Identification of the Unchanging Reference Component of Compositional Data from the Properties of the Coefficient of Variation     

Tohru Ohta  Hiroyoshi Arai  Atsushi Noda 《Mathematical Geosciences》2011,43(4):421-434

In analyses of compositional data, it is important to select a suitable unchanging component as a reference to detect the behavior of a single variable in isolation. This paper introduces two tests for detecting the unchanging component, based on a new approach that utilizes the coefficient of variation of component ratios. That is, the coefficient of variation of a compositional ratio is subject to change when the unchanging component is switched between the denominator and numerator, and the coefficient of variation tends to be small when the unchanging component occurs as the denominator against any arbitrary components (Test 1). In addition, the ratio of the component pair that gives the lowest coefficient of variation is most likely to represent the two unchanging components (Test 2). However, Tests 1 and 2 are not necessary and sufficient conditions for uniquely finding the unchanging component. To verify the effectiveness of the tests, 500 artificial datasets were analyzed and the results suggest that the tests are able to identify the unchanging component, although Test 1 underperforms when the dataset includes a component with skewness greater than 0.5, and Test 2 fails when the dataset includes components with a correlation coefficient greater than 0.75. These defects can be overcome by interpreting the two test results in a complementary manner. The proposed tests provide powerful yet simple criteria for identifying the unchanging component in compositional data; however, the reliability of this approach needs to be assessed in further studies.  相似文献   

Dating of the Dome Fuji shallow ice core based on a record of volcanic eruptions from AD 1260 to AD 2001     

Makoto Igarashi  Yoichi Nakai  Yuko Motizuki  Kazuya Takahashi  Hideaki Motoyama  Kazuo Makishima 《Polar Science》2011,5(4):411-420

We measured the concentration of non-sea-salt sulfate () in the Dome Fuji shallow ice core (Antarctica) from the surface to 40 m depth with the aim of dating the core with reference to the record of volcanic eruptions. Three huge spikes related to large-scale volcanic eruptions were detected at depths of 12.5, 29.9, and 38.8 m, correlated to the eruptions of Tambora (AD 1815), Kuwae (AD 1452) and an unknown event (AD 1259), respectively. We identified another nine spikes related to accurately dated eruption events. The shallow ice core was dated from AD 1260 to AD 2001 based on these 12 eruption events and the assumption of constant annual snow accumulation in the periods between eruption events. The results yield a maximum correction of ∼20 years compared with the dating proposed in a previous study. The annual accumulation varied within ±∼15% of the average water equivalent value over the study period (25.5 mm).  相似文献   

Study of variable stars in the MOA data base: long-period red variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud – II. Multiplicity of the period–luminosity relation     

S. Noda  M. Takeuti  F. Abe  I. A. Bond  R. J. Dodd  J. B. Hearnshaw  M. Honda  M. Honma  J. Jugaku  Y. Kan-ya  Y. Kato  P. M. Kilmartin  Y. Matsubara  K. Masuda  Y. Muraki  T. Nakamura  K. Ohnishi  M. Reid  N. J. Rattenbury  To. Saito  Y. Saito  H. Sato  M. Sekiguchi  J. Skuljan  D. J. Sullivan  T. Sumi  R. Yamada  T. Yanagisawa  P. C. M. Yock  M. Yoshizawa 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,348(4):1120-1134

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Non－LTE Analysis of the Sodium Abundance of Metal－Poor Stars in the Galactic Disk and Halo     

Yoichi Takeda  Gang Zhao  Masahide Takada-Hidai  Yu-Qin Chen  Yu-ji Saito  Hua-Wei Zhang 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2003,3(4):316-340

We performed an extensive non-LTE analysis of the neutral sodiumlines of Na I 5683/5688, 5890/5896, 6154/6161, and 8183/8195 in disk/halo starsof types F-K covering a wide metallicity range (-4 [Fe/H] +0.4), using ourown data as well as data collected from the literature. For comparatively metal-rich disk stars (-1 [Fe/H] +0.4) where the weaker 6154/6161 lines are thebest abundance indicators, we confirmed [Na/Fe] ～ 0 with an "upturn" (i.e., ashallow/broad dip around -0.5 [Fe/H] 0) as already reported in previousstudies. For the metal-deficient halo stars, where the much stronger 5890/5896 or8183/8195 lines subject to considerable (negative) non-LTE corrections amountingto 0.5 dex have to be used, our analysis suggests mildly "subsolar" [Na/Fe] valuesdown to ～ -0.4 (with a somewhat large scatter of ～±0.2 dex) on the average at thetypical halo metallicity of [Fe/H] ～ -2, followed by a rise again to a near-solar ratioof [Na/Fe] ～ 0 at the very metal-poor regime [Fe/H] ～ -3 to -4. These resultsare discussed in comparison with the previous observational studies along with thetheoretical predictions from the available chemical evolution models.  相似文献   

The default methods in the 2019 Refinement drastically reduce estimates of global carbon sinks of harvested wood products     

Kayo  Chihiro  Kalt  Gerald  Tsunetsugu  Yuko  Hashimoto  Seiji  Komata  Hirotaka  Noda  Ryu  Oka  Hiroyasu 《Carbon balance and management》2021,16(1):1-12

With a lack of United States federal policy to address climate change, cities, the private sector, and universities have shouldered much of the work to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions. This study aims to determine how landcover characteristics influence the amount of carbon (C) sequestered and respired via biological processes, evaluating the role of land management on the overall C budget of an urban university. Boston University published a comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2017 with the goal of achieving C neutrality by 2040. In this study, we digitized and discretized each of Boston University’s three urban campuses into landcover types, with C sequestration and respiration rates measured and scaled to provide a University-wide estimate of biogenic C fluxes within the broader context of total University emissions. Each of Boston University’s three highly urban campuses were net sources of biogenic C to the atmosphere. While trees were estimated to sequester 0.6 ± 0.2 kg C m−2 canopy cover year−1, mulch and lawn areas in 2018 emitted C at rates of 1.7 ± 0.4 kg C m−2 year−1 and 1.4 ± 0.4 kg C m−2 year−1, respectively. C uptake by tree canopy cover, which can spatially overlap lawn and mulched landcovers, was not large enough to offset biogenic emissions. The proportion of biogenic emissions to Scope 1 anthropogenic emissions on each campus varied from 0.5% to 2%, and depended primarily on the total anthropogenic emissions on each campus. Our study quantifies the role of urban landcover in local C budgets, offering insights on how landscaping management strategies—such as decreasing mulch application rates and expanding tree canopy extent—can assist universities in minimizing biogenic C emissions and even potentially creating a small biogenic C sink. Although biogenic C fluxes represent a small fraction of overall anthropogenic emissions on urban university campuses, these biogenic fluxes are under active management by the university and should be included in climate action plans.  相似文献   

Near-infrared imaging survey of faint companions around young dwarfs in the Pleiades cluster     

Yoichi Itoh  Yumiko Oasa  Hitoshi Funayama  Masahiko Hayashi  Misato Fukagawa  Toshio Hashiguchi  Thayne Currie 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2011,11(3)

We conducted a near-infrared imaging survey of 11 young dwarfs in the Pleiades cluster using the Subaru Telescope and the near-infrared coronagraph imager. We found ten faint point sources,with magnitudes as faint as 20 mag in the K-band,with around seven dwarfs.Comparison with the Spitzer archive images revealed that a pair of the faint sources around V 1171 Tau is very red in infrared wavelengths,which indicates very low-mass young stellar objects.However,the results of our follow-up proper motion measure...  相似文献   

A possible substellar companion to the intermediate-mass giant HD 175679     

Liang Wang  Bun＇ei Sato  Gang Zhao  Yu-Juan Liu  Kunio Noguchi  Hirovasu Ando  Hideyuki Izumiura  Eiji Kambe  Masashi Omiya  Hiroki Harakawa  Fan Liu  Xiao-Shu Wu  Yoichi Takeda  Michitoshi Yoshida  Eiichiro Kokubo 《天体物理学报》2012,(1):84-92

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Abundances of 23 field RR Lyrae stars     

Shu Liu  Gang Zhao  Yu-Qin Chen  Yoichi Takeda  Satoshi Honda 《天文和天体物理学研究(英文版)》2013,(11):1307-1329

We present stellar parameters and abundances of 15 elements （Na, Mg, A1, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Y and Ba） for 23 field RR Lyrae variables based on high-resolution （R ~ 60 000） and high signal-to-noise （S/N~ 200） spectra obtained using the High Dispersion Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope. Six stars in the sample have more than one spectrum observed at different pulsation phases. The derived abundance ratios of [X/Fe] for 14 elements （except for Ba） do not vary during the pulsation cycle. An interesting curve of [Ba/Fe] versus phase is detected for the first time and it shows decreasing [Ba/Fe] with increasing temperature at a given metallicity. Combining with data in the literature, abundances of most RR Lyrae stars as a function of [Fe/H] follow the same trends as those of dwarf stars, but [Sc/Fe] and [Y/Fe] ratios of RR Lyrae stars at solar metallicity are lower than those of dwarf stars. The kinematics of RR Lyrae stars indicate that three comparatively metal-rich RR Lyrae stars might originate from the thick disk and they show higher [a/Fe] ratios than RR Lyrae stars with thin disk kinematics. Among 23 RR Lyrae stars, two special objects are found with abnormal abundances; TV Lib has high [a/Fe], [Sc/Fe], [Y/Fe] and [Ba/Fe] ratios while TW Her has solar [a/Fe] but significantly lower [Sc/Fe], [Y/Fe] and [Ba/Fe] ratios as compared with other RR Lyrae stars.  相似文献   

Phase transition of zircon at high P-T conditions     

Shigeaki?OnoEmail author  Kenichi?Funakoshi  Yoichi?Nakajima  Yoshinori?Tange  Tomoo?Katsura 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2004,147(4):505-509

Abstract In situ observations of the zircon-reidite transition in ZrSiO₄ were carried out using a multianvil high-pressure apparatus and synchrotron radiation. The phase boundary between zircon and reidite was determined to be P (GPa) = 8.5+0.0017×(T-1200) (K) for temperatures between 1100–1900 K. When subducted slabs, including igneous rocks and sediments, descend into the upper mantle, the zircon in the subducted slab transforms into reidite at pressures of about 9 GPa, corresponding to a depth of 270 km. Reidite found in an upper Eocene impact ejecta layer in marine sediments is thought to have been transformed from zircon by a shock event. The peak pressure generated by the shock event in this occurrence is estimated to be higher than 8 GPa.Editorial responsibility: J. Hoefs  相似文献   

Reply to the comments by K. R. Koch and J. Kusche on Xu et al. (2006) Variance component estimation in linear inverse ill-posed models,J Geod 80:69–81     

Peiliang Xu  Yunzhong Shen  Yoichi Fukuda  Yumei Liu 《Journal of Geodesy》2007,81(9):633-635

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