My task, as I understand it, is to select a single rule of procedure and explain why (and how) it must be reformed in order to build a better civil justice system in the twenty-first century. Let me say at the outset that I intend to shirk this responsibility. My principal reason is the integrated nature of our rules of procedure. All the rules—or at least all the rules worth talking about in t...

Hubbell's neutral theory of biodiversity has challenged the classic niche-based view of ecological community structure. Although there have been many attempts to falsify Hubbell's theory, we argue that falsification should not lead to rejection, because there is more to the theory than neutrality alone. Much of the criticism has focused on the neutrality assumption without full appreciation of ...

Hyperentanglement, defined as the simultaneous entanglement in several independent degrees of freedom (DOFs) a quantum system, is fascinating resource information processing with its outstanding merits. Here we propose heralded hyperentanglement concentration protocols (hyper-ECPs) to concentrate an unknown partially less polarization-spatial hyperentangled Bell state available linear optics an...

Abstract Alongside the rise of ‘last-mile’ delivery in contemporary urban logistics, drones have demonstrate commercial potential, given their outstanding triple-bottom-line performance. However, as a lithium-ion battery-powered device, drones’ social and environmental merits can be overturned by battery recycling disposal. To maintain economic performance, yet minimise negatives, fleet sharing...

We introduce in this paper a field theory on symplectic manifolds that are fibered over a real surface with interior marked points and cylindrical ends. We assign to each such object a morphism between certain tensor products of quantum and Floer homologies that are canonically attached to the fibration. We prove a composition theorem in the spirit of QFT, and show that this field theory applie...

1.1. Stable propagation. Let M := UT be the open unit cotangent bundle of the n-dimensional Euclidean torus T = R/Z. We express the elements of M in terms of the canonical coordinates (q1, . . . , qn, p1, . . . , pn), where qi ≡ qi + 1. Thus we identify M with T × D, where D = {|p| < 1} is the open unit ball in R and |v| stands for the Euclidean norm of a vector v ∈ R. Consider the space H of a...