A RELATION BETWEEN THE APPARENT VELOCITY AND THE SPECTRAL POWER OF SUPERLUMINAL RADIO SOURCES

It is proved that the apparent transverse velocities β_(app) and the spectral powers at 10GHz P_(10) of the cores of known superluminal sources are correlated. An interpretation ofthis result within the framework of the relativistic jet model shows that the jet Lorentzfactor γ depends on the intrinsic luminosity of the sources. The probable existence of twosubpopulations of the superluminal sources is shown by a linear regression analysis. "Small"sources f i.e. the sources without extended emission or with a distance from the core tothe outer edge of the lobe<20 kpc, show lower β_(app) than the "large" objects; this can beinterpreted as an orientation effect. Since all BL Lac objects belong to the "small" class,this result sheds new light on such a question as why these sources have lower apparent ve-locities than the "classical" superluminal quasars.     

新疆天山北坡典型研究区融雪期地物光谱特征分析

地物的波谱特性乃是整个遥感技术的物理基础,更是遥感技术应用尤其是定量遥感的基石。由于融雪期静态地物与冰-雪-水等动态地物交互存在,地物光谱特征更为复杂。选取了新疆天山北坡乌鲁木齐河流域以及军塘湖流域作为典型研究区,采用美国CID公司生产的CI700便携式野外光谱仪,通过2006年到2009年融雪期大量的野外调查和实地测量,获取了新疆天山北坡典型研究区融雪期典型地物包括各种积雪、冰、水以及土壤的光谱曲线及其变化规律,并对其进行了光谱特征分析。结果表明,融雪期虽然地物类型较为单一,但是因为积雪-冰-水-土壤复杂系统的交互式影响,地物的光谱特性及其变化均较为复杂,给融雪期地表参数的定量遥感研究带来了较大的挑战。对于融雪期复杂地物光谱的系列观测及特征分析无论是对于地物光谱特征基础研究还是定量遥感应用研究均具有重要意义。     

Homotopy Structures for Algebras over a Monad

Let T be a monad over a category A. Then a homotopy structure for A, defined by a cocylinder P : A A, or path-endofunctor, can be lifted to the category A ^T of Eilenberg–Moore algebras over T, provided that P is consistent with T in a natural sense, i.e. equipped with a natural transformation : T P P T satisfying some obvious axioms. In this way, homotopy can be lifted from well-known, basic situations to various categories of algebras for instance, from topological spaces to topological semigroups, or spaces over a fixed space (fibrewise homotopy), or actions of a fixed topological group (equivariant homotopy); from categories to strict monoidal categories; from chain complexes to associative chain algebras. The interest is given by the possibility of lifting the homotopy operations (as faces, degeneracy, connections, reversion, interchange, vertical composition, etc.) and their axioms from A to A ^T , just by verifying the consistency between these operations and : T P P T. When this holds, the structure we obtain on our category of algebras is sufficiently powerful to ensure the main general properties of homotopy.     

Effect of magnetic-field-induced torsion on neutrinos and supernova collapse

Summary The neutrino emission from supernova 1987A is being studied by taking into consideration the effect of the magnetic field present in the star. The magnetic field generates an anisotropic feature in the local space-time, which in turn leads to the cancellation of the axial-vector part of the neutrino current. The interaction cross-section of these neutrinos in the course of their interaction with matter on Earth has an inverse square energy dependence. The present work presents the calculations based on this changed cross-section that relates to predictions of the expected number of events at KAMIOKANDE on the basis of the Mont Blanc signal. It might be interesting to take a look into the implications of these results. The author of this paper has agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

A continuous parametric shape model

In this paper we propose a flexible continuous parametric shape model for star-shaped planar objects. The model is based on a polar Fourier expansion of the normalized radius-vector function. The expected phase amplitudes are modelled by a simple regression with parameters having nice geometric interpretations. The suggestedgeneralized p-order model is an extension of first- and second-order Gaussian shape models, and in particular the Gaussian assumption is relaxed. The statistical analysis is straightforward, as demonstrated by an application concerning shape discrimination of two cell nuclei populations.     

用于彩色目标跟踪的改进粒子群优化算法

提出一种用于彩色目标跟踪的改进粒子群优化算法(Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms,IP-SOA)。针对彩色目标,选择加权彩色直方图作为目标的特征,选用Bhattacharyya系数作为特征相似性度量,其最大值位置表示目标位置。对粒子群优化算法进行了改进,即自动调整惯性权重函数与认知学习因子,每次递推时对粒子速度、单帧位移总量加以限制,对Bhattacharyya系数优化,快速求取函数最大值位置。利用彩色序列图像进行仿真实验,结果表明,该方法能够实时跟踪飞机、车辆等目标,在目标被部分遮挡时能稳健跟踪。     

Dynamic data structures for fat objects and their applications

We present several efficient dynamic data structures for point-enclosure queries, involving convex fat objects in or . Our planar structures are actually fitted for a more general class of objects – (β,δ)-covered objects – which are not necessarily convex, see definition below. These structures are more efficient than alternative known structures, because they exploit the fatness of the objects. We then apply these structures to obtain efficient solutions to two problems: (i) finding a perfect containment matching between a set of points and a set of convex fat objects, and (ii) finding a piercing set for a collection of convex fat objects, whose size is optimal up to some constant factor.     

On the scarcity of contravariant left adjunctions

It is shown that any pair of contravariant mutually left adjoint functors between varieties of algebrasC andD factors through the retractions of these categories onto the complete lattices of epimorphs of their respective initial objects, and is thus fairly degenerate. However, some interesting contravariant left adjoint functors do exist between categories of finitely generated (or otherwise restricted) algebras.This work was done while the author was partly supported by NSF contract DMS 85-02330.Presented by F. E. J. Linton.     

水下物体视觉形象的分析与模拟研究

水下物体的视觉形象是一个看似简单但极易出错的问题.本文对此问题进行了较为系统的分析和模拟计算,纠正了一些流行的错误看法,指出在不同情况下水下物体的表观位置、表观大小及表观形状均会发生通常直观想象难以预见的复杂变化.该问题的讨论提供了一个培养学习者创新思维和利用基本知识分析及解决实际问题的能力的极好例证.