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Explanation of the Normal Winter Anomaly from the Seasonal Variation of Short Wave Absorption
The frequency dependence of the winter anomaly (WA) of radio wave absorption indicates the altitude range where the considered seasonal variation of absorption, L, takes place: 75-95 km. In this height region considerable seasonal variations of ionic composition and effective recombination coefficient, alpha sub e, exist, which can cause seasonal variations of electron concentration, N, and absorption, L. An attempt to render a qualitative estimation of the normal WA, i.e., the increased ratio of winter over summer absorption, L sub w/L sub s, at medium latitudes 40 deg and 50 deg, for solar zenith angles CHi = 60 deg and 75 deg is made. This is compared with existing experimental data
Evolution of adaptation mechanisms: adaptation energy, stress, and oscillating death
In 1938, H. Selye proposed the notion of adaptation energy and published
"Experimental evidence supporting the conception of adaptation energy".
Adaptation of an animal to different factors appears as the spending of one
resource. Adaptation energy is a hypothetical extensive quantity spent for
adaptation. This term causes much debate when one takes it literally, as a
physical quantity, i.e. a sort of energy. The controversial points of view
impede the systematic use of the notion of adaptation energy despite
experimental evidence. Nevertheless, the response to many harmful factors often
has general non-specific form and we suggest that the mechanisms of
physiological adaptation admit a very general and nonspecific description.
We aim to demonstrate that Selye's adaptation energy is the cornerstone of
the top-down approach to modelling of non-specific adaptation processes. We
analyse Selye's axioms of adaptation energy together with Goldstone's
modifications and propose a series of models for interpretation of these
axioms. {\em Adaptation energy is considered as an internal coordinate on the
`dominant path' in the model of adaptation}. The phenomena of `oscillating
death' and `oscillating remission' are predicted on the base of the dynamical
models of adaptation. Natural selection plays a key role in the evolution of
mechanisms of physiological adaptation. We use the fitness optimization
approach to study of the distribution of resources for neutralization of
harmful factors, during adaptation to a multifactor environment, and analyse
the optimal strategies for different systems of factors
The multiplicity and the spectra of secondaries correlated with the leading particle energy
The spectra of leading particles of different nature in pp-collisions at E sub 0 = 33 GeV are obtained. The multiplicities and the spectra of secondaries, mesons, gamma-quanta, lambda and lambda-hyperons and protons for different leading particle energy ranges are determined
IBM: parameter symmetry, hidden symmetries and transformations of boson operators
A symmetry of the parameter space of interacting boson models IBM-1 and IBM-2
is studied. The symmetry is associated with linear canonical transformations of
boson operators, or, equivalently, with the existence of different realizations
of the symmetry algebras of the models. The relevance of the parameter symmetry
to physical observables is discussed.Comment: LATEX, 11 pages including 1 eps figure and 1 table prepared as an eps
figure; a talk given by A. M. Siirokov at XXII Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
Oaxtepec, Morelos, M\'exico, 5--8 January, 1999; to be published in Revista
Mex. Fi
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