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Sorting and transmission electron microscopy analysis of single or double wall carbon nanotubes
On the basis of the recent progress on the sorting of carbon nanotubesâ structure with respect to their diameter or number of walls, we investigate by transmission electron microscopy the sorting efficiency, with a comparison with optical absorption spectroscopy measurements. We study density gradient ultracentrifugation sorted single walled or double walled carbon nanotubes, showing obviously the ability to separate carbon nanotubes of different diameters or/and number of walls. This microscopic approach affords accurate information about the sorted samples such as the real mean diameter, the relative concentration of double walled carbon nanotubes over single walled carbon nanotubes, standard deviation, and the real diameter distribution of carbon nanotubes, even beyond any possible accurate analysis from optical absorption spectroscopy. Therefore, we demonstrate that the diameter analysis of the sorted samples by TEM can indeed afford some information about the relevant optical properties of carbon nanotubes
Pseudo-boundaries in discontinuous 2-dimensional maps
It is known that Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser boundaries appear in sufficiently
smooth 2-dimensional area-preserving maps. When such boundaries are destroyed,
they become pseudo-boundaries. We show that pseudo-boundaries can also be found
in discontinuous maps. The origin of these pseudo-boundaries are groups of
chains of islands which separate parts of the phase space and need to be
crossed in order to move between the different sub-spaces. Trajectories,
however, do not easily cross these chains, but tend to propagate along them.
This type of behavior is demonstrated using a ``generalized'' Fermi map.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Revtex, epsf, submitted to Physical Review E (as
a brief report
On Periods for String Compactifications
Motivated by recent developments in the computation of periods for string
compactifications with , we develop a complementary method which also
produces a convenient basis for related calculations. The models are realized
as Calabi--Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces of dimension four or
as Landau-Ginzburg vacua. The calculation reproduces known results and also
allows a treatment of Landau--Ginzburg orbifolds with more than five fields.Comment: HUPAPP-93/6, IASSNS-HEP-93/80, UTTG-27-93. 21 pages,harvma
Asymptotic Behavior of the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton System for a Closed Friedmann-Lemaitre Universe
We study the coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton (EYMD) equations for a
Fried\-mann-Le\-mai\-tre universe with constant curvature . Our detailed
analysis is restricted to the case where the dilaton potential and the
cosmological constant vanish. Also assuming a static gauge field, we present
analytical and numerical results on the behavior of solutions of the EYMD
equations. For different values of the dilaton coupling constant we analyze the
phase portrait for the time evolution of the dilaton field and give the
behavior of the scale factor. It turns out that there are no inflationary
stages in this model.Comment: 18 pages, Uuencoded gzip compressed tar file containing a latex file
and 12 figures. The epsfig.sty is neede
Poincar\'e recurrences in Hamiltonian systems with a few degrees of freedom
Hundred twenty years after the fundamental work of Poincar\'e, the statistics
of Poincar\'e recurrences in Hamiltonian systems with a few degrees of freedom
is studied by numerical simulations. The obtained results show that in a
regime, where the measure of stability islands is significant, the decay of
recurrences is characterized by a power law at asymptotically large times. The
exponent of this decay is found to be . This value is
smaller compared to the average exponent found previously
for two-dimensional symplectic maps with divided phase space. On the basis of
previous and present results a conjecture is put forward that, in a generic
case with a finite measure of stability islands, the Poncar\'e exponent has a
universal average value being independent of number of
degrees of freedom and chaos parameter. The detailed mechanisms of this slow
algebraic decay are still to be determined.Comment: revtex 4 pages, 4 figs; Refs. and discussion adde
Optimizing the colour and fabric of targets for the control of the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes
Background:
Most cases of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) start with a bite from one of the subspecies of Glossina fuscipes. Tsetse use a range of olfactory and visual stimuli to locate their hosts and this response can be exploited to lure tsetse to insecticide-treated targets thereby reducing transmission. To provide a rational basis for cost-effective designs of target, we undertook studies to identify the optimal target colour.
Methodology/Principal Findings:
On the Chamaunga islands of Lake Victoria , Kenya, studies were made of the numbers of G. fuscipes fuscipes attracted to targets consisting of a panel (25 cm square) of various coloured fabrics flanked by a panel (also 25 cm square) of fine black netting. Both panels were covered with an electrocuting grid to catch tsetse as they contacted the target. The reflectances of the 37 different-coloured cloth panels utilised in the study were measured spectrophotometrically. Catch was positively correlated with percentage reflectance at the blue (460 nm) wavelength and negatively correlated with reflectance at UV (360 nm) and green (520 nm) wavelengths. The best target was subjectively blue, with percentage reflectances of 3%, 29%, and 20% at 360 nm, 460 nm and 520 nm respectively. The worst target was also, subjectively, blue, but with high reflectances at UV (35% reflectance at 360 nm) wavelengths as well as blue (36% reflectance at 460 nm); the best low UV-reflecting blue caught 3Ă more tsetse than the high UV-reflecting blue.
Conclusions/Significance:
Insecticide-treated targets to control G. f. fuscipes should be blue with low reflectance in both the UV and green bands of the spectrum. Targets that are subjectively blue will perform poorly if they also reflect UV strongly. The selection of fabrics for targets should be guided by spectral analysis of the cloth across both the spectrum visible to humans and the UV region
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