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Hydrodynamic theory for granular gases
A granular gas subjected to a permanent injection of energy is described by
means of hydrodynamic equations derived from a moment expansion method. The
method uses as reference function not a Maxwellian distribution but
a distribution , such that adds a fourth cumulant
to the velocity distribution. The formalism is applied to a stationary
conductive case showing that the theory fits extraordinarily well the results
coming from our molecular dynamic simulations once we determine as a
function of the inelasticity of the particle-particle collisions. The shape of
is independent of the size of the system.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, more about our research in
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Analysis of Ductile Bursting in Pressure Vessels of Texture-Hardening and Filament-Wrapped Materials
Analyses are presented for predicting the strength governed by the plastic tensile instability (PTI) phenomenon in thin-walled cylindrical and spherical pressure vessels constructed of texture- hardening alloys and with or without over-wrapped filaments. These analyses are important in predicting ductile bursting of pressure vessels used in such high-performance applications as high-pressure storage bottles, liquid-propellant tankage, and solid rocket casings. The analyses cover cylindrical pressure vessels subject to any ratio of biaxial stresses. Also means of estimating the effect of finite length is presented. Spherical vessels of texture- hardening material and cylindrical vessels with filaments over wrapped on a texture-hardening metallic substrate are treated as special cases. The analytical results are compared with available experimental results with good success.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Post COVID-19 implications on genetic diversity and genomics research & innovation: A call for governance and research capacity. White paper.
This is the final version. Available from the Food and Agriculture Organisation via the DOI in this record. At a time of significant technological change and digitization in the biological sciences, the COVID19 pandemic has highlighted again the inequities in the research and innovation ecosystem.
Based on a consultation with an internationally diverse group of stakeholders from multiple fields
and professions, and on a broadly representative set of case studies, this report offers a new
approach to the global governance of genetic diversity and genomic research and innovation.
We recommend that in addition to the many valuable efforts at the macro-policy level and at the
micro-level of projects, teams and organizations, the global community concerned with
genetic diversity and genomic research and innovation should devise and implement a
meso-level initiative that includes three main components:
1. First, it should establish a new
professional capacity to govern research
and innovation at the meso-level.
Governance capacity, built through a
networked community of practice, has the
benefit of connecting and integrating macrolevel policy intentions with micro-level
actions. It facilitates a consistent
professional basis from which local and
regional level flexibilities can generate new
norms of reflection that better integrate
multiple synergies, reconcile tensions,
recognize inequities, and redress persistent
inequalities.
2. Second, the global community should
redouble efforts to build research capacity in
genomic research and innovation in the
Global South and for Indigenous Peoples.
Such an effort should be focused on
broader programmatic objectives that
facilitate cross-national and cross-regional
collaboration, as well as enhancing
research communities in the Global South
and in Indigenous communities. Together,
the twin capacities of governance and
research can reduce power differentials
among diverse actors and support crisisbased imperatives for data openness.
3. Third, we recommend that existing global
policy frameworks interface with research
governance and capacity investment. This
meso-level approach should gain the
commitment and support from national and
international policy bodies, embedded within
existing specific issue-areas (health,
agriculture, environment).
A new approach, one that can better respond to global crises though more open, inclusive and
equitable participation in research and innovation, is necessary to resolve the tensions among
openness, innovation and equity that the current discourse on genetic diversity reiterates.
Failure to systematically address the social and technical governance challenges will result in
further fragmentation, inequity and vulnerability for decades to come. Conversely, investing in
the current historical moment of the pandemic to build twin capacities for meso-level
governance and research is poised to prevent and/or reduce the impact of future ecological
crises, while contributing to planetary sustainability and prosperity in the 21st century for current
and future generations.European CommissionAlan Turing Institut
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary
systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data
taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers during the first LIGO science
run and illustrates a method of setting upper limits on inspiral event rates
using interferometer data. The analysis pipeline is described with particular
attention to data selection and coincidence between the two interferometers. We
establish an observational upper limit of 1.7 \times 10^{2}M_\odot$.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Search for composite and exotic fermions at LEP 2
A search for unstable heavy fermions with the DELPHI detector at LEP is
reported. Sequential and non-canonical leptons, as well as excited leptons and
quarks, are considered. The data analysed correspond to an integrated
luminosity of about 48 pb^{-1} at an e^+e^- centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV
and about 20 pb^{-1} equally shared between the centre-of-mass energies of 172
GeV and 161 GeV. The search for pair-produced new leptons establishes 95%
confidence level mass limits in the region between 70 GeV/c^2 and 90 GeV/c^2,
depending on the channel. The search for singly produced excited leptons and
quarks establishes upper limits on the ratio of the coupling of the excited
fermio
Search for lightest neutralino and stau pair production in light gravitino scenarios with stau NLSP
Promptly decaying lightest neutralinos and long-lived staus are searched for
in the context of light gravitino scenarios. It is assumed that the stau is the
next to lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) and that the lightest
neutralino is the next to NLSP (NNLSP). Data collected with the Delphi detector
at centre-of-mass energies from 161 to 183 \GeV are analysed. No evidence of
the production of these particles is found. Hence, lower mass limits for both
kinds of particles are set at 95% C.L.. The mass of gaugino-like neutralinos is
found to be greater than 71.5 GeV/c^2. In the search for long-lived stau,
masses less than 70.0 to 77.5 \GeVcc are excluded for gravitino masses from 10
to 150 \eVcc . Combining this search with the searches for stable heavy leptons
and Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model staus a lower limit of 68.5 \GeVcc
may be set for the stau mas
Study of Tau-pair Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at LEP and Limits on the Anomalous Electromagnetic Moments of the Tau Lepton
Tau-pair production in the process e+e- -> e+e-tau+tau- was studied using
data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP2 during the years 1997 - 2000.
The corresponding integrated luminosity is 650 pb^{-1}. The values of the
cross-section obtained are found to be in agreement with QED predictions.
Limits on the anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments of the tau lepton
are deduced.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J.
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