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Impulse-induced optimum signal amplification in scale-free networks
Optimizing information transmission across a network is an essential task for controlling and manipulating generic information-processing systems. Here, we show how topological amplification effects in scale-free networks of signaling devices are optimally enhanced when the impulse transmitted by periodic external signals (time integral over two consecutive zeros) is maximum. This is demonstrated theoretically by means of a star-like network of overdamped bistable systems subjected to generic zero-mean periodic signals and confirmed numerically by simulations of scale-free networks of such systems. Our results show that the enhancer effect of increasing values of the signal's impulse is due to a correlative increase of the energy transmitted by the periodic signals, while it is found to be resonant-like with respect to the topology-induced amplification mechanism.P.J.M. and R.C. acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad (Spain) through the FIS2014-55867-P and FIS2012-34902 projects, respectively. P.J.M. acknowledges financial support from the Gobierno de Aragon (Spain, E19-Grupo FENOL) and European Social Funds. R.C. acknowledges financial support from the Junta de Extremadura (JEx, Spain) through project GR15146.Peer Reviewe
Drastic disorder-induced reduction of signal amplification in scale-free networks
Understanding information transmission across a network is a fundamental task for controlling and manipulating both biological and manmade information-processing systems. Here we show how topological resonant-like amplification effects in scale-free networks of signaling devices are drastically reduced when phase disorder in the external signals is considered. This is demonstrated theoretically by means of a starlike network of overdamped bistable systems, and confirmed numerically by simulations of scale-free networks of such systems. The taming effect of the phase disorder is found to be sensitive to the amplification's strength, while the topology-induced amplification mechanism is robust against this kind of quenched disorder in the sense that it does not significantly change the values of the coupling strength where amplification is maximum in its absence.R. C. and P. J. M. acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio de EconomÃa
y Competitividad (Mineco, Spain) through FIS2012-34902 and FIS2011-25167 projects, respectively. R.C. acknowledges financial support from the Junta de Extremadura (JEx, Spain) through project GR10045.Peer Reviewe
Ratchet universality in the directed motion of spheres by unbiased driving forces in viscous fluids
Directed motion of a sphere immersed in a viscous fluid and subjected solely to a nonlinear drag force and zero-average biharmonic forces is studied in the absence of any periodic substrate potential. We consider the case of two mutually perpendicular sinusoidal forces of periods T and T/2, respectively, which cannot yield any ratchet effect when acting separately, while inducing directed motion by acting simultaneously. Remarkably and unexpectedly, the dependence on the relative amplitude of the two sinusoidal forces of the average terminal velocity is theoretically explained from the theory of ratchet universality, while extensive numerical simulations confirmed its predictions in the adiabatic limit. Additionally, the dependence on the dimensionless driving frequency of the dimensionless average terminal velocity far from the adiabatic limit is qualitatively explained with the aid of the vibrational mechanics approach
Tectonothermal evolution associated with crustal escale extension: an hercynian example from the Tormes gneiss dome (NW Salamanca, Iberian Massif)
[Abstract] The tectonothermal Variscan evolution ofthe Tormes Gneiss Dome is controlled by a subhorizontal ductile shear zone of crustal scale and extensional characteristics, that induced a quick exhumation ofthe deep parts ofthe metamorphic complex during crustal thinning. The shearing affected a broad band of metamorphic rocks but, as the temperature decreased, became progressively concentrated in a low-grade ductile detachment that separates two distinct units, characterized by their lithology and different tectonothermal evolution. Kinematic indicators in non-coaxial fabrics show a displacement of the
hangingwall to the SE, i. e., parallel to the trend of the foldbelt. The subhorizontal shearing is related to the extensional collapse ofthe variscan crust, previously thickened during the collision tectonics
de Sitter black hole with a conformally coupled scalar field in four dimensions
A four-dimensional black hole solution of the Einstein equations with a
positive cosmological constant, coupled to a conformal scalar field, is given.
There is a curvature singularity at the origin, and scalar field diverges
inside the event horizon. The electrically charged solution, which has a fixed
charge-to-mass ratio is also found. The quartic self-interacting coupling
becomes bounded in terms of Newton's and the cosmological constants.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, CECS style, energy conditions are discussed and
some references were added. To appear in Phys. Rev.
Role of climate variability on deep-water dynamics and deoxygenation during sapropel deposition: New insights from a palaeoceanographic empirical approach
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111601Modern marine settings are experiencing rapid deoxygenation mainly forced by global warming and anthropogenic
eutrophication. Therefore, studies that assess the role of climate variability in large spatiotemporal
deoxygenations during past climate changes are needed to better comprehend the consequences of the current
global warming and ocean deoxygenation. In this respect, deep marine sediments associated to past oxic-toanoxic
transitions are useful palaeoarchives for understanding the interplay between climate variability, deepwater
dynamics and large-scale deoxygenation. Moreover, they can offer long-term perspectives to modern
marine settings that are suffering oxygen depletion due to climate change and anthropogenic pressure. In
particular, sapropel layers from the Middle Pleistocene to the Holocene are excellent palaeoarchives of past
large-scale deoxygenation events, since (i) they occurred during a similar Mediterranean hydrogeographic
configuration to the present, (ii) have a robust chronological control, and (iii) previous studies have reconstructed
the climate conditions that ruled during their deposition. In this work, we have applied empirical
palaeoceanographic conceptual models to five sapropels (S1, S5, S6, S7 and S8) in three Eastern Mediterranean
(EM) settings. The models suggest that the hydrographic regimes of all studied sapropels can be considered as
analogues to those observed in certain modern marine restricted settings. The results obtained support the idea
that climate and the degree of surface-water freshening are the primary factors that influence deep-water dynamics
in marine restricted settings, that in turn control the frequency and intensity of bottom-water deoxygenation
and the stability and depth of the chemocline. The deepest EM sites are the most vulnerable locations to
develop bottom-water restriction and deoxygenation. Local hydrogeographic factors play an essential role in the
extent and frequency of bottom-water deoxygenation. Particulate shuttling was very intense during sapropel
deposition and water-mass exchange between EM and Western Mediterranean controlled the intensity of the
basin reservoir effect and Mo budget in EM.Grants PID2019-104624RB-I00, PID2019-104625RB-100TED2021-131697B-C22 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/5011000110
33,Grants FEDER/Junta de AndalucÃa P18-RT-3804P18-RT-
4074Groups RNM-179RNM-178 funded by Junta
de AndalucaLausanne University
(Switzerland) for Rock-eval analyses and TOC measurementsCenter for Scientific Instrumentation (CIC, University
of Granada)XRF Unit of the IACT (CSIC-UGR) for the ICP and
XRF analyse
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