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Criticality and Condensation in a Non-Conserving Zero Range Process
The Zero-Range Process, in which particles hop between sites on a lattice
under conserving dynamics, is a prototypical model for studying real-space
condensation. Within this model the system is critical only at the transition
point. Here we consider a non-conserving Zero-Range Process which is shown to
exhibit generic critical phases which exist in a range of creation and
annihilation parameters. The model also exhibits phases characterised by
mesocondensates each of which contains a subextensive number of particles. A
detailed phase diagram, delineating the various phases, is derived.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure, published versi
Comparison of AIS Versus TMS Data Collected over the Virginia Piedmont
The Airborne Imaging Spectrometer (AIS, NS001 Thematic Mapper Simlulator (TMS), and Zeiss camera collected remotely sensed data simultaneously on October 27, 1983, at an altitude of 6860 meters (22,500 feet). AIS data were collected in 32 channels covering 1200 to 1500 nm. A simple atmospheric correction was applied to the AIS data, after which spectra for four cover types were plotted. Spectra for these ground cover classes showed a telescoping effect for the wavelength endpoints. Principal components were extracted from the shortwave region of the AIS (1200 to 1280 nm), full spectrum AIS (1200 to 1500 nm) and TMS (450 to 12,500 nm) to create three separate three-component color image composites. A comparison of the TMS band 5 (1000 to 1300 nm) to the six principal components from the shortwave AIS region (1200 to 1280 nm) showed improved visual discrimination of ground cover types. Contrast of color image composites created from principal components showed the AIS composites to exhibit a clearer demarcation between certain ground cover types but subtle differences within other regions of the imagery were not as readily seen
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What do stroke survivors think about evidence based care they receive? Learning from insights at the periphery
Permission to archive the publisher pdf of this article was granted by the publisher in February 2012Rationale and aim of study: While exploring the experience of stroke survivors of secondary stroke prevention as part of a wider patient and public involvement service initiative, study participants willingly shared insights on other aspects of care that mattered to them. This is important as little is known about patients’ preferences for care. Methods: Data was generated from focus groups and semi-structured interviews that were held with 38 stroke survivors or their proxy respondents as part of an action research study. A framework analysis was used to examine data. Results: Our findings largely support current knowledge about the benefits of receiving evidence based stroke care. Although patients broadly appreciated being on a specialist unit, unexpectedly and contrary to best practice some expressed the wish to be treated elsewhere as they found the experience of being on a stroke unit difficult. Other findings included the need for more local peer support and difficulties surrounding transfer from hospital to home. Resultant actions included awareness training for staff about sensitively managing people’s perceptions about being on the stroke unit; development of shared computer based (IT) resources, and the establishment of a volunteer peer support system. Conclusion: The evidence base for the benefits of stroke unit care is unequivocal; however this model of care presents challenges for some. Involving patients in service development can inform small but key changes in practice that can help address inherent tensions in delivering evidence based services that are sensitive to patient preference.This project was funded by a grant from the Peninsula Primary Care Research Networ
Factorised steady states for multi-species mass transfer models
A general class of mass transport models with Q species of conserved mass is
considered. The models are defined on a lattice with parallel discrete time
update rules. For one-dimensional, totally asymmetric dynamics we derive
necessary and sufficient conditions on the mass transfer dynamics under which
the steady state factorises. We generalise the model to mass transfer on
arbitrary lattices and present sufficient conditions for factorisation. In both
cases, explicit results for random sequential update and continuous time limits
are given.Comment: 11 page
Electronic visualization of gas bearing behavior
Visualization technique produces a visual simulation of gas bearing operation by electronically combining the outputs from the clearance probes used to monitor bearing component motion. Computerized recordings of the probes output are processed, displayed on an oscilloscope screen and recorded with a high-speed motion picture camera
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Nonequilibrium phase transition in a non integrable zero-range process
The present work is an endeavour to determine analytically features of the
stationary measure of a non-integrable zero-range process, and to investigate
the possible existence of phase transitions for such a nonequilibrium model.
The rates defining the model do not satisfy the constraints necessary for the
stationary measure to be a product measure. Even in the absence of a drive,
detailed balance with respect to this measure is violated. Analytical and
numerical investigations on the complete graph demonstrate the existence of a
first-order phase transition between a fluid phase and a condensed phase, where
a single site has macroscopic occupation. The transition is sudden from an
imbalanced fluid where both species have densities larger than the critical
density, to a critical neutral fluid and an imbalanced condensate
Layering Transitions and Solvation Forces in an Asymmetrically Confined Fluid
We consider a simple fluid confined between two parallel walls (substrates),
separated by a distance L. The walls exert competing surface fields so that one
wall is attractive and may be completely wet by liquid (it is solvophilic)
while the other is solvophobic. Such asymmetric confinement is sometimes termed
a `Janus Interface'. The second wall is: (i) purely repulsive and therefore
completely dry (contact angle 180 degrees) or (ii) weakly attractive and
partially dry (the contact angle is typically in the range 160-170 degrees). At
low temperatures, but above the bulk triple point, we find using classical
density functional theory (DFT) that the fluid is highly structured in the
liquid part of the density profile. In case (i) a sequence of layering
transitions occurs: as L is increased at fixed chemical potential (mu) close to
bulk gas--liquid coexistence, new layers of liquid-like density develop
discontinuously. In contrast to confinement between identical walls, the
solvation force is repulsive for all wall separations and jumps discontinuously
at each layering transition and the excess grand potential exhibits many
metastable minima as a function of the adsorption. For a fixed temperature
T=0.56Tc, where Tc is the bulk critical temperature, we determine the
transition lines in the L, mu plane. In case (ii) we do not find layering
transitions and the solvation force oscillates about zero. We discuss how our
mean-field DFT results might be altered by including effects of fluctuations
and comment on how the phenomenology we have revealed might be relevant for
experimental and simulation studies of water confined between hydrophilic and
hydrophobic substrates, emphasizing it is important to distinguish between
cases (i) and (ii).Comment: 16 pages, 13 figure
Factorised Steady States in Mass Transport Models on an Arbitrary Graph
We study a general mass transport model on an arbitrary graph consisting of
nodes each carrying a continuous mass. The graph also has a set of directed
links between pairs of nodes through which a stochastic portion of mass, chosen
from a site-dependent distribution, is transported between the nodes at each
time step. The dynamics conserves the total mass and the system eventually
reaches a steady state. This general model includes as special cases various
previously studied models such as the Zero-range process and the Asymmetric
random average process. We derive a general condition on the stochastic mass
transport rules, valid for arbitrary graph and for both parallel and random
sequential dynamics, that is sufficient to guarantee that the steady state is
factorisable. We demonstrate how this condition can be achieved in several
examples. We show that our generalized result contains as a special case the
recent results derived by Greenblatt and Lebowitz for -dimensional
hypercubic lattices with random sequential dynamics.Comment: 17 pages 1 figur
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