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Designing and constructing landscape shows
August 1969.Includes bibliographical references.Professional paper
Note: Flatford v. Chater: No Absolute Due Process Right to Subpoena a Physician Providing Post-Hearing Evidence at a Social Security Disability Hearing
Properties of a future susy universe
In the string landscape picture, the effective potential is characterized by
an enormous number of local minima of which only a minuscule fraction are
suitable for the evolution of life. In this "multiverse", random transitions
are continually made between the various minima with the most likely
transitions being to minima of lower vacuum energy. The inflationary era in the
very early universe ended with such a transition to our current phase which is
described by a broken supersymmetry and a small, positive vacuum energy.
However, it is likely that an exactly supersymmetric (susy) phase of zero
vacuum energy as in the original superstring theory also exists and that, at
some time in the future, there will be a transition to this susy world. In this
article we make some preliminary estimates of the consequences of such a
transition.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures; intermediate extensions/revisions available at
http://www.bama.ua.edu/~lclavell/Susyria.pd
Prevalence, incidence and etiology of hyponatremia in elderly patients with fragility fractures
Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Prognosis of hyponatremia in elderly patients with fragility fractures
Funding This work is supported by an NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Career Research Fellowship to Dr Soiza.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Effect of Dormant ‘MidIron’ Bermudagrass Colorant Applications on Clothing Blemishing
Minimal research exists on potential clothing blemishing when athletes contact turfgrass applied with colorants. Field trials were initiated February 16, 2017, and conducted to test the effect of turfgrass colorant applications on clothing blemishing if an athlete is to come in contact with the playing surface. Turfgrass colorants will adhere to turfgrass leaf blades and do not blemish clothing. However, tested turfgrass pigments did result in significant blemishing of clothing
2013 National Turfgrass Evaluation Program Bermudagrass Test: 2015 Data
Kansas represents the northernmost region in the central United States where bermudagrass can be successfully grown as a perennial turfgrass. Historically, few cultivars that have both acceptable quality and adequate cold-tolerance have been available to local growers. Because new introductions are continually being selected for improved hardiness and quality, both seeded and vegetative types need regular evaluation to determine their long-range suitability for use in Kansas
2013 National Turfgrass Evaluation Program Bermudagrass Test
Kansas represents the northernmost region in the central United States where bermudagrass can be successfully grown as a perennial turfgrass. Historically, few cultivars that have both acceptable quality and adequate cold-tolerance have been available to local growers. Because new introductions are continually being selected for improved hardiness and quality, both seeded and vegetative types need regular evaluation to determine their long-range suitability for use in Kansas
Improved Torsion Pendulum for Ground Testing of LISA Displacement Sensors
We discuss a new torsion pendulum design for ground testing of prototype LISA
(Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) displacement sensors. This new design is
directly sensitive to net forces and therefore provides a more representative
test of the noisy forces and parasitic stiffnesses acting on the test mass as
compared to previous ground-based experiments. We also discuss a specific
application to the measurement of thermal gradient effects.Comment: 4 pages 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Marcel
Grossmann Meeting on General Relativit
Modeling Repulsive Gravity with Creation
There is a growing interest in the cosmologists for theories with negative
energy scalar fields and creation, in order to model a repulsive gravity. The
classical steady state cosmology proposed by Bondi, Gold and Hoyle in 1948, was
the first such theory which used a negative kinetic energy creation field to
invoke creation of matter. We emphasize that creation plays very crucial role
in cosmology and provides a natural explanation to the various explosive
phenomena occurring in local (z<0.1) and extra galactic universe. We exemplify
this point of view by considering the resurrected version of this theory - the
quasi-steady state theory, which tries to relate creation events directly to
the large scale dynamics of the universe and supplies more natural explanations
of the observed phenomena. Although the theory predicts a decelerating universe
at the present era, it explains successfully the recent SNe Ia observations
(which require an accelerating universe in the standard cosmology), as we show
in this paper by performing a Bayesian analysis of the data.Comment: The paper uses an old SNeIa dataset. With the new improved data, for
example the updated gold sample (Riess et al, astro-ph/0611572), the fit
improves considerably (\chi^2/DoF=197/180 and a probability of
goodness-of-fit=18%
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