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Fracturing the optimal paths
Optimal paths play a fundamental role in numerous physical applications
ranging from random polymers to brittle fracture, from the flow through porous
media to information propagation. Here for the first time we explore the path
that is activated once this optimal path fails and what happens when this new
path also fails and so on, until the system is completely disconnected. In fact
numerous applications can be found for this novel fracture problem. In the
limit of strong disorder, our results show that all the cracks are located on a
single self-similar connected line of fractal dimension .
For weak disorder, the number of cracks spreads all over the entire network
before global connectivity is lost. Strikingly, the disconnecting path
(backbone) is, however, completely independent on the disorder.Comment: 4 pages,4 figure
Early Aspects at ICSE 2007: Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design
The “Early Aspects @ ICSE’07” is the 11th workshop in the series of Early Aspects workshops [1] which focuses on aspect identification during the requirements engineering and architecture derivation activities. The specific aim of the present workshop is twofold: (a) to initiate creation of an Early Aspects application demonstration and comparisons benchmark; and (b) to solicit submission of new
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Dinâmica da matéria orgânica e da biomassa microbiana em solo submetido a diferentes sistemas de manejo na Amazônia Ocidental.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar as alterações na atividade da biomassa microbiana como um indicador da dinâmica de C e N em solo submetido à sucessão de cobertura vegetal e de manejo na Amazônia Ocidental
Fontes, doses e extratores de fósforo em alfafa e centrosema.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar o efeito de quatro fontes e quatro doses de fósforo na produção de matéria seca e nos teores de P em alfafa e centrosema, cultivadas em vasos com Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo distrófico, e avaliar a disponibilidade de fósforo no solo, por três extratores
Universal R-C crossover in current-voltage characteristics for unshunted array of overdamped Nb-AlO_x-Nb Josephson junctions
We report on some unusual behavior of the measured current-voltage
characteristics (CVC) in artificially prepared two-dimensional unshunted array
of overdamped Nb-AlO_x-Nb Josephson junctions. The obtained nonlinear CVC are
found to exhibit a pronounced (and practically temperature independent)
crossover at some current I_{cr}=\left(\frac{1}{2\beta_C}-1\right)I_C from a
resistance R dominated state with V_R=R\sqrt{I^2-I_C^2} below I_{cr} to a
capacitance C dominated state with V_C=\sqrt{\frac{\hbar}{4eC}} \sqrt{I-I_C}
above I_{cr}. The origin of the observed behavior is discussed within a
single-plaquette approximation assuming the conventional RSJ model with a
finite capacitance and the Ambegaokar-Baratoff relation for the critical
current of the single junction
Manifestation of geometric resonance in current dependence of AC susceptibility for unshunted array of Nb-AlOx-Nb Josephson junctions
A pronounced resonance-like structure has been observed in the current
dependence of AC susceptibility for two-dimensional array of unshunted
Nb-AlOx-Nb Josephson junctions. Using a single-plaquette approximation, we were
able to successfully fit our data assuming that resonance structure is related
to the geometric (inductive) properties of the array.Comment: to appear in Physica C (in press
Interação magnésio e manganês e magnésio e zinco no teor e conteúdo de óleo e de proteína em quatro cultivares de soja.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar o efeito da interação magnésio e manganês e magnésio e zinco sobre o teor e conteúdo de óleo e proteína bruta em quatro variedades de soja
Semiclassical back reaction around a cosmic dislocation
The energy-momentum vacuum average of a conformally coupled massless scalar
field vibrating around a cosmic dislocation (a cosmic string with a dislocation
along its axis) is taken as source of the linearized semiclassical Einstein
equations. The solution up to first order in the Planck constant is derived.
Motion of a test particle is then discussed, showing that under certain
circumstances a helical-like dragging effect, with no classical analogue around
the cosmic dislocation, is induced by back reaction.Comment: Published version, 4 pages, no figures, REVTeX4 fil
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