Time Dependent Local Field Distribution and Metastable States in the SK-Spin-Glass

Different sets of metastable states can be reached in glassy systems below some transition temperature depending on initial conditions and details of the dynamics. This is investigated for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model with long ranged interactions. In particular, the time dependent local field distribution and energy are calculated for zero temperature. This is done for a system quenched to zero temperature, slow cooling or simulated annealing, a greedy algorithm and repeated tapping. Results are obtained from Monte-Carlo simulations and a Master-Fokker-Planck approach. A comparison with replica symmetry broken theory, evaluated in high orders, shows that the energies obtained via dynamics are higher than the ground state energy of replica theory. Tapping and simulated annealing yield on the other hand results which are very close to the ground state energy. The local field distribution tends to zero for small fields. This is in contrast to the Edwards flat measure hypothesis. The distribution of energies obtained for different tapping strengths does again not follow the canonical form proposed by Edwards.Comment: Minor changes and journal reference added. 10 pages 6 figure

Some investigations of refractory metal systems of thermionic interest

Investigating interdiffusion of W-Ta, W-Mo, and W-Nb systems in refractory temperature rang

Modeling Cle Elum Reservoir Shoreline Erosion: GIS Analysis to Support Cultural and Environmental Resource Management, Yakima Basin, Washington

In the Yakima Basin, managers are expanding reservoirs including Cle Elum Lake to increase the availability of water. The objective of this study was to examine areas prone to further shoreline erosion to inform resource management. This research included the use of airphotos and fieldwork to identify erosional shorelines. Erosion was verified in the field using a video survey as well as indicators such as shoreline slope, sediment size, and nearshore width. Near-term erosional segments were identified by more rapidly receding bluffs while long-term erosional segments included both bedrock cliffs and bluffs. Although most of the shoreline is depositional, near-term bluff erosion is most prevalent along the southeastern and northeastern shorelines while long-term erosion is mainly along the northwestern and southeastern shorelines. Potential erosion control variables were identified in the scientific literature and data representing them were acquired from fieldwork and outside sources. Geologic units and slope intervals are statistically significant variables in shoreline erosion. In the near-term shoreline erosion inventory, low bluffs with sandstone substrates make the largest contribution to the relationship between geologic units and erosional segments. An extensive cliff formed of intrusive igneous rocks is important to the relationship between geologic unit and long-term erosion. Although the nearshore and foreshore zones are largely below 36° reflecting the glacial origins of this basin, intermediate slopes between 11° and 36° and steep slopes between 37° - 49° are mainly responsible for the link between slope intervals and both bluff and cliff erosion. A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) model used these factors to predict relatively limited areas highly susceptible to future erosion, with near-term erosion risk mainly on the eastern and southwestern lakeshore while the southeastern and northwestern shoreline are most susceptible over the long-term. The product of this analysis were hazard maps indicating the relative risk of shoreline erosion. These maps formed the basis of policy recommendations including increased shoreline protection along southeastern shoreline and the implementation of a long-term monitoring program for shoreline erosion to support the management of cultural resources

Tertiary lake sedimentation in the Elko Formation, Nevada -- the evolution of a small lake system in an extensional setting

Includes bibliographical references.2015 Fall.The Lower to Middle Eocene Elko Formation of northeastern Nevada consists of basal coarse-grained siliciclastics and carbonates which are overlain by an organic-rich succession consisting of fine-grained siliciclastics, in places with fine-grained carbonates, and fine- to coarse-grained volcaniclastics at the top. Based on lithological and sedimentological characteristics in four documented localities arranged along a north-south transect, the succession shows fourteen facies, which are grouped into five facies associations (FAs): Siliciclastic mudstones and conglomerates (FA1); Massive coal-rich mudstones (FA2); Microbial-mat-bearing mudstones and carbonates (FA3); Microbial-mat-bearing mudstones and volcaniclastics (FA4); Carbonates and volcaniclastics (FA5). The succession is interpreted to reflect deposition in a broad continental-lacustrine setting. FA1 rocks record sedimentation in the most proximal environment, consisting of alluvial-fluvial sedimentation. FA2 rocks reflect deposition in a marginal low-energy swamp environment, while FA3 rocks denote "open-water" lacustrine sedimentation in a limnetic setting that was highly sensitive to lake-level fluctuations. FA4 rocks record the onset of extrabasinal airfall tuff in the limnetic portion of the lake, and FA5 rocks record volcaniclastic sedimentation outpacing subsidence in the lake, ultimately "filling" up available accommodation space and ending lacustrine sedimentation. The studied succession is subdivided into four vaguely chronostratigraphic intervals referred to as Stratigraphic Intervals 1 to 4, which record a lake system with significant lateral changes in accommodation space and resulting facies patterns in a north to south progression through time. Based on two recent 40Ar/39Ar dates and four previous radiometric age dates, the northern outcrop, which is significantly older than the central and southern ones, records initial subsidence and the onset of lake sedimentation (Stratigraphic Interval 1). Subsidence varied over time causing the lacustrine depocenter and limnetic depozone to progressively shift southwards (Stratigraphic Intervals 2 through 4). Black shale source rocks in the measured sections therefore occur along the entire north-south transect of the studied lacustrine system, yet they represent rocks of different ages not correlatable throughout the Elko Formation. Coeval volcanism, which led to increased volcaniclastic sediment supply, followed black shale deposition and contributed to the north-south "filling in" of the lake system, ultimately culminating with the end of lacustrine sedimentation around 37.5 Ma. The Elko Formation black shales have high source rock potential as an unconventional resource play, as their organic content consists almost entirely of Type-I (oil prone) kerogen. Contrary to deep-water, thermally-stratified anoxic-lake source rock models, long considered to be the only environments in which significant organic-matter preservation may have occurred, this study provides evidence for black shale deposition in the Elko lake to have occurred within a "shallow," mostly oxic environment in the photic zone. Further, this research indicates that depositional environments in lacustrine settings may be scale-dependent. The Elko Formation is not merely a scaled-down version of large-lake systems, such as that in which the Green River Formation formed, but a unique type of system with its own set of controls. With increased industry attention being placed on this potential lacustrine petroleum system, this study provides a new source rock model, as well as a temporal and spatial framework to be used as a predictive tool for the identification of rich source rock intervals in the Elko Basin

Calcium Oxalate Crystals in Developing Seeds of Soybean

Young developing soybean seeds contain relatively large amounts of calcium oxalate (CaOx) monohydrate crystals. A test for Ca and CaOx indicated that Ca deposits and crystals initially occurred in the funiculus, where a single vascular bundle enters the seed. Crystals formed in the integuments until the embryo enlarged enough to crush the inner portion of the inner integument. Crystals then appeared in the developing cotyledon tissues and embryo axis. All crystals formed in cell vacuoles. Dense bodies and membrane complexes were evident in the funiculus. In the inner integument, cell vacuoles assumed the shape of the future crystals. This presumed predetermined crystal mould is reported here for the first time for soybean seeds. As crystals in each tissue near maturity, a wall forms around each crystal. This intracellular crystal wall becomes contiguous with the cell wall. Integument crystals remain visible until the enlarging embryo crushes the integuments; the crystals then disappear. A related study revealed that the highest percent of oxalate by dry mass was reached in the developing +16 d (post-fertilization) seeds, and then decreased during late seed maturation. At +60 d, CaOx formation and disappearance are an integral part of developing soybean seeds. Our results suggest that Ca deposits and crystals functionally serve as Ca storage for the rapidly enlarging embryos. The oxalate, derived from one or more possible metabolic pathways, could be involved in seed storage protein synthesis

On-Line Learning with Restricted Training Sets: An Exactly Solvable Case

We solve the dynamics of on-line Hebbian learning in large perceptrons exactly, for the regime where the size of the training set scales linearly with the number of inputs. We consider both noiseless and noisy teachers. Our calculation cannot be extended to non-Hebbian rules, but the solution provides a convenient and welcome benchmark with which to test more general and advanced theories for solving the dynamics of learning with restricted training sets.Comment: 19 pages, eps figures included, uses epsfig macr

Adding Function-Based Behavioral Support to First Step to Success: Integrating Individualized and Manualized Practices

This study investigated the effects of adding individualized, function-based support to the well-documented early intervention, First Step to Success. A single-subject multiple-baseline design was applied across three, K-1 students who did not respond to standard First Step to Success procedures. A functional behavioral assessment and individualized function-based support plan was added to the First Step protocol. The multiple baseline analysis documented an effect between adding individualized, function-based supports to the standard First Step program and both (a) a decrease in problem behavior and (b) an increase in academic engagement. Implications of the results are provided for the design of school-based behavior support, implementation of First Step to Success, and applications of manualized interventions

Quantitative determination of calcium oxalate and oxalate in developing seeds of soybean (Leguminosae)

Developing soybean seeds accumulate very large amounts of both soluble oxalate and insoluble crystalline calcium (Ca) oxalate. Use of two methods of detection for the determination of total, soluble, and insoluble oxalate revealed that at +16 d postfertilization, the seeds were 24% dry mass of oxalate, and three-fourths of this oxalate (18%) was bound Ca oxalate. During later seed development, the dry mass of oxalate decreased. Crystals were isolated from the seeds, and X-ray diffraction and polarizing microscopy identified them as Ca oxalate monohydrate. These crystals were a mixture of kinked and straight prismatics. Even though certain plant tissues are known to contain significant amounts of oxalate and Ca oxalate during certain periods of growth, the accumulation of oxalate during soybean seed development was surprising and raises interesting questions regarding its function

Discovery of a very X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z=0.89 in the WARPS survey

We report the discovery of the galaxy cluster ClJ1226.9+3332 in the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS). At z=0.888 and L_X=1.1e45 erg/s (0.5-2.0 keV, h_0=0.5) ClJ1226.9+3332 is the most distant X-ray luminous cluster currently known. The mere existence of this system represents a huge problem for Omega_0=1 world models. At the modest (off-axis) resolution of the ROSAT PSPC observation in which the system was detected, ClJ1226.9+3332 appears relaxed; an off-axis HRI observation confirms this impression and rules out significant contamination from point sources. However, in moderately deep optical images (R and I band) the cluster exhibits signs of substructure in its apparent galaxy distribution. A first crude estimate of the velocity dispersion of the cluster galaxies based on six redshifts yields a high value of 1650 km/s, indicative of a very massive cluster and/or the presence of substructure along the line of sight. While a more accurate assessment of the dynamical state of this system requires much better data at both optical and X-ray wavelengths, the high mass of the cluster has already been unambiguously confirmed by a very strong detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in its direction (Joy et al. 2001). Using ClJ1226.9+3332 and ClJ0152.7-1357 (z=0.835), the second-most distant X-ray luminous cluster currently known and also a WARPS discovery, we obtain a first estimate of the cluster X-ray luminosity function at 0.8<z<1.4 and L_X>5e44 erg/s. Using the best currently available data, we find the comoving space density of very distant, massive clusters to be in excellent agreement with the value measured locally (z<0.3), and conclude that negative evolution is not required at these luminosities out to z~1. (truncated)Comment: accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 6 pages, 2 figures, uses emulateapj.st

Thermodynamic description of a dynamical glassy transition

For the dynamical glassy transition in the $p$-spin mean field spin glass model a thermodynamic description is given. The often considered marginal states are not the relevant ones for this purpose. This leads to consider a cooling experiment on exponential timescales, where lower states are accessed. The very slow configurational modes are at quasi-equilibrium at an effective temperature. A system independent law is derived that expresses their contribution to the specific heat. $t/t_w$-scaling in the aging regime of two-time quantities is explained.Comment: 5 pages revte