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Heat asymmetries in nanoscale conductors: The role of decoherence and inelasticity
We investigate the heat flow between different terminals in an interacting
coherent conductor when inelastic scattering is present. We illustrate our
theory with a two-terminal quantum dot setup. Two types of heat asymmetries are
investigated: electric asymmetry , which describes deviations of the
heat current in a given contact when voltages are exchanged, and contact
asymmetry , which quantifies the difference between the power
measured in two distinct electrodes. In the linear regime, both asymmetries
agree and are proportional to the Seebeck coefficient, the latter following at
low temperature a Mott-type formula with a dot transmission renormalized by
inelasticity. Interestingly, in the nonlinear regime of transport we find
and this asymmetry departure depends on the applied bias
configuration. Our results may be important for the recent experiments by Lee
et al. [Nature (London) 498, 209 (2013)], where these asymmetries were
measured.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes; published versio
Un modelo de intervención para una motricidad expresiva y creativa
Las actividades físicas artístico-expresivas desarrollan el potencial expresivo, comunicativo,estético y creador del niño. Pero para poder hacerlo con éxito precisamos herramientas didácticas, de acuerdo con los nuevos paradigmas educativos, que posibiliten llevarlo a cabo de forma práctica en el aula. En el presente artículo reflexionamos sobre los principios que deben regir su diseño e implementación, utilizando los recursos que nos brindan los procesos creativos, y proponemos un modelo de intervención didáctica elaborado específicamente para tal fin: el proceso 3-E
MOSAIX: a tool to built large mosaics from GALEX images
Large sky surveys are providing a huge amount of information for studies of
the interstellar medium, the galactic structure or the cosmic web. Setting into
a common frame information coming from different wavelengths, over large fields
of view, is needed for this kind of research. GALEX is the only nearly all-sky
survey at ultraviolet wavelengths and contains fundamental information for all
types of studies. GALEX field of view is circular embedded in a squared matrix
of 3840 x 3840 pixels. This fact makes it hard to get GALEX images properly
overlapped with the existing astronomical tools such as Aladin or Montage. We
developed our own software for this purpose. In this article, we describe this
software and makes it available to the community.Comment: 7 pages, including 8 figures, accepted by Astrophysics and Space
Scienc
Double responsibility of foreign language teachers: Primary student-teachers’ perceptions of linguistic and cultural content
Scholars all over the world have been arguing for foreign language instruction which combines linguistic and cultural content. Eliminating the cultural side results in a deficient process. This study explored prospective teachers’ perceptions of both constituents, since they will ultimately be responsible for their implementation in the foreign language classroom. To this end, 137 students from three European universities were chosen and asked to fill out an online questionnaire with Likert scale items. Data was collected and interpreted using the free statistics software package R (R Core Team, 2019). The findings confirmed that the relevance of linguistic / cultural issues was unanimously acknowledged (98,5%), speaking was appointed as the most desired target skill (97,1%), interpersonal relations (88,3%) as the most important aspect of socio-cultural knowledge, and lessons with native speakers (94,2%) as the most relevant classroom resourc
Automating decision making to help establish norm-based regulations
Norms have been extensively proposed as coordination mechanisms for both
agent and human societies. Nevertheless, choosing the norms to regulate a
society is by no means straightforward. The reasons are twofold. First, the
norms to choose from may not be independent (i.e, they can be related to each
other). Second, different preference criteria may be applied when choosing the
norms to enact. This paper advances the state of the art by modeling a series
of decision-making problems that regulation authorities confront when choosing
the policies to establish. In order to do so, we first identify three different
norm relationships -namely, generalisation, exclusivity, and substitutability-
and we then consider norm representation power, cost, and associated moral
values as alternative preference criteria. Thereafter, we show that the
decision-making problems faced by policy makers can be encoded as linear
programs, and hence solved with the aid of state-of-the-art solvers
Online Automated Synthesis of Compact Normative Systems
Peer reviewedPostprin
Variation of the ultraviolet extinction law across the Taurus-Auriga star forming complex. A GALEX based study
The Taurus-Auriga molecular complex (TMC) is the main laboratory for the
study of low mass star formation. The density and properties of interstellar
dust are expected to vary across the TMC. These variations trace important
processes such as dust nucleation or the magnetic field coupling with the
cloud. In this article, we show how the combination of near ultraviolet (NUV)
and infrared (IR) photometry can be used to derive the strength of the 2175
\AA\ bump and thus any enhancement in the abundance of small dust grains and
PAHs in the dust grains size distribution. This technique is applied to the
envelope of the TMC, mapped by the GALEX All Sky Survey (AIS). UV and IR
photometric data have been retrieved from the GALEX-AIS and the 2MASS
catalogues. NUV and K-band star counts have been used to identify the areas in
the cloud envelope where the 2175 \AA\ bump is weaker than in the diffuse ISM
namely, the low column density extensions of L1495, L1498 and L1524 in Taurus,
L1545, L1548, L1519, L1513 in Auriga and L1482-83 in the California region.
This finding agrees with previous results on dust evolution derived from
Spitzer data and suggests that dust grains begin to decouple from the
environmental galactic magnetic field already in the envelope.Comment: Accepted in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ
Tratamientos de Revenido de Larga Duración en Aceros de Temple al Aire
Las propiedades mecánicas obtenidas industrialmente en un acero de temple al aire eran inferiores a lo especificado por el fabricante. El sistema de tratamiento térmico estaba diseñado para trabajar en continuo, de forma quelas piezas templaran al aire a la salida de un horno túnel donde se realizaba su austenización; dándose posteriormente un tratamiento de revenido. Un estudio de la micro estructura obtenida después del temple muestra la presencia de bainita con importantes cantidades de austenita residual. Teniendo en cuenta los medios disponibles, se ha desarrollado un sistema de tratamientos térmicos de revenido de larga duración, alguno de ellos en dos etapas. De esta forma se ha podido obtener una micro estructura más favorable, consistente en una combinación de bainita y bainita revenida. Estos tratamientos han conseguido duplicar los valores de límite elástico y carga de rotura, manteniendo la dureza elevada que era un requisito imprescindible de diseño del material
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