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Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type II
We prove the existence of pl-flips
Negative effects of makeup use on perceptions of leadership ability across two ethnicities
Cosmetics alter social perceptions, and prior work suggests that cosmetic use may aid female intrasexual competition, making women appear more dominant to other women but more prestigious to other men. It is unclear whether these findings reflect general improvements in perceptions of traits related to women's dominance or if they are specific to mating contexts only. Here, across two ethnicities, we examined effects of cosmetics used for a social night out on perceptions of women's leadership ability, a trait that denotes competence/high status outside of mating contexts. Participants of African and Caucasian ethnicity judged faces for leadership ability where half of the trials differed in ethnicity (own- vs. other-ethnicity face pairs) and the subtlety of the color manipulation (50% vs. 100%). Regardless of the participant's sex or ethnicity, makeup used for a social night out had a negative effect on perceptions of women's leadership ability. Our findings suggest that, in prior work, women are afforded traits related to dominance, as makeup enhances perceptions of traits that are important for successful female mating competition but not other components of social dominance such as leadership
Origin of Discrepancies in Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectra of Molecular Junctions
We report inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) of multilayer
molecular junctions with and without incorporated metal nano-particles. The
incorporation of metal nanoparticles into our devices leads to enhanced IET
intensity and a modified line-shape for some vibrational modes. The enhancement
and line-shape modification are both the result of a low lying hybrid metal
nanoparticle-molecule electronic level. These observations explain the apparent
discrepancy between earlier IETS measurements of alkane thiolate junctions by
Kushmerick \emph{et al.} [Nano Lett. \textbf{4}, 639 (2004)] and Wang \emph{et
al.} [Nano Lett. \textbf{4}, 643 (2004)].Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures accepted for publication in Physical Review
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Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type
We prove that the canonical ring of a smooth projective variety is finitely
generated
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Epitaxial growth and surface reconstruction of CrSb(0001)
Smooth CrSb(0001) films have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on MnSb(0001) β GaAs(111) substrates. CrSb(0001) shows (2β―Γβ―2), triple domain (1β―Γβ―4) and (β3Γβ3)R30Β° reconstructed surfaces as well as a (1β―Γβ―1) phase. The dependence of reconstruction on substrate temperature and incident fluxes is very similar to MnSb(0001)
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