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Flavor Asymmetry of the Nucleon Sea
Recent deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan experiments have revealed a
surprisingly large asymmetry between the up and down sea quark distributions in
the nucleon. The current status of the flavor asymmetry of the nucleon sea is
reviewed. Implications of various theoretical models and possible future
measurements are also discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. Invited paper presented at the "16th
International Conference on Few-Body Problem in Physics" March 200
Pulsar slow glitches in a solid quark star model
A series of five unusual slow glitches of the radio pulsar B1822-09 (PSR
J1825-0935) were observed over the 1995-2005 interval. This phenomenon is
understood in a solid quark star model, where the reasonable parameters for
slow glitches are presented in the paper. It is proposed that, because of
increasing shear stress as a pulsar spins down, a slow glitch may occur,
beginning with a collapse of a superficial layer of the quark star. This layer
of material turns equivalently to viscous fluid at first, the viscosity of
which helps deplete the energy released from both the accumulated elastic
energy and the gravitation potential. This performs then a process of slow
glitch. Numerical calculations show that the observed slow glitches could be
reproduced if the effective coefficient of viscosity is ~10^2 cm^{2}/s and the
initial velocity of the superficial layer is order of 10^{-10} cm/s in the
coordinate rotating frame of the star.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS (Main Journal
Tracking decision-making during architectural design
There is a powerful cocktail of circumstances governing the way decisions are made during the architectural design process of a building project. There is considerable potential for misunderstandings, inappropriate changes, change which give rise to unforeseen difficulties, decisions which are not notified to all interested parties, and many other similar problems. The paper presents research conducted within the frame of the EPSRC funded ADS project aiming at addressing the problems linked with the evolution and changing environment of project information to support better decision-making. The paper presents the conceptual framework as well as the software environment that has been developed to support decision-making during building projects, and reports on work carried out on the application of the approach to the architectural design stage. This decision-tracking environment has been evaluated and validated by professionals and practitioners from industry using several instruments as described in the paper
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