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The Cyprus Institute
Other•Nicosia, Cyprus•
About: The Cyprus Institute is a other organization based out in Nicosia, Cyprus. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Aerosol & Environmental science. The organization has 418 authors who have published 1252 publications receiving 32586 citations.
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TL;DR: The rapid trends of urbanisation have catastrophic consequences on the ecology of our cities as discussed by the authors, leading to increased emissions of ozone-depleting gases and carbon dioxide emissions, which are polluting our planet and enhancing the effects of global warming.
Abstract: The rapid trends of urbanisation have catastrophic consequences on the ecology of our cities. Air-conditioning systems are extensively and inefficiently used. The large amounts of energy consumption and the reckless exploitation of natural resources are leading to increased emissions of ozone-depleting gases and carbon dioxide emissions, which are polluting our planet and enhancing the effects of global warming.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the magnetic form factor of the nucleon at zero momentum transfer is extracted without the need to assume a functional form for its momentum dependence, by taking the derivative of relevant correlators.
Abstract: The extraction of the magnetic form factor of the nucleon at zero momentum transfer is usually performed by adopting a parametrization for its momentum dependence and fitting the results obtained at finite momenta We present position space methods that rely on taking the derivative of relevant correlators to extract directly the magnetic form factor at zero momentum without the need to assume a functional form for its momentum dependence These methods are explored on one ensemble using $N_f=2+1+1$ Wilson twisted mass fermions
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TL;DR: In this article, a general strategy aimed at generating Nf = 2+1+1 configurations with quarks at their physical mass using maximally twisted mass fermions to ensure automatic O(a) improvement, in the presence of a clover term tuned to reduce the neutral pion mass difference.
Abstract: We present a general strategy aimed at generating Nf = 2+1+1 configurations with quarks at their physical mass using maximally twisted mass fermions to ensure automatic O(a) improvement, in the presence of a clover term tuned to reduce the charged to neutral pion mass difference. The target system, for the moment, is a lattice of size 643 × 128 with a lattice spacing a ~ 0:08 fm. We show preliminary results on the pion and kaon mass and decay constants.
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15 May 2015TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the current status and future potential of archaeological research on funerary practices, contexts, and death, as well as finding a way to successfully integrate research traditionally conducted within widely different disciplinary realms.
Abstract: Archaeologists have excavated mortuary contexts and the remains of the dead since the beginning of activity within their discipline. The study of these remains has taken place under different rubrics, including burial archaeology, mortuary archaeology, archaeology of the dead, funerary archaeology, osteoarchaeology, human bioarchaeology, and archaeology of death. The study of mortuary contexts and accompanying artifacts has largely taken place in separation from the study of the human remains. Does the study of the remains of the dead, and the contexts within which these are found, constitute an archaeology of death, or an archaeology of funerary remains, as tacitly implied by the titles of numerous publications focusing on such remains? Recently it has been claimed that we have never had an archaeology of death (Robb). Indeed a search for published archaeological research focusing on the concept of death, and the variation of conceptualizations of death in past societies, currently produces scant results. Archaeological publications with titles that refer to funerary remains tend to focus on selected aspect(s) of funerary practice, mostly those related to the disposal of the dead, whether through burial or other means. If we take the term funerary to mean that which pertains to funeral rites or burial, it is clear that a wider range of evidence needs to be considered for a comprehensive funerary archaeology to emerge. This essay focuses on the current status and future potential of archaeological research on funerary practices, contexts, and death. Calls for bringing the human body, the corpse, and the skeleton into the center stage in studies of mortuary archaeology have already been made by many, and attempted by a few. Key issues for future archaeological research on death and funerary practice include ensuring a true research emphasis on past conceptualizations of death, considering a wider range of evidence pertaining to death and funerary practice (not just burial or other body disposal contexts), and as necessitated by the latter, finding a way to successfully integrate research traditionally conducted within widely different disciplinary realms.
Keywords:
funerary practice;
funerary context;
death;
body;
corpse;
skeleton;
burial;
disposal of the dead
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01 Aug 2016TL;DR: A benchmark suite based on video encoding and decoding kernels that contains hand-written versions of the kernels provided by the open source community that support the latest SIMD extensions and compares the performance of three available compilers against the hand- written kernels.
Abstract: Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) Extensions become popular in computer architectures as a simple and efficient way to exploit the data parallelism hidden in applications The compiler research community has proposed automatic vectorization as the answer to the complexity of low-level programming of vector units Despite recent advances in compilation techniques, modern compilers miss opportunities to automatically vectorize code One of the biggest challenges is to evaluate the changes against the best hand-written code This paper presents a benchmark suite based on video encoding and decoding kernels The suite contains hand-written versions of the kernels provided by the open source community that support the latest SIMD extensions The paper also compares the performance of three available compilers (GCC, LLVM, and ICC) against the hand-written kernels A performance evaluation, using an i7-4790 processor, shows that the auto-vectorized version produced by the best compiler achieves on average only 28% of the hand-tuned kernels
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Philippe Ciais | 149 | 965 | 114503 |
Jonathan Williams | 102 | 613 | 41486 |
Jos Lelieveld | 100 | 570 | 37657 |
Andrew N. Nicolaides | 90 | 572 | 30861 |
Efstathios Stiliaris | 88 | 340 | 25487 |
Leonard A. Barrie | 74 | 177 | 17356 |
Nikos Mihalopoulos | 69 | 280 | 15261 |
Karl Jansen | 57 | 498 | 11874 |
Jean Sciare | 56 | 129 | 9374 |
Euripides G. Stephanou | 54 | 128 | 14235 |
Lefkos T. Middleton | 54 | 184 | 15683 |
Elena Xoplaki | 53 | 129 | 12097 |
Theodoros Christoudias | 50 | 197 | 7765 |
Dimitris Drikakis | 49 | 286 | 7136 |
George K. Christophides | 48 | 127 | 11099 |