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Shaking a box of sand I – a simple lattice model

Shaking a box of sand I – a simple lattice model

... initial horizontal and the final vertical state of the grain. Similarly, the activation energy for a flip reads h = b − 1, where b = √ 1 + a 2 is the diagonal length of a grain. r The grain flips ... the jammed and fluidised states, with its balance of individual and collective dynamics, remains one of the most fascinating mysteries of granular matter. Lastly, we see a frozen region (for  ... addition of ori- entational rearrangement to the normal flow mechanism of CA models. In this spirit, consider a rectangular lattice of height H and width W with N ≤ HW grains located at its lattice...

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Shaking a box of sand II – at the jamming limit, when shape matters

Shaking a box of sand II – at the jamming limit, when shape matters

... unlike the way in which we envisaged a as the aspect ratio of a rectangular grain there,  can take any value, rational or irrational, in this chapter. It can, in this chapter, equally represent ... local field h n as the position of a random walker at time n. For a free lattice random walk of n steps, one has h 2 n =n, as all con- figurations are equiprobable, so that the entropy reads ... the normalised configu- rational probabilities 2 12 p(C) for a column of 12 grains against the 2 12 = 4096 8 Shaking a box of sand II – at the jamming limit, when shape matters! In this chapter...

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Tài liệu A History of England for Boys and Girls pdf

Tài liệu A History of England for Boys and Girls pdf

... horror of war had filled the land for so many CHAPTER 19 47 was really to blame for it. So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called Brittany, where they remained ... equal." Then Arthur was sad no longer. He did as Merlin advised, and had a great round table made, at which there was a seat for each one of his knights. After that there was no more quarreling ... last, weary of fighting, and forsaken by nearly all his followers, Alfred was forced to hide for a time in the marshes of Somerset. This was the saddest part of Alfred's life. He was a king,...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "ModelTalker Voice Recorder – An Interface System for Recording a Corpus of Speech for Synthesis" ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "ModelTalker Voice Recorder – An Interface System for Recording a Corpus of Speech for Synthesis" ppt

... pitch, amplitude and pronuncia- tion and users are given immediate feedback on the acceptability of each recording. Users can then rerecord an unacceptable utterance. Recordings are automatically ... feedback on the quality of each utterance they record in terms of pronunciation accuracy, relative uniformity of pitch, and relative uniformity of amplitude. Confe- rence attendees will be able ... by a profes- sional speaker and manually polished, all other voices were created by untrained individuals, most of whom have ALS, in an untrained setting, with the recordings having no manual...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Figure of Merit for the Evaluation of Web-Corpus Randomness" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Figure of Merit for the Evaluation of Web-Corpus Randomness" ppt

... lan- guage, excluding function words, while Ueyama and Baroni (2005) built corpora of Japanese using seed words from a basic Japanese vocabulary list. Both Sharoff and Ueyama and Baroni evaluated the ... through a manual classification of the retrieved pages and by qualitative analysis of the words that are most typical of the Web corpora. We are also interested in evaluating the effect that different ... construct a “balanced” corpus via a search engine one reasonable strategy is to use appro- priately balanced query terms, e.g., using ran- dom terms extracted from an available balanced corpus (Sharoff,...

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A MANUAL OF PRONUNCIATION FOR PRACTICAL USE IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES CONTAINING A CAREFUL SELECTION pdf

A MANUAL OF PRONUNCIATION FOR PRACTICAL USE IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES CONTAINING A CAREFUL SELECTION pdf

... This may be illustrated by such words as abdomen, acclimate,appendicitis, candelabrum, data, finance, ignoramus, gratis, etc. There are many words in our language about whose pronunciation ... the English language is the usage that prevails among the best-educated portion of the people to whom the language is vernacular; or, at least, the usage that will be most generally approved by ... Campbell's law of the good usage of a word applies with much force to its pronunciation. This law requires this usage to be, first, reputable, or the practice of intelligent and educated...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages" pot

Báo cáo khoa học: "Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages" pot

... more dynamic view of a genre classification system. Automatic identification of text types and genres represents a great advantage in many fields because manual annotation is expensive and time-consuming. ... blog_augustine_0000024 704 of being argumentative_persuasive shows a high gradation of argumentation. Gradations/ probabilities are ranked for each web page. The computation of text types as ... ca. 86%. An accuracy of 86% is a good achievement for a first implementation, especially if we consider that the standard Naïve Bayes classifier returns an accuracy of about 67%. Although slightly...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " A Type of Program for Mechanical Translation" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: " A Type of Program for Mechanical Translation" ppt

... local word-order change. APEXC The computer has a magnetic drum store with 1024 locations arranged in 32 tracks each of 32 locations. Each location contains 32 bits. Any location can therefore ... University of Southampton, Southampton, England* A program for the mechanical translation of a limited French vocabulary into Eng- lish was constructed for operation on the computer APEXC. Its ... principal features were an improved routine for dictionary look-up, and an organization permitting systematic incorporation of additional subroutines. A program for syntactic processing was constructed...

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A REVIEW OF CLAIMS FOR CAPPED RENTAL DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT potx

A REVIEW OF CLAIMS FOR CAPPED RENTAL DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT potx

... study criteria appeared as repairs for capped rental DME according to claims data, but upon review of the record, we determined that each claim was not a repair for capped rental DME. We received ... functioning of a malformed body member. 3 Medicare guidance states that the reasonable useful lifetime of DME should be at least 5 years, 4 after which a beneficiary may elect to obtain a replacement. 5 ... beneficiary paid $5 in cash and an additional $20 with a personal check. Because the suppliers did not 55 Based on a lack of information in claims data, we were unable to determine whether sampled...

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Title: A History of Art for BHistoric Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Thirdeginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Painting docx

Title: A History of Art for BHistoric Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Thirdeginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Painting docx

... estates; and yet that appears by no means to have been the case; for Sir Thomas More, partial as he was against Richard, says, "that to be sure of all enemies, he sent for five thousand ... draws him into a contradiction; for having said that the murder of Henry the Sixth had made Richard detested by all nations who heard of it, he adds, two pages afterwards, that an embassy arrived ... as his majesty was both in years and avarice, for this munificence took place in his third year, still he gave evidence of the falshood and rapacity of his nature; for though by act of parliament...

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A History of Art for Beginners ppt

A History of Art for Beginners ppt

... artists of the same era with Fra Angelico were MASOLINO, whose real name was PANICALE, and TOMMASO GUIDI, called MASACCIO on account of his want of neatness. The style of these two masters was ... "school of the Caracci," because LUDOVICO CARACCI (1555-1619) was at the head of a large academy there, and was assisted by his nephews, AGOSTINO CARACCI (1558-1601) and ANNIBALE CARACCI (1560-1609), the ... gives us a clear record of the habits and customs of a very ancient people of a civilization which has long since passed away, and of which we should have a comparatively vague and unsatisfactory...

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Title: A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Painting doc

Title: A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Painting doc

... was no freedom for the realistic and natural tendencies of the Renaissance art to develop in. Another advantage on the side of Italian art was the fact that Italy was a land of grace and beauty; ... Earl of Egremont, who had his life-size Apollo also. In 1797 Flaxman was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, in 1800 an Academician, and in 1810, when a Professor of Sculpture was added ... group of Dædalus and Icarus for the Senator Pisani. This was intended for an exterior decoration of his palace; but when it was done Pisani considered it worthy of a place in his gallery, already...

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wayne a. thorp - the macd a combo of indicators for the best of both worlds

wayne a. thorp - the macd a combo of indicators for the best of both worlds

... technicians is to track the behavior of the MACD on a daily basis. However, instead of entering or exiting a trade based on a daily signal, they refer to the weekly chart to see where the MACD is. For ... second exponential moving average (using longer period) Exponential Percentage Moving Averages: A weighted moving average calculated by taking a percentage of today’s price and applying it to ... expecta- tion that a price that is overextended or overbought will fall. Figure 3 is a 10-year weekly chart for Cascade Natural Gas. Examining FIGURE 3. THE MACD AS AN OVERBOUGHT/OVERSOLD INDICATOR FIGURE...

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