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Measurement of D v in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV with ALICE at the LHC
The study particle azimuthal anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions provides
insight on the collective hydrodynamic expansion of the system and on its
equation of state. The measurement of the elliptic flow, , of D mesons
compared to that of light hadrons is expected to be sensitive to the degree of
thermalization of charm quarks within the quark-gluon plasma. The first
measurement of D meson with the ALICE detector at the LHC will be
presented. The preliminary results obtained with the first Pb-Pb run at LHC
show a hint of non-zero in GeV/.Comment: 6 pages, SQM 2011 Conference Proceeding
Just design
Inclusive design prescribes addressing the needs of the widest possible audience in order to consider human differences. Taking differences seriously, however, may imply severely restricting “the widest possible audience”. In confronting this paradox, we investigate to what extent Rawls’ theory of justice as fairness applies to design. By converting the paradox into the question of how design can be fair, we show that the demand for equitability shifts from the design output to the design process. We conclude that the two main questions about justice find application in design: the question about the standards of justice and the question about its metrics. We endorse a Rawlsian approach to the former, while some revision may be due regarding the latter
Resilience of Traffic Networks with Partially Controlled Routing
This paper investigates the use of Infrastructure-To-Vehicle (I2V)
communication to generate routing suggestions for drivers in transportation
systems, with the goal of optimizing a measure of overall network congestion.
We define link-wise levels of trust to tolerate the non-cooperative behavior of
part of the driver population, and we propose a real-time optimization
mechanism that adapts to the instantaneous network conditions and to sudden
changes in the levels of trust. Our framework allows us to quantify the
improvement in travel time in relation to the degree at which drivers follow
the routing suggestions. We then study the resilience of the system, measured
as the smallest change in routing choices that results in roads reaching their
maximum capacity. Interestingly, our findings suggest that fluctuations in the
extent to which drivers follow the provided routing suggestions can cause
failures of certain links. These results imply that the benefits of using
Infrastructure-To-Vehicle communication come at the cost of new fragilities,
that should be appropriately addressed in order to guarantee the reliable
operation of the infrastructure.Comment: Accepted for presentation at the IEEE 2019 American Control
Conferenc
Secure Trajectory Planning Against Undetectable Spoofing Attacks
This paper studies, for the first time, the trajectory planning problem in
adversarial environments, where the objective is to design the trajectory of a
robot to reach a desired final state despite the unknown and arbitrary action
of an attacker. In particular, we consider a robot moving in a two-dimensional
space and equipped with two sensors, namely, a Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS) sensor and a Radio Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) sensor. The
attacker can arbitrarily spoof the readings of the GNSS sensor and the robot
control input so as to maximally deviate his trajectory from the nominal
precomputed path. We derive explicit and constructive conditions for the
existence of undetectable attacks, through which the attacker deviates the
robot trajectory in a stealthy way. Conversely, we characterize the existence
of secure trajectories, which guarantee that the robot either moves along the
nominal trajectory or that the attack remains detectable. We show that secure
trajectories can only exist between a subset of states, and provide a numerical
mechanism to compute them. We illustrate our findings through several numerical
studies, and discuss that our methods are applicable to different models of
robot dynamics, including unicycles. More generally, our results show how
control design affects security in systems with nonlinear dynamics.Comment: Accepted for publication in Automatic
The Observability Radius of Networks
This paper studies the observability radius of network systems, which
measures the robustness of a network to perturbations of the edges. We consider
linear networks, where the dynamics are described by a weighted adjacency
matrix, and dedicated sensors are positioned at a subset of nodes. We allow for
perturbations of certain edge weights, with the objective of preventing
observability of some modes of the network dynamics. To comply with the network
setting, our work considers perturbations with a desired sparsity structure,
thus extending the classic literature on the observability radius of linear
systems. The paper proposes two sets of results. First, we propose an
optimization framework to determine a perturbation with smallest Frobenius norm
that renders a desired mode unobservable from the existing sensor nodes.
Second, we study the expected observability radius of networks with given
structure and random edge weights. We provide fundamental robustness bounds
dependent on the connectivity properties of the network and we analytically
characterize optimal perturbations of line and star networks, showing that line
networks are inherently more robust than star networks.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Charm production study in p-p and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC with ALICE
The ALICE experiment at the LHC will study proton-proton and
heavy-ion collisions with the aim of investigating the properties of the high-density state of strongly interacting matter, expected to be produced in central Pb-Pb collisions. Open charm mesons are expected to be a powerful probe to investigate this deconfined state of the medium and they will be studied extensively in ALICE. Open charm measurements in p-p collisions is fundamental as a baseline for the interpretation of Pb-Pb results and in order to calculate the charm cross section in a new energy window
Café orgânico: do cultivo à xícara
TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Jornalismo.Grande reportagem que mostra a filosofia de vida e as motivações dos produtopres de café orgânico, explicando o que é este produto, por que está sendo produzido, seu diferencial, dificuldades, vantagens, desvantagens. Para tal é contada a história de produtores da região de Machado e Poço Fundo na região de Minas Gerais que cultivam café orgânico e/ou voltaram à produção do convencional e, também, a de uma pioneira na região de Franca (SP
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