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Phase transition in a sexual age-structured model of learning foreign languages
The understanding of language competition helps us to predict extinction and
survival of languages spoken by minorities. A simple agent-based model of a
sexual population, based on the Penna model, is built in order to find out
under which circumstances one language dominates other ones. This model
considers that only young people learn foreign languages. The simulations show
a first order phase transition where the ratio between the number of speakers
of different languages is the order parameter and the mutation rate is the
control one.Comment: preliminary version, to be submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Resistive MSGC with double layered electrodes
The first successful attempts to optimize the electric field in Resistive
Microstrip Gas Chamber (RMSGC) using additional field shaping strips located
inside the detector substrate are described.Comment: Presented at 13th RD51 Collaboration meeting, CERN, Febr. 201
The mechanism for the electrooxidation of procarbazine pharmaceutical preparation in alkaline media and its mathematical description
The mechanism for the electrooxidation of procarbazine in alkaline media has been proposed. The process is realized completely on the electrode surface and is adsorption-controlled. The oscillatory behavior in this case is more probable, than for neutral media and may be caused by influences of electrochemical oxidation and salt dissolution from the electrode surface
Simulation for competition of languages with an ageing sexual population
Recently, individual-based models originally used for biological purposes
revealed interesting insights into processes of the competition of languages.
Within this new field of population dynamics a model considering sexual
populations with ageing is presented. The agents are situated on a lattice and
each one speaks one of two languages or both. The stability and quantitative
structure of an interface between two regions, initially speaking different
languages, is studied. We find that individuals speaking both languages do not
prefer any of these regions and have a different age structure than individuals
speaking only one language.Comment: submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics
Further developments and tests of microstrip gas counters with resistive electrodes
We present results from further tests of Microstrip Gas Counters (MSGCs) with
resistive electrodes. The maim advantage of this detector is that it is
spark-protected: in contrast to "classical" MSGCs with metallic electrodes,
sparks in this new detector do not destroy its electrodes. As a consequence the
MSGC with resistive electrodes is more reliable in operation which may open new
avenues in applications. One of them which is under investigation now is the
use of Resistive electrodes MSGC (R-MSGC) as photodetector in some particular
designs of noble liquid dark matter detectors.Comment: Presented at the RD-51 mini-week at CERN, January 17, 201
Running Gluon Mass from Landau Gauge Lattice QCD Propagator
The interpretation of the Landau gauge lattice gluon propagator as a massive
type bosonic propagator is investigated. Three different scenarios are
discussed: i) an infrared constant gluon mass; ii) an ultraviolet constant
gluon mass; iii) a momentum dependent mass. We find that the infrared data can
be associated with a massive propagator up to momenta MeV, with a
constant gluon mass of 723(11) MeV, if one excludes the zero momentum gluon
propagator from the analysis, or 648(7) MeV, if the zero momentum gluon
propagator is included in the data sets. The ultraviolet lattice data is not
compatible with a massive type propagator with a constant mass. The scenario of
a momentum dependent gluon mass gives a decreasing mass with the momentum,
which vanishes in the deep ultraviolet region. Furthermore, we show that the
functional forms used to describe the decoupling like solution of the
Dyson-Schwinger equations are compatible with the lattice data with similar
mass scales.Comment: Version to appear in J. Phys. G. New version include some rewriting
and new analysis. In particular, the section on the running mass is ne
First Tests of Gaseous Detectors Made of a Resistive Mesh
We describe here various detectors designs: GEM type, MICROMEGAStype,
PPACtype as well as cascaded detectors made of a resistive mesh manufactured
from a resistive Kapton foil, (20 microns thick, resistivity a few MOhm per
square) by a laser drilling technique. As in any other micropattern detectors
the maximum achievable gas gain of these detectors is restricted by the Raether
limit, however, the resistive mesh makes them and the front end electronics
fully spark protected. This approach could be an alternative or complimentary
to the ongoing efforts in developing MICROMEGAS and GEMs with resistive anode
readout plates and can be especially beneficial in the case of micropattern
detectors combined with a micropixel-type integrated front end electronic
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