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Evaluation of EREP techniques for geological mapping
The author has identified the following significant results. Skylab photographs may be successfully utilized for preparing a reconnaissance geological map in the areas where no maps or semi-detailed maps exist. Large coverage of area and regional perspective from Skylab photographs can help better coordination in regional mapping. It is possible to delineate major structural trends and other features like mega-lineaments, geofractures, and faults, which have evaded their detection by conventional methods. The photointerpretability is better in areas dominated by sedimentary rocks. Rock units of smaller extent and having poor geomorphic expressions are difficult to map. Demarcation of quaternary river alluvium can be made with better precision and ease with the Skylab photographs. Stereoscopic viewing greatly helps in interpretation of area structures. Skylab photographs are not good for preparing geological maps larger than 1:270,000 scale
Patterning of polar active filaments on a tense cylindrical membrane
We study the dynamics and patterning of polar contractile filaments on the
surface of a cylindrical cell using active hydrodynamic equations that
incorporate couplings between curvature and filament orientation. Cables and
rings spontaneously emerge as steady state configurations on the cylinder, and
can be stationary or moving, helical or segments moving along helical
trajectories. Contractility induces coalescence of proximal rings. We observe
phase transitions in the steady state patterns upon changing cell diameter and
make several testable predictions. Our results are relevant to the dynamics and
patterning of a variety of active biopolymers in cylindrical cells.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, (Includes Supplementary information
Optical Phonon Lineshapes and Transport in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes under High Bias Voltage
We calculate the current-voltage characteristic of metallic nanotubes at high
bias voltage showing that a bottleneck exists for short nanotubes in contrast
to large ones. We attribute this to a redistribution of lower-lying acoustic
phonons caused by phonon-phonon scattering with hot optical phonons. The
current-voltage characteristic and the electron and phonon distribution
functions are derived analytically, and serve to obtain in a self-contained way
the frequency shift and line broadening of the zone center optical phonons due
to the electron-phonon coupling at high bias. We obtain a positive frequency
shift from the zero bias shift and no broadening of the optical phonon mode at
very high voltages, in agreement with recent experiments.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, minor changes, pusblished in PR
Uniqueness of nontrivially complete monotonicity for a class of functions involving polygamma functions
For , let
on . In the
present paper, we prove using two methods that, among all for
, only is nontrivially completely monotonic on
. Accurately, the functions and are
completely monotonic on , but the functions for
are not monotonic and does not keep the same sign on
.Comment: 9 page
embCAB Sequence Variation Among Ethambutol-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Isolates Without embB306 Mutation
Mechanisms of resistance to ethambutol in Mycobacterium tuberculosis remain inadequately described. Although there is mounting evidence that mutations of codon 306 in embB play a key role, a significant number of phenotypically ethambutol-resistant strains do not carry mutations in this codon. Here, other mutations in the embCAB operon are suggested to be involved in resistance development
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