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L'Archivio del Concilio Vaticano II: storia e sviluppo.
El artículo estudia los hechos que, después
de la Asamblea Conciliar, han llevado a la reunificación
en una única sede de los archivos de cada una de las
Comisiones y Secretariados (1966-1967), a la institución
de una Oficina del Archivo del Concilio Vaticano ii
(1967), y a su reordenamiento y transferencia final en el
Archivo Secreto Vaticano (2000), donde se ha realizado
un largo trabajo de inventariado, aún en marcha, de la
ingente documentación. Actualmente, están a disposición
de los estudiosos 17 volúmenes de inventario que
comprenden los documentos de la Secretaría General y
de todas las comisiones y secretariados a excepción del
Secretariado para la Unidad de los cristianos
Three-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau simulation of a vortex line displaced by a zigzag of pinning spheres
A vortex line is shaped by a zigzag of pinning centers and we study here how
far the stretched vortex line is able to follow this path. The pinning center
is described by an insulating sphere of coherence length size such that in its
surface the de Gennes boundary condition applies. We calculate the free energy
density of this system in the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau theory and study
the critical displacement beyond which the vortex line is detached from the
pinning center.Comment: Submitted to special issue of Prammna-Journal of Physics devoted to
the Vortex State Studie
Landau and Ott scaling for the kinetic energy density and the low conventional superconductors, and Nb
The scaling approach recently proposed by Landau and Ott for isothermal
magnetization curves is extended to the average kinetic energy density of the
condensate. Two low superconductors, Nb and are studied
and their isothermal reversible magnetization shown to display Landau and Ott
scaling. Good agreement is obtained for the upper critical field ,
determined from the Abrikosov approximation for the reversible region (standard
linear extrapolation of the magnetization curve), and from the maximum of the
kinetic energy curves. For the full range of data, which includes the
irreversible region, the isothermal curves for show an
impressive collapse into a single curve over the entire range of field
measurements. The Nb isothermal curves exhibit the interesting
feature of a constant and temperature independent minimum value
Electron and ion stagnation at the collision front between two laser produced plasmas
We report results from a combined optical interferometric and spectrally resolved imaging study on colliding laser produced aluminium plasmas. A Nomarski interferometer was used to probe the spatio-temporal distribution of electron densities at the collision front. Analysis of the resulting interferograms reveals the formation and evolution of a localized electron density feature with a well-defined profile reminiscent of a stagnation layer. Electron stagnation begins at a time delay of 10 ns after the peak of the plasma generating laser pulse. The peak electron density was found to exceed 10^19 cm^−3 and the layer remained well defined up to a time delay of ca 100 ns. Temporally and spectrally resolved optical imaging was also undertaken, to compare the Al^+ ion distribution with that of the 2D electron density profile. This revealed nascent stagnation of singly charged ions at a delay time of 20 ns. We attribute these results to the effects of space charge separation in the seed plasma plumes
A guided search non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for the multi-objective university course timetabling problem
Copyright @ Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.The university course timetabling problem is a typical combinatorial optimization problem. This paper tackles the multi-objective university course timetabling problem (MOUCTP) and proposes a guided search non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm to solve the MOUCTP. The proposed algorithm integrates a guided search technique, which uses a memory to store useful information extracted from previous good solutions to guide the generation of new solutions, and two local search schemes to enhance its performance for the MOUCTP. The experimental results based on a set of test problems show that the proposed algorithm is efficient for solving the MOUCTP
The ground states of the two-component order parameter superconductor
We show that in presence of an applied external field the two-component order
parameter superconductor falls in two categories of ground states, namely, in
the traditional Abrikosov ground state or in a new ground state fitted to
describe a superconducting layer with texture, that is, patched regions
separated by a phase difference of . The existence of these two kinds of
ground states follows from the sole assumption that the total supercurrent is
the sum of the two individual supercurrents and is independent of any
consideration about the free energy expansion. Uniquely defined relations
between the current density and the superfluid density hold for these two
ground states, which also determine the magnetization in terms of average
values of the order parameters. Because these ground state conditions are also
Bogomolny equations we construct the free energy for the two-component
superconductor which admits the Bogomolny solution at a special coupling value.Comment: 5 page
SERPINB3 delays glomerulonephritis and attenuates the lupus-like disease in lupus murine models by inducing a more tolerogenic immune phenotype
Objective: To explore the effects of SERPINB3 administration in murine lupus models with a focus on lupus-like nephritis. Methods: 40 NZB/W F1 mice were subdivided into 4 groups and intraperitoneally injected with recombinant SERPINB3 (7.5 \u3bcg/0.1 mL or 15 \u3bcg/0.1 mL) or PBS (0.1 mL) before (group 1 and 2) or after (group 3 and 4) the development of proteinuria ( 65100 mg/dl). Two additional mice groups were provided by including 20 MRL/lpr mice which were prophylactically injected with SERPINB3 (10 mice, group 5) or PBS (10 mice, group 6). Time of occurrence and levels of anti-dsDNA and anti-C1q antibodies, proteinuria and serum creatinine, overall- and proteinuria-free survival were assessed in mice followed up to natural death. Histological analysis was performed in kidneys of both lupus models. The Th17:Treg cell ratio was assessed by flow-cytometry in splenocytes of treated and untreated MRL/lpr mice. Statistical analysis was performed using non parametric tests and Kaplan-Meier curves, when indicated. Results: Autoantibody levels and proteinuria were significantly decreased and time of occurrence significantly delayed in SERPINB3-treated mice vs. controls. In agreement with these findings, proteinuria-free and overall survival were significantly improved in SERPINB3-treated groups vs. controls. Histological analysis demonstrated a lower prevalence of severe tubular lesions in kidneys of group 5 vs. group 6. SERPINB3-treated mice showed an overall trend toward a reduced prevalence of severe lesions in both strains. Th17:Treg ratio was significantly decreased in splenocytes of MRL/lpr mice treated with SERPINB3, compared to untreated control mice. Conclusions: SERPINB3 significantly improves disease course and delays the onset of severe glomerulonephritis in lupus-prone mice, possibly inducing a more tolerogenic immune phenotype
On Compact Routing for the Internet
While there exist compact routing schemes designed for grids, trees, and
Internet-like topologies that offer routing tables of sizes that scale
logarithmically with the network size, we demonstrate in this paper that in
view of recent results in compact routing research, such logarithmic scaling on
Internet-like topologies is fundamentally impossible in the presence of
topology dynamics or topology-independent (flat) addressing. We use analytic
arguments to show that the number of routing control messages per topology
change cannot scale better than linearly on Internet-like topologies. We also
employ simulations to confirm that logarithmic routing table size scaling gets
broken by topology-independent addressing, a cornerstone of popular
locator-identifier split proposals aiming at improving routing scaling in the
presence of network topology dynamics or host mobility. These pessimistic
findings lead us to the conclusion that a fundamental re-examination of
assumptions behind routing models and abstractions is needed in order to find a
routing architecture that would be able to scale ``indefinitely.''Comment: This is a significantly revised, journal version of cs/050802
Low momentum propagators at two loops in gluon mass model
We compute the two loop corrections to the gluon propagator for low momentum
in a gluon mass model. This model has recently been proposed as an alternative
to the Gribov construction in the way it handles Gribov copies in the gauge
fixing. The corrections provide improvements for estimating the point where the
gluon propagator freezes in relation to lattice data.Comment: 16 latex pages, 1 figur
Observation of Vortex Matching Phenomena in Antidot Array of NbN Thin Film
We report vortex matching phenomenon in rectangular antidot array fabricated
on epitaxial NbN thin film. The antidot array was fabricated using Focussed Ion
Beam milling technique. The magneto-transport measurements points to a period
doubling transition at higher magnetic field for rectangular lattices. The
results are discussed within the light of several models including the
multi-vortex model, the matched lattice model and the super-matched lattice
model.Comment: Added references, modified abstract and discussions and corrected
typo-graphic errors. Accepted for proceedings of M2S-IX 2009, Tokyo (Physica
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