535 research outputs found
On dynamical tunneling and classical resonances
This work establishes a firm relationship between classical nonlinear
resonances and the phenomenon of dynamical tunneling. It is shown that the
classical phase space with its hierarchy of resonance islands completely
characterizes dynamical tunneling and explicit forms of the dynamical barriers
can be obtained only by identifying the key resonances. Relationship between
the phase space viewpoint and the quantum mechanical superexchange approach is
discussed in near-integrable and mixed regular-chaotic situations. For
near-integrable systems with sufficient anharmonicity the effect of multiple
resonances {\it i.e.,} resonance-assisted tunneling can be incorporated
approximately. It is also argued that the, presumed, relation of avoided
crossings to nonlinear resonances does not have to be invoked in order to
understand dynamical tunneling. For molecules with low density of states the
resonance-assisted mechanism is expected to be dominant.Comment: Completely rewritten and expanded version of a previous submission
physics/0410033. 14 pages and 10 figure
The Influence of GRA and TOPSIS for Assortment of Green Supply Chain Management Strategies in Cement Industry
The present paper aimed at proposing new strategies for evaluating the green supply chain management for enhancing the priority to environmental factors in cement manufacturing life cycle analysis, there by reducing the carbon foot prints. These strategies help in producing eco-friendly products there striking the balance between economy and environment. Initially green supply chain priorities are defined by using grey relational analysis (GRA). The priority weights obtained by GRA method is used to determine the weight for each indicator selected in the present study and then GRA is combined with TOPSIS methodology to obtain the priority for level-II measurement indicators used in the present study. These strategies will influence the decision making priorities during cement manufacturing. Keywords - Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM), strategy prioritization, Grey Relational Analysis (GRA), TOPSIS, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA
An efficient industry 4.0 architecture for energy conservation using an automatic machine monitor and control in the foundry
In this article, a machine monitor and control architecture (MMCA) satisfying the industry 4.0 standard is proposed for energy conservation by optimizing the core moulding machine in industrial automation. Since the foundry environment is a fine dust area and is maintained at very high temperatures (around 140°C), the manual operation of machines is more complex and demanding. Moreover, the monitoring and controlling of machines need highly reliable eco-friendly systems. With real-time data logging, the proposed MMCA prototype system has been installed to monitor and control the overall process in a single core shooter machine (CSM). The parameters controlled using MMCA in foundry machinery include pressure, temperature and power consumption. The complete system can be controlled using an intranet or Internet connection without any human intervention in the machinery environment, which operates at a very high temperature. After explaining the architecture and its features, the experimental results are presented on a real-time implementation of the framework to validate the optimal energy management by the proposed MMCA. The experiments were performed on a CSM, which is automated for practical industrial applications. Its real-time implementation ensures that MMCA-based monitoring and controlling is more effective and advantageous than the programmable logic controller-based machine monitoring
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Extracting Visual information From Text: using Captions to Label Human Faces in Newspaper Photographs
There are many situations where linguistic and pictorial data are jointly presented to communicate information. A computer model for synthesising information from the two sources requires an initial interpretation of both the text and the picture followed by consolidation of information. The problem of performing general-purpose vision(without apriori knowledge) would make this a nearly impossible task. However, in some situations, the text describes salient aspects of the picture. In such situations, it is possible to extract visual information from the text, resulting in a relational graph describing the structure of the accompanying picture. This graph can then be used by a computer vision system to guide the interpretation of the picture. This paper discusses an application whereby information obtained from parsing a caption of a newspaper photograph is used to identify human faces in the photograph. Heuristics are described for extracting information from the caption which contributes to the hypothesised structure of the picture. The top-down processing of the image using this information is discussed
Understanding highly excited states via parametric variations
Highly excited vibrational states of an isolated molecule encode the
vibrational energy flow pathways in the molecule. Recent studies have had
spectacular success in understanding the nature of the excited states mainly
due to the extensive studies of the classical phase space structures and their
bifurcations. Such detailed classical-quantum correspondence studies are
presently limited to two or quasi two dimensional systems. One of the main
reasons for such a constraint has to do with the problem of visualization of
relevant objects like surface of sections and Wigner or Husimi distributions
associated with an eigenstate. This neccesiates various alternative techniques
which are more algebraic than geometric in nature. In this work we introduce
one such method based on parametric variation of the eigenvalues of a
Hamiltonian. It is shown that the level velocities are correlated with the
phase space nature of the corresponding eigenstates. A semiclassical expression
for the level velocities of a single resonance Hamiltonian is derived which
provides theoretical support for the correlation. We use the level velocities
to dynamically assign the highly excited states of a model spectroscopic
Hamiltonian in the mixed phase space regime. The effect of bifurcations on the
level velocities is briefly discussed using a recently proposed spectroscopic
Hamiltonian for the HCP molecule.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phy
First record on the absence of anal fin in the white sardine, Escualosa thoracata (Valenciennes, 1847) from Indian waters
White sardine, Escualosa thoracata (Valenciennes, 1847) forms a minor fishery along the west coast of India. An
abnormal specimen of white sardine, lacking anal fin, was collected from Mangalore coast along with the normal specimens.
The characters of the abnormal specimen are described along with normal specimens. The report is the first of its kind for
E. thoracta from Indian waters. The possible causes of the abnormality in this species have been discussed in this
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Analyzing intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution via the overlap intensity-level velocity correlator
Numerous experimental and theoretical studies have established that
intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) in isolated molecules
has a heirarchical tier structure. The tier structure implies strong
correlations between the energy level motions of a quantum system and its
intensity-weighted spectrum. A measure, which explicitly accounts for this
correaltion, was first introduced by one of us as a sensitive probe of phase
space localization. It correlates eigenlevel velocities with the overlap
intensities between the eigenstates and some localized state of interest. A
semiclassical theory for the correlation is developed for systems that are
classically integrable and complements earlier work focusing exclusively on the
chaotic case. Application to a model two dimensional effective spectroscopic
Hamiltonian shows that the correlation measure can provide information about
the terms in the molecular Hamiltonian which play an important role in an
energy range of interest and the character of the dynamics. Moreover, the
correlation function is capable of highlighting relevant phase space structures
including the local resonance features associated with a specific bright state.
In addition to being ideally suited for multidimensional systems with a large
density of states, the measure can also be used to gain insights into the phase
space transport and localization. It is argued that the overlap intensity-level
velocity correlation function provides a novel way of studying vibrational
energy redistribution in isolated molecules. The correlation function is
ideally suited to analyzing the parametric spectra of molecules in external
fields.Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures (low resolution
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