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Bran in bread: effects of particle size and level of wheat and oat bran on mixing, proving and baking
Renormalization-group approach to superconductivity: from weak to strong electron-phonon coupling
We present the numerical solution of the renormalization group (RG) equations
derived in Ref. [1], for the problem of superconductivity in the presence of
both electron-electron and electron-phonon coupling at zero temperature. We
study the instability of a Fermi liquid to a superconductor and the RG flow of
the couplings in presence of retardation effects and the crossover from weak to
strong coupling. We show that our numerical results provide an ansatz for the
analytic solution of the problem in the asymptotic limits of weak and strong
coupling.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings for the Electron
Correlations and Materials Properties, in Kos, Greece, July 5-9, 200
Experimental magic state distillation for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Any physical quantum device for quantum information processing is subject to
errors in implementation. In order to be reliable and efficient, quantum
computers will need error correcting or error avoiding methods. Fault-tolerance
achieved through quantum error correction will be an integral part of quantum
computers. Of the many methods that have been discovered to implement it, a
highly successful approach has been to use transversal gates and specific
initial states. A critical element for its implementation is the availability
of high-fidelity initial states such as |0> and the Magic State. Here we report
an experiment, performed in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum
processor, showing sufficient quantum control to improve the fidelity of
imperfect initial magic states by distilling five of them into one with higher
fidelity
Analysis of Bone Architecture in Rodents Using Micro-Computed Tomography.
This chapter describes the use of micro-computed tomography scanning for analyzing bone structure, focussing on rodent bone. It discusses sample preparation, the correct setup of the scanner, the impact of some of the important scanner settings and new applications
Social representations of HIV/AIDS in five Central European and Eastern European countries: A multidimensional analysis
Cognitive processing models of risky sexual behaviour have proliferated in the two decades since the first reporting of HIV/AIDS, but far less attention has been paid to individual and
group representations of the epidemic and the relationship between these representations and reported sexual behaviours. In this study, 494 business people and medics from Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Poland and Russia sorted free associations around HIV/AIDS in a matrix completion task. Exploratory factor and multidimensional scaling analyses revealed two main dimensions (labelled āSexā and āDeadly diseaseā), with significant cultural and gender variations along both dimension scores. Possible explanations for these results are discussed in the light of growing concerns over the spread of the epidemic in this region
The Effect of Selective Die Spacer Placement Techniques on the Seatability of Castings
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Statistical modeling of ground motion relations for seismic hazard analysis
We introduce a new approach for ground motion relations (GMR) in the
probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), being influenced by the extreme
value theory of mathematical statistics. Therein, we understand a GMR as a
random function. We derive mathematically the principle of area-equivalence;
wherein two alternative GMRs have an equivalent influence on the hazard if
these GMRs have equivalent area functions. This includes local biases. An
interpretation of the difference between these GMRs (an actual and a modeled
one) as a random component leads to a general overestimation of residual
variance and hazard. Beside this, we discuss important aspects of classical
approaches and discover discrepancies with the state of the art of stochastics
and statistics (model selection and significance, test of distribution
assumptions, extreme value statistics). We criticize especially the assumption
of logarithmic normally distributed residuals of maxima like the peak ground
acceleration (PGA). The natural distribution of its individual random component
(equivalent to exp(epsilon_0) of Joyner and Boore 1993) is the generalized
extreme value. We show by numerical researches that the actual distribution can
be hidden and a wrong distribution assumption can influence the PSHA negatively
as the negligence of area equivalence does. Finally, we suggest an estimation
concept for GMRs of PSHA with a regression-free variance estimation of the
individual random component. We demonstrate the advantages of event-specific
GMRs by analyzing data sets from the PEER strong motion database and estimate
event-specific GMRs. Therein, the majority of the best models base on an
anisotropic point source approach. The residual variance of logarithmized PGA
is significantly smaller than in previous models. We validate the estimations
for the event with the largest sample by empirical area functions. etc
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