Observational studies have reported solar magnetic modulation of terrestrial lightning on a range of time scales, from days to decades. The proposed mechanism is two-step: lightning rates vary with galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux incident on Earth, either via changes in atmospheric conductivity and/or direct triggering of lightning. GCR flux is, in turn, primarily controlled by the heliospheric ...

Kernel density estimation is the most widely-used practical method for accurate nonparametric density estimation. However, long-standing worst-case theoretical results showing that its performance worsens exponentially with the dimension of the data have quashed its application to modern high-dimensional datasets for decades. In practice, it has been recognized that often such data have a much ...

We give a unified description of tetrahedra with lightlike faces in 3d anti-de Sitter, de Sitter and Minkowski spaces their duals hyperbolic half-pipe spaces. show that both types are determined by generalized cross-ratio values commutative 2d real algebra generalizes the complex numbers. Equivalently, pair edge lengths dihedral angles. prove dual precisely ideal introduced Danciger. Finally, w...

A comparison of average daily values time series the axial component global wind angular moment and galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux was made. Using superposed epoch method it is shown that Forbush decreases GCR are accompanied by an increase in velocity atmosphericcirculation and, accordingly, zonal transfer.

We give asymptotically tight estimate of tangent space variation on a Riemannian submanifold of Euclidean space with respect to the local feature size of the submanifold. We show that the result is a consequence of structural properties of local feature size function of the Riemannian submanifold.

Gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) play an important role in human diseases, including cancer. The identity of all Genome Instability Suppressing (GIS) genes is not currently known. Here multiple Saccharomyces cerevisiae GCR assays and query mutations were crossed into arrays of mutants to identify progeny with increased GCR rates. One hundred eighty two GIS genes were identified that supp...

An understanding of how the heliosphere modulates galactic cosmic ray (GCR) fluxes and spectra is important, not only for studies of their origin, acceleration and propagation in our galaxy, but also for predicting their effects (on technology and on the Earth’s environment and organisms) and for interpreting abundances of cosmogenic isotopes in meteorites and terrestrial reservoirs. In contras...

Identifying the different varieties of the same language is more challenging than unrelated languages identification. In this paper, we propose an approach to discriminate language varieties or dialects of Mandarin Chinese for the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, Malaysia and Singapore, a.k.a., the Greater China Region (GCR). When applied to the dialects identification of the GCR, we f...