140 research outputs found
A Sensitive Faraday Rotation Setup Using Triple Modulation
The utilization of polarized targets in scattering experiments has become a
common practice in many major accelerator laboratories. Noble gases are
especially suitable for such applications, since they can be easily
hyper-polarized using spin exchange or metastable pumping techniques. Polarized
helium-3 is a very popular target because it often serves as an effective
polarized neutron due to its simple nuclear structure. A favorite cell material
to generate and store polarized helium-3 is GE-180, a relatively dense
aluminosilicate glass. In this paper, we present a Faraday rotation method,
using a new triple modulation technique, where the measurement of the Verdet
constants of SF57 flint glass, pyrex glass, and air were tested. The
sensitivity obtained shows that this technique may be implemented in future
cell wall characterization and thickness measurements. We also discuss the
first ever extraction of the Verdet constant of GE-180 glass for four
wavelength values of 632 nm, 773 nm, 1500 nm, and 1547 nm, whereupon the
expected 1/{\lambda}^{2} dependence was observed.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures Updated version for RSI submissio
Cannabis use and cardiovascular complications: are we aware enough?
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug. Over the last years more scientific studies focus on the cardiovascular complications of cannabis. This brief review cites the effects of cannabis in human myocardial tissue with emphasis on the risk of development of cardiovascular disease after the use of the drug
Infinitely many symmetries and conservation laws for quad-graph equations via the Gardner method
The application of the Gardner method for generation of conservation laws to
all the ABS equations is considered. It is shown that all the necessary
information for the application of the Gardner method, namely B\"acklund
transformations and initial conservation laws, follow from the multidimensional
consistency of ABS equations. We also apply the Gardner method to an asymmetric
equation which is not included in the ABS classification. An analog of the
Gardner method for generation of symmetries is developed and applied to
discrete KdV. It can also be applied to all the other ABS equations
Genetic vs community diversity patterns of macrobenthic species: preliminary results from the lagoonal ecosystem
1 - The use of molecular data derived from multispecies assemblages in order to test ecological theory has only recently been introduced in the scientific literature.2 - As a first step, we compared patterns of abiotic environment, polychaeta distribution and their genetic diversity in five lagoon ecosystems in Greece. Our results confirm the hypothesis that higher genetic diversity is expected in the populations of the species occurring in the transitional waters rather than of those occurring in the marine environment.3 - Patterns derived from the polychaete community level and from the mitochondrial DNA (16S rRNA) obtained from Nephtys hombergii and Hediste diversicolor showed convergence, indicating the potential use of molecular matrices as surrogates in community analysis.4 - Finally, the high correlation between the genetic diversity pattern of H. diversicolor and the phosphorus concentration in the sediments may imply the broadening of the hierarchic-response-tostress hypothesis towards lower than species level
Moving lattice kinks and pulses: an inverse method
We develop a general mapping from given kink or pulse shaped travelling-wave
solutions including their velocity to the equations of motion on
one-dimensional lattices which support these solutions. We apply this mapping -
by definition an inverse method - to acoustic solitons in chains with nonlinear
intersite interactions, to nonlinear Klein-Gordon chains, to reaction-diffusion
equations and to discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger systems. Potential functions
can be found in at least a unique way provided the pulse shape is reflection
symmetric and pulse and kink shapes are at least functions. For kinks we
discuss the relation of our results to the problem of a Peierls-Nabarro
potential and continuous symmetries. We then generalize our method to higher
dimensional lattices for reaction-diffusion systems. We find that increasing
also the number of components easily allows for moving solutions.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Intermittency in Branching Processes
We study the intermittency properties of two branching processes, one with a
uniform and another with a singular splitting kernel. The asymptotic
intermittency indices, as well as the leading corrections to the asymptotic
linear regime are explicitly computed in an analytic framework. Both models are
found to possess a monofractal spectrum with . Relations with
previous results are discussed.Comment: 20 pages, UCLA93/TEP/2
On line power spectra identification and whitening for the noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors
In this paper we address both to the problem of identifying the noise Power
Spectral Density of interferometric detectors by parametric techniques and to
the problem of the whitening procedure of the sequence of data. We will
concentrate the study on a Power Spectral Density like the one of the
Italian-French detector VIRGO and we show that with a reasonable finite number
of parameters we succeed in modeling a spectrum like the theoretical one of
VIRGO, reproducing all its features. We propose also the use of adaptive
techniques to identify and to whiten on line the data of interferometric
detectors. We analyze the behavior of the adaptive techniques in the field of
stochastic gradient and in the
Least Squares ones.Comment: 28 pages, 21 figures, uses iopart.cls accepted for pubblication on
Classical and Quantum Gravit
Climate change and Mediterranean seagrass meadows: A synopsis for environmental managers
This synopsis focuses on the effects of climate change on Mediterranean seagrasses, and associated communities, and on the contribution of the main species, Posidonia oceanica, to the mitigation of climate change effects through sequestering carbon dioxide. Whilst the regression of seagrass meadows is well documented, generally linked to anthropogenic pressures, global warming could be a cause of new significant regression, notably linked to the introduction of exotic species, the rise of Sea-Surface Temperature (SST), and relative sea level. Seagrass communities could also be affected by climate change through the replacement of high structural complexity seagrass species by species of lower complexity and even by opportunistic introduced species. Although it is currently very difficult to predict the consequences of these alterations and their cascade effects, two main potential conflicting trends in the functioning of seagrass ecosystems are acceleration of the herbivore pathway or the detritivore pathway. The mean net primary production of the dominant species, Posidonia oceanica, is relatively high and can be estimated to range between 92.5 to 144.7 g C m-2 a-1. Around 27% of the total carbon fixed by this species enters the sedimentary pathway leading to formation, over millennia, of highly organic deposits, rich in refractory carbon. At the Mediterranean scale, the sequestration rate might reach 1.09 Tg C a-1. The amount of this stored carbon is estimated to range from 71 to 273 kg C m-2, which when considered at the Mediterranean scale would represent 11 to 42% of the CO2 emissions produced by Mediterranean countries since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The greatest value of the P. oceanica ecosystem, in the context of mitigation of global climate change, is linked to this vast long-term carbon stock accumulated over millennia, and therefore, efforts should be focused on preserving the meadows to keep this reservoir intact
Soliton classical dynamics in the sine-Gordon equation in terms of the massive Thirring model
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