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- Adrian-Martinez, S., et al.
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A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. - : IOP Publishing. - 1475-7516. ; :6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present the results of the first search for gravitational wave bursts associated with high energy neutrinos. Together, these messengers could reveal new, hidden sources that are not observed by conventional photon astronomy, particularly at high energy. Our search uses neutrinos detected by the underwater neutrino telescope ANTARES in its 5 line configuration during the period January - September 2007, which coincided with the fifth and first science runs of LIGO and Virgo, respectively. The LIGO-Virgo data were analysed for candidate gravitational-wave signals coincident in time and direction with the neutrino events. No significant coincident events were observed. We place limits on the density of joint high energy neutrino - gravitational wave emission events in the local universe, and compare them with densities of merger and core-collapse events.
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- Chaitanya, Lakshmi, et al.
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Collaborative EDNAP exercise on the IrisPlex system for DNA based prediction of human eye colour
- 2014
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Ingår i: Forensic Science International. - : Elsevier. - 1872-4973 .- 1878-0326. ; 11, s. 241-251
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The IrisPlex system is a DNA-based test system for the prediction of human eye colour from biological samples and consists of a single forensically validated multiplex genotyping assay together with a statistical prediction model that is based on genotypes and phenotypes from thousands of individuals. IrisPlex predicts blue and brown human eye colour with, on average, >94% precision accuracy using six of the currently most eye colour informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (HERC2 rs12913832, OCA2 rs1800407, SLC24A4 rs12896399, SLC45A2 (MATP) rs16891982, TYR rs1393350, and IRF4 rs12203592) according to a previous study, while the accuracy in predicting non-blue and non-brown eye colours is considerably lower. In an effort to vigorously assess the IrisPlex system at the international level, testing was performed by 21 laboratories in the context of a collaborative exercise divided into three tasks and organised by the European DNA Profiling (EDNAP) Group of the International Society of Forensic Genetics (ISFG). Task 1 involved the assessment of 10 blood and saliva samples provided on FTA cards by the organising laboratory together with eye colour phenotypes; 99.4% of the genotypes were correctly reported and 99% of the eye colour phenotypes were correctly predicted. Task 2 involved the assessment of 5 DNA samples extracted by the host laboratory from simulated casework samples, artificially degraded, and provided to the participants in varying DNA concentrations. For this task, 98.7% of the genotypes were correctly determined and 96.2% of eye colour phenotypes were correctly inferred. For Tasks 1 and 2 together, 99.2% (1875) of the 1890 genotypes were correctly generated and of the 15 (0.8%) incorrect genotype calls, only 2 (0.1%) resulted in incorrect eye colour phenotypes. The voluntary Task 3 involved participants choosing their own test subjects for IrisPlex genotyping and eye colour phenotype inference, while eye photographs were provided to the organising laboratory and judged; 96% of the eye colour phenotypes were inferred correctly across 100 samples and 19 laboratories. The high success rates in genotyping and eye colour phenotyping clearly demonstrate the reproducibility and the robustness of the IrisPlex assay as well as the accuracy of the IrisPlex model to predict blue and brown eye colour from DNA. Additionally, this study demonstrates the ease with which the IrisPlex system is implementable and applicable across forensic laboratories around the world with varying pre-existing experiences.
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- Dolfi, Michele, et al.
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Matrix Product State applications for the ALPS project
- 2014
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Ingår i: Computer Physics Communications. - : Elsevier BV. - 0010-4655 .- 1879-2944. ; 185:12, s. 3430-3440
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The density-matrix renormalization group method has become a standard computational approach to the low-energy physics as well as dynamics of low-dimensional quantum systems. In this paper, we present a new set of applications, available as part of the ALPS package, that provide an efficient and flexible implementation of these methods based on a matrix product state (MPS) representation. Our applications implement, within the same framework, algorithms to variationally find the ground state and low-lying excited states as well as simulate the time evolution of arbitrary one-dimensional and two-dimensional models. Implementing the conservation of quantum numbers for generic Abelian symmetries, we achieve performance competitive with the best codes in the community. Example results are provided for (i) a model of itinerant fermions in one dimension and (ii) a model of quantum magnetism. PROGRAM SUMMARY Program title: ALPS MPS Catalogue identifier: AEUL_v1_0 Program summary URL:http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEUL_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen’s University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: Use of ‘mps optim’, ‘mps tevol’, ‘mps meas’ or ‘mps overlap’ requires citation of this paper. Use of any ALPS program requires citation of the ALPS [1] paper. No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 373799 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 2019043 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: C++, OpenMP for parallelization. Computer: PC, HPC cluster. Operating system: Any, tested on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Has the code been vectorized or parallelized?: Parallelized using OpenMP 1 to 24 processors used. RAM: 100 MB–100 GB. Classification: 7.7. External routines: ALPS [1, 2], BLAS/LAPACK, HDF5. Nature of problem: Solution of quantum many-body systems is generally a hard problem. The many-body Hilbert space grows exponentially with the system size which limits exact diagonalization results to only 20–40 spins, and the fermionic negative sign problem limits the Quantum Monte Carlo methods to a few special cases. Solution method: The matrix product states ansatz provides a controllable truncation of the Hilbert space which makes it currently the method of choice to investigate low-dimensional systems in condensed matter physics. Our implementation allows simulation of arbitrary one-dimensional and two-dimensional models and achieves performance competitive with the best codes in the community. We implement conservation of quantum numbers for generic Abelian symmetries. Running time: 10 s–8h per sweep. References: [1] B. Bauer, et al. (ALPS Collaboration), The ALPS project release 2.0: open source software for strongly correlated systems, J. Stat. Mech. 2011 (05) (2011) P05001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2011/05/P05001. [2] http://alps.comp-phys.org.
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- Sommer, Ulrich, et al.
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The response of temperate aquatic ecosystems to global warming : novel insights from a multidisciplinary project
- 2012
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Ingår i: Marine Biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0025-3162 .- 1432-1793. ; 159:11, s. 2367-2377
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article serves as an introduction to this special issue of Marine Biology, but also as a review of the key findings of the AQUASHIFT research program which is the source of the articles published in this issue. AQUASHIFT is an interdisciplinary research program targeted to analyze the response of temperate zone aquatic ecosystems (both marine and freshwater) to global warming. The main conclusions of AQUASHIFT relate to (a) shifts in geographic distribution, (b) shifts in seasonality, (c) temporal mismatch in food chains, (d) biomass responses to warming, (e) responses of body size, (f) harmful bloom intensity, (f), changes of biodiversity, and (g) the dependence of shifts to temperature changes during critical seasonal windows.
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