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Quenching of spin operators in the calculation of radiative corrections for nuclear beta decay
Calculations of the axial-vector component to the radiative correction for
superallowed Fermi nuclear beta decay are here modified
with quenched rather than free-nucleon coupling constants for the axial-vector
and electromagnetic interactions with nucleons. The result increases the
deduced value of but does not restore unitarity in the CKM matrix.Comment: LaTeX, 7 pages, no figures, TASCC-P-94-1
Healthcare professionals should be mindful that victims and victim-bullies may have additional health needs associated with risk-taking behaviour
Commentary on: Kritsotakis G, Papanikolaou M, Androulakis E, et al. Associations of bullying and cyberbullying with substance use and sexual risk taking in young adults. J Nurs Scholarsh 2017;49:360–70. • The effects of bullying and cyberbullying can be linked to a number of health risk behaviours, education and healthcare professionals need to include prevention and intervention strategies within educational curricula, building on replacing maladaptive coping strategies with adaptive responses. • Future research should explore the adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms employed by victims and victim-bullies during the transition to adulthood and how this impacts on their relationships
Convective Ripening and Initiation of Rainfall
This paper discusses the evolution of the droplet size distribution for a
liquid-in-gas aerosol contained in a Rayleigh-B\'enard cell. It introduces a
non-collisional model for broadening the droplet size distribution, termed
'convective ripening'. The paper also considers the initiation of rainfall from
ice-free cumulus clouds. It is argued that while collisional mechanisms cannot
explain the production of rain from clouds with water droplet diameters of $20\
\mu {\rm m}$, the non-collisional convective ripening mechanism gives a much
faster route to increasing the size of the small fraction of droplets that grow
into raindrops.Comment: 6 pages, no figure
An exact effective Hamiltonian for a perturbed Landau level
Considers the effect of a scalar potential V (x, y) on a Landau level in two dimensions. An exact effective Hamiltonian is derived which describes the effect of the potential on a single Landau level, expressed as a power series in V/Ec, where Ec is the cyclotron energy. The effective Hamiltonian can be represented as a function H (x, p) in a one-dimensional phase space. The function H (x, p) resembles the potential V (x, y): when the area of a flux quantum is much smaller than the square of the characteristic length scale of V, then H approximately=V. Also H (x, p) retains the translational and rotational symmetries of V(x, y) exactly, but reflection symmetries are not retained beyond the lowest order of the perturbation expansion
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