80 research outputs found
Fractal Properties of Robust Strange Nonchaotic Attractors in Maps of Two or More Dimensions
We consider the existence of robust strange nonchaotic attractors (SNA's) in
a simple class of quasiperiodically forced systems. Rigorous results are
presented demonstrating that the resulting attractors are strange in the sense
that their box-counting dimension is N+1 while their information dimension is
N. We also show how these properties are manifested in numerical experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 14 figure
Controlling Physical Systems with Symmetries
Symmetry properties of the evolution equation and the state to be controlled
are shown to determine the basic features of the linear control of unstable
orbits. In particular, the selection of control parameters and their minimal
number are determined by the irreducible representations of the symmetry group
of the linearization about the orbit to be controlled. We use the general
results to demonstrate the effect of symmetry on the control of two sample
physical systems: a coupled map lattice and a particle in a symmetric
potential.Comment: 6 page
Quasi-point separation of variables for the Henon-Heiles system and a system with quartic potential
We examine the problem of integrability of two-dimensional Hamiltonian
systems by means of separation of variables. The systematic approach to
construction of the special non-pure coordinate separation of variables for
certain natural two-dimensional Hamiltonians is presented. The relations with
SUSY quantum mechanics are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, Late
Trust your guts? The effect of gut section on diet composition and impact of Mus musculus on islands using metabarcoding
Research Article1. DNA metabarcoding is widely used to characterize the diet of species, and it becomes
very relevant for biodiversity conservation, allowing the understanding
of trophic chains and the impact of invasive species. The need for cost-effective
biodiversity monitoring methods fostered advances in this technique. One question
that arises is which sample type provides a better diet representation.
2. Therefore, with this study, we intended to evaluate if there were differences
in diet estimates according to the section of the gastrointestinal tract analysed
and which section(s) provided the best diet representation. Additionally, we intended
to infer the ecological/economic impacts of an invader as a model of the
potential effects in an originally mammal-free
ecosystem.
3. We examined the gut contents of the house mouse Mus musculus introduced to
Cabo Verde, considering three sections: stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.
We applied a DNA-metabarcoding
approach using two genetic markers,
one specific for plants and another for invertebrates.
4. We showed that this invader consumed 131 taxa (73 plants and 58 invertebrates).
We obtained significant differences in the composition of two of the three sections,
with a higher incidence of invertebrates in the stomach and plants in the
intestines. This may be due to stomach inhibitors acting on plants and/or to faster
absorption of soft-body
invertebrates compared to the plant fibers in the intestines.
We verified that the impact of this invader in the ecosystem is predominantly
negative, as at least 50% of the ingested items were native, endemic, or
economically important taxa, and only 19% of the diet items were exotics 5. Overall, results showed the need to analyse only two gastrointestinal tract sections
to obtain robust diet data, increasing the cost-effectiveness
of the method.
Furthermore, by uncovering the native taxa most frequently preyed on by mice,
this DNA-metabarcoding
approach allowed us to evaluate efficiently which are
at the highest riskinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
A pantropical population genetics study on cashew crop: uncovering genetic diversity and agrobiodiversity hotspots
XIX ENBE Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology, 18-19 December 2023, Lisboninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Fractalization of Torus Revisited as a Strange Nonchaotic Attractor
Fractalization of torus and its transition to chaos in a quasi-periodically
forced logistic map is re-investigated in relation with a strange nonchaotic
attractor, with the aid of functional equation for the invariant curve.
Existence of fractal torus in an interval in parameter space is confirmed by
the length and the number of extrema of the torus attractor, as well as the
Fourier mode analysis. Mechanisms of the onset of fractal torus and the
transition to chaos are studied in connection with the intermittency.Comment: Latex file ( figures will be sent electronically upon
request):submitted to Phys.Rev. E (1996
Molecular assessment of cashew diversity unravels distinctive differentiation routes in CPLP countries
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Stochastic to deterministic crossover of fractal dimension for a Langevin equation
Using algorithms of Higuchi and of Grassberger and Procaccia, we study
numerically how fractal dimensions cross over from finite-dimensional Brownian
noise at short time scales to finite values of deterministic chaos at longer
time scales for data generated from a Langevin equation that has a strange
attractor in the limit of zero noise. Our results suggest that the crossover
occurs at such short time scales that there is little chance of
finite-dimensional Brownian noise being incorrectly identified as deterministic
chaos.Comment: 12 pages including 3 figures, RevTex and epsf. To appear Phys. Rev.
E, April, 199
Food security and nutrition in Mozambique: comparative study with bean species commercialised in informal markets
In Mozambique (South-eastern Africa), Phaseolus vulgaris and Vigna spp. are important
staple foods and a major source of dietary protein for local populations, particularly for people
living in rural areas who lack the financial capacity to include meat in their daily dietary options.
This study focuses on the potential for improving diets with locally produced nutritious legumes
whilst increasing food security and income generation among smallholder farmers. Using bean
species and varieties commercialised as dry legumes in the country, it sets out to characterize and
compare the chemical properties of Phaseolus vulgaris and Vigna spp. among the most commercialised
dry legume groups in Mozambique. The principal component analysis showed a clear separation
between Phaseolus and Vigna species in terms of proximate composition, whereas protein content was
quite uniform in both groups. It concludes that the introduction of improved cultivars of Phaseolus
vulgaris and Vigna species maize–legume intercropping benefits yield, diets and increases household
income with limited and low-cost inputs while enhancing the resilience of smallholder farmers in
vulnerable production systems affected by recurrent drought and the supply of legumes to urban
informal marketsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Intermittency transitions to strange nonchaotic attractors in a quasiperiodically driven Duffing oscillator
Different mechanisms for the creation of strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs)
are studied in a two-frequency parametrically driven Duffing oscillator. We
focus on intermittency transitions in particular, and show that SNAs in this
system are created through quasiperiodic saddle-node bifurcations (Type-I
intermittency) as well as through a quasiperiodic subharmonic bifurcation
(Type-III intermittency). The intermittent attractors are characterized via a
number of Lyapunov measures including the behavior of the largest nontrivial
Lyapunov exponent and its variance as well as through distributions of
finite-time Lyapunov exponents. These attractors are ubiquitous in
quasiperiodically driven systems; the regions of occurrence of various SNAs are
identified in a phase diagram of the Duffing system.Comment: 24 pages, RevTeX 4, 12 EPS figure
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