April 2015 arXiv papers — page 24

Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire

We report nearly complete preservation of "spin memory" between optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) in nanometer slabs of GaSe pumped with up to 0.2 eV excess energy. At cryogenic temperatures, the initial degree of circular polarization ($ρ_0$) of PL approaches unity, with the major fraction of the spin polarization decaying with a time co

Jiamin Zhu, Emmanuel Trélat, Max Cerf

In this paper, we study the minimum time planar tilting maneuver of a spacecraft, from the theoretical as well as from the numerical point of view, with a particular focus on the chattering phenomenon. We prove that there exist optimal chattering arcs when a singular junction occurs. Our study is based on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and on results by M.

Sonali Sachdeva, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Kanak Saha, Harinder P. Singh

Establishing the relative role of internally and externally driven mechanisms responsible for disc and bulge growth is essential to understand the evolution of disc galaxies. In this context, we have studied the physical properties of disc galaxies without classical bulges in comparison to those with classical bulges since z~0.9. Using images from the Hubble

J. -F. Robitaille, A. M. M. Scaife

We propose a new multiscale method to calculate the amplitude of the gradient of the linear polarisation vector using a wavelet-based formalism. We demonstrate this method using a field of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) and show that the filamentary structure typically seen in gradients of linear polarisation maps depends strongly on the instrumen

J. Jurcsik, P. Smitola, G. Hajdu, Á. Sódor

The overtone and multi-mode RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster M3 are studied using a 200-d long, $B,V$ and $I_{\mathrm C}$ time-series photometry obtained in 2012. 70\% of the 52 overtone variables observed show some kind of multi-periodicity (additional frequency at ${f_{0.61}}={f_{\mathrm {1O}}}/0.61$ frequency ratio, Blazhko effect, double/multi-mode

Mrinal Kumar, Shubhangi Saraf

We study the complexity of representing polynomials as a sum of products of polynomials in few variables. More precisely, we study representations of the form $$P = \sum_{i = 1}^T \prod_{j = 1}^d Q_{ij}$$ such that each $Q_{ij}$ is an arbitrary polynomial that depends on at most $s$ variables. We prove the following results. 1. Over fields of characteristic

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

The paper identifies families of quasi-stationary initial conditions for infinite Brownian particle systems within a large class and provides a construction of the particle systems themselves started from such initial conditions. Examples of particle systems falling into our framework include Brownian versions of TASEP-like processes such as the diffusive sc

E. F. D. Evangelista, J. C. N. de Araujo

Binary Systems are the most studied sources of gravitational waves. The mechanisms of emission and the behavior of the orbital parameters are well known and can be written in analytic form in several cases. Besides, the strongest indication of the existence of gravitational waves has arisen from the observation of binary systems. On the other hand, when the

Isabel N. Figueiredo, Carlos Leal, Luís Pinto, Pedro N. Figueiredo

Wireless Capsule Endoscope (WCE) is an innovative imaging device that permits physicians to examine all the areas of the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is especially important for the small intestine, where traditional invasive endoscopies cannot reach. Although WCE represents an extremely important advance in medical imaging, a major drawback that remains

Julio Andrade

Let $F$ be a finite field of odd cardinality $q$, $A=F[T]$ the polynomial ring over $F$, $k=F(T)$ the rational function field over $F$ and $\mathcal{H}$ the set of square-free monic polynomials in $A$ of degree odd. If $D\in\mathcal{H}$, we denote by $\mathcal{O}_{D}$ the integral closure of $A$ in $k(\sqrt{D})$. In this note we give a simple proof for the a

Lorenzo Fagiano, Rudolf Gati

An approach to derive low-complexity models describing thermal radiation for the sake of simulating the behavior of electric arcs in switchgear systems is presented. The idea is to approximate the (high dimensional) full-order equations, modeling the propagation of the radiated intensity in space, with a model of much lower dimension, whose parameters are id

Flavio Ferrarotti, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Loredana Tec, Qing Wang

A behavioural theory consists of machine-independent postulates characterizing a particular class of algorithms or systems, an abstract machine model that provably satisfies these postulates, and a rigorous proof that any algorithm or system stipulated by the postulates is captured by the abstract machine model. The class of interest in this article is that

Tanmay Deshpande

In this paper, we extend the notion of Shintani descent to general (possibly disconnected) algebraic groups defined over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. For this, it is essential to treat all the pure inner $\mathbb{F}_q$-rational forms of the algebraic group at the same time. We prove that the notion of almost characters (introduced by T. Shoji using Shintan

Q. Bouton, R. Chang, A. L. Hoendervanger, F. Nogrette

We report on the Bose-Einstein condensation of metastable Helium-4 atoms using a hybrid approach, consisting of a magnetic quadrupole and a crossed optical dipole trap. In our setup we cross the phase transition with 2x10^6 atoms, and we obtain pure condensates of 5x10^5 atoms in the optical trap. This novel approach to cooling Helium-4 provides enhanced cyc

Zhayida Simayijiang, Elkin Vumar

The double graph of a graph $G$ is defined as $\mathcal{D}[G]$ = $G \times T_2$, where \(T_2\) is the total graph with 2 vertices and $\times$ stands for the Kronecker product of graphs. In this paper, sufficient conditions for double graphs to be maximum vertex-connected, maximum edge-connected are presented.

F. Martins, S. Simon-Diaz, A. Palacios, I. Howarth

Massive stars burn hydrogen through the CNO cycle during most of their evolution. When mixing is efficient, or when mass transfer in binary systems happens, chemically processed material is observed at the surface of O and B stars. ON stars show stronger lines of nitrogen than morphologically normal counterparts. Whether this corresponds to the presence of m

Gregor Feldbauer, Michael Wolloch, Pedro O. Bedolla, Peter Mohn

A series of density functional theory (DFT) simulations was performed to investigate the approach, contact, and subsequent separation of two atomically flat surfaces consisting of different materials. Aluminum (Al) and titanium nitride (TiN) slabs were chosen as a model system representing a metal-ceramic interface and the interaction between soft and hard m

Zhiqiang Chen, Jiasheng Huang, Jinglei Chai, Xiangyu Zhang

We construct families of discrete solitons (DSs) in an array of self-defocusing waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$ (parity-time)-symmetric dimer, which is represented by a pair of waveguides carrying mutually balanced gain and loss. Four types of states attached to the embedded defect are found, namely, staggered and unstaggered bright localized mode

T. Wasak, P. Szankowski, M. Trippenbach, J. Chwedenczuk

Basing on the analogy between the coherent states of light and separable states of $N$ bosons, we demonstrate that the violation Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for any-order correlation function signals the entanglement among the constituent particles. Rather than restricting to the correlations between the positions of particles, we consider the broadest set of

Kunihiko Tanaka, Makoto Nagai, Kazuhisa Kamegai, Tomoharu Oka

The high velocity dispersion compact cloud CO-0.30-0.07 is a peculiar molecular clump discovered in the central moleculr zone of the Milky Way, which is characterized by its extremely broad velocity emissions ($\sim 145\ \rm{km s^{-1}}$) despite the absence of internal energy sources. We present new interferometric maps of the cloud in multiple molecular lin

Rawlinson S. Gonçalves, Raimundo da Silva Barreto

In recent years there has been an increasing use of embedded systems because of advances in technology, the reduction of the costs of electronic equipment and mainly the popularity of mobile devices. Many of these systems implement low power consumption policies to extend their autonomy, usually because they have a reduced amount of resources and the great m

Sunayana Dutta, Apurba Barman, Anat Siddharth, Ayan Khan

The quantum dynamics of a few bosons in a double well potential is studied using a Bose Hubbard model. We consider both signs for the on-site interparticle interaction and also investigated the situations where they are large and small. Interesting distinctive features are noted for the tunneling oscillations of these bosons corresponding to the above scenar

Felipe Navarete, Augusto Damineli, Cassio L. Barbosa, Robert D. Blum

We present the results from a survey, designed to investigate the accretion process of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) through near infrared narrow band imaging using the H$_2$ $ν$=1-0 S(1) transition filter. A sample of 353 Massive Young Stellar Object (MYSO) candidates was selected from the Red MSX Source survey using photometric criteria at longer w

Marcin Bacia, Weronika Lamperska, Jan Masajada, Slawomir Drobczynski

We report on the observation of the polygonal whirlpools in the thin layer of ferrofluid under illumination with a laser beam carrying optical vortex and in the presence of a vertical magnetic field. This kind of structures have attracted attention after discovering a hexagonal storm in Saturns atmosphere. Our polygonal whirlpools were created in a closed sy

Hans Olaf Hågenvik, Johannes Skaar

The idealization of monochromatic plane waves leads to considerable simplifications in the analysis of electromagnetic systems. However, for active systems this idealization may be dangerous due to the presence of growing waves. Here we consider a gainy slab, and use a realistic incident beam, which is both causal and has finite width. This clarifies some ap

T. Laitinen, K. Huttunen-Heikinmaa, E. Valtonen, S. Dalla

To understand the origin of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs), we must study their injection time relative to other solar eruption manifestations. Traditionally the injection time is determined using the Velocity Dispersion Analysis (VDA) where a linear fit of the observed event onset times at 1 AU to the inverse velocities of SEPs is used to derive the injec

Nitish Gupta, Sameer Singh

Matrix factorization has found incredible success and widespread application as a collaborative filtering based approach to recommendations. Unfortunately, incorporating additional sources of evidence, especially ones that are incomplete and noisy, is quite difficult to achieve in such models, however, is often crucial for obtaining further gains in accuracy

Michael Feischl, Gregor Gantner, Alexander Haberl, Dirk Praetorius

We derive and discuss a posteriori error estimators for Galerkin and collocation IGA boundary element methods for weakly-singular integral equations of the first-kind in 2D. While recent own work considered the Faermann residual error estimator for Galerkin IGA boundary element methods, the present work focuses more on collocation and weighted- residual erro

Abdolnaser Bahlekeh, Ehsan Hakimian, Shokrollah Salarian, Ryo Takahashi

Let $(R,\m,k)$ be a commutative noetherian local ring of Krull dimension $d$. We prove that the cohomology annihilator $\ca(R)$ of $R$ is $\m$-primary if and only if for some $n\ge0$ the $n$-th syzygies in $\mod R$ are constructed from syzygies of $k$ by taking direct sums/summands and a fixed number of extensions. These conditions yield that $R$ is an isola

Jihane Moultaka, Andreas Eckart, Nadeen Sabha

For the past few years, we have observed the central half parsec of our Galaxy in the mid-infrared from 2.8 to 5.1 micron. Our aim is to improve our understanding of the direct environment of SgrA*, the supermassive blackhole at the centre of the Milky Way. This work is described in the present paper and by Moultaka et al. 2015 (submitted). Here, we focus on

Julien Tranchida, Pascal Thibaudeau, Stam Nicolis

The Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equations for the evolution of the magnetization, in presence of an external torque, can be cast in the form of the Lorenz equations and, thus, can describe chaotic fluctuations. To study quantum effects, we describe the magnetization by matrices, that take values in a Lie algebra. The finite dimensionality of the representation

Y. Shen, D. -M. Lu

PBW deformations of Artin-Schelter regular algebras are skew Calabi-Yau. We prove that the Nakayama automorphisms of such PBW deformations can be obtained from their homogenizations. Some Calabi-Yau properties are generalized without Koszul assumption. We also show that the Nakayama automorphisms of such PBW deformations control Hopf actions on them.

Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo

In this paper, we present SATIS, a framework to derive Web Service specifications from end-user's requirements in order to opera-tionalise business processes in the context of a specific application domain. The aim of SATIS is to provide to neuroscientists, which are not familiar with computer science, a complete solution to easily find a set of Web Serv

Paolo Da Pelo, Alberto Lanconelli, Aurel I. Stan

We prove a very general sharp inequality of the Hölder--Young--type for functions defined on infinite dimensional Gaussian spaces. We begin by considering a family of commutative products for functions which interpolates between the point--wise and Wick products; this family arises naturally in the context of stochastic differential equations, through Wong--

Yifang Wang, Zhi-zhong Xing

This essay is intended to provide a brief description of the peculiar properties of neutrinos within and beyond the standard theory of weak interactions. The focus is on the flavor oscillations of massive neutrinos, from which one has achieved some striking knowledge about their mass spectrum and flavor mixing pattern. The experimental prospects towards prob

Devon N. Biggerstaff, René Heilmann, Aidan A. Zecevik, Markus Gräfe

Transport phenomena on a quantum scale appear in a variety of systems, ranging from photosynthetic complexes to engineered quantum devices. It has been predicted that the efficiency of quantum transport can be enhanced through dynamic interaction between the system and a noisy environment. We report the first experimental demonstration of such environment-as

Nauman Shahid, Vassilis Kalofolias, Xavier Bresson, Michael Bronstein

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most widely used tool for linear dimensionality reduction and clustering. Still it is highly sensitive to outliers and does not scale well with respect to the number of data samples. Robust PCA solves the first issue with a sparse penalty term. The second issue can be handled with the matrix factorization model, whic

DongLin Wang, Huijuan Cui, Gang Su

Nano-scaled dielectric and metallic structures are popular light tapping structures in thin-film solar cells. However, a large parasitic absorption in those structures is unavoidable. Most schemes based on such structures also involve the textured active layers that may bring undesirable degradation of the material quality. Here we propose a novel and cheap

C. M. Komar, R. L. Fermo, P. A. Cassak

We test and compare a number of existing models predicting the location of magnetic reconnection at Earth's dayside magnetopause for various solar wind conditions. We employ robust image processing techniques to determine the locations where each model predicts reconnection to occur. The predictions are then compared to the magnetic separators, the magne

D. Peter Overholser

We modify Gross's construction of mirror symmetry for $\mathbb{P}^2$ by introducing a descendent tropical Landau-Ginzburg potential. The period integrals of this potential compute a modification of Givental's J-function, explicitly encoding a larger sector of the big phase space. As a byproduct of this construction, new tropical methods for computing

Riccardo Sacco, Fabio Manganini, Joseph W. Jerome

In this article we address the study of ion charge transport in the biological channels separating the intra and extracellular regions of a cell. The focus of the investigation is devoted to including thermal driving forces in the well-known velocity-extended Poisson-Nernst-Planck (vPNP) electrodiffusion model. Two extensions of the vPNP system are proposed:

Anguelos Nicolaou, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Marcus Liwicki, Dimosthenis Karatzas

In this paper we present the use of Sparse Radial Sampling Local Binary Patterns, a variant of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) for text-as-texture classification. By adapting and extending the standard LBP operator to the particularities of text we get a generic text-as-texture classification scheme and apply it to writer identification. In experiments on CVL an

Pavel Drabek, Martina Langerova

In this paper we deal with semilinear problems at resonance. We present a sufficient condition for the existence of a weak solution in terms of the asymptotic properties of nonlinearity. Our condition generalizes the classical Landesman-Lazer condition but it also covers the cases of vanishing and oscillating nonlinearities.

Cécile Daversin, Christophe Prud'Homme

In this paper, we focus on the reduced basis methodology in the context of non-linear non-affinely parametrized partial differential equations in which affine decomposition necessary for the reduced basis methodology are not obtained [4, 3]. To deal with this issue, it is now standard to apply the EIM methodology [8, 9] before deploying the Reduced Basis (RB

Michael A. Beasley, Izaskun San Roman, Carme Gallart, Ata Sarajedini

We present precision radial velocities and stellar population parameters for 77 star clusters in the Local Group galaxy M33. Our GTC and WHT observations sample both young, massive clusters and known/candidate globular clusters, spanning ages ~ 10^6 - 10^10 yr, and metallicities, [M/H] ~-1.7 to solar. The cluster system exhibits an age-metallicity relation;

Antonio Politi, Michael Rosenblum

A quantitative comparison of various classes of oscillators (integrate-and-fire, Winfree, and Kuramoto-Daido type) is performed in the weak-coupling limit for a fully connected network of identical units. An almost perfect agreement is found, with only tiny differences among the models. We also show that the regime of self-consistent partial synchronization

Chuanzhong Li

In this paper, we construct the Sato theory including the Hirota bilinear equations and tau function of a new $q$-deformed Toda hierarchy(QTH). Meanwhile the Block type additional symmetry and bi-Hamiltonian structure of this hierarchy are given. From Hamiltonian tau symmetry, we give another definition of tau function of this hierarchy. Afterwards, we exten

R. Fu, O. Gunaydin-Sen, I. Chiorescu, N. S. Dalal

We study the dynamics of inorganic antiferroelectric nanoclusters formed during an order-disorder transition and demonstrate the coexistence of the two phases in a region of 2-3 K around the transition temperature TN~215 K. Single crystals of NH4H2AsO4, a model hydrogen-bonded compound, show an antiferroelectric-paraelectric transition studied by means of hi

S. Papenkort, Th. Voigtmann

We present a hybrid lattice Boltzmann algorithm for the simulation of flow glass-forming fluids, characterized by slow structural relaxation, at the level of the Navier-Stokes equation. The fluid is described in terms of a nonlinear integral constitutive equation, relating the stress tensor locally to the history of flow. As an application, we present result

Badih A. Assaf, Ferhat Katmis, Peng Wei, Cui-Zu Chang

Inducing magnetism onto a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) has been predicted to result in several novel quantum electromagnetic effects. This is a consequence of the highly strain-sensitive band topology of such symmetry-protected systems. We thus show that placing the TCI surface of SnTe in proximity to EuS, a ferromagnetic insulator, induces magnet

Norbert Weber, Vladimir Galindo, Frank Stefani, Tom Weier

The Tayler instability is a kink-type, current driven instability that plays an important role in plasma physics but might also be relevant in liquid metal applications with high electrical currents. In the framework of the Tayler-Spruit dynamo model of stellar magnetic field generation, the question of spontaneous helical (chiral) symmetry breaking during t

Frank M. Buters, Hedwig J. Eerkens, Kier Heeck, Matthew J. Weaver

We demonstrate experimental exploration of the attractor diagram of an optomechanical system where the optical forces compensate for the mechanical losses. In this case stable self-induced oscillations occur but only for specific mirror amplitudes and laser detunings. We demonstrate that we can amplify the mechanical mode to an amplitude 500 times larger tha

Florent Renac

We present an analysis of stationary discrete shock profiles for a discontinuous Galerkin method approximating scalar nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws with a convex flux. Using the Godunov method for the numerical flux, we characterize the steady state solutions for arbitrary approximation orders and show that they are oscillatory only in one mesh cell

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Jan Otop

Recently there has been a significant effort to handle quantitative properties in formal verification and synthesis. While weighted automata over finite and infinite words provide a natural and flexible framework to express quantitative properties, perhaps surprisingly, some basic system properties such as average response time cannot be expressed using weig

Anna M. M. Scaife, Nadeem Oozeer, Francesco de Gasperin, Marcus Brueggen

We report the presence of high significance diffuse radio emission from the Triangulum Australis cluster using observations made with the KAT-7 telescope and propose that this emission is a giant radio halo. We compare the radio power from this proposed halo with X-ray and SZ measurements and demonstrate that it is consistent with the established scaling rel

A. M. Cegarra, B. A. Heredia

Like categories, small 2-categories have well-understood classifying spaces. In this paper, we deal with homotopy types represented by 2-diagrams of 2-categories. Our results extend to homotopy colimits of 2-functors lower categorical analogues that have been classically used in algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory, such as the Homotopy Invariance Theor

Matthias Raddant, Friedrich Wagner

In an analysis of the US, the UK, and the German stock market we find a change in the behavior based on the stock's beta values. Before 2006 risky trades were concentrated on stocks in the IT and technology sector. Afterwards risky trading takes place for stocks from the financial sector. We show that an agent-based model can reproduce these changes. We

Davide Guidetti

We study linear nonautonomous parabolic systems with dynamic boundary conditions. Next, we apply these results to show a theorem of local existence and uniqueness of a classical solution to a second order quasilinear system with nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions.

S. Boissier, A. Boselli, E. Voyer, S. Bianchi

CONTEXT: The Virgo direction has been observed at many wavelengths in the recent years, in particular in the ultraviolet with GALEX. The far ultraviolet (FUV) diffuse light detected by GALEX bears interesting information on the large scale distribution of Galactic dust, owing to the GALEX FUV band sensitivity and resolution. AIMS: We aim to characterise the

Bassam AlKindy, Huda Al-Nayyef, Christophe Guyeux, Jean-François Couchot

The way to infer well-supported phylogenetic trees that precisely reflect the evolutionary process is a challenging task that completely depends on the way the related core genes have been found. In previous computational biology studies, many similarity based algorithms, mainly dependent on calculating sequence alignment matrices, have been proposed to find

Ma Zhi, Li-Ying Xi, Huan-Ming Chen, Fu Zheng

Three-dimensional (3D) simulations of ferroelectric hysteresis and butterfly loops have been carried out based on solving the time dependent Ginsburg-Landau equations by using a finite volume method. The influence of externally mechanical loadings with a tensile strain and a compressive strain on the hysteresis and butterfly loops has been studied numericall

Ian Hinchliffe, Ashutosh Kotwal, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Chris Quigg

We consider diverse examples of science goals that provide a framework to assess luminosity goals for a future 100-TeV proton-proton collider.

R. J. Cintra, H. M. de Oliveira

Arithmetic complexity has a main role in the performance of algorithms for spectrum evaluation. Arithmetic transform theory offers a method for computing trigonometrical transforms with minimal number of multiplications. In this paper, the proposed algorithms for the arithmetic Fourier transform are surveyed. A new arithmetic transform for computing the disc

Alexander Kartzow, Thomas Weidner

Constraint automata are an adaptation of Büchi-automata that process data words where the data comes from some relational structure S. Every transition of such an automaton comes with constraints in terms of the relations of S. A transition can only be fired if the current and the next data values satisfy all constraints of this transition. These automata ha

Zhiqing Liu

With the ability to run above 4~GeV, the BESIII experiment located in the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII), has becoming a pioneer in searching and studying charmoniumlike states ($XYZ$ particles). In 2013, BESIII Collaboration discovered a charged charmoniumlike state $Z_c(3900)$, which is confirmed immediately experimentally, and provides the be

Pierre Bousquet, Lorenzo Brasco

We consider the problem of minimizing the Lagrangian $\int [F(\nabla u)+f\,u]$ among functions on $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with given boundary datum $φ$. We prove Lipschitz regularity up to the boundary for solutions of this problem, provided $Ω$ is convex and $φ$ satisfies the bounded slope condition. The convex function $F$ is required to satisfy a qualified

J. R. Persson

The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was developed by Hestenes, Wells and Swackhamer, in order to assess student understanding of the concept of force. FCI has been used for over 20 years and in different countries. When applying the inventory in a new context it is important to evaluate the reliability and discrimination power of this assessment tool. In this

P. Ventura, A. I. Karakas, F. Dell'Agli, M. L. Boyer

We use Spitzer observations of the rich population of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to test models describing the internal structure and nucleosynthesis of the most massive of these stars, i.e. those with initial mass above $\sim 4M_{\odot}$. To this aim, we compare Spitzer observations of LMC stars with the theoretical tr

Andro Mikelic, Josip Tambaca

In this paper we investigate the limit behavior of the solution to quasi-static Biot's equations in thin poroelastic flexural shells as the thickness of the shell tends to zero and extend the results obtained for the poroelastic plate by Marciniak-Czochra and Mikelić. We choose Terzaghi's time corresponding to the shell thickness and obtain the stron

Petar Sirković, Daniel Kressner

This work is concerned with approximating the smallest eigenvalue of a parameter-dependent Hermitian matrix $A(μ)$ for many parameter values $μ\in \mathbb{R}^P$. The design of reliable and efficient algorithms for addressing this task is of importance in a variety of applications. Most notably, it plays a crucial role in estimating the error of reduced basis

Chuan Xue, Blerta Shtylla, Anthony Brown

The organization of the axonal cytoskeleton is a key determinant of the normal function of an axon, which is a long thin projection away from a neuron. Under normal conditions two axonal cytoskeletal polymers microtubules and neurofilaments align longitudinally in axons and are interspersed in axonal cross-sections. However, in many neurotoxic and neurodegen

Rashmi Jangid Sharma, Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay, Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

We study multifractal properties in the spectrum of effective time-independent Hamiltonians obtained using a perturbative method for a class of delta-kicked systems. The evolution operator in the time-dependent problem is factorized into an initial kick, an evolution dictated by a time-independent Hamiltonian, and a final kick. We have used the double kicked

Jonathan J. P. Petersa, Richard Beanland, Marin Alexe, John W. Cockburn

The geometric phase analysis (GPA) algorithm is known as a robust and straightforward technique that can be used to measure lattice strains in high resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM) images. It is also attractive for analysis of aberration-corrected scanning TEM (ac-STEM) images that resolve every atom column, since it uses Fourier transforms

Michael Baumer, Aaron Roodman

The ambitious science goals of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) have motivated a search for new and unexpected sources of systematic error in the LSST camera. Flat-field images are a rich source of data on sensor anomalies, although such effects are typically dwarfed by shot noise in a single flat field. After combining many ($\sim 500$) such image

Loïc Foissy, Jean Fromentin

For every finite Coxeter group $Γ$, each positive braids in the corresponding braid group admits a unique decomposition as a finite sequence of elements of $Γ$, the so-called Garside-normal form.The study of the associated adjacency matrix $Adj(Γ)$ allows to count the number of Garside-normal form of a given length.In this paper we prove that the characteris

Samuel Lellouch, Lih-King Lim, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

We study the effect of disorder on the propagation of collective excitations in a disordered Bose superfluid. We incorporate local density depletion induced by strong disorder at the meanfield level, and formulate the transport of the excitations in terms of a screened scattering problem. We show that the competition of disorder, screening, and density deple

Simón del Pino, Gaston Giribet, Adolfo Toloza, Jorge Zanelli

We propose a generalization of Chiral Gravity, which follows from considering a Chern-Simons action for the spin connection with anti-symmetric contorsion. The theory corresponds to Topologically Massive Gravity at the chiral point non-minimally coupled to an additional scalar mode that gathers the torsion degree of freedom. In this setup, the effective cosm

Nicolas Turenne

We present a new R package which takes a numerical matrix format as data input, and computes clusters using a support vector clustering method (SVC). We have implemented an original 2D-grid labeling approach to speed up cluster extraction. In this sense, SVC can be seen as an efficient cluster extraction if clusters are separable in a 2-D map. Secondly we sh

Nicolas Turenne, Tien Phan

Relation extraction with accurate precision is still a challenge when processing full text databases. We propose an approach based on cooccurrence analysis in each document for which we used document organization to improve accuracy of relation extraction. This approach is implemented in a R package called \emph{x.ent}. Another facet of extraction relies on

Nicolas Turenne, Mathieu Andro, Roselyne Corbière, Tien T. Phan

Important data are locked in ancient literature. It would be uneconomic to produce these data again and today or to extract them without the help of text mining technologies. Vespa is a text mining project whose aim is to extract data on pest and crops interactions, to model and predict attacks on crops, and to reduce the use of pesticides. A few attempts pr

John T. Conway

A new method is presented for obtaining indefinite integrals of common special functions. The approach is based on a Lagrangian formulation of the general homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation of second order. A general integral is derived which involves an arbitrary function, and therefore yields an infinite number of indefinite integrals for an

M. I. Hernández, J. M. Fernández, G. Tejeda, E. Moreno

We report pressure broadening coefficients for the 21 electric-dipole transitions between the eight lowest rotational levels of ortho-H$_2$O and para-H$_2$O molecules by collisions with He at temperatures from 20 to 120 K. These coefficients are derived from recently published experimental state-to-state rate coefficients for H$_2$O:He inelastic collisions,

Yat Tin Chow, Kazufumi Ito, Jun Zou

In this work we perform some mathematical analysis on non-negative matrix factorizations (NMF) and apply NMF to some imaging and inverse problems. We will propose a sparse low-rank approximation of big positive data and images in terms of tensor products of positive vectors, and investigate its effectiveness in terms of the number of tensor products to be us

Juris Kalvans

Starless molecular cores are natural laboratories for interstellar molecular chemistry research. The chemistry of ices in such objects was investigated with a three-phase (gas, surface, and mantle) model. We considered the center part of five starless cores, with their physical conditions derived from observations. The ice chemistry of oxygen, nitrogen, sulf

P. D. Grigoriev, A. A. Sinchenko, P. Lejay, O. Leynaud

Slow oscillations of the in-plane magnetoresistance are observed in the rare-earth tritellurides and proposed as an effective tool to determine the parameters of electronic structure in various strongly anisotropic quasi-two-dimensional compounds. These oscillations do not originate from the small Fermi surface pockets, as revealed usually by the Shubnikov-d

Hongqiang Song, Yao Chen, Jie Zhang, Xin Cheng

Filament eruptions often lead to coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which can affect critical technological systems in space and on the ground when they interact with the geo-magnetosphere in high speeds. Therefore, it is an important issue to investigate the acceleration mechanisms of CMEs in solar/space physics. Based on observations and simulations, the resis

Hariharan Nhalil, Harikrishnan S. Nair, Sanathkumar R. Andre M. Strydom, Suja Elizabeth

Orthorhombic single crystals of TbMn0.5Fe0.5O3 are found to exhibit spin-reorientation, magnetization reversal and weak ferromagnetism. Strong anisotropy effects are evident in the temperature dependent magnetization measurements along the three crystallographic axes a, b and c. A broad magnetic transition is visible at T_N (Fe/Mn) = 286 K due to paramagneti

Z. L. Horváth, B. Major

D. Giovannini et al. (Reports, 20 February 2015, p. 857) reported that they measured spatially structured photons travelling in free space slowing down even in vacuum. Here we present a simple quantum mechanical consideration which shows that even in these cases photons travel with the speed of light (c), and this measurement provided experimental results on

Yasuhiro Shimizu, Satoshi Aoyama, Takaaki Jinno, Masayuki Itoh

The microscopic mechanism of the metal-insulator transition is studied by orbital-resolved 51V NMR spectroscopy in a prototype of the quasi-one-dimensional system V6O13. We uncover that the transition involves a site-selective d orbital order lifting twofold orbital degeneracy in one of the two VO6 chains. The other chain leaves paramagnetic moments on the s

Loïc Foissy

We study quadri-algebras and dual quadri-algebras. We describe the free quadri-algebra on one generator as a subobject of the Hopf algebra of permutations FQSym, proving a conjecture due to Aguiar and Loday, using that the operad of quadri-algebras can be obtained from the operad of dendriform algebras by both black and white Manin products. We also give a c

Naiyan Wang, Jianping Shi, Dit-Yan Yeung, Jiaya Jia

Several benchmark datasets for visual tracking research have been proposed in recent years. Despite their usefulness, whether they are sufficient for understanding and diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of different trackers remains questionable. To address this issue, we propose a framework by breaking a tracker down into five constituent parts, namely

Muhammad Ali Raza Anjum

A unified linear algebraic approach to adaptive signal processing (ASP) is presented. Starting from just Ax=b, key ASP algorithms are derived in a simple, systematic, and integrated manner without requiring any background knowledge to the field. Algorithms covered are Steepest Descent, LMS, Normalized LMS, Kaczmarz, Affine Projection, RLS, Kalman filter, and

Lei Dai, Chi Wang, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

For magnetic reconnection to proceed, the frozen-in condition for both ion fluid and electron fluid in a localized diffusion region must be violated by inertial effects, thermal pressure effects, or inter-species collisions. It has been unclear which underlying effects unfreeze ion fluid in the diffusion region. By analyzing in-situ THEMIS spacecraft measure

S. A. Buterin, A. E. Choque Rivero

The operator of double differentiation on a finite interval with Robin boundary conditions perturbed by the composition of a Volterra convolution operator and the differentiation one is considered. We study the inverse problem of recovering the convolution kernel along with a coefficient of the boundary conditions from the spectrum. We prove the uniqueness t

Z. L. Li, D. Lu, B. S. Xie, B. F. Shen

The momentum signatures in nonperturbative multiphoton pair production for general elliptic polarization electric fields are investigated by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For a linearly polarized electric field we find that the positions of the nodes in momenta spectra of created pairs depend only on the electric field frequency.

Mir Mehedi Faruk, G. M. Bhuiyan

Thermodynamics of ideal Fermi gas trapped in an external generic power law potential $U=\sum_{i=1} ^d c_i |\frac{x_i}{a_i}|^{n_i}$ are investigated systematically from the grand thermodynamic potential in $d$ dimensional space. These properties are explored deeply in the degenerate limit ($μ>> K_BT$), where the thermodynamic properties are greatly dominated

Michael Ruderman

A state-space formulation of classical scalar Preisach model (CSPM) of hysteresis is proposed. The introduced state dynamics and memory interface allow to use the state equation, which is rapid in calculation, instead of the original Preisach equation. The main benefit of the proposed modeling approach is the reduced computational effort which requires only

I. D. Karachentsev, Y. N. Kudrya

Using the "Updated Nearby Galaxy Catalog", we consider different properties of companion galaxies around luminous hosts in the Local Volume. The data on stellar masses, linear diameters,surface brightnesses, HI-richness, specific star formation rate (sSFR), and morphological types are discussed for members of the nearest groups, including the Milky W

Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta, P. R. Rajput

We have studied the origin of a counter intuitive diffusion behavior of Fe and N atoms in a iron mononitride (FeN) thin film. It was observed that in-spite of a larger atomic size, Fe tend to diffuse more rapidly than smaller N atoms. This only happens in the N-rich region of Fe-N phase diagram, in the N-poor regions, N diffusion coefficient is orders of mag

Takahiro Chiba, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Saburo Takahashi

We study the magnetic damping in the simplest of synthetic antiferromagnets, i.e. antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled spin valves in which applied magnetic fields tune the magnetic configuration to become noncollinear. We formulate the dynamic exchange of spin currents in a noncollinear texture based on the spindiffusion theory with quantum mechanical bou