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Field-effect transistors as dc amplifiers
Field effect transistors as direct current amplifier
Theory of phaselock techniques as applied to aerospace transponders
Phaselock techniques as applied to aerospace transponder
Gravity flow rate of solids through orifices and pipes
Lock-hopper systems are the most common means for feeding solids to and from coal conversion reactor vessels. The rate at which crushed solids flow by gravity through the vertical pipes and valves in lock-hopper systems affects the size of pipes and valves needed to meet the solids-handling requirements of the coal conversion process. Methods used to predict flow rates are described and compared with experimental data. Preliminary indications are that solids-handling systems for coal conversion processes are over-designed by a factor of 2 or 3
VLBI study of water maser emission in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC5793. I: Imaging blueshifted emission and the parsec-scale jet
We present the first result of VLBI observations of the blueshifted water
maser emission from the type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC5793, which we combine with
new and previous VLBI observations of continuum emission at 1.7, 5.0, 8.4, 15,
and 22 GHz. Maser emission was detected earlier in single-dish observations and
found to have both red- and blueshifted features relative to the systemic
velocity. We could image only the blueshifted emission, which is located 3.6 pc
southwest of the 22 GHz continuum peak. The blueshifted emission was found to
originate in two clusters that are separated by 0.7 milliarcsecond (0.16 pc).
No compact continuum emission was found within 3.6 pc of the maser spot. A
compact continuum source showing a marginally inverted spectrum between 1.7 and
5.0 GHz was found 4.2 pc southwest of the maser position. The spectral turnover
might be due to synchrotron self-absorption caused by a shock in the jet owing
to collision with dense gas, or it might be due to free-free absorption in an
ionized screen possibly the inner part of a disk, foreground to the jet.
The water maser may be part of a maser disk. If so, it would be rotating in
the opposite sense to the highly inclined galactic disk observed in CO
emission. We estimate a binding mass within 1 pc of the presumed nucleus to be
on the order of 10^7 Msun. Alternatively, the maser emission could result from
the amplification of a radio jet by foreground circumnuclear molecular gas. In
this case, the high blueshift of the maser emission might mean that the masing
region is moving outward away from the molecular gas surrounding an active
nucleus.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, to appear in ApJ, Oct. 200
Storage of correlated patterns in a perceptron
We calculate the storage capacity of a perceptron for correlated gaussian
patterns. We find that the storage capacity can be less than 2 if
similar patterns are mapped onto different outputs and vice versa. As long as
the patterns are in general position we obtain, in contrast to previous works,
that in agreement with Cover's theorem. Numerical simulations
confirm the results.Comment: 9 pages LaTeX ioplppt style, figures included using eps
An Electronically Reconfigurable Patch Antenna Design for Polarization Diversity with Fixed Resonant Frequency
In this paper, an electronically polarization reconfigurable circular patch antenna with fixed resonant frequency operating at Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) frequency band (2.4-2.48 GHz) is presented. The structure of the proposed design consists of a circular patch as a radiating element fed by coaxial probe, cooperated with four equal-length slits etched on the edge along x-axis and y-axis. A total of four switches was used and embedded across the slits at specific locations, thus controlled the length of the slits. By activating and deactivating the switches (ON and OFF) across the slits, the current on the patch is changed, thus modifying the electric field and polarization of the antenna. Consequently, the polarization excited by the proposed antenna can be switched into three types, either linear polarization, left-hand circular polarization or right-hand circular polarization. This paper proposes a simple approach that able to switch the polarizations and excited at the same operating frequency. Simulated and measured results of ideal case (using copper strip switches) and real case (using PIN diode switches) are compared and presented to demonstrate the performance of the antenna
Instance Space of the Number Partitioning Problem
Within the replica framework we study analytically the instance space of the
number partitioning problem. This classic integer programming problem consists
of partitioning a sequence of N positive real numbers \{a_1, a_2,..., a_N}
(the instance) into two sets such that the absolute value of the difference of
the sums of over the two sets is minimized. We show that there is an
upper bound to the number of perfect partitions (i.e. partitions
for which that difference is zero) and characterize the statistical properties
of the instances for which those partitions exist. In particular, in the case
that the two sets have the same cardinality (balanced partitions) we find
. Moreover, we show that the disordered model resulting from hte
instance space approach can be viewed as a model of replicators where the
random interactions are given by the Hebb rule.Comment: 7 page
Statistical mechanics of the multi-constraint continuous knapsack problem
We apply the replica analysis established by Gardner to the multi-constraint
continuous knapsack problem,which is one of the linear programming problems and
a most fundamental problem in the field of operations research (OR). For a
large problem size, we analyse the space of solution and its volume, and
estimate the optimal number of items to go into the knapsack as a function of
the number of constraints. We study the stability of the replica symmetric (RS)
solution and find that the RS calculation cannot estimate the optimal number of
items in knapsack correctly if many constraints are required.In order to obtain
a consistent solution in the RS region,we try the zero entropy approximation
for this continuous solution space and get a stable solution within the RS
ansatz.On the other hand, in replica symmetry breaking (RSB) region, the one
step RSB solution is found by Parisi's scheme. It turns out that this problem
is closely related to the problem of optimal storage capacity and of
generalization by maximum stability rule of a spherical perceptron.Comment: Latex 13 pages using IOP style file, 5 figure
Comment on "Evidence for the Droplet/Scaling Picture of Spin Glasses"
In a recent letter Moore et al. claim to exhibit evidence for a
non-mean-field behavior of the Ising spin glass. We show that their claim
is insubstantial, and by analyzing in detail the behavior of the
Migdal-Kadanoff approximation (MKA) as compared to the behavior of the
Edwards-Anderson (EA) spin glass we find further evidence of a mean-field like
behavior of the spin glass.Comment: 1 page comment including one postscript figur
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