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Live Project: Understanding the Design Process from Project Brief to Post Occupancy Evaluation
Spruce Budworm Weight and Fecundity: Means, Frequency Distributions, and Correlations for Two Populations (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Pupal weights and fecundities of spruce budworm from Minnesota had different means, coefficients of variation, and frequency distributions than spruce budworm from New Hampshire. The two variables were correlated in one of the populations but not the other
The Orientation of Unsymmetrical Molecules at Interfaces
A function giving the distribution of the angles of orientation of the molecular axes from the normal to the interface can be obtained if one makes use of a number of special assumptions regarding the forces of orientation. This is compared with the distribution calculated on assuming an extreme form of Langmuir's principle of independent surface action. The importance of having such a function is pointed out
Reproductive Compatibility Within and Among Spruce Budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Populations
Spruce bud worm moths collected as larvae from two species of host trees in four populations were mated in single pairs in two years. In 1980 but not 1981, more of the intra-population matings than the inter-population matings were fertile. Host tree origin was not a significant factor in the level of sterility
Relaxing a large cosmological constant in the astrophysical domain
We study the problem of relaxing a large cosmological constant in the
astrophysical domain through a dynamical mechanism based on a modified action
of gravity previously considered by us at the cosmological level. We solve the
model in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric for large and small astrophysical
scales, and address its physical interpretation by separately studying the
Jordan's frame and Einstein's frame formulations of it. In particular, we
determine the extremely weak strength of fifth forces in our model and show
that they are virtually unobservable. Finally, we estimate the influence that
the relaxation mechanism may have on pulling apart the values of the two
gravitational potentials Psi and Phi of the metric, as this implies a departure
of the model from General Relativity and could eventually provide an
observational test of the new framework at large astrophysical scales, e.g.
through gravitational lensing.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Mod. Phys. Lett. A, extended
discussion, references adde
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