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Collisional Damping of Giant Monopole and Quadrupole Resonances
Collisional damping widths of giant monopole and quadrupole excitations for
Sn and Pb at zero and finite temperatures are calculated within
Thomas-Fermi approximation by employing the microscopic in-medium
cross-sections of Li and Machleidt and the phenomenological Skyrme and Gogny
forces, and are compared with each other. The results for the collisional
widths of giant monopole and quadrupole vibrations at zero temperature as a
function of the mass number show that the collisional damping of giant monopole
vibrations accounts for about 30-40% of the observed widths at zero
temperature, while for giant quadrupole vibrations it accounts for only 20-30%
of the observed widths of zero temperature.Comment: RevTex, 12 pages, 6 PS figure
Structural, Vibrational and Thermodynamic Properties of AgnCu34-n Nanoparticles
We report results of a systematic study of structural, vibrational and
thermodynamical properties of 34-atom bimetallic nanoparticles from the
AgnCu34-n family using model interaction potentials as derived from the
embedded atom method and in the harmonic approximation of lattice dynamics.
Systematic trends in the bond length and dynamical properties can be explained
largely on arguments based on local coordination and elemental environment.
Thus increase in the number of silver atoms in a given neighborhood introduces
a monotonic increase in bond length while increase of the copper content does
the reverse. Moreover, based on bond lengths of the lowest coordinated (6 and
8) copper atoms with their nearest neighbors (Cu atoms), we find that the
nanoparticles divide into two groups with average bond length either close to
(~ 2.58 A) or smaller (~ 2.48 A) than that in bulk copper, accompanied by
characteristic features in their vibrational density of states. For the entire
set of nanoparticles, vibrational modes are found above the bulk bands of
copper/silver. Furthermore, a blue shift in the high frequency end with
increasing number of copper atoms in the nanoparticles is traced to a shrinkage
of bond lengths from bulk values. The vibrational densities of states at the
low frequency end of the spectrum scale linearly with frequency as for single
element nanoparticles, however, the effect is more pronounced for these
nanoalloys. The Debye temperature was found to be about one third of that of
the bulk for pure copper and silver nanoparticles with a non-linear increase
with increasing number of copper atoms in the nanoalloys.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figure
Small gaps between products of two primes
Let denote the number that is a product of exactly two
distinct primes. We prove that
This sharpens an earlier result of the authors (arXivMath NT/0506067), which
had 26 in place of 6. More generally, we prove that if is any positive
integer, then
We also prove several other results on the representation of numbers with
exactly two prime factors by linear forms.Comment: 11N25 (primary) 11N36 (secondary
Heart ventricular histology and microvasculature together with aortic histology and elastic lamellar structure: A comparison of a novel dual-purpose to a broiler chicken line
The use of dual-purpose chickens is a strategy to avoid killing one-day-old male chicks of egg laying lines. Lohmann Dual (LD) is a novel dual-purpose chicken line created by the crossbreeding of layer and broiler lines. However, many of the cardiovascular diseases of broilers are likely to be associated with intensive genetic selection for growth and feed conversion efficiency. This study aimed to compare the macroscopic and microscopic structure of the heart and the aorta of the LD chicken line with that of the broiler chicken line, Ross 308 (Ross) under typical husbandry conditions for meat production. Eighty, one-day-old male chicks of each line were housed for 5 weeks (Ross) and 9 weeks (LD). Six birds of each line were sampled weekly. Heart mass, thickness of ventricular walls, cardiomyocyte size and blood capillary density as well as aortic diameter and thickness, number of elastic lamellae and elastic fiber percentage in the aortic wall were determined. The growth patterns of the heart were the same in the two lines. Although LD chickens had a lower absolute heart mass than that of Ross chickens, the relative heart mass in both lines was similar. The cardiomyocytes of LD chickens were larger than those of Ross’s of the same body weight (BW), nevertheless both lines had similar thicknesses of their ventricular walls. The blood capillary density was greater in the LD heart than in that of the Ross heart. The aorta of LD chickens had proportionally; a greater aortic lumen radius, larger numbers of elastic lamellae and more elastic fibers than in Ross chickens. Our results suggest that the heart and aorta of the LD chickens have not been disadvantaged by their intensive genetic selection; furthermore, LD chickens have a better myocardial capillary supply and better aortic mechanical properties than those of Ross chickens
Tunable adsorption on carbon nanotubes
We investigated the adsorption of a single atom, hydrogen and aluminum, on
single wall carbon nanotubes from first-principles. The adsorption is
exothermic, and the associated binding energy varies inversely as the radius of
the zigzag tube. We found that the adsorption of a single atom and related
properties can be modified continuously and reversibly by the external radial
deformation. The binding energy on the high curvature site of the deformed tube
increases with increasing radial deformation. The effects of curvature and
radial deformation depend on the chirality of the tube.Comment: To be appear in Physical Review Letter
The accuracy rate of Alvarado score, ultrasonography, and computerized tomography scan in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in our center
Objective: In this study, we aim to compare the relationship between the Alvarado score, ultrasonography, and multislice computerized tomography (CT) findings used for the diagnosis of the patients who presented to our emergency unit with clinical features suggestive of acute appendicitis.Materials and Methods: Seventy.four patients operated with the diagnosis of acute appendicitis were included in the study. The demographic characteristics of the patients, physical findings, blood parameters, Alvarado scores, the radiological method used for the diagnosis, the surgical methods (open or laparoscopic) and the pathology results wererecorded on the standard proforma. The collected data were analyzed with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 15 for Windows, SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA) computer program.Results: During study period, the sensitivity of ultrasonography was found to be as 71.2%, specificity as 46.7%, the positive predictive value (PPV) as 82.2%, the negative predictive value (NPV) as 31.8%, and the accuracy rate was determined as 65.7%. The sensitivity of tomography was determined as 97.2%, the specificity as 62.5%, PPV as 92.1%, and NPV as 83.3%, and the accuracy rate was determined as 90%. The sensitivity of the Alvarado score was calculated as 54%, the specificity as 73.3%, the PPV as 88.2% and the NPV as 29.7%, and the accuracy rate was determined as 57.7%.Conclusion: In conclusion, computerized tomography (CT) was found to have higher specificity and sensitivity than Alvarado score and USG which are not sufficient on their own for taking the decision for surgery. We also found that CT scan had lower negative laparotomy rate when compared with the other two modalities.Key words: Alvarado score, appendicitis, computerized tomography, ultrasonograph
Pressure-Induced Interlinking of Carbon Nanotubes
We predict new forms of carbon consisting of one and two dimensional networks
of interlinked single wall carbon nanotubes, some of which are energetically
more stable than van der Waals packing of the nanotubes on a hexagonal lattice.
These interlinked nanotubes are further transformed with higher applied
external pressures to more dense and complicated stable structures, in which
curvature-induced carbon sp re-hybridizations are formed. We also discuss
the energetics of the bond formation between nanotubes and the electronic
properties of these predicted novel structures.Comment: 4 pages, 4 postscript figures; To be appear in PR
Salient point region covariance descriptor for target tracking
Cataloged from PDF version of article.Features extracted at salient points are used to construct a
region covariance descriptor (RCD) for target tracking. In the classical
approach, the RCD is computed by using the features at each pixel
location, which increases the computational cost in many cases. This
approach is redundant because image statistics do not change significantly
between neighboring image pixels. Furthermore, this redundancy
may decrease tracking accuracy while tracking large targets because statistics
of flat regions dominate region covariance matrix. In the proposed
approach, salient points are extracted via the Shi and Tomasi’s minimum
eigenvalue method over a Hessian matrix, and the RCD features extracted
only at these salient points are used in target tracking. Experimental
results indicate that the salient point RCD scheme provides comparable
and even better tracking results compared to a classical RCD-based
approach, scale-invariant feature transform, and speeded-up robust
features-based trackers while providing a computationally more efficient
structure. © 2013 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) [DOI: 10
.1117/1.OE.52.2.027207
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