Is the transition redshift a new cosmological number?

Observations from Supernovae Type Ia (SNe Ia) provided strong evidence for an expanding accelerating Universe at intermediate redshifts. This means that the Universe underwent a transition from deceleration to acceleration phases at a transition redshift $z_t$ of the order unity whose value in principle depends on the cosmology as well as on the assumed gravitational theory. Since cosmological accelerating models endowed with a transition redshift are extremely degenerated, in principle, it is interesting to know whether the value of $z_t$ itself can be observationally used as a new cosmic discriminator. After a brief discussion of the potential dynamic role played by the transition redshift, it is argued that future observations combining SNe Ia, the line-of-sight (or "radial") baryon acoustic oscillations, the differential age of galaxies, as well as the redshift drift of the spectral lines may tightly constrain $z_t$, thereby helping to narrow the parameter space for the most realistic models describing the accelerating Universe.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures. Some discussions about how to estimate the transition redshift have been added. New data by Planck and H(z) data have been mentioned. New references have been adde

CALCOM'10 Sea Trial - field calibration data report

Rep 04/10 - SiPLAB November/2010The CALCOM'10 sea trial took place in a region SSE of Vilamoura from 22nd to 24th June to support WEAM & PHITOM projects. The rst day was devoted to equipment testing and calibration. The second and third days were devoted to eld calibration and underwater communications. This report refers to eld calibration data acquired 23rd June, Day 2, and 24th June, Day 3

Acoustic oceanographic buoy data report Makai Ex 2005

Rep 04/05 - SiPLAB 17/Nov/2005 UniversityIt is now well accepted in the underwater acoustic scientific community that below, say, 1 kHz acoustic propagation models are accurate enough to be able to predict the received acoustic field up to the point of allowing precise and reliable source tracking in range and depth with only limited environmental information. This results from a large number of studies both theoretical and with real data, carried out in the last 20 years. With the event of underwater communications and the necessity to increase the signal bandwidth for allowing higher communication rates, the frequency band of interest was raised to above 10 kHz. In this frequency band the detailed knowledge of the environment - acoustic signal interplay is reduced. The purpose of the MakaiEx sea trial is to acquire data in a complete range of frequencies from 500 Hz up to 50 kHz, for a variety of applications ranging from high-frequency tomography, coherent SISO and MIMO applications, vector - sensor, active and passive sonar, etc...The MakaiEx sea trial, that took place off Kauai I. from 15 September - 2 October, involved a large number of teams both from government and international laboratories, universities and private companies, from various countries. Each team focused on its specific set of objectives in relation with its equipment or scientific interest. The team from the University of Algarve (UALg) focused on the data acquired by their receiving Acoustic Oceanographic Buoy - version 2 (AOB2) during six deployments in the period 15 - 27 September. This report describes the AOB2 data set as well as all the related environmental and geometrical data relative to the AOB2 deployments. The material described herein represents a valuable data set for supporting the research objectives of projects NUACE1, namely to fulfill NUACE’s task 3 and 4 and RADAR2, namely its tasks 2 and 3 devoted to the developement and testing of a field of sonobuoys.This report presents the testing of the most recent version of the Acoustic Oceanographic Buoy (AOB) system and the results obtained during the Makai Ex sea trial. The MakaiEx sea trial took place off the west coast of Kauai I., Hawaii, USA, in the period September 15 - 27, 2005. The authors of this report would like to thank: • all the personnel involved, including R/V Kilo Moana crew • the scientist in charge Michael B. Porter • the University of Hawaii for its support • FCT (Portugal) for the funding provided under projects NUACE (POSI/CPS/47824/ 2002) and RADAR (POCTI/CTA/47719/2002). • ONR for the funding under ONR-IFO VSP grant # N00014-04-1-403

320g Ionization-Heat Cryogenic Detector for Dark Matter Search in the EDELWEISS Experiment

The EDELWEISS experiment used in 2001 a 320g heat-and-ionization cryogenic Ge detector operated in a low-background environment in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane for direct WIMP detection. This detector presents an increase of more than 4 times the mass of previous detectors. Calibrations of this detector are used to determine its energy resolution and fiducial volume, and to optimize the detector design for the 1kg phase of the EDELWEISS-I experiment. Analysis of the calibrations and characteristics of a first series of 320g-detectors are presented.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

An environmental equalizer for underwater acoustic communications Tested at Hydralab III

It is known that small changes in source and receiver locations can cause significant changes in underwater acoustic channel impulse responses. At HYDRALAB III an underwater acoustic experiment was conducted to show that a source depth-shift causes a frequency-shift in the channel impulse response and that such behavior can be used to implement an environmental-based equalizer for underwater communications that compensates for the performance loss due to the source depth-shift

The TV-APM interface: a web service for collaborative modeling

Current development of Internet access, together with available zero-cost Open Source applications (like, for instance, PHP, Python, etc.) can be integrated in order to minimize the constrains induced by the geographical separation of international centers, which collaborate in a given project. The advantage of such approach lies in the sharing of common analysis methods, without particular constrains to specific directions of analysis. The discussion presented in this paper describes the Time Variable Acoustic Propagation Model (TV-APM) web interface, which was created as a collaborative service of acoustic modeling for the participants of the PHITOM and UAN projects. This paper describes the general architecture of the interface, its current shortcomings and advantages, and presents a set of modeling results for short range acoustic propagation, which accounts for source–array and sea surface motion

Aumento da vida de prateleira de goiaba utilizando tratamento com radiação ionizante.

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Avaliação da hidratação de pastas cimentícias com elevados teores de adições minerais

O uso de adições minerais é uma prática comum na produção de materiais cimentícios. No entanto, a possibilidade de substituir elevados teores de cimento Portland por adições minerais em betões torna pertinente e necessário o estudo da interacção química dessas adições na hidratação conjunta com o cimento. Este artigo avalia a hidratação de misturas de cimento Portland e adições minerais, recorrendo a técnicas de TG/DTG, difracção de raios X e resistência à compressão. Foram analisadas substituições de 50% a 70% da massa de ligante (entendido como a soma do cimento e das adições minerais usadas) por combinações de cinzas volantes e metacaulino, tendo sido ainda avaliadas duas pastas sem adição mineral e duas pastas com a adição de cal. Os resultados demostram que as técnicas de TG/DTG e DRX são indicadas para avaliação da cinética das reacções de hidratação dos materiais cimentícios, sendo possível quantificar a forte redução nos teores de portlandite nas pastas hidratadas com adições minerais em comparação com aquelas sem a adição