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Impact of Changes in U.S. Grain Standards on Discounts for Insects in Stored Grain
The Federal Grain Inspection Service changed U.S. grain standards in 1988. Insect discounts given at country elevators and at terminal elevators were analyzed to determine impacts of the new standards. Insect discounts influence grain quality by affecting insect control decisions by producers and country elevator managers.Grain Inspection, Insect Discounts, Wheat, Farm Storage, Elevator Storage, Crop Production/Industries,
Factorization of e+e- Event Shape Distributions with Hadronic Final States in Soft Collinear Effective Theory
We present a new analysis of two-jet event shape distributions in soft
collinear effective theory. Extending previous results, we observe that a large
class of such distributions can be expressed in terms of vacuum matrix elements
of operators in the effective theory. We match these matrix elements to the
full theory in the two-jet limit without assuming factorization of the complete
set of hadronic final states into independent sums over partonic collinear and
soft states. We also briefly discuss the relationship of this approach to
diagrammatic factorization in the full theory.Comment: 21 pages. Journal version. Defined an explicit thrust axis operator;
clarified meaning of a delta function operato
Particle dynamics inside shocks in Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Characteristics of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action
minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. For nonsmooth "viscosity"
solutions, which give rise to discontinuous velocity fields, this description
is usually pursued only up to the moment when trajectories hit a shock and
cease to minimize the Lagrangian action. In this paper we show that for any
convex Hamiltonian there exists a uniquely defined canonical global nonsmooth
coalescing flow that extends particle trajectories and determines dynamics
inside the shocks. We also provide a variational description of the
corresponding effective velocity field inside shocks, and discuss relation to
the "dissipative anomaly" in the limit of vanishing viscosity.Comment: 15 pages, no figures; to appear in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. series
Imaging analysis of LDEF craters
Two small craters in Al from the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) experiment tray A11E00F (no. 74, 119 micron diameter and no. 31, 158 micron diameter) were analyzed using Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (TOF-SIMS), low voltage scanning electron microscopy (LVSEM), and SEM energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). High resolution images and sensitive elemental and molecular analysis were obtained with this combined approach. The result of these analyses are presented
A Mechanism for Ferrimagnetism and Incommensurability in One-Dimensional Systems
A mechanism for ferrimagnetism in
(1+1)-dimensions is discussed. The ferrimagnetism is cased by interactions
described by operators with non-zero conformal spin. Such interactions appear
in such problems as the problem of tunneling between Luttinger liquids and the
problem of frustrated spin ladder. I present exact solutions for a
representative class of models containing such interactions together with a
simple mean field analysis. It is shown that the interactions (i) dynamically
generate static oscillations with a wave vector dependent on the coupling
constant, (ii) give rise to a finite magnetic moment at accompanied by
the soft mode with a non-relativistic ({\it ferromagnetic}) dispersion , (iii) generate massive (roton) modes.Comment: replaced by the extended version, references adde
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