An upper bound on the saturation number for graphs as well as associated extremal graphs was given by (Kászonyi and Tuza in J. Graph Theory, 10:203–210, 1986). A minor improvement of that result, which was implied in their paper, will be stated. Using this result, a series of exact saturation numbers and associated extremal graphs will be proved for the nearly complete graphs Kt − E(L), where L...

We have directly measured quasiparticle number fluctuations in a thin film superconducting Al resonator in thermal equilibrium. The spectrum of these fluctuations provides a measure of both the density and the lifetime of the quasiparticles. We observe that the quasiparticle density decreases exponentially with decreasing temperature, as theoretically predicted, but saturates below 160 mK to 25...

In this study, a grain-scale modelling technique has been developed to generate the capillary pressure-saturation curves for swelling granular materials. This model employs only basic granular properties such as particles size distribution, porosity, and the amount of absorbed water for swelling materials. Using this model, both drainage and imbibition curves are directly obtained by pore-scale...

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Saturation is a key construct used by qualitative research theorists as way to verify the rigor and validity of study. This study intends examine how saturation within educational technology studies that addressed saturation. We selected journals which (a) follow peer review process; (b) are considered influential in their fields high quality, reflected being Q1 (first quartile) or Q2 (second S...

A lower bound on the capacity of the split-step Fourier channel is derived. The channel under study is a concatenation of smaller segments, within which three operations are performed on the signal, namely, nonlinearity, linearity, and noise addition. Simulation results indicate that for a fixed number of segments, our lower bound saturates in the high-power regime and that the larger the numbe...