Anomalies in a waterlike model confined between plates

Using molecular dynamic simulations we study a waterlike model confined between two fixed hydrophobic plates. The system is tested for density, diffusion and structural anomalous behavior and compared with the bulk results. Within the range of confining distances we had explored we observe that in the pressure-temperature phase diagram the temperature of maximum density (TMD line), the temperature of maximum and minimum diffusion occur at lower temperatures when compared with the bulk values. For distances between the two layers below a certain threshold ,$d\le d_c$, only two layers of particles are formed, for $d\ge d_c$ three or more layers are formed. In the case of three layers the central layer stays liquid while the contact layers crystallize. This result is in agreement with simulations for atomistic models

Tripartite Graph Clustering for Dynamic Sentiment Analysis on Social Media

The growing popularity of social media (e.g, Twitter) allows users to easily share information with each other and influence others by expressing their own sentiments on various subjects. In this work, we propose an unsupervised \emph{tri-clustering} framework, which analyzes both user-level and tweet-level sentiments through co-clustering of a tripartite graph. A compelling feature of the proposed framework is that the quality of sentiment clustering of tweets, users, and features can be mutually improved by joint clustering. We further investigate the evolution of user-level sentiments and latent feature vectors in an online framework and devise an efficient online algorithm to sequentially update the clustering of tweets, users and features with newly arrived data. The online framework not only provides better quality of both dynamic user-level and tweet-level sentiment analysis, but also improves the computational and storage efficiency. We verified the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approaches on the November 2012 California ballot Twitter data.Comment: A short version is in Proceeding of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of dat

Avaliação da dinâmica da água no solo e da evapotranspiração, trocas gasosas, estado hídrico e produção da videira.

NO VALE DO SUBMÉDIO SÃO FRANCISCO, OS CULTIVOS DE VIDEIRA DE VINHO SÃO IRRIGADOS DURANTE TODO O ANO. NESSE CULTIVO, A IRRIGAÇÃO COM DEFICIT É UTILIZADA PARA OBTER ALGUMAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DESEJÁVEIS NA UVA PARA A VINIFICAÇÃO. ASSIM, O OBJETIVO DESSE TRABALHO FOI AVALIAR OS EFEITOS DE ESTRATÉGIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO COM DÉFICIT NA PRODUÇÃO DE UVAS DE VINHO EM PETROLINA - PE. O EXPERIMENTO FOI INSTALADO NA EMBRAPA SEMIÁRIDO. A VIDEIRA CV. SYRAH ENXERTADA SOBRE PAULSEN 1103 FOI PLANTADA EM 30 DE ABRIL DE 2009, NO ESPAÇAMENTO DE 1 M X 3 M, E IRRIGADA POR GOTEJAMENTO EM UM ARGISSOLO VERMELHO AMARELO EUTRÓFICO LATOSSÓLICO, TEXTURA MÉDIA. OS TRATAMENTOS DE MANEJO DE IRRIGAÇÃO FORAM: 1 - IRRIGAÇÃO PLENA (IP), SEM A RESTRIÇÃO DE ÁGUA ÀS VIDEIRAS DURANTE TODO O CICLO DE PRODUÇÃO; 2 - IRRIGAÇÃO COM DÉFICIT (ID), ONDE A APLICAÇÃO DE ÁGUA FOI INTERROMPIDA DESDE A FASE DE CACHO FECHADO ATÉ A COLHEITA; 3 - A IRRIGAÇÃO COM DEFICIT CONTROLADO (IDC), ONDE A APLICAÇÃO DE ÁGUA FOI INTERROMPIDA NA FASE DE CACHO FECHADO, COM IRRIGAÇÕES EVENTUAIS CONFORME O MONITORAMENTO DA UMIDADE DO SOLO. NO SÉTIMO CICLO DE PRODUÇÃO (7 DE MAIO DE 2014 A 3 DE SETEMBRO DE 2014 - 119 DIAS), OCORREU UMA PRECIPITAÇÃO TOTAL DE 15,5 MM, SENDO 10,7 MM APÓS A INTERRUPÇÃO DA IRRIGAÇÃO. OS VALORES MÉDIOS DE EVAPOTRANSPÍRAÇÃO DE REFERÊNCIA (ETO) E EVAPOTRANSPIRAÇÃO DA CULTURA (ETC) PARA O PERÍODO DE 119 DIAS FORAM DE 5,0 MM DIA-1 E 3,6 MM DIA-1, RESPECTIVAMENTE, ENQUANTO OS MAIORES VALORES FORAM DE 9,3 MM DIA-1 (115 DIAS APÓS A PODA DE PRODUÇÃO - DAPP, 30 DE AGOSTO DE 2014) E 7,4 MM DIA-1 (80 DAPP, 26 DE JULHO DE 2014). A LÂMINA BRUTA MÉDIA FOI DE 5,6 MM DIA-1 NO TRATAMENTO IP, PARA 83 DIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO; 5,9 MM DIA-1 NO TRATAMENTO IDC, PARA 42 DIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO, E 6,1 MM DIA-1 NO TRATAMENTO ID, EM 37 DIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO. APÓS O INÍCIO DA INTERRUPÇÃO DA IRRIGAÇÃO NOS TRATAMENTOS ID E IDC, A REDUÇÃO DA UMIDADE DO SOLO OCORREU ATÉ A PROFUNDIDADES DE 0,6 M, EM DECORRÊNCIA DA MAIOR PRESENÇA DO SISTEMA RADICULAR DA CULTURA NESSA CAMADA DE SOLO. NAS PROFUNDIDADES DE 0,75 M A 1,0 M, AS VARIAÇÕES NOS VALORES DE UMIDADE FORAM MENORES. OS VALORES DE POTENCIAL HÍDRICO NA ANTEMANHÃ E AO MEIO-DIA. APRESENTARAM COMPORTAMENTO SIMILAR, COM MAIORES VALORES NAS PLANTAS DE IP E MENORES NAS PLANTAS DE IDC E ID. ENTRETANTO, AS PLANTAS EM IDC E ID NÃO APRESENTAVAM SINTOMAS DE PONTO DE MURCHA PERMANENTE DURANTE A AVALIAÇÃO DE ANTEMANHÃ. OS MENORES VALORES DE POTENCIAL HÍDRICO AO MEIO-DIA EM PLANTAS DE TODOS OS TRATAMENTOS ESTÃO RELACIONADOS COM OS VALORES DA TAXA DE TRANSPIRAÇÃO, OS QUAIS TENDEM A SEREM MAIORES NESTE HORÁRIO, UMA VEZ QUE AS PLANTAS ESTAVAM PERDENDO ÁGUA PARA A ATMOSFERA VIA TRANSPIRAÇÃO. HOUVE EFEITO DOS TRATAMENTOS NA MASSA TOTAL DE CACHOS, NÚMERO DE CACHOS POR PLANTA, MASSA DE CACHOS POR PLANTA E NA PRODUTIVIDADE, COM MAIORES VALORES NO TRATAMENTO IP, SEM DIFERENÇA ESTATÍSTICA PARA O TRATAMENTO IDC. QUANTO A MASSA MÉDIA DE CACHOS, O TRATAMENTO IP APRESENTOU MAIORES VALORES

The GlueX Central Drift Chamber: Design and Performance

Tests and studies concerning the design and performance of the GlueX Central Drift Chamber (CDC) are presented. A full-scale prototype was built to test and steer the mechanical and electronic design. Small scale prototypes were constructed to test for sagging and to do timing and resolution studies of the detector. These studies were used to choose the gas mixture and to program a Monte Carlo simulation that can predict the detector response in an external magnetic field. Particle identification and charge division possibilities were also investigated.Comment: 16 pages, 29 figure

Coexistence Curve Singularities at Critical End Points

We report an extensive Monte Carlo study of critical end point behaviour in a symmetrical binary fluid mixture. On the basis of general scaling arguments, singular behaviour is predicted in the diameter of the liquid-gas coexistence curve as the critical end point is approached. The simulation results show clear evidence for this singularity, as well as confirming a previously predicted singularity in the coexistence chemical potential. Both singularities should be detectable experimentally.Comment: 9 pages Revtex, 3 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Let

GHASP: an Hα\alpha kinematic survey of spiral galaxies - X. Surface photometry, decompositions and the Tully-Fisher relation in the Rc-band

We present Rc-band surface photometry for 170 of the 203 galaxies in GHASP, Gassendi H-Alpha survey of SPirals, a sample of late-type galaxies for which high-resolution Fabry-Perot H{\alpha} maps have previously been obtained. Our data set is constructed by new Rc-band observations taken at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), supplemented with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) archival data, obtained with the purpose of deriving homogeneous photometric profiles and parameters. Our results include Rc-band surface brightness profiles for 170 galaxies and $ugriz$ profiles for 108 of these objects. We catalogue several parameters of general interest for further reference, such as total magnitude, effective radius and isophotal parameters -- magnitude, position angle, ellipticity and inclination. We also perform a structural decomposition of the surface brightness profiles using a multi-component method in order to separate disks from bulges and bars, and to observe the main scaling relations involving luminosities, sizes and maximum velocities. We determine the Rc-band Tully Fisher relation using maximum velocities derived solely from H$\alpha$ rotation curves for a sample of 80 galaxies, resulting in a slope of $-8.1 \pm 0.5$, zero point of $-3.0 \pm 1.0$ and an estimated intrinsic scatter of $0.28 \pm 0.07$. We note that, different from the TF-relation in the near-infrared derived for the same sample, no change in the slope of the relation is seen at the low-mass end (for galaxies with $V_{max} < 125$ km/s). We suggest that this different behaviour of the Tully Fisher relation (with the optical relation being described by a single power-law while the near-infrared by two) may be caused by differences in the stellar mass to light ratio for galaxies with $V_{max} < 125$ km/s.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figure

Crossover of thermal to shot noise in chaotic cavities

We study the crossover between thermal and shot-noise power in a chaotic quantum dot in the presence of non-ideal contacts at finite temperature. The result explicitly demonstrates that the temperature affect the suppression-amplification effect present in the main quantum noise. In particular, the weak localization contribution to the noise has an anomalous thermal behavior when one let the barriers vary, indicating the presence of a critical point related to specific value of the tunneling barriers. We also show how to get to the opaque limit of the quantum dot at finite temperature.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. To be published in Europhysics Letter

Noncommutative Conformally Coupled Scalar Field Cosmology and its Commutative Counterpart

We study the implications of a noncommutative geometry of the minisuperspace variables for the FRW universe with a conformally coupled scalar field. The investigation is carried out by means of a comparative study of the universe evolution in four different scenarios: classical commutative, classical noncommutative, quantum commutative, and quantum noncommutative, the last two employing the Bohmian formalism of quantum trajectories. The role of noncommutativity is discussed by drawing a parallel between its realizations in two possible frameworks for physical interpretation: the NC-frame, where it is manifest in the universe degrees of freedom, and in the C-frame, where it is manifest through theta-dependent terms in the Hamiltonian. As a result of our comparative analysis, we find that noncommutative geometry can remove singularities in the classical context for sufficiently large values of theta. Moreover, under special conditions, the classical noncommutative model can admit bouncing solutions characteristic of the commutative quantum FRW universe. In the quantum context, we find non-singular universe solutions containing bounces or being periodic in the quantum commutative model. When noncommutativity effects are turned on in the quantum scenario, they can introduce significant modifications that change the singular behavior of the universe solutions or that render them dynamical whenever they are static in the commutative case. The effects of noncommutativity are completely specified only when one of the frames for its realization is adopted as the physical one. Non-singular solutions in the NC-frame can be mapped into singular ones in the C-frame.Comment: explanations added, references include

Avaliação da capacidade de adesão de células de biofilmes de Candida após tratamento com nanopartículas de prata

O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a capacidade de adesão a células epiteliais humanas e a superfície de poliestireno de leveduras viáveis recuperadas de biofilmes de Candida albicans e Candida glabrata tratados com nanopartículas de prata (NP). Métodos: Biofilmes de Candida (48 hrs) foram formados em placas de microtitulação de 6 poços e tratados por 24 horas com NP (5 nm) nas concentrações de 13,5 e 54 mg/L. Suspensões de células de Candida (107 células viáveis/mL em RPMI 1640) provenientes dos biofilmes tratados com NP foram adicionadas a monocamadas de células HeLa e a poços vazios de placas de microtitulação de 24 poços (para estudar adesão a poliestireno). Após 2 horas de contato, a adesão das leveduras foi determinada usando a coloração com violeta cristal. Resultados: A capacidade de adesão de leveduras viáveis a células HeLa e a superfícies de poliestireno foi significativamente reduzida, e esta redução foi maior quando os biofilmes foram pré-tratados com NP na concentração de 54 mg/L. Ainda, a quantidade de leveduras aderidas das duas cepas diferiu de acordo com o substrato (células epiteliais e superfície de poliestireno). Conclusão: NP podem induzir modificações em leveduras viáveis, as quais podem diminuir a disseminação de infecções por Candida, principalmente em pacientes imunocomprometidos

Contamination of Cluster Radio Sources in the Measurement of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Angular Power Spectrum

We present a quantitative estimate of the confusion of cluster radio halos and galaxies in the measurement of the angular power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. To achieve the goal, we use a purely analytic approach to both radio sources and dark matter of clusters by incorporating empirical models and observational facts together with some theoretical considerations. It is shown that the correction of cluster radio halos and galaxies to the measurement of the thermal SZ angular power spectrum is no more than 20% at $l>2000$ for observing frequencies $\nu>30$ GHz. This eliminates the concern that the SZ measurement may be seriously contaminated by the existence of cluster radio sources.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Ap