化相符，证明了本描述方法是合理且有效的。     

Charge densities and charge noise in mesoscopic conductors

We introduce a hierarchy of density of states to characterize the charge distribution in a mesoscopic conductor. At the bottom of this hierarchy are the partial density of states which represent the contribution to the local density of states if both the incident and the out-going scattering channel is prescribed. The partial density of states play a prominent role in measurements with a scanning tunneling microscope on multiprobe conductors in the presence of current flow. The partial density of states determine the degree of dephasing generated by a weakly coupled voltage probe. In addition the partial density of states determine the frequency-dependent response of mesoscopic conductors in the presence of slowly oscillating voltages applied to the contacts of the sample. The partial density of states permit the formulation of a Friedel sum rule which can be applied locally. We introduce the off-diagonal elements of the partial density of states matrix to describe charge fluctuation processes. This generalization leads to a local Wigner-Smith life-time matrix.