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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Management with Multi-State Power-Down Systems
A power-down system has an on-state, an off-state, and a finite or infinite number of intermediate states. In the off-state, the system uses no energy and in the on-state energy it is used fully. Intermediate states consume only some fraction of energy but switching back to the on-state comes at a cost. Previous work has mainly focused on asymptotic results for systems with a large number of states. In contrast, the authors study problems with a few states as well as systems with one continuous state. Such systems play a role in energy-efficiency for information technology but are especially important in the management of renewable energy. The authors analyze power-down problems in the framework of online competitive analysis as to obtain performance guarantees in the absence of reliable forecasting. In a discrete case, the authors give detailed results for the case of three and five states, which corresponds to a system with on-off states and three additional intermediate states âpower saveâ, âsuspendâ, and âhibernateâ. The authors use a novel balancing technique to obtain optimally competitive solutions. With this, the authors show that the overall best competitive ratio for three-state systems is 95 role= presentation style= box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; display: inline; line-height: normal; text-align: left; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; \u3e95 and the authors obtain optimal ratios for various five state systems. For the continuous case, the authors develop various strategies, namely linear, optimal-following, progressive and exponential. The authors show that the best competitive strategies are those that follow the offline schedule in an accelerated manner. Strategy âprogressiveâ consistently produces competitive ratios significantly better than 2
The NJL-jet model for quark fragmentation functions
A description of fragmentation functions which satisfy the momentum and
isospin sum rules is presented in an effective quark theory. Concentrating on
the pion fragmentation function, we first explain why the elementary (lowest
order) fragmentation process q --> q \pi is completely inadequate to describe
the empirical data, although the "crossed" process \pi --> q \bar{q} describes
the quark distribution functions in the pion reasonably well. Taking into
account cascade-like processes in a generalized jet-model approach, we then
show that the momentum and isospin sum rules can be satisfied naturally,
without the introduction of ad hoc parameters. We present results for the
Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in the invariant mass regularization scheme and
compare them with the empirical parametrizations. We argue that the NJL-jet
model, developed herein, provides a useful framework with which to calculate
the fragmentation functions in an effective chiral quark theory.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figure
Integrability of a Generalized Ito System: the Painleve Test
It is shown that a generalized Ito system of four coupled nonlinear evolution
equations passes the Painleve test for integrability in five distinct cases, of
which two were introduced recently by Tam, Hu and Wang. A conjecture is
formulated on integrability of a vector generalization of the Ito system.Comment: LaTeX, 5 page
Large-scale Simulation of the Two-dimensional Kinetic Ising Model
We present Monte Carlo simulation results for the dynamical critical exponent
of the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model using a lattice of size spins. We used Glauber as well as Metropolis dynamics. The
-value of was calculated from the magnetization and energy
relaxation from an ordered state towards the equilibrium state at .Comment: 6 pages + 2 figures as separate uuencoded compressed tar file,
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On the Algebraic Structure of Gravitational Descendants in CP(n-1) Coset Models
We investigate how specific free-field realizations of twisted N=2
supersymmetric coset models give rise to natural extensions of the ``matter''
Hilbert spaces in such a manner as to incorporate the various gravitational
excitations. In particular, we show that adopting a particular screening
prescription is equivalent to imposing the requisite equivariance condition on
cohomology. We find a simple algebraic characterization of the
-gravitational ground ring spectra of these theories in terms of
affine- highest weights..Comment: 12p, harvmac/lanlmac with hyperlinks, 1 uuencoded PostScript figure,
CERN-TH.7442/94, USC-94/01
Quality-equivalent and cost adjusted measurement of international competitiveness in Japanese rice markets:
In this research, the quality of foreign japonica rices was evaluated in terms of prices relative to Japanese domestic retail prices. Then, retail prices, consumer benefit, and competitiveness among the foreign rices in the Japanese market were estimated assuming those rices were imported at prices based on their production and transportation costs. According to the results, rices produced in China are quite superior to rices grown in the United States. Further, a 700 percent of tariff, which was discussed in the GATT negotiation and assumed to be imposed on rices imported to Japan, appears to be too low for Chinese rices and too high for American rices.Rice Prices Japan., Tariff on farm produce Japan.,
Aging of the Zero-Field-Cooled Magnetization in Ising Spin Glasses: Experiment and Numerical Simulation
A new protocol of the zero-field-cooled (ZFC) magnetization process is
studied experimentally on an Ising spin-glass (SG)
FeMnTiO and numerically on the Edwards-Anderson Ising SG
model. Although the time scales differ very much between the experiment and the
simulation, the behavior of the ZFC magnetization observed in the two systems
can be interpreted by means of a common scaling expression based on the droplet
picture. The results strongly suggest that the SG coherence length, or the mean
size of droplet excitations, involved even in the experimental ZFC process, is
about a hundred lattice distances or less.Comment: 4 pages, 5 fugure
Preparation of perfluorinated 1,2,4-oxadiazoles
Fluorinated alkyl or alkylether 1,2,4 oxadiazole compounds are prepared by cyclizing the corresponding alkyl or alkylether imidoyl amidoximes in vacuo or in an inert atmosphere at a temperature within the range of 40 C to 100 C. for a period of 8 to 144 hours in the presence of an acid compound which can accept ammonia to form a salt. The imidoyl amidoximes usable in this process are either polymeric or nonpolymeric. The products, when polymeric, have excellent heat, chemical and solvent resistance
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