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Can and Should Universal Injunctions Be Saved?
The practice of a federal district court judge halting the government\u27s enforcement of an executive action against not only the parties before the court but against anyone, anywhere, may be coming to an end. Multiple Supreme Court Justices have expressed their skepticism in the propriety of universal injunctions. The growing scholarly consensus is that there should be a brightline rule against them. If the universal injunction\u27s demise is impending and the class action\u27s demise continues unabated, obtaining systemwide relief may be difficult when such relief may be most needed.
This Note considers whether universal injunctions can and should be saved. It first compares the macro-level trends and current tradeoffs between the two procedural choices for seeking systemwide relief. Then, this Note considers whether universal injunctions can be theoretically justified based on the development of issue preclusion doctrine and the drafting of the modern class action rules. Finally, this Note proposes a specialized forum to adjudicate universal injunction suits that would solve the two most pressing problems caused by such injunctions--judge shopping and preclusion asymmetry--and realign the tradeoffs that plaintiffs consider when choosing how to seek systemwide relief
e+ e- -> t anti-t H including decays: on the size of background contributions
We present results for the lowest order cross sections, calculated with the
complete set of the standard model Feynman diagrams, of all possible detection
channels of the associated production of the top quark pair and the light Higgs
boson, which may be used for determination of the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling at
the future e+e- linear collider. We show that, for typical particle
identification cuts, the background contributions are large. In particular, the
QCD background contributions are much bigger than could be expected when taking
into account a possibly low virtuality of exchanged gluons. Moreover, we
include the initial state radiation effects and discuss the dependence of the
cross sections on the Higgs boson and top quark masses.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure; substantially revised version, accepted for
publication in Eur.Phys.J.
The Łojasiewicz exponent over a field of arbitrary characteristic
Let K be an algebraically closed field and let K((XQ)) denote the field
of generalized series with coefficients in K. We propose definitions of the local
Łojasiewicz exponent of F = ( f1, . . . , fm) ∈ K[[X, Y ]]m as well as of the
Łojasiewicz exponent at infinity of F = ( f1, . . . , fm) ∈ K[X, Y ]m, which generalize
the familiar case of K = C and F ∈ C{X, Y }m (resp. F ∈ C[X, Y ]m), see
Cha˛dzy´nski and Krasi´nski (In: Singularities, 1988; In: Singularities, 1988; Ann Polon
Math 67(3):297–301, 1997; Ann Polon Math 67(2):191–197, 1997), and prove some
basic properties of such numbers. Namely, we show that in both cases the exponent
is attained on a parametrization of a component of F (Theorems 6 and 7), thus being
a rational number. To this end, we define the notion of the Łojasiewicz pseudoexponent
of F ∈ (K((XQ))[Y ])m for which we give a description of all the generalized
series that extract the pseudoexponent, in terms of their jets. In particular, we show
that there exist only finitely many jets of generalized series giving the pseudoexponent
of F (Theorem 5). The main tool in the proofs is the algebraic version of Newton’s
Polygon Method. The results are illustrated with some explicit examples
Detection of faint companions through stochastic speckle discrimination
We propose a new post-processing technique for the detection of faint
companions from a sequence of adaptive optics corrected short exposures. The
algorithm exploits the difference in shape between the on-axis and off-axis
irradiance distributions and it does not require the signal to be above the
noise level. We show that the method is particularly useful in dealing with
static speckles. Its application to real and simulated data gives excellent
results in the low-signal regime where it outperforms the standard approach of
computing signal-to-noise ratio on one long exposure. We also show that
accurate noise estimation in adaptive optics images of close companions is
rendered impossible due to the presence of static speckles. This new method
provides means of reliable estimation of the confidence intervals for the
detection hypothesis.Comment: accepted for publication in Ap
A microtubule RELION-based pipeline for cryo-EM image processing
Microtubules are polar filaments built from αβ-tubulin heterodimers that exhibit a range of architectures in vitro and in vivo. Tubulin heterodimers are arranged helically in the microtubule wall but many physiologically relevant architectures exhibit a break in helical symmetry known as the seam. Noisy 2D cryo-electron microscopy projection images of pseudo-helical microtubules therefore depict distinct but highly similar views owing to the high structural similarity of α- and β-tubulin. The determination of the αβ-tubulin register and seam location during image processing is essential for alignment accuracy that enables determination of biologically relevant structures. Here we present a pipeline designed for image processing and high-resolution reconstruction of cryo-electron microscopy microtubule datasets, based in the popular and user-friendly RELION image-processing package, Microtubule RELION-based Pipeline (MiRP). The pipeline uses a combination of supervised classification and prior knowledge about geometric lattice constraints in microtubules to accurately determine microtubule architecture and seam location. The presented method is fast and semi-automated, producing near-atomic resolution reconstructions with test datasets that contain a range of microtubule architectures and binding proteins
Passive tracer in a flow corresponding to a two dimensional stochastic Navier Stokes equations
In this paper we prove the law of large numbers and central limit theorem for
trajectories of a particle carried by a two dimensional Eulerian velocity
field. The field is given by a solution of a stochastic Navier--Stokes system
with a non-degenerate noise. The spectral gap property, with respect to
Wasserstein metric, for such a system has been shown in [9]. In the present
paper we show that a similar property holds for the environment process
corresponding to the Lagrangian observations of the velocity. In consequence we
conclude the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem for the tracer.
The proof of the central limit theorem relies on the martingale approximation
of the trajectory process
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