The Extrema-effect in Total Elastic Molecular Beam Scattering Cross Sections for Characterization of the Potential Well

Extrema effect in total elastic molecular beam scattering cross sections for characterization of potential wel

A 100 micro Kelvin bolometer system for SIRTF

Progress toward a prototype of 100 mK bolometric detection system for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is described. Two adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators (ADR's) were constructed and used to investigate the capabilities necessary for orbital operation. The first, a laboratory ADR, demonstrated a hold time at 0.1 K of over 12 hours, with temperature stability approx. 3 micro-K RMS achieved by controlling the magnetic field. A durable salt pill and an efficient support system have been demonstrated. A second ADR, the SIRTF flight prototype, has been built and will be flown on a balloon. Techniques for magnetic shielding, low heat leak current leads, and a mechanical heat switch are being developed in this ADR. Plans for construction of 100 mK bolometers are discussed. Three important cosmological investigations which will be carried out by these longest wavelength SIRTF detectors are described

The Florida Securities Act of 1978

The authors provide a critical analysis of the new Florida blue sky law. The policies underlying the Florida Securities Act are identified to aid in the construction of an often vague statute. Specific provisions are considered in light of these policies and compared with the prior law in the areas of exempt transactions, exempt securities and professionals in the securities industry

The Florida Securities Act of 1978

The authors provide a critical analysis of the new Florida blue sky law. The policies underlying the Florida Securities Act are identified to aid in the construction of an often vague statute. Specific provisions are considered in light of these policies and compared with the prior law in the areas of exempt transactions, exempt securities and professionals in the securities industry

CCS from industrial sources

The literature concerning the application of CCS to industry is reviewed. Costs are presented for different sectors including ``high purity'' (processes which inherently produce a high concentration of CO2), cement, iron and steel, refinery and biomass. The application of CCS to industry is a field which has had much less attention than its application to the electricity production sector. Costs range from less than $2011 10/tCO 2 up to above$ 2011 100/tCO 2 . In the words of a synthesis report from the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) ``This area has so far not been the focus of discussions and therefore much attention needs to be paid to the application of CCS to industrial sources if the full potential of CCS is to be unlocked''

Kummer strikes back : new DH speed records

This paper introduces high-security constant-time variable-base-point Diffie--Hellman software using just 274593 Cortex-A8 cycles, 91460 Sandy Bridge cycles, 90896 Ivy Bridge cycles, or 72220 Haswell cycles. The only higher speed appearing in the literature for any of these platforms is a claim of 60000 Haswell cycles for unpublished software performing arithmetic on a binary elliptic curve. The new speeds rely on a synergy between (1) state-of-the-art formulas for genus-2 hyperelliptic curves and (2) a modern trend towards vectorization in CPUs. The paper introduces several new techniques for efficient vectorization of Kummer-surface computations. Keywords: implementation / performance, Diffie--Hellman, hyperelliptic curves, Kummer surfaces, vectorizatio

Global well-posedness of the Kirchhoff equation and Kirchhoff systems

This article is devoted to review the known results on global well-posedness for the Cauchy problem to the Kirchhoff equation and Kirchhoff systems with small data. Similar results will be obtained for the initial-boundary value problems in exterior domains with compact boundary. Also, the known results on large data problems will be reviewed together with open problems.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1211.300

Optimizing double-base elliptic-curve single-scalar multiplication

This paper analyzes the best speeds that can be obtained for single-scalar multiplication with variable base point by combining a huge range of options: • many choices of coordinate systems and formulas for individual group operations, including new formulas for tripling on Edwards curves; • double-base chains with many different doubling/tripling ratios, including standard base-2 chains as an extreme case; • many precomputation strategies, going beyond Dimitrov, Imbert, Mishra (Asiacrypt 2005) and Doche and Imbert (Indocrypt 2006). The analysis takes account of speedups such as S – M tradeoffs and includes recent advances such as inverted Edwards coordinates. The main conclusions are as follows. Optimized precomputations and triplings save time for single-scalar multiplication in Jacobian coordinates, Hessian curves, and tripling-oriented Doche/Icart/Kohel curves. However, even faster single-scalar multiplication is possible in Jacobi intersections, Edwards curves, extended Jacobi-quartic coordinates, and inverted Edwards coordinates, thanks to extremely fast doublings and additions; there is no evidence that double-base chains are worthwhile for the fastest curves. Inverted Edwards coordinates are the speed leader