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Impact of Frequency-Dependent Soil Models on Grounding System Performance for Direct and Indirect Lightning Strikes

IEEE transactions on electromagnetic compatibility (Print), 2021
The goal of this article is to investigate the effect of frequency-dependent soil models on the performance of grounding electrodes subjected to lightning strikes.
M. Nazari, R. Moini, S. Fortin, F. Dawalibi, F. Rachidi   +4 more
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An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network

Financial Cryptography, 2020
Payment channel networks, and the Lightning Network in particular, seem to offer a solution to the lack of scalability and privacy offered by Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Ania M. Piotrowska, Sanket Kanjalkar, S. Delgado-Segura, Andrew K. Miller, S. Meiklejohn   +6 more
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Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part I: Climatology of Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes

Journal of Climate, 2020
As lightning-detection records lengthen and the efficiency of severe weather reporting increases, more accurate climatologies of convective hazards can be constructed. In this study we aggregate flashes from the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN)
M. Taszarek, J. Allen, P. Groenemeijer, R. edwards, H. Brooks, V. Chmielewski, S. Enno   +6 more
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Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack on The Lightning Network

Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, 2020
The Lightning Network promises to alleviate Bitcoin's known scalability problems. The operation of such second layer approaches relies on the ability of participants to turn to the blockchain to claim funds at any time, which is assumed to happen rarely.
Jonathan Harris, Aviv Zohar
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SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation

arXiv.org
We propose a diffusion distillation method that achieves new state-of-the-art in one-step/few-step 1024px text-to-image generation based on SDXL. Our method combines progressive and adversarial distillation to achieve a balance between quality and mode ...
Shanchuan Lin, Anran Wang, Xiao Yang
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Lightning

Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, 2018
It seems, to Rose - that when it comes to lightning - grown-ups expect children to swallow some pretty farfetched stories. How lightning peeled the varnish right off the cedar fence, right beside a hydro pole, practically on top of where Dad was standing
Marilynn Shirley Stratton
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PuLID: Pure and Lightning ID Customization via Contrastive Alignment

Neural Information Processing Systems
We propose Pure and Lightning ID customization (PuLID), a novel tuning-free ID customization method for text-to-image generation. By incorporating a Lightning T2I branch with a standard diffusion one, PuLID introduces both contrastive alignment loss and ...
Zinan Guo, Yanze Wu, Zhuowei Chen, Lang Chen, Qian He   +4 more
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A Deep Learning Network for Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Nowcasting with Multisource Data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2020
Precise and timely lightning nowcasting is still a great challenge for meteorologists. In this study, a new semantic segmentation deep learning network for cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning nowcasting, named LightningNet, has been developed. This network is
Kanghui Zhou, Yongguang Zheng, Wansheng Dong, Tingbo Wang   +3 more
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LIGHTNING AND LIGHTNING PROTECTION

2004
Lightning is the visible discharge of static electricity within a cloud, betweenclouds, or between the earth and a cloud. It is one of natures most destructive forces.Lightning is the largest single cause of fire in suburban and rural areas, and it killsmore people than tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods combined.
null Gustafson, null Robert J., null and Mark T. Morgan   +2 more
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Seasonality and trends in human- and lightning-caused wildfires ≥ 2 ha in Canada, 1959–2018

, 2020
We examined the seasonal distribution of lightning- and human-caused wildfires ≥ 2 ha in Canada for two time periods: 1959–2018 and 1981–2018. Furthermore, we investigated trends in seasonality, number of fires per year and number of days with fire ...
Sean C. P. Coogan, Xinli Cai, P. Jain, M. Flannigan   +3 more
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