Wind Horse: Proceedings of the North American Tibetological Society

Ronald M. Davidson, in addition to editing, is a contributing author, The Nor-pa Tradition . Book description: The contents of this volume are: Herbert V. Guenther\u27s translation of Zhalgdams slob-ma rdo-\u27ded-ma; Wayne Verrill, The Interrelation of Fundamental Awareness and the Physical Body ; Hiroshi Sonami, Go-ram bsodnams seng-ge\u27s Commentary on the Zhen pa bzhi bral ; Kennard Lipman, A Controversial Topic from Mi-pham\u27s Analysis of Santaraksita\u27s Madhyamakalamkara ; Steven D. Goodman on Mi-pham rgya-mtsho\u27s life and his treatise entitled mKhas-pa\u27i tshul-la \u27jug-pa\u27i sgo; Ronald M. Davidson, The Ngor-pa Tradition ; Edward Todd Fenner, Rasayana in the Tantras: What Is It? ; and Leslie S. Kawamura, An Analysis of Mi-pham\u27s mKhas\u27jug. Book description: The contents of this volume are: Herbert V. Guenther\u27s translation of Zhalgdams slob-ma rdo-\u27ded-ma; Wayne Verrill, The Interrelation of Fundamental Awareness and the Physical Body ; Hiroshi Sonami, Go-ram bsodnams seng-ge\u27s Commentary on the Zhen pa bzhi bral ; Kennard Lipman, A Controversial Topic from Mi-pham\u27s Analysis of Santaraksita\u27s Madhyamakalamkara ; Steven D. Goodman on Mi-pham rgya-mtsho\u27s life and his treatise entitled mKhas-pa\u27i tshul-la \u27jug-pa\u27i sgo; Ronald M. Davidson, The Ngor-pa Tradition ; Edward Todd Fenner, Rasayana in the Tantras: What Is It? ; and Leslie S. Kawamura, An Analysis of Mi-pham\u27s mKhas\u27jug.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/religiousstudies-books/1065/thumbnail.jp

K-Rational D-Brane Crystals

In this paper the problem of constructing spacetime from string theory is addressed in the context of D-brane physics. It is suggested that the knowledge of discrete configurations of D-branes is sufficient to reconstruct the motivic building blocks of certain Calabi-Yau varieties. The collections of D-branes involved have algebraic base points, leading to the notion of K-arithmetic D-crystals for algebraic number fields K. This idea can be tested for D0-branes in the framework of toroidal compactifications via the conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. For the special class of D0-crystals of Heegner type these conjectures can be interpreted as formulae that relate the canonical Neron-Tate height of the base points of the D-crystals to special values of the motivic L-function at the central point. In simple cases the knowledge of the D-crystals of Heegner type suffices to uniquely determine the geometry.Comment: 36 page

USA v. Tuyen Pham

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvani

USA v. Tuyen Pham

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvani

The Prentice-O'Gorman destination appraisal matrix: Iranian case study

Prentice's model was designed to challenge a tendency in contemporary destination marketing to emphasise SSPs (Standardised Selling Points) rather than USPs (Unique (or at least Unusual) Selling Points). This process of standardisation is what the French have termed Banalisation (Prentice 2006b). Prentice's model is a hybrid of traditional destination choice sets models (Crompton 1992; Sirakaya and Woodside 2005) with inputs from the Theory of Reasoned Action (Aizen and Fishbein 1980) and from heuristic choice models (Pham 1998). Prentice further differentiates USPs into UUSPs (Unique Utility Selling Points) UESPs (Unique Experiential Selling Points) USSPs (Unique Symbolic Selling Points). These may be thought of as summarising those aspects of generic imagery and product beliefs that are pertinent to destination differentiation. As specified, Prentice's model is a model of choosing on the part of potential tourists. The question arises as to how destination managers may readily operationalise Prentice's ideas in both their marketing and market based product development or, indeed, simply to think about their destination. Many managers are familiar with SWOT analysis and the operationalisation of Prentice's ideas suggested here builds on this familiarity. The demonstrated means of application is in the form of a matrix combining Prentice's expansion of USPs with a traditional SWOT analysis

Exclusive Hadronic D Decays to eta' and eta

Hadronic decay modes $D^0\to(\bar K^0, \bar K^{*0})\eta,\eta'$ and $(D^+,D_s^+)\to(\pi^+,\rho^+)\eta,\eta'$ are studied in the generalized factorization approach. Form factors for $(D,D_s^+)\to(\eta,\eta')$ transitions are carefully evaluated by taking into account the wave function normalization of the eta and eta'. The predicted branching ratios are generally in agreement with experiment except for $D^0\to\bar K^0\eta', D^+\to\pi^+\eta$ and $D_s^+\to\rho^+\eta'$; the calculated decay rates for the first two decay modes are too small by an order of magnitude. We show that the weak decays $D^0\to K^-\pi^+$ and $D^+\to K^+\bar K^0$ followed by resonance-induced final-state interactions (FSI), which are amenable technically, are able to enhance the branching ratios of $D^0\to\bar K^0\eta'$ and $D^+\to\pi^+\eta$ dramatically without affecting the agreement between theory and experiment for $D^0\to\bar K^0\eta$ and $D^+\to\pi^+\eta'$. We argue that it is difficult to understand the observed large decay rates of $D_s^+\to \rho^+\eta'$ and $\rho^+\eta$ simultaneously; FSI, W-annihilation and the production of excess eta' from gluons are not helpful in this regard. The large discrepancy between the factorization hypothesis and experiment for the ratio of $D_s^+\to\rho^+ \eta'$ and $D_s^+\to\eta' e^+\nu$ remains as an enigma.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. D. Form factors for D to eta and eta' transitions are slightly change