433 research outputs found
Particle motion in weak relativistic gravitational fields
We derive the geodesic equation of motion in the presence of weak
gravitational fields produced by relativistic sources such as cosmic strings,
decomposed into scalar, vector and tensor parts. We find that the vector
(gravito-magnetic) force is an important contributor, and for non-relativistic
particles we recover the well-known result for the impulse from a moving
straight string. Our results can be straightforwardly incorporated into N-body
simulations to allow for the presence of cosmic defects or other sources of
weak gravitational fields.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Viewing the efficiency of chaos control
This paper aims to cast some new light on controlling chaos using the OGY-
and the Zero-Spectral-Radius methods. In deriving those methods we use a
generalized procedure differing from the usual ones. This procedure allows us
to conveniently treat maps to be controlled bringing the orbit to both various
saddles and to sources with both real and complex eigenvalues. We demonstrate
the procedure and the subsequent control on a variety of maps. We evaluate the
control by examining the basins of attraction of the relevant controlled
systems graphically and in some cases analytically
Polyphenol Content and Antioxidant Activity of Sour Cherries From Serbia
The aim of this study was to evaluate the content of phenolics: the total phenols (TP), flavonoids (TF), anthocyanins (TA), as well as the total antioxidant\ud
capacity (TAC) in three sour cherry cultivars (Prunus cerasus L.) introduced to the southeast Serbia climate conditions. Among the investigated sour cherries,\ud
„Oblačinska“ cultivar contained the highest amounts of all groups of phenolics, followed by „Cigančica“ > „Marela“. A significant difference were observed in the phenolic content among different cultivars and growing seasons (p 0.05), and the phenolic compounds were significantly higher in the growing season 2009. The examined cultivars possess a high antioxidant capacity, and all phenolics of highy correlation with TAC. The following compounds were identified and quantified using HPLC-DAD: 4 anthocyanins, the most abundant of which was cyanidin-3-glucoside in “Marela” and “Oblačinska”, and cyanidin-3-glucosylrutinoside in „Cigančica“, and 4 hydroxycinnamic acids, the most abundant of which was neochlorogenic acid in all sour cherry cultivars. The growing and ripening process on the tree of sour cherry cv. „Oblačinska“ was evaluated also. The results showed significant increases in total phenols during the ripening, the total anthocyanins and total antioxidant capacity and 4 quantified anthocyanins, however the neochlorogenic acid decreased during the ripening. The study indicated that the growing and climate conditions in southeast Serbia are convenient for introducing sour cherry cultivars.\u
Editorial: Non-coding RNA in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
Editorial on the Research Topic: [https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/33365/non-coding-rna-in-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-diseases
Prosocial and aggressive behavior occurrence in young athletes: Field research results in six European countries
Aggression and violence among youth areresearched as social phenomena in sport. This paper was designed to determine the occurrence of these behaviors as well as prosocial behaviorsamong young athletes. The current paper is a research report aiming to detect the frequency of aggressive behavior, social exclusion, prosocial behavior and cohesion in the youth environment, the frequency of personal experience of peer violence or social exclusion, and to evaluate cross-national differences in terms of occurrence of these phenomena. The field research was conducted in six European countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, and Serbia) on a sample of 482 children aged 6 to 16. The conducted questionnaire consisted of pre-existing scales and measures for specific behaviors and social aspects that formed the Youth Environment Assessment and Youth Characteristics Questionnaire. Previous personal experience of violence and social exclusion determined groups in the sample. One-way ANOVA and discriminant analysis were conducted to compare various variables and groups within the sample. The results have shown that aggressive and social exclusion behaviors are rare or very rare, predominantly in the form of verbal aggression in the sports club environment. The results of the conducted discriminant analysis indicate that prosocial and cohesion behaviors occur "quite often" to "often" among sports club athletes' samples. The percentage of athletes who have had personal experience of violence or social exclusion in the last two years and whose feeling of hurt by that experience was assessed as "a lot" or "fully" on the measurement scale is estimated to be approximately 25%. Mild cross-national differences emerged in the overmentioned variables, probably due to the sample specificity, or to cultural variety. The results indicate the need for longitudinal research on this topic since the sport is an environment in which cohesion can be developed among young athletes, but it is not free from social exclusion or aggression
Modeling Single Electron Transfer in Si:P Double Quantum Dots
Solid-state systems such as P donors in Si have considerable potential for
realization of scalable quantum computation. Recent experimental work in this
area has focused on implanted Si:P double quantum dots (DQDs) that represent a
preliminary step towards the realization of single donor charge-based qubits.
This paper focuses on the techniques involved in analyzing the charge transfer
within such DQD devices and understanding the impact of fabrication parameters
on this process. We show that misalignment between the buried dots and surface
gates affects the charge transfer behavior and identify some of the challenges
posed by reducing the size of the metallic dot to the few donor regime.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Nanotechnolog
Replica theory for learning curves for Gaussian processes on random graphs
Statistical physics approaches can be used to derive accurate predictions for
the performance of inference methods learning from potentially noisy data, as
quantified by the learning curve defined as the average error versus number of
training examples. We analyse a challenging problem in the area of
non-parametric inference where an effectively infinite number of parameters has
to be learned, specifically Gaussian process regression. When the inputs are
vertices on a random graph and the outputs noisy function values, we show that
replica techniques can be used to obtain exact performance predictions in the
limit of large graphs. The covariance of the Gaussian process prior is defined
by a random walk kernel, the discrete analogue of squared exponential kernels
on continuous spaces. Conventionally this kernel is normalised only globally,
so that the prior variance can differ between vertices; as a more principled
alternative we consider local normalisation, where the prior variance is
uniform
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