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stat.AP2017★ 2 cited

To Wait or Not to Wait: Two-way Functional Hazards Model for Understanding Waiting in Call Centers

Gen Li, Jianhua Z. Huang, Haipeng Shen

Telephone call centers offer a convenient communication channel between businesses and their customers. Efficient management of call centers needs accurate modeling of customer wai…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 8 cited

Orbital Period Changes in WZ Sagittae

Joseph Patterson, Geoffrey Stone, Jonathan Kemp +19

We report a long-term (1961-2017) study of the eclipse times in the dwarf nova WZ Sagittae, in an effort to learn its rate of orbital-period change. Some wiggles with a time scale…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 12 cited

Absence of Local Fluctuating Dimers in Superconducting Ir(Pt,Rh)Te

R. Yu, S. Banerjee, H. Lei +6

The compound IrTe2 is known to exhibit a transition to a modulated state featuring Ir-Ir dimers, with large associated atomic displacements. Partial substitution of Pt or Rh for Ir…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 29 cited

Superluminal plasmons with resonant gain in population inverted bilayer graphene

Tony Low, Pai-Yen Chen, D. N. Basov

AB-stacked bilayer graphene with a tunable electronic bandgap in excess of the optical phonon energy presents an interesting active medium, and we consider such theoretical possibi…

cs.AI2017★ 11 cited

An Online Ride-Sharing Path Planning Strategy for Public Vehicle Systems

Ming Zhu, Xiao-Yang Liu, Xiaodong Wang

As efficient traffic-management platforms, public vehicle (PV) systems are envisioned to be a promising approach to solving traffic congestions and pollutions for future smart citi…

eess.SY2017★ 3 cited

Joint Transportation and Charging Scheduling in Public Vehicle Systems - A Game Theoretic Approach

Ming Zhu, Xiao-Yang Liu, Xiaodong Wang

Public vehicle (PV) systems are promising transportation systems for future smart cities which provide dynamic ride-sharing services according to passengers' requests. PVs are driv…

hep-lat2017

Dispersion relation and unphysical poles of Möbius domain-wall fermions in free field theory at finite

Masaaki Tomii

We investigate the dispersion relation of Möbius domain-wall fermions in free field theory at finite . We find that there are extra poles of Möbius domain-wall fermion…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

Search For Gravitational Redshifted Absorption Lines In LMXB Serpens X-1

Hiroki Yoneda, Chris Done, Frits Paerels +2

The equation of state for ultra-dense matter can be tested from observations of the ratio of mass to radius of neutron stars. This could be measured precisely from the redshift of…

cs.LG2017★ 1 cited

Online Forecasting Matrix Factorization

San Gultekin, John Paisley

In this paper the problem of forecasting high dimensional time series is considered. Such time series can be modeled as matrices where each column denotes a measurement. In additio…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 38 cited

The Elusive Origin of Mercury

Denton S. Ebel, Sarah T. Stewart

The MESSENGER mission sought to discover what physical processes determined Mercury's high metal to silicate ratio. Instead, the mission has discovered multiple anomalous character…

hep-ph2017★ 35 cited

On the use of a running coupling in the NLO calculation of forward hadron production

B. Ducloué, E. Iancu, T. Lappi +4

We address and solve a puzzle raised by a recent calculation [1] of the cross-section for particle production in proton-nucleus collisions to next-to-leading order: the numerical r…

cs.RO2017

On the Feasibility of Wearable Exotendon Networks for Whole-Hand Movement Patterns in Stroke Patients

Sangwoo Park, Lauri Bishop, Tara Post +3

Fully wearable hand rehabilitation and assistive devices could extend training and improve quality of life for patients affected by hand impairments. However, such devices must del…

stat.ME2017★ 2 cited

Are Extreme Value Estimation Methods Useful for Network Data?

Phyllis Wan, Tiandong Wang, Richard A. Davis +1

Preferential attachment is an appealing edge generating mechanism for modeling social networks. It provides both an intuitive description of network growth and an explanation for t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 22 cited

Ba(Zn,Co)2As2: a II-II-V Diluted Ferromagnetic Semiconductor with N-type Carriers

Shengli Guo, Huiyuan Man, Cui Ding +14

Diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors (DMSs) that combine the properties of semiconductors with ferromagnetism have potential application in spin-sensitive electronics (spintronics)…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Temperature Structure in the Perseus Cluster Core Observed with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The present paper investigates the temperature structure of the X-ray emitting plasma in the core of the Perseus cluster using the 1.8--20.0 keV data obtained with the Soft X-ray S…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 126 cited

Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The Hitomi SXS spectrum of the Perseus cluster, with 5 eV resolution in the 2-9 keV band, offers an unprecedented benchmark of the atomic modeling and database for hot collis…

math.DG2017

Fully non-linear parabolic equations on compact Hermitian manifolds

Duong H. Phong, Dat T. Tô

A notion of parabolic C-subsolutions is introduced for parabolic equations, extending the theory of C-subsolutions recently developed by B. Guan and more specifically G. Székelyhid…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 131 cited

The origin of the diverse morphologies and kinematics of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 simulations

Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel +11

We use hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to explore the morphologies and kinematics of fifteen Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies. Our sample ranges fro…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 33 cited

Photospheric diagnostics of core helium burning in giant stars

Keith Hawkins, Yuan-Sen Ting, Hans-Walter Rix

Core helium burning primary red clump (RC) stars are evolved red giant stars which are excellent standard candles. As such, these stars are routinely used to map the Milky Way or d…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 35 cited

Electron Heating in Low Mach Number Perpendicular shocks. II. Dependence on the Pre-Shock Conditions

Xinyi Guo, Lorenzo Sironi, Ramesh Narayan

Recent X-ray observations of merger shocks in galaxy clusters have shown that the post-shock plasma is two-temperature, with the protons being hotter than the electrons. In this wo…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

Hitomi Observations of the LMC SNR N132D: Highly Redshifted X-ray Emission from Iron Ejecta

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

We present Hitomi observations of N132D, a young, X-ray bright, O-rich core-collapse supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Despite a very short observation of only…

math.NA2017

A New Phase-Field Approach to Variational Implicit Solvation of Charged Molecules with the Coulomb-Field Approximation

Yanxiang Zhao, Yanping Ma, Hui Sun +2

We construct a new phase-field model for the solvation of charged molecules with a variational implicit solvent. Our phase-field free-energy functional includes the surface energy,…

cs.IT2017★ 17 cited

On Deterministic Sampling Patterns for Robust Low-Rank Matrix Completion

Morteza Ashraphijuo, Vaneet Aggarwal, Xiaodong Wang

In this letter, we study the deterministic sampling patterns for the completion of low rank matrix, when corrupted with a sparse noise, also known as robust matrix completion. We e…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 11 cited

Optimal Stabilization of Boolean Networks through Collective Influence

Jiannan Wang, Sen Pei, Wei Wei +2

The stability of Boolean networks has attracted much attention due to its wide applications in describing the dynamics of biological systems. During the past decades, much effort h…