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Semantic modelling of user interests based on cross-folksonomy analysis
The continued increase in Web usage, in particular participation in folksonomies, reveals a trend towards a more dynamic and interactive Web where individuals can organise and share resources. Tagging has emerged as the de-facto standard for the organisation of such resources, providing a versatile and reactive knowledge management mechanism that users find easy to use and understand. It is common nowadays for users to have multiple profiles in various folksonomies, thus distributing their tagging activities. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic consolidation of user profiles across two popular social networking sites, and subsequent semantic modelling of their interests utilising Wikipedia as a multi-domain model. We evaluate how much can be learned from such sites, and in which domains the knowledge acquired is focussed. Results show that far richer interest profiles can be generated for users when multiple tag-clouds are combine
Multi-locus phylogeny of Pleosporales: a taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary re-evaluation
Five loci, nucSSU, nucLSU rDNA, TEF1, RPB1 and RPB2, are used for analysing 129 pleosporalean taxa representing 59 genera and 15 families in the current classification of Pleosporales. The suborder Pleosporineae is emended to include four families, viz. Didymellaceae, Leptosphaeriaceae, Phaeosphaeriaceae and Pleosporaceae. In addition, two new families are introduced, i.e. Amniculicolaceae and Lentitheciaceae. Pleomassariaceae is treated as a synonym of Melanommataceae, and new circumscriptions of Lophiostomataceae s. str, Massarinaceae and Lophiotrema are proposed. Familial positions of Entodesmium and Setomelanomma in Phaeosphaeriaceae, Neophaeosphaeria in Leptosphaeriaceae, Leptosphaerulina, Macroventuria and Platychora in Didymellaceae, Pleomassaria in Melanommataceae and Bimuria, Didymocrea, Karstenula and Paraphaeosphaeria in Montagnulaceae are clarified. Both ecological and morphological characters show varying degrees of phylogenetic significance. Pleosporales is most likely derived from a saprobic ancestor with fissitunicate asci containing conspicuous ocular chambers and apical rings. Nutritional shifts in Pleosporales likely occured from saprotrophic to hemibiotrophic or biotrophic
Influence of impurity scattering on tunneling conductance in normal metal- d -wave superconductor junctions
Tunneling conductance spectra between a normal metal / d-wave superconductor
junction under the presence of bulk impurities in the superconductor are
studied. The quasiclassical theory has been applied to calculate the spatial
variation of the pair potential and the effect of impurity scattering has been
introduced by t-matrix approximation. The magnitude of a subdominant s-wave
component at the interface is shown to robust against the impurity scattering
while that for a subdominant -wave component is largely suppressed with
the increase of the impurity scattering rate. The zero-bias conductance peak
due to the zero-energy Andreev bound states is significantly broadened for the
case of Born limit impurity compared with that of unitary limit impurity.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
A phenomenological theory of zero-energy Andreev resonant states
A conceptual consideration is given to a zero-energy state (ZES) at the
surface of unconventional superconductors. The reflection coefficients in
normal-metal / superconductor (NS) junctions are calculated based on a
phenomenological description of the reflection processes of a quasiparticle.
The phenomenological theory reveals the importance of the sign change in the
pair potential for the formation of the ZES. The ZES is observed as the
zero-bias conductance peak (ZBCP) in the differential conductance of NS
junctions. The split of the ZBCP due to broken time-reversal symmetry states is
naturally understood in the present theory. We also discuss effects of external
magnetic fields on the ZBCP.Comment: 12 page
Zero-bias conductance peak splitting due to multiband effect in tunneling spectroscopy
We study how the multiplicity of the Fermi surface affects the zero-bias peak
in conductance spectra of tunneling spectroscopy. As case studies, we consider
models for organic superconductors -(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS) and
(TMTSF)ClO. We find that multiplicity of the Fermi surfaces can lead to
a splitting of the zero-bias conductance peak (ZBCP). We propose that the
presence/absence of the ZBCP splitting is used as a probe to distinguish the
pairing symmetry in -(BEDT-TTF)Cu(NCS).Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Electronic States in Two-Dimensional Triangular Cobalt Oxides: Role of Electronic Correlation
We obtain the electronic states and structures of two-dimensional cobalt
oxides, NaCoO (x=0, 0.35, 0.5 and 0.75) by utilizing the
full-potential linear muffin-tin orbitals (FP-LMTO) methods, from which some
essential electronic interaction parameters are estimated: the bare on-site
Coulomb interaction of cobalt U=7.5 eV renormalizes to 5 eV for x=0.35,
the hybridizations t and t are -1.40 and 0.70 eV,
respectively. The density of states at E decreases from 6-7 states/eV in
the local density approximation (LDA) to about 1.0 states/eV in the LDA+U
scheme. The role of the intercalation of water molecules and the microscopic
mechanism of the superconductivity in NaCoOmHO is
discussed.Comment: minor errors correcte
Theory of charge transport in diffusive normal metal / unconventional singlet superconductor contacts
We analyze the transport properties of contacts between unconventional
superconductor and normal diffusive metal in the framework of the extended
circuit theory. We obtain a general boundary condition for the Keldysh-Nambu
Green's functions at the interface that is valid for arbitrary transparencies
of the interface. This allows us to investigate the voltage-dependent
conductance (conductance spectrum) of a diffusive normal metal (DN)/
unconventional singlet superconductor junction in both ballistic and diffusive
cases. For d-wave superconductor, we calculate conductance spectra numerically
for different orientations of the junctions, resistances, Thouless energies in
DN, and transparencies of the interface. We demonstrate that conductance
spectra exhibit a variety of features including a -shaped gap-like
structure, zero bias conductance peak (ZBCP) and zero bias conductance dip
(ZBCD). We show that two distinct mechanisms: (i) coherent Andreev reflection
(CAR) in DN and (ii) formation of midgap Andreev bound state (MABS) at the
interface of d-wave superconductors, are responsible for ZBCP, their relative
importance being dependent on the angle between the interface normal
and the crystal axis of d-wave superconductors. For , the ZBCP is due
to CAR in the junctions of low transparency with small Thouless energies, this
is similar to the case of diffusive normal metal / insulator /s-wave
superconductor junctions. With increase of from zero to , the
MABS contribution to ZBCP becomes more prominent and the effect of CAR is
gradually suppressed. Such complex spectral features shall be observable in
conductance spectra of realistic high- junctions at very low temperature
Spin polarized tunneling in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor junctions
We study tunneling in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor (F/S)
junctions. We include the effects of spin polarization, interfacial resistance,
and Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions. Andreev
reflection (AR) at the F/S interface, governing tunneling at low bias voltage,
is strongly modified by these parameters. The conductance exhibits a very wide
variety of features as a function of applied voltage.Comment: Revision includes new figures with angular averages and correction of
minor error
Spinodal Decomposition in a Binary Polymer Mixture: Dynamic Self Consistent Field Theory and Monte Carlo Simulations
We investigate how the dynamics of a single chain influences the kinetics of
early stage phase separation in a symmetric binary polymer mixture. We consider
quenches from the disordered phase into the region of spinodal instability. On
a mean field level we approach this problem with two methods: a dynamical
extension of the self consistent field theory for Gaussian chains, with the
density variables evolving in time, and the method of the external potential
dynamics where the effective external fields are propagated in time. Different
wave vector dependencies of the kinetic coefficient are taken into account.
These early stages of spinodal decomposition are also studied through Monte
Carlo simulations employing the bond fluctuation model that maps the chains --
in our case with 64 effective segments -- on a coarse grained lattice. The
results obtained through self consistent field calculations and Monte Carlo
simulations can be compared because the time, length, and temperature scales
are mapped onto each other through the diffusion constant, the chain extension,
and the energy of mixing. The quantitative comparison of the relaxation rate of
the global structure factor shows that a kinetic coefficient according to the
Rouse model gives a much better agreement than a local, i.e. wave vector
independent, kinetic factor. Including fluctuations in the self consistent
field calculations leads to a shorter time span of spinodal behaviour and a
reduction of the relaxation rate for smaller wave vectors and prevents the
relaxation rate from becoming negative for larger values of the wave vector.
This is also in agreement with the simulation results.Comment: Phys.Rev.E in prin
Exact Black Holes and Gravitational Shockwaves on Codimension-2 Branes
We derive exact gravitational fields of a black hole and a relativistic
particle stuck on a codimension-2 brane in dimensions when gravity is ruled
by the bulk -dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action. The black hole is locally
the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild solution, which is threaded by a tensional
brane yielding a deficit angle and includes the first explicit example of a
`small' black hole on a tensional 3-brane. The shockwaves allow us to study the
large distance limits of gravity on codimension-2 branes. In an infinite
locally flat bulk, they extinguish as , i.e. as on a 3-brane
in , manifestly displaying the full dimensionality of spacetime. We check
that when we compactify the bulk, this special case correctly reduces to the 4D
Aichelburg-Sexl solution at large distances. Our examples show that gravity
does not really obstruct having general matter stress-energy on codimension-2
branes, although its mathematical description may be more involved.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX; v2: added references, version to appear in JHE
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