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Initiating the effective unification of black hole horizon area and entropy quantization with quasi-normal modes
Black hole (BH) quantization may be the key to unlocking a unifying theory of
quantum gravity (QG). Surmounting evidence in the field of BH research
continues to support a horizon (surface) area with a discrete and uniformly
spaced spectrum, but there is still no general agreement on the level spacing.
In this specialized and important BH case study, our objective is to report and
examine the pertinent groundbreaking work of the strictly thermal and
non-strictly thermal spectrum level spacing of the BH horizon area quantization
with included entropy calculations, which aims to tackle this gigantic problem.
In particular, this work exemplifies a series of imperative corrections that
eventually permits a BH's horizon area spectrum to be generalized from strictly
thermal to non-strictly thermal with entropy results, thereby capturing
multiple preceding developments by launching an effective unification between
them. Moreover, the identified results are significant because quasi-normal
modes (QNM) and "effective states" characterize the transitions between the
established levels of the non-strictly thermal spectrum.Comment: 23 pages, review paper. Final version to appear in Advances in High
Energy Physic
Effect of organic, low-input and conventional production systems on yield and diseases in winter barley
The effect of organic, low-input and conventional management practices on barley yield and disease incidence was assessed in field trials over two years. Conventional fertility management (based on mineral fertiliser applications) and conventional crop protection (based on chemosynthetic pesticides) significantly increased the yield of winter barley as compared to organic fertility and crop protection regimes. Severity of leaf blotch (Rhynchosporium secalis) was highest under organic fertility and crop protection management and was correlated inversely with yield. For mildew (Erysiphe graminis), an interaction between fertility management and crop protection was detected. Conventional crop protection reduced severity of the disease, only under conventional fertility management. Under organic fertility management, incidence of mildew was low and application of synthetic pesticides in “low input” production systems had no significant effect on disease severity
An experimental and analytical study of visual detection in a spacecraft environment, 1 July 1968 - 1 July 1969
Predicting star magnitude which can be seen with naked eye or sextant through spacecraft windo
Correctness of an STM Haskell implementation
A concurrent implementation of software transactional memory in Concurrent Haskell using a call-by-need functional language with processes and futures is given. The description of the small-step operational semantics is precise and explicit, and employs an early abort of conflicting transactions. A proof of correctness of the implementation is given for a contextual semantics with may- and should-convergence. This implies that our implementation is a correct evaluator for an abstract specification equipped with a big-step semantics
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