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The impact of supercomputers on experimentation: A view from a national laboratory
The relative roles of large scale scientific computers and physical experiments in several science and engineering disciplines are discussed. Increasing dependence on computers is shown to be motivated both by the rapid growth in computer speed and memory, which permits accurate numerical simulation of complex physical phenomena, and by the rapid reduction in the cost of performing a calculation, which makes computation an increasingly attractive complement to experimentation. Computer speed and memory requirements are presented for selected areas of such disciplines as fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, chemistry, atmospheric sciences, astronomy, and astrophysics, together with some examples of the complementary nature of computation and experiment. Finally, the impact of the emerging role of computers in the technical disciplines is discussed in terms of both the requirements for experimentation and the attainment of previously inaccessible information on physical processes
THE IMPACTS OF MARKET POWER AND EXCHANGE RATES ON PRICES OF EUROPEAN UNION SOYBEAN IMPORTS..
This study examines whether the EU, the world's largest importer, exercises market power over soybean imports. Results, based on 1975-2000 data, suggest that the EU has practiced price discrimination against imports from Argentina and Brazil. The evidence for the practice of pricing-to-market based on exchange rate changes is mixed.International Relations/Trade,
Strong Correlations Produce the Curie-Weiss Phase of NaCoO
Within the t-J model we study several experimentally accessible properties of
the 2D-triangular lattice system NaCoO, using a numerically exact
canonical ensemble study of 12 to 18 site triangular toroidal clusters as well
as the icosahedron. Focusing on the doping regime of , we study the
temperature dependent chemical potential, specific heat, magnetic
susceptibility and the dynamic Hall coefficient as well as the
magnetic field dependent thermopower. We find a crossover between two phases
near in susceptibility and field suppression of the thermopower
arising from strong correlations. An interesting connection is found between
the temperature dependence of the diamagnetic susceptibility and the
Hall-coefficient. We predict a large thermopower enhancement, arising from {\em
transport corrections} to the Heikes-Mott formula, in a model situation where
the sign of hopping is reversed from that applicable to NaCoO.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
The Electrostatic Persistence Length Calculated from Monte Carlo, Variational and Perturbation Methods
Monte Carlo simulations and variational calculations using a Gaussian ansatz
are applied to a model consisting of a flexible linear polyelectrolyte chain as
well as to an intrinsically stiff chain with up to 1000 charged monomers.
Addition of salt is treated implicitly through a screened Coulomb potential for
the electrostatic interactions.
For the flexible model the electrostatic persistence length shows roughly
three regimes in its dependence on the Debye-H\"{u}ckel screening length,
.As long as the salt content is low and is longer
than the end-to-end distance, the electrostatic persistence length varies only
slowly with . Decreasing the screening length, a controversial
region is entered. We find that the electrostatic persistence length scales as
, in agreement with experiment on flexible
polyelectrolytes, where is a strength parameter measuring the
electrostatic interactions within the polyelectrolyte. For screening lengths
much shorter than the bond length, the dependence becomes
quadratic in the variational calculation. The simulations suffer from numerical
problems in this regime, but seem to give a relationship half-way between
linear and quadratic.
A low temperature expansion only reproduces the first regime and a high
temperature expansion, which treats the electrostatic interactions as a
perturbation to a Gaussian chain, gives a quadratic dependence on the Debye
length.
For a sufficiently stiff chain, the persistence length varies quadratically
with in agreement with earlier theories.Comment: 20 pages LaTeX, 9 postscript figure
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale, 1995-1996
Annual Report 1995-1996https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/wolf-annualreports/1025/thumbnail.jp
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale, 1991-1992
Annual Report 1991-1992https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/wolf-annualreports/1029/thumbnail.jp
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale, 1996-1997
Annual Report 1996-1997https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/wolf-annualreports/1024/thumbnail.jp
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale, 1989-1990
Annual Report 1989-1990 (Covering the thirty-second year of research)https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/wolf-annualreports/1031/thumbnail.jp
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale, 1997-1998
Annual Report 1997-1998https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/wolf-annualreports/1023/thumbnail.jp
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