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All the shapes of spaces: a census of small 3-manifolds
In this work we present a complete (no misses, no duplicates) census for
closed, connected, orientable and prime 3-manifolds induced by plane graphs
with a bipartition of its edge set (blinks) up to edges. Blinks form a
universal encoding for such manifolds. In fact, each such a manifold is a
subtle class of blinks, \cite{lins2013B}. Blinks are in 1-1 correpondence with
{\em blackboard framed links}, \cite {kauffman1991knots, kauffman1994tlr} We
hope that this census becomes as useful for the study of concrete examples of
3-manifolds as the tables of knots are in the study of knots and links.Comment: 31 pages, 17 figures, 38 references. In this version we introduce
some new material concerning composite manifold
Path Dependence of the Quark Nonlocal Condensate within the Instanton Model
Within the instanton liquid model, we study the dependence of the gauge
invariant two--point quark correlator on the path used to perform the color
parallel transport between two points in the Euclidean space.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Solutions of the bound state Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations in three dimensions by using NN and 3N potential models
A recently developed three-dimensional approach (without partial-wave
decomposition) is considered to investigate solutions of Faddeev-Yakubovsky
integral equations in momentum space for three- and four-body bound states,
with the inclusion of three-body forces. In the calculations of the binding
energies, spin-dependent nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential models (named, S,
MT-I/III, YS-type and PGL) are considered along with the scalar
two-meson exchange three-body potential. Good agreement of the presently
reported results with the ones obtained by other techniques are obtained,
demonstrating the advantage of an approach in which the formalism is much more
simplified and easy to manage for direct computation.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure and 6 tables; to appear in Physical review
Light storage protocols in Tm:YAG
We present two quantum memory protocols for solids: A stopped light approach
based on spectral hole burning and the storage in an atomic frequency comb.
These procedures are well adapted to the rare-earth ion doped crystals. We
carefully clarify the critical steps of both. On one side, we show that the
slowing-down due to hole-burning is sufficient to produce a complete mapping of
field into the atomic system. On the other side, we explain the storage and
retrieval mechanism of the Atomic Frequency Comb protocol. This two important
stages are implemented experimentally in Tm- doped
yttrium-aluminum-garnet crystal
Nucleon-nucleon scattering within a multiple subtractive renormalization approach
A methodology to renormalize the nucleon-nucleon interaction, using a
recursive multiple subtraction approach to construct the kernel of the
scattering equation, is presented. We solve the subtracted scattering equation
with the next-leading-order (NLO) and next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO)
interactions. The results are presented for all partial waves up to ,
fitted to low-energy experimental data. In our renormalizaton group invariant
method, when introducing the NLO and NNLO interactions, the subtraction energy
emerges as a renormalization scale and the momentum associated with it comes to
be about the QCD scale (), irrespectively to the partial wave.Comment: Final versio
Matter-wave 2D solitons in crossed linear and nonlinear optical lattices
It is demonstrated the existence of multidimensional matter-wave solitons in
a crossed optical lattice (OL) with linear OL in the direction and
nonlinear OL (NOL) in the direction, where the NOL can be generated by a
periodic spatial modulation of the scattering length using an optically induced
Feshbach resonance. In particular, we show that such crossed linear and
nonlinear OL allows to stabilize two-dimensional (2D) solitons against decay or
collapse for both attractive and repulsive interactions. The solutions for the
soliton stability are investigated analytically, by using a multi-Gaussian
variational approach (VA), with the Vakhitov-Kolokolov (VK) necessary criterion
for stability; and numerically, by using the relaxation method and direct
numerical time integrations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE). Very good
agreement of the results corresponding to both treatments is observed.Comment: 8 pages (two-column format), with 16 eps-files of 4 figure
Enhanced Coupling Values in Coupled Microstrip Lines using Metamaterials
In this paper, we show how metamaterials can be used to enhance the coupling values of microstrip directional couplers. Coupling between regular coplanar microstrip lines, in fact, is limited, due to the small ratios between the characteristic impedances of even and odd TEM modes supported by the structure. The broadside configuration or the employment of an overlay are often utilized to overcome this limitation, leading, however, to more bulky components. On the other hand, the employment of metamaterials with a negative real part of the permittivity is able to increase the coupling values, while keeping the profile of the structure very low. A quasi-static model of the structure is developed and physical insights on the operation of the proposed component and on the role of the metamaterial loading are also given. Simple design formulae derived through a conformal mapping technique are presented and validated through proper full wave numerical simulations
Identification of the Thyroid Transcription Factor-1 as a Target for Rat MST2 Kinase
Abstract Thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) is a homeodomain-containing transcription factor that is required for thyroid-specific expression of the thyroglobulin and thyroperoxidase genes as well as for lung-specific expression of the surfactant protein A, B, and C and the CC10 and the HNF-3α genes. TTF-1 is a phosphoprotein, and the phosphorylation of TTF-1 has been studied already. However, the kinase(s) that could be responsible for this phosphorylation have not been known. In this paper we report the identification by in-gel kinase assay of a 56-kDa serine/threonine kinase that is able to phosphorylate TTF-1 in thyroid cells. The cloning of this kinase revealed that we had identified the rat homolog of the human MST2 kinase. The pathway in which human MST2 functions is not known; however, it does not appear to involve either mitogen-activated protein kinases such as Erk1 and Erk2 nor the stress-activated protein kinases such as JNK and p38. We show that the activity responsible for TTF-1 phosphorylation is constitutive in thyroid cells. Furthermore, we demonstrate that TTF-1 is phosphorylatedin vivo by rMST2 at the same residues that had been identified previously as the major phosphorylation sites. Thus, TTF-1 represents the first identified target of this class of protein kinases
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