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Advanced content-based semantic scene analysis and information retrieval: the SCHEMA project
The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of universities, research centers, industrial partners and end users, in order to design a reference system for content-based semantic scene analysis, interpretation and understanding. Relevant research areas include: content-based multimedia analysis and automatic annotation of semantic multimedia content, combined textual and multimedia information retrieval, semantic -web, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards, user interfaces and human factors. In this paper, recent advances in content-based analysis, indexing and retrieval of digital media within the SCHEMA Network are presented. These advances will be integrated in the SCHEMA module-based, expandable reference system
Bose-Einstein transition temperature in a dilute repulsive gas
We discuss certain specific features of the calculation of the critical
temperature of a dilute repulsive Bose gas. Interactions modify the critical
temperature in two different ways. First, for gases in traps, temperature
shifts are introduced by a change of the density profile, arising itself from a
modification of the equation of state of the gas (reduced compressibility);
these shifts can be calculated simply within mean field theory. Second, even in
the absence of a trapping potential (homogeneous gas in a box), temperature
shifts are introduced by the interactions; they arise from the correlations
introduced in the gas, and thus lie inherently beyond mean field theory - in
fact, their evaluation requires more elaborate, non-perturbative, calculations.
One illustration of this non-perturbative character is provided by the solution
of self-consistent equations, which relate together non-linearly the various
energy shifts of the single particle levels k. These equations predict that
repulsive interactions shift the critical temperature (at constant density) by
an amount which is positive, and simply proportional to the scattering length
a; nevertheless, the numerical coefficient is difficult to compute. Physically,
the increase of the temperature can be interpreted in terms of the reduced
density fluctuations introduced by the repulsive interactions, which facilitate
the propagation of large exchange cycles across the sample.Comment: two minor corrections, two refs adde
POLICY DIRECTIONS TO MITIGATE WATER-SUPPLY RISK IN IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE: A FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE
Water reallocation to meet mandated flow requirements and trust responsibilities, established in Federal law and water authority, can result in large uncompensated losses to irrigated agriculture. This paper discusses the nature and potential cost of water-supply interruptions due to Federal actions, and provides a comparative assessment of alternative risk-mitigation measures.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Resolving The Moth at Millimeter Wavelengths
HD 61005, also known as "The Moth," is one of only a handful of debris disks
that exhibit swept-back "wings" thought to be caused by interaction with the
ambient interstellar medium (ISM). We present 1.3 mm Submillimeter Array (SMA)
observations of the debris disk around HD 61005 at a spatial resolution of 1.9
arcsec that resolve the emission from large grains for the first time. The disk
exhibits a double-peaked morphology at millimeter wavelengths, consistent with
an optically thin ring viewed close to edge-on. To investigate the disk
structure and the properties of the dust grains we simultaneously model the
spatially resolved 1.3 mm visibilities and the unresolved spectral energy
distribution. The temperatures indicated by the SED are consistent with
expected temperatures for grains close to the blowout size located at radii
commensurate with the millimeter and scattered light data. We also perform a
visibility-domain analysis of the spatial distribution of millimeter-wavelength
flux, incorporating constraints on the disk geometry from scattered light
imaging, and find suggestive evidence of wavelength-dependent structure. The
millimeter-wavelength emission apparently originates predominantly from the
thin ring component rather than tracing the "wings" observed in scattered
light. The implied segregation of large dust grains in the ring is consistent
with an ISM-driven origin for the scattered light wings.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
The Structure of Koolau Volcano from Seismic Refraction Studies
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Dispersion of Klauder's temporally stable coherent states for the hydrogen atom
We study the dispersion of the "temporally stable" coherent states for the
hydrogen atom introduced by Klauder. These are states which under temporal
evolution by the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian retain their coherence properties.
We show that in the hydrogen atom such wave packets do not move
quasi-classically; i.e., they do not follow with no or little dispersion the
Keplerian orbits of the classical electron. The poor quantum-classical
correspondence does not improve in the semiclassical limit.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Imaging the Dipole-Dipole Energy Exchange Between Ultracold Rubidium Rydberg Atoms
The long-range, anisotropic nature of the interaction among atoms in an ultracold dipolar gas leads to a rich array of possibilities for studying many-body physics. In this work, an ultracold gas of highly excited atoms is used to study energy transport due to the long-range dipole-dipole interaction. A technique is developed to measure both the internal energy states of the interacting Rydberg atoms and their positions in space. This technique is demonstrated by observing energy exchange between two spatially separated groups of Rydberg atoms excited to two different internal states. Simulations confirm the general features of the energy transport in this system and highlight subtleties associated with the homogeneity of the electric field used in this experiment
STIS spectroscopy of the emission line gas in the nuclei of nearby FR-I galaxies
We present the results of the analysis of a set of medium resolution spectra,
obtained by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space
Telescope, of the emission line gas present in the nuclei of a complete sample
of 21 nearby, early-type galaxies with radio jets (the UGC FR-I Sample). For
each galaxy nucleus we present spectroscopic data in the region of H-alpha and
the dervived kinematics.
We find that in 67% of the nuclei the gas appears to be rotating and, with
one exception, the cases where rotation is not seen are either face on or have
complex central morphologies. We find that in 62% of the nuclei the fit to the
central spectrum is improved by the inclusion of a broad component. The broad
components have a mean velocity dispersion of 1349 +/- 345 km\s and are
redshifted from the narrow line components (assuming an origin in H-alpha) by
486 +/- 443 km\s.Comment: 119 pages, 26 figures, ApJS Accepted, version with full figures
available at http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~jake/pub/fr1datapaper.pd
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