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Mapping the train model for earthquakes onto the stochastic sandpile model
We perform a computational study of a variant of the ``train'' model for
earthquakes [PRA 46, 6288 (1992)], where we assume a static friction that is a
stochastic function of position rather than being velocity dependent. The model
consists of an array of blocks coupled by springs, with the forces between
neighbouring blocks balanced by static friction. We calculate the probability,
P(s), of the occurrence of avalanches with a size s or greater, finding that
our results are consistent with the phenomenology and also with previous models
which exhibit a power law over a wide range. We show that the train model may
be mapped onto a stochastic sandpile model and study a variant of the latter
for non-spherical grains. We show that, in this case, the model has critical
behaviour only for grains with large aspect ratio, as was already shown in
experiments with real ricepiles. We also demonstrate a way to introduce
randomness in a physically motivated manner into the model.Comment: 14 pages and 6 figures. Accepted in European Physical Journal
Curved Graphene Nanoribbons: Structure and Dynamics of Carbon Nanobelts
Carbon nanoribbons (CNRs) are graphene (planar) structures with large aspect
ratio. Carbon nanobelts (CNBs) are small graphene nanoribbons rolled up into
spiral-like structures, i. e., carbon nanoscrolls (CNSs) with large aspect
ratio. In this work we investigated the energetics and dynamical aspects of
CNBs formed from rolling up CNRs. We have carried out molecular dynamics
simulations using reactive empirical bond-order potentials. Our results show
that similarly to CNSs, CNBs formation is dominated by two major energy
contribution, the increase in the elastic energy due to the bending of the
initial planar configuration (decreasing structural stability) and the
energetic gain due to van der Waals interactions of the overlapping surface of
the rolled layers (increasing structural stability). Beyond a critical diameter
value these scrolled structures can be even more stable (in terms of energy)
than their equivalent planar configurations. In contrast to CNSs that require
energy assisted processes (sonication, chemical reactions, etc.) to be formed,
CNBs can be spontaneously formed from low temperature driven processes. Long
CNBs (length of 30.0 nm) tend to exhibit self-folded racket-like
conformations with formation dynamics very similar to the one observed for long
carbon nanotubes. Shorter CNBs will be more likely to form perfect scrolled
structures. Possible synthetic routes to fabricate CNBs from graphene membranes
are also addressed
Tipos nomenclaturais de plantas vasculares depositados no herbário IAN da Embrapa Amazônia Oriental - Aristolochiaceae Adans.; Asclepiadaceae Borkh.; Bombacaceae Kunth; Lecythidaceae A. Rich., Meliaceae Juss. e Moraceae Link.
Levantamento, informatização, classificação e divulgação dos tipos nomenclaturais de Dilleniaceae Salisb. do Herbário IAN da Embrapa Amazônia Oriental.
Tipos nomenclaturais das famílias Dichapetalaceae e Droseraceae depositados no Herbário IAN da Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Pará, Brasil.
Tipos nomenclaturais de Crhysobalanaceae depositados no acervo de Herbário IAN (Embrapa Amazônia Oriental) - Belém, PA, Brasil.
Levantamento, informatização, classificação e divulgação dos tipos nomenclaturais do Herbário IAN (Embrapa Amazônia Oriental).
Levantamento, informatização e caracterização dos tipos nomenclaturais de Malpighiaceae juss. existentes no herbário IAN - Embrapa Amazônia Oriental.
Tipos nomenclaturais de Angiospermae do Herbário IAN da Embrapa Amazônia Oriental: Aristolochiaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Bombacaceae, Compositae, Gesneriaceae, Lecythidaceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Rubiaceae e Sapotaceae.
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Spectroscopy of SMC Wolf-Rayet Stars Suggests that Wind-Clumping does not Depend on Ambient Metallicity
The mass-loss rates of hot, massive, luminous stars are considered a decisive
parameter in shaping the evolutionary tracks of such stars and influencing the
interstellar medium on galactic scales. The small-scale structures (clumps)
omnipresent in such winds may reduce empirical estimates of mass-loss rates by
an evolutionarily significant factor of >=3. So far, there has been no direct
observational evidence that wind-clumping may persist at the same level in
environments with a low ambient metallicity, where the wind-driving opacity is
reduced. Here we report the results of time-resolved spectroscopy of three
presumably single Population I Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud,
where the ambient metallicity is ~1/5 Z_Sun.We detect numerous small-scale
emission peaks moving outwards in the accelerating parts of the stellar
winds.The general properties of the moving features, such as their velocity
dispersions,emissivities and average accelerations, closely match the
corresponding characteristics of small-scale inhomogeneities in the winds of
Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures; accepted by ApJ Letter
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