We construct a new harmonic family: dielectric flow solutions with maximal supersymmetry in eleven-dimensional supergravity. These solutions are asymptotically AdS4 ×S7, while in the infra-red the M2 branes are dielectrically polarized into M5 branes. These solutions are holographically dual to vacua of the mass deformed theory on M2 branes. They also provide an interesting insight on the super...

As mentioned before, the success of CASE relies on two noteworthy properties: the Sure Screening (SS) property and the Separable After Screening (SAS) property. In this section, we discuss the two properties in detail, and illustrate how these properties enable us to decompose the original regression problem to many small-size regression problems which can be fit separately. We then use these p...

I describe a modification to Shanks’ baby-step giant-step algorithm for computing the order n of an element g of a group G, assuming n is finite. My method has the advantage of being able to compute n quickly, which Shanks’ method fails to do when the order of G is infinite, unknown, or much larger than n. I describe the algorithm in detail. I also present the results of implementations of my a...

Baby boomers will begin entering old age in 2011. They will be the largest and most diverse cohort ever to experience this life-course transition. The sheer number of baby boomers has challenged institutions time after time (Dychtwald, 1990). Despite extensive speculation regarding the political, economic, and social impact that the aging of baby boomers will have on American society, no one ha...

We argue that the giant graviton configurations known from the literature have a complementary, microscopical description in terms of multiple gravitational waves undergoing a dielectric (or magnetic moment) effect. We present a non-Abelian effective action for these gravitational waves with dielectric couplings and show that stable dielectric solutions exist. These solutions agree in the large...

influence of media messages History and Orientation The two-step flow of communication hypothesis was first introduced by Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet in The People's Choice, a 1944 study focused on the process of decision-making during a Presidential election campaign. These researchers expected to find empirical support for the direct influence of media messages on voti...

Satoru Inoue, Grigory Ovanesyan, and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf Physics Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 15 September 2015; published 22 J...

uPAR's signaling two step T he uPA receptor (uPAR) is a loner. Jutting from the plasma membrane , it has no apparent connection to the cell interior. But, as Madsen et al. demonstrate on page 927, uPAR induces cells to cling tightly to a surface. The behavior might recruit other receptors and explain how the seemingly isolated uPAR exerts its infl uence. Stimulating uPAR galvanizes cells—they a...

In recent years, several new methods for the identiica-tion of approximate models of an open loop plant on the basis of closed loop data have been presented. In this paper, we extend such a method to the nonlinear case: we consider that both the plant and the controller can be nonlinear. The method that is considered is a two-step procedure, i.e. the sensitivity function of the closed loop syst...