Competition of Orbital Antiferromagnetism With Q-Triplet-Pairing in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe2_2

Within a multicomponent BCS-like framework we study the coexistence and competition of various CDW and SC order parameters in the presence of a strong ferromagnetic background. We find that the competition of unconventional CDW, also called orbital antiferromagnet, with SC at finite momentum (${\bf Q}$-triplet pairing) shows unique characteristics like an extreme sensitivity on the deviations from nesting. We argue that pressure in UGe$_2$ creates deviations from the nesting and report a phase diagram in qualitative agreement with the observed behavior of UGe$_2$.Comment: M2S Rio 200

Florina's Musical Folk Tradition in Melbourne.

Please note: this article is written in Greek. Having faith in the value of laography, which presupposes that migrants are faithful to tradition, I began this study with the belief that the process of this project would be a straight forward one. After all, from the outset there was a desire by all to cooperate. In May 1993 by witnessing and documenting first and second generation migrants, I commenced my work in Melbourne Australia, becoming part of the music and dance tradition of Florina, which was still alive and flourishing 17,000 km away from its natural environment. In the process however, circumstances changed and unforeseen difficulties occurred. Besides the individuals, the procedures, the alterations -- whether deliberate or coincidental -- and the conditions, which contributed to the transfer, and preservation, I encountered in ascertaining and isolating this music and dance tradition, I also had to overcome the gap which had developed between the opposing sides on the “Macedonian” issue. Here things weren’t at all easy. Both sides use the same dance and music, often using it against each other not willing to accept under any circumstances that music and dance unite rather than divide, and that you cannot enclose music and dance within borders

Probing the linearity and nonlinearity in the transitions of the atmospheric circulation

International audienceIn this paper, we apply the principles of information theory that relate to the definition of nonlinear predictability, which is a measure that describes both the linear and nonlinear components of a system. By comparing this measure to a measure of linear predictability, one can assess whether a given system has a strong nonlinear or a strong linear component. This provides insights as to whether the system should be modelled by a nonlinear model or by a linear model. We apply these ideas to a known dynamical system and to a time series that describe the transitions in atmospheric circulation

Partitioning Complexity in Air Traffic Management Task

Cognitive complexity is a term that appears frequently in air traffic control (ATC) research literature, yet there is little principled investigation of the potential sources of cognitive complexity. Three distinctly different sources of cognitive complexity are proposed which are environmental, organizational, and display. Two experiments were conducted to explore whether or not these proposed components of complexity could be effectively partitioned, measured, and compared. The findings demonstrate that sources of complexity can be decomposed and measured and furthermore, the use of color in displays, a display design intervention meant to reduce environmental complexity, can actually contribute to it.This research was sponsored by the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute

Traders' strategy with price feedbacks in financial market

We introduce an autoregressive-type model of prices in financial market taking into account the self-modulation effect. We find that traders are mainly using strategies with weighted feedbacks of past prices. These feedbacks are responsible for the slow diffusion in short times, apparent trends and power law distribution of price changes.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physica

Analysis of high-resolution foreign exchange data of USD-JPY for 13 years

We analyze high-resolution foreign exchange data consisting of 20 million data points of USD-JPY for 13 years to report firm statistical laws in distributions and correlations of exchange rate fluctuations. A conditional probability density analysis clearly shows the existence of trend-following movements at time scale of 8-ticks, about 1 minute.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physica

The Impact of Multi-layered Data-blocks on Controller Performance

As a consequence of the push to increase National Airspace System capacity, air traffic control displays will not only have to show the increasing number of aircraft, but also all the associated data such as airspeed and altitude. The representation of aircraft data and associated relational information, often superimposed on a map, leads to cluttered displays, which could negatively affect controller performance, especially as aircraft numbers increase. To investigate these issues further, an experiment was conducted that examined the effect of increasing data-block lines on controller performance in an aircraft vectoring task. Data-block design, the primary factor, varied in the number of lines displayed (2-5). In addition a data-block information priority factor was examined that addressed the frequency of information access across data-block lines. Results demonstrated that while task load, measured as an increasing number of planes under control, negatively influenced reaction times and task accuracy, the number of lines in a data block was not statistically significant. However there was a trend towards reduced performance when data-blocks exceeded more than three lines on a base layer. In addition, the data blocks that contained prioritized information across levels promoted faster reaction times, but at a cost of lower situation awareness. This research demonstrated that the design of data-blocks should consider the balance between reduction in data-block interaction time against the need to allow enough interaction time to build situation awareness.Civil Aerospace Medical Institut

Comparative statistical analysis of bacteria genomes in "word" context

Statistical analysis of bacteria genomes texts has been performed on the basis of 20 complete genomes origin from Genebank. It has been revealed that the word ranked distributions are quite well approximated by logarithmic law. Results obtained in the absent words investigation show the considerably nonrandom character of DNA texts. In character of autocorrelation function behavior in several genomes period 3 oscillations were found. Short range autocorrelations are present in short ($n=3$) words and practically absent in longer words.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physica

Large deviations for point processes based on stationary sequences with heavy tails

In this paper we propose a framework that enables the study of large deviations for point processes based on stationary sequences with regularly varying tails. This framework allows us to keep track not of the magnitude of the extreme values of a process, but also of the order in which these extreme values appear. Particular emphasis is put on (infinite) linear processes with random coefficients. The proposed framework provide a rather complete description of the joint asymptotic behavior of the large values of the stationary sequence. We apply the general result on large deviations for point processes to derive the asymptotic decay of partial sum processes as well as ruin probabilities