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Quantum Measurement and Bath Engineering for Superconducting Qubits via Multiple Parametric Couplings

Quantum computers have huge potential applications, but do not currently exist. It has already been proven that a quantum computer would outperform the best classical supercomputers in certain problems, some of which have vital connections with our daily lives. For example, quantum computers efficiently solve the prime number factoring problem, which in turn is the foundation of the RSA algorithm behind most online transactions. There is a great deal of current effort to implement quantum computers, and we have seen good progress in platforms including superconducting circuits, ion traps, and photons in cavity QED systems and spins in semiconductors. These machines include up to roughly 50 quantum bits at present, but they are not very useful as quantum errors quickly decohere the computer's state and prevent computation. These errors can be mitigated via quantum error correction at the cost of additional size and complexity. Progress in the field towards error corrected, large-scale quantum machines requires us to require new tools for controlling, coupling, and reading out qubits. In this thesis, I will focus on such explorations in superconducting circuits. In this thesis, we seek to expand the already flexible toolkit of quantum circuits by exploring the uses of parametric couplings based on third-order nonlinearities. This type of nonlinearities has only been used in quantum-limited amplifiers before, here we try to further explore their applications by creating new methods for controlling and measuring qubits that based on it. In the first experiment, we address the problem of implementing a highly efficient quantum non-demolition qubit readout. With the use of two-mode squeezed (TMS) light and combined with phase-preserving parametric amplifiers into an interferometer for dispersive qubit readout, we demonstrate a measurement scheme with a 44$\%$ improvement in power signal-to-noise ratio. We also investigate the back-action of the measurement scheme. In the second experiment, we create an effective chemical potential for photons with parametric system-bath coupling. In particular, we use a lossy Superconducting Nonlinear Asymmetric Inductive eLement (SNAIL) as both the bath and coupler. The bath engineering is realized by combining the multiple parametric drives and the dissipation together.
Dr Rod Boswell using high-density plasma to produce computer chips

Research School of Physical Sciences, Plasma Research Laboratory - Ms. Cathy Gillespie, Mr. Peter Lloyd, Mr. Steven Hyde, Mr. Kevin Brennan, Dr. Sydney Hamberger, Dr. Les Sharp, Mr. George Chapman, Dr. Rodney William (Rod) Boswell, Prof. Ian Ross, Mr. John Shelton, Prof. Peter Karmel, Prof. Ted Ringwood, Dr. D. G. Walker, Mr. Warwick Williams, Prof. John Carver & others
Multi-agent cross prompt mechanism based on Actor-Critic gradient strategy

With the continuous integration of artificial intelligence and multi-agent system theory, using the Actor-Critic framework decision-making method suitable for multi-agent systems can better realize dynamic decision-making in multi-agent tasks. In this paper, the evaluation of a single agent in the traditional Critic framework network leads to the inability to achieve communication and cooperation between multiple agents, which leads to problems such as long system learning time or sparse rewards. This paper proposes a multi-agent cross-prompt method that combines reinforcement learning with a multi-agent system. In order to enhance the intelligent level of the system, the cross prompt function of the agent is realized, and focus on analyzing and improving the Actor-Critic action decision rules in the multi-agent system. Made on the basis of improved Actor-critic framework, to build multi-agent detection is performed tasks action decision rules to experiment, In the experiment, the central system evaluation network in the improved algorithm is compared with the traditional algorithm under the closed single-agent evaluation in the same multi-agent system and the cross-prompt framework. The experimental results prove that the improved algorithm is effective and has more application value.
Using Accelerated Reader across our whole multi-academy trust

Difficulties we’ve encountered Creating engaged readers is difficult obstacle for all schools across the country right now – pupils are spending ...
Written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (together with ORG, Article 19, Index on Censorship 2020) - Digital Contact Tracing Apps (NHSX)

We welcome the JCHR aim of providing certainty and comprehensive protection for individuals’ rights, in light of the upcoming deployment of the NHSX Contact Tracing system. Clarifying the available safeguards would allow the public to better understand the functioning of the NHSX application, the consequences for their rights, and the remedies at their disposal. Further, as emergency situations may require rapid and bold responses, and protections of rights enshrined in law should be strengthened accordingly: in turn, public scrutiny and enforcement of rights would be enabled to keep pace with such rapid developments. Likewise, we reject Matt Hancock’s communication to the JCHR that a Bill is unnecessary as sufficient safeguards are present in Data Protection legislation and other general policy commitments; they are not. Data protection regulations leave a scope for differing protections and approaches, as they are not tailored to the situation at hand. On the other hand, public confidence would benefit greatly from a more specific approach which ensures particularly high protections.Having said that, we are concerned about a number of issues raised in the current text of the draft Digital Contact Tracing (Data Protection) Bill. We have divided those concerns into three groups: Missed Opportunities: we believe the Bill overlooks certain risks, whose potential for undermining public trust is significantly high; Overlaps and Coordination with the GDPR: we find that some provisions enshrined in this Bill are at risk of overlapping, conflicting or not properly coordinating with the current data protection regime; Other Areas for Improvements: finally, we cover certain aspects of the Bill which could be improved upon, in order to better attain the purposes of this Bill.Each of these groups entails a number of issues, each (i) introducing the clause or clauses being discussed, (ii) briefly analysing the issues being raised, and (iii) recommending suitable changes to the Bill. With this, we hope to contribute to ensuring that the Joint Committee on Human Rights Bill can really provide citizens with choice, control and confidence over the Government use of their personal data. Please note that these concerns and considerations are not exhaustive. We would thus welcome the opportunity to discuss these concerns with the JCHR with a view to furthering and enhancing their work on technological responses to COVID-19.
University Library: Critical Evaluation of News Sources: Evaluating News Sources

Learn how to determine the credibility of news articles and sites, understand the importance of journalistic integrity, and perform basic fact-checking measures.
Una Herramienta Colaborativa de Requisitos Basado en Notificación de SMS para Proyecto de Software Ágil

Requirements tracking has been identified as a key issue affecting the success rate of projects in software development organizations. Communication and monitoring requirements is a difficult task for members of a software project, especially for the team leader. Many practices for the monitoring of requirements are disregarded is reason to not be successful with the project. This paper shows the results of the software prototype, developed to track requirements based on agile practices. The proposal was evaluated by software developers, where the average time to verify the information by SMS of the requirement is 9.5 seconds, which is totally acceptable.
副詞「たくさん」の連用用法について ─ 韓国人学習者の不自然な例に注目して ─

This study investigated the use of the adverb takusan, using the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS). Based on previous studies’ analyses of takusan, we divided the learner''s example into three types: (1) a large amount of nouns, (2) a large amount of movement, (3) a use as a degree adverb. Comparing Korean learners’ usages with those of native Japanese speakers, we explored the errors made by Korean learners in the use of the adverb takusan.First, we found that the use of a large amount of nouns is a typical usage of the adverb takusan. This type can divide into the example means that the abundance of the subject is large and the example means that the abundance of the object is large. An example of the abundance of a subject are co-occurred with existence verbs, or subject change verbs that do not develop change, or subject action verbs. In addition, we found that the learner produced an unnatural example by co-occurring the negative form of the existence verb, or by co-occurring the subject change verb which means the progressive change.Next, we found that the example of a large amount of movement has the subject which lexical meaning is not many or large, and the example of takusan co-occurring with the subject movement verb indicates. But there were some examples showing the frequency of movement.Finally, we found that the learner is using the adverb takusan as a degree adverb, and it is unnatural for the co-occurrence of the adjective and the adverb takusan. And it is unnatural for the co-occurrence of subject change verb which mean progressive change and the adverb takusan, too.
Simulation Training of E-Sports Players Based on Wireless Sensor Network

The application of wireless sensors in sports competitions is becoming more and more common. This research mainly discusses the simulation training of e-sports players based on a wireless sensor network. Under the same experimental conditions, in order to avoid mutual influence and interference between the hand grip test and continuous endurance load, the exercise experiment for each subject was repeated twice. At the same time, the EMG signal collection and reaction time test during the endurance load are performed. All tests are data records before and after 40 minutes of the DOTA game competition. Before the start of each experimental test, the experimental equipment is calibrated and the parameters of the required indicators are set; the software was opened to run and checked whether it is normal; before the measurement, let the subjects perform simple preparation activities, train the subjects, and understand and be familiar with the action essentials required by the test to reduce the error. The original surface EMG signal recorded directly uses the built-in signal processing function in the MR-XP 1.08 master edition software to perform full-wave rectification and smoothing. Processing of original EMG data: firstly, the EMG signal during endurance contraction is intercepted. In order to exclude individual differences in sEMG indicators of different subjects, the starting point is the first rise of each subject to 60% MVC or 25% MVC. The arrival time is the end point. In e-sports, the reaction speed when the prompt is effective is significantly faster than when the prompt is invalid ( <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"> <mi>p</mi> <mo>&lt;</mo> <mn>0.05</mn> </math> ). At this time, the time interval between the cue prompt and the target stimulus is 500 ms. This study is helpful to improve the athletes’ technical and tactical level.
Key Hiding of Multimedia Applications in Multimedia File 

The project entitled Effective key Generation for Multimedia Application is the application developed to embed an video file in another video signal. It is concerned with embedding information in an innocuous cover Speech in a secure and robust manner. This system makes the Files more secure by using the concepts Steganography and Cryptography, Steganography, poor cousin of Cryptography is the art of hiding messages inside other messages such that the very existence of the message is unknown to third party. The goal of cryptography is to make data unreadable by a third party, the goal of Steganography is to hide the data from a third party Through the use of advanced computer software, authors of images and software can place a hidden trademark in their product, allowing them to keep a check on piracy. This is commonly known as watermarking. Hiding serial numbers or a set of characters that distinguishes an object from a similar object is known as finger printing. Together, these two are intended to fight piracy. The latter is used to detect copyright violators and the former is used to prosecute them. But these are only examples of the much wider field of Steganography. The cover data should not be significantly degraded by the embedded data, and the embedded data should be as imperceptible as possible. The embedded data should be as immune as possible to modifications from intelligent attacks or anticipated manipulations. Thus it is necessary that the hidden message should be encrypted.
Joint TV-L1 Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation

This document describes an implementation of the energy functional minimization proposed by Ballester, Garrido, Lazcano and Caselles for joint optical flow and occlusion estimation.The method build up from the ideas behind the TV-L 1 approach introduced by Zach, Pock and Bischof in 2007 but incorporating information that allows to detect occlusions.This information is based on the divergence of the flow and the proposed energy favors the location of occlusions on regions where this divergence is negative.The implemented variational method uses three consecutive frames.The energy functional is composed of regularization terms using the total variation, a data term using the L 1 norm, and a term dealing with the occlusions.In the present implementation, we solve the stationary system of partial differential equations arising from the dual minimization problem associated with the TV operator by a variation of the box relaxation numerical scheme proposed by Garamendi, Gaspar, Malpica and Schiavi.This makes the overall algorithm faster than previous implementations based on a gradient descent method.
Failure Handling In a Planning Framework

When an agent plans a sequence of actions, some unexpected events may occur during the execution of these actions. These unexpected events may prevent the agent to replan and achieve its goal. In this work, our purpose is to recover from plan execution failures by reasoning the causes of these faulties. We combine the TLPlan forward chaining temporal planner with the PROBCOG reasoning tool in order to handle failures. It is also quite important to decide whether the failure we are dealing with is permanent. We propose that inferring some properties of the failure source helps us handle failures and determine the failure types.
A Various Biometric application for authentication and identification 

In todays environment, biometric are play important role for the security purpose .with the help of different type of biometric thief can be easily caught. Various type of physical and behavioral biometric used for the authentication and identification purpose. Physical biometric are most popular and give the highest accuracy rather than behavioral biometric. These biometric are used according to requirement like field where we want to use, cost, and accuracy. Different special devices are needed for using the different biometric. In this paper shows different types of biometric are available in the world with their merits and demerits.
Comparing PSNR by using Integer and Haar Wavelet Transform in Reversible Data Hiding Technique 

A novel approach to recover data and cover image was introduced here by using reserve room concept of encryption. Here, data can be extracted without any loss, since reserve room concept of encryption is being used. In the previous methods, data are encrypted and are then being stored. But, in this method, data are stored in a particular place before the process of encryption. This helps in preventing the loss of data occurring in the system. Usually, transformation is a compression technique, takes place in the image to improve its quality. Integer wavelet transform and Haar transform are used here to improve the quality of the image. Comparison of integer wavelet transform and Haar transformation takes place and the PSNR achieved by Haar transform is greater than the PSNR achieved by integer wavelet transform. The mean square error also gets decreases in Haar transformation when compares with the integer wavelet transformation. Experimental results show that this method can embed large amount of data comparing to the previous methods
Abductive Metareasoning for Truth-Seeking Agents

My research seeks to answer the question of how any agent that is tasked with making sense of its world, by finding explanations for evidence (e.g., sensor reports) using domain-general strategies, may accurately and efficiently handle incomplete evidence, noisy evidence, and an incomplete knowledge base. I propose the following answer to the question. The agent should employ an optimal abductive reasoning algorithm (developed piece-wise and shown to be best in a class of similar algorithms) that allows it to reason from evidence to causes. For the sake of efficiency and operational concerns, the agent should establish beliefs periodically rather than waiting until it has obtained all evidence it will ever be able to obtain. If the agent commits to beliefs on the basis of incomplete or noisy evidence or an incomplete knowledge base, these beliefs may be incorrect. Future evidence obtained by the agent may result in failed predictions or anomalies. The agent is then tasked with determining whether it should retain its beliefs and therefore discount the newly-obtained evidence, revise its prior beliefs, or expand its knowledge base (what can be described as anomaly-driven or explanation-based learning). I have developed an abductive metareasoning procedure that aims to appropriately reason about these situations. Preliminary experiments in two reasoning tasks indicate that the procedure is effective.
On Codes over the Rings fq + ufq + vfq + uvfq

&#x0D; In this paper, we study the structure of linear and self dual codes of an arbitrary length n overhearing Fq + uFq + vFq + uvFq, where q is a power of the prime p and u2 = v2 = 0, uv = vu, Also we obtain the structure of consta-cyclic codes of length n = q − 1 over the ring Fq + uFq + vFq + uvFq in the light of studying cyclic codes over Fq + uFq + vFq + uvFq in [6]. This study is a generalization and extension of the works in [7], [8], and [10].&#x0D; GANIT J. Bangladesh Math. Soc.Vol. 38 (2018) 57-71&#x0D; &#x0D;
Welcome from the Workshop Co-chairs

We hope that you will take the opportunity to see, hear about, and experience world leading research in Internet computing and applications. Workshop papers show the importance of Internet computing, technologies, software, services, and applications. We believe that the workshop papers provide an interesting and complete view of the state of the art in the research activities, and we anticipate that the these papers will be a valuable reference for years to come.
Word Problems And Problems With Words: A Possible Solution

We began with a question: Why do our students have so much difficulty solving word problems in Math I? Another question followed: Why do our students have so much difficulty writing short (three-to-five paragraph), logical essays in English I? One possible answer: Our students approach math and English problems as if they required entirely different skills.However, aside from their expression in different languages, math and English problems require the same step-by-step analysis, also called problem solving, on the way to solutions.In this paper, we examine possible methods of teaching that analysis.We also propose a closer relationship between math and English curricula as a means of reinforcing our teaching.Electronic, and Mechanical.In addition, we teach our own math courses, from Math I, Algebra, through Math V, Differential Equations, and our own English courses, from English I, Expository Writing, through English III, Advanced Technical Communications.These courses provide an alternative to the math and Professional Writing sequences offered by the College of Arts and Sciences and offer the mathematical and writing skills relevant to the Engineering Technologies.In addition, two of our professors teach sections of the Arts and Sciences physics course, again so that Ward students are offered the relevant information.Given the attempt to provide skills our students require at a pace at which they can master those skills, we nevertheless find that many of our freshmen struggle through both Math I and English I.They wrestle with the three-to-five-paragraph essay form, having trouble, for the most part, not with grammar and syntax, but with expressing ideas
Development of Reversible Programmable Gate Array 

The model of digital computation used until now is intrinsically irreversible. This is because the two-bit gates used to construct circuits are irreversible as they involve two input bits and only one output bit. Irreversible gates dissipates energy during their operations, in this manner information bits are lost. Reversible Logic is a technique that can lead to circuits run as normal Logic operations, but use less power. In reversible logic the number of inputs and number of outputs must be equal. The input states are reconstructed from output states because of one to one mapping.Using reversible logic gates in the digital circuits it reduces the power consumption and non-destruction of information. In this paper, configurable logic block is designed in reversible manner for Programmable logic array based and multiplexer based field programmable gate array with less number of reversible gates, garbage outputs and quantum cost.
Enriching Chatter Bots With Semantic Conversation Control

Businesses deploy chatter bots to engage in text-based conversations with customers that are intended resolve their issues. However, these chatter bots are only effective in exchanges consisting of question-answer pairs, where the context may switch with every pair. I am designing a semantic architecture that enables chatter bots to hold short conversations, where context is maintained throughout the exchange. I leverage specific ideas from conversation theory, speech acts theory, and knowledge representation. My architecture models a conversation as a stochastic process that flows through a set of states. The main contribution of this work is that it analyses and models the semantics of conversations as entities, instead of lower level grammatical and linguistics forms. I evaluate the performance of the architecture in accordance with Grice’s cooperative maxims, which form the central idea in the theory of pragmatics.
Creative Engineering &amp; Programming with MaKey MaKey invention Kits

His focus is engineering and science education.Beau currently teaches the science/