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The significance of information visualisation based on the symbolic semantics of Peking Opera Painted Faces (POPF)
Peking Opera as a branch of Chinese traditional cultures and arts has a very distinct colourful facial make-up for all actors in the stage performance. Such make-up is stylised in typical cultural elements which all combined together to form the painted faces to describe and symbolise the background and characteristic of specific roles. The Peking Opera Painted Faces (POPF) was taken as an example to study the information visualisation and transmission, to see how information and meanings can be effectively expressed through the colourful visual elements. In order to identify the state-of-the-art in the related Culture Inspired Design as one of the design principles, the literature resources including illustrations of POPF were investigated, and also the semantic features and elements of other similar forms of modern design which has close connection with multiple aspects of social life. The study has proved that the visual elements of POPF played the most effective role in the information transmittion. Future application of this culture resource may include product design, interaction design, system design and service design around the world
Analysis of a particle antiparticle description of a soliton cellular automaton
We present a derivation of a formula that gives dynamics of an integrable
cellular automaton associated with crystal bases. This automaton is related to
type D affine Lie algebra and contains usual box-ball systems as a special
case. The dynamics is described by means of such objects as carriers,
particles, and antiparticles. We derive it from an analysis of a recently
obtained formula of the combinatorial R (an intertwiner between tensor products
of crystals) that was found in a study of geometric crystals.Comment: LaTeX, 21 pages, 2 figure
Control and dynamics of a flexible spacecraft during stationkeeping maneuvers
A case study of a spacecraft having flexible solar arrays is presented. A stationkeeping attitude control mode using both earth and rate gyro reference signals and a flexible vehicle dynamics modeling and implementation is discussed. The control system is designed to achieve both pointing accuracy and structural mode stability during stationkeeping maneuvers. Reduction of structural mode interactions over the entire mode duration is presented. The control mode using a discrete time observer structure is described to show the convergence of the spacecraft attitude transients during Delta-V thrusting maneuvers without preloading thrusting bias to the onboard control processor. The simulation performance using the three axis, body stabilized nonlinear dynamics is provided. The details of a five body dynamics model are discussed. The spacecraft is modeled as a central rigid body having cantilevered flexible antennas, a pair of flexible articulated solar arrays, and to gimballed momentum wheels. The vehicle is free to undergo unrestricted rotations and translations relative to inertial space. A direct implementation of the equations of motion is compared to an indirect implementation that uses a symbolic manipulation software to generate rigid body equations
Gauge/String-Gravity Duality and Froissart Bound
The gauge/string-gravity duality correspondence opened renewed hope and
possibility to address some of the fundamental and non-perturbative QCD
problems in particle physics, such as hadron spectrum and Regge behavior of the
scattering amplitude at high energies. One of the most fundamental and
long-standing problem is the high energy behavior of total cross-sections.
According to a series of exhaustive tests by the COMPETE group, (1). total
cross-sections have a universal Heisenberg behavior in energy corresponding to
the maximal energy behavior allowed by the Froissart bound, i.e., with and for all reactions,
and (2). the factorization relation among is well satisfied by experiments. I discuss the
recent interesting application of the gauge/string-gravity duality of
correspondence with a deformed background metric so as to break the conformal
symmetry that can lead to the Heisenberg behavior of rising total
cross-sections, and present some preliminary results on the high energy QCD
from Planckian scattering in and black-hole production.Comment: 10 pages, Presented to the Coral Gables Conference 2003, Launching of
BelleE\'poque in High Energy Physics and Cosmology, 17 - 21 December 2003,
Fort Lauderdale, Florid
Dark Matter from Early Decays
Two leading dark matter candidates from supersymmetry and other theories of
physics beyond the standard model are WIMPs and weak scale gravitinos. If the
lightest stable particle is a gravitino, then a WIMP will decay into it with a
natural lifetime of order a month ~ M_{pl}^2/M_{weak}^3. We show that if the
bulk of dark matter today came from decays of neutral particles with lifetimes
of order a year or smaller, then it could lead to a reduction in the amount of
small scale substructure, less concentrated halos and constant density cores in
the smallest mass halos. Such beneficial effects may therefore be realized
naturally, as discussed by Cembranos, Feng, Rajaraman, and Takayama, in the
case of supersymmetry.Comment: Matches version accepted for publication in PRD. Added a paragraph to
Sec V. 9 pages, 3 figure
Low scale Seesaw model and Lepton Flavor Violating Rare B Decays
We study lepton flavor number violating rare B decays, , in a seesaw model with low scale singlet Majorana neutrinos
motivated by the resonant leptogenesis scenario. The branching ratios of
inclusive decays with two almost
degenerate singlet neutrinos at TeV scale are investigated in detail. We find
that there exists a class of seesaw model in which the branching fractions of and can be as large as and
within the reach of Super B factories, respectively, without being in
conflict with neutrino mixings and mass squared difference of neutrinos from
neutrino data, invisible decay width of and the present limit of .Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure
Cosmological Family Asymmetry and CP violation
We discuss how the cosmological baryon asymmetry can be achieved by the
lepton family asymmetries of heavy Majorana neutrino decays and they are
related to CP violation in neutrino oscillation, in the minimal seesaw model
with two heavy Majorana neutrinos. We derive the most general formula for CP
violation in neutrino oscillation in terms of the heavy Majorana masses and
Yukawa mass term. It is shown that the formula is very useful to classify
several models in which , and leptogenesis can be separately
realized and to see how they are connected with low energy CP violaton. To make
the models predictive, we take texture with two zeros in the Dirac neutrino
Yukawa matrix. In particular, we find some interesting cases in which CP
violation in neutrino oscillation can happen while lepton family asymmetries do
not exist at all. On the contrary, we can find , and
leptogenesis scenarios in which the cosmological CP violation and low
energy CP violation measurable via neutrino oscillations are very closely
related to each other. By determining the allowed ranges of the parameters in
the models, we predict the sizes of CP violation in neutrino oscillation and
. Finally, the leptonic unitarity triangles are reconstructed.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures A figure caption correcte
Neutrino Oscillations and Lepton Flavor Mixing
In view of the recent announcement on non-zero neutrino mass from
Super-Kamiokande experiment, it would be very timely to investigate all the
possible scenarios on masses and mixings of light neutrinos. Recently suggested
mass matrix texture for the quark CKM mixing, which can be originated from the
family permutation symmetry and its suitable breakings, is assumed for the
neutrino mass matrix and determined by the four combinations of solar,
atmospheric and LSND neutrino data and cosmological hot dark matter bound as
input constraints. The charged-lepton mass matrix is assumed to be diagonal so
that the neutrino mixing matrix can be identified directly as the lepton flavor
mixing matrix and no CP invariance violation originates from the leptonic
sector. The results favor hierarchical patterns for the neutrino masses, which
follow from the case when either solar-atmospheric data or solar-HDM
constraints are used.Comment: Latex, 9 page
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