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Fisheries bioecology at the Khone Falls (Mekong River, Southern Laos)
This CD-ROM contains full database of the "Khone Fall fisheries database" and detailed analyses done in the companion report "Ecological studies of fish in the Khone Falls area (Mekong River, Southern Lao PDR).Fisheries, Ecology, Mekong River, Laos,
Trkalian fields: ray transforms and mini-twistors
We study X-ray and Divergent beam transforms of Trkalian fields and their
relation with Radon transform. We make use of four basic mathematical methods
of tomography due to Grangeat, Smith, Tuy and Gelfand-Goncharov for an integral
geometric view on them. We also make use of direct approaches which provide a
faster but restricted view of the geometry of these transforms. These reduce to
well known geometric integral transforms on a sphere of the Radon or the
spherical Curl transform in Moses eigenbasis, which are members of an analytic
family of integral operators. We also discuss their inversion. The X-ray (also
Divergent beam) transform of a Trkalian field is Trkalian. Also the Trkalian
subclass of X-ray transforms yields Trkalian fields in the physical space. The
Riesz potential of a Trkalian field is proportional to the field. Hence, the
spherical mean of the X-ray (also Divergent beam) transform of a Trkalian field
over all lines passing through a point yields the field at this point. The
pivotal point is the simplification of an intricate quantity: Hilbert transform
of the derivative of Radon transform for a Trkalian field in the Moses basis.
We also define the X-ray transform of the Riesz potential (of order 2) and
Biot-Savart integrals. Then, we discuss a mini-twistor respresentation,
presenting a mini-twistor solution for the Trkalian fields equation. This is
based on a time-harmonic reduction of wave equation to Helmholtz equation. A
Trkalian field is given in terms of a null vector in C3 with an arbitrary
function and an exponential factor resulting from this reduction.Comment: 37 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.482610
Static solitons with non-zero Hopf number
We investigate a generalized non-linear O(3) -model in three space
dimensions where the fields are maps . Such maps are
classified by a homotopy invariant called the Hopf number which takes integer
values. The model exhibits soliton solutions of closed vortex type which have a
lower topological bound on their energies. We explicitly compute the fields for
topological charge 1 and 2 and discuss their shapes and binding energies. The
effect of an additional potential term is considered and an approximation is
given for the spectrum of slowly rotating solitons.Comment: 13 pages, RevTeX, 7 Postscript figures, minor changes have been made,
a reference has been corrected and a figure replace
Coupling coefficients of SO(n) and integrals over triplets of Jacobi and Gegenbauer polynomials
The expressions of the coupling coefficients (3j-symbols) for the most
degenerate (symmetric) representations of the orthogonal groups SO(n) in a
canonical basis (with SO(n) restricted to SO(n-1)) and different semicanonical
or tree bases [with SO(n) restricted to SO(n'})\times SO(n''), n'+n''=n] are
considered, respectively, in context of the integrals involving triplets of the
Gegenbauer and the Jacobi polynomials. Since the directly derived
triple-hypergeometric series do not reveal the apparent triangle conditions of
the 3j-symbols, they are rearranged, using their relation with the
semistretched isofactors of the second kind for the complementary chain
Sp(4)\supset SU(2)\times SU(2) and analogy with the stretched 9j coefficients
of SU(2), into formulae with more rich limits for summation intervals and
obvious triangle conditions. The isofactors of class-one representations of the
orthogonal groups or class-two representations of the unitary groups (and, of
course, the related integrals involving triplets of the Gegenbauer and the
Jacobi polynomials) turn into the double sums in the cases of the canonical
SO(n)\supset SO(n-1) or U(n)\supset U(n-1) and semicanonical SO(n)\supset
SO(n-2)\times SO(2) chains, as well as into the_4F_3(1) series under more
specific conditions. Some ambiguities of the phase choice of the complementary
group approach are adjusted, as well as the problems with alternating sign
parameter of SO(2) representations in the SO(3)\supset SO(2) and SO(n)\supset
SO(n-2)\times SO(2) chains.Comment: 26 pages, corrections of (3.6c) and (3.12); elementary proof of
(3.2e) is adde
CRITICAL EXPERIMENT WITH BORAX-V. Internal Superheater
A critical experiment was performed with 12 BORAX-V superheater subassemblies in a central voidable region plus 1228 to 1525 UO/sub 2/ fuel pins (3 wt% enriched) in a peripheral region. Removing water (28% of superheater volume) at room temperature decreased reactivity by 2.2%. The midplane (two- dimensional) peak-to-average power distribution in the voided superheater was approximately 1.24, mostly attributable to flux depressions within insulated fuel boxes. Cadmium ratios are also reported. The experiment was initiated to supplement computational information which might have affected plans for loading the superheater zone into the BORAX-V reactor. No changes were indicated by the experiment. (auth
An Absolute Flux Density Measurement of the Supernova Remnant Casseopia A at 32 GHz
We report 32 GHz absolute flux density measurements of the supernova remnant
Cas A, with an accuracy of 2.5%. The measurements were made with the 1.5-meter
telescope at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. The antenna gain had been
measured by NIST in May 1990 to be .
Our observations of Cas A in May 1998 yield . We also report absolute flux density measurements of 3C48, 3C147, 3C286,
Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication by AJ. Revised
systematic error budget, corrected typos, and added reference
Phylogenomics of Porites from the Arabian Peninsula
The advent of high throughput sequencing technologies provides an opportunity to resolve phylogenetic relationships among closely related species. By incorporating hundreds to thousands of unlinked loci and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), phylogenomic analyses have a far greater potential to resolve species boundaries than approaches that rely on only a few markers. Scleractinian taxa have proved challenging to identify using traditional morphological approaches and many groups lack an adequate set of molecular markers to investigate their phylogenies. Here, we examine the potential of Restriction-site Associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) to investigate phylogenetic relationships and species limits within the scleractinian coral genus Porites. A total of 126 colonies were collected from 16 localities in the seas surrounding the Arabian Peninsula and ascribed to 12 nominal and two unknown species based on their morphology. Reference mapping was used to retrieve and compare nearly complete mitochondrial genomes, ribosomal DNA, and histone loci. De novo assembly and reference mapping to the P. lobata coral transcriptome were compared and used to obtain thousands of genome-wide loci and SNPs. A suite of species discovery methods (phylogenetic, ordination, and clustering analyses) and species delimitation approaches (coalescent-based, species tree, and Bayesian Factor delimitation) suggested the presence of eight molecular lineages, one of which included six morphospecies. Our phylogenomic approach provided a fully supported phylogeny of Porites from the Arabian Peninsula, suggesting the power of RADseq data to solve the species delineation problem in this speciose coral genus
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