Letter from Henry Bidleman Bascom, A.L.P. Green & S.A. Latta to James B. Finley

Bascom, Green and Latta write representing the Methodist Episcopal Church South. They were appointed to serve as the Board of Commissioners to negotiate with a similar board of the M.E. Church concerning the division of property and funds, as laid out by the Plan of Separation (General Conference, 1844). The financial hardships faced by clergy, wives, widows, and retired clergy in the M.E.C. South are difficult to bear. The M.E.C. South board pleads with the M.E.C. board to schedule a meeting of the Joint Commissions as soon as possible to work out a final settlement. Abstract Number - 821https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1306/thumbnail.jp

Effects of Monensin on metabolic profile and feeding behavior of transition dairy cows

Thirty-two Holstein transition cows were used to determine the effects of monensin (Rumensin, Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, IN; 400 mg/cow daily) on metabolism and feeding behavior. Cows were assigned randomly, based on calving date, to control or monensin treatments (n = 16 per treatment) 21 days before their expected calving date, and cows remained on treatments through 21 days in milk. Feeding behavior and water intake data were collected daily. Blood samples were collected at 8 different time points during the experimental period. Monensin decreased mean and peak plasma ketone concentrations, and also decreased time between meals before and after calving. No effects of monensin supplementation were observed on milk production or other metabolic traits. Furthermore, we observed no treatment effects on disease incidence, although sample size was small for detecting such effects.; Dairy Day, 2011, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2011; Dairy Research, 2011 is known as Dairy Day, 201

Enhancing Evidence for Preconception and Prenatal Counseling on Obstetrical Risks After Cancer

In this issue of the Journal, Zgardau and colleagues present a detailed assessment of obstetric and perinatal outcomes after childhood and adolescent cancer in Ontario, Canada. Included cancers were diagnosed at ages younger than 21years during 1985-2012. The majority cancer types were leukemias or lymphomas (47.5%), followed by central nervous system tumors (18.7%), and all other cancer types combined (33.9%). Using data from a single-payer insurance program, the investigators compared obstetric and perinatal outcomes between female cancer survivors and a comparison population of women without cancer, matched 5:1 on age and postal code, and within the survivor population

Baryogenesis in Cosmological Model with Superstring-Inspired E_6 Unification

We have developed a concept of parallel existence of the ordinary (O) and hidden (H) worlds with a superstring-inspired E_6 unification, broken at the early stage of the Universe into SO(10) X U(1) - in the O-world, and SU(6)' X SU(2)' - in the H-world. As a result, we have obtained in the hidden world the low energy symmetry group G'_SM X SU(2)'_\theta, instead of the Standard Model group G_SM. The additional non-Abelian SU(2)'_\theta group with massless gauge fields, "thetons", is responsible for the dark energy. We present a baryogenesis mechanism with the B-L asymmetry produced by the conversion of ordinary leptons into particles of the hidden sector.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figure

Baryogenesis via lepton number violation in Anti-GUT model

We study the baryogenesis via lepton number violation in the model of Anti-GUT. The origin of the baryogenesis is the existence of right-handed Majorana neutrinos which decay in a C, CP and lepton number violation way. The baryon number asymmetry is calculated in the extended Anti-GUT model which is only able to predict order of magnitude-wise. We predicted baryon number to entropy ratio, Y_B=1.46{+5.87\atop-1.17}\times10^{-11}, and this result agrees with experimental values very well.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, Latex2e;v2 sec.3 and 4 changed, minor correcte

Debye screening in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we examine the behavior of correlators of Polyakov loops and other operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at non-zero temperature. The implications for Debye screening in this strongly coupled non-Abelian plasma, and comparisons with available results for thermal QCD, are discussed.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, significantly expanded discussion of Polyakov loop correlator and static quark-antiquark potentia

Neutrino mass matrix suppression by Abelian charges with see-saw mechanism

We have investigated a neutrino mass matrix model without supersymmetry including three see-saw right-handed neutrinos around order $10^{12}$ GeV masses, aiming at a picture with all small numbers explained as being due to approximately conserved gauge charges. The prediction of the solar neutrino mixing angle is given by $\sin^22\theta_{\odot}= 3 {+3\atop -2}\times10^{-2}$; in fact, the solar mixing angle is, apart from detailed order unity corrections, equal to the Cabibbo angle. Furthermore the ratio of the solar neutrino mass square difference to that for the atmospheric neutrino oscillation is predicted to $6 {+11\atop -4}\times10^{-4}$ and is given by the same Cabibbo angle related parameter $\xi$ as $6 \xi^4$.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure, uses Latex2

On the effective action of confining strings

We study the low-energy effective action on confining strings (in the fundamental representation) in SU(N) gauge theories in D space-time dimensions. We write this action in terms of the physical transverse fluctuations of the string. We show that for any D, the four-derivative terms in the effective action must exactly match the ones in the Nambu-Goto action, generalizing a result of Luscher and Weisz for D=3. We then analyze the six-derivative terms, and we show that some of these terms are constrained. For D=3 this uniquely determines the effective action for closed strings to this order, while for D>3 one term is not uniquely determined by our considerations. This implies that for D=3 the energy levels of a closed string of length L agree with the Nambu-Goto result at least up to order 1/L^5. For any D we find that the partition function of a long string on a torus is unaffected by the free coefficient, so it is always equal to the Nambu-Goto partition function up to six-derivative order. For a closed string of length L, this means that for D>3 its energy can, in principle, deviate from the Nambu-Goto result at order 1/L^5, but such deviations must always cancel in the computation of the partition function. Next, we compute the effective action up to six-derivative order for the special case of confining strings in weakly-curved holographic backgrounds, at one-loop order (leading order in the curvature). Our computation is general, and applies in particular to backgrounds like the Witten background, the Maldacena-Nunez background, and the Klebanov-Strassler background. We show that this effective action obeys all of the constraints we derive, and in fact it precisely agrees with the Nambu-Goto action (the single allowed deviation does not appear).Comment: 71 pages, 7 figures. v2: added reference, minor corrections. v3: removed one term from the effective action since it is trivial. The conclusions on the corrections to energy levels are unchanged, but the claim that the holographic computation shows a deviation from Nambu-Goto was modified. v4: added reference

Classical Open String Models in 4-Dim Minkowski Spacetime

Classical bosonic open string models in fourdimensional Minkowski spacetime are discussed. A special attention is paid to the choice of edge conditions, which can follow consistently from the action principle. We consider lagrangians that can depend on second order derivatives of worldsheet coordinates. A revised interpretation of the variational problem for such theories is given. We derive a general form of a boundary term that can be added to the open string action to control edge conditions and modify conservation laws. An extended boundary problem for minimal surfaces is examined. Following the treatment of this model in the geometric approach, we obtain that classical open string states correspond to solutions of a complex Liouville equation. In contrast to the Nambu-Goto case, the Liouville potential is finite and constant at worldsheet boundaries. The phase part of the potential defines topological sectors of solutions.Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX, preprint TPJU-28-93 (the previous version was truncated by ftp...

Distance transform: a tool for the study of animal colour patterns

Summary The information in animal colour patterns plays a key role in many ecological interactions; quantification would help us to study them, but this is problematic. Comparing patterns using human judgement is subjective and inconsistent. Traditional shape analysis is unsuitable as patterns do not usually contain conserved landmarks. Alternative statistical approaches also have weaknesses, particularly as they are generally based on summary measures that discard most or all of the spatial information in a pattern. We present a method for quantifying the similarity of a pair of patterns based on the distance transform of a binary image. The method compares the whole pattern, pixel by pixel, while being robust to small spatial variations among images. We demonstrate the utility of the distance transform method using three ecological examples. We generate a measure of mimetic accuracy between hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) and wasps (Hymenoptera) based on abdominal pattern and show that this correlates strongly with the perception of a model predator (humans). We calculate similarity values within a group of mimetic butterflies and compare this with proposed pairings of Müllerian comimics. Finally, we characterise variation in clypeal badges of a paper wasp (Polistes dominula) and compare this with previous measures of variation. While our results generally support the findings of existing studies that have used simpler ad hoc methods for measuring differences between patterns, our method is able to detect more subtle variation and hence reveal previously overlooked trends