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Topological Heat Transport and Symmetry-Protected Boson Currents
The study of non-equilibrium properties in topological systems is of
practical and fundamental importance. Here, we analyze the stationary
properties of a two-dimensional bosonic Hofstadter lattice coupled to two
thermal baths in the quantum open-system formalism. Novel phenomena appear like
chiral edge heat currents that are the out-of-equilibrium counterparts of the
zero-temperature edge currents. They support a new concept of dissipative
symmetry-protection, where a set of discrete symmetries protects topological
heat currents, differing from the symmetry-protection devised in closed systems
and zero-temperature. Remarkably, one of these currents flows opposite to the
decreasing external temperature gradient. As the starting point, we consider
the case of a single external reservoir already showing prominent results like
thermal erasure effects and topological thermal currents. Our results are
experimentally accessible with platforms like photonics systems and optical
lattices.Comment: RevTeX4 file, color figure
Optimization-based design of a heat flux concentrator
To gain control over the diffusive heat flux in a given domain, one needs to engineer a thermal metamaterial with a specific distribution of the generally anisotropic thermal conductivity throughout the domain. Until now, the appropriate conductivity distribution was usually determined using transformation thermodynamics. By this way, only a few particular cases of heat flux control in simple domains having simple boundary conditions were studied. Thermal metamaterials based on optimization algorithm provides superior properties compared to those using the previous methods. As a more general approach, we propose to define the heat control problem as an optimization problem where we minimize the error in guiding the heat flux in a given way, taking as design variables the parameters that define the variable microstructure of the metamaterial. In the present study we numerically demonstrate the ability to manipulate heat flux by designing a device to concentrate the thermal energy to its center without disturbing the temperature profile outside it.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
A Hemispherical Contact Model for Simplifying 3D Occlusal Surfaces
Statement of problem
Currently, dental articulators can recreate mandibular movements and occlusal contacts. However, whether virtual articulators can also provide information about occluding dental surfaces, functional movements, and the mandibular condyles is unclear. Purpose
The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the occluding surfaces on dental casts obtained from a patient and approximate them to a hemispherical contact model. Both models were tested by digitizing the Dentatus ARL dental articulator. Material and methods
A combination of photogrammetry and structure from motion methods were used to scan a Dentatus ARL articulator and representative dental casts. Using computer-aided engineering and finite element analysis, contact points and action vectors to the forces on occluding surfaces and condyles were obtained for cast and hemispherical models. This experiment was performed using centric occlusion and 3 different condylar inclinations. The Kruskal-Wallis 1-way analysis of variance on ranks test was used to allow all pairwise comparisons between condylar inclination and mechanical action vector values in each location (α=.05). Results
Action vectors from the cast model and each location of the hemispherical model were calculated to show the mechanical consequences and the similarity among models. Overall, no significant differences were observed for action vectors (A20 versus A40 versus A60) at each location (dental cast/hemisphere, right condylar, and left condylar) in the analysis of dental casts and the hemisphere model (.382≤P≤.999). Conclusions
This study provided graphical information that may assist the dental professional in determining which occlusal contacts should be modified to attain condylar and balanced centric occlusion
Hydroxytyrosol targets extracellular matrix remodeling by endothelial cells and inhibits both ex vivo and in vivo angiogenesis
This is the preprint version of our manuscript, corresponding to the article that has been
published in final form at FOOD CHEMISTRY with DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.10.111The health benefits of olive oil are attributed to their bioactive compounds, such as hydroxytyrosol. Previously, we demonstrated that hydroxytyrosol inhibits angiogenesis in vitro. The present study aimed to: i) get further insight into the effects of hydroxytyrosol on extracellular matrix remodeling; and ii) test whether hydroxytyrosol is able to inhibit angiogenesis ex vivo and in vivo. Hydroxytyrosol induced a shift toward inhibition of proteolysis in endothelial cells, with decreased expression of extracellular matrix remodeling-enzyme coding genes and increased levels of some of their inhibitors. Furthermore, this work demonstrated that hydroxytyrosol, at concentrations within the range of its content in virgin olive oil that can be absorbed from moderate and sustained virgin olive oil consumption, is a strong inhibitor of angiogenesis ex vivo and in vivo. These results suggest the need for translational studies to evaluate the potential use of hydroxytyrosol for angio-prevention and angiogenesis inhibition in clinical setting.This work was supported by grants BIO2014-56092-R (MINECO and FEDER) and P12-CTS-1507 (Andalusian Government and FEDER). The “CIBER de Enfermedades Raras” is an initiative from the ISCIII (Spain). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript
Thermal and electrohydrodynamic plumes: a compartive study
This paper deals with self similar thermal and electrohydrodynamic (EHD) plumes. The former
arises from hot lines or points, whereas the latter arises when sharp metallic contours submerged in
non conducting liquids support high electrostatic potential, resulting in charge injection. Although
the motive force is buoyancy in one case and Coulomb force in the other, it is shown that the
solution for EHD plumes is the same as for thermal plumes in the limit of large Prandtl numbers.
We present the analysis of axisymmetric plumes for large values of Prandtl number, and this analysis
is subsequently applied to EHD plumes. The validity of the approximations for EHD plumes is
discussed in the light of experimental data.Ministerio de ciencia y tecnología PB93-118
Movies Tags Extraction Using Deep Learning
Retrieving information from movies is becoming increasingly
demanding due to the enormous amount of multimedia
data generated each day. Not only it helps in efficient
search, archiving and classification of movies, but is also instrumental
in content censorship and recommendation systems.
Extracting key information from a movie and summarizing
it in a few tags which best describe the movie presents
a dedicated challenge and requires an intelligent approach
to automatically analyze the movie. In this paper, we formulate
movies tags extraction problem as a machine learning
classification problem and train a Convolution Neural Network
(CNN) on a carefully constructed tag vocabulary. Our
proposed technique first extracts key frames from a movie
and applies the trained classifier on the key frames. The
predictions from the classifier are assigned scores and are
filtered based on their relative strengths to generate a compact
set of most relevant key tags. We performed a rigorous
subjective evaluation of our proposed technique for a
wide variety of movies with different experiments. The evaluation
results presented in this paper demonstrate that our
proposed approach can efficiently extract the key tags of a
movie with a good accuracy
Vanishing quantum discord is not necessary for completely-positive maps
The description of the dynamics of a system that may be correlated with its
environment is only meaningful within the context of a specific framework.
Different frameworks rely upon different assumptions about the initial
system-environment state. We reexamine the connections between
complete-positivity and quantum discord within two different sets of
assumptions about the relevant family of initial states. We present an example
of a system-environment state with non-vanishing quantum discord that leads to
a completely-positive map. This invalidates an earlier claim on the necessity
of vanishing quantum discord for completely-positive maps. In our final remarks
we discuss the physical validity of each approach.Comment: close to published versio
Proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y web 2.0: valoración del conectivismo como teoría de aprendizaje post-constructivista
La aparición de la web 2.0 ha aumentado
considerablemente el volumen de información interconectada
accesible a los alumnos, que requieren –en esta
sociedad de redes– una didáctica renovada que potencie
las posibilidades de este nuevo Internet. Es básico
analizar en profundidad los principios que soportan los
entornos de aprendizaje apoyados en tecnologías. Más
en concreto, es necesario que la utilización de TIC se
fundamente en teorías del aprendizaje que expliquen
cómo la enseñanza puede ser renovada para actualizar
las potencialidades de las herramientas de software social
en nuestras aulas.
El objetivo de este artículo es valorar las debilidades y fortalezas
del conectivismo para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. El conectivismo describe el aprendizaje
como un proceso de creación de una red de
conocimiento personal, una idea coherente con la forma
en la que las personas enseñamos y aprendemos en la
web 2.0. Sin embargo, aunque constituye una opción interesante
para lograr un aprendizaje centrado en el
alumno, hay un conjunto de aspectos que dificultan su
adopción
Epigrafía y labor colegial de la Augustalidad en la Península Ibérica
Uno de los temas que más controversia
ha planteado en la historiografía
moderna es el estudio de la *Augustalidad,
término con el que se engloba a dos
organizaciones con una función religiosa
y social similar, si bien en el ámbito
peninsular no ha dado lugar a demasiados
estudios. En este sentido, partiendo
del desarrollo de tres ideas metodológicas
expresadas por otros tantos autores,
el objetivo de la presente comunicación
es completar alguna de estas carencias
abordando el análisis de su labor colegial
a través de las fuentes epigráficas peninsulares.One of the most controversial issues raised in modern historiography is the study of the *Agustality, a term that encompasses two organizations with a similar religious and social function, although it has not led to many studies in the peninsular sphere. In this sense, assuming the development of three methodological ideas expressed by many other authors, the aim of the present communication is to complete some of these lacks by addressing its collegial work analysis through the epigraphic sources of the peninsula
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