1,387 research outputs found
Letter from John S. Kalb to James B. Finley
Preacher John S. Kalb believes that youth who have received sabbath school instruction do not end up committing crimes for which they are incarcerated in prison. He writes to Finley asking for data to support this idea -- How many convicts received sabbath school instruction prior to incarceration? Kalb would like to include vice prevention as one of the benefits of sabbath school instruction. Abstract Number - 1069https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/2053/thumbnail.jp
BlogForever D3.2: Interoperability Prospects
This report evaluates the interoperability prospects of the BlogForever platform. Therefore, existing interoperability models are reviewed, a Delphi study to identify crucial aspects for the interoperability of web archives and digital libraries is conducted, technical interoperability standards and protocols are reviewed regarding their relevance for BlogForever, a simple approach to consider interoperability in specific usage scenarios is proposed, and a tangible approach to develop a succession plan that would allow a reliable transfer of content from the current digital archive to other digital repositories is presented
Senator Edmund S. Muskie Interviewed by Marvin Kalb About Publication of Government Documents on Vietnam
CBS correspondent Marvin Kalb interview of Senator Edmund S. Muskie on the issue of the publication of government documents on Vietnam obtained by the New York Times
Infliximab for the treatment of plaque psoriasis
Infliximab is a monoclonal antibody that targets tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα). It is used in the treatment of a number of inflammatory disorders including severe plaque psoriasis. TNFα is thought to have a major role in psoriasis by promoting an inflammatory infiltrate into the skin and inducing keratinocyte proliferation and preventing keratinocyte apoptosis, which directly contributes to the characteristic plaque skin lesions. Based on four randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials and nine open-label uncontrolled trials of the use of infliximab in plaque psoriasis, it was found that infliximab is a highly efficacious, rapid, sustainable, and relatively safe therapy. Yet as with any biologic, caution is recommended in its use as infusion reactions, lupus-like syndromes, infections, malignancies including lymphomas, as well as other rare events have been reported
A superspace formulation of Abelian antisymmetric tensor gauge theory
We apply a superspace formulation to the four-dimensional gauge theory of a
massless Abelian antisymmetric tensor field of rank 2. The theory is formulated
in a six-dimensional superspace using rank-2 tensor, vector and scalar
superfields and their associated supersources. It is shown that BRS
transformation rules of fields are realized as Euler-Lagrange equations without
assuming the so-called horizontality condition and that a generating functional
constracted in the superspace reduces to that for the ordinary gauge
theory of Abelian rank-2 antisymmetric tensor field. The WT identity for this
theory is derived by making use of the superspace formulation and is expressed
in a neat and compact form .Comment: Latex, 19pages, No fig
Radiative Corrections in a Vector-Tensor Model
In a recently proposed model in which a vector non-Abelian gauge field
interacts with an antisymmetric tensor field, it has been shown that the tensor
field possesses no physical degrees of freedom. This formal demonstration is
tested by computing the one-loop contributions of the tensor field to the
self-energy of the vector field. It is shown that despite the large number of
Feynman diagrams in which the tensor field contributes, the sum of these
diagrams vanishes, confirming that it is not physical. Furthermore, if the
tensor field were to couple with a spinor field, it is shown at one-loop order
that the spinor self-energy is not renormalizable, and hence this coupling must
be excluded. In principle though, this tensor field does couple to the
gravitational field
Spinning Test Particle in Kalb-Ramond background
In this work we explore the geodesic deviations of spinning test particles in
a string inspired Einstein-Kalb Ramond background. Such a background is known
to be equivalent to a spacetime geometry with torsion. We have shown here that
the antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field has significant effect on the geodesic
deviation of a spinning test particle. A search for an observational evidence
of such an effect in astrophysical experiments may lead to a better
undestanding of the geometry of the background spacetime.Comment: 14 pages, Latex, 5 figure
Robust quantum-network memory using decoherence-protected subspaces of nuclear spins
The realization of a network of quantum registers is an outstanding challenge
in quantum science and technology. We experimentally investigate a network node
that consists of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center electronic spin
hyperfine-coupled to nearby nuclear spins. We demonstrate individual control
and readout of five nuclear spin qubits within one node. We then characterize
the storage of quantum superpositions in individual nuclear spins under
repeated application of a probabilistic optical inter-node entangling protocol.
We find that the storage fidelity is limited by dephasing during the electronic
spin reset after failed attempts. By encoding quantum states into a
decoherence-protected subspace of two nuclear spins we show that quantum
coherence can be maintained for over 1000 repetitions of the remote entangling
protocol. These results and insights pave the way towards remote entanglement
purification and the realisation of a quantum repeater using NV center quantum
network nodes
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