Classifying ancient texts by inter-word spacing
We use the inter-word spacing technique, that Ortuno et al devised for analyzing DNA.We develop this idea further for classifying ancient texts.
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D. Abbott
Publications and source records attributed to D. Abbott.
On Parrondo's paradox: how to construct unfair games by composing fair games
We construct games of chance from simpler games of chance. We show that it may happen that the simpler games of chance are fair or unfavourable to a player andyet the new combined game is favourable -- this is a counter-intuitive phenomenoknown as Parrondo's paradox. We observe that all of the games in question are random walks in periodic environments (RWPE) when viewed on the proper time scale. Consequently, we use RWPE techniques to derive conditions under which Parrondo's paradox occurs.
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State-Space Visualisation and Fractal Properties of Parrondo's Games
In Parrondo's games, the apparently paradoxical situation occurs where individually losing games combine to win. The basic formulation and definitions of Parrondo's games are described in Harmer et al.. These games have recently gained considerable attention as they are physically motivated and have been related to physical systems such as the Brownian ratchet, lattice gas automata and spin systems. Various authors have pointed outinterest in these games for areas as diverse as biogenesis, political models, small-world networks, economics and population genetics. In this chapter, we will first introduce the relevant properties of Markov transition operators and then introduce some terminology and visualisation techniques from the theory of dynamical systems. We will then use these tools, later in the chapter, to define and investigate some interesting properties of Parrondo's games.
cond-mat.stat-mech↗
Measurement of Tensor Polarization in Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering at Large Momentum Transfer
Tensor polarization observables (t20, t21 and t22) have been measured in elastic electron-deuteron scattering for six values of momentum transfer between 0.66 and 1.7 (GeV/c)^2. The experiment was performed at the Jefferson Laboratory in Hall C using the electron HMS Spectrometer, a specially designed deuteron magnetic channel and the recoil deuteron polarimeter POLDER. The new data determine to much larger Q^2 the deuteron charge form factors G_C and G_Q. They are in good agreement with relativistic calculations and disagree with pQCD predictions.
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Phenomenology of the Deuteron Electromagnetic Form Factors
A rigorous extraction of the deuteron charge form factors from tensor polarization data in elastic electron-deuteron scattering, at given values of the 4-momentum transfer, is presented. Then the world data for elastic electron-deuteron scattering is used to parameterize, in three different ways, the three electromagnetic form factors of the deuteron in the 4-momentum transfer range 0-7 fm^-1. This procedure is made possible with the advent of recent polarization measurements. The parameterizations allow a phenomenological characterization of the deuteron electromagnetic structure. They can be used to remove ambiguities in the form factors extraction from future polarization data.
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A precise measurement of the deuteron elastic structure function A(Q^2)
The A(Q^2) structure function in elastic electron-deuteron scattering was measured at six momentum transfers Q^2 between 0.66 and 1.80 (GeV/c)^2 in Hall C at Jefferson Laboratory. The scattered electrons and recoil deuterons were detected in coincidence, at a fixed deuteron angle of 60.5 degrees. These new precise measurements resolve discrepancies between older sets of data. They put significant constraints on existing models of the deuteron electromagnetic structure, and on the strength of isoscalar meson exchange currents.
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