I discuss optimized data analysis and Monte Carlo methods. Reweighting methods are discussed through examples, like Lee-Yang zeroes in the Ising model and the absence of deconfinement in QCD. I discuss reweighted data analysis and multi-hystogramming. I introduce Simulated Tempering, and as an example its application to the Random Field Ising Model. I illustrate Parallel Tempering, and discuss ...

Research on rice drying and tempering has shown that high drying temperatures (up to 603C) and high moisture removal rates (up to 6 percentage points moisture content) can be used without reducing milling quality as long as sufficient tempering at a temperature above the glass transition temperature (Tg) is allowed between drying passes. Using drying air temperatures above the Tg of the rice si...

Umbrella sampling is an efficient method for the calculation of free energy changes of a system along well-defined reaction coordinates. However, when there exist multiple parallel channels along the reaction coordinate or hidden barriers in directions perpendicular to the reaction coordinate, it is difficult for conventional umbrella sampling to reach convergent sampling within limited simulat...

Sampling from complex distributions is an important but challenging topic in scientific and statistical computation. We synthesize three ideas, tempering, resampling, and Markov moving, and propose a general framework of resampling Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). This framework not only accommodates various existing algorithms, including resample-move, importance resampling MCMC, and equi-ener...

The effects of 1) ripening 2, 7, and 14 d at 7 degrees C before freezing; 2) tempering 7, and 14 d at 7 degrees C after freezing; and 3) frozen storage for 1 and 4 wk at -20 degrees C, on the meltability, stretchability, and microstructure of pasta filata and nonpasta filata Mozzarella cheeses were investigated. Cheeses were cut into 5 x 10 x 7-cm blocks and vacuum-sealed 1 d after manufacture....

in order to establish the appropriate methane fermentation technology for low strength wastewater, a 2.0 l egsb reactor was operated at 20â°c with 0.3 - 0.4 g cod/l of sucrose-based synthetic wastewater for 500 days. at the start up period, the reactor was operated in egsb mode with a 5 m/h up flow velocity by continuous effluent recirculation. however, the egsb reactor exhibited insufficient c...

Abstract Simulated tempering is a popular method of allowing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms to move between modes multimodal target density $\pi$ . Tawn, Moores and Roberts (2021) introduces the Annealed Leap-Point Sampler (ALPS) allow for rapid movement modes. In this paper we prove that, under appropriate assumptions, suitably scaled version ALPS algorithm converges weakly skew Brownian ...

converges when |z| < 1, defining the classical polylogarithm function, equal to − log(1 − z) when s = 1. In general, the behavior of these functions at z = 1 is complicated: it is known, for example, that Lis has an analytic continuation to the cut plane C − 1,∞). The fact that the ‘modified’ polylogarithm of Bloch, Ramakrishnan, Wigner, Wojtkowiak, Zagier, . . . , defined as the real, or imagi...

Abstract The presence of retained austenite in the hardening process tool steel often causes lower hardness compared to requirements and poor dimensional stability steel. purpose present research is determine relationships between tempering with without cryogenic treatment amount as-hardened D2 austenitizing temperature was 1020 °C, temperatures have variations 180 280 380 480 580 subzero has a...