We investigate the generation of entanglement between two quantum emitters through inverse-design engineering their photonic environment. By means a topology-optimization approach acting at level electromagnetic Dyadic Green's function, we generate dielectric cloaks operating different inter-emitter distances and incoherent pumping strengths. show that structures obtained maximize dissipative c...

We propose expected attainable discrimination (EAD) as a measure to select discrete valued features for reliable discrimination between two classes of data. EAD is an average of the area under the ROC curves obtained when a simple histogram probability density model is trained and tested on many random partitions of a data set. EAD can be incorporated into various stepwise search methods to det...

258 Ask a graduating chemical engineering student the following question: What makes one reactor different from the next? The answers received will often be unsatisfactory and vary widely in scope. Some may cite the difference between the basic design equations, others may point out a PFR is “longer,” and still others may state that it all depends on the particular reaction network. Though thes...

Global crop yields are limited by water and nutrient availability. Soil mulching (with plastic or straw) reduces evaporation, modifies soil temperature and thereby affects crop yields. Reported effects of mulching are sometimes contradictory, likely due to differences in climatic conditions, soil characteristics, crop species, and also water and nitrogen (N) input levels. Here we report on a me...

Cardinalities and lattice structures which are attainable by semilattices of ordered compactifications of completely regular ordered spaces are examined. Visliseni and Flachsmeyer have shown that every infinite cardinal is attainable as the cardinality of a semilattice of compactifications of a Tychonoff space. Among the finite cardinals, however, only the Bell numbers are attainable as cardina...