An existing model of light and water use by crops (RESCAP) was adapted and evaluated for trees. In the model, growth on any given day is determined either by the amount of intercepted radiation (by means of the light utilization coefficient, epsilon) or by the maximum rate of water extraction by roots (a function of root biomass and soil water content). In either case, transpiration and growth ...

We study the three-orbital Kondo effect in quantum dot (QD) systems by applying the non-crossing approximation to the three-orbital Anderson impurity model. By investigating the tunneling conductance through a QD, we show that the competition between the Hund-coupling and the orbital level-splitting gives rise to characteristic behavior in transport properties. It is found that the Hund-couplin...

We present our results on the spectroscopy of single magnetic Mn impurities located inside InAs quantum dots (QD) [1]. This system exhibits distinct behaviors compared to Mn atoms in II-VI QD recently studied by Besombes et al [2]. This is related to the different electronic and spin configurations. While the Mn ion is an isoelectronic impurity with spin S=5/2 in II-VI’s, we observe that, in In...

Let 0 → I → E → B → 0 be a short exact sequence of C*-algebras whereE is separable, I is quasidiagonal (QD) andB is nuclear, QD and satisfies the UCT. It is shown that if the boundary map ∂ : K1(B) → K0(I) vanishes then E must be QD also. A Hahn-Banach type property for K0 of QD C ∗-algebras is also formulated. It is shown that every nuclear QD C∗-algebra has this K0Hahn-Banach property if and ...

The generalized Fibonacci cube Qd(f) is the subgraph of the d-cube Qd induced on the set of all strings of length d that do not contain f as a substring. It is proved that if Qd(f) ∼= Qd(f ′) then |f | = |f ′|. The key tool to prove this result is a result of Guibas and Odlyzko about the autocorrelation polynomial associated to a binary string. An example of a family of such strings f , f ′, wh...

The degree of interpenetration at the interface between colloidal quantum dots (QDs) and organic semiconductor molecules commonly employed in hybrid light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs) has been examined using tapping-mode atomic force microscopy. Both phase separation-driven and Contact Printing-enabled QD/semiconductor heterojunction fabrication methodologies lead to significant QD embedment in t...

Let V denote a vector space over C with finite positive dimension. By a Leonard triple on V we mean an ordered triple of linear operators on V such that for each of these operators there exists a basis of V with respect to which the matrix representing that operator is diagonal and the matrices representing the other two operators are irreducible tridiagonal. Let D denote a positive integer and...