The Zaller theory of opinion formation is reformulated with one free parameter µ, which measures the largest possible ideological distance which can be made by a citizen in one mental step. Our numerical results show the transient effects: i) the political awareness, measured by the number of received messages, increases with time first exponentially, later linearly; ii) for small µ correlation...

vanillin offers interesting possibilities for corrosion inhibition because of its safe use and highsolubility in water. the effect of vanillin on the corrosion inhibition of aisi 304 stainless steel in0.5m h2so4 solution has been studied using potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemicalimpedance spectroscopy (eis). furthermore, this paper demonstrates that the electrochemical noise(en) tec...

This paper presents a framework for the geometric interpretation of a single polarization image taken of specular reflecting objects. The task of recovering 3D shape information of specular objects from intensity images is a difficult if not impossible one, as no intensity based features are available. Polarization analysis provides additional features to overcome the problem. In particular the...

The polarization position angles (PA) of pulsar radio emission occupy a distribution that can be much wider than what is expected from the average linear polarization and the off-pulse instrumental noise. Contrary to our limited understanding of the emission mechanism, the excess dispersion in PA implies that pulsar PAs vary in a random fashion. An eigenvalue analysis of the measured Stokes par...

We present analysis and measurements of the polarization patterns produced by non-collinear superpositions of Laguerre-Gauss spatial modes in orthogonal polarization states, which are known as Poincaré modes. Our findings agree with predictions (I. Freund Opt. Lett. 35, 148-150 (2010)), that superpositions containing a C-point lead to a rotation of the polarization ellipse in 3-dimensions. Here...

The density and polarization profiles of the dipolar hard ellipsoids confined between hard walls are studied using the density functional theory (DFT). The Hyper-Netted Chain (HNC) approximation is used to write excess grand potential of the system with respect to the bulk value. The number density is expanded up to zero and first order in polarization to find the results. For the zero order in...

We introduce a multimodal facial color imaging modality that provides a conventional color image, parallel and cross-polarization color images, and a fluorescent color image. We characterize the imaging modality and describe the image analysis methods for objective evaluation of skin lesions. The parallel and cross-polarization color images are useful for the analysis of skin texture, pigmentat...