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Giant Magnons and Spiky Strings on S^3 with B-field
We study solutions for a rotating string on S^3 with a background NS-NS
B-field and show the existence of spiky string and giant magnon as two limiting
solutions. We make a connection to the sine-Gordon model via the Polyakov
worldsheet action and study the effect of B-field. In particular, we find the
magnon solution can be mapped to the excitation of a fractional spin chain. We
conjecture a B-deformed SYM to be the gauge theory dual to this background.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures, more references adde
PERFORMANCE OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INDICES DURING MARKET CRISIS IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE
This paper investigates whether socially responsible investment indices in the United States, Canada, the Eurozone and the United Kingdom provide downside protection during market crisis when compared to their respective market indices. Socially responsible investment indices in US and Canada perform similarly to their market indices during market crisis periods between 2000 and 2014, offering neither downside protection nor excess return in overall market conditions.
In Eurozone, the socially responsible investment index we selected performs worse than their market index during both the Financial Crisis and the Euro Crisis but not during the Tech Bubble. In the United Kingdom, socially responsible investment index underperforms its respective market index during all crisis periods, including the Tech Bubble, Financial Crisis and the Euro Crisis but outperforms during non-crisis periods. Overall, we do not find that SRI indices offer downmarket protection in North America and Europe
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First principle study of transition metal oxide (catalytic) electrodes for electrochemical energy technologies
TTo fulfill the needs for developing the alternative energy technologies, searching for the adequate electrode materials which catalyze the electrochemical reactions utilized in devices such as fuel cell, Li-ion batteries, and related applications such as hydrogen generation and storage, has been a longstanding challenge. Among various catalysts, transition metal oxides (TMO) draw great attentions due to their low-cost, high stability, and, most importantly, a great variety of structures and electrical properties. Nonetheless, studying electrochemical reactions catalyzed by TMO is a challenging task due to the possible multivalent systems, flexible coordinations of lattice atoms, adjustable surface structures and diverse surface species. In the past decades, many innovative approaches have been explored with encouraging results; however, the mechanisms of incorporating the bulk/surface TMO structures in various chemical reactions still remain unclear. In this dissertation, using quantum mechanical calculations, we attempt to improve the fundamental understandings of how structures and electronic properties of TMO materials facilitate the electrochemical reactions of interest. To identify the possible causes for CuO and Cu structures having different selectivity in catalysis, in Chapter 3, we study the CO₂ reduction reaction (CO2RR) catalyzed by CuO (111) surface structure, and compare the results with the more widely studied Cu (100) surface. The roles played by the electronic properties of two materials in their selectivity are elucidated. In Chapter 4 and 5, we study the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for LiCoO₂ surface structure. The structures and stabilities of Li-, O-, and H-terminated surface are investigated comprehensively. Based on the results, the formation of H-terminated surface results from Li/H exchange at the solid/liquid interface is proposed (Chapter 4). Along with the findings, we explore the possible mechanisms for the OER for non-metal terminated LiCoO₂ surface (Chapter 5). In Chapter 6, we study the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for Co₃O₄ (111) H-terminated surface structure. The possible reaction steps for both four-electron and two-electron pathway are investigated. In Chapter 7, the PO₄-decicient LiFePO₄/FePO₄ structures are investigated to understand how the presence of polyanion defects in the matrices could potentially improve the performance of the materials as electrodes in Li-ion batteries.Materials Science and Engineerin
Fluxon Dynamics of a Long Josephson Junction with Two-gap Superconductors
We investigate the phase dynamics of a long Josephson junction (LJJ) with
two-gap superconductors. In this junction, two channels for tunneling between
the adjacent superconductor (S) layers as well as one interband channel within
each S layer are available for a Cooper pair. Due to the interplay between the
conventional and interband Josephson effects, the LJJ can exhibit unusual phase
dynamics. Accounting for excitation of a stable 2-phase texture arising
from the interband Josephson effect, we find that the critical current between
the S layers may become both spatially and temporally modulated. The spatial
critical current modulation behaves as either a potential well or barrier,
depending on the symmetry of superconducting order parameter, and modifies the
Josephson vortex trajectories. We find that these changes in phase dynamics
result in emission of electromagnetic waves as the Josephson vortex passes
through the region of the 2-phase texture. We discuss the effects of this
radiation emission on the current-voltage characteristics of the junction.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Phenotype-based and Self-learning Inter-individual Sleep Apnea Screening with a Level IV Monitoring System
Purpose: We propose a phenotype-based artificial intelligence system that can
self-learn and is accurate for screening purposes, and test it on a Level IV
monitoring system. Methods: Based on the physiological knowledge, we
hypothesize that the phenotype information will allow us to find subjects from
a well-annotated database that share similar sleep apnea patterns. Therefore,
for a new-arriving subject, we can establish a prediction model from the
existing database that is adaptive to the subject. We test the proposed
algorithm on a database consisting of 62 subjects with the signals recorded
from a Level IV wearable device measuring the thoracic and abdominal movements
and the SpO2. Results: With the leave-one cross validation, the accuracy of the
proposed algorithm to screen subjects with an apnea-hypopnea index greater or
equal to 15 is 93.6%, the positive likelihood ratio is 6.8, and the negative
likelihood ratio is 0.03. Conclusion: The results confirm the hypothesis and
show that the proposed algorithm has great potential to screen patients with
SAS
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