Preparation and optical properties of GaSb nanoparticles embedded in SiO2 composite films

The composite films of GaSb nanoparticles embedded in SiO₂ matrices were fabricated by radio-frequency magnetron co-sputtering. Transmission electron microscope and X-ray diffraction pattern indicate that the GaSb nanoparticles were uniformly dispersed in SiO₂ matrices. Room temperature transmission spectra exhibit a blue shift of about 2.73 eV. The blue shift increases with decreasing size of GaSb nanoparticles, suggesting the existence of quantum size effects. Room temperature Raman spectra show that there is a larger Raman peak red shift and broadening of the composite films than that of bulk GaSb. This phenomenon is explained by photon confinement effect and tensile stress effect     

Simulation with system dynamics and fuzzy reasoning of a tax policy to reduce CO2 emissions in the residential sector

This methodological paper presents a planning and control methodology illustrated by a simplified case study on the carbon-tax design in the residential sector. The first objective is to show how to simulate with system dynamics the consumers’ behaviour and the continuous tax-control mechanism depending on few important feedbacks, often ignored in static macroeconomic modelling. A second objective is to show how to aggregate external data driving this model and stemming from different sources with various credibility levels. This is realised by means of fuzzy-reasoning techniques incorporated into the system-dynamics model.     

Estimates of the distances to direct lines and rays from the poles of simplest fractions bounded in the norm of L p on these sets

For each p > 1, we obtain a lower bound for the distances to the real axis from the poles of simplest fractions (i.e., logarithmic derivatives of polynomials) bounded by 1 in the norm of L _p on this axis; this estimate improves the first estimate of such kind derived by Danchenko in 1994. For p = 2, the estimate turns out to be sharp. Similar estimates are obtained for the distances from the poles of simplest fractions to the vertices of angles and rays.     

武汉空气质量预测及受周边城市污染影响分析

利用武汉及其周边城市长沙、南昌、合肥、襄阳、孝感等城市空气质量指数(AQI)及相关污染物数据,探索了武汉市空气质量指数的统计分布规律及空气污染治理效果的评价问题,给出了能较好预测空气质量指数等级的推理规则.用统计模型分析武汉及周边大中城市的SO2等空气污染物之间的传播及相互影响.     

The Fréchet and limiting subdifferentials of integral functionals on the spaces

A new approach to computing the Fréchet subdifferential and the limiting subdifferential of integral functionals is proposed. Thanks to this way, we obtain formulae for computing the Fréchet and limiting subdifferentials of the integral functional , uL₁(Ω,E). Here is a measured space with an atomless σ-finite complete positive measure, E is a separable Banach space, and . Under some assumptions, it turns out that these subdifferentials coincide with the Fenchel subdifferential of F.