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Measuring quality in the therapeutic relationship-Part 2: subjective approaches
Publisher version: http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/19/6/479.ful
Lagrange's four squares theorem with one prime and three almost--prime variables
It is conjectured that every sufficiently large integer should be a sum of the squares of 4 primes. The best approximation to this in the literature is the result of BrĂŒdern and Fouvry [J. Reine Angew. Math., 454 (1994), 59--96] who showed that every sufficiently large integer is a sum of the squares of 4 almost-primes, each of which has at most 34 prime factors.
The present paper proves such a result with the square of one prime and 3 almost-primes, which in this case have at most 101 prime factors each. The work of BrĂŒdern and Fouvry was based on Kloosterman's approach to representations by quaternary forms, but this does not lend itself to situations in which one of the variables is restricted to be a prime. Instead the present paper works with an `almost all' result for the representation of numbers as sums of 3 squares. To use this approach one has to take of the form , and such numbers are too sparse for the standard theory. It is therefore necessary to use an `amplification' procedure, which emphasizes those integers for which is a square.
All this machinery is coupled with Kloosterman's version of the circle method. There are considerable technical complications, in which bounds for the Kloosterman sum play a key rĂŽle. At one point in the argument a saving has to be extracted from a non-trivial averaging over the denominators of the Farey arcs. This is an instance of `the second Kloosterman refinement'
A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov-Poisson system
A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system
of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is
proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise
constant functions are used as a basis, the method preserves the positivity of
the electron distribution function and weakly enforces continuity of the
electric field through mesh interfaces and boundary conditions. The performance
of the method is investigated by computing several examples and error estimates
associated system's approximation are stated. In particular, computed results
are benchmarked against established theoretical results for linear advection
and the phenomenon of linear Landau damping for both the Maxwell and Lorentz
distributions. Moreover, two nonlinear problems are considered: nonlinear
Landau damping and a version of the two-stream instability are computed. For
the latter, fine scale details of the resulting long-time BGK-like state are
presented. Conservation laws are examined and various comparisons to theory are
made. The results obtained demonstrate that the discontinuous Galerkin method
is a viable option for integrating the Vlasov-Poisson system.Comment: To appear in Journal for Computational Physics, 2011. 63 pages, 86
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Constructing packings in Grassmannian manifolds via alternating projection
This paper describes a numerical method for finding good packings in
Grassmannian manifolds equipped with various metrics. This investigation also
encompasses packing in projective spaces. In each case, producing a good
packing is equivalent to constructing a matrix that has certain structural and
spectral properties. By alternately enforcing the structural condition and then
the spectral condition, it is often possible to reach a matrix that satisfies
both. One may then extract a packing from this matrix.
This approach is both powerful and versatile. In cases where experiments have
been performed, the alternating projection method yields packings that compete
with the best packings recorded. It also extends to problems that have not been
studied numerically. For example, it can be used to produce packings of
subspaces in real and complex Grassmannian spaces equipped with the
Fubini--Study distance; these packings are valuable in wireless communications.
One can prove that some of the novel configurations constructed by the
algorithm have packing diameters that are nearly optimal.Comment: 41 pages, 7 tables, 4 figure
Density of non-residues in Burgess-type intervals and applications
We show that for any fixed \eps>0, there are numbers and with the following property: for every prime and every integer
such that p^{1/(4\sqrt{e})+\eps}\le N\le p, the sequence
contains at least quadratic non-residues modulo . We use this
result to obtain strong upper bounds on the sizes of the least quadratic
non-residues in Beatty and Piatetski--Shapiro sequences.Comment: In the new version we use an idea of Roger Heath-Brown (who is now a
co-author) to simply the proof and improve the main results of the previous
version, 14 page
A New Star-Formation Rate Calibration from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission Features and Application to High Redshift Galaxies
We calibrate the integrated luminosity from the polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon (PAH) features at 6.2\micron, 7.7\micron\ and 11.3\micron\ in
galaxies as a measure of the star-formation rate (SFR). These features are
strong (containing as much as 5-10\% of the total infrared luminosity) and
suffer minimal extinction. Our calibration uses \spitzer\ Infrared Spectrograph
(IRS) measurements of 105 galaxies at , infrared (IR) luminosities
of 10^9 - 10^{12} \lsol, combined with other well-calibrated SFR indicators.
The PAH luminosity correlates linearly with the SFR as measured by the
extinction-corrected \ha\ luminosity over the range of luminosities in our
calibration sample. The scatter is 0.14 dex comparable to that between SFRs
derived from the \paa\ and extinction-corrected \ha\ emission lines, implying
the PAH features may be as accurate a SFR indicator as hydrogen recombination
lines. The PAH SFR relation depends on gas-phase metallicity, for which we
supply an empirical correction for galaxies with 0.2 < \mathrm{Z} \lsim
0.7~\zsol. We present a case study in advance of the \textit{James Webb Space
Telescope} (\jwst), which will be capable of measuring SFRs from PAHs in
distant galaxies at the peak of the SFR density in the universe () with
SFRs as low as ~10~\sfrunits. We use \spitzer/IRS observations of the PAH
features and \paa\ emission plus \ha\ measurements in lensed star-forming
galaxies at to demonstrate the ability of the PAHs to derive
accurate SFRs. We also demonstrate that because the PAH features dominate the
mid-IR fluxes, broad-band mid-IR photometric measurements from \jwst\ will
trace both the SFR and provide a way to exclude galaxies dominated by an AGN.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap
The Clustering Of Galaxies Around Radio-Loud AGNs
We examine the hypothesis that mergers and close encounters between galaxies
can fuel AGNs by increasing the rate at which gas accretes towards the central
black hole. We compare the clustering of galaxies around radio-loud AGNs with
the clustering around a population of radio-quiet galaxies with similar masses,
colors and luminosities. Our catalog contains 2178 elliptical radio galaxies
with flux densities greater than 2.8 mJy at 1.4 GHz from the 6dFGS survey. We
find that radio AGNs with more than 200 times the median radio power have, on
average, more close (r<160 kpc) companions than their radio-quiet counterparts,
suggestive that mergers play a role in forming the most powerful radio
galaxies. For ellipticals of fixed stellar mass, the radio power is not a
function of large-scale environment nor halo mass, consistent with the radio
powers of ellipticals varying by orders of magnitude over billions of years.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Halo detection via large-scale Bayesian inference
We present a proof-of-concept of a novel and fully Bayesian methodology
designed to detect halos of different masses in cosmological observations
subject to noise and systematic uncertainties. Our methodology combines the
previously published Bayesian large-scale structure inference algorithm, HADES,
and a Bayesian chain rule (the Blackwell-Rao Estimator), which we use to
connect the inferred density field to the properties of dark matter halos. To
demonstrate the capability of our approach we construct a realistic galaxy mock
catalogue emulating the wide-area 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey, which has a
median redshift of approximately 0.05. Application of HADES to the catalogue
provides us with accurately inferred three-dimensional density fields and
corresponding quantification of uncertainties inherent to any cosmological
observation. We then use a cosmological simulation to relate the amplitude of
the density field to the probability of detecting a halo with mass above a
specified threshold. With this information we can sum over the HADES density
field realisations to construct maps of detection probabilities and demonstrate
the validity of this approach within our mock scenario. We find that the
probability of successful of detection of halos in the mock catalogue increases
as a function of the signal-to-noise of the local galaxy observations. Our
proposed methodology can easily be extended to account for more complex
scientific questions and is a promising novel tool to analyse the cosmic
large-scale structure in observations.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS following
moderate correction
Modelling the Northeast Atlantic circulation : implications for the spring invasion of shelf regions by Calanus finmarchicus
The appearance in spring of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in continental shelf waters of the northeastern Atlantic has been hypothesized to be mainly attributable to invasion from across the continental slope rather than in situ overwintering. This paper describes the application of a hydrodynamic circulation model and a particle-tracking model to Northeast Atlantic waters in order to assess the influence of the flow field and ascent migration parameters on the spring invasion of C. finmarchicus. For hydrodynamic modelling, the Hamburg Shelf-Ocean Model (HAMSOM) was applied to the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas and forced with daily mean atmospheric data. Simulated flow fields from HAMSOM serve as forcing functions for a particle-tracking model of the same region. The robustness of the simulated shelf invasion in three target boxes of the Northeast Atlantic Shelf was assessed by means of a sensitivity analysis with respect to variations in four key migration parameters: overwintering depth, ascent rate, ascent timing, and depth during residence in upper layers. The invasion of the northern North Sea and Norwegian Shelf waters is more sensitive to ascent migration parameters than invasion of the Faroese Shelf. The main reason for enhanced sensitivity of the North Sea invasion is the time and space-dependent flow structure in the Faroe-Shetland Channel. Dense aggregations of overwintering C. finmarchicus are found in the Channel, but because of the complex flow field only a proportion of the overwintering stock has the capacity to reach the North Sea
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