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Renormalization of the EWCL and its Application to LEP2
We perform a systematic one-loop renormalization on the electroweak chiral
Lagrangian (EWCL) up to operators and construct the renormalization
group equations (RGE) for the anomalous couplings. We examine the impact of the
triple gauge coupling (TGC) measurement from LEP2 to the uncertainty of the
parameter at the , and find that the uncertainty in the
TGC measurements can shift at least .Comment: 4 pages, 1 eps figure, uses ws-ijmpa.cls. Paralell talk given at
"International Conference on QCD and hadronic Physics", Beijing, China, 16-20
June, 200
Regional estimation of daily to annual regional evapotranspiration with MODIS data in the Yellow River Delta wetland
Evapotranspiration (ET) from the wetland of the Yellow River Delta (YRD) is one of the important components in the water cycle, which represents the water consumption by the plants and evaporation from the water and the non-vegetated surfaces. Reliable estimates of the total evapotranspiration from the wetland is useful information both for understanding the hydrological process and for water management to protect this natural environment. Due to the heterogeneity of the vegetation types and canopy density and of soil water content over the wetland (specifically over the natural reserve areas), it is difficult to estimate the regional evapotranspiration extrapolating measurements or calculations usually done locally for a specific land cover type. Remote sensing can provide observations of land surface conditions with high spatial and temporal resolution and coverage. In this study, a model based on the Energy Balance method was used to calculate daily evapotranspiration (ET) using instantaneous observations of land surface reflectance and temperature from MODIS when the data were available on clouds-free days. A time series analysis algorithm was then applied to generate a time series of daily ET over a year period by filling the gaps in the observation series due to clouds. A detailed vegetation classification map was used to help identifying areas of various wetland vegetation types in the YRD wetland. Such information was also used to improve the parameterizations in the energy balance model to improve the accuracy of ET estimates. This study showed that spatial variation of ET was significant over the same vegetation class at a given time and over different vegetation types in different seasons in the YRD wetlan
Quasifinite representations of classical Lie subalgebras of W_{1+infty}
We show that there are precisely two, up to conjugation, anti-involutions
sigma_{\pm} of the algebra of differential operators on the circle preserving
the principal gradation. We classify the irreducible quasifinite highest weight
representations of the central extension \hat{D}^{\pm} of the Lie subalgebra of
this algebra fixed by - sigma_{\pm}, and find the unitary ones.
We realize them in terms of highest weight representations of the central
extension of the Lie algebra of infinite matrices with finitely many non-zero
diagonals over the truncated polynomial algebra C[u] / (u^{m+1}) and its
classical Lie subalgebras of B, C and D types. Character formulas for positive
primitive representations of \hat{D}^{\pm} (including all the unitary ones) are
obtained. We also realize a class of primitive representations of \hat{D}^{\pm}
in terms of free fields and establish a number of duality results between these
primitive representations and finite-dimensional irreducible representations of
finite-dimensional Lie groups and supergroups. We show that the vacuum module
V_c of \hat{D}^+ carries a vertex algebra structure and establish a
relationship between V_c for half-integral central charge c and W-algebras.Comment: Latex, 77 page
Signature of a universal statistical description for drift-wave plasma turbulence
This Letter provides a theoretical interpretation of numerically generated
probability density functions (PDFs) of intermittent plasma transport events.
Specifically, nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of ion-temperature-gradient
turbulence produce time series of heat flux which exhibit manifestly
non-Gaussian PDFs with enhanced tails. It is demonstrated that, after the
removal of autocorrelations, the numerical PDFs can be matched with predictions
from a fluid theoretical setup, based on the instanton method. This result
points to a universality in the modeling of intermittent stochastic process,
offering predictive capability.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Detection of selfish manipulation of carrier sensing in 802.11 networks
Recently, tuning the clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold in conjunction with power control has been considered for improving the performance of WLANs. However, we show that, CCA tuning can be exploited by selfish nodes to obtain an unfair share of the available bandwidth. Specifically, a selfish entity can manipulate the CCA threshold to ignore ongoing transmissions; this increases the probability of accessing the medium and provides the entity a higher, unfair share of the bandwidth. We experiment on our 802.11 testbed to characterize the effects of CCA tuning on both isolated links and in 802.11 WLAN configurations. We focus on AP-client(s) configurations, proposing a novel approach to detect this misbehavior. A misbehaving client is unlikely to recognize low power receptions as legitimate packets; by intelligently sending low power probe messages, an AP can efficiently detect a misbehaving node. Our key contributions are: 1) We are the first to quantify the impact of selfish CCA tuning via extensive experimentation on various 802.11 configurations. 2) We propose a lightweight scheme for detecting selfish nodes that inappropriately increase their CCAs. 3) We extensively evaluate our system on our testbed; its accuracy is 95 percent while the false positive rate is less than 5 percent. © 2012 IEEE
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