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Line adapter provides quick disconnect under moderate side loading
Line adapter acts as quick and simple disconnect system. It quickly separates upon the application of a side load of 15 pounds with standing line pressure at 100 psig
Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes.
We analyze how a country's political institutions affect oil production within its borders. We find a pronounced negative relationship between political openness and volatility in oil production, with democratic regimes exhibiting less volatility than more autocratic regimes. This relationship holds across a number of robustness checks including using different measures of political conditions, instrumenting for political conditions and using several measures of production volatility. Political openness also affects other oil market outcomes, including total production as a share of reserves. Our findings have implications both for interpreting the role of institutions in explaining differences in macroeconomic development and for understanding world oil markets.
Polymers at Interfaces - Studies on Contact Wetting of Polymers
A review is given of recent work in the author\u27s laboratory
concerning (1) phenomena of contact wetting in a four phase
system: solid/liquid/vapor/solid, and the formation of liquid bridges
between solid surfaces, and (2) contact wetting of polymer surfaces
with surfactant solutions
Effect of nuclear interactions of neutral kaons on CP asymmetry measurements
We examine the effect of the difference in nuclear interactions of
and mesons on the measurement of CP asymmetry for experiments at
colliders - charm and -meson factories. We find that this effect on
CP asymmetry can be as large as 0.3%, and therefore sufficiently significant in
interpreting measurements of CP asymmetry when neutral kaons are present in the
final state.Comment: accepted to PR
Dynamic field theory (DFT): applications in Cognitive Science and Robotics
Review article about Dynamic Field theory and applications in cognitive science and roboticseuCognition : the European Network for Advancement of Artificial Cognitive System
A Mathematica Package for Computing N=2 Superfield Operator Product Expansions
We describe a general purpose Mathematica package for computing Superfield
Operator Product Expansions in meromorphic superconformal field theory.
Given the SOPEs for a set of ``basic" superfields, SOPEs of arbitrarily
complicated composites can be computed automatically. Normal ordered products
are always reduced to a standard form. It is possible to check the Jacobi
identities, and to compute Poisson brackets (``classical SOPEs''). We present
two explicit examples: a construction of the ``small'' superconformal
algebra in terms of superfields, and a realisation of the
superconformal algebra in terms of chiral and antichiral fermionic superfields.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX. Minor corrections, particularly to Mathematica
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The dynamic neural field approach to cognitive robotics
This tutorial presents an architecture for autonomous robots to generate behavior in joint action tasks. To efficiently interact with another agent in solving a mutual task, a robot should be endowed with cognitive skills such as memory, decision making, action understanding and prediction. The proposed architecture is strongly inspired by our current understanding of the processing principles and the neuronal circuitr underlying these functionalities in the primate brain. As a mathematical framework, we use a coupled system of dynamic neural fields, each representing the basic functionality of neuronal populations in different brain areas. It implements goal-directed behavior in joint action as a continuous process that builds on the interpretation of observed movements in terms of the partner’s action goal. We validate the architecture in two experimental paradigms: (1) a joint search task; (2) a reproduction of an observed or inferred end state of a grasping–placing sequence. We also review some of the mathematical results about dynamic neural fields that are important for the implementation work.European Commission fp6-IST2, project no. 00374
Cellular automaton rules conserving the number of active sites
This paper shows how to determine all the unidimensional two-state cellular
automaton rules of a given number of inputs which conserve the number of active
sites. These rules have to satisfy a necessary and sufficient condition. If the
active sites are viewed as cells occupied by identical particles, these
cellular automaton rules represent evolution operators of systems of identical
interacting particles whose total number is conserved. Some of these rules,
which allow motion in both directions, mimic ensembles of one-dimensional
pseudo-random walkers. Numerical evidence indicates that the corresponding
stochastic processes might be non-Gaussian.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
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