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We present a theoretical approach to optical spectroscopy of open nonequilibrium systems, which generalizes traditional nonlinear optical spectroscopy tools by imposing charge and energy conservation ...

A novel hybrid number representation is proposed. It includes the two's complement representation and the signed-digit representation as special cases. The hybrid number representations proposed are ...

Systems whose entities interact with each other are common. In many interacting systems, it is difficult to observe the relations between entities which is the key information for analyzing the system ...

This is a circa 7km long, multi-lode mineralised system that is under-drilled and the Company has delivered a maiden Mineral Resource of 2.3Moz from the Fletcher Zone, from just 1km of Fletcher's ...

John Derbyshire’s Unknown Quantity is everything a popular mathematics book should be: gentle, chatty, anecdotal and full of mind-aching equations. It is a history of algebra – the study of number ...

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I am not a criminal. Sure, I have seventeen convictions to my name, but the reality is that I am just one of millions of people who have been let down by misinformed policies, biased interventions, ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.