Energy and entropy radiated by a black hole embedded in a de Sitter braneworld

We study the Hawking radiation of a (4+n)-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole imbedded in space-time with a positive cosmological constant. The greybody and energy emission rates of scalars, fermions, bosons, and gravitons are calculated in the full range of energy. Valuable information on the dimensions and curvature of space-time is revealed. Furthermore, we investigate the entropy radiated and lost by black holes. We find their ratio near 1 in favor of the Bekenstein's conjecture.

板栗心材褐腐病初报

为了确定华中地区板栗(Castaneamollisima)心材腐朽病的病原菌,根据野外调查结果和室内显微鉴定,确定该病原菌为硬拟层孔菌(Fomitopsisspraguei(Berk.&M.A.Curtis)Gilb.&Ryvarden)。该菌主要危害板栗活树,造成心材褐色腐朽,最终导致受害树木死亡或风折后死亡。同时根据采集的标本,对该病原菌进行了详细描述和显微绘图。

长白山北坡植被垂直带群落交错区的定量判定

以海拔梯度上的群落重要值和二元数据为指标 ,采用游动分割窗技术辨析了长白山北坡各植被带群落交错区的位置和宽度 .结果表明 ,采用平方欧氏距离 (SED)和Bray Curtis距离函数 (PD)计算的游动分割窗的峰值和峰宽有较好的重合性 ,其中基于灌木和草本物种重要值的平方欧氏距离更能准确地反映交错带植被的变异 .依据游动分割窗的分析 ,判定阔叶红松林和暗针叶林的交错区为渐变类型 ,位于海拔 112 0m ,宽度为 2 0 0m ,暗针叶林和岳桦交错区为急变类型 ,位于海拔 1790m ,宽度为 5 0m ,林线为急变类型 ,位于海拔 2 0 0 0m ,宽度为 4 0m .

长白山森林生态系统中的稀有和濒危多孔菌

In last 10 years,extensive field inventories were carried out to investigate Polypore species, the major wood decaying fungi in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve of Northeastern China. The following 27 species were treated as rare or threathened species: Amylocystis lapponica (Romell) Singer, Anomoporia albolutescens (Romell) Pouzar, Anomoporia bombycina (Fr.) Pouzar, Anomoporia vesiculosa Y.C. Dai & Niemel, Antrodia carbonica (Overh.) Ryvarden & Gilb., Antrodia crassa (P. Karst.) Ryvarden, Antrodiella citrinella Niemel & Ryvarden, Diplomitoporus flavescens (Bres.) Dománski, Donkioporia expansa (Desm.) Kotl. & Pouzar, Gloeophyllum carbonarium (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Ryvarden, Haploporus odorus (Sommerf.) Bondartsev & Singer, Inonotopsis subiculosa (Peck) Parmasto, Nigroporus ussuriensis (Bondartsev & Ljub.) Y.C. Dai & Niemela, Oxyporus sinensis X.L. Zeng, Parmastomyces taxi (Bondartsev) Y.C. Dai & Niemela, Phellinidium sulphurascens (Pilat) Y.C. Dai, Phellinus vaninii Ljub., Polyporus vassilievae Thorn, Pycnoporellus fulgens (Fr.) Donk, Skeletocutis brevispora Niemela, Skeletocutis ochroalba Niemela, Skeletocutis perennis Ryvarden, Trechispora candidissima (Schwein.) Bondartsev & Singer, Wolfiporia dilatohypha Ryvarden & Gilb., Wolfiporia curvispora Y.C. Dai, Wrightoporia avellanea (Bres.) Pouzar and Wrightoporia lenta (Oveh. & J. Lowe) Pouzar. Polypores are richer in East Asia than in Europe and North America, not only because of destructive galciations and fewer hosts in the latters, but also because of the geography. NE Asia is a link between Europe and North America. Changbaishan Nature Reserve is very rich in polypores, and over 260 species were recorded in the reserve. Some rare species in North America and Europe, for instance, Anomoporia albolutescens, Antrodia crassa, Diplomitoporus flavescens, Inonotopsis subiculosa and Skeletocutis ochroalba etc. were found in Changbaishan Nature Reserve as well, and these species are in fact rare in the earth. Most of the 27 species occurred on fallen trunks or rotten wood in the reserve, but some of them grew on living trees. 18 species occured on substrate of gymnosperms, and 9 species grew on wood of angiosperm.Among the 27 species, 7 species caused a brown rot,and 20 species produced a white rot. The morphology, substrate and ecology of each species were briefly discussed. The most important tool for polypore conservation is the conservation of their habitats, and it is necessary to study the ecology of the rare and threathened species of polypores in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve. Because most of polypores live on the substrate of fallen trunks and rotten wood, it is very important to keep such substrate in the ecosystem.

中国锈革孔菌科一新记录种

A lignicolous fungus,Hydnochaete tabacina(Berk.& M.A.Curtis) Ryvarden,was newly recorded from China,it was found on Quercus variabilis in Beijing.An illustrated description of this species was given based on the materials related.

Fast Perceptual Learning in Visual Hyperacuity

In many different spatial discrimination tasks, such as in determining the sign of the offset in a vernier stimulus, the human visual system exhibits hyperacuity-level performance by evaluating spatial relations with the precision of a fraction of a photoreceptor"s diameter. We propose that this impressive performance depends in part on a fast learning process that uses relatively few examples and occurs at an early processing stage in the visual pathway. We show that this hypothesis is plausible by demonstrating that it is possible to synthesize, from a small number of examples of a given task, a simple (HyperBF) network that attains the required performance level. We then verify with psychophysical experiments some of the key predictions of our conjecture. In particular, we show that fast timulus-specific learning indeed takes place in the human visual system and that this learning does not transfer between two slightly different hyperacuity tasks.

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Análise proteômica de raízes de feijão (Phaseolus vulgaris) inoculadas com Rhizobium tropici. Teste para comprovar a eficiência do método de extração e determinação de ácido fítico em sementes de soja utilizado na Embrapa Soja. Auditoria de comunicação: avaliando os veículos de comunicação interna da Embrapa Soja. Utilização da técnica de espectrofotometria do infravermelho próximo (NIR) para análise discriminante dos ácidos graxos oléico e linoléico de genótipos de girassol. Análise da disponibilidade hídrica para a cultura da soja nas safras 2004/05 e 2009/10 em Londrina, PR . Calibração de psicrômetros para avaliações de potencial hídrico foliar. Avaliação de ácidos graxos da soja: grão inteiro, casca, cotilédones e hipocótilo. Variabilidade temporal da produtividade da soja após conversão do preparo convencional para o sistema plantio direto. COMUT na biblioteca da Embrapa Soja. EM DIA: Boletim interno compartilhando informações. Sistema Web para estimativas de perdas por seca na cultura da soja. Portais Web desenvolvidos no laboratório de Bioinformática da Embrapa Soja. Validação de um método para detecção e quantificação de soja cultivance® tolerante a herbicidas imidazolinonas por PCR . Índice de vegetação por diferença normalizada (NDVI) de cultivares de soja sob três níveis de disponibilidade hídrica no solo. Avaliação do fluxo de seiva em cultivares de soja em três níveis de disponibilidade hídrica no solo. A importância do controle de qualidade dos inoculantes. Comportamento exploratório de ninfas recém eclodidas de Edessa meditabunda (F.) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) sobre a superfície dos córions. Produção de brotos de soja da cultivar BRS 216. Teste de aceitabilidade de brotos de soja da cultivar BRS 216. Análise de lignina com diferentes massas de tegumento de soja utilizando método gravimétrico. Desenvolvimento e caracterização físico-química de biscoitos com farinha de soja orgânica de cultivares especiais para a alimentação humana. Análise sensorial de biscoitos com farinha de soja orgânica de cultivares especiais para a alimentação humana. Avaliação de genótipos de soja de diferentes grupos de maturação e resistência aos percevejos. Métodos químicos para extração de boro no solo. Abordagem computacional para a identificação de elementos cis-regulatórios no genoma da soja. Quebra de dormência em sementes de girassol silvestre utilizando ácido giberélico. Teor relativo de água em cultivares de soja sob três níveis de disponibilidade hídrica no solo. Soybean gene express: plataforma para análise de expressão diferencial em bibliotecas subtrativas de CDNA. Biologia e exigências térmicas do ácaro vermelho Tetranychus gigas. Características biológicas de Telenomus remus em diferentes hospedeiros após serem criados em de ovos de Anticarsia gemmatalis e Spodoptera frugiperda por uma geração. Enfoque sobre o plano de saúde dos empregados da Embrapa no contexto do pacote de benefícios sociais oferecidos pela empresa. Dinâmica populacional do ácaro verde Mononychellus planki em cultivares de soja. Envelhecimento, trabalho e tempo livre: elaborando projetos de vida. Teor de isoflavonas em vinte cultivares de soja semeadas em Londrina e Ponta Grossa. Utilização de Pseudomonas fluorescens no controle biológico de Macrophomina phaseolina. Algoritmo computacional para determinar o perfil mínimo de marcadores moleculares que discriminam um conjunto de cultivares. Qualidade física do solo em um sistema de integração lavoura-pecuária com diferentes pressões de pastejo. Diversidade de estirpes do gênero Burkholderia em solos do cerrado brasileiro baseado no sequenciamento do gene ribossomal 16S. Estudo da diversidade genética de isolados de Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) C.T. Wei.

Double Jeopardy Without Parameters: Re-characterization in International Criminal Law

Olusanya, O. (2004). Double Jeopardy Without Parameters: Re-characterization in International Criminal Law. Series Supranational Criminal Law: Capita Selecta, volume 2. Antwerp: Intersentia. RAE2008

Project Sanitarium: gaming TB: a serious game for a serious problem

Collaborative projects between Industry and Academia provide excellent opportunities for learning. Throughout the academic year 2014-2015 undergraduates from the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay University worked with academics from the Infection Group at the University of St Andrews and industry partners Microsoft and DeltaDNA. The result was a serious game prototype that utilized game design techniques and technology to demystify and educate players about the diagnosis and treatment of one of the world's oldest and deadliest diseases, Tuberculosis (TB). Project Sanitarium is a game incorporating a mathematical model that is based on data from real-world drug trials. This paper discusses the project design and development, demonstrating how the project builds on the successful collaborative pedagogical model developed by academic staff at Abertay University. The aim of the model is to provide undergraduates with workplace simulation, wider industry collaboration and access to academic expertise to solve challenging and complex problems.

A Characterization of First-Order Definable Subsets on Classes of Finite Total Orders

We give an explicit and easy-to-verify characterization for subsets in finite total orders (infinitely many of them in general) to be uniformly definable by a first-order formula. From this characterization we derive immediately that Beth's definability theorem does not hold in any class of finite total orders, as well as that McColm's first conjecture is true for all classes of finite total orders. Another consequence is a natural 0-1 law for definable subsets on finite total orders expressed as a statement about the possible densities of first-order definable subsets.

Ergodicity and Mixing Rate of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata

One-and two-dimensional cellular automata which are known to be fault-tolerant are very complex. On the other hand, only very simple cellular automata have actually been proven to lack fault-tolerance, i.e., to be mixing. The latter either have large noise probability ε or belong to the small family of two-state nearest-neighbor monotonic rules which includes local majority voting. For a certain simple automaton L called the soldiers rule, this problem has intrigued researchers for the last two decades since L is clearly more robust than local voting: in the absence of noise, L eliminates any finite island of perturbation from an initial configuration of all 0's or all 1's. The same holds for a 4-state monotonic variant of L, K, called two-line voting. We will prove that the probabilistic cellular automata Kε and Lε asymptotically lose all information about their initial state when subject to small, strongly biased noise. The mixing property trivially implies that the systems are ergodic. The finite-time information-retaining quality of a mixing system can be represented by its relaxation time Relax(⋅), which measures the time before the onset of significant information loss. This is known to grow as (1/ε)^c for noisy local voting. The impressive error-correction ability of L has prompted some researchers to conjecture that Relax(Lε) = 2^(c/ε). We prove the tight bound 2^(c1log^21/ε) ＜ Relax(Lε) ＜ 2^(c2log^21/ε) for a biased error model. The same holds for Kε. Moreover, the lower bound is independent of the bias assumption. The strong bias assumption makes it possible to apply sparsity/renormalization techniques, the main tools of our investigation, used earlier in the opposite context of proving fault-tolerance.

A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload

We present what we believe to be the first thorough characterization of live streaming media content delivered over the Internet. Our characterization of over five million requests spanning a 28-day period is done at three increasingly granular levels, corresponding to clients, sessions, and transfers. Our findings support two important conclusions. First, we show that the nature of interactions between users and objects is fundamentally different for live versus stored objects. Access to stored objects is user driven, whereas access to live objects is object driven. This reversal of active/passive roles of users and objects leads to interesting dualities. For instance, our analysis underscores a Zipf-like profile for user interest in a given object, which is to be contrasted to the classic Zipf-like popularity of objects for a given user. Also, our analysis reveals that transfer lengths are highly variable and that this variability is due to the stickiness of clients to a particular live object, as opposed to structural (size) properties of objects. Second, based on observations we make, we conjecture that the particular characteristics of live media access workloads are likely to be highly dependent on the nature of the live content being accessed. In our study, this dependence is clear from the strong temporal correlations we observed in the traces, which we attribute to the synchronizing impact of live content on access characteristics. Based on our analyses, we present a model for live media workload generation that incorporates many of our findings, and which we implement in GISMO [19].

A Distributed Outstar Network for Spatial Pattern Learning

The distributed outstar, a generalization of the outstar neural network for spatial pattern learning, is introduced. In the outstar, signals from a source node cause weights to learn and recall arbitrary patterns across a target field of nodes. The distributed outstar replaces the outstar source node with a source field of arbitrarily many nodes, whose activity pattern may be arbitrarily distributed or compressed. Learning proceeds according to a principle of atrophy due to disuse, whereby a path weight decreases in joint proportion to the transmitted path signal and the degree of disuse of the target node. During learning, the total signal to a target node converges toward that node's activity level. Weight changes at a node are apportioned according to the distributed pattern of converging signals. Three synaptic transmission functions, by a product rule, a capacity rule, and a threshold rule, are examined for this system. The three rules are computationally equivalent when source field activity is maximally compressed, or winner-take-all. When source field activity is distributed, catastrophic forgetting may occur. Only the threshold rule solves this problem. Analysis of spatial pattern learning by distributed codes thereby leads to the conjecture that the unit of long-term memory in such a system is an adaptive threshold, rather than the multiplicative path weight widely used in neural models.

Spatial Pattern Learning, Catastophic Forgetting and Optimal Rules of Synaptic Transmission

It is a neural network truth universally acknowledged, that the signal transmitted to a target node must be equal to the product of the path signal times a weight. Analysis of catastrophic forgetting by distributed codes leads to the unexpected conclusion that this universal synaptic transmission rule may not be optimal in certain neural networks. The distributed outstar, a network designed to support stable codes with fast or slow learning, generalizes the outstar network for spatial pattern learning. In the outstar, signals from a source node cause weights to learn and recall arbitrary patterns across a target field of nodes. The distributed outstar replaces the outstar source node with a source field, of arbitrarily many nodes, where the activity pattern may be arbitrarily distributed or compressed. Learning proceeds according to a principle of atrophy due to disuse whereby a path weight decreases in joint proportion to the transmittcd path signal and the degree of disuse of the target node. During learning, the total signal to a target node converges toward that node's activity level. Weight changes at a node are apportioned according to the distributed pattern of converging signals three types of synaptic transmission, a product rule, a capacity rule, and a threshold rule, are examined for this system. The three rules are computationally equivalent when source field activity is maximally compressed, or winner-take-all when source field activity is distributed, catastrophic forgetting may occur. Only the threshold rule solves this problem. Analysis of spatial pattern learning by distributed codes thereby leads to the conjecture that the optimal unit of long-term memory in such a system is a subtractive threshold, rather than a multiplicative weight.

Accommodating interruptions: a grounded theory of young people with asthma

Background: Accommodating Interruptions is a theory that emerged in the context of young people who have asthma. A background to the prevalence and management of asthma in Ireland is given to situate the theory. Ireland has the fourth highest incidence of asthma in the world, with almost one in five Irish young people having asthma. Although national and international asthma management guidelines exist it is accepted that the symptom control of asthma among the young people population is poor. Aim: The aim of this research is to investigate the lives of young people who have asthma, to allow for a deeper understanding of the issues affecting them. Methods: This research was undertaken using a Classic Grounded Theory approach. It is a systematic approach to allowing conceptual emergence from data in generating a theory that explains behaviour in resolving the participant’s main concern. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with young people aged 11-16 years who had asthma for over one year. Data were also collected from participant diaries. Constant comparative analysis, theoretical coding and memo writing were used to develop the theory. Results: The theory explains how young people resolve their main concern of being restricted, by maximizing their participation and inclusion in activities, events and relationships in spite of their asthma. They achieve this by accommodating interruptions in their lives in minimizing the effects of asthma on their everyday lives. Conclusion: The theory of accommodating interruptions explains young people’s asthma management behaviours in a new way. It allows us to understand how and why young people behave the way they do in order minimise the effect of asthma on their lives. The theory adds to the body of knowledge on young people with asthma and challenges some viewpoints regarding their behaviours.