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Isotopic compositions of cometary matter returned by Stardust

Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopic compositions are heterogeneous among comet 81P/Wild 2 particle fragments; however, extreme isotopic anomalies are rare, indicating that the comet is not a pristine aggregate of presolar materials. Nonterrestr ...

2006

Synchronizing without Locks is Inherently Expensive

Rachid Guerraoui, Hagit Albo Attiya

It has been considered bon ton to blame locks for their fragility, especially since researchers identified obstruction-freedom: a progress condition that precludes locking while being weak enough to raise the hope for good performance. This paper attenuate ...

2006

A Variational Model for Object Segmentation Using Boundary Information and Shape Prior Driven by the Mumford-Shah Functional

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Pierre Vandergheynst, Xavier Bresson

In this paper, we propose a new variational model to segment an object belonging to a given shape space using the active contour method, a geometric shape prior and the Mumford-Shah functional. The core of our model is an energy functional composed by thre ...

Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers2006

Active control of MHD instabilities by ECCD in ASDEX upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Hartmut Zohm

The modification of the stability and the behaviour of core MHD with local electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) is presented. Starting from the innermost resonant surface, the q = 1 surface, the stability and hence the sawtooth period and the size of sa ...

2005

Investigation of the basic properties of phase singularities generated by a phase bar or trench

Hans Peter Herzig

In the present paper, we determine the conditions necessary for the generation of phase singularities in the far-field by a phase bar or a trench. The ultimate goal of our work is to link object parameters to a topological distribution of pairs of singular ...

2004

A Variational Model for Object Segmentation Using Boundary Information, Statistical Shape Prior and the Mumford-Shah Functional

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Pierre Vandergheynst, Xavier Bresson

In this paper, we propose a variational model to segment an object belonging to a given scale space using the active contour method, a geometric shape prior and the Mumford-Shah functional. We define an energy functional composed by three complementary ter ...

2004

The search for chaotic edge localized modes in ASDEX Upgrade

Time intervals between edge localized modes (ELMs) from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak have been analysed to determine whether the ELM dynamics is chaotic (deterministic) or random (noise dominated). Two different methods have been used to detect unstable perio ...

2004

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