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Discussion of test results in the design of laminar airfoils for competition gliders
The deformation of flow in the boundary layer and the local separation of a laminar layer (laminar bubbles) from various airfoils were investigated. These phenomena were classified and their influence is discussed. Various aerodynamic characteristics are discussed and the principles for prescribing pressure distribution to attain a high value of c sub z max with a possibly low drag coefficient are described
Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Chain Graph Models under the Alternative Markov Property
The AMP Markov property is a recently proposed alternative Markov property
for chain graphs. In the case of continuous variables with a joint multivariate
Gaussian distribution, it is the AMP rather than the earlier introduced LWF
Markov property that is coherent with data-generation by natural
block-recursive regressions. In this paper, we show that maximum likelihood
estimates in Gaussian AMP chain graph models can be obtained by combining
generalized least squares and iterative proportional fitting to an iterative
algorithm. In an appendix, we give useful convergence results for iterative
partial maximization algorithms that apply in particular to the described
algorithm.Comment: 15 pages, article will appear in Scandinavian Journal of Statistic
X-ray Emission Properties of Large Scale Jets, Hotspots and Lobes in Active Galactic Nuclei
We examine a systematic comparison of jet-knots, hotspots and radio lobes
recently observed with Chandra and ASCA. This report will discuss the origin of
their X-ray emissions and investigate the dynamics of the jets. The data was
compiled at well sampled radio (5GHz) and X-ray frequencies (1keV) for more
than 40 radio galaxies. We examined three models for the X-ray production:
synchrotron (SYN), synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) and external Compton on CMB
photons (EC). For the SYN sources -- mostly jet-knots in nearby low-luminosity
radio galaxies -- X-ray photons are produced by ultrarelativistic electrons
with energies 10-100 TeV that must be accelerated in situ. For the other
objects, conservatively classified as SSC or EC sources, a simple formulation
of calculating the ``expected'' X-ray fluxes under an equipartition hypothesis
is presented. We confirmed that the observed X-ray fluxes are close to the
expected ones for non-relativistic emitting plasma velocities in the case of
radio lobes and majority of hotspots, whereas considerable fraction of
jet-knots is too bright at X-rays to be explained in this way. We examined two
possibilities to account for the discrepancy in a framework of the
inverse-Compton model: (1) magnetic field is much smaller than the
equipartition value, and (2) the jets are highly relativistic on kpc/Mpc
scales. We concluded, that if the inverse-Compton model is the case, the X-ray
bright jet-knots are most likely far from the minimum-power condition. We also
briefly discuss the other possibility, namely that the observed X-ray emission
from all of the jet-knots is synchrotron in origin.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journal, vol.62
Ras-mediated phosphorylation of a conserved threonine residue enhances the transactivation activities of c-Ets1 and c-Ets2
The Ras oncogene products regulate the expression of genes in transformed cells, and members of the Ets family of transcription factors have been implicated in this process. To determine which Ets factors are the targets of Ras signaling pathways, the abilities of several Ets factors to activate Ras-responsive enhancer (RRE) reporters in the presence of oncogenic Ras were examined. In transient transfection assay, reporters containing RREs composed of Ets-AP-1 binding sites could be activated 30-fold in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and 80-fold in the macrophage-like line RAW264 by the combination of Ets1 or Ets2 and Ras but not by several other Ets factors that were tested in the assay. Ets2 and Ras also superactivated an RRE composed of Ets-Ets binding sites, but the Ets-responsive promoter of the c-fms gene was not superactivated. Mutation of a threonine residue to alanine in the conserved amino-terminal regions of Ets1 and Ets2 (threonine 38 and threonine 72, respectively) abrogated the ability of each of these proteins to superactivate reporter gene expression. Phosphoamino acid analysis of radiolabeled Ets2 revealed that Ras induced normally absent threonine-specific phosphorylation of the protein. The Ras-dependent increase in threonine phosphorylation was not observed in Ets2 proteins that had the conserved threonine 72 residue mutated to alanine or serine. These data indicate that Ets1 and Ets2 are specific nuclear targets of Ras signaling events and that phosphorylation of a conserved threonine residue is a necessary molecular component of Ras-mediated activation of these transcription factors
B-virus from pet macaque monkeys: an emerging threat in the United States?
Of primary concern when evaluating macaque bites are bacterial and B-virus infections. B-virus infection is highly prevalent (80% to 90%) in adult macaques and may cause a potentially fatal meningoencephalitis in humans. We examined seven nonoccupational exposure incidents involving 24 persons and eight macaques. Six macaques were tested for herpes B; four (67%) were seropositive. A common observation was that children were more than three times as likely to be bitten than adults. The virus must be assumed to be a potential health hazard in macaque bite wounds; this risk makes macaques unsuitable as pets
No Tradeoff between Coherence and Sub-Poissonianity for Heisenberg-Limited Lasers
The Heisenberg limit to laser coherence -- the number of
photons in the maximally populated mode of the laser beam -- is the fourth
power of the number of excitations inside the laser. We generalize the previous
proof of this upper bound scaling by dropping the requirement that the beam
photon statistics be Poissonian (i.e., Mandel's ). We then show that the
relation between and sub-Poissonianity () is win-win, not a
tradeoff. For both regular (non-Markovian) pumping with semi-unitary gain
(which allows ), and random (Markovian) pumping with
optimized gain, is maximized when is minimized.Comment: This is a companion letter to the manuscript entitled "Optimized
Laser Models with Heisenberg-Limited Coherence and Sub-Poissonian Beam Photon
Statistics", arxiv:2208.14082. 6 pages, 2 figure
Optimized Laser Models with Heisenberg-Limited Coherence and Sub-Poissonian Beam Photon Statistics
Recently it has been shown that it is possible for a laser to produce a
stationary beam with a coherence (quantified as the mean photon number at
spectral peak) which scales as the fourth power of the mean number of
excitations stored within the laser, this being quadratically larger than the
standard or Schawlow-Townes limit [1]. Moreover, this was analytically proven
to be the ultimate quantum limit (Heisenberg limit) scaling under defining
conditions for CW lasers, plus a strong assumption about the properties of the
output beam. In Ref. [2], we show that the latter can be replaced by a weaker
assumption, which allows for highly sub-Poissonian output beams, without
changing the upper bound scaling or its achievability. In this Paper, we
provide details of the calculations in Ref. [2], and introduce three new
families of laser models which may be considered as generalizations of those
presented in that work. Each of these families of laser models is parameterized
by a real number, , with corresponding to the original models. The
parameter space of these laser families is numerically investigated in detail,
where we explore the influence of these parameters on both the coherence and
photon statistics of the laser beams. Two distinct regimes for the coherence
may be identified based on the choice of , where for , each family of
models exhibits Heisenberg-limited beam coherence, while for , the
Heisenberg limit is no longer attained. Moreover, in the former regime, we
derive formulae for the beam coherence of each of these three laser families
which agree with the numerics. We find that the optimal parameter is in fact
, not .Comment: This is a companion manuscript to the letter entitled "No Tradeoff
between Coherence and Sub-Poissonianity for Heisenberg-Limited Lasers",
arxiv:2208.14081. 22 pages, 11 figure
Repetitions in infinite palindrome-rich words
Rich words are characterized by containing the maximum possible number of
distinct palindromes. Several characteristic properties of rich words have been
studied; yet the analysis of repetitions in rich words still involves some
interesting open problems. We address lower bounds on the repetition threshold
of infinite rich words over 2 and 3-letter alphabets, and construct a candidate
infinite rich word over the alphabet with a small critical
exponent of . This represents the first progress on an open
problem of Vesti from 2017.Comment: 12 page
UVSat: a concept of an ultraviolet/optical photometric satellite
Time-series photometry from space in the ultraviolet can be presently done
with only a few platforms, none of which is able to provide wide-field
long-term high-cadence photometry. We present a concept of UVSat, a twin space
telescope which will be capable to perform this kind of photometry, filling an
observational niche. The satellite will host two telescopes, one for
observations in the ultraviolet, the other for observations in the optical
band. We also briefly show what science can be done with UVSat.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of
the PAS (Proc. of the 2nd BRITE Science conference, Innsbruck
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