Higgs response and pair condensation energy in superfluid nuclei

The pairing correlation in nuclei causes a characteristic excitation, known as the pair vibration, which is populated by the pair transfer reactions. Here we introduce a new method of characterizing the pair vibration by employing an analogy to the Higgs mode, which emerges in infinite superconducting/superfluid systems as a collective vibrational mode associated with the amplitude oscillation of the Cooper pair condensate. The idea is formulated by defining a pair-transfer probe, the Higgs operator, and then describing the linear response and the strength function to this probe. We will show that the pair condensation energy in nuclei can be extracted with use of the strength sum and the static polarizability of the Higgs response. In order to demonstrate and validate the method, we perform for Sn isotopes numerical analysis based the quasi-particle random phase approximation to the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov model. We discuss a possibility to apply this new scheme to pair transfer experiment.Comment: 31 pages, 9 figure

UD_Japanese-CEJC: Dependency Relation Annotation on Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation

Conference name: the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Conference place: Prague, Czechia, Session period: 2023/09/11-15, Organizer: Association for Computational Linguisticsapplication/pdfNational Institute for Japanese Language and LinguisticsTohoku UniversityMegagon Labs, Tokyo, Recruit Co., LtdNational Institute for Japanese Language and LinguisticsIn this study, we have developed Universal Dependencies (UD) resources for spoken Japanese in the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation (CEJC). The CEJC is a large corpus of spoken language that encompasses various everyday conversations in Japanese, and includes word delimitation and part-of-speech annotation. We have newly annotated Long Word Unit delimitation and Bunsetsu (Japanese phrase)-based dependencies, including Bunsetsu boundaries, for CEJC. The UD of Japanese resources was constructed in accordance with hand-maintained conversion rules from the CEJC with two types of word delimitation, part-of-speech tags and Bunsetsu-based syntactic dependency relations. Furthermore, we examined various issues pertaining to the construction of UD in the CEJC by comparing it with the written Japanese corpus and evaluating UD parsing accuracy.conference pape

Adalimumab Monotherapy in a Patient with Psoriatic Arthritis Associated with Chronic Renal Failure on Hemodialysis: A Case Report and Literature Review

We report a patient with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who was successfully treated with adalimumab even while under hemodialysis therapy for associated chronic renal failure. Flow cytometry of circulating lymphocytes revealed an obvious decrease in both Th1 and Th17 cells after starting adalimumab. The latter returned to the pretreatment level in the course of adalimumab therapy, while the former did not. Adalimumab is a potent therapeutic option for PsA patients with chronic renal failure on hemodialysis, and Th1 in peripheral blood may reflect the disease activity

Integrated face detection, tracking, and pose estimation

This paper presents a proposal of an integrated method for face detection, tracking, and head pose estimation. We use the de-facto Viola-Jones method for face and face part detection. We adopt affine motion model estimation as a tracking method. The combination enables efficient detection around the search area limited by tracking. Moreover, it reduces false detection because of the consistent processing with earlier results. In addition, the method re-initializes the position and size of the face and face parts in every frame. That initialization immediately corrects tracking jitter. The head pose is estimated using coordinates of both eyes and a mouth relative to the nose as the origin in the coordinate system. The computational cost is low because it uses only those three points. Experimental results show accurate estimation of the head pose. The average error is 6.50 deg in yaw angle, and 7.65 deg in pitch angle. © 2012 IEEE

Vehicle detection and tracking with affine motion segmentation in stereo video

This paper proposes a novel method for vehicle detection and tracking based on stereo vision, motion analysis, and road detection. Combining stereo vision with motion analysis makes object detection more appropriate than each individual method. Object tracking with motion estimation, which follows the next object detection starting with an initial solution given by the tracking, improves detection accuracy. Road detection with motion segmentation, considering a parallax in stereo vision as a motion, enables on-road vehicle and obstacle detection. All elements constructing the proposed method are founded commonly on affine motion segmentation. Software and hardware implementations become efficient because their parts share the common principal procedure. Simulation results show the proposed method successfully detects and tracks vehicles on moving background in a complicated scene of downtown. © 2011 IEEE

Integrated monitoring and reviewing systems for the Rokkasho Spent Fuel Receipt and Storage Facility

The Rokkasho Spent Fuel Receipt and Storage (RSFS) Facility at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP) in Japan is expected to begin operations in 1998. Effective safeguarding by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Japan Atomic Energy Bureau (JAEB) inspectors requires monitoring the time of transfer, direction of movement, and number of spent fuel assemblies transferred. At peak throughput, up to 1,000 spent fuel assemblies will be accepted by the facility in a 90-day period. In order for the safeguards inspector to efficiently review the resulting large amounts of inspection information, an unattended monitoring system was developed that integrates containment and surveillance (C/S) video with radiation monitors. This allows for an integrated review of the facility`s radiation data, C/S video, and operator declaration data. This paper presents an outline of the integrated unattended monitoring hardware and associated data reviewing software. The hardware consists of a multicamera optical surveillance (MOS) system radiation monitoring gamma-ray and neutron detector (GRAND) electronics, and an intelligent local operating network (ILON). The ILON was used for time synchronization and MOS video triggers. The new software consists of a suite of tools, each one specific to a single data type: radiation data, surveillance video, and operator declarations. Each tool can be used in a stand-alone mode as a separate ion application or configured to communicate and match time-synchronized data with any of the other tools. A data summary and comparison application (Integrated Review System [IRS]) coordinates the use of all of the data-specific review tools under a single-user interface. It therefore automates and simplifies the importation of data and the data-specific analyses

Marked shrinkage of amyloid lymphadenopathy after an intensive chemotherapy in a patient with IgM-associated AL amyloidosis

This is an electronic version of an article published in Amyloid 2009, Vol. 16, No. 3 : Pages 183-185. Amyloid is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13506120903151825A male patient with primary AL amyloidosis who had been suffering from systemic lymphadenopathy with IgM kappa-type M-proteinemia received two courses of VAD and high-dose melphalan with in vivo elimination of CD20(+) cells using rituximab followed by autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. Four years after complete hematological remission he showed marked reduction in size of the amyloid-laden lymph nodes. Deposits of AL amyloid may regress from the tissue if the chemotherapy succeeds in persistent inhibition of the production of amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chains.ArticleAMYLOID. 16(3):183-185 (2009)journal articl