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Three-Body Elastic and Inelastic Scattering at Intermediate Energies
The Faddeev equation for three-body scattering at arbitrary energies is
formulated in momentum space and directly solved in terms of momentum vectors
without employing a partial wave decomposition. For identical bosons this
results in a three-dimensional integral equation in five variables, magnitudes
of relative momenta and angles. The cross sections for both elastic and breakup
processes in the intermediate energy range up to about 1 GeV are calculated
based on a Malfliet-Tjon type potential, and the convergence of the multiple
scattering series is investigated.Comment: Talk at the 18th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems
in Physics, Aug. 21-26, 2006, Santos, Brazi
Spurious detection of phase synchronization in coupled nonlinear oscillators
Coupled nonlinear systems under certain conditions exhibit phase
synchronization, which may change for different frequency bands or with
presence of additive system noise. In both cases, Fourier filtering is
traditionally used to preprocess data. We investigate to what extent the phase
synchronization of two coupled R\"{o}ssler oscillators depends on (1) the
broadness of their power spectrum, (2) the width of the band-pass filter, and
(3) the level of added noise. We find that for identical coupling strengths,
oscillators with broader power spectra exhibit weaker synchronization. Further,
we find that within a broad band width range, band-pass filtering reduces the
effect of noise but can lead to a spurious increase in the degree of
synchronization with narrowing band width, even when the coupling between the
two oscillators remains the same.Comment: 4 pages,6 figure
Effect of nonlinear filters on detrended fluctuation analysis
We investigate how various linear and nonlinear transformations affect the
scaling properties of a signal, using the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA).
Specifically, we study the effect of three types of transforms: linear,
nonlinear polynomial and logarithmic filters. We compare the scaling properties
of signals before and after the transform. We find that linear filters do not
change the correlation properties, while the effect of nonlinear polynomial and
logarithmic filters strongly depends on (a) the strength of correlations in the
original signal, (b) the power of the polynomial filter and (c) the offset in
the logarithmic filter. We further investigate the correlation properties of
three analytic functions: exponential, logarithmic, and power-law. While these
three functions have in general different correlation properties, we find that
there is a broad range of variable values, common for all three functions,
where they exhibit identical scaling behavior. We further note that the scaling
behavior of a class of other functions can be reduced to these three typical
cases. We systematically test the performance of the DFA method in accurately
estimating long-range power-law correlations in the output signals for
different parameter values in the three types of filters, and the three
analytic functions we consider.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Hooge's Constant of Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors
The 1/f noise in individual semiconducting carbon nanotubes (s-CNT) in a
field effect transistor configuration has been measured in ultra-high vacuum
and following exposure to air. The amplitude of the normalized current spectral
noise density is independent of source-drain current, indicating the noise is
due to mobility rather than number fluctuations. Hooge's constant for s-CNT is
found to be 9.3 plus minus 0.4x10^-3. The magnitude of the 1/f noise is
substantially degreased by exposing the devices to air
Integrability of the critical point of the Kagom\'e three-state Potts mode
The vicinity of the critical point of the three-state Potts model on a
Kagom\'e lattice is studied by mean of Random Matrix Theory. Strong evidence
that the critical point is integrable is given.Comment: 1 LaTex file + 3 eps files 7 page
Influence of the indirect restoration design on the fracture resistance: a finite element study
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Absorbate-Induced Piezochromism in a Porous Molecular Crystal
Atmospherically stable porous frameworks
and materials are interesting
for heterogeneous solid–gas applications. One motivation is
the direct and selective uptake of pollutant/hazardous gases, where
the material produces a measurable response in the presence of the
analyte. In this report, we present a combined experimental and theoretical
rationalization for the piezochromic response of a robust and porous
molecular crystal built from an extensively fluorinated trispyrazole.
The electronic response of the material is directly determined by
analyte uptake, which provokes a subtle lattice contraction and an
observable bathochromic shift in the optical absorption onset. Selectivity
for fluorinated absorbates is demonstrated, and toluene is also found
to crystallize within the pore. Furthermore, we demonstrate the application
of electronic structure calculations to predict a physicochemical
response, providing the foundations for the design of electronically
tunable porous solids with the chemical properties required for development
of novel gas-uptake media
Examining the role of socioeconomic deprivation in ethnic differences in sexually transmitted infection diagnosis rates in England: evidence from surveillance data
Differences by ethnic group in STI diagnosis rates have long been recognized in England. We investigated whether these may be explained by ethnic disparities in socioeconomic deprivation (SED). Data on all diagnoses made in sexual health clinics in England in 2013 were obtained from the mandatory STI surveillance system. Poisson regression was used to calculate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of STIs, by ethnicity, with and without adjustment for index of multiple deprivation (IMD) a measure of area-level deprivation. Unadjusted IRRs (95% confidence intervals) were highest for gonorrhoea [8·18 (7·77-8·61) and 5·76 (5·28-6·29)] and genital herpes [4·24 (3·99-4·51) and 3·58 (3·23-3·98)] for people of black Caribbean and non-Caribbean/non-African black ethnicity and IRRs were highest for syphilis [8·76 (7·97-9·63)] and genital warts [2·23 (2·17-2·29)] for people of non-British/non-Irish white ethnicity compared to white British ethnicity. After adjustment for IMD, IRRs for gonorrhoea [5·76 (5·47-6·07)] and genital herpes [3·73 (3·50-3·97)] declined but remained highest for black Caribbeans and IRRs for syphilis [7·35 (6·68-8·09)] and genital warts [2·10 (2·04-2·16)] declined but remained highest for non-British/non-Irish white compared to white British. In England, ethnic disparities in STI diagnosis rates are partially explained by SED, but behavioural and contextual factors likely contribute. Clinic and community-based interventions should involve social peer networks to ensure they are targeted and culturally sensitive
Evolutionary game of coalition building under external pressure
We study the fragmentation-coagulation (or merging and splitting)
evolutionary control model as introduced recently by one of the authors, where
small players can form coalitions to resist to the pressure exerted by the
principal. It is a Markov chain in continuous time and the players have a
common reward to optimize. We study the behavior as grows and show that the
problem converges to a (one player) deterministic optimization problem in
continuous time, in the infinite dimensional state space
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