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Investigation to determine the effects of long-term bed rest on G-tolerance and on psychomotor performance Final report
Prolonged bed rest effects on gravity tolerance and psychomotor performance of human
Contributions of the Ornamental Horticulture and Turfgrass Industry to the South Carolina Economy, 1999
Crop Production/Industries,
On the Dichotomy between the Nodal and Antinodal Excitations in High-temperature Superconductors
Angle-resolved photoemission data on optimally- and under-doped high
temperature superconductors reveal a dichotomy between the nodal and antinodal
electronic excitations. In this paper we propose an explanation of this unusual
phenomenon by employing the coupling between the quasiparticle and the
commensurate/incommensurate magnetic excitations.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
The prevalence of dust on the exoplanet HD 189733b from Hubble and Spitzer observations
The hot Jupiter HD189733b is the most extensively observed exoplanet. Its
atmosphere has been detected and characterised in transmission and eclipse
spectroscopy, and its phase curve measured at several wavelengths. This paper
brings together results of our campaign to obtain the complete transmission
spectrum of the atmosphere of this planet from UV to IR with HST, using STIS,
ACS and WFC3. We provide a new tabulation of the transmission spectrum across
the entire visible and IR range. The radius ratio in each wavelength band was
rederived to ensure a consistent treatment of the bulk transit parameters and
stellar limb-darkening. Special care was taken to correct for, and derive
realistic estimates of the uncertainties due to, both occulted and unocculted
star spots. The combined spectrum is very different from the predictions of
cloud-free models: it is dominated by Rayleigh scattering over the whole
visible and near infrared range, the only detected features being narrow Na and
K lines. We interpret this as the signature of a haze of condensate grains
extending over at least 5 scale heights. We show that a dust-dominated
atmosphere could also explain several puzzling features of the emission
spectrum and phase curves, including the large amplitude of the phase curve at
3.6um, the small hot-spot longitude shift and the hot mid-infrared emission
spectrum. We discuss possible compositions and derive some first-order
estimates for the properties of the putative condensate haze/clouds. We finish
by speculating that the dichotomy between the two observationally defined
classes of hot Jupiter atmospheres, of which HD189733b and HD209458b are the
prototypes, might not be whether they possess a temperature inversion, but
whether they are clear or dusty. We also consider the possibility of a
continuum of cloud properties between hot Jupiters, young Jupiters and L-type
brown dwarfs.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 31 pages, 19 figures, 8 table
Thermoelectricity in Nanowires: A Generic Model
By employing a Boltzmann transport equation and using an energy and size
dependent relaxation time () approximation (RTA), we evaluate
self-consistently the thermoelectric figure-of-merit of a quantum wire
with rectangular cross-section. The inferred shows abrupt enhancement in
comparison to its counterparts in bulk systems. Still, the estimated for
the representative BiTe nanowires and its dependence on wire parameters
deviate considerably from those predicted by the existing RTA models with a
constant . In addition, we address contribution of the higher energy
subbands to the transport phenomena, the effect of chemical potential tuning on
, and correlation of with quantum size effects (QSEs). The obtained
results are of general validity for a wide class of systems and may prove
useful in the ongoing development of the modern thermoelectric applications.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures; Dedicated to the memory of Amirkhan Qezell
Shifting of the magnetic resonance peak to lower energy in the superconducting state of underdoped YBa_2Cu_3O_{6.8}
Inelastic neutron scattering has been used to determine the dynamic spin
fluctuations in an underdoped high temperature superconductor YBCO_{6.8} single
crystal. The magnetic resonance, that occurs around 40 meV in overdoped
samples, is shifted to a lower energy, E_r= 34 meV. A constant ratio, , almost independent of the doping level, is found. According
to numerous theoretical approaches, this finding supports the idea that the
resonance energy is proportional (approximately twice) to the superconducting
gap.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Europhysics Lette
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