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Exchange bias effect in the phase separated Nd_{1-x}Sr_{x}CoO_3 at the spontaneous ferromagnetic/ferrimagnetic interface
We report the new results of exchange bias effect in Nd_{1-x}Sr_{x}CoO_3 for
x = 0.20 and 0.40, where the exchange bias phenomenon is involved with the
ferrimagnetic (FI) state in a spontaneously phase separated system. The
zero-field cooled magnetization exhibits the FI (T_{FI}) and ferromagnetic
(T_C) transitions at ~ 23 and \sim 70 K, respectively for x = 0.20. The
negative horizontal and positive vertical shifts of the magnetic hysteresis
loops are observed when the system is cooled through T_{FI} in presence of a
positive static magnetic field. Training effect is observed for x = 0.20, which
could be interpreted by a spin configurational relaxation model. The
unidirectional shifts of the hysteresis loops as a function of temperature
exhibit the absence of exchange bias above T_{FI} for x = 0.20. The analysis of
the cooling field dependence of exchange bias field and magnetization indicates
that the ferromagnetic (FM) clusters consist of single magnetic domain with
average size around \sim 20 and ~ 40 \AA ~ for x = 0.20 and 0.40, respectively.
The sizes of the FM clusters are close to the percolation threshold for x =
0.20, which grow and coalesce to form the bigger size for x = 0.40 resulting in
a weak exchange bias effect.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
Gluonic Dissociation Revisited : I. Fugacity, Flux And Formation Time Effects
We revisit the standard treatment [Xu, Kharzeev, Satz and Wang, Phys. Rev. C
{\bf 53}, 3051 (1996)] of suppression due to gluonic bombardment in an
equilibrating quark-gluon plasma. Effects arising from gluon fugacity, relative
flux, and meson formation time are correctly incorporated in
the formulation of the gluon number density, velocity-weighted cross section,
and the survival probability. Our new formulae are applied to numerically study
the pattern of suppression in the central rapidity region at RHIC/LHC
energies. The temperature and transverse momentum dependence of our graphs have
noticeable differences from those of Xu et al.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
Dimension reduction for integrative survival analysis
We propose a constrained maximum partial likelihood estimator for dimension
reduction in integrative (e.g., pan-cancer) survival analysis with
high-dimensional covariates. We assume that for each population in the study,
the hazard function follows a distinct Cox proportional hazards model. To
borrow information across populations, we assume that all of the hazard
functions depend only on a small number of linear combinations of the
predictors. We estimate these linear combinations using an algorithm based on
"distance-to-set" penalties. This allows us to impose both low-rankness and
sparsity. We derive asymptotic results which reveal that our regression
coefficient estimator is more efficient than fitting a separate proportional
hazards model for each population. Numerical experiments suggest that our
method outperforms related competitors under various data generating models. We
use our method to perform a pan-cancer survival analysis relating protein
expression to survival across 18 distinct cancer types. Our approach identifies
six linear combinations, depending on only 20 proteins, which explain survival
across the cancer types. Finally, we validate our fitted model on four external
datasets and show that our estimated coefficients can lead to better prediction
than popular competitors.Comment: Version accepted for publication by Biometric
Nuclear reaction studies of unstable nuclei using relativistic mean field formalisms in conjunction with Glauber model
We study nuclear reaction cross-sections for stable and unstable projectiles
and targets within Glauber model, using densities obtained from various
relativistic mean field formalisms. The calculated cross-sections are compared
with the experimental data in some specific cases. We also evaluate the
differential scattering cross-sections at several incident energies, and
observe that the results found from various densities are similar at smaller
scattering angles, whereas a systematic deviation is noticed at large angles.
In general, these results agree fairly well with the experimental data.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PR
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