A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings, lifetimes, B-B0 oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |Vtd|, |Vcb|, |Vub| and implication for |Vts| are di...

The need to analyze and query spatial data is becoming increasingly important with the advent of applications such as Geographic Information Systems, Image Databases and Remote Sensing. The focus of our research is to support spatial data analysis by developing a direct manipulation environment to visually query as well as browse spatial data and to review the visual results for trend analysis....

In this paper we propose a simple neural network architecture for solving the problem of text-based answer extraction, using the SQuAD dataset to train. Although our model fails to perform as well as desired, it does better than random guess, and could potentially serve as a useful starting point should we choose to pursue further research in the field.

The firing squad synchronization problem has been studied extensively for more than forty years, and a rich variety of synchronization algorithms have been proposed. In the present paper, we give a new optimum-time algorithm for synchronizing twodimensional cellular automata. Its state-efficient implementation is also given.

This article places two Japan-Korea collaboration films produced during the Pacific War— Suicide Squad at the Watchtower (B!r! no kesshitai, 1943) and Love and the Vow (Ai to chikai, 1945)—within the broader colonial and transnational context of filmmaking. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship of these films to the careers of their co-directors, Imai Tadashi (1912– 1991) and Ch’oe In-gy...