We investigated how temperature and precipitation regime encountered over the life cycle of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) affects populations. Caged populations of A. albopictus were maintained at 22, 26, and 30 degrees C. Cages were equipped with containers that served as sites for oviposition and larval development. All cages were assigned to one of three simulated precipitation regimes: (1) low f...

molecular dynamics simulation has been performed to analyze the effect of the presence of gold nanoparticle on dynamics of kob-anderson binary lennard-jones (blj) mixture upon supercooling within the framework of the mode coupling theory of the dynamic glass transition. the presence of gold nanoparticle has a direct effect on the liquid structure and causes the peaks of the radial distribution ...

The dissolution kinetics of the Abu-Tartur phosphate rock using dilute hydrochloric acid has been investigated. The influence of acid concentration, liquid/solid ratio, particle size and temperature was studied to explore the dissolution kinetics of phosphate rock. It was found that the leaching rate increases with increasing the acid concentration, liquid/solid ratio, temperature and decreases...

The CO oxidation reaction on Rh(111) was studied both at low pressures (e2 × 10-4 Torr) under steadystate conditions and at high pressures (0.01-88 Torr) in a batch reactor at various gaseous reactant compositions. Surface CO and O coverages were determined using polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (PM-IRAS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). CO titratio...

Magnetization measurements on Y0.47Pr0.53Ba2Cu3O7 single crystal in the vicinity of the superconducting transition temperature Tc = 7 K revealed a reentrant irreversibility for applied magnetic fields higher than the irreversibility field Hirr. The transition to the second hysteresis loop occurs through an irreversible jump in magnetization. The temperature range of this irreversibility extends...

The temperature dependence of static dielectric susceptibility of a strongly coupled dipolar system is calculated with self consistent mean fluctuation field approximation. Results are qualitatively in good agreement with, quantum paraelectric, SrTiO3 in the low temperature regime; and identify the system as a “gaped quantum paraelectric” near its quantum critical point. Quantum scaling along w...

Interest in studying electronic transports properties of granular metals has persisted for a long time.1–7 The main difference between granular metals and normal disordered metals is that there exists a large temperature range where transports is dominated by incoherent processes usually called quantum dissipation, and the transports in this temperature range can be described by an effective ac...

We study the eigenenergies and eigenfunctions of the ground and first excited states (GFES) of an electron strongly coupled to the LO-phonon in an asymmetry quantum dot (AQD) under an applied electric field by using a variational method of the Pekar type (VMPT). This AQD two-level system may be viewed as a single qubit. When the electron is in the superposition state (SS) of the GFES, the effec...

It is known that one can characterize the decoherence strength of a Markovian environments by the product of its temperature and induced damping and order the decoherence strength of multiple environments by this quantity. For non-Markovian environments in the weak coupling regime we show that there exists a natural, albeit partial ordering of decoherence strengths via a perturbative treatment....

We study the distribution of the complex temperature zeros for the partition function of the Ising model on a Sierpinski gasket using an exact recursive relation. Although the zeros arrange on a curve pinching the real axis at T = 0 in the thermodynamic limit, their density vanishes asymptotically along the curve approaching the origin. This phenomenon explains the coincidence of the low temper...