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Theory of Ultracold Superstrings
The combination of a vortex line in a one-dimensional optical lattice with
fermions bound to the vortex core makes up an ultracold superstring. We give a
detailed derivation of the way to make this supersymmetric string in the
laboratory. In particular, we discuss the presence of a fermionic bound state
in the vortex core and the tuning of the laser beams needed to achieve
supersymmetry. Moreover, we discuss experimental consequences of supersymmetry
and identify the precise supersymmetry in the problem. Finally, we make the
mathematical connection with string theory.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, important factor 2 corrected, accepted for
publication in PR
A phase II study of paclitaxel in heavily pretreated patients with small-cell lung cancer.
The purpose of the study was to delineate the efficacy and toxicity of paclitaxel (Taxol, Bristol Myers Squibb) in the treatment of drug resistant small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Patients with SCLC relapsing within 3 months of cytotoxic therapy received paclitaxel 175 mg m(-2) intravenously over 3 h every 3 weeks. The dose of paclitaxel was adjusted to the toxicity encountered in the previous cycle. Of 24 patients entered into the study, 24 and 21 were assessable for response and toxicity respectively. There were two early deaths and two toxic deaths. No complete and seven partial responses (29%) (95%CI 12-51%) were observed and five patients had disease stabilization. The median survival (n = 21) was 100 days. Life-threatening toxicity occurred in four patients; in others (non)-haematological toxicity was manageable. Paclitaxel is active in drug-resistant SCLC. Further investigation in combination with other active agents in this poor prognosis group is appropriate
Theory of vortex-lattice melting in a one-dimensional optical lattice
We investigate quantum and temperature fluctuations of a vortex lattice in a
one-dimensional optical lattice. We discuss in particular the Bloch bands of
the Tkachenko modes and calculate the correlation function of the vortex
positions along the direction of the optical lattice. Because of the small
number of particles in the pancake Bose-Einstein condensates at every site of
the optical lattice, finite-size effects become very important. Moreover, the
fluctuations in the vortex positions are inhomogeneous due to the inhomogeneous
density. As a result, the melting of the lattice occurs from the outside
inwards. However, tunneling between neighboring pancakes substantially reduces
the inhomogeneity as well as the size of the fluctuations. On the other hand,
nonzero temperatures increase the size of the fluctuations dramatically. We
calculate the crossover temperature from quantum melting to classical melting.
We also investigate melting in the presence of a quartic radial potential,
where a liquid can form in the center instead of at the outer edge of the
pancake Bose-Einstein condensates.Comment: 17 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A, references update
Rigorous mean-field dynamics of lattice bosons: Quenches from the Mott insulator
We provide a rigorous derivation of Gutzwiller mean-field dynamics for
lattice bosons, showing that it is exact on fully connected lattices. We apply
this formalism to quenches in the interaction parameter from the Mott insulator
to the superfluid state. Although within mean-field the Mott insulator is a
steady state, we show that a dynamical critical interaction exists, such
that for final interaction parameter the Mott insulator is
exponentially unstable towards emerging long-range superfluid order, whereas
for the Mott insulating state is stable. We discuss the implications
of this prediction for finite-dimensional systems.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, published versio
Exhaustive and Efficient Constraint Propagation: A Semi-Supervised Learning Perspective and Its Applications
This paper presents a novel pairwise constraint propagation approach by
decomposing the challenging constraint propagation problem into a set of
independent semi-supervised learning subproblems which can be solved in
quadratic time using label propagation based on k-nearest neighbor graphs.
Considering that this time cost is proportional to the number of all possible
pairwise constraints, our approach actually provides an efficient solution for
exhaustively propagating pairwise constraints throughout the entire dataset.
The resulting exhaustive set of propagated pairwise constraints are further
used to adjust the similarity matrix for constrained spectral clustering. Other
than the traditional constraint propagation on single-source data, our approach
is also extended to more challenging constraint propagation on multi-source
data where each pairwise constraint is defined over a pair of data points from
different sources. This multi-source constraint propagation has an important
application to cross-modal multimedia retrieval. Extensive results have shown
the superior performance of our approach.Comment: The short version of this paper appears as oral paper in ECCV 201
Comment on Young-Hyman et al. Psychosocial care for people with diabetes: A position statement of the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care 2016;39:2126–2140
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Na raskrižju kulturne civilizacije, između onoga što je bilo do sada i novoga koje nastaje, svećenička služba proživljava velike izazove i traži hitne, ali pravilne, odgovore na pitanja: Kojim putem naprijed i što učiniti da svećenička služba bude plodonosna i prihvatljiva današnjim ljudima, a istovremeno da ostane vjerna izvornom poslanju? Autor u ovom članku upozorava na izazove vremena i naznačava moguća rješenja. U tom kontekstu, upozorava na važnost da svećenici pravilno uoče i životno prihvate ono što sv. Pavao naziva „misterij“ jer su po svojoj službi „upravitelji Božjih tajni“ i u tome leži izvor osobnog zadovoljstva i sreće. Da bi to ostvarili, svećenici i redovnici koji rade u dušobrižništvu trebaju se trajno odgajati kako bi svakom vremenskom izazovu mogli pružiti adekvatan odgovor.Am Scheideweg der Kulturzivilisationen zwischen was bisher gewesen ist und Neuen das entsteht, durchlebt das priesterliche Amt große Herausforderungen, und sucht dringende, aber treffende Antworten auf die Frage: auf welchem Weg vorwärts, und was soll man alles machen, sodaß das Priesteramt fruchtbar und annehmend für die heutigen Manschen wird, und zur gleichen Zeit der ursprünglichen Botschaft treu bleibt? Der Autor macht auf die Herausforderungen der heutigen Zeit aufmerksam und zeichnet mögliche Lösungen auf. In diesem Zusamennhang weist er auf die Bedeutung auf, daß die Priester das, was der hl. Paulus als „Mysterium“ bez., richtig einsehen und für ihr Leben aufnehmen, da sie von Amts wegen „Verwalter der göttlichen Geheimnisse“ sind. Darin liegt die Quelle der Zufriedenheit und des Glücks. Um so zu handeln, sollten sich die Priester und Ordensleute die in der Seelsorge tätig sind, ständich so erziehen, daß sie jeder Herausforderung eine adäquate Antwort geben können
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at 7 TeV in events with jets and missing transverse energy
A search for supersymmetry with R-parity conservation in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35 inverse picobarns collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is performed in events with jets and significant missing transverse energy, characteristic of the decays of heavy, pair-produced squarks and gluinos. The primary background, from standard model multijet production, is reduced by several orders of magnitude to a negligible level by the application of a set of robust kinematic requirements. With this selection, the data are consistent with the standard model backgrounds, namely t t-bar, W + jet and Z + jet production, which are estimated from data control samples. Limits are set on the parameters of the constrained minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. These limits extend those set previously by experiments at the Tevatron and LEP colliders
Diffusion tensor imaging in type 1 diabetes: decreased white matter integrity relates to cognitive functions
Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
This article reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress on
many-body phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. Its focus are effects beyond
standard weak-coupling descriptions, like the Mott-Hubbard-transition in
optical lattices, strongly interacting gases in one and two dimensions or
lowest Landau level physics in quasi two-dimensional gases in fast rotation.
Strong correlations in fermionic gases are discussed in optical lattices or
near Feshbach resonances in the BCS-BEC crossover.Comment: revised version, accepted for publication in Rev. Mod. Phy
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