Internet technology of seminars and control of homework of software development

At the present stage of an intensification of educational process there is actual a problem of preservation of quality of training by increase of overall performance of the teacher. In article questions of automation of remote interaction of students with the teacher when studying of the interpreted programming languagesНа современном этапе интенсификации учебного процесса становится актуальной задача сохранения качества обучения путем повышения эффективности работы преподавателя. В статье рассматриваются вопросы автоматизации удаленного взаимодействия студентов с преподавателем при изучении интерпретируемых языков программировани

Measurement of Orbitally Excited D-Mesons at CDF II

Measurement of Orbitally Excited D-Mesons at CDF II Igor V. Gorelov (For the CDF Collaboration) Talk given on behalf of the CDF Collaboration at the First Meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, GHP 2004, 24-26 October 2004, FERMILAB. Results on the first measurement of orbitally excited neutral D-meson states, D*_2 and D_1, produced in hadron collisions at Tevatron are presented. Using data from the displaced track trigger, CDF II collects the largest world sample of these states in decay modes D*+ pi-, D+ pi-. Masses and widths of both states have been measured with precision better than or comparable to the world average.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, talk given on behalf of the CDF Collaboration at the First Meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, GHP 2004, Oct 24-26,2004, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinoi

Problems of control of progress and their software solution

The article considers verbal-communicative and the technical problems arising during monitoring procedure of progress of students on computers of the computer network. For the purpose of the solution of these problems the technique including a complex of the organizational actions and technical means allocated for increase of efficiency and comfort of work of the teacher is developedВ статье рассмотрены вербально-коммуникативные и технические проблемы, возникающие в ходе проведения контроля успеваемости студентов на компьютерах вычислительной сети. С целью решения этих проблем разработана методика, включающая комплекс организационных мероприятий и технических средств, направленных на повышение эффективности и комфорта работы преподавател

Binding of molecules to DNA and other semiflexible polymers

A theory is presented for the binding of small molecules such as surfactants to semiflexible polymers. The persistence length is assumed to be large compared to the monomer size but much smaller than the total chain length. Such polymers (e.g. DNA) represent an intermediate case between flexible polymers and stiff, rod-like ones, whose association with small molecules was previously studied. The chains are not flexible enough to actively participate in the self-assembly, yet their fluctuations induce long-range attractive interactions between bound molecules. In cases where the binding significantly affects the local chain stiffness, those interactions lead to a very sharp, cooperative association. This scenario is of relevance to the association of DNA with surfactants and compact proteins such as RecA. External tension exerted on the chain is found to significantly modify the binding by suppressing the fluctuation-induced interaction.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, RevTex, the published versio

Heavy Quark Spectroscopy -- Theory Overview

Some recent discoveries in the spectroscopy of hadrons containing heavy quarks, and some of their theoretical interpretations, are reviewed.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures. Presented at Second Meeting of APS Topical Group on Hadron Physics, Nashville, TN, 22-24. Proceedings to be published by Journal of Physics (UK), Conference Series. Uses jpconf.cls, jpconf11.clo. Some corrections; references update

Hadron Spectroscopy: Theory and Experiment

Many new results on hadron spectra have been appearing in the past few years thanks to improved experimental techniques and searches in new channels. New theoretical techniques including refined methods of lattice QCD have kept pace with these developments. Much has been learned about states made of both light (u, d, and s) and heavy (c, b) quarks. The present review treats light-quark mesons, glueballs, hybrids, particles with a single c or b quark, charmonium, and bottomonium states. Some prospects for further study are noted.Comment: 29 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Journal of Physics G. Further updating of reference

Pentaquarks: review of the experimental evidence

Pentaquarks, namely baryons made by 4 quarks and one antiquark have been predicted and searched for since several decades without success. Theoretical and experimental advances in the last 2 years led to the observation of a number of pentaquark candidates. We review the experimental evidence for pentaquarks as well as their non-observations by some experiments, and discuss to which extend these sometimes contradicting informations may lead to a consistent picture.Comment: Contribution to the International Conference on 'Strangeness in Quark Matter', 15-21 Sept. 2004, Cape Tawn, South Afric

Conformational transitions of heteropolymers in dilute solutions

In this paper we extend the Gaussian self-consistent method to permit study of the equilibrium and kinetics of conformational transitions for heteropolymers with any given primary sequence. The kinetic equations earlier derived by us are transformed to a form containing only the mean squared distances between pairs of monomers. These equations are further expressed in terms of instantaneous gradients of the variational free energy. The method allowed us to study exhaustively the stability and conformational structure of some periodic and random aperiodic sequences. A typical phase diagram of a fairly long amphiphilic heteropolymer chain is found to contain phases of the extended coil, the homogeneous globule, the micro-phase separated globule, and a large number of frustrated states, which result in conformational phases of the random coil and the frozen globule. We have also found that for a certain class of sequences the frustrated phases are suppressed. The kinetics of folding from the extended coil to the globule proceeds through non-equilibrium states possessing locally compacted, but partially misfolded and frustrated, structure. This results in a rather complicated multistep kinetic process typical of glassy systems.Comment: 15 pages, RevTeX, 20 ps figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.