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Electron beam driven alkali metal atom source for loading a magneto-optical trap in a cryogenic environment
We present a versatile and compact electron beam driven source for alkali
metal atoms, which can be implemented in cryostats. With a heat load of less
than 10mW, the heat dissipation normalized to the atoms loaded into the
magneto-optical Trap (MOT), is about a factor 1000 smaller than for a typical
alkali metal dispenser. The measured linear scaling of the MOT loading rate
with electron current observed in the experiments, indicates that electron
stimulated desorption is the corresponding mechanism to release the atoms.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Textural Properties and Structure of Starch-Reinforced Surimi Gels as Affected by Heat-Setting
The gel forming behavior of red hake (Urophycis chuss) surimi with and without starch and its relationship to the structure of the gel matrix were studied. For surimi gels without starch, a combination of preheat- setting at 40 C and cooking at 90 C resulted in significantly greater gel strength than cooking alone. However, preheat - setting of gels containing wheat or potato starch had no significant effect on gel strength demonstrating an opposite trend in gel strength due to the differences in swelling power, water holding ability and gelatinization temperature between potato and wheat starches. This difference in gel forming behavior due to the sources of starch and heat- setting prior to cooking correlated with changes in the structure of the matrix as evidenced by the results of image analysis. An examination of the microstructure of the gel matrix by light and electron microscopy showed that the structural differences may be due to the different protein matrix density as reflected in the increased gel strength
Mechanical Stress Inference for Two Dimensional Cell Arrays
Many morphogenetic processes involve mechanical rearrangement of epithelial
tissues that is driven by precisely regulated cytoskeletal forces and cell
adhesion. The mechanical state of the cell and intercellular adhesion are not
only the targets of regulation, but are themselves likely signals that
coordinate developmental process. Yet, because it is difficult to directly
measure mechanical stress {\it in vivo} on sub-cellular scale, little is
understood about the role of mechanics of development. Here we present an
alternative approach which takes advantage of the recent progress in live
imaging of morphogenetic processes and uses computational analysis of high
resolution images of epithelial tissues to infer relative magnitude of forces
acting within and between cells. We model intracellular stress in terms of bulk
pressure and interfacial tension, allowing these parameters to vary from cell
to cell and from interface to interface. Assuming that epithelial cell layers
are close to mechanical equilibrium, we use the observed geometry of the two
dimensional cell array to infer interfacial tensions and intracellular
pressures. Here we present the mathematical formulation of the proposed
Mechanical Inverse method and apply it to the analysis of epithelial cell
layers observed at the onset of ventral furrow formation in the {\it
Drosophila} embryo and in the process of hair-cell determination in the avian
cochlea. The analysis reveals mechanical anisotropy in the former process and
mechanical heterogeneity, correlated with cell differentiation, in the latter
process. The method opens a way for quantitative and detailed experimental
tests of models of cell and tissue mechanics
New Class of Eigenstates in Generic Hamiltonian Systems
In mixed systems, besides regular and chaotic states, there are states
supported by the chaotic region mainly living in the vicinity of the hierarchy
of regular islands. We show that the fraction of these hierarchical states
scales as and relate the exponent to the
decay of the classical staying probability . This is
numerically confirmed for the kicked rotor by studying the influence of
hierarchical states on eigenfunction and level statistics.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett., to appea
A Closest Point Proposal for MCMC-based Probabilistic Surface Registration
We propose to view non-rigid surface registration as a probabilistic
inference problem. Given a target surface, we estimate the posterior
distribution of surface registrations. We demonstrate how the posterior
distribution can be used to build shape models that generalize better and show
how to visualize the uncertainty in the established correspondence.
Furthermore, in a reconstruction task, we show how to estimate the posterior
distribution of missing data without assuming a fixed point-to-point
correspondence.
We introduce the closest-point proposal for the Metropolis-Hastings
algorithm. Our proposal overcomes the limitation of slow convergence compared
to a random-walk strategy. As the algorithm decouples inference from modeling
the posterior using a propose-and-verify scheme, we show how to choose
different distance measures for the likelihood model.
All presented results are fully reproducible using publicly available data
and our open-source implementation of the registration framework
Bulk Metallic Glasses Deform via Slip Avalanches
Inelastic deformation of metallic glasses occurs via slip events with
avalanche dynamics similar to those of earthquakes. For the first time in these
materials, measurements have been obtained with sufficiently high temporal
resolution to extract both the exponents and the scaling functions that
describe the nature, statistics and dynamics of the slips according to a simple
mean-field model. These slips originate from localized deformation in shear
bands. The mean-field model describes the slip process as an avalanche of
rearrangements of atoms in shear transformation zones (STZs). Small slips show
the predicted power-law scaling and correspond to limited propagation of a
shear front, while large slips are associated with uniform shear on
unconstrained shear bands. The agreement between the model and data across
multiple independent measures of slip statistics and dynamics provides
compelling evidence for slip avalanches of STZs as the elementary mechanism of
inhomogeneous deformation in metallic glasses.Comment: Article: 11 pages, 4 figures, plus Supplementary Material: 16 pages,
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Mesoscopic structure and social aspects of human mobility
The individual movements of large numbers of people are important in many
contexts, from urban planning to disease spreading. Datasets that capture human
mobility are now available and many interesting features have been discovered,
including the ultra-slow spatial growth of individual mobility. However, the
detailed substructures and spatiotemporal flows of mobility - the sets and
sequences of visited locations - have not been well studied. We show that
individual mobility is dominated by small groups of frequently visited,
dynamically close locations, forming primary "habitats" capturing typical daily
activity, along with subsidiary habitats representing additional travel. These
habitats do not correspond to typical contexts such as home or work. The
temporal evolution of mobility within habitats, which constitutes most motion,
is universal across habitats and exhibits scaling patterns both distinct from
all previous observations and unpredicted by current models. The delay to enter
subsidiary habitats is a primary factor in the spatiotemporal growth of human
travel. Interestingly, habitats correlate with non-mobility dynamics such as
communication activity, implying that habitats may influence processes such as
information spreading and revealing new connections between human mobility and
social networks.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures (main text); 11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
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Co-localization of QTL for root traits under low phosphorus availability with candidate genes homologues to PSTOL1 in maize.
Universal Slip Dynamics in Metallic Glasses and Granular Matter – Linking Frictional Weakening with Inertial Effects
Slowly strained solids deform via intermittent slips that exhibit a material-independent critical size distribution. Here, by comparing two disparate systems - granular materials and bulk metallic glasses - we show evidence that not only the statistics of slips but also their dynamics are remarkably similar, i.e. independent of the microscopic details of the material. By resolving and comparing the full time evolution of avalanches in bulk metallic glasses and granular materials, we uncover a regime of universal deformation dynamics. We experimentally verify the predicted universal scaling functions for the dynamics of individual avalanches in both systems, and show that both the slip statistics and dynamics are independent of the scale and details of the material structure and interactions, thus settling a long-standing debate as to whether or not the claim of universality includes only the slip statistics or also the slip dynamics. The results imply that the frictional weakening in granular materials and the interplay of damping, weakening and inertial effects in bulk metallic glasses have strikingly similar effects on the slip dynamics. These results are important for transferring experimental results across scales and material structures in a single theory of deformation dynamics
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