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Eosentomon Heatherproctorae N. Sp. (Protura: Eosentomidae) From Ontario
A new species of eosentomid proturan, Eosentomon heatherproctorae, is described from Ontario. This new species is a member of the transitorium species-group. It differs from related North American species of this group in the following combination of characters: labral setae absent, foretarsal sensilla d and t3 long and stout, no anterior setae on the sternite of the eighth abdominal segment, and six setae on the sternites of the ninth and tenth abdominal segments
On finite size corrections to the dispersion relations of giant magnon and single spike on \gamma -deformed T^{1,1}
In this paper we consider the finite size effects for the strings in \beta
-deformed AdS_{5}\times T^{1,1} background. We analyze the finite size
corrections for the cases of giant magnon and single spike string solution. The
finite size corrections for the undeformed case are straightforwardly obtained
sending the deformation parameter to zero.Comment: 13 page
Scarcity of female mates predicts regional variation in men’s and women’s sociosexual orientation across US states
Previous studies have linked regional variation in willingness to engage in uncommitted sexual relationships (i.e., sociosexual orientation) to many different socio-ecological measures, such as adult sex ratio, life expectancy, and gross domestic product. However, these studies share a number of potentially serious limitations, including reliance on a single dataset of responses aggregated by country and a failure to properly consider intercorrelations among different socio-ecological measures. We address these limitations by (1) collecting a new dataset of 4,453 American men’s and women’s sociosexual orientation scores, (2) using multilevel analyses to avoid aggregation, and (3) deriving orthogonal factors reflecting US state-level differences in the scarcity of female mates, environmental demands, and wealth. Analyses showed that the scarcity of female mates factor, but not the environmental demand or wealth factors, predicted men’s and women’s sociosexual orientation. Participants reported being less willing to engage in uncommitted sexual relationships when female mates were scarce. These results highlight the importance of scarcity of female mates for regional differences in men’s and women’s mating strategies. They also suggest that effects of wealth-related measures and environmental demands reported in previous research may be artifacts of intercorrelations among socio-ecological measures or, alternatively, do not necessarily generalize well to new datasets
sQGP as hCFT
We examine the proposal to make quantitative comparisons between the strongly
coupled quark-gluon plasma and holographic descriptions of conformal field
theory. In this note, we calculate corrections to certain transport
coefficients appearing in second-order hydrodynamics from higher curvature
terms to the dual gravity theory. We also clarify how these results might be
consistently applied in comparisons with the sQGP.Comment: 13 page
Equilibration rates in a strongly coupled nonconformal quark-gluon plasma
We initiate the study of equilibration rates of strongly coupled quark-gluon
plasmas in the absence of conformal symmetry. We primarily consider a
supersymmetric mass deformation within gauge theory and use
holography to compute quasinormal modes of a variety of scalar operators, as
well as the energy-momentum tensor. In each case, the lowest quasinormal
frequency, which provides an approximate upper bound on the thermalization
time, is proportional to temperature, up to a pre-factor with only a mild
temperature dependence. We find similar behaviour in other holographic plasmas,
where the model contains an additional scale beyond the temperature. Hence, our
study suggests that the thermalization time is generically set by the
temperature, irrespective of any other scales, in strongly coupled gauge
theories.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Quark and lepton masses and mixing in SO(10) with a GUT-scale vector matter
We explore in detail the effective matter fermion mass sum-rules in a class
of renormalizable SUSY SO(10) grand unified models where the quark and lepton
mass and mixing patterns originate from non-decoupling effects of an extra
vector matter multiplet living around the unification scale. If the
renormalizable type-II contribution governed by the SU(2)_L-triplet in 54_H
dominates the seesaw formula, we obtain an interesting correlation between the
maximality of the atmospheric neutrino mixing and the proximity of y_s/y_b to
V_cb in the quark sector.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; v2: major update, references adde
A hierarchical approach to the prediction of the quaternary structure of GCN4 and its mutants
First published in DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 23 (1996) published by the American Mathematical Society.Presented at DIMACS Workshop on Global Minimization of Nonconvex Energy Functions: Molecular Conformation and Protein Folding, March 20-21, 1995.A hierarchical approach to protein folding is employed to examine the folding pathway and predict the quaternary structure of the GCN4 leucine zipper. Structures comparable in quality to experiment have been predicted. In addition, the equilibrium between dimers, trimers and tetramers of a number of GCN4 mutants has been examined. In five out of eight cases, the simulation results are in accordance with the experimental studies of Harbury, et al
No evidence for associations between men's salivary testosterone and responses on the Intrasexual Competitiveness Scale
Objectives:
Many previous studies have investigated relationships between men’s competitiveness and testosterone. For example, the extent of changes in men’s testosterone levels following a competitive task predicts the likelihood of them choosing to compete again. Recent work investigating whether individual differences in men’s testosterone levels predict individual differences in their competitiveness have produced mixed results.
Methods:
In light of the above, we investigated whether men’s (N = 59) scores on the Intrasexual Competitiveness Scale were related to either within-subject changes or between-subject differences in men’s salivary testosterone levels.
Results:
Men’s responses on the Intrasexual Competitiveness Scale did not appear to track within-subject changes in testosterone. By contrast with one recent study, men’s Intrasexual Competitiveness Scale also did not appear to be related to individual differences in testosterone.
Conclusions:
Our results present no evidence for associations between men’s testosterone and their responses on the Intrasexual Competitiveness Scale
On CP Violation in Minimal Renormalizable SUSY SO(10) and Beyond
We investigate the role of CP phases within the renormalizable SUSY SO(10)
GUT with one 10_H, one 126bar_H one 126_H and one 210_H Higgs representations
and type II seesaw dominating the neutrino mass matrix. This framework is non
trivially predictive in the fermionic sector and connects in a natural way the
GUT unification of b and tau Yukawa couplings with the bi-large mixing scenario
for neutrinos. On the other hand, existing numerical analysis claim that
consistency with quark and charged lepton data prevents the minimal setup from
reproducing the observed CP violation via the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM)
matrix. We re-examine the issue and find by inspection of the fermion mass sum
rules and a detailed numerical scan that, even though the CKM phase takes
preferentially values in the second quadrant, the agreement of the minimal
model with the data is actually obtained in a non negligible fraction of the
parameter space. We then consider a recently proposed renormalizable extension
of the minimal model, obtained by adding one chiral 120-dimensional Higgs
supermultiplet. We show that within such a setup the CKM phase falls naturally
in the observed range. We emphazise the robust predictivity of both models here
considered for neutrino parameters that are in the reach of ongoing and future
experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures. Two refs added, discussion expanded. To appear on
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