Final results from the NMC

A summary of the results on deep inelastic muon nucleon and muon nucleus scattering experiments performed by the NMC collaboration is presented.Comment: 5 pages, LaTex Contribution to the working group I of DIS97, Chicago, April 1997 Proccedings to be published by AI

A functional limit theorem for the profile of bb-ary trees

In this paper we prove a functional limit theorem for the weighted profile of a $b$-ary tree. For the proof we use classical martingales connected to branching Markov processes and a generalized version of the profile-polynomial martingale. By embedding, choosing weights and a branch factor in a right way, we finally rediscover the profiles of some well-known discrete time trees.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AAP640 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Intentional Emotions and Knowledge about God

Some recent theories of emotion propose that emotions are perceptions of value laden situations and thus provide us with epistemic access to values. In this paper I take up Mark Wynn’s application of this theory to religious experience and try to argue that his McDowell-inspired account of intentional emotions leads to limitations for the justificatory force of religious experiences and to difficult questions about the metaphysical status of the object of religious experiences: if emotions and religious experiences are largely similar, then, just as emotions, religious experiences cannot justify beliefs about the existence of objects, but merely beliefs about certain qualities they might have. Also, if emotions and religious experiences are largely similar, then, just as the objects of emotions, the object of religious experience turns out to be essentially mind-dependent

COMPASS - a facility to study QCD

An overview on the new COMPASS II experimental programme is presented. The main topics include a study of Primakoff reactions, generalised parton distributions via deeply virtual Compton scattering and transverse momentum dependent distributions in Drell-Yan processes in the pion scattering off polarised protons. Moreover, the studies of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on unpolarised target will be continued.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, Contribution to Hadron2011 Conference Proceedings, to appear in the proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy: Hadron 2011, Munich, Germany, 13-17 June 201

Real-time scheduling of tertiary storage

To prove the efficiency of Promote-IT we implemented alternative schedulers based on different scheduling models and scheduling paradigms. The evaluation shows that Promote-IT performs better than the other heuristic schedulers. Additionally, Promote-IT provides response-times near the optimum in cases where the optimal scheduler can be computed. We developed a toolbox called JukeTools to easily implement, evaluate and compare jukebox schedulers

Semiclassical quantisation for a bosonic atom-molecule conversion system

We consider a simple quantum model of atom-molecule conversion where bosonic atoms can combine into diatomic molecules and vice versa. The many-particle system can be expressed in terms of the generators a deformed $SU(2)$ algebra, and the mean-field dynamics takes place on a deformed version of the Bloch sphere, a teardrop shaped surface with a cusp singularity. We analyse the mean-field and many-particle correspondence, which shows typical features of quantum-classical correspondence. We demonstrate that semiclassical methods can be employed to recover full many-particle features from the mean-field description in cold atom systems with atom-molecule conversion, and derive an analytic expression for the many-particle density of states in the limit of large particle numbers.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, corrected typos, further small changes, similar to published versio

Impact of the Global Economic Crises on Civil Society Organizations

The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations (CSOs) and the communities they serve. A broad-based survey, initiated by the United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development and guided by a Civil Society Steering Committee, was undertaken in 2009 that measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead. This study examines the current situation of CSOs as indicated by responses from 640 civil society organizations worldwide. It also asks what strategies they are undertaking to cope with a drop of revenues and how to strengthen social-service delivery capacities of CSOs during crisis periods.Civil Society Organizations, financial crisis, official development assistance, innovative sources of financing, international coordination