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INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION IN THE DESIGN OF TUNNEL LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS
The paper describes the influence of the characterisation of reflectance behaviour of tunnel pavements and wall materials on the tunnel lighting design. CIE 189 document suggests considering lambertian behaviour for inter-reflection calculations for road luminance evaluation at design stage, because, unfortunately, no bi-directional reflection data for tunnel surfaces are commonly available. This simplification is supported by the low impact of inter- reflection contribution to road luminance. A European funded research project ha the task of developing the metrological support for the road surface characterisation in new geometries of measurements. The paper suggests to apply the outcomes on new geometries to tunnel wall materials characterisation suggesting that the suggested SURFACE observation angle of 2.29° can be useful for short tunnel too, including wall surfaces
Markedly different ATP requirements for rRNA synthesis and mtDNA light strand transcription versus mRNA synthesis in isolated human mitochondria
In isolated mitochondria from HeLa cells, the ATP requirements for mitochondral DNA (mtDNA) transcription and RNA processing can be satisfied by either endogenous synthesis, mainly through oxidative- phosphorylation, or by exogenous supply. The pattern of RNA synthesis changes dramatically depending upon the level of ATP available. At the low intramitochondrial ATP levels produced from endogenous ADP in the presence of an oxidizable substrate and phosphate, the mRNA species are labeled to a substantial extent, whereas there is only a marginal labeling of the rRNA species and light (L) strand transcripts. By contrast, high ATP levels, either provided exogenously or produced endogenously in the presence of an oxidizable substrate, phosphate, and exogenous ADP, strongly stimulate rRNA synthesis (about 10-fold) and light (L) strand transcription (greater than 10-fold), with only a slight increase in mRNA synthesis
BV solutions and viscosity approximations of rate-independent systems
In the nonconvex case solutions of rate-independent systems may develop jumps
as a function of time. To model such jumps, we adopt the philosophy that rate
independence should be considered as limit of systems with smaller and smaller
viscosity. For the finite-dimensional case we study the vanishing-viscosity
limit of doubly nonlinear equations given in terms of a differentiable energy
functional and a dissipation potential which is a viscous regularization of a
given rate-independent dissipation potential. The resulting definition of 'BV
solutions' involves, in a nontrivial way, both the rate-independent and the
viscous dissipation potential, which play a crucial role in the description of
the associated jump trajectories. We shall prove a general convergence result
for the time-continuous and for the time-discretized viscous approximations and
establish various properties of the limiting BV solutions. In particular, we
shall provide a careful description of the jumps and compare the new notion of
solutions with the related concepts of energetic and local solutions to
rate-independent systems
Bad prospects for the detection of giant stars' tidal disruption: effect of the ambient medium on bound debris
Most massive galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive black hole in
their centre surrounded by a tenuous gas environment, leading to no significant
emission. In these quiescent galaxies, tidal disruption events represent a
powerful detection method for the central black hole. Following the disruption,
the stellar debris evolves into an elongated gas stream, which partly falls
back towards the disruption site and accretes onto the black hole producing a
luminous flare. Using an analytical treatment, we investigate the interaction
between the debris stream and the gas environment of quiescent galaxies.
Although we find dynamical effects to be negligible, we demonstrate that
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can lead to the dissolution of the stream into the
ambient medium before it reaches the black hole, likely dimming the associated
flare. This result is robust against the presence of a typical stellar magnetic
field and fast cooling within the stream. Furthermore, we find this effect to
be enhanced for disruptions involving more massive black holes and/or giant
stars. Consequently, although disruptions of evolved stars have been proposed
as a useful probe of black holes with masses , we
argue that the associated flares are likely less luminous than expected.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Weighted Energy-Dissipation principle for gradient flows in metric spaces
This paper develops the so-called Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED)
variational approach for the analysis of gradient flows in metric spaces. This
focuses on the minimization of the parameter-dependent global-in-time
functional of trajectories \mathcal{I}_\varepsilon[u] = \int_0^{\infty}
e^{-t/\varepsilon}\left( \frac12 |u'|^2(t) + \frac1{\varepsilon}\phi(u(t))
\right) \dd t, featuring the weighted sum of energetic and dissipative
terms. As the parameter is sent to~, the minimizers
of such functionals converge, up to subsequences, to curves of
maximal slope driven by the functional . This delivers a new and general
variational approximation procedure, hence a new existence proof, for metric
gradient flows. In addition, it provides a novel perspective towards
relaxation
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