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    Survey of Whole House Programs in Midwestern Climates

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    Existing single family whole home energy efficiency programs in cold weather climates, focused on the Midwest, were analyzed in detail to understand program design, including requirements, processes, incentives and outcomes, focusing on savings and participation. The report presents information about specific programs, aggregated program trends and observations, and recommendations for future cold weather climate whole home program design and implementation. This study makes several recommendations to whole home program designers and implementers on improving the cost-effectiveness and reach of whole home programs

    Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans Arising in a Decorative Tattoo

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    Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is an uncommon, locally aggressive cutaneous tumour of intermediate grade malignancy. A number of reports have linked local trauma of varying aetiology with the later development of DFSP. In addition, a variety of skin disorders and, in rare cases, cutaneous tumours, have been described in association with decorative tattoos. This is often associated with delayed diagnosis. We report the first case of DFSP arising in a tattoo and discuss the available evidence for a causative link between DFSP and local trauma of this nature

    Antiferromagnetic Order in MnO Spherical Nanoparticles

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    We have performed unpolarized and polarized neutron diffraction experiments on monodisperse 8 nm and 13 nm antiferromagnetic MnO nanoparticles. For the 8 nm sample, the antiferromagnetic transition temperature TNT_N (114 K) is suppressed compared to the bulk material (119 K) while for the 13 nm sample TNT_N (120 K) is comparable to the bulk. The neutron diffraction data of the nanoparticles is well described using the bulk MnO magnetic structure but with a substantially reduced average magnetic moment of 4.2±\pm0.3 μB\mu_B/Mn for the 8 nm sample and 3.9±\pm0.2 μB\mu_B/Mn for the 13 nm sample. An analysis of the polarized neutron data on both samples shows that in an individual MnO nanoparticle about 80% of Mn ions order. These results can be explained by a structure in which the monodisperse nanoparticles studied here have a core that behaves similar to the bulk with a surface layer which does not contribute significantly to the magnetic order.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

    Influence of F and Cl on the recrystallization of ion-implanted amorphous Si

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    The effect of fluorine and chlorine implantation on the solid-phase epitaxial regrowth of amorphized Si was studied in intrinsic and heavily boron doped material. Annealings were performed at 500 and 600°C. Both F and Cl retard the regrowth rate at 500°C. The growth rates are much faster in B-doped than in undoped Si. Complete regrowth in B-doped Si is obtained for all investigated doses of fluorine up to 5×10^15 F/cm^2 at 600°C for 30 min. The highest dose of chlorine (5×10^15 Cl/cm^2) stops the regrowth at this temperature

    Critical exponents of a three dimensional O(4) spin model

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    By Monte Carlo simulation we study the critical exponents governing the transition of the three-dimensional classical O(4) Heisenberg model, which is considered to be in the same universality class as the finite-temperature QCD with massless two flavors. We use the single cluster algorithm and the histogram reweighting technique to obtain observables at the critical temperature. After estimating an accurate value of the inverse critical temperature \Kc=0.9360(1), we make non-perturbative estimates for various critical exponents by finite-size scaling analysis. They are in excellent agreement with those obtained with the 4ϵ4-\epsilon expansion method with errors reduced to about halves of them.Comment: 25 pages with 8 PS figures, LaTeX, UTHEP-28

    Improved Conformal Mapping of the Borel Plane

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    The conformal mapping of the Borel plane can be utilized for the analytic continuation of the Borel transform to the entire positive real semi-axis and is thus helpful in the resummation of divergent perturbation series in quantum field theory. We observe that the rate of convergence can be improved by the application of Pad\'{e} approximants to the Borel transform expressed as a function of the conformal variable, i.e. by a combination of the analytic continuation via conformal mapping and a subsequent numerical approximation by rational approximants. The method is primarily useful in those cases where the leading (but not sub-leading) large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients are known.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, 2 tables; certain numerical examples adde

    Asymptotic Improvement of Resummation and Perturbative Predictions in Quantum Field Theory

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    The improvement of resummation algorithms for divergent perturbative expansions in quantum field theory by asymptotic information about perturbative coefficients is investigated. Various asymptotically optimized resummation prescriptions are considered. The improvement of perturbative predictions beyond the reexpansion of rational approximants is discussed.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, 3 tables; title shortened; typographical errors corrected; minor changes of style; 2 references adde
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