452 research outputs found
Unrecognized pollutant risks to the Great Barrier Reef
This report summarises the occurrence, distribution, risks and toxicity of ten pollutants to the marine environment: marine debris, microplastics, sewage-sourced contaminants, trace metals, anti-foulants, coal dust, petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants, flame retardants, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and non-photosystem II (PSII) pesticides
Correlation lengths and E_8 mass spectrum of the dilute A_3 lattice model
The exact perturbation approach is used to derive the elementary correlation
lengths and related mass gaps of the two-dimensional dilute A_L
lattice model in regimes 1 and 2 for L odd from the Bethe Ansatz solution. In
regime 2 the A_3 model is the E_8 lattice realisation of the two-dimensional
Ising model in a magnetic field at T=T_c. The calculations for the A_3 model in
regime 2 start from the eight thermodynamically significant string types found
in previous numerical studies. These string types are seen to be consistent in
the ordered high field limit. The eight masses obtained reduce with the
approach to criticality to the E_8 masses predicted by Zamolodchikov, thus
providing a further direct lattice determination of the E_8 mass spectrum.Comment: 57 pages, Latex, Elsevier style file
Colliding Plane Waves in String Theory
We construct colliding plane wave solutions in higher dimensional gravity
theory with dilaton and higher form flux, which appears naturally in the low
energy theory of string theory. Especially, the role of the junction condition
in constructing the solutions is emphasized. Our results not only include the
previously known CPW solutions, but also provide a wide class of new solutions
that is not known in the literature before. We find that late time curvature
singularity is always developed for the solutions we obtained in this paper.
This supports the generalized version of Tipler's theorem in higher dimensional
supergravity.Comment: latex, 25 pages, 1 figur
Type IIB Colliding Plane Waves
Four-dimensional colliding plane wave (CPW) solutions have played an
important role in understanding the classical non-linearities of Einstein's
equations. In this note, we investigate CPW solutions in --dimensional
Einstein gravity with a -form flux. By using an isomorphism with the
four-dimensional problem, we construct exact solutions analogous to the
Szekeres vacuum solution in four dimensions. The higher-dimensional versions of
the Khan-Penrose and Bell-Szekeres CPW solutions are studied perturbatively in
the vicinity of the light-cone. We find that under small perturbations, a
curvature singularity is generically produced, leading to both space-like and
time-like singularities. For , our results pertain to the collision of two
ten-dimensional type IIB Blau - Figueroa o'Farrill - Hull - Papadopoulos plane
waves.Comment: 20+10 pages, 2 figures, uses JHEP3.cls; v2: refs [3,10,22] corrected,
remark added below (3.9) on inexistence of conformally flat CPW in our
ansatz, final version to appear in JHE
Thermodynamic behavior of IIA string theory on a pp-wave
We obtain the thermal one loop free energy and the Hagedorn temperature of
IIA superstring theory on the pp-wave geometry which comes from the circle
compactification of the maximally supersymmetric eleven dimensional one. We use
both operator and path integral methods and find the complete agreement between
them in the free energy expression. In particular, the free energy in the limit is shown to be identical with that of IIB string theory on
maximally supersymmetric pp-wave, which indicates the universal thermal
behavior of strings in the large class of pp-wave backgrounds. We show that the
zero point energy and the modular properties of the free energy are naturally
incorporated into the path integral formalism.Comment: 25 pages, Latex, JHEP style, v4: revised for clarity without change
in main contents, version to appear in JHE
Development of a zero <i>trans</i> margarine from soybean-based interesterified fats formulated using artificial neural networks
Gestational diabetes and risk of breast cancer before age 55 years
Background: The history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been associated with breast cancer risk in some studies, particularly in young women, but results of cohort studies are conflicting. Methods: We pooled data from 257 290 young (age <55 years) women from five cohorts. We used multivariable Cox proportional-hazards regression to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between GDM history and risk of breast cancer, overall and by oestrogen receptor (ER) status, before age 55 years, adjusted for established breast cancer risk factors. Results: Five percent of women reported a history of GDM and 6842 women reported an incident breast-cancer diagnosis (median follow-up = 16 years; maximum = 24 years). Compared with parous women without GDM, women with a history of GDM were not at increased risk of young-onset breast cancer overall (HR = 0.90; 95% CI: 0.78, 1.03) or by ER status (HR = 0.96; 95% CI: 0.79, 1.16 for ER-positive; HR = 1.07; 95% CI: 0.78, 1.47 for ER-negative). Compared with nulliparous women, parous women with a history of GDM had a lower risk of breast cancer overall (HR = 0.79; 95% CI: 0.68, 0.91) and of ER-positive (HR = 0.82; 95% CI: 0.66, 1.02) but not ER-negative (HR = 1.09; 95% CI: 0.76, 1.54) invasive breast cancer. These results were consistent with the HRs comparing parous women without GDM to nulliparous women. Conclusions: Results of this analysis do not support the hypothesis that GDM is a risk factor for breast cancer in young women. Our findings suggest that the well-established protective effect of parity on risk of ER-positive breast cancer persists even for pregnancies complicated by GDM
Generic thin-shell gravastars
We construct generic spherically symmetric thin-shell gravastars by using the
cut-and-paste procedure. We take considerable effort to make the analysis as
general and unified as practicable; investigating both the internal physics of
the transition layer and its interaction with "external forces" arising due to
interactions between the transition layer and the bulk spacetime. Furthermore,
we discuss both the dynamic and static situations. In particular, we consider
"bounded excursion" dynamical configurations, and probe the stability of static
configurations. For gravastars there is always a particularly compelling
configuration in which the surface energy density is zero, while surface
tension is nonzero.Comment: V1: 39 pages, 9 figures; V2: 40 pages, 9 figures. References added,
some discussion added, some typos fixed. Identical to published version.
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1112.205
Observation of exclusive DVCS in polarized electron beam asymmetry measurements
We report the first results of the beam spin asymmetry measured in the
reaction e + p -> e + p + gamma at a beam energy of 4.25 GeV. A large asymmetry
with a sin(phi) modulation is observed, as predicted for the interference term
of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering and the Bethe-Heitler process. The
amplitude of this modulation is alpha = 0.202 +/- 0.028. In leading-order and
leading-twist pQCD, the alpha is directly proportional to the imaginary part of
the DVCS amplitude.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for Mid-rapidity Production of Neutral Pions and Charged Hadrons in Polarized p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV
The transverse single-spin asymmetries of neutral pions and non-identified
charged hadrons have been measured at mid-rapidity in polarized proton-proton
collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. The data cover a transverse momentum (p_T)
range 0.5-5.0 GeV/c for charged hadrons and 1.0-5.0 GeV/c for neutral pions, at
a Feynman-x (x_F) value of approximately zero. The asymmetries seen in this
previously unexplored kinematic region are consistent with zero within
statistical errors of a few percent. In addition, the inclusive charged hadron
cross section at mid-rapidity from 0.5 < p_T < 7.0 GeV/c is presented and
compared to NLO pQCD calculations. Successful description of the unpolarized
cross section above ~2 GeV/c using NLO pQCD suggests that pQCD is applicable in
the interpretation of the asymmetry results in the relevant kinematic range.Comment: 331 authors, 6 pages text, 2 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Phys.
Rev. Lett. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this
and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.htm
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