FePt nanoparticles with thermally stable room-temperature ferromagnetism are investigated. The monodisperse nanoparticles are prepared by chemical synthesis and a salt-matrix annealing technique. Structural and magnetic characterizations confirm the phase transition from the disordered face-centered cubic structure. In this paper, 3 nm FePt nanoparticles are first synthesized by superhydride re...

Drought is one of the most important weather-induced phenomena which may have severe impacts on different areas such as agriculture, economy, energy production, and society. A number of drought indices have been introduced and used in various countries to date. In the current study, four meteorological drought indices including Percent of Normal Precipitation Index (PNPI), Standard Index of Ann...

We present a formalism of the transition matrix Monte Carlo method. A stochastic matrix in the space of energy can be estimated from Monte Carlo simulation. This matrix is used to compute the density of states, as well as to construct multi-canonical and equal-hit algorithms. We discuss the performance of the methods. The results are compared with single histogram method, multi-canonical method...

We study the unitary matrix model with a topological term. We call the topological term the theta term. In the symmetric model there is the phase transition at λc = 2. If the Wilson term is larger than the theta term, there is the phase transition at the same λc. On the other hand, if the theta term is larger than the Wilson term, there is no phase transition.

in this paper, an interactive model for individual normal behaviour of drivers is presented in which the mutual effect of vehicles has been incorporated. temporal features obtained from vehicles tracking and their motion history is utilized for generating a model of normal behaviour. because of non-stationarity of behaviour, hidden markov model has been used for interactive model. this model ha...