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Project San Marco-B
Sea launched San Marco-B design, communication system, and instrumentation for equatorial atmospheric density measurement
Contact-induced apical asymmetry drives the thigmotropic responses of Candida albicans hyphae
Acknowledgements We thank Marco Thiel for assistance with data interpretation, Peter Sudbery for the provision of strains and Jeremy Craven for useful discussions. This work was supported by a BBSRC-DTG to D. D. T., NIH award DK083592 to F. J. B. and P. A. J., and a Royal Society URF UF080611 and MRC NIRG 90671 to A. C. B.Non peer reviewedPublisher PD
Influence of Environmental Risk on the Financial Structure of Oil and Gas Projects
The risk profile of a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project affects its debt service ability. In particular, the total risk profile of an oil and gas project is heavily influenced by its environmental risk exposure. However, this risk is often not given a considerable weight in risk analysis, resulting in underestimation of project's total riskiness and consequent overestimation of the debt capacity. This study is aimed at understanding the dependence of the capital structure of oil and gas BOT projects on environmental risk exposure and proposes a methodology for incorporating such important risk into the total risk rating process to determine the debt leverage. As a result, it is shown that integrating environmental risks into the risk score of a project yields higher values of risk exposure, which may lead to a lower debt-to-equity ratio
Effective string description of confining flux tubes
We review the current knowledge about the theoretical foundations of the
effective string theory for confining flux tubes and the comparison of the
predictions to pure gauge lattice data. A concise presentation of the effective
string theory is provided, incorporating recent developments. We summarize the
predictions for the spectrum and the profile/width of the flux tube and their
comparison to lattice data. The review closes with a short summary of open
questions for future research.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, Contribution to IJMPA special issue "Lattice
gauge theory beyond QCD
History of San Marco
A brief history is reported of the first San Marco project, a joint program of the United States and Italy. The Project was a three phase effort to investigate upper air density and associated ionosphere phenomena. The initial phase included the design and development of the spacecraft, the experiments, the launch complex, and a series of suborbital flights, from Wallops Island. The second phase, consisting of designing, fabricating, and testing a spacecraft for the first orbital mission, culminated in an orbital launch also from Wallops Island. The third phase consisted of further refining the experiments and spacecraft instrumentation and of establishing a full-bore scout complex in Kenya. The launch of San Marco B, in April 1967, from this complex into an equatorial orbit, concluded the initial San Marco effort
Data-driven nonparametric Li-ion battery ageing model aiming at learning from real operation data - Part B : cycling operation
Conventional Li-ion battery ageing models, such as electrochemical, semi-empirical and empirical models, require a significant amount of time and experimental resources to provide accurate predictions under realistic operating conditions. At the same time, there is significant interest from industry in the introduction of new data collection telemetry technology. This implies the forthcoming availability of a significant amount of real-world battery operation data. In this context, the development of ageing models able to learn from in-field battery operation data is an interesting solution to mitigate the need for exhaustive laboratory testing.
In a series of two papers, a data-driven ageing model is developed for Li-ion batteries under the Gaussian Process framework. A special emphasis is placed on illustrating the ability of the Gaussian Process model to learn from new data observations, providing more accurate and confident predictions, and extending the operating window of the model.
The first paper of the series focussed on the systematic modelling and experimental verification of cell degradation through calendar ageing. Conversantly, this second paper addresses the same research challenge when the cell is electrically cycled. A specific covariance function is composed, tailored for use in a battery ageing application. Over an extensive dataset involving 124 cells tested during more than three years, different training possibilities are contemplated in order to quantify the minimal number of laboratory tests required for the design of an accurate ageing model. A model trained with only 26 tested cells achieves an overall mean-absolute-error of 1.04% in the capacity curve prediction, after being validated under a broad window of both dynamic and static cycling temperatures, Depth-of-Discharge, middle-SOC, charging and discharging C-rates
Molecular correlations and solvation in simple fluids
We study the molecular correlations in a lattice model of a solution of a
low-solubility solute, with emphasis on how the thermodynamics is reflected in
the correlation functions. The model is treated in Bethe-Guggenheim
approximation, which is exact on a Bethe lattice (Cayley tree). The solution
properties are obtained in the limit of infinite dilution of the solute. With
, , and the three pair correlation functions
as functions of the separation (subscripts 1 and 2 referring to solvent and
solute, respectively), we find for lattice steps that
. This illustrates a general
theorem that holds in the asymptotic limit of infinite . The three
correlation functions share a common exponential decay length (correlation
length), but when the solubility of the solute is low the amplitude of the
decay of is much greater than that of , which in turn is
much greater than that of . As a consequence the amplitude of the
decay of is enormously greater than that of . The
effective solute-solute attraction then remains discernible at distances at
which the solvent molecules are essentially no longer correlated, as found in
similar circumstances in an earlier model. The second osmotic virial
coefficient is large and negative, as expected. We find that the
solvent-mediated part of the potential of mean force between solutes,
evaluated at contact, , is related in this model to the Gibbs free energy
of solvation at fixed pressure, , by , where is the coordination number of the lattice, the
pressure, and the volume of the cell associated with each lattice site. A
large, positive associated with the low solubility is thus
reflected in a strong attraction (large negative at contact), which is the
major contributor to the second osmotic virial coefficient. In this model, the
low solubility (large positive ) is due partly to an unfavorable
enthalpy of solvation and partly to an unfavorable solvation entropy, unlike in
the hydrophobic effect, where the enthalpy of solvation itself favors high
solubility, but is overweighed by the unfavorable solvation entropy.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
The lively accretion disk in NGC 2992. I. Transient iron K emission lines in the high flux state
We report on one of the brightest flux levels of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC
2992 ever observed in X-rays, on May 2019. The source has been monitored every
few days from March 26, 2019 to December 14, 2019 by Swift-XRT, and
simultaneous XMM-Newton (250 ks) and NuSTAR (120 ks) observations were
triggered on May 6, 2019. The high count rate of the source (its 2-10 keV flux
ranged between 0.7 and erg cm s) allows us to
perform a time-resolved spectroscopy, probing spatial scales of tens of
gravitational radii from the central black hole. By constructing a map of the
excess emission over the primary continuum, we find several emission structures
in the 5.0-7.2 keV energy band. From fitting the 50 EPIC pn spectral slices of
5 ks duration, we interpret them as a constant narrow iron K line
and three variable components in the iron K complex. When a self-consistent
model accounting for the accretion disk emission is considered (KYNrline), two
of these features (in the 5.0-5.8 keV and 6.8-7.2 keV bands) can be ascribed to
a flaring region of the accretion disk located at -40
r from the black hole. The third one (6.5-6.8 keV) is likely produced
at much larger radii ( r). The inner radius and the
azimuthal extension retrieved from the coadded spectra of the flaring states
are r and ,
suggesting that the emitting region responsible for the broad iron K component
is a relatively compact annular sector within the disk. Our findings support a
physical scenario in which the accretion disk in NGC 2992 becomes more active
at high accretion rates ().Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRA
Spectrum in the broken phase of a theory
We derive the spectrum in the broken phase of a theory, in
the limit , showing that this goes as even integers of a
renormalized mass in agreement with recent lattice computations.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in International Journal
of Modern Physics
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