A new 10 channel Thomson scattering (TS) system was installed on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak to measure radial profiles of electron density and temperature at the plasma edge with high radial resolution. Together with the already existing TS system, which is now used for the core plasma, electron density and temperature profiles extending from the edge to the core are now obtained in a single dis...

Oxide nanoparticles can exhibit unique physical and chemical properties due to their limited size and a high density of corner or edge surface sites. In this study, MgO nanoparticle was synthesized using Mg(CH3COO)2 and hexamethylenetetramine as starting materials. The structure and optical properties of these particles are investigated by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), sc...

The Graph Drawing community uses test suites for comparing layout quality and e ciency. Those suites often claim to collect randomly generated graphs, although in most cases randomness is a loosely de ned notion. We propose a simple algorithm for generating acyclic digraphs with a given number of vertices uniformly at random. Applying standard combinatorial techniques, we describe the overall s...

Face and hand tracking are important areas of research, related to adaptive human-computer interfaces, and affective computing. In this article we have introduced two new methods for boundary detection of the human face in video sequences: (1) edge density thresholding, and (2) fuzzy edge density. We have analyzed these algorithms based on two main factors: convergence speed and stability again...

Abstract. Finding the largest clique in random graphs is a well known hard problem. It is known that a random graph G(n, 1/2) almost surely has a clique of size about 2 log n. A simple greedy algorithm finds a clique of size log n, and it is a long-standing open problem to find a clique of size (1 + ǫ) log n in randomized polynomial time. In this paper, we study the generalization of finding th...

We present first principles calculations of the electronic structure of small carbon nanotubes with different chiral angles theta and different diameters (d<1 nm). Results are obtained with a full potential method based on the density functional theory (DFT), with the local density approximation (LDA). We compare the band structure and density of states (DOS) of chiral nanotubes with those of z...

Multi-Edge type Low-Density Parity-Check codes (METLDPC codes) introduced by Richardson and Urbanke are generalized LDPC codes which can be seen as LDPC codes obtained by concatenating several standard (ir)regular LDPC codes. We prove in this paper that MET-LDPC code ensembles possess a certain symmetry with respect to their Average Coset Weight Distributions (ACWD). Using this symmetry, we dri...

The pre-peak in the x-ray-absorption near-edge structure ~XANES! of CuFeS2 is studied by exploring the associated photoelectron probability density as well as by investigating the cluster size effect. All significant features of the Cu, Fe, and S K-edge experimental spectra and of the S L2,3-edge spectrum are successfully reproduced by the real-space multiple-scattering ~RSMS! calculations with...

The densities of Yang-Lee zeros for the Ising ferromagnet on the L x L square lattice are evaluated from the exact grand partition functions (L=3 approximately 16). The properties of the density of Yang-Lee zeros are discussed as a function of temperature T and system size L. The three different classes of phase transitions for the Ising ferromagnet--first-order phase transition, second-order p...