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R-Matrix Formulation of the Quantum Inhomogeneous Groups Iso_qr(N) and Isp_qr(N)
The quantum commutations and the orthogonal (symplectic) conditions
for the inhomogeneous multiparametric -groups of the type are
found in terms of the -matrix of . A consistent
Hopf structure on these inhomogeneous -groups is constructed by means of a
projection from . Real forms are discussed: in
particular we obtain the -groups , including the quantum
Poincar\'e group.Comment: 14 pages, latex, no figure
Functional models for large-scale gene regulation networks: realism and fiction
High-throughput experiments are shedding light on the topology of large
regulatory networks and at the same time their functional states, namely the
states of activation of the nodes (for example transcript or protein levels) in
different conditions, times, environments. We now possess a certain amount of
information about these two levels of description, stored in libraries,
databases and ontologies. A current challenge is to bridge the gap between
topology and function, i.e. developing quantitative models aimed at
characterizing the expression patterns of large sets of genes. However,
approaches that work well for small networks become impossible to master at
large scales, mainly because parameters proliferate. In this review we discuss
the state of the art of large-scale functional network models, addressing the
issue of what can be considered as realistic and what the main limitations may
be. We also show some directions for future work, trying to set the goals that
future models should try to achieve. Finally, we will emphasize the possible
benefits in the understanding of biological mechanisms underlying complex
multifactorial diseases, and in the development of novel strategies for the
description and the treatment of such pathologies.Comment: to appear on Mol. BioSyst. 200
Towards an expanded model of litigation
Introduction: The call for contributions for this workshop describes the important new challenges for the legal search
community this domain brings. Rather than just understanding the challenges this domain poses in terms of
their technical properties, we would like to suggest that understanding these challenges as socio-technical
challenges will be important. That is, as well as calling for research on a technical level to address these
challenges we are also calling for work to understand the social practices of those involved in e-discovery
(ED) and related legal work. A particularly interesting feature of this field is that it is likely that search
technologies will (at least semi-)automate responsiveness review in the relatively near term and this will
change the way that the work is organised and done in many ways – offering new possibilities for new
ways of organising the work. As well as designing those technologies for automating responsiveness
review we need to be envisioning how the work will be done in the future, how these technologies will
impact the organisation of the case and so on. In this position paper we therefore outline the importance of
understanding the wider social context of ED when designing tools and technologies to support and change
the work. We would like to reinforce and expand on Conrad’s call for IR researchers to understand just
what ED entails [2], include the stages that come both before and after core retrieval activities.
The importance of considering the social aspects of work in the design of the technology has been
established for some time. Ushering in this ‘turn to the social,’ and focusing on interface design, Gentner
and Grudin [4] described how the GUI has already changed from an interface for engineers, representing
the engineering model of the machine to one that supported single ‘everyman’ users (based on ideas from
psychology). From then onwards the interface has evolved to support groups of users, taking into account
the social and organisational contexts of use. This has particular resonance for the design of ED
technologies: during ED in particular and the wider legal process there are often many lawyers involved –
reviewing documents, determining issues, etc. Even if the way that their work is organised currently is not
seen as collaborative in the traditional sense – with individual lawyers working on individual document sets
to review them - their work needs to be coordinated and it seems likely that their work could be enhanced
by, for example, knowledge of what their colleagues had found, how the case was shaping up, new key
terms and facts turned up and so on. Work is often modelled for the purposes of design using process
models, but this misses out on the richness and variety actually found when one examines how the work is
carried out [3]. Technologies which strictly enforce the process models can often hinder the work, or end
up being worked around as was the case with workflow systems since people interpret processes very
flexibly to get the work done ([1], [3]). Other studies in other fields have found similar problems when
systems are designed on for example cognitive models of how the work is done; they often do not take into
account the situated nature of the work and thus they can be very difficult to use [5]. We believe, like [2],
that a clear understanding of the social practices of ED is vital for the creation of high-quality, meaningful
tools and technologies. We furthermore propose that work practice studies, to be used in combination with
other methods, are a central part of getting the detailed understanding of the work practices central to
designing useful and intelligent tools. Work practice studies would involve ethnographies, consisting
primarily of observation, undertaken of practitioners engaging in the work of ED
Spectroscopic evidences of quantum critical charge fluctuations in cuprates
We calculate the optical conductivity in a clean system of quasiparticles
coupled to charge-ordering collective modes. The absorption induced by these
modes may produce an anomalous frequency and temperature dependence of
low-energy optical absorption in some cuprates. However, the coupling with
lattice degrees of freedom introduces a non-universal energy scale leading to
scaling violation in low-temperature optical conductivity.Comment: Proceedings of M2S 2006. To appear in Physica
Optical excitation of phase modes in strongly disordered superconductors
According to the Goldstone theorem the breaking of a continuous U(1) symmetry
comes along with the existence of low-energy collective modes. In the context
of superconductivity these excitations are related to the phase of the
superconducting (SC) order parameter and for clean systems are optically
inactive. Here we show that for strongly disordered superconductors phase modes
acquire a dipole moment and appear as a subgap spectral feature in the optical
conductivity. This finding is obtained with both a gauge-invariant random-phase
approximation scheme based on a fermionic Bogoliubov-de Gennes state as well as
with a prototypical bosonic model for disordered superconductors. In the
strongly disordered regime, where the system displays an effective granularity
of the SC properties, the optically active dipoles are linked to the isolated
SC islands, offering a new perspective for realizing microwave optical devices
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The lab and the plant : offshore R&D and co-location with production activities
The literature has highlighted that the propensity of MNEs to co-locate offshore R&D labs with their production plants can vary substantially according to firm and industry characteristics. In this paper,
we apply a novel two-stage estimation procedure that allows us to tease out this heterogenous behaviour and investigate the factors that are associated with a higher propensity to co-locate
production and R&D activities abroad. Using data on 1,483 greenfield international investments in R&D activities made by 855 firms in 587 cities worldwide, we uncover that the strength of the colocation effect is indeed highly heterogenous across firms. In particular, it is higher among firms with less international experience and geographical dispersion of international activities, as well as with a
lower share of intangible assets. These results are consistent with the idea that co-location is a substitute for firms’ ability to coordinate complex and dispersed organizational structures, and that
firms relying relatively less on codified knowledge can use co-location of offshore R&D and production to facilitate knowledge transfer across activities
Editorial on special issue “wind turbine power optimization technology”
This Special Issue collects innovative contributions in the field of wind turbine optimization technology. The general motivation of the present Special Issue is given by the fact that there has recently been a considerable boost of the quest for wind turbine efficiency optimization in the academia and in the wind energy practitioners communities. The optimization can be focused on technology and operation of single turbine or a group of machines within a wind farm. This perspective is evidently multi-faced and the seven papers composing this Special Issue provide a representative picture of the most ground-breaking state of the art about the subject. Wind turbine power optimization means scientific research about the design of innovative aerodynamic solutions for wind turbine blades and of wind turbine single or collective control, especially for increasing rotor size and exploitation in offshore environment. It should be noticed that some recently developed aerodynamic and control solutions have become available in the industry practice and therefore an interesting line of development is the assessment of the actual impact of optimization technology for wind turbines operating in field: this calls for non-trivial data analysis and statistical methods. The optimization approach must be 360 degrees; for this reason also offshore resource should be addressed with the most up to date technologies such as floating wind turbines, in particular as regards support structures and platforms to be employed in ocean environment. Finally, wind turbine power optimization means as well improving wind farm efficiency through innovative uses of pre-existent control techniques: this is employed, for example, for active control of wake interactions in order to maximize the energy yield and minimize the fatigue loads
Interchain coherence of coupled Luttinger liquids at all orders in perturbation theory
We analyze the problem of Luttinger liquids coupled via a single-particle
hopping \tp and introduce a systematic diagrammatic expansion in powers of
\tp. An analysis of the scaling of the diagrams at each order allows us to
determine the power-law behavior versus \tp of the interchain hopping and of
the Fermi surface warp. In particular, for strong interactions, we find that
the exponents are dominated by higher-order diagrams producing an enhanced
coherence and a failure of linear-response theory. Our results are valid at any
finite order in \tp for the self-energy.Comment: 4 pages, 3 ps figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
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