Abstract That muon neutrinos νμ oscillating into the mixture of tau neutrinos ντ and sterile neutrinos νs has been studied to explain the atmospheric νμ disappearance. In this scenario, the effect of Earth matter is a key to determine the fraction of νs. Considering that the Earth matter density has uncertainty and this uncertainty has significant effects in some neutrino oscillation cases, suc...

Roughly 30 years have passed since the last publication of a linear resolution calculation of density inside the Earth. Since that time, the data set of free oscillation degnerate frequencies has been completely re-estimated taking into account the biassing effects of splitting and coupling due to 3D structure. This paper presents a new resolution analysis based on the new data and focuses on t...

The eolian transport of surface material on the planet Mars is estimated from results of low-pressure wind tunnel testing and theoretical considerations. A semiempirical re ation is developed that will estimate the total amount of surface material moving in eolian saltation, suspension, and surface traction. The estimated total mass movement of surface material per unit width time on the surfac...

For echo cancelation enhanced by a Post-Filter it is necessary to get a reliable estimate of the (residual) echo power spectral density (PSD). We describe a method to obtain the echo PSD by an estimation of the system misalignment. For room impulse responses longer than the DFTlength a partitioned processing is necessary. Our contribution addresses problems concerning the partitioned calculatio...

Cepstral normalization has been popularly used as a powerful approach to produce robust features for speech recognition. Good examples of approaches in this family include the well known Cepstral Mean Subtraction (CMS) and Cepstral Mean and Variance Normalization (CMVN), in which either the first or both the first and the second moments of the Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) are nor...

The zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) is an important atmospheric parameter in the wide application of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) technology in geoscience. Given that the temporal resolution of the current global zenith tropospheric delay model (GZTD) is only 24 h, an improved model, GZTD2, has been developed by taking the diurnal variations into consideration and modifying the mo...

A hybrid estimator of the log-spectral density of a stationary time series is proposed. First, a multiple taper estimate is performed, followed by kernel smoothing the log-multiple taper estimate. This procedure reduces the expected mean square error by (π 2 4) 4/5 over simply smoothing the log tapered periodogram. A data adaptive implementation of a variable bandwidth kernel smoother is given.

In this paper we present a generalization of kernel density estimation called Convex Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation (CAKE) that replaces single bandwidth selection by a convex aggregation of kernels at all scales, where the convex aggregation is allowed to vary from one training point to another, treating the fundamental problem of heterogeneous smoothness in a novel way. Learning the CAKE ...

This is anOp Abstract – Using information on geomagnetic a ctivity, sunspot numbers and cosmogenic isotopes, supported by historic eclipse images and in conjunction with models, it has been possible to reconstruct annual means of solar wind speed and number density and heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) intensity since 1611, when telescopic observations of sunspots began. These models are develo...

The influence of gravity on the long-time behavior of the mean squared displacement in glasses of polydisperse colloidal hard spheres was studied by means of real-space fluorescent recovery after photobleaching. We present, for the first time, a significant influence of gravity on the mean squared displacements of the particles. In particular, we observe that systems which are glasses under gra...