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String creation in D6-brane background
The production of string charge during a crossing of certain oriented
D-branes is studied. We compute the string charge in the system of a probe
D2-brane and a background D6-brane by use of the equations of motion in the
ten-dimensions. We confirm the creation of string charge as inflow from the
background D6-brane.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, typos correcte
Diagnosis of a unit-wide disturbance caused by saturation in a manipulated variable
It is well known that faulty control valves with friction in the moving parts lead to limit cycle oscillations which can propagate to other parts of the plant. However, a control loop with healthy valve can also undergo oscillatory behavior. The root cause of a unit-wide oscillation in a distillation column was traced to a pressure control loop in a case study at Mitsui Chemicals. The diagnosis was made by means of a new technique of pattern matching of the time-resolved frequency spectrum using a wavelet analysis tool. The method identified key characteristics shared by measurements at various places in the column and quantified the similarities.
Non-linearity was detected in the time trend of the pressure measurement, a result which initially suggested the root cause was a faulty actuator or sensor. Further analysis showed, however, that the source of non-linearlity was periodic saturation of the manipulated variable caused by slack tuning. The problem was remidied by changing the controller tuning settings and the unit-wide disturbance then went away
Quantum Nernst effect in a bismuth single crystal
We report a theoretical calculation explaining the quantum Nernst effect
observed experimentally in a bismuth single crystal. Generalizing the
edge-current picture in two dimensions, we show that the peaks of the Nernst
coefficient survive in three dimensions due to a van Hove singularity. We also
evaluate the phonon-drag effect on the Nernst coefficient numerically. Our
result agrees with the experimental result for a bismuth single crystal.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Proceedings of ISQM-Tokyo '0
Factoring out the parallelism effect in ellipsis: An interactional approach?
Traditionally, there have been three standard assumptions made about the Parallelism Effect on VP-ellipsis, namely that the effect is categorical, that it applies asymmetrically and that it is uniquely due to syntactic factors. Based on the results of a series of experiments involving online and offline tasks, it will be argued that the Parallelism Effect is instead noncategorical and interactional. The factors investigated include construction type, conceptual and morpho-syntactic recoverability, finiteness and anaphor type (to test VP-anaphora). The results show that parallelism is gradient rather than categorical, effects both VP-ellipsis and anaphora, and is influenced by both structural and non-structural factors
Aerodynamic characteristics of general aviation at high angle of attack with the propeller slipstream
The aerodynamic characteristics of the FA-300 business aircraft at high angle of attack with the propeller stream are described. The FA-300 offers two types, FA-300-700 for 340 HP, and -710 for 450 Hp of the engine. The effects of the propeller slipstream on the high angle of the attack are discussed
Acceptable ungrammaticality in sentence matching
This paper presents results from a new set of experiments using the sentence matching paradigm (Forster, Kenneth (1979), Freedman & Forster (1985), also Bley-Vroman & Masterson (1989), investigating native-speakers’ and L2 learners’ knowledge of constraints on clitic placement in French.1 Our purpose is three-fold: (i) to shed more light on the contrasts between native-speakers and L2 learners observed in previous experiments, especially Duffield & White (1999), and Duffield, White, Bruhn de Garavito, Montrul & Prévost (2002); (ii), to address specific criticisms of the sentence-matching paradigm leveled by Gass (2001); (iii), to provide a firm empirical basis for follow-up experiments with L2 learner
Microscopic approach to large-amplitude deformation dynamics with local QRPA inertial masses
We have developed a new method for determining microscopically the
fivedimensional quadrupole collective Hamiltonian, on the basis of the
adiabatic self-consistent collective coordinate method. This method consists of
the constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equation and the local QRPA
(LQRPA) equations, which are an extension of the usual QRPA (quasiparticle
random phase approximation) to non-HFB-equilibrium points, on top of the CHFB
states. One of the advantages of our method is that the inertial functions
calculated with this method contain the contributions of the time-odd
components of the mean field, which are ignored in the widely-used cranking
formula. We illustrate usefulness of our method by applying to oblate-prolate
shape coexistence in 72Kr and shape phase transition in neutron-rich Cr
isotopes around N=40.Comment: 6pages, talk given at Rutherford Centennial Conference on Nuclear
Physics, 8 - 12 August 2011, The University of Mancheste
Fluctuation properties of strength function associated with the giant quadrupole resonance in 208Pb
We performed fluctuation analysis by means of the local scaling dimension for
the strength function of the isoscalar (IS) giant quadrupole resonance (GQR) in
208Pb where the strength function is obtained by the shell model calculation
including 1p1h and 2p2h configurations. It is found that at almost all energy
scales, fluctuation of the strength function obeys the Gaussian orthogonal
ensemble (GOE) random matrix theory limit. This is contrasted with the results
for the GQR in 40Ca, where at the intermediate energy scale about 1.7 MeV a
deviation from the GOE limit was detected. It is found that the physical origin
for this different behavior of the local scaling dimension is ascribed to the
difference in the properties of the damping process.Comment: 10 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Physical Review
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