2014 A transition between a smectic A phase and a smectic A antiphase (SÃ) is observed for the first time in a pure compound : the nitrobenzoyloxybenzoate of heptylphenyl. So far, the anomalies of periodicities which are connected to this type of transition were only detected in cyano systems. Moreover, the solid phase of the inferior homologue of this nitro series is surprisingly influenced by...

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If there are groups whose endorsements voters can use as positive (or negative) cues, we demonstrate that voters do not need to know anything directly about candidate positions to be able to identify the candidate whose issue positions and performance is likely to be closest to the voter 's own preferences. In one dimension we show that, given certain simplifying assumptions, voters are best of...

For robots to become our personal companions in the future, they need to know how to socially interact with us. One defining characteristic of human social behaviour is empathy. In this paper, we present a robot that acts as a social companion expressing different kinds of empathic behaviours through its facial expressions and utterances. The robot comments the moves of two subjects playing a c...

Citation is perhaps the mostly used metric to evaluate the scientific impact of papers. Various measures of the scientific impact of researchers and journals rely heavily on the citations of papers. Furthermore, in many practical applications, people may need to know not only the current citations of a paper, but also a prediction of its future citations. However, the complex heterogeneous temp...

Abstract This is the writeup for TASI–04 lectures on Collider Phenomenology. These lectures are meant to provide an introductory presentation on the basic knowledge and techniques for collider physics. Special efforts have been made for those theorists who need to know some experimental issues in collider environments, and for those experimenters who would like to know more about theoretical co...