189 research outputs found
Extracting Large Scale Spatio-Temporal Descriptions from Social Media
The ability to track large-scale events as they happen is essential for understanding them and coordinating reactions in an appropriate and timely manner. This is true, for example, in emergency management and decision-making support, where the constraints on both quality and latency of the extracted information can be stringent. In some contexts, real-time and large-scale sensor data and forecasts may be available. We are exploring the hypothesis that this kind of data can be augmented with the ingestion of semistructured data sources, like social media. Social media can diffuse valuable knowledge, such as direct witness or expert opinions, while their noisy nature makes them not trivial to manage. This knowledge can be used to complement and confirm other spatio-temporal descriptions of events, highlighting previously unseen or undervalued aspects. The critical aspects of this investigation, such as event sensing, multilingualism, selection of visual evidence, and geolocation, are currently being studied as a foundation for a unified spatio-temporal representation of multi-modal descriptions. The paper presents, together with an introduction on the topics, the work done so far on this line of research, also presenting case studies relevant to the posed challenges, focusing on emergencies caused by natural disasters
Melatonin and phytomelatonin: Chemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism, distribution and bioactivity in plants and animals—an overview
, Abstract: Melatonin is a ubiquitous indolamine, largely investigated for its key role in the regulation of several physiological processes in both animals and plants. In the last century, it was reported that this molecule may be produced in high concentrations by several species belonging to the plant kingdom and stored in specialized tissues. In this review, the main information related to the chemistry of melatonin and its metabolism has been summarized. Furthermore, the biosynthetic pathway characteristics of animal and plant cells have been compared, and the main differences between the two systems highlighted. Additionally, in order to investigate the distribution of this indolamine in the plant kingdom, distribution cluster analysis was performed using a database composed by 47 previously published articles reporting the content of melatonin in different plant families, species and tissues. Finally, the potential pharmacological and biostimulant benefits derived from the administration of exogenous melatonin on animals or plants via the intake of dietary supplements or the application of biostimulant formulation have been largely discussed
The free energy in a magnetic field and the universal scaling equation of state for the three-dimensional Ising model
We have substantially extended the high-temperature and low-magnetic-field
(and the related low-temperature and high-magnetic-field) bivariate expansions
of the free energy for the conventional three-dimensional Ising model and for a
variety of other spin systems generally assumed to belong to the same critical
universality class. In particular, we have also derived the analogous
expansions for the Ising models with spin s=1,3/2,.. and for the lattice
euclidean scalar field theory with quartic self-interaction, on the simple
cubic and the body-centered cubic lattices. Our bivariate high-temperature
expansions, which extend through K^24, enable us to compute, through the same
order, all higher derivatives of the free energy with respect to the field,
namely all higher susceptibilities. These data make more accurate checks
possible, in critical conditions, both of the scaling and the universality
properties with respect to the lattice and the interaction structure and also
help to improve an approximate parametric representation of the critical
equation of state for the three-dimensional Ising model universality class.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figure
M-Theory solutions with AdS factors
Solutions of D=7 maximal gauged supergravity are constructed with metrics
that are a product of a n-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, with
n=2,3,4,5, and certain Einstein manifolds. The gauge fields have the same form
as in the recently constructed solutions describing the near-horizon limits of
M5-branes wrapping supersymmetric cycles. The new solutions do not preserve any
supersymmetry and can be uplifted to obtain new solutions of D=11 supergravity,
which are warped and twisted products of the D=7 metric with a squashed
four-sphere. Some aspects of the stability of the solutions are discussed.Comment: 30 pages. References adde
Brane-world Kaluza-Klein reductions and Branes on the Brane
We present a systematic study of a new type of consistent ``Brane-world
Kaluza-Klein Reduction,'' which describe fully non-linear deformations of
co-dimension one objects that arise as solutions of a large class of gauged
supergravity theories in diverse dimensions, and whose world-volume theories
are described by ungauged supergravities with one half of the original
supersymmetry. In addition, we provide oxidations of these Ansatze which are in
general related to sphere compactified higher dimensional string theory or
M-theory. Within each class we also provide explicit solutions of brane
configurations localised on the world-brane. We show that at the Cauchy horizon
(in the transverse dimension of the consistently Kaluza-Klein reduced
world-brane) there is a curvature singularity for any configuration with a
non-null Riemann curvature or a non-vanishing Ricci scalar that lives in the
world-brane. Since the massive Kaluza-Klein modes can be consistently
decoupled, they cannot participate in regulating these singularities.Comment: latex, 30 page
Feynman Rules for the Rational Part of the Standard Model One-loop Amplitudes in the 't Hooft-Veltman Scheme
We study Feynman rules for the rational part of the Standard Model
amplitudes at one-loop level in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme.
Comparing our results for quantum chromodynamics and electroweak 1-loop
amplitudes with that obtained based on the Kreimer-Korner-Schilcher (KKS)
scheme, we find the latter result can be recovered when our
scheme becomes identical (by setting in our expressions)
with the KKS scheme. As an independent check, we also calculate Feynman rules
obtained in the KKS scheme, finding our results in complete agreement with
formulae presented in the literature. Our results, which are studied in two
different schemes, may be useful for clarifying the
problem in dimensional regularization. They are helpful to eliminate or find
ambiguities arising from different dimensional regularization schemes.Comment: Version published in JHEP, presentation improved, 41 pages, 10
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Fermionic R-Operator and Integrability of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model
We propose a new type of the Yang-Baxter equation (YBE) and the decorated
Yang-Baxter equation (DYBE). Those relations for the fermionic R-operator were
introduced recently as a tool to treat the integrability of the fermion models.
Using the YBE and the DYBE for the XX fermion model, we construct the fermionic
R-operator for the one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model. It gives another proof
of the integrability of the 1D Hubbard model. Furthermore a new approach to the
SO(4) symmetry of the 1D Hubbard model is discussed.Comment: 25 page
The UV and IR Origin of Nonabelian Chiral Gauge Anomalies on Noncommutative Minkowski Space-time
We discuss both the UV and IR origin of the one-loop triangle gauge anomalies
for noncommutative nonabelian chiral gauge theories with fundamental, adjoint
and bi-fundamental fermions for U(N) groups. We find that gauge anomalies only
come from planar triangle diagrams, the non-planar triangle contributions
giving rise to no breaking of the Ward identies. Generally speaking, theories
with fundamental and bi-fundamental chiral matter are anomalous. Theories with
only adjoint chiral fermions are anomaly free.Comment: PlainTex, 21 pages, 2 eps figures, corrected some typo
Orbifolds and Flows from Gauged Supergravity
We examine orbifolds of the IIB string via gauged supergravity. For the
gravity duals of the A_{n-1} quiver gauge theories, we extract the massless
degrees of freedom and assemble them into multiplets of N=4 gauged supergravity
in five dimensions. We examine the embedding of the gauge group into the
isometry group of the scalar manifold, as well as the symmetries of the scalar
potential. From this we find that there is a large SU(1,n) symmetry group which
relates different RG flows in the dual quiver gauge theory. We find that this
symmetry implies an extension of the usual duality between ten-dimensional IIB
solutions which involves exchanging geometric moduli with background fluxes.Comment: 37 pages, harvma
Anti-de Sitter Supersymmetry
We give a pedagogical introduction to certain aspects of supersymmetric field
theories in anti-de Sitter space. Among them are the presence of masslike terms
in massless wave equations, irreducible unitary representations and the
phenomenon of multiplet shortening.Comment: Lectures presented by B. de Wit at the Winter School of Theoretical
Physics, Polanica, Poland, February 1999. 23 pp., LateX file, requires
packages latexsym, amsfonts, cl2emult.cl
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