Estimation of dc transport dynamics in strongly correlated (La,Pr,Ca)MnO3 film using an insulator-metal composite model for terahertz conductivity

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 023502 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. V. A. Nguyen ◽  
A. N. Hattori ◽  
M. Nagai ◽  
T. Nakamura ◽  
K. Fujiwara ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (43) ◽  
pp. 27375-27384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhao ◽  
Lixue Xia ◽  
Xiaobin Liao ◽  
Qiu He ◽  
Maria X. Zhao ◽  
...  

We present a composite model chemistry, Wuhan–Minnesota scaled (WMS), with an excellent performance-to-cost ratio, including strongly correlated systems.


2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (12) ◽  
pp. 4187-4193 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Wolyniak DiCesare ◽  
B. R. Hargreaves ◽  
K. L. Jellison

ABSTRACTThe genusCryptosporidiumis a group of waterborne protozoan parasites that have been implicated in significant outbreaks of gastrointestinal infections throughout the world. Biofilms trap these pathogens and can contaminate water supplies through subsequent release. Biofilm microbial assemblages were collected seasonally from three streams in eastern Pennsylvania and used to grow biofilms in laboratory microcosms. Daily oocyst counts in the influx and efflux flow allowed the calculation of daily oocyst retention in the biofilm. Following the removal of oocysts from the influx water, oocyst attachment to the biofilm declined to an equilibrium state within 5 days that was sustained for at least 25 days. Varying the oocyst loading rate for the system showed that biofilm retention could be saturated, suggesting that discrete binding sites determined the maximum number of oocysts retained. Oocyst retention varied seasonally but was consistent across all three sites; however, seasonal oocyst retention was not consistent across years at the same site. No correlation between oocyst attachment and any measured water quality parameter was found. However, oocyst retention was strongly correlated with biofilm surface roughness and roughness varied among seasons and across years. We hypothesize that biofilm roughness and oocyst retention are dependent on environmentally driven changes in the biofilm community rather than directly on water quality conditions. It is important to understand oocyst transport dynamics to reduce risks of human infection. Better understanding of factors controlling biofilm retention of oocysts should improve our understanding of oocyst transport at different scales.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (34) ◽  
pp. 18686-18698 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kondratenko ◽  
Y. Boussoualem ◽  
D. P. Singh ◽  
R. Visvanathan ◽  
A. E. Duncan ◽  
...  

Novel composites of mesogenic organic semiconductor and electron acceptor exhibit charge transport dynamics strongly correlated to the liquid crystal order.


2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 2359-2393 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. ALEXANDRE ◽  
N. E. MAVROMATOS ◽  
SARBEN SARKAR

It has been argued in previous works by the authors that nodal excitations in (2 + 1)-dimensional doped antiferromagnets might exhibit, in the spin-charge separation framework and at specific regions of the parameter space, a supersymmetry between spinons and holons. This supersymmetry has been elevated to a N = 2 extended supersymmetry of composite operators of spinon and holons, corresponding to the effective "hadronic" degrees of freedom. In this work we elaborate further on this idea by describing in some detail the dynamics of a specific composite model corresponding to an Abelian Higgs model (SQED). The Abelian nature of the gauge group seems to be necessitated both by the composite structure used, and also by electric charge considerations for the various composites. We demonstrate the passage from a pseudogap to an unconventional superconducting phase, which notably is an exact non-perturbative analytic result, due to the underlying N = 2 supersymmetric Abelian gauge theory. We believe that these considerations may provide a first step towards a non-perturbative understanding of the phase diagrams of strongly-correlated electron systems.


1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bruce Tomblin ◽  
Cynthia M. Shonrock ◽  
James C. Hardy

The extent to which the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI), could be used to estimate levels of language development in 2-year-old children was examined. Fifty-seven children between 23 and 28 months were given the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development (SICD), and at the same time a parent completed the MCDI. In addition the mean length of utterance (MLU) was obtained for each child from a spontaneous speech sample. The MCDI Expressive Language scale was found to be a strong predictor of both the SICD Expressive scale and MLU. The MCDI Comprehension-Conceptual scale, presumably a receptive language measure, was moderately correlated with the SICD Receptive scale; however, it was also strongly correlated with the expressive measures. These results demonstrated that the Expressive Language scale of the MCDI was a valid predictor of expressive language for 2-year-old children. The MCDI Comprehension-Conceptual scale appeared to assess both receptive and expressive language, thus complicating its interpretation.


Acta Naturae ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
N. G. Kukava ◽  
B. V. Titov ◽  
G. J. Osmak ◽  
N. A. Matveeva ◽  
O. G. Kulakova ◽  
...  

In search of genetic markers of myocardial infarction (MI) risk, which have prognostic significance for Russians, we performed a replication study of MI association with genetic variants of PCSK9 (rs562556), APOE (epsilon polymorphism, rs7412 and rs429358), LPL (rs320), MTHFR (rs1801133), eNOS (rs2070744), and the 9p21 region (rs1333049) in 405 patients with MI and 198 controls. Significant MI association was observed with variants of the lipid metabolism genes (PCSK9, APOE and LPL), and of eNOS. The SNPs in the MTHFR gene and the 9p21 region were not significantly associated with MI one by one but were included in several different MI-associated allelic combinations identified by multilocus analysis. Since we have not revealed nonlinear epistatic interactions between the components of the identified combinations, we postulate that the cumulative effect of genes that form a combination arises from the summation of their small independent contributions. The prognostic significance of the additive composite model built from the PCSK9, APOE, LPL, and eNOS genes as genetic markers was assessed using ROC analysis. After we included these markers in the previously published composite model of individual genetic risk of MI, the prognostic efficacy in our sample reached AUC = 0.676. However, the results obtained in this study certainly need to be replicated in an independent sample of Russians.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam G. B. Roberts ◽  
Anna Roberts

Group size in primates is strongly correlated with brain size, but exactly what makes larger groups more ‘socially complex’ than smaller groups is still poorly understood. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) are among our closest living relatives and are excellent model species to investigate patterns of sociality and social complexity in primates, and to inform models of human social evolution. The aim of this paper is to propose new research frameworks, particularly the use of social network analysis, to examine how social structure differs in small, medium and large groups of chimpanzees and gorillas, to explore what makes larger groups more socially complex than smaller groups. Given a fission-fusion system is likely to have characterised hominins, a comparison of the social complexity involved in fission-fusion and more stable social systems is likely to provide important new insights into human social evolution


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