The exact calculation of network reliability in a probabilistic context has been a long-standing issue of practical importance, but a di cult one, even for planar graphs, with perfect nodes and with edges of identical reliability p. Many approaches (determination of bounds, sums of disjoint products algorithms, Monte Carlo evaluations, studies of the reliability polynomials, etc.) can only prov...

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We study nonlinear effects in the QED ladder Schwinger-Dyson(SD) equation. Without further approximations, we show that all nonlinear effects in the ladder SD equation can be included in the effective couplings and how a linear approximation works well. The analyses is generalized in the case of the improved ladder calculation with the Higashijima-Miransky approximation. The dynamical symmetry ...

We report the results of numerical calculations of rung-rung current correlations on a 2-leg t-J ladder with J/t = 0.35 for dopings x = 0.125 and x = 0.19. We find that the amplitude of these correlations decays exponentially. We argue that this can be understood within a bosonization framework in terms of the pinned phase variables associated with a C1SO phase with dx2−y2-like power law pairin...

BACKGROUND The MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status intend to measure the subjective social status using a numbered stepladder image. This study investigated the reliability of the MacArthur scale in a subsample of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). METHOD Three scales were employed using different references: 1) the overall socioeconomic position; 2) the s...

There has been a growing interest in realizing quantum simulators for physical systems where perturbative methods are ineffective. The scalability and flexibility of circuit electrodynamics (cQED) make it promising platform to implement various types simulators, including lattice models strongly-coupled field theories. Here, we use multimode superconducting parametric cavity as hardware-efficie...

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) partially circumvents the high cost of labelling data by augmenting a small labeled dataset with a large and relatively cheap unlabeled dataset drawn from the same distribution. This paper offers a novel interpretation of two deep learning-based SSL approaches, ladder networks and virtual adversarial training (VAT), as applying distributional smoothing to their re...

In pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) a lambda ladder (-50 kbp multiples) Is a common DNA size standard (1). Here we describe a standard to conveniently size DNA between ladder rungs and to control for anomalies in PFGE DNA mobility. We combine two partial digests of lambda ladders to give a regularly spaced standard with -10 kbp resolution In the 10 to 200 kbp range. METHOD Lambda ladder ...