Assessment of environmental impact of solid waste dumpsites using remote sensing

This study presents a remote sensing approach of using freely available Landsat 8 satellite Indicators ( Land Surface Temperature ( LST ), Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index ( SAVI )) and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) geospatial data to assess the impact of dumpsites on the environment in Benin City, Nigeria. The fin ding reveals that the average derived LST at the dumpsites were higher than the immediate surrounding, and the average SAVI values were lower than the immediate surrounding. The high values of LST at the dumpsites depict the effect of gases released becaus e of decomposition activities, while low values of SAVI indicate vegetation response to soil and ground water contamination due to leachate infiltration. The average elevation within the dumpsite area derived from SRTM DEM was also applied as a proxy to es timate disposed waste quantity, and related closely with LST that depict biodegradation activities. The result presented here shows that bacterial and fungal counts correlate strongly with the LST and SAVI values at each of the dumpsites R 2 : LST vs Bacteri a Count = 0.982, LST vs Fungi Count = 0.951; SAVI vs Bacteria Count = 0.745, SAVI vs Fungi Count = 0.664, thereby suggesting remote sensing can be applied to aid longterm dumpsite monitoring and management. Keywords: Municipal solid waste, Land Surface Temperature (LST), Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), and Remote sensin

Gravitational Effects of Quantum Fields in the Interior of a Cylindrical Black Hole

The gravitational back-reaction is calculated for the conformally invariant scalar field within a black cosmic string interior with cosmological constant. Using the perturbed metric, the gravitational effects of the quantum field are calculated. It is found that the perturbations initially strengthen the singularity. This effect is similar to the case of spherical symmetry (without cosmological constant). This indicates that the behaviour of quantum effects may be universal and not dependent on the geometry of the spacetime nor the presence of a non-zero cosmological constant.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, uses AMS package. D.E. solution corrected. Some qualitative results are change

Three-leg Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Ladder with Frustrated Boundary Condition; Ground State Properties

The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin systems on the three-leg ladder are investigated. Periodic boundary condition is imposed in the rung direction. The system has an excitation gap for all antiferromagnetic inter-chain coupling ($J_{\perp}>0$). The estimated gap for the strong coupling limit ($J_{\perp}/J_1 \to \infty$) is 0.28$J_1$. Although the interaction is homogeneous and only nearest-neighbor, the ground states of the system are dimerized and break the translational symmetry in the thermodynamic limit. Introducing the next-nearest neighbor coupling ($J_2$), we can see that the system is solved exactly. The ground state wave function is completely dimer-ordered. Using density matrix renomalization group algorithm, we show numerically that the original model ($J_2=0$) has the same nature with the exactly solvable model. The ground state properties of the ladder with a higher odd number of legs are also discussed.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, to be published in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn. Vol. 66 No. 1

Models of impurities in valence bond spin chains and ladders

We present the class of models of a nonmagnetic impurity in S=1/2 generalized ladder with an AKLT-type valence bond ground state, and of a S=1/2 impurity in the S=1 AKLT chain. The ground state in presence of impurity can be found exactly. Recently studied phenomenon of local enhancement of antiferromagnetic correlations around the impurity is absent for this family of models.Comment: 4 pages revtex, 3 figures embedde

63Cu NQR evidence of dimensional crossover to anisotropic 2d regime in S= 1/2 three-leg ladder Sr2Cu3O5

We probed spin-spin correlations up to 725 K with 63Cu NQR in the S= 1/2 three-leg ladder Sr2Cu3O5. We present experimental evidence that below 300 K, weak inter-ladder coupling causes dimensional crossover of the spin-spin correlation length \xi from quasi-1d (\xi ~ 1/T) to anisotropic 2d regime (\xi \~ exp[2\pi\rho_{s}/T], where 2\pi\rho_{s} = 290 +/- 30 K is the effective spin stiffness). This is the first experimental verification of the renormalized classical behavior of the anisotropic non-linear sigma model in 2d, which has been recently proposed for the striped phase in high T_{c} cuprates.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

Out-of-plane instability and electron-phonon contribution to s- and d-wave pairing in high-temperature superconductors; LDA linear-response calculation for doped CaCuO2 and a generic tight-binding model

The equilibrium structure, energy bands, phonon dispersions, and s- and d-channel electron-phonon interactions (EPIs) are calculated for the infinite-layer superconductor CaCuO2 doped with 0.24 holes per CuO2. The LDA and the linear-response full-potential LMTO method were used. In the equilibrium structure, oxygen is found to buckle slightly out of the plane and, as a result, the characters of the energy bands near EF are found to be similar to those of other optimally doped HTSCs. For the EPI we find lambda(s)=0.4, in accord with previous LDA calculations for YBa2Cu3O7. This supports the common belief that the EPI mechanism alone is insufficient to explain HTSC. Lambda(x^2-y^2) is found to be positive and nearly as large as lambda(s). This is surprising and indicates that the EPI could enhance some other d-wave pairing mechanism. Like in YBa2Cu3O7, the buckling modes contribute significantly to the EPI, although these contributions are proportional to the static buckling and would vanish for flat planes. These numerical results can be understood from a generic tight-binding model originally derived from the LDA bands of YBa2Cu3O7. In the future, the role of anharmonicity of the buckling-modes and the influence of the spin-fluctuations should be investigated.Comment: 19 pages, 9 Postscript figures, Late

Recrystallization studies from deformation experiments on artificial and natural ice: experimental set-up and preliminary results

第3回極域科学シンポジウム/第35回極域気水圏シンポジウム 11月29日（木） 国立国語研究所 ２階ロビ