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Hawking Radiation as Quantum Tunneling in Rindler Coordinate
We substantiate the Hawking radiation as quantum tunneling of fields or
particles crossing the horizon by using the Rindler coordinate. The thermal
spectrum detected by an accelerated particle is interpreted as quantum
tunneling in the Rindler spacetime. Representing the spacetime near the horizon
locally as a Rindler spacetime, we find the emission rate by tunneling, which
is expressed as a contour integral and gives the correct Boltzmann factor. We
apply the method to non-extremal black holes such as a Schwarzschild black
hole, a non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole, a charged Kerr black
hole, de Sitter space, and a Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter black hole.Comment: LaTex 19 pages, no figure; references added and replaced by the
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The tomography beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source
We compared the image contrast of a monochromatic CT, Multiple Energy Computed Tomography (MECT), and conventional CT scanner using phantoms. The experimental results indicate that monochromatic CT, with beam energy tuned just above the iodine K-edge, has about a 3 fold advantage in iodine contrast over conventional CT with a 120 kVp beam. Modeling using the same beams at a 3 rad dose and 3 mm slice height on an 18 cm diameter acrylic phantom, the simulations show a noise of 1.2 HU for MECT and 1.9 HU for CCT. Furthermore, despite the Cupping-effect corrections the bone contrast is lower in CCT and varies by 24 HU moving from the phantom`s center to the edge; this indicates an advantage for MECT in detecting and quantifying lesions differing from surrounding tissue by their mean atomic number
Hawking radiation, W-infinity algebra and trace anomalies
We apply the "trace anomaly method" to the calculation of moments of the
Hawking radiation of a Schwarzschild black hole. We show that they can be
explained as the fluxes of chiral currents forming a W-infinity algebra. Then
we construct the covariant version of these currents and verify that up to
order 6 they are not affected by any trace anomaly. Using cohomological methods
we show that actually, for the fourth order current, no trace anomalies can
exist. The results reported here are strictly valid in two dimensions.Comment: 22 pages, typos correcte
A Non-coding RNA of Insect HzNV-1 Virus Establishes Latent Viral Infection through MicroRNA
Heliothis zea nudivirus-1 (HzNV-1) is an insect virus previously known as Hz-1 baculovirus. One of its major early genes, hhi1, is responsible for the establishment of productive viral infection; another gene, pag1, which expresses a non-coding RNA, is the only viral transcript detectable during viral latency. Here we showed that this non-coding RNA was further processed into at least two distinct miRNAs, which targeted and degraded hhi1 transcript. This is a result strikingly similar to a recent report that herpes simplex virus produces tightly-regulated latent specific miRNAs to silence its own key early transcripts. Nevertheless, proof for the establishment of viral latency by miRNA is still lacking. We further showed that HzNV-1 latency could be directly induced by pag1-derived miRNAs in cells infected with a pag1-deleted, latency-deficient virus. This result suggests the existence of a novel mechanism, where miRNAs can be functional for the establishment of viral latency
Visualization of the spatial and spectral signals of orb-weaving spiders, Nephila pilipes, through the eyes of a honeybee
It is well known that the honeybee has good color vision. However, the spectral range in which the bee can see is different from that of the human eye. To study how bees view their world of colors, one has to see through the eyes of the bee, not the eyes of a human. A conventional way to examine the color signals that animals can detect is to measure the surface reflectance spectra and compute the quantum catches of each photoreceptor type based on its known spectral sensitivity. Color signal and color contrast are then determined from the loci of these quantum catches in the color space. While the point-by-point measurements of the reflectance spectra using a standard spectrometer have yielded a significant amount of data for analyzing color signals, the lack of spatial information and low sampling efficiency constrain their applications. Using a special filter coating technique, a set of filters with transmission spectra that were closely matched to the bee's sensitivity spectra of three photoreceptor types (UV, blue, and green) was custom made. By placing these filters in front of a UV/VIS-sensitive CCD camera and acquiring images sequentially, we could collect images of a bee's receptor with only three shots. This allowed a direct visualization of how bees view their world in a pseudo-color RGB display. With this imaging system, spatial and spectral signals of the orb-weaving spider, Nephila pilipes, were recorded, and color contrast images corresponding to the bee's spatial resolution were constructed and analyzed. The result not only confirmed that the color markings of N. pilipes are of high chromatic contrast to the eyes of a bee, but it also indicated that the spatial arrangement of these markings resemble flower patterns which may attract bees to visit them. Thus, it is likely that the orb-weaving spider (N. pilipes) deploys a similar strategy to that of the Australian crab spider (Thomisus spectabilis) to exploit the bee's pre-existing preference for flowers with color patterning
"Charged" Particle's Tunneling from Rotating Black Holes
The behavior of a scalar field theory near the event horizon in a rotating
black hole background can be effectively described by a two dimensional field
theory in a gauge field background. Based on this fact, we proposal that the
quantum tunneling from rotating black hole can be treated as "charged"
particle' s tunneling process in its effectively two dimensional metric. Using
this viewpoint and considering the corresponding "gauge charge" conservation,
we calculate the non-thermal tunneling rate of Kerr black hole and Myers-Perry
black hole, and results are consistent with Parikh-Wilczek's original result
for spherically symmetric black holes. Especially for Myers-Perry black hole
which has multi-rotation parameters, our calculation fills in the gap existing
in the literature applying Parikh-Wilczek's tunneling method to various types
black holes. Our derivation further illuminates the essential role of effective
gauge symmetry in Hawking radiation from rotating black holes.Comment: 15 pages, no figure; any comments are welcome
Covariant anomaly and Hawking radiation from the modified black hole in the rainbow gravity theory
Recently, Banerjee and Kulkarni (R. Banerjee, S. Kulkarni, arXiv:0707.2449
[hep-th]) suggested that it is conceptually clean and economical to use only
the covariant anomaly to derive Hawking radiation from a black hole. Based upon
this simplified formalism, we apply the covariant anomaly cancellation method
to investigate Hawking radiation from a modified Schwarzschild black hole in
the theory of rainbow gravity. Hawking temperature of the gravity's rainbow
black hole is derived from the energy-momentum flux by requiring it to cancel
the covariant gravitational anomaly at the horizon. We stress that this
temperature is exactly the same as that calculated by the method of cancelling
the consistent anomaly.Comment: 5 page
A new method for the estimation of variance matrix with prescribed zeros in nonlinear mixed effects models
We propose a new method for the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) of
nonlinear mixed effects models when the variance matrix of Gaussian random
effects has a prescribed pattern of zeros (PPZ). The method consists in
coupling the recently developed Iterative Conditional Fitting (ICF) algorithm
with the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. It provides positive definite
estimates for any sample size, and does not rely on any structural assumption
on the PPZ. It can be easily adapted to many versions of EM.Comment: Accepted for publication in Statistics and Computin
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