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A Simple Transition-Free Lattice of an 8 Gev Proton Synchrotron
A transition-free lattice is a basic requirement of a high-intensity
medium-energy (several GeV) proton synchrotron in order to eliminate beam
losses during transition crossing. An 8 GeV synchrotron is proposed as a
principal component in an alternative hybrid design of Project-X [1]. This
machine would be housed in the Fermilab antiproton source enclosure replacing
the present Debuncher. A simple doublet lattice with high transition gamma has
been designed. It uses just one type of dipoles and one type of quadrupoles (QF
and QD are of the same length). It has no transition crossing. It has a
triangular shape with three zero dispersion straight sections, which can be
used for injection, extraction, RF and collimators. The beta-functions and
dispersion are low. This lattice has plenty of free space for correctors and
diagnostic devices, as well as good optical properties including large dynamic
aperture, weak dependence of lattice functions on amplitude and momentum
deviation.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, presentation at the 2009 Particle Accelerator
Conference PAC0
On integrability of one third-order nonlinear evolution equation
We study one third-order nonlinear evolution equation, recently introduced by
Chou and Qu in a problem of plane curve motions, and find its transformation to
the modified Korteweg - de Vries equation, its zero-curvature representation
with an essential parameter, and its second-order recursion operator.Comment: 10 page
Improved Chou-Fasman method for protein secondary structure prediction
BACKGROUND: Protein secondary structure prediction is a fundamental and important component in the analytical study of protein structure and functions. The prediction technique has been developed for several decades. The Chou-Fasman algorithm, one of the earliest methods, has been successfully applied to the prediction. However, this method has its limitations due to low accuracy, unreliable parameters, and over prediction. Thanks to the recent development in protein folding type-specific structure propensities and wavelet transformation, the shortcomings in Chou-Fasman method are able to be overcome. RESULTS: We improved Chou-Fasman method in three aspects. (a) Replace the nucleation regions with extreme values of coefficients calculated by the continuous wavelet transform. (b) Substitute the original secondary structure conformational parameters with folding type-specific secondary structure propensities. (c) Modify Chou-Fasman rules. The CB396 data set was tested by using improved Chou-Fasman method and three indices: Q3, Qpre, SOV were used to measure this method. We compared the indices with those obtained from the original Chou-Fasman method and other four popular methods. The results showed that our improved Chou-Fasman method performs better than the original one in all indices, about 10â18% improvement. It is also comparable to other currently popular methods considering all the indices. CONCLUSION: Our method has greatly improved Chou-Fasman method. It is able to predict protein secondary structure as good as current popular methods. By locating nucleation regions with refined wavelet transform technology and by calculating propensity factors with larger size data set, it is likely to get a better result
âIâm ugly, but gentleâ: performing âlittle characterâ in post-Mao Chinese comedies
Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of âchouâ (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese cinema since the late 1980s has challenged the star system in Chinese film industry during the previous decades when a male actorâs handsome appearance was regarded as an important criterion for him being cast as a leading man. Directing the public attention to a male starâs physical appearance by stressing the attributive adjective chou, this newly-coined word raises a question: how the cinematic emphasis on a male starâs physical appearance engages with the social construction of a starâs screen charisma under the transnational context? To answer the question, this article takes Ge You (b.1957) as a case study and explores the starâs impersonation of xiao renwu (little character) in Chinese comedies. I argue that the Chinese cinemaâs emphasis of a chouxingâs physical appearance is a visual manifest of the characterâs imperfectness and ordinariness. Nonetheless, despite the fact that the cinematic emphasis of the starâs unattractive appearance often signifies a little characterâs unprivileged social status, it neither marginalises nor makes the character a social outsider. Instead, the imperfectness and ordinariness has endowed the little character with the power as an insider of the Chinese society
A Festival of Fortepiano, February 28, 1994
This is the concert program of the A Festival of Fortepiano performance on Monday, February 28, 1994 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major, K. 306 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adagio and Scherzo from "Drei KlavierstĂŒcke," D. 459A by Franz Schubert, "Liebesbotschaft," "Am Meer," "StĂ€ndchen," and "Ihr Bild" by F. Schubert, Sonata in F major for Piano, H. XVI/23 by Franz Joseph Haydn, and Sonata for Two Pianos, K. 448 by W. A. Mozart. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund
Ground states of a one-dimensional lattice-gas model with an infinite range nonconvex interaction. A numerical study
We consider a lattice-gas model with an infinite range pairwise noncovex
interaction. It might be relevant, for example, for adsorption of alkaline
elements on W(112) and Mo(112). We study a competition between the effective
dipole-dipole and indirect interactions. The resulting ground state phase
diagrams are analysed (numerically) in detail. We have found that for some
model parameters the phase diagrams contain a region dominated by several
phases only with periods up to nine lattice constants. The remaining phase
diagrams reveal a complex structure of usually long periodic phases. We also
discuss a possible role of surace states in phase transitions.Comment: 16 pages, 5 Postscript figures; Physical Review B15 (15 August 1996),
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