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Report on a collecting trip of the British Myriapod Group to Hungary in 1994
During a collecting trip participated jointly by the members of the British Myriapod Group and by Hungarian
experts in 1994, 34 species of millipedes, 14 of centipedes, 8 of woodlice and 73 of spiders were recorded from
Hungary. Two records of the millipede species Boreoiulus tenuis (Bigler, 1913) and Styrioiulus styricus (Verhoeff,
1896) were new to the fauna of Hungary
Evidence for a dynamical ground state in the frustrated pyrohafnate Tb2Hf2O7
We report the physical properties of Tb2Hf2O7 based on ac magnetic
susceptibility \chi_ac(T), dc magnetic susceptibility \chi(T), isothermal
magnetization M(H), and heat capacity C_p(T) measurements combined with muon
spin relaxation (\muSR) and neutron powder diffraction measurements. No
evidence for long-range magnetic order is found down to 0.1 K. However,
\chi_ac(T) data present a frequency-dependent broad peak (near 0.9 K at 16 Hz)
indicating slow spin dynamics. The slow spin dynamics is further evidenced from
the \muSR data (characterized by a stretched exponential behavior) which show
persistent spin fluctuations down to 0.3 K. The neutron powder diffraction data
collected at 0.1 K show a broad peak of magnetic origin (diffuse scattering)
but no magnetic Bragg peaks. The analysis of the diffuse scattering data
reveals a dominant antiferromagnetic interaction in agreement with the negative
Weiss temperature. The absence of long-range magnetic order and the presence of
slow spin dynamics and persistent spin fluctuations together reflect a
dynamical ground state in Tb2Hf2O7.Comment: 11 pages and 8 figure
Anharmonic molecular mechanics: Ab initio based Morse parameterisations for the popular MM3 force field
Methodologies for creating reactive potential energy surfaces from molecular
mechanics force-fields are becoming increasingly popular. To date, molecular
mechanics force-fields use harmonic expressions to treat bonding stretches,
which is a poor approximation in reactive molecular dynamics simulations since
bonds are displaced significantly from their equilibrium positions. For such
applications there is need for a better treatment of anharmonicity. In this
contribution Morse bonding potentials have been extensively parameterised for
the atom types in the MM3 force field of Allinger and co-workers using high
level CCSD(T)(F12*) energies. To our knowledge this is the first instance of a
large-scale paramerization of Morse potentials in a popular force field
Injection into Supersonic Boundary Layers
A method for injection of gas into the boundary layer on a slender body in supersonic flow while minimizing perturbation to the mean flow is examined. Injection of gas is equivalent to a sudden increase in the displacement thickness of the boundary layer, which produces an oblique shock that propagates into the inviscid region of the flow. It is found that modification of the geometry of the body can compensate for the increased displacement thickness created by injection and minimize the production of oblique waves. However, the resulting near-wall injection layer is observed to be unstable and a turbulent boundary layer develops downstream of the injection region. The instability of the flow is examined experimentally using high-speed schlieren visualization and numerically using linear stability analysis of velocity profiles from a compressible Navier–Stokes computation. At the present postshock Mach number of about 3.8, both first- and second-mode instabilities are active, though computations predict that the first mode is primarily responsible for transition downstream of the injector
Nkx2.1 regulates the proliferation and cell fate of telencephalic astrocytes during embryonic development
AbstractThe homeodomain transcription factor Nkx2.1 controls cell differentiation of telencephalic GABAergic interneurons and oligodendrocytes. Here, we show that Nkx2.1 additionally regulates astrogliogenesis of the telencephalon from embryonic day (E) 14.5 to E16.5. Our work aims to identify the different mechanisms by which Nkx2.1 controls telencephalic astrogliogenesis. InNkx2.1-/-, a drastic loss of astrocytes is observed which is not related to cell death.In vivoanalysis using BrdU incorporation reveals that Nkx2.1 affects the proliferation of ventral neural stem cells that generate early astrocytes.In vitroneurosphere assays show that Nkx2.1 additionally affects the differentiation step of Nkx2.1-derived astrocytes. Chromatin immunoprecipitation andin vitroco-transfection studies of a Nkx2.1-expressing plasmid indicate that Nkx2.1 binds to the promoter of astroglial differentiation gene GFAP, and regulates its expression. Hence, Nkx2.1 controls astroglial production spatiotemporally in embryos by regulating stem cell division and specification of the contributing Nkx2.1+precursors.</jats:p
Predicting the Next Best View for 3D Mesh Refinement
3D reconstruction is a core task in many applications such as robot
navigation or sites inspections. Finding the best poses to capture part of the
scene is one of the most challenging topic that goes under the name of Next
Best View. Recently, many volumetric methods have been proposed; they choose
the Next Best View by reasoning over a 3D voxelized space and by finding which
pose minimizes the uncertainty decoded into the voxels. Such methods are
effective, but they do not scale well since the underlaying representation
requires a huge amount of memory. In this paper we propose a novel mesh-based
approach which focuses on the worst reconstructed region of the environment
mesh. We define a photo-consistent index to evaluate the 3D mesh accuracy, and
an energy function over the worst regions of the mesh which takes into account
the mutual parallax with respect to the previous cameras, the angle of
incidence of the viewing ray to the surface and the visibility of the region.
We test our approach over a well known dataset and achieve state-of-the-art
results.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, to be published in IAS-1
The Optimal Control Landscape for the Generation of Unitary Transformations with Constrained Dynamics
The reliable and precise generation of quantum unitary transformations is
essential to the realization of a number of fundamental objectives, such as
quantum control and quantum information processing. Prior work has explored the
optimal control problem of generating such unitary transformations as a surface
optimization problem over the quantum control landscape, defined as a metric
for realizing a desired unitary transformation as a function of the control
variables. It was found that under the assumption of non-dissipative and
controllable dynamics, the landscape topology is trap-free, implying that any
reasonable optimization heuristic should be able to identify globally optimal
solutions. The present work is a control landscape analysis incorporating
specific constraints in the Hamiltonian corresponding to certain dynamical
symmetries in the underlying physical system. It is found that the presence of
such symmetries does not destroy the trap-free topology. These findings expand
the class of quantum dynamical systems on which control problems are
intrinsically amenable to solution by optimal control.Comment: Submitted to Journal of Mathematical Physic
Coherent control using adaptive learning algorithms
We have constructed an automated learning apparatus to control quantum
systems. By directing intense shaped ultrafast laser pulses into a variety of
samples and using a measurement of the system as a feedback signal, we are able
to reshape the laser pulses to direct the system into a desired state. The
feedback signal is the input to an adaptive learning algorithm. This algorithm
programs a computer-controlled, acousto-optic modulator pulse shaper. The
learning algorithm generates new shaped laser pulses based on the success of
previous pulses in achieving a predetermined goal.Comment: 19 pages (including 14 figures), REVTeX 3.1, updated conten
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