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Analyzing Chinaâs contributions to major dermatologic journals from the past 20 years
Background: Over the past 20 years, China has experienced an increased popularity of Western medicine. The impact of Western medicine in China on the field of dermatology is not well characterized. Objective: To assess the impact China has had on the field of dermatology by analyzing the total publications to six dermatological journals, compared to two other Asian countries: Japan and Korea. Methods: PubMed was utilized to search for publications from China, Japan, and Korea within the past 20 years. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the average percentage change in publications during this 20-year period, and the average annual increase in total number of publications from each country. Comparisons were made using one-way ANOVA and two-group t-tests. Results: From 1998 to 2019, there was a 24% average annual increase in publications from China (M=24.4, SD=24.5), compared to a 6% increase from Japan (M=5.6, SD=25.4, P=0.02) and 8% increase from Korea (M=7.8, SD=23.4, P=0.03). Conclusion: For the past 20 years, there has been a strong positive trend regarding the total number of publications from China. This finding might be related in part to an increased acceptance of Western medicine, which follows a similar trend during the time period we analyzed
Statistical modelling for prediction of axis-switching in rectangular jets
Rectangular nozzles are increasingly used for modern military aircraft propulsion installations, including the roll nozzles on the F-35B vertical/short take-off and landing strike fighter. A peculiar phenomenon known as axis-switching is generally observed in such non-axisymmetric nozzle flows during which the jet spreads faster along the minor axis compared to the major axis. This might affect the under-wing stores and aircraft structure. A computational fluid dynamics study was performed to understand the effects of changing the upstream nozzle geometry on a rectangular free jet. A method is proposed, involving the formulation of an equation based upon a statistical model for a rectangular nozzle with an exit aspect ratio (ARe) of 4; the variables under consideration (for a constant nozzle pressure ratio (NPR)) being inlet aspect ratio (ARi) and length of the contraction section. The jet development was characterised using two parameters: location of the cross-over point (Xc) and the difference in the jet half-velocity widths along the major and minor axes (ÎB30). Based on the observed results, two statistical models were formulated for the prediction of axis-switching; the first model gives the location of the cross-over point, while the second model indicates the occurrence of axis-switching for the given configuration
A volumetric Penrose inequality for conformally flat manifolds
We consider asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar
curvature that are conformal to , and so that
their boundary is a minimal hypersurface. (Here, is open
bounded with smooth mean-convex boundary.) We prove that the ADM mass of any
such manifold is bounded below by , where is the
Euclidean volume of and is the volume of the Euclidean
unit -ball. This gives a partial proof to a conjecture of Bray and Iga
\cite{brayiga}. Surprisingly, we do not require the boundary to be outermost.Comment: 7 page
Flare induced penumbra formation in the sunspot of NOAA 10838
We have observed formation of penumbrae on a pore in the active region
NOAA10838 using Dunn Solar Telescope at NSO,Sunpot,USA. Simultaneous
observations using different instruments (DLSP,UBF,Gband and CaK) provide us
with vector magnetic field at photosphere, intensity images and Doppler
velocity at different heights from photosphere to chromosphere. Results from
our analysis of this particular data-set suggests that penumbrae are formed as
a result of relaxation of magnetic field due to a flare happening at the same
time. Images in \Halpha\ show the flare (C 2.9 as per GOES) and vector magnetic
fields show a re-orientation and reduction in the global value (a
measure of twist). We feel such relaxation of loop structures due to
reconnections or flare could be one of the way by which field lines fall back
to the photosphere to form penumbrae.Comment: 4 pages, Presented at IAU symposium 273- Physics of Sun and Starspot
Dynamics of Ordering of Heisenberg Spins with Torque --- Nonconserved Case. I
We study the dynamics of ordering of a nonconserved Heisenberg magnet. The
dynamics consists of two parts --- an irreversible dissipation into a heat bath
and a reversible precession induced by a torque due to the local molecular
field. For quenches to zero temperature, we provide convincing arguments, both
numerically (Langevin simulation) and analytically (approximate closure scheme
due to Mazenko), that the torque is irrelevant at late times. We subject the
Mazenko closure scheme to systematic numerical tests. Such an analysis, carried
out for the first time on a vector order parameter, shows that the closure
scheme performs respectably well. For quenches to , we show, to , that the torque is irrelevant at the Wilson-Fisher fixed
point.Comment: 13 pages, REVTEX, and 19 .eps figures, compressed, Submitted to Phys.
Rev.
Scaling Analysis of Domain-Wall Free-Energy in the Edwards-Anderson Ising Spin Glass in a Magnetic Field
The stability of the spin-glass phase against a magnetic field is studied in
the three and four dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glasses. Effective
couplings and effective fields associated with length scale L are measured by a
numerical domain-wall renormalization group method. The results obtained by
scaling analysis of the data strongly indicate the existence of a crossover
length beyond which the spin-glass order is destroyed by field H. The crossover
length well obeys a power law of H which diverges as H goes to zero but remains
finite for any non-zero H, implying that the spin-glass phase is absent even in
an infinitesimal field. These results are well consistent with the droplet
theory for short-range spin glasses.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures; The text is slightly changed, the figures 3, 4
and 5 are changed, and a few references are adde
Phase Ordering Kinetics of One-Dimensional Non-Conserved Scalar Systems
We consider the phase-ordering kinetics of one-dimensional scalar systems.
For attractive long-range () interactions with ,
``Energy-Scaling'' arguments predict a growth-law of the average domain size for all . Numerical results for ,
, and demonstrate both scaling and the predicted growth laws. For
purely short-range interactions, an approach of Nagai and Kawasaki is
asymptotically exact. For this case, the equal-time correlations scale, but the
time-derivative correlations break scaling. The short-range solution also
applies to systems with long-range interactions when , and in that limit the amplitude of the growth law is exactly
calculated.Comment: 19 pages, RevTex 3.0, 8 FIGURES UPON REQUEST, 1549
Persistence of Manifolds in Nonequilibrium Critical Dynamics
We study the persistence P(t) of the magnetization of a d' dimensional
manifold (i.e., the probability that the manifold magnetization does not flip
up to time t, starting from a random initial condition) in a d-dimensional spin
system at its critical point. We show analytically that there are three
distinct late time decay forms for P(t) : exponential, stretched exponential
and power law, depending on a single parameter \zeta=(D-2+\eta)/z where D=d-d'
and \eta, z are standard critical exponents. In particular, our theory predicts
that the persistence of a line magnetization decays as a power law in the d=2
Ising model at its critical point. For the d=3 critical Ising model, the
persistence of the plane magnetization decays as a power law, while that of a
line magnetization decays as a stretched exponential. Numerical results are
consistent with these analytical predictions.Comment: 4 pages revtex, 1 eps figure include
Prediction of pressure-induced red shift of f->d(t2g) excitations in Cs2NaYCl6:Ce(3+) and its connection with bond length shortening
Quantum chemical calculations including embedding, scalar relativistic, and
dynamic electron correlation effects on Cs2NaYCl6:(CeCl6)3- embedded clusters
predict: (i) red shifts of the 4f->5d(t2g) transition with pressure and (ii)
bond length shortening upon 4f->5d(t2g) excitation. Both effects are found to
be connected which suggests that new high pressure spectroscopic experiments
could reveal the sign of the bond length change.Comment: 6 pages text; 1 table; 3 figures; to be published in J.Chem.Phy
Domain-Wall Energies and Magnetization of the Two-Dimensional Random-Bond Ising Model
We study ground-state properties of the two-dimensional random-bond Ising
model with couplings having a concentration of antiferromagnetic
and of ferromagnetic bonds. We apply an exact matching algorithm which
enables us the study of systems with linear dimension up to 700. We study
the behavior of the domain-wall energies and of the magnetization. We find that
the paramagnet-ferromagnet transition occurs at compared to
the concentration at the Nishimory point, which means that the
phase diagram of the model exhibits a reentrance. Furthermore, we find no
indications for an (intermediate) spin-glass ordering at finite temperature.Comment: 7 pages, 12 figures, revTe
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