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Two Photon Physics at LEP
LEP offers an excellent opportunity to measure two photon processes over a
large kinematical range and thus study the complex nature of the photon. This
article reviews the experimental status of ``Two Photon Physics'' at LEP. The
recent results on resonances, multi-hadron production and photon structure
functions are discussedComment: 14 pages, 18 figures, Talk given on behalf of LEP at PIC99, June
24-26 Ann Arbor, Michigan,US
Challenges and Opportunities for Trade and Financial Integration in Asia and the Pacific
During the past two decades, intraregional trade has assumed a lot of importance - with intraregional trade growing rapidly in several regions, such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union. However, intraregional trade in South Asia has not witnessed rapid expansion despite the institutional measures taken by the South Asian countries through the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAPTA) and the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA).intraregional trade, South Asia, ASEAN, NAFTA, SAFTA, SAPTA
Parafrase restructuring of FORTRAN code for parallel processing
Parafrase transforms a FORTRAN code, subroutine by subroutine, into a parallel code for a vector and/or shared-memory multiprocessor system. Parafrase is not a compiler; it transforms a code and provides information for a vector or concurrent process. Parafrase uses a data dependency to reveal parallelism among instructions. The data dependency test distinguishes between recurrences and statements that can be directly vectorized or parallelized. A number of transformations are required to build a data dependency graph
An Analysis of the Special Safeguard Mechanisms in the Doha Round of Negotiations - A Proposed Price-trigger-based Safeguard Mechanism
In the Doha Round of negotiations on agriculture it has been decided that all developing and least developed Member countries of the WTO will have access to a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This means that developing countries will now have the option to temporarily impose higher tariff rates on the import of an agricultural product if there is either a surge in its import volumes or a sharp dip in its import prices. However, the exact mechanisms of the implementation of SSMs have not been spelt out. It is also not clear what legal provisions the Member countries will have to follow to use this safeguard mechanism. This paper takes a detailed look at the SSM and analyzes its usefulness for developing countries. It also explores how the concept of a special agricultural safeguard has evolved in the present round of negotiations and what are the country positions on SSMs in the Doha Round. The paper then proposes a price-trigger-based SSM instrument which is consistent with the goals spelt out in the Doha Development Agenda and satisfies most of the desired features of a safeguard instrument.WTO, agriculture, Volatility, Special safeguards, Tariff rates
The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Are Successful Women Entrepreneurs Different From Men?
Compares characteristics of successful entrepreneurs by gender, including education, motives for becoming entrepreneurs, views on the role of prior experience, the importance of human and social capital, sources of financial capital, and challenges
First principles investigation of topological phase in XMR material TmSb under hydrostatic pressure
In this article, we report emergence of topological phase in XMR material
TmSb under hydrostatic pressure using first principles calculations. We find
that TmSb, a topologically trivial semimetal, undergoes a topological phase
transition with band inversion at X point without breaking any symmetry under a
hydrostatic pressure of 12 GPa. At 15 GPa, it again becomes topologically
trivial with band inversion at as well as X point. We find that the
pressures corresponding to the topological phase transitions are far below the
pressure corresponding to structural phase transition at 25.5 GPa. The
reentrant behaviour of topological quantum phase with hydrostatic pressure
would help in finding a correlation between topology and XMR effect through
experiments.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II
Analyzes the educational backgrounds and career trajectories of immigrant entrepreneurs, finding that advanced education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is correlated with high rates of entrepreneurship and innovation
Wireless Software Synchronization of Multiple Distributed Cameras
We present a method for precisely time-synchronizing the capture of image
sequences from a collection of smartphone cameras connected over WiFi. Our
method is entirely software-based, has only modest hardware requirements, and
achieves an accuracy of less than 250 microseconds on unmodified commodity
hardware. It does not use image content and synchronizes cameras prior to
capture. The algorithm operates in two stages. In the first stage, we designate
one device as the leader and synchronize each client device's clock to it by
estimating network delay. Once clocks are synchronized, the second stage
initiates continuous image streaming, estimates the relative phase of image
timestamps between each client and the leader, and shifts the streams into
alignment. We quantitatively validate our results on a multi-camera rig imaging
a high-precision LED array and qualitatively demonstrate significant
improvements to multi-view stereo depth estimation and stitching of dynamic
scenes. We release as open source 'libsoftwaresync', an Android implementation
of our system, to inspire new types of collective capture applications.Comment: Main: 9 pages, 10 figures. Supplemental: 3 pages, 5 figure
Finite circular plate on elastic foundation centrally loaded by rigid spherical indenter
The analytical solution of a finite circular plate on an elastic foundation centrally loaded by the rigid indenter is discussed. The procedure to use NASTRAN as a subroutine to iteratively converge to this solution numerically is described
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