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Prospects for detection of very high-energy emission from GRB in the context of the external shock model
The detection of the 100 GeV-TeV emission by a gamma-ray burst (GRB) will
provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the nature of the central engine
and the interaction between the relativistic flow and the environment of the
burst's progenitor. In this paper we show that there are exciting prospects of
detecting from the burst by MAGIC high-energy (HE) emission during the early
X-ray flaring activity and, later, during the normal afterglow phase. We also
identify the best observational strategy, trigger conditions and time period of
observation. We determine the expected HE emission from the flaring and
afterglow phases of GRBs in the context of the external shock scenario and
compare them with the MAGIC threshold. We find that an X-ray flare with the
average properties of the class can be detected in the 100 GeV range by MAGIC,
provided that z<0.7. The requested observational window with MAGIC should then
start from 10-20 s after the burst and cover about 1000-2000 s. Furthermore, we
demonstrate that there are solid prospects of detecting the late afterglow
emission in the same energy range for most of the bursts with z<0.5 if the
density of the external medium is n> a few cm^-3. In this case, the MAGIC
observation shall extend to about 10-20 ks. We provide recipes for tailoring
this prediction to the observational properties of each burst,in particular the
fluence in the prompt emission and the redshift, thus allowing an almost real
time decision procedure to decide whether to continue the follow-up observation
of a burst at late times.Comment: 6 pages, 2 color figures, accepted for the pubblication in A&
Religion and Political Form: Carl Schmitt’s Genealogy of Politics as Critique of Habermas’s Post-secular Discourse
JĂĽrgen Habermas's post-secular account is rapidly attracting attention in many fields as a theoretical framework through which to reconsider the role of religion in contemporary societies. This work seeks to go beyond Habermas's conceptualisation by placing the post-secular discourse within a broader genealogy of the relationships between space, religion, and politics. Drawing on the work of Carl Schmitt, the aim of this article is to contrast the artificial separation between private and public, religious and secular, state and church, and the logic of inclusion/exclusion on which modernity was established. Revisiting this genealogy is also crucial to illustrating, in light of Schmitt's political theory, the problems underlying Habermas's proposal, emphasising its hidden homogenising and universalist logic in an attempt to offer an alternative reflection on the contribution of religious and cultural pluralism within Western democracies
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Future Needs in Mast Cell Biology.
The pathophysiological roles of mast cells are still not fully understood, over 140 years since their description by Paul Ehrlich in 1878. Initial studies have attempted to identify distinct "subpopulations" of mast cells based on a relatively small number of biochemical characteristics. More recently, "subtypes" of mast cells have been described based on the analysis of transcriptomes of anatomically distinct mouse mast cell populations. Although mast cells can potently alter homeostasis, in certain circumstances, these cells can also contribute to the restoration of homeostasis. Both solid and hematologic tumors are associated with the accumulation of peritumoral and/or intratumoral mast cells, suggesting that these cells can help to promote and/or limit tumorigenesis. We suggest that at least two major subsets of mast cells, MC1 (meaning anti-tumorigenic) and MC2 (meaning pro-tumorigenic), and/or different mast cell mediators derived from otherwise similar cells, could play distinct or even opposite roles in tumorigenesis. Mast cells are also strategically located in the human myocardium, in atherosclerotic plaques, in close proximity to nerves and in the aortic valve. Recent studies have revealed evidence that cardiac mast cells can participate both in physiological and pathological processes in the heart. It seems likely that different subsets of mast cells, like those of cardiac macrophages, can exert distinct, even opposite, effects in different pathophysiological processes in the heart. In this chapter, we have commented on possible future needs of the ongoing efforts to identify the diverse functions of mast cells in health and disease
Analysis of thermal field within an urban canyon with variable thermophysical characteristics of the building's walls.
In a typical urban configuration, a microclimatic analysis has been carried out. Using a CFD method, a N-S oriented urban street canyon, with a given H/W ratio, has been examined. The standard k–ε turbulence model has been used to simulate a three-dimensional flow field and to calculate the thermo-fluid dynamics parameters that characterize the street canyon. In this study has been analyzed the thermal flow field when the walls of the building change the properties of solar radiation absorption, in particular for α=0.2 and α=0.8. Solar radiation considered is that of 21/07 in Milan in two different hours: at 11:00 a.m. and at 02:00 p.m. The study shows the importance of the thermophysical properties of a wall, in the development of the thermal field and flow field. This is a very important topic, in terms of improvement of well-being and the quality of the air within the cities, through the choice of materials and colors of the facades of buildings.
Exact Local Bosonic Algorithm for Dynamical Quarks
We present an exact local bosonic algorithm for the simulation of dynamical
fermions in lattice QCD. We show that this algorithm is a viable alternative to
the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm.Comment: 3 pages, 1 PostScript figure; Talk presented at LATTICE96(algorithms
Heavy-Heavy-Light-Light correlators in Liouville theory
We compute four-point functions of two heavy and two "perturbatively heavy"
operators in the semiclassical limit of Liouville theory on the sphere. We
obtain these "Heavy-Heavy-Light-Light" (HHLL) correlators to leading order in
the conformal weights of the light insertions in two ways: (a) via a path
integral approach, combining different methods to evaluate correlation
functions from complex solutions for the Liouville field, and (b) via the
conformal block expansion. This latter approach identifies an integral over the
continuum of normalizable states and a sum over an infinite tower of lighter
discrete states, whose contribution we extract by analytically continuing
standard results to our HHLL setting. The sum over this tower reproduces the
sum over those complex saddlepoints of the path integral that contribute to the
correlator. Our path integral computations reveal that when the two light
operators are inserted at equal time in radial quantization, the leading-order
HHLL correlator is independent of their separation, and more generally that at
this order there is no short-distance singularity as the two light operators
approach each other. The conformal block expansion likewise shows that in the
discrete sum short-distance singularities are indeed absent for all
intermediate states that contribute. In particular, the Virasoro vacuum block,
which would have been singular at short distances, is not exchanged. The
separation-independence of equal-time correlators is due to cancelations
between the discrete contributions. These features lead to a Lorentzian
singularity that, in conformal theories with anti-de Sitter (AdS) duals, would
be associated to locality below the AdS scale.Comment: 40 pages, 1 figure; v2: clarifications added, minor typos corrected,
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One-flavour QCD at finite temperature
We present results, for heavy to moderate quark masses, of a study of
thermodynamic properties of 1-flavour QCD, using the multiboson algorithm.
Finite-size scaling behaviour is studied on lattices of size ,
and . It is shown that, for heavy quarks, the peak
of the Polyakov loop susceptibility grows linearly with the spatial volume,
indicating a first order phase transition. The deconfinement ratio and the
distribution of the norm of the Polyakov loop corroborate this result. For
moderately heavy quarks the first-order transition weakens and becomes a
crossover. We estimate the end point of the first-order phase transition to
occur at a quark mass of about 1.6 GeV.Comment: 3 pages, 3 PostScript figures; Talk presented at LAT9
Borges en Italia, Italia en Borges
Fil: Galli de Ortega, Gloria.
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de FilosofĂa y Letra
El coraje del petirrojo
En la nueva narrativa italiana Maurizio Maggiani -nacido en
1951- se ha ganado un espacio propio y con paso firme está entrando
en la escena literaria europea. MĂ uri,MĂ uri (1989), Vi ho giĂ
tutti sognato una volta (1990), Felice alla guerra (1992),I/ coraggio
del pettirosso (1995), La regina disadorna (1998); las cinco obras
con las que ya demuestra un talento excepcional para contar historias
y una capacidad de escritura en crecimiento. Un escritor joven
pero de oficio seguro.
En esta ocasiĂłn nos ocuparemos de // coraggio del pettirosso1,
un libro de difĂcil lectura, con una configuraciĂłn muy trabajada incluso
a nivel tipográfico. Extraña es la historia, apoyada en un imaginario
que no remite a un modelo cultural unitario. Transcurre en
AlejandrĂa de Egipto, en los barrios de la ciudad vieja, en las playas
arenosas del puerto de hoy, en el puerto sepultado de la antigua
AlejandrĂa y en el desierto. Recrea de manera fascinante la vida de
los italianos que emigraron a ese paĂs, las luchas de los libertarios de
ayer y de hoy y el mundo de la InquisiciĂłn y la historia del pueblo
apuano y de los valdenses. Todo contado por un escritor bien encaminado
para recuperar el eco de la memoria, de sĂłlida cultura, de
fina sensibilidad.Fil: Galli de Ortega, Gloria.
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de FilosofĂa y Letra
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