152 research outputs found
Euler hydrodynamics of one-dimensional attractive particle systems
We consider attractive irreducible conservative particle systems on
, without necessarily nearest-neighbor jumps or explicit invariant
measures. We prove that for such systems, the hydrodynamic limit under Euler
time scaling exists and is given by the entropy solution to some scalar
conservation law with Lipschitz-continuous flux. Our approach is a
generalization of Bahadoran et al. [Stochastic Process. Appl. 99 (2002) 1--30],
from which we relax the assumption that the process has explicit invariant
measures.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000115 in the
Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Growth of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) seedling sown in soil mixed with nitrogen and natural zeolite
To determine the interaction of nitrogen and natural zeolite in culture medium on the vegetative growth of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) ‘Starlet’ a greenhouse experiment was conducted. A complete randomized design with factorial arrangements including two factors (nitrogen and zeolite) was employed for each treatment with four replications. Treatments of nitrogen were 0, 0.06 and 0.12 g kg-1 in the soil mixture and treatments of zeolite were 0, 10, 20 and 30 g kg-1 in the soil mixture. Application of zeolite and nitrogen had different effects on seedling height, fresh and dry weights of clippings before first, second and third mowings, chlorophyll and nitrogen content of clippings, and dry weights of roots. Adding zeolite at the rate of 30 g kg-1 and nitrogen at the rate of 0.12 g kg-1 to culture medium significantly increased the height of turf seedlings. It is concluded that zeolite could absorb and slowly release nitrogen to the culture medium
Effect of clopidol and amprolium/ethopabate on performance and intestinal morphology of chickens with experimental coccidiosis
Lagrangian phase transitions in nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems
In previous papers we have introduced a natural nonequilibrium free energy by
considering the functional describing the large fluctuations of stationary
nonequilibrium states. While in equilibrium this functional is always convex,
in nonequilibrium this is not necessarily the case. We show that in
nonequilibrium a new type of singularities can appear that are interpreted as
phase transitions. In particular, this phenomenon occurs for the
one-dimensional boundary driven weakly asymmetric exclusion process when the
drift due to the external field is opposite to the one due to the external
reservoirs, and strong enough.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Entropy of non-equilibrium stationary measures of boundary driven TASEP
Prova tipográficaWe examine the entropy of non-equilibrium stationary states of boundary driven totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes. As a consequence, we obtain that the Gibbs-Shannon entropy of the non equilibrium stationary state converges to the Gibbs-Shannon entropy of the local equilibrium state. Moreover, we prove that its fluctuations are Gaussian, except when the mean displacement of particles produced by the bulk dynamics agrees with the particle flux induced by the density reservoirs in the maximal phase regime.FCT, Égid
Protective effects of boron and vitamin E on ethylene glycol-induced renal crystal calcium deposition in rat
Objectives. Kidney stone disease is a common form of renal disease. Antioxidants, such as vitamin E (Vit E) and boron, are substances that reduce the damage caused by oxidation. Methods. Adult male rats were divided into 5 groups (n=6). In group 1, rats received standard food and water for 28 days (control group); in group 2, standard rodent food and water with 0.75 ethylene glycol/d (dissolved in drinking water) (EG Group); in group 3, similar to group 2, with 3 mg of boron/d (dissolved in water) (EG+B Group); in group 4, similar to group 2, with 200 IU of vitamin E injected intraperitoneally on the fi rst day and the 14th day, (EG+Vit E Group); in group 5, mix of groups 3 and 4, respectively (EG+B+Vit E Group). Results. Kidney sections showed that crystals in the EG group increased signifi cantly in comparison with the control group. Crystal calcium deposition score in groups of EG+B (160), EG+Vit E, and EG+B+Vit E showed a significant decrease compared to EG group. Measurement of the renal tubules area and renal tubular epithelial histological score showed the highest signifi cant dilation in the EG group. Tubular dilation in the EG+B+Vit E group decreased compared to the EG+B and EG+Vit E groups. Conclusions. Efficient effect of boron and Vit E supplements, separately and in combination, has a complimentary effect in protection against the formation of kidney stones, probably by decreasing oxidative stress. � 2016, De Gruyter Open Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Conditioned stochastic particle systems and integrable quantum spin systems
We consider from a microscopic perspective large deviation properties of
several stochastic interacting particle systems, using their mapping to
integrable quantum spin systems. A brief review of recent work is given and
several new results are presented: (i) For the general disordered symmectric
exclusion process (SEP) on some finite lattice conditioned on no jumps into
some absorbing sublattice and with initial Bernoulli product measure with
density we prove that the probability of no absorption event
up to microscopic time can be expressed in terms of the generating function
for the particle number of a SEP with particle injection and empty initial
lattice. Specifically, for the symmetric simple exclusion process on conditioned on no jumps into the origin we obtain the explicit first and
second order expansion in of and also to first order in
the optimal microscopic density profile under this conditioning. For the
disordered ASEP on the finite torus conditioned on a very large current we show
that the effective dynamics that optimally realizes this rare event does not
depend on the disorder, except for the time scale. For annihilating and
coalescing random walkers we obtain the generating function of the number of
annihilated particles up to time , which turns out to exhibit some universal
features.Comment: 25 page
Effect of protocatechuic acid on insulin responsiveness and inflammation in visceral adipose tissue from obese individuals: possible role for PTP1B
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