604 research outputs found
Offspring Sex Ratio in Double Brooding Prothonotary Warblers
Prothonotary warblers are bright, golden birds who, with their loud calls, make themselves known in wetland habitats in the spring after returning from their winter homes in the Neotropics to breed. This migratory species is important to study because of their need for these habitats and are declining in population due to the degradation of wetland environments across the western hemisphere.
VCU started a project in 1987 to study prothonotary warblers including population genetics, breeding biology, and migration ecology. Since then, with the help of Richmond Audubon Society, the project has erected over 600 nesting boxes along the James River contributing to a database going back 30 years. This makes them an accessible bird to study and, with the collected information, help to better understand the causes of their declin
Comportamento de cultivares de soja em sistema plantio direto consolidado e em área de abertura sem revolvimento do solo.
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Reporting and interpretation of SF-36 outcomes in randomised trials: systematic review
Objective To determine how often health surveys and quality of life evaluations reach different conclusions from those of primary efficacy outcomes and whether discordant results make a difference in the interpretation of trial findings
New System-Specific Coherent States by Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics for Bound State Calculations
Pseudo-time Schroedinger equation with absorbing potential for quantum scattering calculations
The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing
potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special
choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete
pseudo-time correlation function. An efficient formula for Green's function
matrix elements is also derived. Since the exact propagation up to time 2t can
be done with only t real matrix-vector products, this gives an unprecedently
efficient scheme for accurate calculations of quantum spectra for possibly very
large systems.Comment: 9 page
Calculation of Densities of States and Spectral Functions by Chebyshev Recursion and Maximum Entropy
We present an efficient algorithm for calculating spectral properties of
large sparse Hamiltonian matrices such as densities of states and spectral
functions. The combination of Chebyshev recursion and maximum entropy achieves
high energy resolution without significant roundoff error, machine precision or
numerical instability limitations. If controlled statistical or systematic
errors are acceptable, cpu and memory requirements scale linearly in the number
of states. The inference of spectral properties from moments is much better
conditioned for Chebyshev moments than for power moments. We adapt concepts
from the kernel polynomial approximation, a linear Chebyshev approximation with
optimized Gibbs damping, to control the accuracy of Fourier integrals of
positive non-analytic functions. We compare the performance of kernel
polynomial and maximum entropy algorithms for an electronic structure example.Comment: 8 pages RevTex, 3 postscript figure
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