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A Reference Architecture for Provisioning of Tools as a Service: Meta-Model, Ontologies and Design Elements
Abstract not availableMuhammad Aufeef Chauhan, Muhammad Ali Babar, Quan Z. Shen
Biased random walk in positive random conductances on
We study the biased random walk in positive random conductances on . This walk is transient in the direction of the bias. Our main result is
that the random walk is ballistic if, and only if, the conductances have finite
mean. Moreover, in the sub-ballistic regime we find the polynomial order of the
distance moved by the particle. This extends results obtained by Shen [Ann.
Appl. Probab. 12 (2002) 477-510], who proved positivity of the speed in the
uniformly elliptic setting.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP835 the Annals of
Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Hidden Spoor, Ruan Xiaoxu, And His Treatise On Reclusion
In early medieval China great attention was paid to compiling accounts of men in reclusion, yet the prefaces to these compilations often contain only vague or stale reasoning concerning the nature of reclusion itself. A preface by Shen Yue (441-513) is a notable exception: Shen differentiated between disengagement and reclusion. A slightly later contemporary of Shen, Ruan Xiaoxu (479-536), took issue with him in a unique and tightly constructed disquisition on what Ruan saw as a basic dichotomy in the Way of man: the root and overt traces. Ruan\u27s overlooked treatise is examined here, as are some relevant facets of his life
Relativistic stars with purely toroidal magnetic fields with realistic equations of state
We investigate equilibrium sequences of relativistic stars containing purely
toroidal magnetic fields with four kinds of realistic equations of state (EOSs)
of SLy (Douchin et al.), FPS (Pandharipande et al.), Shen (Shen et al.), and LS
(Lattimer & Swesty). We numerically construct thousands of equilibrium
configurations. Particularly we pay attention to the equilibrium sequences of
constant baryon mass and/or constant magnetic flux, which model evolutions of
an isolated neutron star. Important properties obtained in this study are
summarized as follows ; (1) The dependence of the mass-shedding angular
velocity on the EOSs is determined from that of the non-magnetized case. The
stars with Shen(FPS) EOS reach the mass-shedding limit at the smallest(largest)
angular velocity, while the stars with SLy or Lattimer-Swesty EOSs take the
moderate values. (2) For the supramassive sequences, the equilibrium
configurations are found to be generally oblate for the realistic EOSs in sharp
contrast to the polytropic stars. For FPS(LS) EOS, the parameter region which
permits the prolately deformed stars is widest(narrowest). For SLy and Shen
EOS, it is in medium. Furthermore, the angular velocities ,
above which the stars start to spin up as they lose angular momentum, are found
to depend sharply on the realistic EOSs. Our analysis indicates that the
hierarchy of this spin up angular velocity is and this
relation holds even if the sequences have strong magnetic fields. Our results
suggest the EOSs within the relativistic stars containing purely toroidal
magnetic fields can be constrained by observing the angular velocity, the
gravitational wave, and the signature of the spin up.Comment: Accepted to APJ, high-resolution figures will be appeared in
published-versio
Symmetry of the Gap in Bi2212 from Photoemission Spectroscopy
In a recent Letter, Shen et al have detected a large anisotropy of the
superconducting gap in Bi2212, consistent with d-wave symmetry, from
photoemission spectroscopy. Moreover, they claim that the change in their
spectra as a function of aging is also consistent with such an intrepretation.
In this Comment, I show that the latter statement is not entirely correct, in
that the data as a function of aging are inconsistent with a d-wave gap but are
consistent with an anisotropic s-wave gap.Comment: 3 pages (Plain TeX with macros), plus 1 postscript figur
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