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Study of Apollo water impact. Volume 8 - Unsymmetric shells of revolution analysis Final report
Numerical analysis of static, and dynamic shell response to water impact load
Capturing Males of Pestiferous Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): Is the Combination of Triple-Lure Wafers and Insecticidal Strips as Effective as Standard Treatments?
The detection of invasive tephritid fruit fly pests relies primarily on traps baited with male-specific lures. Three different male lures are typically used, and accordingly three sets of traps are deployed: those baited with liquid methyl eugenol (ME) or liquid cue lure (CL) for different Bactrocera species and those baited with plug-bearing trimedlure (TML) for Ceratitis species. The liquid lures contain the insecticide naled, whereas the trimedlure plugs contain no toxicant. Preparing the liquid solutions and servicing three types of traps requires consid- erable labor, and handling naled (and possibly ME) introduces potential health risks. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Jackson traps baited with a solid dispenser (wafer) containing all three male lures plus a separate insecticidal (DDVP; 2, 2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate) strip with Jackson traps baited with the standard male lure/toxicant combinations. Trapping was conducted during two 12-week periods in a coffee field on Oahu, Hawaii. The effectiveness of the wafer-baited traps varied among different species. Catch of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) males was similar between wafer-baited and liquid ME-baited traps for both sampling periods. Conversely, traps baited with the standard TML plug captured significantly more Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) males than the wafer-baited traps in both sampling periods. The relative effectiveness of the two trap treatments varied between sampling periods for Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) males. Based on these results, the triple-lure wafer plus separate kill strip does not, at present, appear to be a viable substitute for the male lure/toxicant combinations currently in use
Basic properties of three-leg Heisenberg tube
We study three-leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with the periodic
boundary conditions in the rung direction. Since the rungs form regular
triangles, spin frustration is induced. We use the density-matrix
renormalization group method to investigate the ground state. We find that the
spin excitations are always gapped to remove the spin frustration as long as
the rung coupling is nonzero. We also visibly confirm spin-Peierls dimerization
order in the leg direction. Both the spin gap and the dimerization order are
basically enhanced as the rung coupling increases.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Redescription of the \u3ci\u3eAllomyia renoa\u3c/i\u3e (Milne) female and association and description of the male and larva (Trichoptera: Apataniidae)
Allomyia renoa (Milne, 1935) (Trichoptera: Apataniidae) was described from six females. The male association is verified in this paper. The original type locality information is limited: “Reno, Nev., ‘78, Morrison”. An Allomyia Banks population found at Mount Rose in Washoe County, Nevada, was compared to the A. renoa type material and found to be the conspecific. Figures, descriptions and distribution of male, female, pupal and larval A. renoa are provided
Parallelization Strategies for Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithms on Shared-Memory Systems
Shared-memory parallelization (SMP) strategies for density matrix
renormalization group (DMRG) algorithms enable the treatment of complex systems
in solid state physics. We present two different approaches by which
parallelization of the standard DMRG algorithm can be accomplished in an
efficient way. The methods are illustrated with DMRG calculations of the
two-dimensional Hubbard model and the one-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model on
contemporary SMP architectures. The parallelized code shows good scalability up
to at least eight processors and allows us to solve problems which exceed the
capability of sequential DMRG calculations.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figure
Redescription of the \u3ci\u3eAllomyia renoa\u3c/i\u3e (Milne) female and association and description of the male and larva (Trichoptera: Apataniidae)
Allomyia renoa (Milne, 1935) (Trichoptera: Apataniidae) was described from six females. The male association is verified in this paper. The original type locality information is limited: “Reno, Nev., ‘78, Morrison”. An Allomyia Banks population found at Mount Rose in Washoe County, Nevada, was compared to the A. renoa type material and found to be the conspecific. Figures, descriptions and distribution of male, female, pupal and larval A. renoa are provided
Study of Apollo water impact. Volume 11 - User's manual for unsymmetric shell of revolution analysis Final report
Users manual on static and dynamic computer programs on linear elastic thin shell theory - Apollo command module water impac
Saturation field of frustrated chain cuprates: broad regions of predominant interchain coupling
An efficient and precise thermodynamic method to extract the interchain
coupling (IC) of spatially anisotropic 2D or 3D spin-1/2 systems from their
empirical saturation field H_s (T=0) is proposed. Using density-matrix
renormalization group, hard-core boson, and spin-wave theory we study how H_s
is affected by an antiferromagnetic (AFM) IC between frustrated chains
described in the J_1-J_2-spin model with ferromagnetic 1st and AFM 2nd neighbor
in-chain exchange. A complex 3D-phase diagram has been found. For Li2CuO2 and
Y2Ca2Cu5O10, we show that H_s is solely determined by the IC and predict H_s
approx 61 T for the latter.Using H_s approx 55 T from our high-field pulsed
measurements one reads out a weak IC for Li2CuO2 close to that from neutron
scattering.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, slightly revised version including a slightly
changed title and abstract, one new figure and an EPAPS-supplementatary part
have been adde
Phase diagram of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping
We study the one-dimensional Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor and
next-nearest-neighbor hopping integrals by using the density-matrix
renormalization group (DMRG) method and Hartree-Fock approximation. Based on
the calculated results for the spin gap, total-spin quantum number, and
Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid parameter, we determine the ground-state phase
diagram of the model in the entire filling and wide parameter region. We show
that, in contrast to the weak-coupling regime where a spin-gapped liquid phase
is predicted in the region with four Fermi points, the spin gap vanishes in a
substantial region in the strong-coupling regime. It is remarkable that a large
variety of phases, such as the paramagnetic metallic phase, spin-gapped liquid
phase, singlet and triplet superconducting phases, and fully polarized
ferromagnetic phase, appear in such a simple model in the strong-coupling
regime.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
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