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Mobile onsite exploration of parallel realities with Oculus Rift
This paper reports experience in developing a parallel reality system which allows its user to observe and move around their real environment whilst wearing a stereoscopic 3D head mounted display imbued with video-see through capabilities, with their position and gaze tracked by an indoor positioning system and head tracker, allowing them to alternately view their real environment and an immersive virtual reality environment from the equivalent vantage point. In so doing the challenge of the vacancy problem is addressed by lightening the cognitive load needed to switch between realities and to navigate the virtual environment. Evaluation of the usability, system performance and value of the system are undertaken in the context of a cultural heritage application; users are able to compare a reconstruction of an important 15th century chapel with its present day instantiation.Postprin
Depletion through social reproduction and contingent coping in the lived experience of parents on Universal Credit in England
We report data from longitudinal qualitative interviews with thirteen people claiming Universal Credit (UC) immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. The article utilizes concepts from feminist theory: “Social Reproduction” and “Depletion.” We make several novel contributions, including bringing depletion into conversation with the related concept of “contingent coping.” We argue that the lived experience of UC involves material and emotional depletion, but that UC also helps recipients to “cope” contingently with this depletion. In this sense, depletion through social reproduction is an ongoing and harmful state of being. We show how highly conditional and disciplinary welfare policies both partially mitigate but also accentuate structural pressures associated with an unequal, insecure, and competitive labor market
Uso de modelos de simulação sócio-bio-econômico integrado como ferramenta para o desenvolvimento agrário na região sudoeste do Rio Grande Sul.
Suporte tecnológico tem sido oferecido aos produtores com a finalidade de aumentar a eficiência produtiva e fornecer subsídios para as suas tomadas de decisões; entretanto, os métodos tradicionais de pesquisa e extensão estão sendo cada vez mais questionados, principalmente quanto ao custo e tempo necessário para oferecer soluções aos problemas enfrentados pelos produtores.bitstream/item/109814/1/USO-DE-MODELOS-DE-SIMULACAO.pd
Magnetotransport near a quantum critical point in a simple metal
We use geometric considerations to study transport properties, such as the
conductivity and Hall coefficient, near the onset of a nesting-driven spin
density wave in a simple metal. In particular, motivated by recent experiments
on vanadium-doped chromium, we study the variation of transport coefficients
with the onset of magnetism within a mean-field treatment of a model that
contains nearly nested electron and hole Fermi surfaces. We show that most
transport coefficients display a leading dependence that is linear in the
energy gap. The coefficient of the linear term, though, can be small. In
particular, we find that the Hall conductivity is essentially
unchanged, due to electron-hole compensation, as the system goes through the
quantum critical point. This conclusion extends a similar observation we made
earlier for the case of completely flat Fermi surfaces to the immediate
vicinity of the quantum critical point where nesting is present but not
perfect.Comment: 11 pages revtex, 4 figure
Magnetic phase diagram and transport properties of FeGe_2
We have used resistivity measurements to study the magnetic phase diagram of
the itinerant antiferromagnet FeGe_2 in the temperature range from 0.3->300 K
in magnetic fields up to 16 T. In contrast to theoretical predictions, the
incommensurate spin density wave phase is found to be stable at least up to 16
T, with an estimated critical field \mu _0H_c of ~ 30 T. We have also studied
the low temperature magnetoresistance in the [100], [110], and [001]
directions. The transverse magnetoresistance is well described by a power law
for magnetic fields above 1 T with no saturation observed at high fields. We
discuss our results in terms of the magnetic structure and the calculated
electronic bandstructure of FeGe_2. We have also observed, for the first time
in this compound, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the transverse
magnetoresistance with a frequency of 190 +- 10 T for a magnetic field along
[001].Comment: 13 pages, RevTeX, 7 postscript figures, to appear in Journal of
Physics: Condensed Matte
Spin and charge excitations in incommensurate spin density waves
Collective excitations both for spin- and charge-channels are investigated in
incommensurate spin density wave (or stripe) states on two-dimensional Hubbard
model. By random phase approximation, the dynamical susceptibility
\chi(q,\omega) is calculated for full range of (q,\omega) with including all
higher harmonics components. An intricate landscape of the spectra in
\chi(q,\omega) is obtained. We discuss the anisotropy of the dispersion cones
for spin wave excitations, and for the phason excitation related to the motion
of the stripe line. Inelastic neutron experiments on Cr and its alloys and
stripe states of underdoped cuprates are proposed
Policy Insights From the EMF 32 Study on U.S. Carbon Tax Scenarios
The Stanford Energy Modeling Forum exercise 32 (EMF 32) used 11 different models to assess emissions, energy, and economic outcomes from a plausible range of economy-wide carbon price policies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States. Here we discuss the most policy-relevant results of the study, mindful of the strengths and weaknesses of current models. Across all models, carbon prices lead to significant reduc- tions in CO2 emissions and conventional pollutants, with the vast majority of the reductions occurring in the electricity sector. Importantly, emissions reductions do not significantly depend on the rebate or tax cut used to return revenues to the economy. Expected economic costs, as modeled by either GDP or welfare, are modest, but vary across models. These costs are offset by benefits from avoided climate damages and health benefits from reductions in conventional air pollution. Using revenues to reduce preexisting capital or labor taxes reduces costs in most models relative to lump-sum rebates, but the size of the cost reductions varies significantly. Devoting at least some revenue to household rebates can significantly reduce adverse impacts on low income households. Carbon prices at $25/ton or even lower levels cause significant shifts away from coal as an energy source with responses of other energy sources highly dependent upon technology cost assumptions. Beyond 2030, we conclude that model uncertainties are too large to make quantitative results useful for near-term policy design. We close by describing recommendations for policymakers on interacting with model results in the future
DeWitt-Schwinger Renormalization and Vacuum Polarization in d Dimensions
Calculation of the vacuum polarization, , has seen a recent resurgence, notably
for black hole spacetimes. To date, most calculations of this type have been
done only in four dimensions. Extending these calculations to dimensions
includes -dimensional renormalization. Typically, the renormalizing terms
are found from Christensen's covariant point splitting method for the
DeWitt-Schwinger expansion. However, some manipulation is required to put the
correct terms into a form that is compatible with problems of the vacuum
polarization type. Here, after a review of the current state of affairs for
calculations and a thorough introduction to
the method of calculating and for certain spacetimes is discussed, with application to four and
five dimensions.Comment: 21 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures. References added, rewritten to clarify
some points, corrections performed, our claim in the first version that there
is an error in Anderson's calculations is incorrec
Fluctuation-induced first-order phase transition in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya helimagnets
Two centuries of research on phase transitions have repeatedly highlighted
the importance of critical fluctuations that abound in the vicinity of a
critical point. They are at the origin of scaling laws obeyed by thermodynamic
observables close to second-order phase transitions resulting in the concept of
universality classes, that is of paramount importance for the study of
organizational principles of matter. Strikingly, in case such soft fluctuations
are too abundant they may alter the nature of the phase transition profoundly;
the system might evade the critical state altogether by undergoing a
discontinuous first-order transition into the ordered phase.
Fluctuation-induced first-order transitions have been discussed broadly and are
germane for superconductors, liquid crystals, or phase transitions in the early
universe, but clear experimental confirmations remain scarce. Our results from
neutron scattering and thermodynamics on the model Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM)
helimagnet (HM) MnSi show that such a fluctuation-induced first-order
transition is realized between its paramagnetic and HM state with remarkable
agreement between experiment and a theory put forward by Brazovskii. While our
study clarifies the nature of the HM phase transition in MnSi that has puzzled
scientists for several decades, more importantly, our conclusions entirely
based on symmetry arguments are also relevant for other DM-HMs with only weak
cubic magnetic anisotropies. This is in particular noteworthy in light of a
wide range of recent discoveries that show that DM helimagnetism is at the
heart of problems such as topological magnetic order, multiferroics, and
spintronics.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures, 2 table
Harmonic crossover exponents in O(n) models with the pseudo-epsilon expansion approach
We determine the crossover exponents associated with the traceless tensorial
quadratic field, the third- and fourth-harmonic operators for O(n) vector
models by re-analyzing the existing six-loop fixed dimension series with
pseudo-epsilon expansion. Within this approach we obtain the most accurate
theoretical estimates that are in optimum agreement with other theoretical and
experimental results.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure. Final version accepted for publicatio
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