Chromoelectric fields and quarkonium-hadron interactions at high energies

We develop a simple model to study the heavy quarkonium-hadron cross section in the high energy limit. The hadron is represented by an external electric color field (capacitor) and the heavy quarkonium is represented by a small color dipole. Using high energy approximations we compute the relevant cross sections, which are then compared with results obtained with other methods. Our calculations are presented in a pedagogical way accessible to undergraduate students.Comment: To appear in Physical Review C, 24 pages, 10 eps figure

Reduction of non-regression time through Artificial Intelligence

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Manajemen Kompensasi Pendidik Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini : Studi di Kelompok Bermain Azzaqiatul Iman

This study aims to describe efforts to increase teacher compensation in Kober Azzaqiatul Iman Garut. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The method of data collection is through observation, interviews and documentation, with speakers of principals, teachers, and guardians of students and researchers as key instruments. The results showed the fact that the management of Educator compensation by Kober Azzaqiatul Iman was carried out through several stages, namely: (1) internal party coordination through routine meetings, daily, weekly, monthly, semesterly or annually, usually done as an emotional reinforcement and mutual trust between heads and educator. (2) external coordination, that are parent meetings four times a year, advocating, participating in village discussion, actively participating in PAUD, HIMPAUDI, and strengthening activities to the relevant education offices

Expressions of Sacred Promise: Ritual and Devotion in Ethiopian Orthodox Praxis

This thesis investigates the notion of sacred promise, a grounded devotional category for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. It is based on ethnographic research among urban parishes seeking to gather the often dispersed memberships of local Orthodox communities in Dessie, a city of a quarter million residents in north-central Ethiopia. The central thesis contends that the spaces and methods of engagement by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are organized by the internal dynamics of archetypal promises. I consider the wide spectrum of social and ritual activities contained within the domain of “church” to be consistent with a developed socio-theological genre of “covenant”. Covenant is narratively defined as a dialogic of bestowal and responsibility and it is also expressed in performative, material, and associative dimensions. Starting from an investigation of the liturgical praxis of temesgen (the ethic of thanksgiving), each chapter explores variations of covenant: as unifying events of human/divine manifestation (e.g. feast days); as the honour of obligation within individual stances of paying respect on an interpersonal and meta-relational level, at church and during visits to mourning houses; and through customs of reciprocity by confraternities and the blessings such practices confer on the givers and receivers. Lastly, pilgrimage presents a context where personal commemorative events transform into “traditions” due to their ability to sustainably influence broader communal commitments. Analysed collectively, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians creatively distil a core monotheistic precept through their everyday devotional acts. Rather than interpreting covenant as exclusively an ethno-historical idea of “chosen peoples”, this research advances a meta-argument concerning the processual nature of creation within tradition. Presenting an original perspective on the rupture/continuity paradigm within the anthropology of Christianity, I trace how this doctrinal principle originated through an inventive merging of culture and ideology, demonstrated through the synthesis of Old and New Testament in ritual and allegory and by local conditions of religious heterogeneity within Ethiopia

Neural Synthesis of Footsteps Sound Effects with Generative Adversarial Networks

Footsteps are among the most ubiquitous sound effects in multimedia applications. There is substantial research into understanding the acoustic features and developing synthesis models for footstep sound effects. In this paper, we present a first attempt at adopting neural synthesis for this task. We implemented two GAN-based architectures and compared the results with real recordings as well as six traditional sound synthesis methods. Our architectures reached realism scores as high as recorded samples, showing encouraging results for the task at hand

Case Report: Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome II, expanding the clinical spectrum

We report a 4.5 year old Egyptian male child, fourth in the order of birth of healthy remote consanguineous parents. He has typical facial as well as skeletal features of Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome (TRPS) II. The facial features included bilateral downward slanting palpebral fissures, bulbous nose, long filtrum, retromicrognathia, sparse hair in the scalp and thick eyebrows. The skeletal features included retarded bone age, cone shaped epiphyses of the phalanges and multiple exostoses. The patient has also growth retardation, moderate mental retardation and hyperlaxity of the right knee joint. However our patient has some features not reported in TRPS II patients. These included bilateral partial ptosis, long eye lashes, preauricular skin tag, short 2nd right finger, short metacarpals of both thumbs. So we have to expand the clinical spectrum. Karyotype demonstrated 46,XY,del 8(q23.3-q24.1).Keywords: Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome; Langer–Giedion syndrome; Exostosis; Short stature; Cone shaped epiphyse