Unusual Surface Latent Heat Flux Variations and Their Critical Dynamics Revealed before Strong Earthquakes

We focus on the possible thermal channel of the well-known Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC) mechanism to identify the behavior of thermal anomalies during and prior to strong seismic events. For this, we investigate the variation of Surface Latent Heat Flux (SLHF) as resulting from satellite observables. We demonstrate a spatio-temporal variation in the SLHF before and after a set of strong seismic events occurred in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Kumamoto, Japan, having magnitudes of 7.8, 7.3, and 7.0, respectively. Before the studied earthquake cases, significant enhancements in the SLHF were identified near the epicenters. Additionally, in order to check whether critical dynamics, as the signature of a complex phenomenon such as earthquake preparation, are reflected in the SLHF data, we performed a criticality analysis using the natural time analysis method. The approach to criticality was detected within one week before each mainshock.     

Multifractal scaling of thermally activated rupture processes

We propose a "multifractal stress activation" model combining thermally activated rupture and long memory stress relaxation, which predicts that seismic decay rates after mainshocks follow the Omori law approximately 1/t(p) with exponents p linearly increasing with the magnitude M(L) of the mainshock. We carefully test this prediction on earthquake sequences in the Southern California earthquake catalog: we find power law relaxations of seismic sequences triggered by mainshocks with exponents p increasing with the mainshock magnitude by approximately 0.1-0.15 for each magnitude unit increase, from p(M(L) = 3) approximately 0.6 to p(M(L) = 7) approximately 1.1, in good agreement with the prediction of the multifractal model.     

Network structure entropy and its dynamical evolution for recurrence networks from earthquake magnitude time series

Based on the theory of complex network, we construct a recurrence network for earthquakemagnitude time series from California. Network structure entropy and its dynamicalevolution of the network is studied. It is found that the network structure entropy of therecurrence network exhibits a peculiar behavior: it stays at a small value before mainshock, jumps to a great value at the main shock, and then recovers to normal valuesgradually. The network structure entropy therefore provides us an approach to characterizemain shocks quantitatively.     

Measures of periodicity for time series analysis of threshold-crossing events

Large-amplitude climate shifts, the so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, repeatedly occurred throughout the last ice age. These events, which are apparently threshold-crossing events, show a reported tendency to recur preferably in near multiples of about 1470 years. Several non-linear resonance mechanisms were proposed to explain this recurrence pattern in response to noise and/or periodic forcing. Standard methods of linear time series analysis are not sufficient to distinguish between these hypotheses, owing to the threshold-crossing dynamics of the events. Recently, new approaches were made by means of null-hypothesis testing with Monte Carlo methods. A major hurdle in this approach is the need of efficient, but yet simple measures of regularity that allow to distinguish between the proposed resonance mechanisms. By means of surrogate time series (i.e. by using a large ensemble of Dansgaard-Oeschger events as simulated with a very simple two-state model) I here test the ability of three standard measures of periodicity to distinguish between a scenario of solely noise-induced events and a ghost stochastic resonance scenario. Only one measure is found to be applicable for that purpose. The choice of adequate measures, which is not trivial, should be given more attention in future studies that focus on the question what triggered threshold-crossing events such as Dansgaard-Oeschger events.     

应用蒙特卡罗模拟进行正电子发射断层成像仪散射特性分析

通过使用基于Geant4的蒙特卡罗模拟代码GATE对全身用全3D正电子发射断层成像仪和含有挡板的2D/3D小动物用正电子发射断层成像仪进行建模,系统地分析了3D采集条件下正电子发射断层成像仪的散射分数、散射分布、多次散射、视野外散射四个主要方面和2D采集条件下挡板对散射分数和散射分布的影响.针对全3D散射校正的难点: 多次散射和视野外散射,设计了附加实验,拟合得到了多次散射光子的百分比随体模横截面积变化的关系和不同环的位置受到视野外散射光子的影响;针对2D散射校正,对挡板引入的散射光子进行分离,单独分析, 关键词： 正电子发射断层成像仪（PET） 蒙特卡罗模拟 散射特性 散射校正     

Observation results of relativistic electrons detected by Fengyun-1 satellite and analysis of relativistic electron enhancement (REE) events

The space particle component detector on Fengyun-1 satellite which works at the sun-synchronous orbit of about 870 km altitude has detected relativistic electrons for a long time. In comparison with the SAMPEX satellite observations during 1999–2004, the relativistic electron data from Fengyun-1 satellite from June 1999 to 2005 are used to analyze the relativistic electron enhancement (REE) events at the low earth orbit, and the possible correlation among REE events at the low earth orbit, high-speed solar wind and geomagnetic storms is discussed. The statistical result presents that 45 REE events are found in total during this time period, and the strong REE events with the maximum daily average flux > 400 cm⁻²·sr^t-1·s⁻¹ occur mostly during the transition period from solar maximum to solar minimum. Among these 45 REE events, four strong REE events last a longer time period from 26-to 51-day and correlate closely with high speed solar wind and strong geomagnetic storms. Meanwhile, several strong geomagnetic storms occur continuously before these REE events, and these continuous geomagnetic storms would be an important factor causing these long-lasting strong REE events. The correlation analysis for overall 45 events indicates that the strength of the REE events correlates with the solar wind speed and the strength of the geomagnetic storm, and the correlation for strong REE events is much stronger than that for weak REE events.     

Search for new physics in lepton+photon+X events with 305 pb(-1) of pp collisions at [square root of s] = 1.96 TeV

We present results of a search for anomalous production of events containing a charged lepton (l, either e or mu) and a photon (gamma), both with high transverse momentum, accompanied by additional signatures X, including missing transverse energy (ET) and additional leptons and photons. We use the same selection criteria as in a previous CDF search but with a substantially larger data set, 305 pb(-1), a pp collision energy of 1.96 TeV, and the CDF II detector. We find 42 lgammaET events versus an expectation of 37.3+/-5.4 events. We observe 31 llgamma+X events versus an expectation of 23.0+/-2.7 events. We find no events similar to the run I eegammagammaET event.     

A study of top quark production at HERA using parton shower simulation of DIS events

A study of the hadronic properties of top quark events at HERA is made in the hope that some characteristics of such events may emerge that distinguish them from light flavour QCD events. Electronproton collisions are simulated using a parton shower Monte Carlo event generator which includes both initial and final gluon radiation and also incorporates certain gluon interference effects. It is found that applying a multiplicity cut of 35 together with considering only charged current events gives a top to back-ground ratio of about 1 and a total of 40 top events at an integrated luminosity of 500 pb^?1 for a top quark mass of 60 GeV. Unfortunately no clear peak in the mass distribution can be obtained as the background and top quark peaks coincide after application of the multiplicity cut. If the top quark mass is 100 GeV there will be only about 6 top quark events under these conditions.     

Interpretation of unusual events from CERN and DESY

Several classes of interesting and unusual events from the Spp?S and from PETRA are studied with two purposes in mind. Firstly, varieties of background within the standard SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) model are described, together with estimates of the number of expected events. Secondly, a review of the recent explanations of the events involving new physics is given. Critical assessments of these proposals focus on the assumptions made, expected rates for the unusual events, and the ability to account for events of several categories.     

Test of pulse shape analysis using single Compton scattering events

Procedures developed to separate single- and multiple-site events in germanium detector are tested with specially selected event samples provided by an 18-fold segmented prototype germanium detector for phase II of the germanium detector array, GERDA. The single Compton scattering, i.e. single-site, events are tagged by coincidently detecting the scattered photon with a second detector positioned at a defined angle. A neural network is trained to separate such events from events which come from multi-site dominated samples. Identification efficiencies of ≈80% are achieved for both single- and multi-site events. PACS 23.40.-s; 14.60Pq; 29.40.-n     

Theory for serial correlations of interevent intervals

We consider stochastic systems with m internal states in which discrete events (e.g. hopping events between metastable states or firing events of neurons) occur at a state-dependent rate. Transitions between states are possible with certain fixed rates. Because the state immediately after an event depends in general on the history of the process, the intervals between two consecutive events (“residence times”) are correlated among each other, i.e. the residence time sequence constitutes a nonrenewal process. We construct a general kinetic scheme that accounts for the number of events at a given time. The count statistics is used to derive a general expression for the correlation coefficient of residence times with a certain lag. We apply the theoretical result to a simple neuron model with discrete threshold states leading to negative interspike interval correlations.     

The effect of the number of aircraft noise events on sleep quality

BackgroundBoth the WHO and the EC recommend the use of L_night as the primary indicator for sleep disturbance. Still, a key question for noise policy is whether the prediction of sleep quality could be improved by taking the number of events into account in addition to L_night.ObjectivesThe current paper investigates the association between sleep quality and the number of aircraft noise events. The first aim of this study was to investigate whether, for the purpose of predicting sleep quality measured by motility, the nummer of events is adequately represented in L_night for the purpose of predicting sleep quality measured by motility. The second aim was to investigate whether the number of events at a given L_night has an additional predictive value. In addition, it was explored whether the total number of events should be taken into account for the production of sleep quality, or only the number of events exceeding a certain sound pressure level.MethodsThis study is based on data of a field study among 418 people living within a range of 20 km from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The data from this study are well suited for this purpose, since for every subject both the number and the exposure level of events are available. Sleep quality was measured by motility, derived from actimeters worn on the wrist, and by self-reported sleep quality scored on a 11-point scale. Mixed linear regression models were built in a stepwise manner to predict sleep quality during a sleep period time.ResultsThe results show that, given a certain equivalent noise level, additional information on the overall number of events does not improve the prediction of sleep quality. However, the number of events above L_Amax of 60 dB was related to an increase in mean motility, indicating lower sleep quality. No effect of number of events was found on self-reported sleep quality.ConclusionsThis study suggests that the number of events is more or less adequately represented in L_night and only the number of high noise level events may have additional effects on sleep quality as measured by motility. This may be viewed as an indication that, in addition to L_night, the number of events with a relatively high L_Amax could be used as a basis for protection against noise-induced sleep disturbance.     

Characteristics for two kinds of cascading events

Avalanche or cascade failure is ubiquitous. We first classify the cascading phenomena into two categories: the cascading disasters which result in large-scale functional failures and the cascading events that do not lead to disasters. We elucidate that two important factors, the increasing amount of events and the acceleration of event frequency, can induce the crossover from the cascading phenomenon to the cascading disaster. Through a simplified sandpile model and a heuristic logistic map, we demonstrate that the dependence of the event number on the observation time behaves as a power-law and as an exponential for these two different cascading events, respectively. The analytic derivations are found to be consistent with several empirical observations. Our present findings contribute to the understanding of the transition between different cascading events, providing a basis for the further understanding of the transitions among more general critical events.     

气候变化中高温破纪录事件的蒙特卡罗模拟研究

采用蒙特卡罗方法,分析了南京市1961年—2000年40?a日观测温度资料中的高温破纪录事件的统计规律,并比较了20世纪全球变暖和南京市近40年来区域变暖背景对其统计规律的影响. 理论分析和蒙特卡罗模拟结果均表明：近40年来南京市第ｋ个高温破纪录事件的最概然发生强度与k（k=1,2,3,\:）呈线性增长,而年发生高温破纪录事件的频率随时间t呈1/（t+1）的衰减趋势,且平均温度高的年份,发生高温破纪录事件的概率较大,反之,概率较小. 结果还表明：20世纪的全球变暖速率（ｖ=0.006?℃/a）和南京市区域的变暖速率（ｖ=0.017?℃/a）在短期内还不至于引起高温破纪录事件的发生强度和发生频率有明显变化,但持续变暖最终将会使年发生高温破纪录事件的频率渐渐地收敛于一个常数,近似等于变暖速率的值. 此外,还研究了日温度之间的自相关和方差变化对高温破纪录事件的影响,研究发现异方差和弱的自相关对高温破纪录事件的发生强度和概率的影响基本可以忽略. 关键词： 高温破纪录事件 蒙特卡罗模拟 全球变暖     

Extreme events in epileptic EEG of rodents after ischemic stroke

Extreme events are observed on electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings of rodents with induced ischemic stroke. These events represent themselves as post-stroke epileptic seizures in the form of spontaneous high-amplitude oscillations, which appear during the first 2–3 h after induced focal cerebral ischemia. The analysis of the EEG time-frequency structure reveals these extreme events as a sharp sudden growth of the wavelet energy in a particular frequency band, while the energy in the resting part of the power spectrum remains normal. The distinguished features of the extreme events are used for detection and quantification of the pathological brain activity.     

Observation of events with an isolated high energy lepton and missing transverse momentum at HERA

A search for events with an imbalance in transverse momentum and with isolated high energy leptons has been carried out at the positron-proton collider HERA. One event with an and five events with a are found together with evidence for undetected particles carrying transverse momentum. Within the Standard Model the dominant origin of events with this kind of topology is the production of W bosons with subsequent leptonic decay. Three of the six events are within measurement errors found in a region of phase space likely to be populated by this process, while the remaining events show kinematic properties which are atypical of all Standard Model processes considered. Received: 9 June 1998 / Published online: 26 August 1998     

Concurrent minimum audible angle: a re-examination of the concept of auditory spatial acuity

Minimum audible angle was measured for simultaneous acoustic events. Localization of concurrent events was found to be a direct function of the spectral differences between the events, the angle between the sources, and the location of the sources within the field defined by the subject. In the latter case, the m.a.a. was smallest with sources placed symmetrically about the listener's median plane and maximal at the extreme lateral portions. Post-hoc tests were completed which indicate that the spectral limits for concurrent localization is dependent both upon the angular separation of the sources and the position within the field as defined by the locus of the subject. The functions obtained approach the values reported by Mills [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 30, 237-246(1958)] as the temporal overlap between the concurrent events decreased. The present results suggest that a single localization function may exist with the optimal performance observed with fully successive stimuli and poorest performance in the condition involving simultaneous events. The implications of these results are discussed.     

Regularities of solar energetic particle events and fluxes

Some regularities related to solar energetic proton (SEP) events and fluxes have been established. It is shown that the rate of SEP events is proportional to the Wolf numbers and that the distribution functions of SEP events related to both different levels and cycle phases, divided by the sums of Wolf numbers, are identical. It is concluded that extremely large SEP events may also occur in periods of minimum solar activity. This conclusion is confirmed by the experimental data obtained at the end of 2004 and in 2005.     

Experimental investigation of the energy dependence of the strong coupling strength

The energy dependence of the relative production rate of three-jet events is studied in hadronic e⁺e⁻ annihilation events at center of mass energies between 22 and 46.7 GeV. Three-jet events are defined by a jet finding algorithm which is closely related to the definition of resolvable jets used in O(α_s²) perturbative QCD calculations, where the relative production rate of three-jet events is roughly proportional to the size of the strong coupling strength. The production rates of three-jet events in the data decrease significantly with increasing centre of mass energy. The experimental rates, which are independent of fragmentation model calculations, can be directly compared to theoretically calculated jet production rates and are in good agreement with the QCD expectations of a running coupling strength. The hypothesis of an energy independent coupling constant can be excluded with a significance of four standard derivations.     

Characteristics of the spatiotemporal distribution of daily extreme temperature events in China: Minimum temperature records in different climate states against the background of the most probable temperature

Based on the skewed function,the most probable temperature is defined and the spatiotemporal distributions of the frequencies and strengths of extreme temperature events in different climate states over China are investigated,where the climate states are referred to as State I,State II and State III,i.e.,the daily minimum temperature records of 1961-1990,1971-2000,and 1981-2009.The results show that in space the frequency of high temperature events in summer decreases clearly in the lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River in State I and that low temperature events decrease in northern China in State II.In the present state,the frequency of high temperature events increases significantly in most areas over China except the north east,while the frequency of low temperature events decreases mainly in north China and the regions between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.The distributions of frequencies and strengths of extreme temperature events are consistent in space.The analysis of time evolution of extreme events shows that the occurrence of high temperature events become higher with the change in state,while that of low temperature events decreases.High temperature events are becoming stronger as well and deserve to be paid special attention.