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Marine Protected Areas and commercial fisheries: the existing fishery in potential protected areas, and a modelling study of the impact of protected areas on North Sea Plaice
Dit rapport presenteert resultaten van onderzoek, dat in 2005/2006 is uitgevoerd. In het kader van de Europese Vogel en Habitat Richtlijnen dienen lidstaten te beschermen gebieden op zee aan te wijzen, wat mogelijk zou leiden tot beperkingen van visserijactiviteiten in deze gebieden. De vraag was, welke invloed dit zou hebben op de vis en visserij. In dit onderzoek is enerzijds een statische beschrijving opgesteld van de visserijinspanning en de vangsten in de voorgestelde gebieden, en is anderzijds een eerste analyse (simulatie-model) opgezet van het lange-termijn effect op migrerende vis (schol). Dit onderzoek werd eind 2006 afgerond met een concept-rapport
Central mode and soft mode behavior in PbMg1/Nb2/3O3 relaxor ferroelectric
The relaxor ferroelectric PbMg1/Nb2/3O3 was investigated by means of
broad-band dielectric and Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) transmission
spectroscopy in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 15 THz at temperatures
between 20 and 900 K using PMN films on infrared transparent sapphire
substrates. While thin film relaxors display reduced dielectric permittivity at
low frequencies, their high frequency intrinsic or lattice response is shown to
be the same as single crystal/ceramic specemins. It was observed that in
contrast to the results of inelastic neutron scattering, the optic soft mode
was underdamped at all temperatures. On heating, the TO1 soft phonon followed
the Cochran law with an extrapolated critical temperature equal to the Burns
temperature of 670 K and softened down to 50 cm-1. Above 450 K the soft mode
frequency leveled off and slightly increased above the Burns temperature. A
central mode, describing the dynamics of polar nanoclusters appeared below the
Burns temperature at frequencies near the optic soft mode and dramatically
slowed down below 1 MHz on cooling below room temperature. It broadened on
cooling, giving rise to frequency independent losses in microwave and lower
frequency range below the freezing temperature of 200 K. In addition, a new
heavily damped mode appeared in the FTIR spectra below the soft mode frequency
at room temperature and below. The origin of this mode as well as the
discrepancy between the soft mode damping in neutron and infrared spectra is
discussed.Comment: 7 pages with 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Nonlocal Cooper pair Splitting in a pSn Junction
Perfect Cooper pair splitting is proposed, based on crossed Andreev
reflection (CAR) in a p-type semiconductor - superconductor - n-type
semiconductor (pSn) junction. The ideal splitting is caused by the energy
filtering that is enforced by the bandstructure of the electrodes. The pSn
junction is modeled by the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations and an extension of
the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory beyond the Andreev approximation. Despite a
large momentum mismatch, the CAR current is predicted to be large. The proposed
straightforward experimental design and the 100% degree of pureness of the
nonlocal current open the way to pSn structures as high quality sources of
entanglement
Temperature Dependence of Interlayer Magnetoresistance in Anisotropic Layered Metals
Studies of interlayer transport in layered metals have generally made use of
zero temperature conductivity expressions to analyze angle-dependent
magnetoresistance oscillations (AMRO). However, recent high temperature AMRO
experiments have been performed in a regime where the inclusion of finite
temperature effects may be required for a quantitative description of the
resistivity. We calculate the interlayer conductivity in a layered metal with
anisotropic Fermi surface properties allowing for finite temperature effects.
We find that resistance maxima are modified by thermal effects much more
strongly than resistance minima. We also use our expressions to calculate the
interlayer resistivity appropriate to recent AMRO experiments in an overdoped
cuprate which led to the conclusion that there is an anisotropic, linear in
temperature contribution to the scattering rate and find that this conclusion
is robust.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Analytical calculation of the Green's function and Drude weight for a correlated fermion-boson system
In classical Drude theory the conductivity is determined by the mass of the
propagating particles and the mean free path between two scattering events. For
a quantum particle this simple picture of diffusive transport loses relevance
if strong correlations dominate the particle motion. We study a situation where
the propagation of a fermionic particle is possible only through creation and
annihilation of local bosonic excitations. This correlated quantum transport
process is outside the Drude picture, since one cannot distinguish between free
propagation and intermittent scattering. The characterization of transport is
possible using the Drude weight obtained from the f-sum rule, although its
interpretation in terms of free mass and mean free path breaks down. For the
situation studied we calculate the Green's function and Drude weight using a
Green's functions expansion technique, and discuss their physical meaning.Comment: final version, minor correction
Treatment planning for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: treatment utilization and family preferences
William B Brinkman, Jeffery N EpsteinDepartment of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USABackground: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common condition that often results in child and family functional impairments. Although there are evidence-based treatment modalities available, implementation of and persistence with treatment plans vary with patients. Family preferences also vary and may contribute to variability in treatment utilization.Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the evidence-based treatments available for ADHD, identify patterns of use for each modality, and examine patient and parent treatment preferences.Method: Literature review.Results: Treatment options differ on benefits and risks/costs. Therefore, treatment decisions are preference sensitive and depend on how an informed patient/parent values the tradeoffs between options. Literature on patient and parent ADHD treatment preferences is based on quantitative research assessing the construct of treatment acceptability and qualitative and quantitative research that assesses preferences from a broader perspective. After a child is diagnosed with ADHD, a variety of factors influence the initial selection of treatment modalities that are utilized. Initial parent and child preferences are shaped by their beliefs about the nature of the child's problems and by information (and misinformation) received from a variety of sources, including social networks, the media, and health care providers. Subsequently, preferences become further informed by personal experience with various treatment modalities. Over time, treatment plans are revisited and revised as families work with their health care team to establish a treatment plan that helps their child achieve goals while minimizing harms and costs.Conclusions: Studies have not been able to determine the extent to which utilization rates are consistent with the underlying distribution of informed patient/parent treatment preferences. There are challenges to ensure that patient/parent preferences are consistently well informed, elicited, and discussed in the treatment planning process. Interventions are needed to promote such interactions.Keywords: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, adherence, preferences, physician–patient/parent communication, collaborative/shared decision makin
Sense of presence and anxiety during virtual social interactions between a human and virtual humans
Crossed Andreev reflection in diffusive contacts
Crossed Andreev reflection in multiterminal structures in the diffusive
regime is addressed within the quasiclassical Keldysh-Usadel formalism. The
elastic cotunneling and crossed Andreev reflection of quasiparticles give
nonlocal currents and voltages (depending on the actual biasing of the devices)
by virtue of the induced proximity effect in the normal metal electrodes. The
magnitude of the nonlocal processes is found to scale with the square of the
barrier transparency and to decay exponentially with interface spacing.
Nonlocal cotunneling and crossed Andreev conductances are found to contribute
equally to the nonlocal current, which is of relevance to the use of normal
metal-superconducting heterostructures as sources of entanglement
Evidence for Single-gap Superconductivity in Mg(B_{1-x}C_x)_2 Single Crystals with x=0.132 from Point-Contact Spectroscopy
We report the results of the first directional point-contact measurements in
Mg(B_{1-x}C_{x})_2 single crystals with 0.047 <= x <= 0.132. The two-gap
superconductivity typical of MgB_2 persists up to x=0.105. In this region, the
values of the gaps Delta_{sigma} and Delta_{pi} were determined by fitting the
Andreev-reflection conductance curves with a two-band Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk
(BTK) model, and confirmed by the single-band BTK fit of the sigma- and pi-band
conductances, separated by means of a magnetic field. At x=0.132, when T_{c}=19
K, we clearly observed for the first time the merging of the two gaps into one
of amplitude Delta~3 meV.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. One figure and one panel added; text and
discussion update
Active Microrheology of Networks Composed of Semiflexible Polymers. II. Theory and comparison with simulations
Building on the results of our computer simulation (ArXiv cond-mat/0503573)we
develop a theoretical description of the motion of a bead, embedded in a
network of semiflexible polymers, and responding to an applied force. The
theory reveals the existence of an osmotic restoring force, generated by the
piling up of filaments in front of the moving bead and first deduced through
computer simulations. The theory predicts that the bead displacement scales
like x ~ t^alfa with time, with alfa=0.5 in an intermediate- and alfa=1 in a
long-time regime. It also predicts that the compliance varies with
concentration like c^(-4/3) in agreement with experiment.Comment: 18 pages and 2 figure
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