Neutron Charge Radius: Relativistic Effects and the Foldy Term

The neutron charge radius is studied within a light-front model with different spin coupling schemes and wave functions. The cancellation of the contributions from the Foldy term and Dirac form factor to the neutron charge form factor is verified for large nucleon sizes and it is independent of the detailed form of quark spin coupling and wave function. For the physical nucleon our results for the contribution of the Dirac form factor to the neutron radius are insensitive to the form of the wave function while they strongly depend on the quark spin coupling scheme.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, Latex, Int. J. Mod. Phys.

Improving Whole Slide Segmentation Through Visual Context - A Systematic Study

While challenging, the dense segmentation of histology images is a necessary first step to assess changes in tissue architecture and cellular morphology. Although specific convolutional neural network architectures have been applied with great success to the problem, few effectively incorporate visual context information from multiple scales. With this paper, we present a systematic comparison of different architectures to assess how including multi-scale information affects segmentation performance. A publicly available breast cancer and a locally collected prostate cancer datasets are being utilised for this study. The results support our hypothesis that visual context and scale play a crucial role in histology image classification problems

Supressividade dos nematóides Meloydogine javanica e Heterodera glycines em soja por adição de lodo de esgoto ao solo.

O lodo de esgoto, atendendo às exigências ambientais, apresenta grande potencial para utilização em solos agrícolas, onde vem sendo amplamente disposto. Sua utilização altera propriedades químicas, físicas e biológicas do solo, devido a sua composição em macro e micronutrientes e matéria orgânica. Estas alterações podem proporcionar benefícios como aumento da disponibilidade nutricional às culturas, indução de supressividade aos fitopatógenos presentes no solo e resistência às doenças da parte aérea. Por outro lado, pode influenciar negativamente o equilíbrio biológico e químico no solo, devido à presença de concentrações consideráveis de N disponível, sais solúveis e metais pesados. Com o objetivo de avaliar os efeitos da incorporação de lodo de esgoto ao solo sobre supressividade de nematoides de galha (Meloydogine javanica (Treub) (Chitwood) e do cisto (Hetodera glycines Ichinoe), parasitas da soja (Glycine max L.), foram realizados experimentos em laboratório e casa de vegetação utilizando-se solo coletado de área experimental da Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Jaguariúna, SP. Esta área recebeu aplicações sucessivas de lodos de esgotos, originários das Estações de Tratamento de Esgoto de Barueri e de Franca, no Estado de S. Paulo, durante cinco anos (1998-2002). Com relação à indução de supressividade a nematóides, observou-se que o lodo de esgoto não afetou o desenvolvimento de fêmeas de H. glycines no solo (apenas reduziu o número de ovos por cisto) contudo reduziu a reprodução de M. javanica, nas raízes de soja

Non-hexagonal-ring defects and structures induced by strain in graphene and in functionalized graphene

We perform {\textit ab initio} calculations for the strain-induced formation of non-hexagonal-ring defects in graphene, graphane (planar CH), and graphenol (planar COH). We find that the simplest of such topological defects, the Stone-Wales defect, acts as a seed for strain-induced dissociation and multiplication of topological defects. Through the application of inhomogeneous deformations to graphene, graphane and graphenol with initially small concentrations of pentagonal and heptagonal rings, we obtain several novel stable structures that possess, at the same time, large concentrations of non-hexagonal rings (from fourfold to elevenfold) and small formation energies

Temperature oscillations of magnetization observed in nanofluid ferromagnetic graphite

We report on unusual magnetic properties observed in the nanofluid room-temperature ferromagnetic graphite (with an average particle size of l=10nm). More precisely, the measured magnetization exhibits a low-temperature anomaly (attributed to manifestation of finite size effects below the quantum temperature) as well as pronounced temperature oscillations above T=50K (attributed to manifestation of the hard-sphere type pair correlations between ferromagnetic particles in the nanofluid)

Development and exploratory cluster-randomised opportunistic trial of a theory-based intervention to enhance physical activity among adolescents

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Development of weft-knitted and braided polypropylene stents for arterial implant

Textile biomedical materials have been used for various applications contributing considerably in improving quality of life. The current study aims at improving polypropylene fibre stents which may replace metallic ones. In order to produce the stents, weft-knitting and braiding technologies were used. In the braiding technique, by varying the takeup ratio (using gears with the appropriate number of teeth in the braiding machine), it was possible to manufacture regular braids with angles of 65 ° , 70 ° and 75 ° in order to obtain different covers. In the knitting technique, a circular machine was used and the tightness of the structure was adjusted by varying the loop length and thus the fabric loop density, resulting in variations of the sample diameter. The knitting machine had negative feed, and so loop length variations were achieved by varying the yarn input tension, the stitch cam settings and the fabric take-down tension. The samples were heat set. Yarns were contracted by setting at 130 ° C and 140 ° C, and this led to increasing the loop density and the flexural rigidity of the samples. A high cover of the samples resulted in a greater stiffness of the structures. The stents were evaluated by undertaking the tests required for arterial support: rigidity to radial compression, resistance to tensile forces and bending rigidity. The best results were obtained with braided structures. Future work may concentrate in improving the stent design and using new biocompatible fibres.The authors wish to thank the European Commission for awarding research funds under the EU Asia-link programme and the University of Minho (Portugal) and Donghua University (People's Republic of China) for providing research facilities

Manifestation of finite temperature size effects in nanogranular magnetic graphite

In addition to the double phase transition (with the Curie temperatures T_C=300K and T_{Ct}=144K), a low-temperature anomaly in the dependence of the magnetization is observed in the bulk magnetic graphite (with an average granular size of L=10nm), which is attributed to manifestation of the size effects below the quantum temperature. The best fits of the high-temperature data (using the mean-field Curie-Weiss and Bloch expressions) produced reasonable estimates for the model parameters, such as defects mediated effective spin exchange energy J=12meV (which defines the intragranular Curie temperature T_C) and proximity mediated interactions between neighboring grains (through potential barriers created by thin layers of non-magnetic graphite) with energy J_t=exp(-d/s)J=5.8meV (which defines the intergranular Curie temperature T_{Ct}) with d=1.5nm and s=2nm being the intergranular distance and characteristic length, respectively