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Study of a high performance evaporative heat transfer surface
An evaporative surface is described for heat pipes and other two-phase heat transfer applications that consists of a hybrid composition of V-grooves and capillary wicking. Characteristics of the surface include both a high heat transfer coefficient and high heat flux capability relative to conventional open-faced screw thread surfaces. With a groove density of 12.6 cm/1 and ammonia working fluid, heat transfer coefficients in the range of 1 to 2 W/sq cm have been measured along with maximum heat flux densities in excess of 20 W/sq cm. A peak heat transfer coefficient in excess of 2.3 W/sq cm was measured with a 37.8 cm/1 hybrid surface
Magnetic and electric properties in the distorted tetrahedral spin chain system Cu3Mo2O9
We study the multiferroic properties in the distorted tetrahedral quasi-one
dimensional spin system CuMoO, in which the effects of the low
dimensionality and the magnetic frustration are expected to appear
simultaneously. We clarify that the antiferromagnetic order is formed together
with ferroelectric properties at K under zero magnetic field
and obtain the magnetic-field-temperature phase diagram by measuring dielectric
constant and spontaneous electric polarization. It is found that the
antiferromagnetic phase possesses a spontaneous electric polarization parallel
to the c axis when the magnetic field is applied parallel to the a axis. On
the other hand, there are three different ferroelectric phases in the
antiferromagnetic phase for parallel to the c axis.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, LT26 proceedings, accepted for publication in J.
Phys.: Conf. Se
A Minimum-Labeling Approach for Reconstructing Protein Networks across Multiple Conditions
The sheer amounts of biological data that are generated in recent years have
driven the development of network analysis tools to facilitate the
interpretation and representation of these data. A fundamental challenge in
this domain is the reconstruction of a protein-protein subnetwork that
underlies a process of interest from a genome-wide screen of associated genes.
Despite intense work in this area, current algorithmic approaches are largely
limited to analyzing a single screen and are, thus, unable to account for
information on condition-specific genes, or reveal the dynamics (over time or
condition) of the process in question. Here we propose a novel formulation for
network reconstruction from multiple-condition data and devise an efficient
integer program solution for it. We apply our algorithm to analyze the response
to influenza infection in humans over time as well as to analyze a pair of ER
export related screens in humans. By comparing to an extant, single-condition
tool we demonstrate the power of our new approach in integrating data from
multiple conditions in a compact and coherent manner, capturing the dynamics of
the underlying processes.Comment: Peer-reviewed and presented as part of the 13th Workshop on
Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI2013
Liquid phase immunoassay utilizing magnetic marker and high Tc superconducting quantum interference device
We have developed a liquid phase immunoassay system utilizing a magnetic marker and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). In this system, the magnetic marker was used to detect the biological material called antigen. The magnetic marker was designed so as to generate a remanence, and the remanence field of the markers that bound to the antigens was measured with the SQUID. The measurement was performed in a solution that contained both the bound and free (or unbound) markers, i.e., without using the so-called bound/free (BF) separation process. The Brownian rotation of the free markers in the solution was used to distinguish the bound markers from the free ones. Using the system, we conducted the detection of biological material called IgE without BF separation. At present, we could detect the IgE down to 7 pg (or 39 amol
Electric polarization induced by Neel order without magnetic superlattice: experimental study of Cu3Mo2O9 and numerical study of a small spin cluster
We clarify that the antiferromagnetic order in the distorted tetrahedral
quasi-one dimensional spin system induces electric polarizations. In this
system, the effects of the low dimensionality and the magnetic frustration are
expected to appear simultaneously. We obtain the magnetic-field-temperature
phase diagram in Cu3Mo2O9 by studying the dielectric constant and the
spontaneous electric polarization. Around the tricritical point at 10 T and 8
K, the change of the direction in the electric polarization causes a colossal
magnetocapacitance. We calculate the charge redistribution in the small spin
cluster consisting of two magnetic tetrahedra to demonstrate the electric
polarization induced by the antiferromagnetism.Comment: 10 pages 6 figures, in press in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Neutral B Flavor Tagging for the Measurement of Mixing-induced CP Violation at Belle
We describe a flavor tagging algorithm used in measurements of the CP
violation parameter sin2phi_1 at the Belle experiment. Efficiencies and wrong
tag fractions are evaluated using flavor-specific B meson decays into hadronic
and semileptonic modes. We achieve a total effective efficiency of $ 28.8 +-
0.6 %.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figure
Flavour structure of low-energy hadron pair photoproduction
We consider the process where and
are either mesons or baryons. The experimental findings for such quantities as
the and differential cross sections, in the energy range
currently probed, are found often to be in disparity with the scaling behaviour
expected from hard constituent scattering. We discuss the long-distance
pole--resonance contribution in understanding the origin of these phenomena, as
well as the amplitude relations governing the short-distance contribution which
we model as a scaling contribution. When considering the latter, we argue that
the difference found for the and the integrated cross
sections can be attributed to the s-channel isovector component. This
corresponds to the subprocess in the VMD
(vector-meson-dominance) language. The ratio of the two cross sections is
enhanced by the suppression of the component, and is hence constrained.
We give similar constraints to a number of other hadron pair production
channels. After writing down the scaling and pole--resonance contributions
accordingly, the direct summation of the two contributions is found to
reproduce some salient features of the and data.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, revised version to be published in EPJ
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