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Multilingual Information Framework for Handling textual data in Digital Media
This document presents MLIF (Multi Lingual Information Framework), a high-level model for describing multilingual data across a wide range of possible applications in the translation/localization process within several multimedia domains (e.g. broadcasting interactive programs within a multilingual community)
I-V curves and intergranular flux creep activation energy in the magnetic superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8
A systematic study of I-V characteristic curves for RuSr2GdCu2O8 [Ru-(1212)]
is presented, with magnetic fields up to 3 T and 5 K<T<30 K, in the region of
the superconducting transition. The activation energy E_{a}(H,T) for flux line
depinning was determined by fitting the nonlinear region of the curves using
the flux creep model. E_{a}(H,T) was found to vary linearly with temperature,
while a power-law dependence on the magnetic field was observed up to H=0.1 T,
where an abrupt reduction in its decreasing rate occurs. The extrapolated
value, E_{a}(0,0)=50 meV, is twice the reported value for YBa2Cu3O7, but the
critical current density J_{C}(0,0)=70 A/cm2 is about one order of magnitude
lower. These results are explained as a consequence of the contribution of the
magnetization in the grains to the effective field at the intergranular links
and to a spin-flop transition of the Ru-sub-lattice.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Low-lying even parity meson resonances and spin-flavor symmetry
A study is presented of the wave meson-meson interactions involving
members of the nonet and of the octet. The starting point is an
SU(6) spin-flavor extension of the SU(3) flavor Weinberg-Tomozawa Lagrangian.
SU(6) symmetry breaking terms are then included to account for the physical
meson masses and decay constants, while preserving partial conservation of the
axial current in the light pseudoscalar sector. Next, the matrix amplitudes
are obtained by solving the Bethe Salpeter equation in coupled-channel with the
kernel built from the above interactions. The poles found on the first and
second Riemann sheets of the amplitudes are identified with their possible
Particle Data Group (PDG) counterparts. It is shown that most of the low-lying
even parity PDG meson resonances, specially in the and sectors,
can be classified according to multiplets of the spin-flavor symmetry group
SU(6). The , and some resonances cannot be
accommodated within this SU(6) scheme and thus they would be clear candidates
to be glueballs or hybrids. Finally, we predict the existence of five exotic
resonances ( and/or ) with masses in the range 1.4--1.6 GeV,
which would complete the , , and multiplets of
SU(3)SU(2).Comment: 43 pages, 2 figures, 61 tables. Improved discussion of Section II. To
appear in Physical Review
Evaluation of four different strategies to characterize plasma membrane proteins from banana roots
Plasma membrane proteins constitute a very important class of proteins. They are involved in the transmission of external signals to the interior of the cell and selective transport of water, nutrients and ions across the plasma membrane. However, the study of plasma membrane proteins is challenging because of their poor solubility in aqueous media and low relative abundance. In this work, we evaluated four different strategies for the characterization of plasma membrane proteins from banana roots: (i) the aqueous-polymer two-phase system technique (ATPS) coupled to gelelectrophoresis (gel-based), and (ii) ATPS coupled to LC-MS/MS (gel free), (iii) a microsomal fraction and (iv) a full proteome, both coupled to LC-MS/ MS. Our results show that the gel-based strategy is useful for protein visualization but has major limitations in terms of time reproducibility and efficiency. From the gel-free strategies, the microsomal-based strategy allowed the highest number of plasma membrane proteins to be identified, followed by the full proteome strategy and by the ATPS based strategy. The high yield of plasma membrane proteins provided by the microsomal fraction can be explained by the enrichment of membrane proteins in this fraction and the high throughput of the gel-free approach combined with the usage of a fast high-resolution mass spectrometer for the identification of proteins
The Simple Non-degenerate Relativistic Gas: Statistical Properties and Brownian Motion
This paper shows a novel calculation of the mean square displacement of a
classical Brownian particle in a relativistic thermal bath. The result is
compared with the expressions obtained by other authors. Also, the
thermodynamic properties of a non-degenerate simple relativistic gas are
reviewed in terms of a treatment performed in velocity space.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
The method of Gaussian weighted trajectories. V. On the 1GB procedure for polyatomic processes
In recent years, many chemical reactions have been studied by means of the
quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) method within the Gaussian binning (GB)
procedure. The latter consists in "quantizing" the final vibrational actions in
Bohr spirit by putting strong emphasis on the trajectories reaching the
products with vibrational actions close to integer values. A major drawback of
this procedure is that if N is the number of product vibrational modes, the
amount of trajectories necessary to converge the calculations is ~ 10^N larger
than with the standard QCT method. Applying it to polyatomic processes is thus
problematic. In a recent paper, however, Czako and Bowman propose to quantize
the total vibrational energy instead of the vibrational actions [G. Czako and
J. M. Bowman, J. Chem. Phys., 131, 244302 (2009)], a procedure called 1GB here.
The calculations are then only ~ 10 times more time-consuming than with the
standard QCT method, allowing thereby for considerable numerical saving. In
this paper, we propose some theoretical arguments supporting the 1GB procedure
and check its validity on model test cases as well as the prototype four-atom
reaction OH+D_2 -> HOD+D
Detection of interannual vegetation responses to climatic variability using AVIRIS data in a coastal savanna in California
11 pages, 10 figures.Ecosystem responses to interannual weather variability are large and superimposed over any long-term directional climatic responses making it difficult to assign causal relationships to vegetation change. Better understanding of ecosystem responses to interannual climatic variability is crucial to predicting long-term functioning and stability. Hyperspectral data have the potential to detect ecosystem responses that are undetected by broadband sensors and can be used to scale to coarser resolution global mapping sensors, e.g., advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) and MODIS. This research focused on detecting vegetation responses to interannual climate using the airborne visible-infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS) data over a natural savanna in the Central Coast Range in California. Results of linear spectral mixture analysis and assessment of the model errors were compared for two AVIRIS images acquired in spring of a dry and a wet year. The results show that mean unmixed fractions for these vegetation types were not significantly different between years due to the high spatial variability within the landscape. However, significant community differences were found between years on a pixel basis, underlying the importance of site-specific analysis. Multitemporal hyperspectral coverage is necessary to understand vegetation dynamics.This work was supported in part by Foundation Barrie de la Maza, Spain, and NASA EOS Program Grant NAS5-31359.Peer reviewe
Microwave Photon Detector in Circuit QED
Quantum optical photodetection has occupied a central role in understanding
radiation-matter interactions. It has also contributed to the development of
atomic physics and quantum optics, including applications to metrology,
spectroscopy, and quantum information processing. The quantum microwave regime,
originally explored using cavities and atoms, is seeing a novel boost with the
generation of nonclassical propagating fields in circuit quantum
electrodynamics (QED). This promising field, involving potential developments
in quantum information with microwave photons, suffers from the absence of
photodetectors. Here, we design a metamaterial composed of discrete
superconducting elements that implements a high-efficiency microwave photon
detector. Our design consists of a microwave guide coupled to an array of
metastable quantum circuits, whose internal states are irreversibly changed due
to the absorption of photons. This proposal can be widely applied to different
physical systems and can be generalized to implement a microwave photon
counter.Comment: accepted in Phys. Rev. Let
Revisiting the luminosity function of single halo white dwarfs
White dwarfs are the fossils left by the evolution of low-and
intermediate-mass stars, and have very long evolutionary timescales. This
allows us to use them to explore the properties of old populations, like the
Galactic halo. We present a population synthesis study of the luminosity
function of halo white dwarfs, aimed at investigating which information can be
derived from the currently available observed data. We employ an up-to-date
population synthesis code based on Monte Carlo techniques, that incorporates
the most recent and reliable cooling sequences for metal poor progenitors as
well as an accurate modeling of the observational biases. We find that because
the observed sample of halo white dwarfs is restricted to the brightest stars
only the hot branch of the white dwarf luminosity function can be used for such
purposes, and that its shape function is almost insensitive to the most
relevant inputs, like the adopted cooling sequences, the initial mass function,
the density profile of the stellar spheroid, or the adopted fraction of
unresolved binaries. Moreover, since the cut-off of the observed luminosity has
not been yet determined only lower limits to the age of the halo population can
be placed. We conclude that the current observed sample of the halo white dwarf
population is still too small to obtain definite conclusions about the
properties of the stellar halo, and the recently computed white dwarf cooling
sequences which incorporate residual hydrogen burning should be assessed using
metal-poor globular clusters.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&
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