Academic Articles & Research Papers

Does economic policy uncertainty affect insurance premiums? Fresh empirical evidence

Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) is the level of uncertainty or unpredictability arising from government policy on topics such as taxes, trade, monetary policy, and regulation. Exploring the relationship between EPU and insurance premiums ...

Anti-de Sitter → de Sitter transition driven by Casimir forces and mitigating tensions in cosmological parameters

Over the last few years, low- and high-redshift observations set off tensions in the measurement of the present-day expansion rate H0 and in the determination of the amplitude of the matter clustering in the late Universe (parameterized by ...

WORKPLANS: Workshop on Planetary Nebula Observations

This workshop is the second of the WORKPLANS series, which we started in 2016. The main goal of WORKPLANS is to build up a network of planetary nebulae (PNe) experts to address the main open questions in the field of PNe research. The speci...

Asteroseismology of the Nearby K Dwarf σ Draconis Using the Keck Planet Finder and TESS

Asteroseismology of dwarf stars cooler than the Sun is very challenging owing to the low amplitudes and rapid timescales of oscillations. Here we present the asteroseismic detection of solar-like oscillations at 4-minute timescales ( ${\nu ...

Review on the Worldwide Epidemiology of Uveitis

PURPOSE: We describe the worldwide epidemiology of uveitis through a systematic literature review. METHODS: Data obtained from the most relevant studies published until November 2012 were reported. RESULTS: Results of our research were stru...

Epidemiology of ataxia and hereditary spastic paraplegia in Spain: A cross-sectional study

Introduction: Ataxia and hereditary spastic paraplegia are rare neurodegenerative syndromes. We aimed to determine the prevalence of these disorders in Spain in 2019. Patients and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, multicentre, retros...

Estimates for Lyme borreliosis infections based on models using sentinel canine and human seroprevalence data

Two models were developed to estimate Lyme borreliosis (LB) cases. One was based on the seroprevalence of Borrelia infections in human samples. This model used corrections for false negative and false positive results from published test se...

LPMP: A Bio-Inspired Model for Visual Localization in Challenging Environments

Autonomous vehicles require precise and reliable self-localization to cope with dynamic environments. The field of visual place recognition (VPR) aims to solve this challenge by relying on the visual modality to recognize a place despite ch...

Virtual Reality-Based Center of Mass-Assisted Personalized Balance Training System

Poststroke hemiplegic patients often show altered weight distribution with balance disorders, increasing their risk of fall. Conventional balance training, though powerful, suffers from scarcity of trained therapists, frequent visits to cli...

Robotics and Automation Handbook

The History of Robotics, Wesley L. Stone Rigid-Body Kinematics, Gregorg S. Chirikjian Inverse Kinematics, Bill Goodwine Newton-Euler Dynamics of Robots, Mark L. Nagurka Lagrangian Dynamics, Milo?s ? Zefran and Francesco Bullo Kane's Method ...

Multiplexed Quantum Random Number Generation

Fast secure random number generation is essential for high-speed encrypted communication, and is the backbone of information security. Generation of truly random numbers depends on the intrinsic randomness of the process used and is usually...

Practical Quantum Computing

In the last few years, several quantum algorithms that try to address the problem of partial differential equation solving have been devised: on the one hand, “direct” quantum algorithms that aim at encoding the solution of the PDE by execu...

Quantum description of Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals in a magnetic field

For a Weyl semimetal (WSM) in a magnetic field, a semiclassical description of the Fermi-arc surface state dynamics is usually employed for explaining various unconventional magnetotransport phenomena, e.g., Weyl orbits, the three-dimension...

Quantum Internet: Networking Challenges in Distributed Quantum Computing

The Quantum Internet, a network interconnecting remote quantum devices through quantum links in synergy with classical ones, is envisioned as the final stage of the quantum revolution, opening fundamentally new communications and computing ...

Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics: State of the Art and Challenges

Quantum computers offer an intriguing path for a paradigmatic change of computing in the natural sciences and beyond, with the potential for achieving a so-called quantum advantage—namely, a significant (in some cases exponential) speedup o...

Artificial intelligence for quantum computing

Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements over the past few years have had an unprecedented and revolutionary impact across everyday application areas. Its significance also extends to technical challenges within science and engineering, in...

Quantum computing models for artificial neural networks

Abstract Neural networks are computing models that have been leading progress in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. In parallel, the first small-scale quantum computing devices have become available in rece...

Quantum Computing for Pattern Classification

Commercial applications of quantum computing

Despite the scientific and engineering challenges facing the development of quantum computers, considerable progress is being made toward applying the technology to commercial applications. In this article, we discuss the solutions that som...

Quantum computing with Qiskit

We describe Qiskit, a software development kit for quantum information science. We discuss the key design decisions that have shaped its development, and examine the software architecture and its core components. We demonstrate an end-to-en...