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Electromagnetic Gauge Invariance of the Cloudy Bag Model
We examine the question of the gauge invariance of electromagnetic form
factors calculated within the cloudy bag model. One of the assumptions of the
model is that electromagnetic form factors are most accurately evaluated in the
Breit frame. This feature is used to show that gauge invariance is respected in
this frame.Comment: 8 pages, RevTex, 1 figure, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Non-Newtonian ice rheology and the retention of craters on Ganymede
Calculations carried out for craters of varying sizes in a medium with constant temperature T = 173 K yield values for the crater relaxation time t sub e (defined as the time required for the crater depth to become 1/e of its original value) that appear to be too small to account for the observed retention of craters on Ganymede and the other icy satellites. Such a calculation is seriously in conflict with the observed crater population of the surfaces of the icy satellites. In an attempt to reconcile this conflict, possible explanations for the much slower relaxation rate of craters on the icy satellites are considered. It is possible that an admixture of silicates in the surface ice regions of the icy satellites may raise the viscosity to some extent. This possible explanation and others are briefly discussed
IAPSA 2 small-scale system specification
The details of a hardware implementation of a representative small scale flight critical system is described using Advanced Information Processing System (AIPS) building block components and simulated sensor/actuator interfaces. The system was used to study application performance and reliability issues during both normal and faulted operation
Computing Preferred Answer Sets by Meta-Interpretation in Answer Set Programming
Most recently, Answer Set Programming (ASP) is attracting interest as a new
paradigm for problem solving. An important aspect which needs to be supported
is the handling of preferences between rules, for which several approaches have
been presented. In this paper, we consider the problem of implementing
preference handling approaches by means of meta-interpreters in Answer Set
Programming. In particular, we consider the preferred answer set approaches by
Brewka and Eiter, by Delgrande, Schaub and Tompits, and by Wang, Zhou and Lin.
We present suitable meta-interpreters for these semantics using DLV, which is
an efficient engine for ASP. Moreover, we also present a meta-interpreter for
the weakly preferred answer set approach by Brewka and Eiter, which uses the
weak constraint feature of DLV as a tool for expressing and solving an
underlying optimization problem. We also consider advanced meta-interpreters,
which make use of graph-based characterizations and often allow for more
efficient computations. Our approach shows the suitability of ASP in general
and of DLV in particular for fast prototyping. This can be fruitfully exploited
for experimenting with new languages and knowledge-representation formalisms.Comment: 34 pages, appeared as a Technical Report at KBS of the Vienna
University of Technology, see http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/research/reports
Recognizing female sexuality: at 313, the maid as mentor in the young man's maturation
AT 313, The Girl as Helper in the Hero’s Flight, amongst the longest of Märchen,
is also rich with complex symbolism, and requires, for a comprehensive
interpretation, a much fuller treatment than can be adequately contained within
the prescribed twenty minutes. It is for this reason that I focus principally on one
aspect of the tale’s meaning, summarized in the first part of my title, Recognizing
Female Sexuality. The second part of my title AT 313, The Maid as Mentor in the
Young Man’s Maturation aptly summarizes what I feel would be an appropriate
renaming of the tale type, if such a renaming were based uniquely on versions of
the tale I or my students have collected from French Newfoundlanders over
an almost thirty year period, and if, more pertinently, there was sufficient
scholarly agreement on the meaning and function of the tale. In focussing on
female sexuality in the tale, however, I wish to stress not only its centrality to
an understanding of the tale’s meaning, but also the crucial significance of the
relationship between tale interpretation and what Bengt Holbek called “the
storytelling community.
Respiratory and humoral immune response to aerosol and intramuscular pertussis vaccine
Animal experiments have shown that respiratory administration of pertussis antigen induces a protective immune response. In this study pertussis antibody in human respiratory secretions was measured and the response to aerosol and intramuscular pertussis immunization investigated. Substantial increases in this antibody occurred after aerosol immunization but no changes were found in serum antibody. The reverse was observed after intramuscular immunization. Severe side effects are frequently seen after intramuscular pertussis vaccine in adults but not with aerosol immunization. The latter method may be of value for paediatric medical and nursing personnel exposed to the risk of pertussis infectio
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