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Consistency of dust solutions with div H=0
One of the necessary covariant conditions for gravitational radiation is the
vanishing of the divergence of the magnetic Weyl tensor H_{ab}, while H_{ab}
itself is nonzero. We complete a recent analysis by showing that in
irrotational dust spacetimes, the condition div H=0 evolves consistently in the
exact nonlinear theory.Comment: 3 pages Revte
Combines
William G. Hires and Charles Ellis (Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture)Revised 3/87/6
An Investigation of the Binding Properties of Limestone Dust
A proper quantity of dust particles of various sizes has long been recognized as important in the construction of stone bases and pavements. Screenings for water bound macadam bases are required to contain not less than a specified amount of dust sizes, and dense-graded limestone bases have controlling limits for the dust fraction. It is generally assumed that these particles serve a dual purpose: (1) in filling void spaces created by larger particles, thus enhancing the gross structure of the aggregate, and (2) in acting as a binder material in the presence of water. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the addition of small amounts of certain chemicals may improve the strength characteristics of lime stone dusts.
Former studies have been concerned primarily with the overall strength properties of aggregate mixtures containing dust, rather than with the properties of the dust itself. However, in cases where binding properties are of primary concern, a more fundamental approach would be to investigate the dust and fine aggregate fractions before studying the mixture as a whole.
The purpose of this project was to study the binding properties of several different limestone dusts. The stones selected showed considerable differences in composition, and undoubtedly the scope of these differences encompassed the majority of limestones in Kentucky. In addition, an attempt was made to detect variations (if any) in the response of these stones to the effects induced by admixtures of calcium chloride - directly or indirectly
Integrability of irrotational silent cosmological models
We revisit the issue of integrability conditions for the irrotational silent
cosmological models. We formulate the problem both in 1+3 covariant and 1+3
orthonormal frame notation, and show there exists a series of constraint
equations that need to be satisfied. These conditions hold identically for
FLRW-linearised silent models, but not in the general exact non-linear case.
Thus there is a linearisation instability, and it is highly unlikely that there
is a large class of silent models. We conjecture that there are no spatially
inhomogeneous solutions with Weyl curvature of Petrov type I, and indicate
further issues that await clarification.Comment: Minor corrections and improvements; 1 new reference; to appear Class.
Quantum Grav.; 16 pages Ioplpp
Antiplane elastic wave propagation in pre-stressed periodic structures; tuning, band gap switching and invariance
The effect of nonlinear elastic pre-stress on antiplane elastic wave propagation in a two-dimensional periodic structure is investigated. The medium consists of cylindrical annuli embedded on a periodic square lattice in a uniform host material. An identical inhomogeneous deformation is imposed in each annulus and the theory of small-on-large is used to find the incremental wave equation governing subsequent small-amplitude antiplane waves. The plane-wave-expansion method is employed in order to determine the permissable eigenfrequencies. It is found that pre-stress significantly affects the band gap structure for Mooney–Rivlin and Fung type materials, allowing stop bands to be switched on and off. However, it is also shown that for a specific class of materials, their phononic properties remain invariant under nonlinear deformation, permitting some rather interesting behaviour and leading to the possibility of phononic cloaks
Perturbed Spherically Symmetric Dust Solution of the Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Functions
Using the framework for solving the spherically symmetric field equations in
observational coordinates given in Araujo and Stoeger (1999), their formulation
and solution in the perturbed FLRW sperically symmetric case with observational
data representing galaxy redshifts, number counts and observer area distances,
both as functions of redshift on our past light cone, are presented. The
importance of the central conditions, those which must hold on our world line
C, is emphasized. In detailing the solution for these perturbations, we discuss
the gauge problem and its resolution in this context, as well as how errors and
gaps in the data are propagated together with the genuine perturbations. This
will provide guidance for solving, and interpreting the solutions of the more
complicated general perturbation problem with observational data on our past
light cone.Comment: Latex 23 pages, no figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journa
Nonperturbative gravito-magnetic fields
In a cold matter universe, the linearized gravito-magnetic tensor field
satisfies a transverse condition (vanishing divergence) when it is purely
radiative. We show that in the nonlinear theory, it is no longer possible to
maintain the transverse condition, since it leads to a non-terminating chain of
integrability conditions. These conditions are highly restrictive, and are
likely to hold only in models with special symmetries, such as the known
Bianchi and examples. In models with realistic inhomogeneity, the
gravito-magnetic field is necessarily non-transverse at second and higher
order.Comment: Minor changes to match published version; to appear in Phys. Rev.
Determination of the QCD color factor ratio CA/CF from the scale dependence of multiplicity in three jet events
I examine the determination of the QCD color factor ratio CA/CF from the
scale evolution of particle multiplicity in e+e- three jet events. I fit an
analytic expression for the multiplicity in three jet events to event samples
generated with QCD multihadronic event generators. I demonstrate that a one
parameter fit of CA/CF yields the expected result CA/CF=2.25 in the limit of
asymptotically large energies if energy conservation is included in the
calculation. In contrast, a two parameter fit of CA/CF and a constant offset to
the gluon jet multiplicity, proposed in a recent study, does not yield
CA/CF=2.25 in this limit. I apply the one parameter fit method to recently
published data of the DELPHI experiment at LEP and determine the effective
value of CA/CF from this technique, at the finite energy of the Z0 boson, to be
1.74+-0.03+-0.10, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is
systematic.Comment: 20 pages including 6 figures Version 2 corrects typographical error
in equation (2
Severe Aortic Stenosis and Coronary Artery Disease—Implications for Management in the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Era A Comprehensive Review
Management of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) referred for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is posing challenges. Due to limited and heterogeneous data on the prevalence and clinical impact of CAD on the outcomes of TAVR and the management strategies for CAD in patients undergoing TAVR, we performed a comprehensive review of the literature. Significant CAD is present in 40% to 75% of patients undergoing TAVR. The impact of CAD on outcomes after TAVR remains understudied. Based on existing data, not all patients require revascularization before TAVR. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) should be considered for severely stenotic lesions in proximal coronaries that subtend a large area of myocardium at risk. Ongoing studies randomizing patients to surgical or percutaneous management strategies for severe AS will help provide valuable data regarding the impact of CAD on TAVR outcomes, the role of PCI, and its timing in relation to TAVR
Capgras Syndrome: A Novel Probe for Understanding the Neural Representation of the Identity and Familiarity of Persons
Patients with Capgras syndrome regard people whom they know well such as their parents or siblings as imposters. Here we describe a case (DS) of this syndrome who presents several novel features. DS was unusual in that his delusion was modality-specific: he claimed that his parents were imposters when he was looking at them but not when speaking to them on the telephone. Unlike normals, DS's skin conductance responses to photographs of familiar people, including his parents, were not larger in magnitude than his responses to photographs of unfamiliar people. We suggest that in this patient connections from face-processing areas in the temporal lobe to the limbic system have been damaged, a loss which may explain why he calls his parents imposters. In addition, DS was very poor at judging gaze direction. Finally, when presented with a sequence of photographs of the same model's face looking in different directions, DS asserted that they were "different women who looked just like each other'. In the absence of limbic activation, DS creates separate memory "files' of the same person, apparently because he is unable to extract and link the common denominator of successive episodic memories. Thus, far from being a medical curiosity. Capgras syndrome may help us to explore the formation of new memories caught in flagrante delicto
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