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NASTRAN modeling and analysis of rigid and flexible walled acoustic cavities
The acoustic slot elements, CSLOTi, are applied to analyze two-dimensional enclosures with fixed or moving boundaries. The capability utilized to compute (a) the acoustic natural modes and frequencies of a rigid walled enclosure and (b) the sound pressure at any point inside an enclosure when the surrounding walls are forced to vibrate. Applications to an automobile passenger compartment illustrate the technique. The axisymmetric fluid elements, CFLUIDi, are used in conjunction with a suitable choice of symmetry planes and a model of the surrounding structure to approximate a two-dimensional enclosure with flexible walls. The enclosure walls are modeled using finite elements or structural modes. Illustrative examples include a comparison of rectangular cavity modes with those calculated using the acoustic slot element and the free vibration modes of two enclosures coupled through a flexible rectangular panel
Photoemission evidence for crossover from Peierls-like to Mott-like transition in highly strained VO
We present a spectroscopic study that reveals that the metal-insulator
transition of strained VO thin films may be driven towards a purely
electronic transition, which does not rely on the Peierls dimerization, by the
application of mechanical strain. Comparison with a moderately strained system,
which does involve the lattice, demonstrates the crossover from Peierls- to
Mott-like transitions
The Electron Scattering Region in Seyfert Nuclei
The electron scattering region (ESR) is one of important ingredients in
Seyfert nuclei because it makes possible to observe the hidden broad line
region (hereafter HBLR) in some type 2 Seyfert nuclei (hereafter S2s). However,
little is known about its physical and geometrical properties. Using the number
ratio of S2s with and without HBLR, we investigate statistically where the ESR
is in Seyfert nuclei. Our analysis suggests that the ESR is located at radius
between 0.01 pc and 0.1 pc from the central engine. We also
discuss a possible origin of the ESR briefly.Comment: 5 pages and 1 figure. The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), in pres
Newborn screening for biotinidase deficiency in Brazil: biochemical and molecular characterizations
No N=4 Strings on Wolf Spaces
We generalize the standard supersymmetric Kazama-Suzuki coset
construction to the case by requiring the {\it non-linear}
(Goddard-Schwimmer) quasi-superconformal algebra to be realized on
cosets. The constraints that we find allow very simple geometrical
interpretation and have the Wolf spaces as their natural solutions. Our results
obtained by using components-level superconformal field theory methods are
fully consistent with standard results about supersymmetric
two-dimensional non-linear sigma-models and WZNW models on Wolf spaces.
We construct the actions for the latter and express the quaternionic structure,
appearing in the coset solution, in terms of the symplectic structure
associated with the underlying Freudenthal triple system. Next, we gauge the
QSCA and build a quantum BRST charge for the string propagating on
a Wolf space. Surprisingly, the BRST charge nilpotency conditions rule out the
non-trivial Wolf spaces as consistent string backgrounds.Comment: 31 pages, LaTeX, special macros are include
Parallelisable Heterotic Backgrounds
We classify the simply-connected supersymmetric parallelisable backgrounds of
heterotic supergravity. They are all given by parallelised Lie groups admitting
a bi-invariant lorentzian metric. We find examples preserving 4, 8, 10, 12, 14
and 16 of the 16 supersymmetries.Comment: 17 pages, AMSLaTe
Telerobotics : methodology for the development of a through-the-internet robotic teleoperated system
This work presents a methodology for the development of Teleoperated Robotic Systems through the Internet. Initially, it is presented a bibliographical review of the Telerobotic systems that uses Internet as way of control. The methodology is implemented and tested through the development of two systems. The first is a manipulator with two degrees of freedom commanded remotely through the Internet denominated RobWebCam (http://www.graco.unb.br/robwebcam). The second is a system which teleoperates an ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) Industrial Robot of six degrees of freedom denominated RobWebLink (http://webrobot.graco.unb.br). RobWebCam is composed of a manipulator with two degrees of freedom, a video camera, Internet, computers and communication driver between the manipulator and the Unix system; and RobWebLink composed of the same components plus the Industrial Robot. With the use of this technology, it is possible to move far distant positioning objects minimizing transport costs, materials and people; acting in real time in the process that is wanted to be controller. This work demonstrates that the teleoperating via Internet of robotic systems and other equipments is viable, in spite of using rate transmission data with low bandwidth. Possible applications include remote surveillance, control and remote diagnosis and maintenance of machines and equipments
Superconducting 2D system with lifted spin degeneracy: Mixed singlet-triplet state
Motivated by recent experimental findings, we have developed a theory of the
superconducting state for 2D metals without inversion symmetry modeling the
geometry of a surface superconducting layer in a field-effect-transistor or
near the boundary doped by adsorbed ions. In such systems the two-fold spin
degeneracy is lifted by spin-orbit interaction, and singlet and triplet
pairings are mixed in the wave function of the Cooper pairs. As a result, spin
magnetic susceptibility becomes anisotropic and Knight shift retains finite and
rather high value at T=0.Comment: 5 pages, no figure
Representations of the Canonical group, (the semi-direct product of the Unitary and Weyl-Heisenberg groups), acting as a dynamical group on noncommuting extended phase space
The unitary irreducible representations of the covering group of the Poincare
group P define the framework for much of particle physics on the physical
Minkowski space P/L, where L is the Lorentz group. While extraordinarily
successful, it does not provide a large enough group of symmetries to encompass
observed particles with a SU(3) classification. Born proposed the reciprocity
principle that states physics must be invariant under the reciprocity transform
that is heuristically {t,e,q,p}->{t,e,p,-q} where {t,e,q,p} are the time,
energy, position, and momentum degrees of freedom. This implies that there is
reciprocally conjugate relativity principle such that the rates of change of
momentum must be bounded by b, where b is a universal constant. The appropriate
group of dynamical symmetries that embodies this is the Canonical group C(1,3)
= U(1,3) *s H(1,3) and in this theory the non-commuting space Q= C(1,3)/
SU(1,3) is the physical quantum space endowed with a metric that is the second
Casimir invariant of the Canonical group, T^2 + E^2 - Q^2/c^2-P^2/b^2 +(2h
I/bc)(Y/bc -2) where {T,E,Q,P,I,Y} are the generators of the algebra of
Os(1,3). The idea is to study the representations of the Canonical dynamical
group using Mackey's theory to determine whether the representations can
encompass the spectrum of particle states. The unitary irreducible
representations of the Canonical group contain a direct product term that is a
representation of U(1,3) that Kalman has studied as a dynamical group for
hadrons. The U(1,3) representations contain discrete series that may be
decomposed into infinite ladders where the rungs are representations of U(3)
(finite dimensional) or C(2) (with degenerate U(1)* SU(2) finite dimensional
representations) corresponding to the rest or null frames.Comment: 25 pages; V2.3, PDF (Mathematica 4.1 source removed due to technical
problems); Submitted to J.Phys.
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