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No Open Cluster in the Ruprecht 93 Region
UBVI CCD photometry has been obtained for the Ruprecht 93 (Ru 93) region. We
were unable to confirm the existence of an intermediate-age open cluster in Ru
93 from the spatial distribution of blue stars. On the other hand, we found two
young star groups in the observed field: the nearer one (Ru 93 group) comprises
the field young stars in the Sgr-Car arm at d ~ 2.1 kpc, while the farther one
(WR 37 group) is the young stars around WR 37 at d ~ 4.8 kpc. We have derived
an abnormal extinction law (Rv = 3.5) in the Ruprecht 93 region.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, JKAS 2010, in press (Aug issue
Equivalence of Local and Separable Realizations of the Discontinuity-Inducing Contact Interaction and Its Perturbative Renormalizability
We prove that the separable and local approximations of the
discontinuity-inducing zero-range interaction in one-dimensional quantum
mechanics are equivalent. We further show that the interaction allows the
perturbative treatment through the coupling renormalization.
Keywords: one-dimensional system, generalized contact interaction,
renormalization, perturbative expansion. PACS Nos: 3.65.-w, 11.10.Gh, 31.15.MdComment: ReVTeX 7pgs, doubl column, no figure, See also the website
http://www.mech.kochi-tech.ac.jp/cheon
A general approximation of quantum graph vertex couplings by scaled Schroedinger operators on thin branched manifolds
We demonstrate that any self-adjoint coupling in a quantum graph vertex can
be approximated by a family of magnetic Schroedinger operators on a tubular
network built over the graph. If such a manifold has a boundary, Neumann
conditions are imposed at it. The procedure involves a local change of graph
topology in the vicinity of the vertex; the approximation scheme constructed on
the graph is subsequently `lifted' to the manifold. For the corresponding
operator a norm-resolvent convergence is proved, with the natural
identification map, as the tube diameters tend to zero.Comment: 19 pages, one figure; introduction amended and some references added,
to appear in CM
Duality and Anholonomy in Quantum Mechanics of 1D Contact Interactions
We study systems with parity invariant contact interactions in one dimension.
The model analyzed is the simplest nontrivial one --- a quantum wire with a
point defect --- and yet is shown to exhibit exotic phenomena, such as strong
vs weak coupling duality and spiral anholonomy in the spectral flow. The
structure underlying these phenomena is SU(2), which arises as accidental
symmetry for a particular class of interactions.Comment: 4 pages ReVTeX with 4 epsf figures. KEK preprint 2000-3. Correction
in Eq.(14
Improvement of Fire Hydrant Design to Enhance Water Main Flushing
AbstractFlushing is a good practice to avoid problems related to sediment, bio-film growth, and corrosion. Artificial sediment was removed from fire hydrant with pilot scale water distribution main. The sediment removal in fire hydrant and main was carefully compared with different flow rate with velocity ranged from 0.3 to 3.0 m/s and the depth of fire hydrant from 0.5 m to 1.3m. The drain capability of fire hydrant decreased as the flow rate increased. Sediment with higher density was hard to remove from water main. The length effect of upward fire hydrant was relatively minor. Downward drain showed better efficiency for both sand and actual sediment
Level spacing distribution of pseudointegrable billiard
In this paper, we examine the level spacing distribution of the
rectangular billiard with a single point-like scatterer, which is known as
pseudointegrable. It is shown that the observed is a new type, which is
quite different from the previous conclusion. Even in the strong coupling
limit, the Poisson-like behavior rather than Wigner-like is seen for ,
although the level repulsion still remains in the small region. The
difference from the previous works is analyzed in detail.Comment: 11 pages, REVTeX file, 3 PostScript Figure
Syntactic comprehension of relative clauses and center embedding using pseudowords
Relative clause (RC) formation and center embedding (CE) are two primary syntactic operations fundamental for creating and understanding complex sentences. Ample evidence from previous cross-linguistic studies has revealed several similarities and differences between RC and CE. However, it is not easy to investigate the effect of pure syntactic constraints for RC and CE without the interference of semantic and pragmatic interactions. Here, we show how readers process CE and RC using a self-paced reading task in Korean. More interestingly, we adopted a novel self-paced pseudoword reading task to exploit syntactic operations of the RC and CE, eliminating the semantic and pragmatic interference in sentence comprehension. Our results showed that the main effects of RC and CE conform to previous studies. Furthermore, we found a facilitation effect of sentence comprehension when we combined an RC and CE in a complex sentence. Our study provides a valuable insight into how the purely syntactic processing of RC and CE assists comprehension of complex sentences
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