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Remark on the open string pair production enhancement
Recent studies by one of the present authors along with his collaborators in
[1-4] show that there exist the so-called open string pair production for a
possible simplest system of two Dp branes, placed parallel at a separation and
with each carrying different electric flux, in Type II superstring theories.
Further this pair production can be greatly enhanced when a magnetic flux,
sharing no common field strength index with the electric one, is added,
implying then . Given this, one may wonder if further enhancement can
be achieved by adding more magnetic flux(es) in a similar fashion. In this
paper, we explore this possibility. It turns out that adding more such magnetic
flux diminishes rather than enhances the pair production rate. This actually
implies that the largest enhancement occurs at when the same realistic
electric and magnetic fluxes are applied for all . Curiously one of D3
branes may be our own world and if so, the enhancement gives a possible
opportunity to detect the pair production, therefore to test the underlying
string theories.Comment: 14 pages, 0 figure
On 1/4 BPS ((F, D1), (NS5, D5)) bound states of type IIB string theory
We construct two new SL(2,Z) invariant vacua of type IIB string theory which
are bound states of strings with 5-branes, written as ((F, D1),
(NS5, D5)) and preserve 1/4 of the full space-time supersymmetries. For the
first case, the strings live inside the 5-brane world-volume and in the second
case the strings are perpendicular to the 5-brane world-volume. In the first
case, naively one would expect an attractive interaction between the strings
and the 5-branes due to attractive force between F and D5 and also between D1
and NS5. We find that 1/4 BPS bound state exists only when the vacuum moduli
satisfy certain condition which is found to be consistent with the no-force
condition between the branes. No such complication arises for the second case.
The tension formulae and the various other descendant states which can be
obtained by the application of T-duality for both these bound states are
discussed.Comment: 22 pages, 1 table, minor changes and one reference added, the version
to appear in JHE
Memory-Efficient Topic Modeling
As one of the simplest probabilistic topic modeling techniques, latent
Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has found many important applications in text
mining, computer vision and computational biology. Recent training algorithms
for LDA can be interpreted within a unified message passing framework. However,
message passing requires storing previous messages with a large amount of
memory space, increasing linearly with the number of documents or the number of
topics. Therefore, the high memory usage is often a major problem for topic
modeling of massive corpora containing a large number of topics. To reduce the
space complexity, we propose a novel algorithm without storing previous
messages for training LDA: tiny belief propagation (TBP). The basic idea of TBP
relates the message passing algorithms with the non-negative matrix
factorization (NMF) algorithms, which absorb the message updating into the
message passing process, and thus avoid storing previous messages. Experimental
results on four large data sets confirm that TBP performs comparably well or
even better than current state-of-the-art training algorithms for LDA but with
a much less memory consumption. TBP can do topic modeling when massive corpora
cannot fit in the computer memory, for example, extracting thematic topics from
7 GB PUBMED corpora on a common desktop computer with 2GB memory.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Delayed hepatic rupture post ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsy: A case report.
RATIONALE: Hemorrhage, one of complications after liver biopsy, is often identified immediately after the procedure while delayed liver rupture is relatively rare.
PATIENT CONCERNS: A 45-year-old woman was diagnosed with undetermined liver cirrhosis and abnormal liver function. To determine the etiology and severity of liver cirrhosis, ultrasound-guided liver biopsy was arranged. The patients did not complain any pain during the procedure. Ultrasound examination on postoperative day1 (POD 1) and MRI on POD 3 showed no evidence of hematoma and ascites. On POD 7, however, the patient was taken to the hospital with a sudden onset of pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
DIAGNOSES: Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed liver rupture of right inferior segment of the liver with subcapsular hematoma.
INTERVENTIONS: Patient was treated with infusion of 2-unit red blood cell suspension, fluid and hemostatics.
OUTCOMES: The vital signs of the patient were stabilized after the therapy. The follow-up ultrasound 1 month later showed a shrunken subcapsular hematoma measuring 4.2 × 2.1 cm at the right lobe.
LESSONS: Whenever a liver biopsy procedure is performed, the care should be taken to avoid puncturing those areas that may have liver incisure. Moreover, the patient need to rest for several days and to avoid heavy activities, which is one of the major risk factors for post-procedure bleeding
Matter Power Spectra in Viable Gravity Models with Massive Neutrinos
We investigate the matter power spectra in the power law and exponential
types of viable theories along with massive neutrinos. The enhancement
of the matter power spectrum is found to be a generic feature in these models.
In particular, we show that in the former type, such as the Starobinsky model,
the spectrum is magnified much larger than the latter one, such as the
exponential model. A greater scale of the total neutrino mass, , is allowed in the viable models than that in the CDM
one. We obtain the constraints on the neutrino masses by using the CosmoMC
package with the modified MGCAMB. Explicitly, we get $\Sigma m_{\nu} < 0.451 \
(0.214)\ \mathrm{eV}\Lambda\Sigma m_{\nu} < 0.200\
\mathrm{eV}N_{\mathrm{eff}}\Sigma m_{\nu}N_{\mathrm{eff}} = 3.78^{+0.64}_{-0.84} (3.47^{+0.74}_{-0.60})\Sigma m_{\nu} = 0.533^{+0.254}_{-0.411}< 0.386) \ \mathrm{eV}$ at 95%
C.L. in the Starobinsky (exponential) model.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, updated version accepted by PL
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