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Reply Comment: Comparison of Approaches to Classical Signature Change
We contrast the two approaches to ``classical" signature change used by
Hayward with the one used by us (Hellaby and Dray). There is (as yet) no
rigorous derivation of appropriate distributional field equations. Hayward's
distributional approach is based on a postulated modified form of the field
equations. We make an alternative postulate. We point out an important
difference between two possible philosophies of signature change --- ours is
strictly classical, while Hayward's Lagrangian approach adopts what amounts to
an imaginary proper ``time" on one side of the signature change, as is
explicitly done in quantum cosmology. We also explain why we chose to use the
Darmois-Israel type junction conditions, rather than the Lichnerowicz type
junction conditions favoured by Hayward. We show that the difference in results
is entirely explained by the difference in philosophy (imaginary versus real
Euclidean ``time"), and not by the difference in approach to junction
conditions (Lichnerowicz with specific coordinates versus Darmois with general
coordinates).Comment: 10 pages, latex, no figures. Replying to - "Comment on `Failure of
Standard Conservation Laws at a Classical Change of Signature'", S.A.
Hayward, Phys. Rev. D52, 7331-7332 (1995) (gr-qc/9606045
Structure and dynamics of the interface between a binary hard-sphere crystal of NaCl type and its coexisting binary fluid
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study the [100] and [111]
orientations of the crystal-melt interface between an ordered two-component
hard sphere with a NaCl structure and its coexisting binary hard-sphere fluid.
The diameter ratio of the two types of hard spheres making up the mixture is
taken to be 0.414. This work complements our earlier interface simulations [J.
Chem. Phys.116, 3410] for the same diameter ratio at lower pressures where the
smaller component is immiscible in the solid and the fluid mixture coexists
with a pure FCC crystal of large particles. Density profiles and diffusion
coefficient profiles are presented for the AB interfacial system. We find that
for this system, the transition from crystal-like to fluid-like behavior of
both the density and diffusion constant profiles occurs over a narrower region
than that seen in our previous studies [J. Chem. Phys. 116, 3410] of the
FCC/binary fluid system. But similar to what was found in the FCC/binary fluid
interface the transition region for the large particle diffusion constant is
shifted about the size of the large particles toward the fluid phase relative
to that for the small particles.Comment: 8 page
Failure of Standard Conservation Laws at a Classical Change of Signature
The Divergence Theorem as usually stated cannot be applied across a change of
signature unless it is re-expressed to allow for a finite source term on the
signature change surface. Consequently all conservation laws must also be
`modified', and therefore insistence on conservation of matter across such a
surface cannot be physically justified. The Darmois junction conditions
normally ensure conservation of matter via Israel's identities for the jump in
the energy-momentum density, but not when the signature changes. Modified
identities are derived for this jump when a signature change occurs, and the
resulting surface effects in the conservation laws are calculated. In general,
physical vector fields experience a jump in at least one component, and a
source term may therefore appear in the corresponding conservation law. Thus
current is also not conserved. These surface effects are a consequence of the
change in the character of physical law. The only way to recover standard
conservation laws is to impose restrictions that no realistic cosmological
model can satisfy.Comment: 15pp, figures available on request from Charles Hellaby at
[email protected]
Brominated flame retardants in Canadian chicken egg yolks
Chicken eggs categorised as conventional, omega-3 enriched, free range and organic were collected at grading stations in three regions of Canada between 2005 and 2006. Free run eggs, which were only available for collection from two regions, were also sampled during this time frame. Egg yolks from each of these egg types (n = 162) were analysed to determine brominated flame retardant levels, specifically polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD). PBDEs were detected in 100% of the 162 samples tested, while HBCD was observed in 85% of the egg yolks. Total PBDE concentrations in egg yolks ranged from 0.018 to 20.9 ng gâ1 lipid (median = 3.03 ng gâ1 lipid), with PBDE 209 identified as being the major contributor to ÎŁPBDE concentrations. In addition to PBDE 209, PBDE 99, 47, 100, 183 and 153 were important contributors to ÎŁPBDE concentrations. Total HBCD concentrations ranged from below the limit of detection to a maximum concentration of 71.9 ng gâ1 lipid (median = 0.053 ng gâ1 lipid). The α-isomer was the dominant contributor to ÎŁHBCD levels in Canadian egg yolks and was the most frequently detected HBCD isomer. ÎŁPBDE levels exhibited large differences in variability between combinations of region and type. ÎŁHBCD concentrations were not significantly different among regions, although differences were observed between the different types of egg yolks analysed in the present study
An action for the exact string black hole
A local action is constructed describing the exact string black hole
discovered by Dijkgraaf, Verlinde and Verlinde in 1992. It turns out to be a
special 2D Maxwell-dilaton gravity theory, linear in curvature and field
strength. Two constants of motion exist: mass M>1, determined by the level k,
and U(1)-charge Q>0, determined by the value of the dilaton at the origin. ADM
mass, Hawking temperature T_H \propto \sqrt{1-1/M} and Bekenstein-Hawking
entropy are derived and studied in detail. Winding/momentum mode duality
implies the existence of a similar action, arising from a branch ambiguity,
which describes the exact string naked singularity. In the strong coupling
limit the solution dual to AdS_2 is found to be the 5D Schwarzschild black
hole. Some applications to black hole thermodynamics and 2D string theory are
discussed and generalizations - supersymmetric extension, coupling to matter
and critical collapse, quantization - are pointed out.Comment: 41 pages, 2 eps figures, dedicated to Wolfgang Kummer on occasion of
his Emeritierung; v2: added ref; v3: extended discussion in sections 3.2, 3.3
and at the end of 5.3 by adding 2 pages of clarifying text; updated refs;
corrected typo
Research of working area development parameters in conditions of deep steep deposit finalizing
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An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
For a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program collected clinicopathologic annotation data along with multi-platform molecular profiles of more than 11,000 human tumors across 33 different cancer types. TCGA clinical data contain key features representing the democratized nature of the data collection process. To ensure proper use of this large clinical dataset associated with genomic features, we developed a standardized dataset named the TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource (TCGA-CDR), which includes four major clinical outcome endpoints. In addition to detailing major challenges and statistical limitations encountered during the effort of integrating the acquired clinical data, we present a summary that includes endpoint usage recommendations for each cancer type. These TCGA-CDR findings appear to be consistent with cancer genomics studies independent of the TCGA effort and provide opportunities for investigating cancer biology using clinical correlates at an unprecedented scale. Analysis of clinicopathologic annotations for over 11,000 cancer patients in the TCGA program leads to the generation of TCGA Clinical Data Resource, which provides recommendations of clinical outcome endpoint usage for 33 cancer types
Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in âs = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fbâ1 of protonâproton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results
Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of
lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with
a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the
transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the
anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the
nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of
the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp.
Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in
the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies
smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating
nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and
transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of
inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous
measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables,
submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are
available at
http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02
Tephrochronology of core PRAD 1-2 from the Adriatic Sea: insights into Italian explosive volcanism for the period 200â80Â ka
Core PRAD 1-2, located on the western flank of the Mid-Adriatic Deep, was investigated for tephra content within the part of the sequence assigned on biostratigraphic and sapropel-layer stratigraphy to MIS 5 and 6 (ca. 80â200 ka BP). A total of 11 discrete tephra layers are identified, 8 visible and 3 cryptotephra layers. 235 geochemical measurements obtained from individual glass shards using WDS-EPMA enabled 8 of the 11 tephras to be correlated to known eruption events, 5 of which are represented in the Lago Grande di Monticchio (LGdM) regional tephra archive sequence. Three of these layers are recognised ultra-distally for the first time, extending their known distributions approximately 210 km further north. The results provide an independent basis for establishing an age-depth profile for the MIS 5â6 interval in the PRAD 1-2 marine record. This approach allowed age estimates to be interpolated for the tephra layers that could not be correlated to known events. It also provides an independent test of, and support for, the broad synchroneity of sapropel-equivalent (S-E) events in the Adriatic Sea with the better-developed sapropel layers of the eastern Mediterranean, proposed by Piva et al. (2008a)
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