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Extraordinary Magnetoresistance in Hybrid Semiconductor-Metal Systems
We show that extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) arises in systems
consisting of two components; a semiconducting ring with a metallic inclusion
embedded. The im- portant aspect of this discovery is that the system must have
a quasi-two-dimensional character. Using the same materials and geometries for
the samples as in experiments by Solin et al.[1;2], we show that such systems
indeed exhibit a huge magnetoresistance. The magnetoresistance arises due to
the switching of electrical current paths passing through the metallic
inclusion. Diagrams illustrating the flow of the current density within the
samples are utilised in discussion of the mechanism responsible for the
magnetoresistance effect. Extensions are then suggested which may be applicable
to the silver chalcogenides. Our theory offers an excellent description and
explanation of experiments where a huge magnetoresistance has been
discovered[2;3].Comment: 12 Pages, 5 Figure
Position-sensitive detector for the 6-meter optical telescope
The Position-Sensitive Detector (PSD) for photometrical and spectral
observation on the 6-meter optical telescope of the Special Astrophysical
Observatory (Russia) is described. The PSD consists of a position-sensitive
tube, amplifiers of output signals, analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and a
digital logic plate, which produces a signal for ADC start and an external
strob pulse for reading information by registration system. If necessary, the
thermoelectric cooler can be used. The position-sensitive tube has the
following main elements: a photocathode, electrodes of inverting optics, a
block of microchannel plates (MCP) and a position-sensitive collector of
quadrant type. The main parameters of the PSD are the diameter of the sensitive
surface is 25 mm, the spatial resolution is better than 100 (\mu)m in the
centre and a little worse on the periphery; the dead time is near 0.5 (\mu)s;
the detection quantum efficiency is defined by the photocathode and it is not
less than 0.1, as a rule; dark current is about hundreds of cps, or less, when
cooling. PSD spectral sensitivity depends on the type of photocathode and input
window material. We use a multialkali photocathode and a fiber or UV-glass,
which gives the short- wave cut of 360 nm or 250 nm, respectively.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Nuclear Instruments & Methods
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The Effect of Transfer Printing on Pentacene Thin-Film Crystal Structure
The thermal deposition and transfer Printing method had been used to produce
pentacene thin-films on SiO2/Si and plastic substrates (PMMA and PVP),
respectively. X-ray diffraction patterns of pentacene thin films showed
reflections associated with highly ordered polycrystalline films and a
coexistence of two polymorph phases classified by their d-spacing, d(001): 14.4
and 15.4 A.The dependence of the c-axis correlation length and the phase
fraction on the film thickness and printing temperature were measured. A
transition from the 15.4 A phase towards 14.4 A phase was also observed with
increasing film thickness. An increase in the c-axis correlation length of
approximately 12% ~16% was observed for Pn films transfer printed onto a PMMA
coated PET substrate at 100~120 C as compared to as-grown Pn films on SiO2/Si
substrates. The transfer printing method is shown to be an attractive for the
fabrication of pentacene thin-film transistors on flexible substrates partly
because of the resulting improvement in the quality of the pentacene film.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Hepatoprotective effect of opioid peptides in stress
Influence of the endogenous opioid system on the liver has not been studied enough. To understand the damaging effects of stress on the liver and the hepatoprotective effects of opioids, a study was performed on stress-resistant and stress-susceptible animals
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End-to-End Probabilistic Inference for Nonstationary Audio Analysis
Accepted to the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019Accepted to the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019Accepted to the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019A typical audio signal processing pipeline includes multiple disjoint analysis stages, including calculation of a time-frequency representation followed by spectrogram-based feature analysis. We show how time-frequency analysis and nonnegative matrix factorisation can be jointly formulated as a spectral mixture Gaussian process model with nonstationary priors over the amplitude variance parameters. Further, we formulate this nonlinear model's state space representation, making it amenable to infinite-horizon Gaussian process regression with approximate inference via expectation propagation, which scales linearly in the number of time steps and quadratically in the state dimensionality. By doing so, we are able to process audio signals with hundreds of thousands of data points. We demonstrate, on various tasks with empirical data, how this inference scheme outperforms more standard techniques that rely on extended Kalman filtering
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