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Inhibition of browning in foodstuffs
Addition of water-soluble sulfur-containing compounds, thio compounds or potential thio compounds, to a mixture of carbohydrates, and either proteins, peptides, or amino acids can retard or completely eliminate the browning process. Determining factor is dependent upon the concentration of the anti-browning agent in the aqueous media
Extended Palatini action for general relativity and the natural emergence of the cosmological constant
In the Palatini action of general relativity the connection and the metric
are treated as independent dynamical variables. Instead of assuming a relation
between these quantities, the desired relation between them is derived through
the Euler-Lagrange equations of the Palatini action. In this manuscript we
construct an extended Palatini action, where we do not assume any a priori
relationship between the connection, the covariant metric tensor, and the
contravariant metric tensor. Instead we treat these three quantities as
independent dynamical variables. We show that this action reproduces the
standard Einstein field equations depending on a single metric tensor. We
further show that in this formulation the cosmological constant has an
additional theoretical significance. Normally the cosmological constant is
added to the Einstein field equations for the purpose of having general
relativity be consistent with cosmological observations. In the formulation
presented here, the nonvanishing cosmological constant also ensures the
self-consistency of the theory.Comment: in the revised version the original scalar matter action is replaced
with a general matter actio
Regular finite decomposition complexity
We introduce the notion of regular finite decomposition complexity of a metric family. This generalizes Gromov's finite asymptotic dimension and is motivated by the concept of finite decomposition complexity (FDC) due to Guentner, Tessera and Yu. Regular finite decomposition complexity implies FDC and has all the permanence properties that are known for FDC, as well as a new one called Finite Quotient Permanence. We show that for a collection containing all metric families with finite asymptotic dimension all other permanence properties follow from Fibering Permanence
Simple non-destructive tests for electroexplosive devices
Electrothermal behavior of bridgewire-explosive interface is defined by pulsing electroexplosive device with a safe level of current and examining the resistance variation of bridgewire. Bridgewire provides signal which describes average wire temperature and heat sinking to the explosive and enclosure
Radial excitations of heavy-light mesons from QCD sum rules
QCD sum rules are commonly used to predict the characteristics of
ground-state hadrons. We demonstrate that two-point sum rules for the decay
constants of charmed () and bottom ()
mesons can also be modified to estimate the decay constants of the first radial
excitations, and , respectively,
provided the masses of these resonances are used as an input. For the radially
excited charmed mesons we use available experimental data, whereas the masses
of analogous bottom mesons are estimated from the heavy-quark limit. The decay
constants predicted for the radial excitations of heavy-light pseudoscalar and
vector mesons are systematically smaller than those of the ground states and we
comment on the possible origin of this difference. Our results can be used in
the sum rule calculations of heavy-to-light form factors and in the
factorization approximations for nonleptonic -meson decays where the decay
constants of charmed mesons enter as input parameters.Comment: 16 pages, a few comments added, version to appear in EPJ
Inclusive semileptonic B decays from QCD with NLO accuracy for power suppressed terms
We present the results of a calculation of the perturbative QCD corrections
for the semileptonic inclusive width of a heavy flavored meson. Within the
Heavy Quark Expansion we analytically compute the QCD correction to the
coefficient of power suppressed contribution of the chromo-magnetic operator in
the limit of vanishing mass of the final state quark. The important
phenomenological applications are decays of bottom mesons, and to the less
extend, charmed mesons.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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