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Magnitude of visual accommodation to a head-up display
The virtual image symbology of head-up displays (HUDs) is presented at optical infinity to the pilot. This design feature is intended to help pilots maintain visual focus distance at optical infinity. However, the accommodation response could be nearer than optical infinity, due to an individual's dark focus response. Accommodation responses were measured of two age groups of airline pilots to: (1) static symbology on a HUD; (2) a landing site background at optical infinity; (3) the combination of the HUD symbology and the landing site background; and (4) complete darkness. Results indicate that magnitude of accommodation to HUD symbology, with and without the background, is not significantly different from an infinity focus response for either age group. The dark focus response is significantly closer than optical infinity for the younger pilots, but not the older pilots, a finding consistent with previous research
K* resonance effects on direct CP violation in B -> pi pi K
Charged and neutral B decays into two charged pions and a charged or a
neutral kaon are analyzed within the QCD factorization scheme where final state
interactions before and after hadronization are included. The K*(892) and
K*(1430) resonance effects are taken into account using the presently known
pion-Kaon strange vector and scalar form factors. The weak decay amplitudes,
which are calculated at leading power in Lambda_QCD/m_b and at the
next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, include the hard
scattering and annihilation contributions. The end point divergences of these
weak final state interactions are controlled by two complex parameters
determined through a fit to the available effective mass and helicity angle
distribution, CP asymmetry and K*(892) branching ratio data. The predicted
K*(1430) branching ratios and the calculated direct CP violation asymmetries
are compared to the Belle and BABAR Collaboration data.Comment: Comments: 22 pages, 2 figures and 3 tables. In this new version, the
results are unchanged, but, the last paragraph of the Section "RESULTS AND
SUMMARY" (now called "RESULTS AND DISCUSSION") has been replaced by a new
Section "SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK". To appear in Physical Review
A sub-product construction of Poincare-Einstein metrics
Given any two Einstein (pseudo-)metrics, with scalar curvatures suitably
related, we give an explicit construction of a Poincar\'e-Einstein
(pseudo-)metric with conformal infinity the conformal class of the product of
the initial metrics. We show that these metrics are equivalent to ambient
metrics for the given conformal structure. The ambient metrics have holonomy
that agrees with the conformal holonomy. In the generic case the ambient metric
arises directly as a product of the metric cones over the original Einstein
spaces. In general the conformal infinity of the Poincare metrics we construct
is not Einstein, and so this describes a class of non-conformally Einstein
metrics for which the (Fefferman-Graham) obstruction tensor vanishes.Comment: 23 pages Minor correction to section 5. References update
Resonances and weak interactions in decays
We describe the -wave in decays using
a unitary model for the Final State Interactions (FSI). The three body
decay is treated as a quasi two-body process where, at the weak vertex, the D
meson decays into a resonance and a pion. The weak part of the decay amplitude
is evaluated using the effective weak Hamiltonian within the factorization
approximation.Comment: 4 pages. Contribution to the X Hadron Physics, Florianopolis-Brazil,
March 26-31, 200
Plasmonic crystal demultiplexer and multiports
Artificially built periodic optical structures in dielectric and metallic
media have generated considerable interest due to their potential for optical
device miniaturization. In this context plasmonics, i.e., optics based on
surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) offers new exciting prospects. SPPs are
hybrid light/electron surface waves at the interface between a dielectric and a
metal and as such hold the potential for 2D optical functionality. Indeed, SPP
elements as mirrors, splitters and interferometers have been recently
demonstrated. However, for plasmonics to qualify at the information technology
level requires necessarily the realization of wavelength division
(demultiplexing) which constitutes a fundamental ingredient of optical
communication. In the following we experimentally demonstrate 2D SPP
demultiplexing in the visible spectral range by using photonic crystals for
SPPs (plasmonic crystals). In addition, we demonstrate that plasmonic crystal
are capable of realizing integrated linear multiports which could constitute
building blocks of analog or quantum optical computing.Comment: Nano Lett.7, 1697 (2007
Mol. Cell. Proteomics
Chemical cross-linking in combination with mass spectrometric analysis offers the potential to obtain low-resolution structural information from proteins and protein complexes. Identification of peptides connected by a cross-link provides direct evidence for the physical interaction of amino acid side chains, information that can be used for computational modeling purposes. Despite impressive advances that were made in recent years, the number of experimentally observed cross-links still falls below the number of possible contacts of cross-linkable side chains within the span of the cross-linker. Here, we propose two complementary experimental strategies to expand cross-linking data sets. First, enrichment of cross-linked peptides by size exclusion chromatography selects cross-linked peptides based on their higher molecular mass, thereby depleting the majority of unmodified peptides present in proteolytic digests of cross-linked samples. Second, we demonstrate that the use of proteases in addition to trypsin, such as Asp-N, can additionally boost the number of observable cross-linking sites. The benefits of both SEC enrichment and multiprotease digests are demonstrated on a set of model proteins and the improved workflow is applied to the characterization of the 20S proteasome from rabbit and Schizosaccharomyces pombe
The Making of Cloud Applications An Empirical Study on Software Development for the Cloud
Cloud computing is gaining more and more traction as a deployment and
provisioning model for software. While a large body of research already covers
how to optimally operate a cloud system, we still lack insights into how
professional software engineers actually use clouds, and how the cloud impacts
development practices. This paper reports on the first systematic study on how
software developers build applications in the cloud. We conducted a
mixed-method study, consisting of qualitative interviews of 25 professional
developers and a quantitative survey with 294 responses. Our results show that
adopting the cloud has a profound impact throughout the software development
process, as well as on how developers utilize tools and data in their daily
work. Among other things, we found that (1) developers need better means to
anticipate runtime problems and rigorously define metrics for improved fault
localization and (2) the cloud offers an abundance of operational data,
however, developers still often rely on their experience and intuition rather
than utilizing metrics. From our findings, we extracted a set of guidelines for
cloud development and identified challenges for researchers and tool vendors
Time resolution of the Atlas Tile calorimeter and its performance for a measurement of heavy stable particles
Time resolution of the Atlas Tile calorimeter modules has been measured using the test beam data. The resolution depends on an energy deposited in a given cell and is equal to about 1.5 at = 1 , 270 at = 25 (high gain), 700 at = 25 (low gain) and 170 at = 150 . These values have to be compared to the time of flight of relativistic particles to reach first samples of Tile calorimeter (from 8.3 to 20 ). Time of Flight measurement using Tile Calorimeter can be used to identify, and combined with momentum measurements by Atlas inner detector, to measure the mass of exotic heavy stable particles. The results are compared to previous analysis using the Atlas muon spectrometercite{KRAAN2}
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