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The radio-infrared correlation in galaxies
The radio-infrared correlation was explained as a direct and linear
relationship between star formation and IR emission. However, one fact making
the IR-star formation linkage less obvious is that the IR emission consists of
at least two emission components, cold dust and warm dust. The cold dust
emission may not be directly linked to the young stellar population.
Furthermore, understanding the origin of the radio-IR correlation requires to
discriminate between the two main components of the radio continuum emission,
free-free and synchrotron emission. Here, we present a multi-scale study of the
correlation of IR with both the thermal and non-thermal (synchrotron)
components of the radio continuum emission from the nearby galaxies M33 and
M31.Comment: To appear in Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 15, XXVIIth IAU General
Assembly, August 200
Discovery and composition of web services using artificial intelligence planning and web service modeling ontology
In today’s Web environment, Web services are the preferred standards-based way to realize Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) computing. A problem that has become one of the recent critical issues is automated discovery and composition of Semantic Web services. A number of approaches have been presented to solve the problem. However, most of these approaches only consider discovery or composition of Web services but not both. In this study, an effective approach called AIMO, based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning, Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), and Semantic Web has been proposed to tackle the problem. The main purpose of this study is to investigate and develop a novel approach for automated Web service discovery and composition. In this case, a comparative evaluation of state-of-the-art approaches for Web service composition approaches has been done and the strengths and weaknesses of those approaches have been discussed. Moreover a translator for interaction between WSMO and AI-planning based on Description Logics has been proposed. In addition, some parts of AIMO architecture have been tested on a practical case study, and the results based on the experimental validation demonstrate that AIMO provides an effective and applicable solution. AIMO continues to support loose coupling paradigm of SOA by separating the discovery from the composition of Web services
Nonequilibrium field-induced phase separation in single-file diffusion
Using an analytically tractable lattice model for reaction-diffusion
processes of hard-core particles we demonstrate that under nonequilibrium
conditions phase coexistence may arise even if the system is effectively
one-dimensional as e.g. in the channel system of some zeolites or in artificial
optical lattices. In our model involving two species of particles a
steady-state particle current is maintained by a density gradient between the
channel boundaries and by the influence of an external driving force. This
leads to the development of a fluctuating but always microscopically sharp
interface between two domains of different densities which are fixed by the
boundary chemical potentials. The internal structure of the interface becomes
very simple for strong driving force. We calculate the drift velocity and
diffusion coefficient of the interface in terms of the microscopic model
parameters.Comment: 38 pages, 2 figure
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