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Diffractive jet production in a simple model with applications to HERA
In diffractive jet production, two high energy hadrons A and B collide and
produce high transverse momentum jets, while hadron A is diffractively
scattered. Ingelman and Schlein predicted this phenomenon. In their model, part
of the longitudinal momentum transferred from hadron A is delivered to the jet
system, part is lost. Lossless diffractive jet production, in which all of this
longitudinal momentum is delivered to the jet system, has been discussed by
Collins, Frankfurt, and Strikman. We study the structure of lossless
diffractive jet production in a simple model. The model suggests that the
phenomenon can be probed experimentally at HERA, with A being a proton and B
being a bremsstrahlung photon with virtuality . Lossless events should be
present for small , but not for larger than , where
is a characteristic size of the pomeron.Comment: 23 pages, REVTeX 3.0 with 8 postscript figures compressed with
uufiles, OITS 536 and AZPH-TH/94-0
Preexercise Carbohydrate Feeding and High-Intensity Exercise Capacity: Effects of Timing of Intake and Carbohydrate Concentration
The present study aimed to investigate the influence of timing of pre-exercise carbohydrate feeding (Part A), and carbohydrate concentration (Part B), on short-duration high-intensity exercise capacity. In Part A, seventeen males, and in Part B ten males, performed a peak power output (PPO) test, two familiarisation trials at 90% of PPO, and 4 (for Part A) or 3 (for Part B) experimental trials involving exercise capacity tests at 90% PPO. In Part A, the 4 trials were conducted following ingestion of a 6.4% carbohydrate/electrolyte sports drink ingested 30 (C30) or 120 (C120) minutes before exercise, or a flavour-matched placebo administered either 30 (P30) or 120 (P120) minutes before exercise. In Part B, the 3 trials were performed 30 minutes after ingestion of 0%, 2% or 12% carbohydrate solutions. All trials were performed in a double blind cross-over design following and overnight fast. Dietary intake and activity in the two days before trials was recorded and replicated on each visit. Glucose, lactate, heart rate and mood/arousal were recorded at intervals during the trials. In Part A, C30 produced the greatest exercise capacity (mean±SD; 9.0±1.9 min, P<0.01) compared with all other trials (7.7±1.5 min P30, 8.0±1.7 min P120, 7.9±1.9 min C120). In Part B, exercise capacity (min) following ingestion of the 2% solution (9.2±2.1) compared with 0% (8.2±0.7) and 12% (8.0±1.3) solutions approached significance (p=0.09). This study provides new evidence to suggest that timing of carbohydrate intake is important in short duration high-intensity exercise tasks, but a concentration effect requires further exploration
Impact of sea ice on the marine iron cycle and phytoplankton productivity
Iron is a key nutrient for phytoplankton growth in the surface ocean. At high
latitudes, the iron cycle is closely related to the dynamics of sea ice. In
recent decades, Arctic sea ice cover has been declining rapidly and Antarctic
sea ice has exhibited large regional trends. A significant reduction of sea
ice in both hemispheres is projected in future climate scenarios. In order to
adequately study the effect of sea ice on the polar iron cycle, sea ice
bearing iron was incorporated in the Community Earth System Model (CESM). Sea
ice acts as a reservoir for iron during winter and releases the trace metal
to the surface ocean in spring and summer. Simulated iron concentrations in
sea ice generally agree with observations in regions where iron
concentrations are relatively low. The maximum iron concentrations simulated
in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are much lower than observed, which is likely
due to underestimation of iron inputs to sea ice or missing mechanisms. The
largest iron source to sea ice is suspended sediments, contributing fluxes of
iron of 2.2 × 108 mol Fe month−1 in the Arctic and
4.1 × 106 mol Fe month−1 in the Southern Ocean during
summer. As a result of the iron flux from ice, iron concentrations increase
significantly in the Arctic. Iron released from melting ice increases
phytoplankton production in spring and summer and shifts phytoplankton
community composition in the Southern Ocean. Results for the period of 1998
to 2007 indicate that a reduction of sea ice in the Southern Ocean will have
a negative influence on phytoplankton production. Iron transport by sea ice
appears to be an important process bringing iron to the central Arctic. The
impact of ice to ocean iron fluxes on marine ecosystems is negligible in the
current Arctic Ocean, as iron is not typically the growth-limiting nutrient.
However, it may become a more important factor in the future, particularly in
the central Arctic, as iron concentrations will decrease with declining sea
ice cover and transport
End stage renal disease and survival in people with diabetes:a national database linkage study
© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. Funding This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust through the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP). The SHIP is collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews and the Information Services Division of National Health Service National Service Scotland. Funding for diabetes register linkage and data extraction was provided by the Chief Scientist’s Office of the Scottish Government. The Scottish Diabetes Research Network receives financial support from National Health Services Research Scotland. The Scottish Renal Registry is funded by the Information Services Division of National Health Service National Services Scotland but relies heavily on the goodwill of the contributing renal units who spent a large amount time working with Scottish Renal Registry staff to ensure that the data held within the register are accurate and complete.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Pathways into services for offenders with intellectual disabilities : childhood experience, diagnostic information and offence variables
The patterns and pathways into intellectual disability (ID) offender services were studied through case file review for 477 participants referred in one calendar year to community generic, community forensic, and low, medium, and maximum secure services. Data were gathered on referral source, demographic information, index behavior, prior problem behaviors, diagnostic information, and abuse or deprivation. Community referrers tended to refer to community services and secure service referrers to secure services. Physical and verbal violence were the most frequent index behaviors, whereas contact sexual offenses were more prominent in maximum security. Age at first incident varied with security, with the youngest in maximum secure services. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or conduct disorder was the most frequently recorded diagnosis, and severe deprivation was the most frequent adverse developmental experience. Fire starting, theft, and road traffic offenses did not feature prominently. Generic community services accepted a number of referrals with forensic-type behavior and had higher proportions of both women and people with moderate or severe ID
LOTIS, Super-LOTIS, SDSS and Tautenburg Observations of GRB 010921
We present multi-instrument optical observations of the High Energy Transient
Explorer (HETE-2)/Interplanetary Network (IPN) error box of GRB 010921. This
event was the first gamma ray burst (GRB) localized by HETE-2 which has
resulted in the detection of an optical afterglow. In this paper we report the
earliest known observations of the GRB010921 field, taken with the 0.11-m
Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (LOTIS) telescope, and the earliest
known detection of the GRB010921 optical afterglow, using the 0.5-m Sloan
Digital Sky Survey Photometric Telescope (SDSS PT). Observations with the LOTIS
telescope began during a routine sky patrol 52 minutes after the burst.
Observations were made with the SDSS PT, the 0.6-m Super-LOTIS telescope, and
the 1.34-m Tautenburg Schmidt telescope at 21.3, 21.8, and 37.5 hours after the
GRB, respectively. In addition, the host galaxy was observed with the USNOFS
1.0-m telescope 56 days after the burst. We find that at later times (t > 1 day
after the burst), the optical afterglow exhibited a power-law decline with a
slope of . However, our earliest observations show that
this power-law decline can not have extended to early times (t < 0.035 day).Comment: AASTeX v5.x LaTeX 2e, 6 pages with 2 postscript figures, will be
submitted to ApJ Letter
The Milky Way's Kiloparsec Scale Wind: A Hybrid Cosmic-Ray and Thermally Driven Outflow
We apply a wind model, driven by combined cosmic-ray and thermal-gas
pressure, to the Milky Way, and show that the observed Galactic diffuse soft
X-ray emission can be better explained by a wind than by previous static gas
models. We find that cosmic-ray pressure is essential to driving the observed
wind. Having thus defined a "best-fit" model for a Galactic wind, we explore
variations in the base parameters and show how the wind's properties vary with
changes in gas pressure, cosmic-ray pressure and density. We demonstrate the
importance of cosmic rays in launching winds, and the effect cosmic rays have
on wind dynamics. In addition, this model adds support to the hypothesis of
Breitschwerdt and collaborators that such a wind may help explain the
relatively small gradient observed in gamma-ray emission as a function of
galactocentric radius.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures; Accepted to Ap
Structure of a model TiO2 photocatalytic interface
The interaction of water with TiO2 is crucial to many of its practical
applications, including photocatalytic water splitting. Following the first
demonstration of this phenomenon 40 years ago there have been numerous studies
of the rutile single-crystal TiO2(110) interface with water. This has provided
an atomic-level understanding of the water-TiO2 interaction. However, nearly
all of the previous studies of water/TiO2 interfaces involve water in the
vapour phase. Here, we explore the interfacial structure between liquid water
and a rutile TiO2(110) surface pre-characterized at the atomic level. Scanning
tunnelling microscopy and surface X-ray diffraction are used to determine the
structure, which is comprised of an ordered array of hydroxyl molecules with
molecular water in the second layer. Static and dynamic density functional
theory calculations suggest that a possible mechanism for formation of the
hydroxyl overlayer involves the mixed adsorption of O2 and H2O on a partially
defected surface. The quantitative structural properties derived here provide a
basis with which to explore the atomistic properties and hence mechanisms
involved in TiO2 photocatalysis
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