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Thermal burn of palate caused by microwave heated cheese-pie: A case report
A female patient, 36-years-old, complained of bilateral palatal pain on the anatomical area of upper second molars. The painful condition of palatal mucosa erosion was observed. Palatal erosions or ulcerations may be caused by heated food cooked in microwave ovens. We present a case of a bilateral palatal burn caused by cheese-pie. Concluding, any food containing cheese, when heated in microwave oven, may cause palatal burn if eaten immediately
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A demonstration of 'broken' visual space
It has long been assumed that there is a distorted mapping between real and âperceivedâ space, based on demonstrations of systematic errors in judgements of slant, curvature, direction and separation. Here, we have applied a direct test to the notion of a coherent visual space. In an immersive virtual environment, participants judged the relative distance of two squares displayed in separate intervals. On some trials, the virtual scene expanded by a factor of four between intervals although, in line with recent results, participants did not report any noticeable change in the scene. We found that there was no consistent depth ordering of objects that can explain the distance matches participants made in this environment (e.g. A > B > D yet also A < C < D) and hence no single one-to-one mapping between participantsâ perceived space and any real 3D environment. Instead, factors that affect pairwise comparisons of distances dictate participantsâ performance. These data contradict, more directly than previous experiments, the idea that the visual system builds and uses a coherent 3D internal representation of a scene
Limits of minimal models and continuous orbifolds
The lambda=0 't Hooft limit of the 2d W_N minimal models is shown to be
equivalent to the singlet sector of a free boson theory, thus paralleling
exactly the structure of the free theory in the Klebanov-Polyakov proposal. In
2d, the singlet sector does not describe a consistent theory by itself since
the corresponding partition function is not modular invariant. However, it can
be interpreted as the untwisted sector of a continuous orbifold, and this point
of view suggests that it can be made consistent by adding in the appropriate
twisted sectors. We show that these twisted sectors account for the `light
states' that were not included in the original 't Hooft limit. We also show
that, for the Virasoro minimal models (N=2), the twisted sector of our orbifold
agrees precisely with the limit theory of Runkel & Watts. In particular, this
implies that our construction satisfies crossing symmetry.Comment: 33 pages; v2: minor improvements and references added, published
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Superpotential de-sequestering in string models
Non-perturbative superpotential cross-couplings between visible sector matter
and K\"ahler moduli can lead to significant flavour-changing neutral currents
in compactifications of type IIB string theory. Here, we compute corrections to
Yukawa couplings in orbifold models with chiral matter localised on D3-branes
and non-perturbative effects on distant D7-branes. By evaluating a threshold
correction to the D7-brane gauge coupling, we determine conditions under which
the non-perturbative corrections to the Yukawa couplings appear. The flavour
structure of the induced Yukawa coupling generically fails to be aligned with
the tree-flavour structure. We check our results by also evaluating a
correlation function of two D7-brane gauginos and a D3-brane Yukawa coupling.
Finally, by calculating a string amplitude between n hidden scalars and visible
matter we show how non-vanishing vacuum expectation values of distant D7-brane
scalars, if present, may correct visible Yukawa couplings with a flavour
structure that differs from the tree-level flavour structure.Comment: 37 pages + appendices, 8 figure
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