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Stream VByte: Faster Byte-Oriented Integer Compression

Arrays of integers are often compressed in search engines. Though there are
many ways to compress integers, we are interested in the popular byte-oriented
integer compression techniques (e.g., VByte or Google's Varint-GB). They are
appealing due to their simplicity and engineering convenience. Amazon's
varint-G8IU is one of the fastest byte-oriented compression technique published
so far. It makes judicious use of the powerful single-instruction-multiple-data
(SIMD) instructions available in commodity processors. To surpass varint-G8IU,
we present Stream VByte, a novel byte-oriented compression technique that
separates the control stream from the encoded data. Like varint-G8IU, Stream
VByte is well suited for SIMD instructions. We show that Stream VByte decoding
can be up to twice as fast as varint-G8IU decoding over real data sets. In this
sense, Stream VByte establishes new speed records for byte-oriented integer
compression, at times exceeding the speed of the memcpy function. On a 3.4GHz
Haswell processor, it decodes more than 4 billion differentially-coded integers
per second from RAM to L1 cache
A numerical study of Bi-periodic binary diffraction gratings for solar cell applications

In this paper, a numerical study is made of simple bi-periodic binary diffraction gratings for solar cell applications. The gratings consist of hexagonal arrays of elliptical towers and wells etched directly into the solar cell substrate. The gratings are applied to two distinct solar cell technologies: a quantum dot intermediate band solar cell (QD-IBSC) and a crystalline silicon solar cell (SSC). In each case, the expected photocurrent increase due to the presence of the grating is calculated assuming AM1.5D illumination. For each technology, the grating period, well/tower depth and well/tower radii are optimised to maximise the photocurrent. The optimum parameters are presented. Results are presented for QD-IBSCs with a range of quantum dot layers and for SSCs with a range of thicknesses. For the QD-IBSC, it is found that the optimised grating leads to an absorption enhancement above that calculated for an ideally Lambertian scatterer for cells with less than 70 quantum dot layers. In a QD-IBSC with 50 quantum dot layers equipped with the optimum grating, the weak intermediate band to conduction band transition absorbs roughly half the photons in the corresponding sub-range of the AM1.5D spectrum. For the SSC, it is found that the optimised grating leads to an absorption enhancement above that calculated for an ideally Lambertian scatterer for cells with thicknesses of 10&#xa0;?m or greater. A 20um thick SSC equipped with the optimised grating leads to an absorption enhancement above that of a 200um thick SSC equipped with a planar back reflector
Bacteriochlorophyll aggregates in positively charged micelles

Micellar complexes were prepared from bacteriochlorophyll a and bacteriopheophytin a with the cationic detergents, cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide and cetylpyridinium chloride. These complexes have spectroscopic properties (absorption, circular dichroism) which are very different from the ones formed with non-ionic detergents like Triton X-100, and also with anionic detergents. Bacteriochlorophyll a forms two complexes: One is blue-shifted and has excitonically coupled Qy transitions. The second one is extremely red-shifted. The unusual properties are suggested to result from interactions of the positively charged head-group of the detergent with the tetrapyrrole.
A comprehensive survey on the quickest path problem

Abstract  This work is a survey on a special minsum-maxmin bicriteria problem, known as the quickest path problem, that can model the transmission of data between two nodes of a network. Moreover, the authors review the problems of ranking the K quickest paths, and the K quickest loopless paths, and compare them in terms of the worst-case complexity order. The classification presented led to the proposal of a new variant of a known K quickest loopless paths algorithm. Finally, applications of quickest path algorithms are mentioned, as well as some comparative empirical results.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-006-0068-
Unipolarization of ambipolar organic field effect transistors toward high-impedance complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor circuits

Ambipolar organic field effect transistors (OFETs), consisting of a composite of polyhexylthiophene (PHT) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butylic acid methyl ester (PCBM), was converted into a p- or n-type OFET by insertion of a thin tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) or tetrathiafluvalene (TTF) buffer layer. The interface in the Au/TCNQ/PHT:PCBM composite transports hole but blocks electron, while the transported carrier was switched to electron with insertion of a TTF layer. The selective transport is probably due to vacuum level matching or temporal doping. High impedance in a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor inverter was demonstrated with unipolarized ambipolar FETs, resulting in a decrease in the through current
Determination of the heat release rate inside operational road tunnels by comparison with CFD calculations

Usually, during a fire inside a tunnel, the average heat release rate (HRR) is estimated according to the type of vehicle. Frequently, the overall HRR is considered, however it is also necessary to know its time evolution to design real time systems, particularly ventilation, which respond to fire events or signals as fast as possible. Nowadays, there is not a well established and generally accepted procedure to know the power liberated at each instant of time inside an operational tunnel. That procedure could help in taking the correct actions to adapt the tunnel ventilation in order to diminish the effects of the fire and the smoke. This work shows a method to calculate the heat release rate using sensors that can be installed inside an operational road tunnel. Besides, the location of the fire could also be calculated accurately and quickly. To achieve the previous purposes, a stationary database that depends on HRR, its location, and the ventilation speed is calculated with CFD programs; the data are compared with temperatures measured by the sensors located inside the tunnel. The program used to generate the database is the simplified model UPMTUNNEL. The predictions of the model are compared with the results of calculations carried out using the general purpose code FLUENT, and with measurements done in a tunnel with a real fire, produced with a fuel tray
Analysis of duplication in the Spanish durum wheat collection maintained in the CRF-INIA on the basis of agro-morphological traits and gliadin proteins

A total of 106 potential duplicate cases involved 277 accessions were detected on the basis of passport data in the durum wheat collection maintained in the CRF-INIA. Similarity between accessions was measured by agro-morphological traits. The 90% of the agro-morphological duplication were verified with gliadin proteins, allowing identification of similar material with greater refinement than agro-morphological data. However, the results indicated not to decide for rationalisation only on the basis of molecular data
Dominance Measuring Method Performance under Incomplete Information about Weights.

In multi-attribute utility theory, it is often not easy to elicit precise values for the scaling weights representing the relative importance of criteria. A very widespread approach is to gather incomplete information. A recent approach for dealing with such situations is to use information about each alternative?s intensity of dominance, known as dominance measuring methods. Different dominancemeasuring methods have been proposed, and simulation studies have been carried out to compare these methods with each other and with other approaches but only when ordinal information about weights is available. In this paper, we useMonte Carlo simulation techniques to analyse the performance of and adapt such methods to deal with weight intervals, weights fitting independent normal probability distributions orweights represented by fuzzy numbers.Moreover, dominance measuringmethod performance is also compared with a widely used methodology dealing with incomplete information on weights, the stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA). SMAA is based on exploring the weight space to describe the evaluations that would make each alternative the preferred one
Dynamic earth pressures against a retaining wall caused by Rayleigh waves

An approximate procedure for studying harmonic soil-structure interaction problems is presented. The presence of Rayleigh waves is considered and the resulting governing equations of the dynamic soil-structure system are solved in the time domain. With this method the transient and steady states of a vibratory motion and also the nonlinear behaviour of the soil can be studied. As an example, the dynamic earth pressure against a rigid retaining wall is investigated. The loads are assumed to be harmonic Rayleigh\ud
waves with both static and dynamic surface surcharges. The dependence of the results on the excitation frequency is shown
Multiplicity of equilibria in conjectural variations models of natural gas markets

Spatial partial equilibrium models incorporating conjectural variations are widely used to analyze the development of oligopolistic multi-agent markets, such as international energy and raw material markets. Although this model type can produce multiple equilibria under commonly used assumptions, to the best of our knowledge, the consequences for the interpretation of the model results have not yet been explored in detail. To this end, we derive a linear complementarity model for the gas market and discuss under which assumptions on the model structure a component of the solution is unique. In particular, we find that the gas flow between a trader and a consumer is unique whenever the trader is modeled to exert market power in the consumer’s market. We demonstrate our findings by computing the extreme points of the polyhedral solution space and show that erroneous conclusions could be drawn whenever only one (arbitrary) point in the solution space is picked for interpretation. Furthermore, we discuss whether economically meaningful parameter value changes exist which would enforce uniqueness in all components of the solution
Truth Table Invariant Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition by Regular
  Chains

A new algorithm to compute cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs) is
presented, building on two recent advances. Firstly, the output is truth table
invariant (a TTICAD) meaning given formulae have constant truth value on each
cell of the decomposition. Secondly, the computation uses regular chains theory
to first build a cylindrical decomposition of complex space (CCD) incrementally
by polynomial. Significant modification of the regular chains technology was
used to achieve the more sophisticated invariance criteria. Experimental
results on an implementation in the RegularChains Library for Maple verify that
combining these advances gives an algorithm superior to its individual
components and competitive with the state of the art
Search for Manifestations of New Physics in Fermion-Pair Production at LEP

The measurements of hadron and lepton-pair production cross sections and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries performed with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 130 GeV and 189 GeV are used to search for new physics phenomena such as: contact interactions, exchange of virtual leptoquarks, scalar quarks and scalar neutrinos, effects of TeV strings in models of quantum gravity with large extra dimensions and non-zero sizes of the fermions. No evidence for these phenomena is found and new limits on their parameters are set
Three dimensional image correlation from X-Ray computed tomography of solid foam

This work is part of a project (PHOTOFIT) funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. We acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for provision of synchrotron radiation facilities and we would like to thank Joanna Hoszowska for assistance in using beamline BM05.A new methodology is proposed to estimate 3D displacement fields from pairs of
images obtained from X-Ray Computed Micro Tomography (XCMT). Contrary to local approaches, a global approach is followed herein that evaluates continuous displacement fields. Although any displacement basis could be considered, the procedure is specialized to finite element shape functions. The method is illustrated with the analysis of a compression test on a polypropylene solid foam (independently studied in a companion paper). A good stability of the measured displacement field is obtained for cubic element sizes ranging from 16 voxels to 6 voxels
p-exponent and p-leaders, Part I: Negative pointwise regularity

Multifractal analysis aims to characterize signals, functions, images or
fields, via the fluctuations of their local regularity along time or space,
hence capturing crucial features of their temporal/spatial dynamics.
Multifractal analysis is becoming a standard tool in signal and image
processing, and is nowadays widely used in numerous applications of different
natures. Its common formulation relies on the measure of local regularity via
the H\"older exponent, by nature restricted to positive values, and thus to
locally bounded functions or signals. It is here proposed to base the
quantification of local regularity on $p$-exponents, a novel local regularity
measure potentially taking negative values. First, the theoretical properties
of $p$-exponents are studied in detail. Second, wavelet-based multiscale
quantities, the $p$-leaders, are constructed and shown to permit accurate
practical estimation of $p$-exponents. Exploiting the potential dependence with
$p$, it is also shown how the collection of $p$-exponents enriches the
classification of locally singular behaviors in functions, signals or images.
The present contribution is complemented by a companion article developing the
$p$-leader based multifractal formalism associated to $p$-exponents
kyrie2: query rewriting under extensional constraints in ELHIO

In this paper we study query answering and rewriting in ontologybased data access. Specifically, we present an algorithm for computing a perfect rewriting of unions of conjunctive queries posed over ontologies expressed in the description logic ELHIO, which covers the OWL 2 QL and OWL 2 EL profiles. The novelty of our algorithm is the use of a set of ABox dependencies, which are compiled into a so-called EBox, to limit the expansion of the rewriting. So far, EBoxes have only been used in query rewriting in the case of DL-Lite, which is less expressive than ELHIO. We have extensively evaluated our new query rewriting technique, and in this paper we discuss the tradeoff between the reduction of the size of the rewriting and the computational cost of our approach
Impact of dual antiplatelet therapy on outcomes among aspirin-resistant patients following coronary artery bypass grafting

Coronary artery bypass grafting is pivotal in the contemporary management of complex coronary artery disease. Interpatient variability to antiplatelet agents, however, harbors the potential to compromise the revascularization benefit by increasing the incidence of adverse events. This study was designed to define the impact of dual antiplatelet therapy (dAPT) on clinical outcomes among aspirin-resistant patients who underwent coronary artery surgery. We randomly assigned 219 aspirin-resistant patients according to multiple electrode aggregometry to receive clopidogrel (75 mg) plus aspirin (300 mg) or aspirin-monotherapy (300 mg). The primary end point was a composite outcome of all-cause death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular hospitalization assessed at 6 months postoperatively. The primary end point occurred in 6% of patients assigned to dAPT and 10% of patients randomized to aspirin-monotherapy (relative risk 0.61, 95% confidence interval 0.25 to 1.51, p = 0.33). No significant treatment effect was noted in the occurrence of the safety end point. The total incidence of bleeding events was 25% and 19% in the dAPT and aspirin-monotherapy groups, respectively (relative risk 1.34, 95% confidence interval 0.80 to 2.23, p = 0.33). In the subgroup analysis, dAPT led to lower rates of adverse events in patients with a body mass index >30 kg/m(2) (0% vs 18%, p <0.01) and those <65 years (0% vs 10%, p = 0.02). In conclusion, the addition of clopidogrel in patients found to be aspirin resistant after coronary artery bypass grafting did not reduce the incidence of adverse events, nor did it increase the number of recorded bleeding events. dAPT did, however, lower the incidence of the primary end point in obese patients and those <65 years
Relativeness in quantum gravity: limitations and frame dependence of semiclassical descriptions

Consistency between quantum mechanical and general relativistic views of the world is a longstanding problem, which becomes particularly prominent in black hole physics. We develop a coherent picture addressing this issue by studying the quantum mechanics of an evolving black hole. After interpreting the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy as the entropy representing the degrees of freedom that are coarse-grained to obtain a semiclassical description from the microscopic theory of quantum gravity, we discuss the properties these degrees of freedom exhibit when viewed from the semiclassical standpoint. We are led to the conclusion that they show features which we call extreme relativeness and spacetime-matter duality — a nontrivial reference frame dependence of their spacetime distribution and the dual roles they play as the “constituents” of spacetime and as thermal radiation. We describe black hole formation and evaporation processes in distant and infalling reference frames, showing that these two properties allow us to avoid the arguments for firewalls and to make the existence of the black hole interior consistent with unitary evolution in the sense of complementarity. Our analysis provides a concrete answer to how information can be preserved at the quantum level throughout the evolution of a black hole, and gives a basic picture of how general coordinate transformations may work at the level of full quantum gravity beyond the approximation of semiclassical theory
HIV-infected adults with a CD4 cell count greater than 500 cells/mm3 on long-term combination antiretroviral therapy reach same mortality rates as the general population.

International audienceOBJECTIVE: To compare mortality rates in combination antiretroviral therapy (cART)-treated HIV-infected adults with mortality in the general population according to the level of CD4 cell count reached and the duration of exposure to cART. METHODS: HIV-infected adults initiating a protease inhibitor-containing treatment between 1997 and 1999 were selected in the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida et les hepatites virales (ANRS) APROCO and AQUITAINE cohorts. CD4 cell counts were estimated during follow-up using a 2-phase mixed linear model. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were computed in reference to the 2002 French population rates, overall and for the time period spent with a CD4 count >or=500 cells/mm3. To identify if and when mortality rates reached values of the general population, SMRs were computed successively with truncation at each year of follow-up. RESULTS: The 2,435 adults (77% men, baseline median age = 36 years, and baseline median CD4 count = 270 cells/mm3) had a median follow-up of 6.8 years. The SMR was 7.0 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.2 to 7.8). During the 5,402 person-years spent with a CD4 count >or=500 cells/mm3, the mortality reached the level of the general population after the sixth year after cART initiation (SMR = 0.5, 95% CI: 0.1 to 1.6). CONCLUSION: Although overall mortality was higher in cART-treated HIV-infected adults, a subgroup with especially good prognosis can be identified, and these characteristics should be targeted for long-term treatment
Camassa-Holm equations and vortexons for axisymmetric pipe flows

21 pages, 12 figures, 46 references. Other authors papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/In this paper, we study the nonlinear dynamics of an axisymmetric disturbance to the laminar state in non-rotating Poiseuille pipe flows. In particular, we show that the associated Navier-Stokes equations can be reduced to a set of coupled Camassa-Holm type equations. These support inviscid and smooth localized travelling waves, which are numerically computed using the Petviashvili method. In physical space they correspond to localized toroidal vortices that concentrate near the pipe boundaries (wall vortexons) or wrap around the pipe axis (centre vortexons) in agreement with the analytical soliton solutions derived by Fedele (2012) for small and long-wave disturbances. Inviscid singular vortexons with discontinuous radial velocities are also numerically discovered as associated to special traveling waves with a wedge-type singularity, viz. peakons. Their existence is confirmed by an analytical solution of exponentially-shaped peakons that is obtained for the particular case of the uncoupled Camassa-Holm equations. The evolution of a perturbation is also investigated using an accurate Fourier-type spectral scheme. We observe that an initial vortical patch splits into a centre vortexon radiating vorticity in the form of wall vortexons. These can under go further splitting before viscosity dissipate them, leading to a slug of centre vortexons. The splitting process originates from a radial flux of azimuthal vorticity from the wall to the pipe axis in agreement with Eyink (2008). The inviscid and smooth vortexon is similar to the nonlinear neutral structures derived by Walton (2011) and it may be a precursor to puffs and slugs observed at transition, since most likely it is unstable to non-axisymmetric disturbances
VR-based Operating Modes and Metaphors for Collaborative Ergonomic Design of Industrial Workstations

International audienceThe aim of this paper is to evaluate two new operating design modes and their collaborative metaphors enabling two actors, a design engineer and an end-user, to work jointly in a collabora-tive virtual environment for workstation design. The two operating design modes that correspond to two different design paradigms include : direct design mode (the design engineer manipulates objects while the end-user specifies their activity constraints) and supervised design mode (the end-user manipulates objects while the design engineer specifies their process constraints). The corresponding collaborative metaphors enable the two actors to manipulate objects while one (the design engineer) can express process constraints and the other (the end-user) can express activity constraints. The usability evaluation of the modes and metaphors consisted in placing a workstation design element on a digital workstation mock-up where a trade-off was to be found between process constraints and activity constraints. The results show that if we consider the completion time as the most important criterion to achieve, the direct design mode must be favoured. Otherwise , if the activity constraints are predominant, the supervised design mode must be favoured. In any case, the addition of an ergonomist's point of view is supported and warranted in order to enhance the effectiveness of the system