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P-Star-Model Based Analysis of Inflation Dynamic in the Czech Republic.
The paper presents a version of the P* model of inflation dynamics for a small open economy and applies it to the Czech economy time series from the period of 1991-1999. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents a brief discussion of the monetary policy indicators issue. Section 3 describes the logics of the P* model. Section 4 explains the extension of the basic model to the case of a small open economy. Section 5 applies the model to the Czech economy data and presents the estimates of the Czech inflation dynamics determination.INFLATION ; TIME SERIES ; MONETARY POLICY
Control of multiferroic domains by external electric fields in TbMnO3
The control of multiferroic domains through external electric fields has been
studied by dielectric measurements and by polarized neutron diffraction on
single-crystalline TbMnO. Full hysteresis cycles were recorded by varying
an external field of the order of several kV/mm and by recording the chiral
magnetic scattering as well as the charge in a sample capacitor. Both methods
yield comparable coercive fields that increase upon cooling.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Magnetoelastic coupling in RETiO3 (RE = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Y)
A detailed analysis of the crystal structure in RETiO3 with RE = La, Nd, Sm,
Gd, and Y reveals an intrinsic coupling between orbital degrees of freedom and
the lattice which cannot be fully attributed to the structural deformation
arising from bond-length mismatch. The TiO6 octahedra in this series are all
irregular with the shape of the distortion depending on the RE ionic radius.
These octahedron distortions vary more strongly with temperature than the tilt
and rotation angles. Around the Ti magnetic ordering all compounds exhibit
strong anomalies in the thermal-expansion coefficients, these anomalies exhibit
opposite signs for the antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic compounds.
Furthermore the strongest effects are observed in the materials close to the
magnetic cross-over from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic order
Bacterial diversity of autotrophic enriched cultures from remote, glacial Antarctic, Alpine and Andean aerosol, snow and soil samples
International audienceFour different communities and one culture of autotrophic microbial assemblages were obtained by incubation of samples collected from high elevation snow in the Alps (Mt. Blanc area) and the Andes (Nevado Illimani summit, Bolivia), from Antarctic aerosol (French station Dumont d'Urville) and a maritime Antarctic soil (King George Island, South Shetlands, Uruguay Station Artigas), in a minimal mineral (oligotrophic) media. Molecular analysis of more than 200 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that all cultured cells belong to the Bacteria domain. Phylogenetic comparison with the currently available rDNA database allowed sequences belonging to Proteobacteria (Alpha-, Betaand Gamma-proteobacteria) , Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes phyla to be identified. The Andes snow culture was the richest in bacterial diversity (eight microorganisms identified) and the marine Antarctic soil the poorest (only one). Snow samples from Col du Midi (Alps) and the Andes shared the highest number of identified microorganisms (Agrobacterium, Limnobacter, Aquiflexus and two uncultured Alphaproteobacteria clones). These two sampling sites also shared four sequences with the Antarctic aerosol sample (Limnobacter, Pseudonocardia and an uncultured Alphaproteobacteria clone). The only microorganism identified in the Antarctica soil (Brevundimonas sp.) was also detected in the Antarctic aerosol. Most of the identified microorganisms had been detected previously in cold environments, marine sediments soils and rocks. Air current dispersal is the best model to explain the presence of very specific microorganisms, like those identified in this work, in environments very distant and very different from each other
Distinct magnetic ground states of ZnIrO ( = La and Nd) determined by neutron powder diffraction
Double perovskite iridates ZnIrO ( = alkaline or lanthanide) show
complex magnetic behaviors ranging from weak ferromagnetism to successive
antiferromagnetic transitions. Here we report the static () and dynamic
() magnetic susceptibility, and neutron powder diffraction measurements for
= La and Nd compounds to elucidate the magnetic ground state. Below 10~K,
the = La compound is best described as canted iridium moments in an
antiferromagnet arrangement with a propagation vector \textbf{k} = 0 and a net
ferromagnetic component along the -axis. On the other hand, NdZnIrO
is described well as an antiferromagnet with a propagation vector \textbf{k} =
(1/2~1/2~0) below 17 K. Scattering from both the Nd and Ir
magnetic sublattices were required to describe the data and both were found to
lie almost completely within the -plane. susceptibility revealed a
bifurcation between the zero-field-cooled and field-cooled curves below
13 K in NdZnIrO. A glassy state was ruled out by
susceptibility but detailed magnetic isotherms revealed the opening of the loop
below 13~K. These results suggest a delicate balance exists between the
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya, crystal field schemes, and - interaction in this
series of compounds.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. To be published in PR
Penalized regression on principal manifolds with application to combustion modelling
For multivariate regression problems featuring strong and non–linear dependency patterns between the involved predictors, it is attractive to reduce the dimension of the estimation problem by approximating the predictor space through a principal surface (or manifold). In this work, a new approach for non- parametric regression onto the fitted manifold is provided. The proposed penal- ized regression technique is applied onto data from a simulated combustion sys- tem, and is shown, in this application, to compare well with competing regression routines
Hour-glass magnetic excitations induced by nanoscopic phase separation in cobalt oxides LaSrCoO
The magnetic excitations in the cuprate superconductors might be essential
for an understanding of high-temperature superconductivity. In these cuprate
superconductors the magnetic excitation spectrum resembles an hour-glass and
certain resonant magnetic excitations within are believed to be connected to
the pairing mechanism which is corroborated by the observation of a universal
linear scaling of superconducting gap and magnetic resonance energy. So far,
charge stripes are widely believed to be involved in the physics of hour-glass
spectra. Here we study an isostructural cobaltate that also exhibits an
hour-glass magnetic spectrum. Instead of the expected charge stripe order we
observe nano phase separation and unravel a microscopically split origin of
hour-glass spectra on the nano scale pointing to a connection between the
magnetic resonance peak and the spin gap originating in islands of the
antiferromagnetic parent insulator. Our findings open new ways to theories of
magnetic excitations and superconductivity in cuprate superconductors.Comment: Nature Communications 5, 5731 (2014
Electronic and magnetic nano phase separation in cobaltates LaSrCoO
The single-layer perovskite cobaltates have attracted enormous attention due
to the recent observation of hour-glass shaped magnetic excitation spectra
which resemble the ones of the famous high-temperature superconducting
cuprates. Here, we present an overview of our most recent studies of the spin
and charge correlations in floating-zone grown cobaltate single crystals. We
find that frustration and a novel kind of electronic and magnetic nano phase
separation are intimately connected to the appearance of the hour-glass shaped
spin excitation spectra. We also point out the difference between nano phase
separation and conventional phase separation.Comment: * plenary talk SUPERSTRIPES conference 201
Gain and time resolution of 45 m thin Low Gain Avalanche Detectors before and after irradiation up to a fluence of n/cm
Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are silicon sensors with a built-in
charge multiplication layer providing a gain of typically 10 to 50. Due to the
combination of high signal-to-noise ratio and short rise time, thin LGADs
provide good time resolutions.
LGADs with an active thickness of about 45 m were produced at CNM
Barcelona. Their gains and time resolutions were studied in beam tests for two
different multiplication layer implantation doses, as well as before and after
irradiation with neutrons up to n/cm.
The gain showed the expected decrease at a fixed voltage for a lower initial
implantation dose, as well as for a higher fluence due to effective acceptor
removal in the multiplication layer. Time resolutions below 30 ps were obtained
at the highest applied voltages for both implantation doses before irradiation.
Also after an intermediate fluence of n/cm, similar
values were measured since a higher applicable reverse bias voltage could
recover most of the pre-irradiation gain. At n/cm, the
time resolution at the maximum applicable voltage of 620 V during the beam test
was measured to be 57 ps since the voltage stability was not good enough to
compensate for the gain layer loss. The time resolutions were found to follow
approximately a universal function of gain for all implantation doses and
fluences.Comment: 17 page
Electronic signature of the vacancy ordering in NbO (Nb3O3)
We investigated the electronic structure of the vacancy-ordered 4d-transition
metal monoxide NbO (Nb3O3) using angle-integrated soft- and hard-x-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy as well as ultra-violet angle-resolved photoelectron
spectroscopy. We found that density-functional-based band structure
calculations can describe the spectral features accurately provided that
self-interaction effects are taken into account. In the angle-resolved spectra
we were able to identify the so-called vacancy band that characterizes the
ordering of the vacancies. This together with the band structure results
indicates the important role of the very large inter-Nb-4d hybridization for
the formation of the ordered vacancies and the high thermal stability of the
ordered structure of niobium monoxide
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