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Electronic amplifier with power supply switching Patent
Increasing power conversion efficiency of electronic amplifiers by power supply switchin
Statement of Andrew M. Kramer on Behalf of the Management Lawyers Working Group Before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations
Testimony_Kramer_090894.pdf: 276 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
One Big Thing: Suffering as the Path to New Life in Crime and Punishment
After spending a whole semester reading and thinking about Dostoevsky, the main thing that has struck me about him is his treatment of the theme of suffering. Despite, and even through, his extremely complicated characters and events, he nevertheless focuses his novels, particularly Crime and Punishment, on presenting a nuanced yet unified picture of suffering. After a brief analysis of several of the relevant characters and plot points, his thoughts on what suffering does to and for the individual will be presented. In contrast to our culture’s almost idolization of suffering as an experience which gives one instant respect, authority, and a platform, Dostoevsky’s perspective is honest, informed, pragmatic, and thoroughly Christian
NNLO contributions to jet photoproduction and determination of \alpha_s
We present the first calculation of inclusive jet photoproduction with
next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions, obtained from a unified
threshold resummation formalism. The leading coefficients for direct
photoproduction are computed analytically. Together with the coefficients
pertinent to parton-parton scattering, they are shown to agree with those
appearing in our full next-to-leading order calculations. For hadron-hadron
scattering, numerical agreement is found with a previous calculation of jet
production at the Tevatron. We show that the direct and resolved NNLO
contributions considerably improve the description of final ZEUS data on jet
photoproduction and that the error on the determination of the strong coupling
constant is significantly reduced.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Surface structure of i-Al(68)Pd(23)Mn(9): An analysis based on the T*(2F) tiling decorated by Bergman polytopes
A Fibonacci-like terrace structure along a 5fold axis of i-Al(68)Pd(23)Mn(9)
monograins has been observed by T.M. Schaub et al. with scanning tunnelling
microscopy (STM). In the planes of the terraces they see patterns of dark
pentagonal holes. These holes are well oriented both within and among terraces.
In one of 11 planes Schaub et al. obtain the autocorrelation function of the
hole pattern. We interpret these experimental findings in terms of the
Katz-Gratias-de Boisseu-Elser model. Following the suggestion of Elser that the
Bergman clusters are the dominant motive of this model, we decorate the tiling
T*(2F) by the Bergman polytopes only. The tiling T*(2F) allows us to use the
powerful tools of the projection techniques. The Bergman polytopes can be
easily replaced by the Mackay polytopes as the decoration objects. We derive a
picture of ``geared'' layers of Bergman polytopes from the projection
techniques as well as from a huge patch. Under the assumption that no surface
reconstruction takes place, this picture explains the Fibonacci-sequence of the
step heights as well as the related structure in the terraces qualitatively and
to certain extent even quantitatively. Furthermore, this layer-picture requires
that the polytopes are cut in order to allow for the observed step heights. We
conclude that Bergman or Mackay clusters have to be considered as geometric
building blocks of the i-AlPdMn structure rather than as energetically stable
entities
Survival probability in diffractive dijet photoproduction
We confront the latest H1 and ZEUS data on diffractive dijet photoproduction
with next-to-leading order QCD predictions in order to determine whether a
rapidity gap survival probability of less than one is supported by the data. We
find evidence for this hypothesis when assuming global factorization breaking
for both the direct and resolved photon contributions, in which case the
survival probability would have to be E_T^jet-dependent, and for the resolved
or in addition the related direct initial-state singular contribution only,
where it would be independent of E_T^jet.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 2008
CERN-DESY workshop on "HERA and the LHC
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