Some Properties of Smooth Convex Functions and Newton’s Method

Doklady Mathematics - New properties of convex infinitely differentiable functions related to extremal problems are established. It is shown that, in a neighborhood of the solution, even if the...     

EcoLens: visual analysis of ecological regions in urban contexts using traffic data

Journal of Visualization - The increasing availability of spatiotemporal data provides unprecedented opportunities for understanding the structure of an urban area in terms of people’s...     

Effect of Mechanical Stress on the Splitting of Spin Sublevels in 4H-SiC

JETP Letters - The effect of static mechanical strain on the splitting of spin sublevels of color centers based on spin 3/2 silicon vacancies in silicon carbide at room temperature has been shown....     

Crystallographic Parameters of Special Grain Boundaries in Multicrystalline Silicon

Crystallography Reports - The orientation of grains and the special boundaries formed by them in multicrystalline silicon has been studied by electron backscattered diffraction. It is found that...     

Raman Scattering Study of Natural and Synthetic Compounds Containing Polyene Chains

Doklady Physics - The dependence of Raman spectra of the molecules containing polyene chains on the conjugation length, structure of side and end groups, and isomer type is analyzed theoretically.     

Transformation of the Microwave Resonance Properties of Metastructures with CdS and CdSe at One- and Two-Photon Excitation

JETP Letters - Photonically controlled metastructures containing resonant conducting dipole and chiral elements with CdS and CdSe in gaps have been proposed, implemented, and studied in a waveguide...     

硅和锗纳米线的原子排布和电荷分布的密度泛函紧束缚方法研究

低维硅锗材料是制备纳米电子器件的重要候选材料，是研发高效率、低能耗和超高速新一代纳米电子器件的基础材料之一，有着潜在的应用价值。采用密度泛函紧束缚方法分别对厚度相同、宽度在0.272 nm~0.554 nm之间的硅纳米线和宽度在0.283 nm~0.567 nm之间的锗纳米线的原子排布和电荷分布进行了计算研究。硅、锗纳米线宽度的改变使原子排布，纳米线的原子间键长和键角发生明显改变。纳米线表层结构的改变对各层内的电荷分布产生重要影响。纳米线中各原子的电荷转移量与该原子在表层内的位置相关。纳米线的尺寸和表层内原子排列结构对体系的稳定性产生重要影响。     

Application of Synchrotron Radiation to Analyze the Friction-Induced Structural and Phase Transformations of Chrome-Nickel Austenitic Steel

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Estimation of the Sorption Activity of Silver Nanoparticles on Biodegradable Fibers of Natural and Artificial Origin

Russian Physics Journal - The specific features of the sorption activity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on biodegradable polymers of natural (collagen) and artificial (polyamide 6.6) origin have...     

Computing Integrated Information (Φ) in Discrete Dynamical Systems with Multi-Valued Elements

Integrated information theory (IIT) provides a mathematical framework to characterize the cause-effect structure of a physical system and its amount of integrated information (Φ). An accompanying Python software package (“PyPhi”) was recently introduced to implement this framework for the causal analysis of discrete dynamical systems of binary elements. Here, we present an update to PyPhi that extends its applicability to systems constituted of discrete, but multi-valued elements. This allows us to analyze and compare general causal properties of random networks made up of binary, ternary, quaternary, and mixed nodes. Moreover, we apply the developed tools for causal analysis to a simple non-binary regulatory network model (p53-Mdm2) and discuss commonly used binarization methods in light of their capacity to preserve the causal structure of the original system with multi-valued elements.