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Two Notes on APCol Systems
In this work, we continue our research in the eld of string processing mem-
brane systems - APCol systems. We focus on a relation of APCol systems with PM
colonies - colonies whose agents can only perform point mutation transformations of the
common string, in a vicinity of the agent. The second part is devoted to a connection of
APCol systems and logic circuits using AND, OR and NOT gates
Automaton-like P Colonies
In this paper we study P colonies where the environment is given as a string.
These variants, called automaton-like P systems or
APCol systems, behave like automata: during functioning, the agents change their own
states and process the symbols of the string. We develop the concept of APCol systems
by introducing the notion of their generating working mode. We then compare the power
of APCol systems working in the generating mode and that of register machines and
context-free matrix grammars with and without appearance checking
Towards P Colonies Processing Strings
In this paper we introduce and study P colonies where the environment is
given as a string. These variants of P colonies, called Automaton-like P systems or APCol
systems, behave like automata: during functioning, the agents change their own states
and process the symbols of the string. After introducing the concept of APCol systems,
we examine their computational power. It is shown that the family of languages accepted
by jumping nite automata is properly included in the family of languages accepted by
APCol systems with one agent, and it is proved that any recursively enumerable language
can be obtained as a projection of a language accepted by an Automaton-like P colony
with two agents
Inner-suburban neighbourhoods, activist research and the social space of the commercial street
This paper tracks the transition of “creative city” planning from the gentrified downtown to the disinvested inner-suburbs. It attends particularly to contradictory notions of community mobilized by proponents of inner-suburban revitalization and by residents and business owners who daily inhabit inner-suburban commercial streets where cultural planning interventions are typically targeted. It further argues that those contradictory notions indicate immanent displacement pressure. The argument builds around data gleaned from an action research project in Toronto’s Mount Dennis neighbourhood, a former manufacturing neighbourhood that is now home to a large number of precariously employed new immigrants. We contend that community engaged research not only allows for an analysis of the race and class dimensions of creative city planning, it consolidates marginalized perspectives and opens up alternative possibilities for planning and development. We also claim that the relational, exploratory and sometimes fraught process of sharing knowledge with community-based researchers enriches critical research on the exclusionary politics of redevelopment planning
Inner-suburban neighbourhoods, activist research and the social space of the commercial street
This paper tracks the transition of “creative city” planning from the gentrified downtown to the disinvested inner-suburbs. It attends particularly to contradictory notions of community mobilized by proponents of inner-suburban revitalization and by residents and business owners who daily inhabit inner-suburban commercial streets where cultural planning interventions are typically targeted. It further argues that those contradictory notions indicate immanent displacement pressure. The argument builds around data gleaned from an action research project in Toronto’s Mount Dennis neighbourhood, a former manufacturing neighbourhood that is now home to a large number of precariously employed new immigrants. We contend that community engaged research not only allows for an analysis of the race and class dimensions of creative city planning, it consolidates marginalized perspectives and opens up alternative possibilities for planning and development. We also claim that the relational, exploratory and sometimes fraught process of sharing knowledge with community-based researchers enriches critical research on the exclusionary politics of redevelopment planning
Active Stars in the Spectroscopic Survey of Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs Within 15pc
We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of
0.1-0.3M M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample
without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123
stars with H emission stronger than -1\unicode{xC5}. Our analysis
includes rotation periods (including 31 new measurements), H
equivalent widths, rotational broadening, inclinations, and radial velocities,
determined using high-resolution, multi-epoch spectroscopic data from the TRES
and CHIRON spectrographs supplemented by photometry from TESS and MEarth. Using
this volume-complete sample, we establish that the majority of active, low-mass
M dwarfs are very rapid rotators: specifically, 744% have rotation periods
shorter than 2 days, while 194% have intermediate rotation periods of 2-20
days, and the remaining 83% have periods longer than 20 days. Among the
latter group, we identify a population of stars with very high H
emission, which we suggest is indicative of dramatic spindown as these stars
transition from the rapidly to slowly rotating modes. We are unable to
determine rotation periods for six stars and suggest that some of the stars
without measured rotation periods may be viewed pole-on, as such stars are
absent from the distribution of inclinations we measure; this lack
notwithstanding, we recover the expected isotropic distribution of spin axes.
Our spectroscopic and photometric data sets also allow us to investigate
activity-induced radial-velocity variability, which we show can be estimated as
the product of rotational broadening and the photometric amplitude of spot
modulation.Comment: Accepted for publication in AJ; 18 pages, 12 figures, 3 table
On the Nature of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Candidates. II. The Case of Cetus II
We obtained deep Gemini GMOS-S g, r photometry of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidate Cetus II with the aim of providing stronger constraints on its size, luminosity, and stellar population. Cetus II is an important object in the size-luminosity plane, as it occupies the transition zone between dwarf galaxies and star clusters. All known objects smaller than Cetus II (r h ∼ 20 pc) are reported to be star clusters, while most larger objects are likely dwarf galaxies. We found a prominent excess of main-sequence stars in the color-magnitude diagram of Cetus II, best described by a single stellar population with an age of 11.2 Gyr, metallicity of [Fe/H] = -1.28 dex, an [α/Fe] = 0.0 dex at a heliocentric distance of 26.3 ±1.2 kpc. As well as being spatially located within the Sagittarius dwarf tidal stream, these properties are well matched to the Sagittarius galaxy's Population B stars. Interestingly, like our recent findings on the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidate Tucana V, the stellar field in the direction of Cetus II shows no evidence of a concentrated overdensity despite tracing the main sequence for over six magnitudes. These results strongly support the picture that Cetus II is not an ultra-faint stellar system in the Milky Way halo, but made up of stars from the Sagittarius tidal stream.B.C.C. and H.J. acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council through Discovery project DP150100862