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Motel user manual
MOTEL is a logic-based knowledge representation languages of the KL-ONE family. It contains as a kernel the KRIS language which is a decidable sublanguage of first-order predicate logic. Whereas KRIS is a single-agent knowledge representation system, i.e. KRIS is only able to represent general world knowledge or the knowledge of one agent about the world, MOTEL is a multi-agent knowledge representation system. The MOTEL language allows modal contexts and modal concept forming operators which allow to represent and reason about the believes and wishes of multiple agents. Furthermore it is possible to represent defaults and stereotypes. Beside the basic resoning facilities for consistency checking, classification, and realization, MOTEL provides an abductive inference mechanism. Furthermore it is able to give explanations for its inferences
Mathieu Moonshine and N=2 String Compactifications
There is a `Mathieu moonshine' relating the elliptic genus of K3 to the
sporadic group M_{24}. Here, we give evidence that this moonshine extends to
part of the web of dualities connecting heterotic strings compactified on K3
\times T^2 to type IIA strings compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds. We
demonstrate that dimensions of M_{24} representations govern the new
supersymmetric index of the heterotic compactifications, and appear in the
Gromov--Witten invariants of the dual Calabi-Yau threefolds, which are elliptic
fibrations over the Hirzebruch surfaces F_n.Comment: 28 pages; v2: minor changes, published versio
X-Ray Microanalysis of Hollow Heart Potatoes
Electron microprobe and X-ray fluorescence techniques were used to study elemental gradients associated with the physiological disorder hollow heart i n potato tubers. Gradients were found along the length and across the width of mature tubers. These were not rela ted to the disorder, however . Tubers with advanced symptoms of the disorder had elemental levels and gradients similar to those in healthy, control tubers. The results suggest that if the disorder is initially caused by an elemental deficiency, as has sometimes been proposed , the deficiency is temporary and no longer exists in mature tubers with advanced hollow heart. Radial gradients were associated rnd inly with two contrasting tissues . the centra 1 pith and the surrounding perimedullary zone. Tissue differences are critical in microprobe studies involving small samples Microprobe studies of developing tubers containing incipient stages of hollow heart. employing strip samples restricted to the central pith where the disorder originates and taken so as to traverse the small lesions, showed a dramatic increase in Mg in lesion areas. It is suggested that a nutrient imbalance may trigger the onset of the cell necrosis that characterizes the initiation of hollow heart in potato . A localized Mg toxicity or Ca deficiency due to high Mg:Ca ratio is implicated
Doping dependence of the Neel temperature in Mott-Hubbard antiferromagnets: Effect of vortices
The rapid destruction of long-range antiferromagnetic order upon doping of
Mott-Hubbard antiferromagnetic insulators is studied within a generalized
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless renormalization group theory in accordance with
recent calculations suggesting that holes dress with vortices. We calculate the
doping-dependent Neel temperature in good agreement with experiments for
high-Tc cuprates. Interestingly, the critical doping where long-range order
vanishes at zero temperature is predicted to be xc ~ 0.02, independently of any
energy scales of the system.Comment: 4 pages with 3 figures included, minor revisions, to be published in
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A theoretical study of the tautomerism and vibrational spectra of 4,5-diamine-2,6-dimercaptopyrimidine
The 4,5-diamine-2,6-dimercaptopyrimidine (DADMcP) compound is an interesting multifunctional species exhibiting a rather complex tautomerism, encompassing nine tautomeric forms. Investigation of tautomerism in this compound has been carried out by means of FTIR spectroscopy, in association with ab-initio HF/SCF and DFT calculations. According to this study three tautomers are energetically favored; the thione form being the most stable one. The theoretical vibrational spectra of such tautomeric forms have been successfully simulated by means of DFT calculations, allowing the elucidation and assignment of the complex composition of the vibrational bands observed for the mixture of isomers.A 4,5-diamina-2,6-dimercaptopirimidina (DADMcP) constitui uma molécula multifuncional que apresenta uma tautomeria bastante complexa, com nove formas isoméricas possíveis. O estudo da tautomeria nesse composto foi realizado por meio da espectroscopia FTIR em associação com cálculos ab-initio HF/SCF e DFT. De acordo com os resultados teóricos, três tautômeros são favorecidos energeticamente, sendo a tiona a forma a mais estável. Os espectros vibracionais das formas tautoméricas mais estáveis foram simulados através de cálculos de DFT, permitindo a atribuição e elucidação do quadro complexo de bandas vibracionais observado experimentalmente, envolvendo a mistura de isômeros
Topological phase separation in 2D hard-core Bose-Hubbard system away from half-filling
We suppose that the doping of the 2D hard-core boson system away from
half-filling may result in the formation of multi-center topological defect
such as charge order (CO) bubble domain(s) with Bose superfluid (BS) and extra
bosons both localized in domain wall(s), or a {\it topological} CO+BS {\it
phase separation}, rather than an uniform mixed CO+BS supersolid phase.
Starting from the classical model we predict the properties of the respective
quantum system. The long-wavelength behavior of the system is believed to
remind that of granular superconductors, CDW materials, Wigner crystals, and
multi-skyrmion system akin in a quantum Hall ferromagnetic state of a 2D
electron gas.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
Impedance of a Rectangular Beam Tube with Small Corrugations
We consider the impedance of a structure with rectangular, periodic
corrugations on two opposing sides of a rectangular beam tube. Using the method
of field matching, we find the modes in such a structure. We then limit
ourselves to the the case of small corrugations, but where the depth of
corrugation is not small compared to the period. For such a structure we
generate analytical approximate solutions for the wave number , group
velocity , and loss factor for the lowest (the dominant) mode
which, when compared with the results of the complete numerical solution,
agreed well. We find: if , where is the beam pipe width and is
the beam pipe half-height, then one mode dominates the impedance, with
( is the depth of corrugation),
, and , which (when replacing by
) is the same scaling as was found for small corrugations in a {\it round}
beam pipe. Our results disagree in an important way with a recent paper of
Mostacci {\it et al.} [A. Mostacci {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. ST-AB, {\bf 5},
044401 (2002)], where, for the rectangular structure, the authors obtained a
synchronous mode with the same frequency , but with .
Finally, we find that if is large compared to then many nearby modes
contribute to the impedance, resulting in a wakefield that Landau damps.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 1 bibliography fil
The Fringe Reading Facility at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung
A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used for optical flow measurements in a transonic wind tunnel. Holographic interferograms are reconstructed by illumination with a He-Ne-laser and viewed by a video camera through wide angle optics. This setup was used for investigating industrial double exposure holograms of truck tires in order to develop methods of automatic recognition of certain manufacturing faults. Automatic input is achieved by a transient recorder digitizing the output of a TV camera and transferring the digitized data to a PDP11-34. Interest centered around sequences of interferograms showing the interaction of vortices with a profile and subsequent emission of sound generated by this process. The objective is the extraction of quantitative data which relates to the emission of noise
Stochastic Assembly of Bacteria in Microwell Arrays Reveals the Importance of Confinement in Community Development
Citation: Hansen, R. H., Timm, A. C., Timm, C. M., Bible, A. N., Morrell-Falvey, J. L., Pelletier, D. A., . . . Retterer, S. T. (2016). Stochastic Assembly of Bacteria in Microwell Arrays Reveals the Importance of Confinement in Community Development. Plos One, 11(5), 18. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155080The structure and function of microbial communities is deeply influenced by the physical and chemical architecture of the local microenvironment and the abundance of its community members. The complexity of this natural parameter space has made characterization of the key drivers of community development difficult. In order to facilitate these characterizations, we have developed a microwell platform designed to screen microbial growth and interactions across a wide variety of physical and initial conditions. Assembly of microbial communities into microwells was achieved using a novel biofabrication method that exploits well feature sizes for control of innoculum levels. Wells with incrementally smaller size features created populations with increasingly larger variations in inoculum levels. This allowed for reproducible growth measurement in large (20 mu m diameter) wells, and screening for favorable growth conditions in small (5, 10 mu m diameter) wells. We demonstrate the utility of this approach for screening and discovery using 5 mu m wells to assemble P. aeruginosa colonies across a broad distribution of innoculum levels, and identify those conditions that promote the highest probability of survivial and growth under spatial confinement. Multi-member community assembly was also characterized to demonstrate the broad potential of this platform for studying the role of member abundance on microbial competition, mutualism and community succession
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