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Crime Around the World: Using Mathematical Modeling Techniques to Model Aggregated Worldwide Crime Rates
This aim of this study was to determine what affects aggregate crime rates around the world. This thesis used Mathematical Modeling techniques to build generalized linear models for homicide rates and burglary and housebreaking rates using the following predictive factors: economic indicators, education rates, government quality indicators, ethno-linguistic fractionalization, GDP per capita and its growth, drug consumption rates, and age and gender ratios. We used a series of factor selection techniques including linear and stepwise regressions, principal component analysis, and regression analysis to select factors to use to build final models of homicide and burglary and housebreaking
The growth of decagonal Al-Co-Ni single crystals as a function of chemical composition
Decaprismatic single crystals taken from a series of alloys of nominal compositions within Al65-77Co3-22Ni3-22 have been studied by means of x-ray diffraction techniques. The substitution of Co by Ni in increasing amounts changes the (pseudo)decagonal diffraction patterns drastically and indicates structural changes which range from a single-crystalline approximant via orientationally ordered nanodomain structures and quasiperiodic phases with different types of ordering phenomena, to a basic decagonal phase. A quantum phase diagram analysis shows a clear separation of the stability regions of the ternary systems described in this study and other decagonal phase
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Cross-platform validation of notional baseline architecture models of naval electric ship power systems
To support efforts in assessing the relative merit of alternative power system architectures for future naval combatants, the Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium (ESRDC) has developed notional baseline models for each of the primary candidate architectures currently considered, medium-voltage DC (MVDC), conventional 60 Hz medium-voltage (MVAC), and high-frequency medium-voltage (HFAC). Initial efforts have focused on the development of a consistent set of component models, of which the system models can be comprised, and the basic definition of the system models. The broader objectives of the consortium, however, go beyond the definition of the baseline models. The focus is on the process by which the models are implemented in software and validated, the process by which the performance of the disparate system models are objectively and quantitatively assessed and compared, and, ultimately, the process by which the relative merits of the architectures may be assessed. This paper focuses specifically on cross-platform component validation.Center for Electromechanic
First-principles prediction of a decagonal quasicrystal containing boron
We interpret experimentally known B-Mg-Ru crystals as quasicrystal
approximants. These approximant structures imply a deterministic decoration of
tiles by atoms that can be extended quasiperiodically. Experimentally observed
structural disorder corresponds to phason (tile flip) fluctuations.
First-principles total energy calculations reveal that many distinct tilings
lie close to stability at low temperatures. Transfer matrix calculations based
on these energies suggest a phase transition from a crystalline state at low
temperatures to a high temperature state characterized by tile fluctuations. We
predict BMgRu forms a decagonal quasicrystal that is
metastable at low temperatures and may be thermodynamically stable at high
temperatures.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
A remark on the trace-map for the Silver mean sequence
In this work we study the Silver mean sequence based on substitution rules by
means of a transfer-matrix approach. Using transfer-matrix method we find a
recurrence relation for the traces of general transfer-matrices which
characterizes electronic properties of the quasicrystal in question. We also
find an invariant of the trace-map.Comment: 5 pages, minor improvements in style and presentation of calculation
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Waveform-level time-domain simulation comparison study of three shipboard power system architectures
Detailed waveform-level modeling and simulation of three alternative shipboard power system architectures is presented herein. The three system architectures are based on conventional 60Hz medium-voltage ac (MVAC), higherfrequency 240Hz medium-voltage ac (HFAC) and mediumvoltage dc (MVDC) technologies. To support the quantitative assessment and comparison of these three different power system architectures, each technology was modeled using a common representative, notional baseline ship. The baseline ship represents a multi-mission destroyer fitted with an 80MW next generation integrated power system (NGIPS). Modeling of each power system architecture is set forth along with simulation studies for three fault scenarios. Each of the three power system architectures was implemented within the MATLAB/ Simulink environment. Continuity of service was evaluated for each architecture along with a fault scenario using an operability metric. After a brief description of the three power system architectures and the operability metric, quantitative results are presented.Center for Electromechanic
Cognitive-behavioural treatment for weight loss in primary care : a prospective study
Questions under Study: Cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) is effective for weight loss in obese patients, but such programmes are difficult to implement in primary care. We assessed whether implementation of a community-based CBT weight loss programme for adults in routine care is feasible and prospectively assessed patient outcome.
Patients and Methods: The weight loss programme was provided by a network of Swiss general practitioners in cooperation with a community centre for health education. We chose a five-step strategy focusing on structure of care rather than primarily addressing individual physician behaviour. A multidisciplinary core group of trained CBT instructors acted as the central element of the programme. Overweight and obese adults from the community (BMI >25 kg/m2) were included. We used a patient perspective to report the impact on delivery of care and assessed weight change of consecutive participants prospectively with a follow-up of 12 months.
Results: Twenty-eight courses, with 16 group meetings each, were initiated over a period of 3 years. 44 of 110 network physicians referred patients to the programme. 147 of 191 study participants were monitored for one year (attrition rate: 23%). Median weight loss after 12 months for 147 completers was 4 kg (IQR: 1-7 kg; intention-to-treat analysis for 191 participants: 2 kg, IQR: 0-5 kg).
Conclusions: The programme produced a clinically meaningful weight loss in our participants, with a relatively low attrition rate. Implementation of an easily accessible CBT programme for weight loss in daily routine primary care is feasible
Structure factors of harmonic and anharmonic Fibonacci chains by molecular dynamics simulations
The dynamics of quasicrystals is characterized by the existence of phason
excitations in addition to the usual phonon modes. In order to investigate
their interplay on an elementary level we resort to various one-dimensional
model systems. The main observables are the static, the incoherent, and the
coherent structure factor, which are extracted from molecular dynamics
simulations. For the validation of the algorithms, results for the harmonic
periodic chain are presented. We then study the Fibonacci chain with harmonic
and anharmonic interaction potentials. In the dynamic Fibonacci chain
neighboring atoms interact by double-well potentials allowing for phason flips.
The difference between the structure factors of the dynamic and the harmonic
Fibonacci chain lies in the temperature dependence of the phonon line width. If
a bias is introduced in the well depth, dispersionless optic phonon bands split
off.Comment: 12 pages, 15 figure
Magic numbers in the discrete tomography of cyclotomic model sets
We report recent progress in the problem of distinguishing convex subsets of
cyclotomic model sets by (discrete parallel) X-rays in prescribed
-directions. It turns out that for any of these model sets
there exists a `magic number' such that any two
convex subsets of can be distinguished by their X-rays in any set
of prescribed -directions. In particular, for
pentagonal, octagonal, decagonal and dodecagonal model sets, the least possible
numbers are in that very order 11, 9, 11 and 13.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure; based on the results of arXiv:1101.4149 [math.MG];
presented at Aperiodic 2012 (Cairns, Australia
Sedimentological and petrographic characteristics of volcanic ashes and siliceous claystones (altered ashes) from sites 1173, 1174, and 1177, leg 190
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