50 research outputs found
Hospitalary outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bacteremia associated with a decrease of chlorination of water system
Vortex flow of downwind sails
This paper sets out to investigate the vortex flow of spinnaker yacht sails, which are low-aspect-ratio highly-cambered wings used to sail downwind. We tested three model-scale sails with the same sections but different twists over a range of angles of attack in a water tunnel at a Reynolds number of 21 000. We measured the forces with a balance and the velocity field with particle image velocimetry. The sails experience massively separated three-dimensional flow and leading-edge vortices convect at half of the free stream velocity in a turbulent shear layer. Despite the massive flow separation, the twist of the sail does not change the lift curve slope, in agreement with strip theory. As the angle of attack and the twist vary, flow reattachment might occur in the time-average sense, but this does not necessarily result in a higher lift to drag ratio as the vorticity field is marginally affected. Finally, we investigated the effect of secondary vorticity, vortex stretching and diffusion on the vorticity fluxes. Overall, these results provide new insights on the vortex flow and associated force generation mechanism of wings with massively separated flo
A [SU(6)] FLAVOR MODEL WITHOUT MIRROR FERMIONS
We introduce a three family extension of the Pati-Salam model which is
anomaly-free and contains in a single irreducible representation the known
quarks and leptons without mirror fermions. Assuming that the breaking of the
symmetry admits the implementation of the survival hypothesis, we calculate the
mass scales using the renormalization group equation. Finally we show that the
proton remains perturbatively stable.Comment: Z PHYS. C63, 339 (1994
Non SUSY Unification in Left-Right Models
We explore in a model independent way the possibility of achieving the non
supersymmetric gauge coupling unification within left-right symmetric models,
with the minimal particle content at the left-right mass scale which could be
as low as 1 TeV in a variety of models, and with a unification scale M in the
range GeV GeV.Comment: 18 pages, Latex file, uses epsf style, four figures. Submitted for
publication to Phys. Rev. D on Oct. 13, 199
New Higgs signals induced by mirror fermion mixing effects
We study the conditions under which flavor violation arises in scalar-fermion
interactions, as a result of the mixing phenomena between the standard model
and exotic fermions. Phenomenological consequences are discussed within the
specific context of a left-right model where these additional fermions have
mirror properties under the new SU(2)_R gauge group.
Bounds on the parameters of the model are obtained from LFV processes; these
results are then used to study the LFV Higgs decays (H --> tau l_j, l_j = e,
mu), which reach branching ratios that could be detected at future colliders.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, ReVTex4, graphicx, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Effect of Extra Dimensions on Gauge Coupling Unification
The effects of extra dimensions on gauge coupling unification is studied. We
start with a comparison between power law running of the gauge couplings in
models with extra dimensions and logarithmic running that happens in many
realistic cases. We then discuss the effect of extra dimensions on various
classes of unification models. We identify products of evolution coefficients
that dictate the profile of unification in different models. We use them to
study under what conditions unification of couplings can occur in both one and
two step unification models. We find that Kaluza-Klein modes can help generate
interesting intermediate scale models with gauge coupling unification such as
the minimal left-right models with the seesaw mechanism with a GeV intermediate scale, useful in understanding neutrino oscillations.
We also obtain several examples where the presence of noncanonical
normalization of couplings enables us to obtain unification scales around
GeV. This fits very well into a class of models proposed recently
where the string scale is advocated to be at this value from physical
arguments.Comment: LaTeX file, uses epsf style, 29 pages, five PS figures. Minor
changes. Some scenarios removed (version to appear in Nucl Phys B
Improved functionalization of oleic acid-coated iron oxide nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles
can providemultiple benefits for biomedical applications
in aqueous environments such asmagnetic separation or
magnetic resonance imaging. To increase the colloidal
stability and allow subsequent reactions, the introduction
of hydrophilic functional groups onto the particles’
surface is essential. During this process, the original
coating is exchanged by preferably covalently bonded
ligands such as trialkoxysilanes. The duration of the
silane exchange reaction, which commonly takes more
than 24 h, is an important drawback for this approach. In
this paper, we present a novel method, which introduces
ultrasonication as an energy source to dramatically
accelerate this process, resulting in high-quality waterdispersible nanoparticles around 10 nmin size. To prove
the generic character, different functional groups were
introduced on the surface including polyethylene glycol
chains, carboxylic acid, amine, and thiol groups. Their
colloidal stability in various aqueous buffer solutions as
well as human plasma and serum was investigated to
allow implementation in biomedical and sensing
applications.status: publishe
Distributed Algorithm for Base Station Assignment in 4G/5G Machine-Type Communication Scenarios with Backhaul Limited Conditions
A progressive paradigm shift from centralized to distributed network architectures has been consolidated since the 4G communication standard, calling for novel decision-making mechanisms with distributed control to operate at the network edge. This situation implies that each base station (BS) must manage resources independently to meet the quality of service (QoS) of existing human-type communication devices (HTC), as well as the emerging machine type communication (MTC) devices from the internet of things (IoT). In this paper, we address the BS assignment problem, whose aim is to determine the most appropriate serving BS to each mobile device. This problem is formulated as an optimization problem for maximizing the system throughput and imposing constraints on the air interface and backhaul resources. The assignment problem is challenging to solve, so we present a simple yet valid reformulation of the original problem while using dual decomposition theory. Subsequently, we propose a distributed price-based BS assignment algorithm that performs at each BS the assignment process, where a novel pricing update scheme is presented. The simulation results show that our proposed solution outperforms traditional maximum signal to interference plus noise ratio (Max-SINR) and minimum path-loss (Min-PL) approaches in terms of system throughput