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Exotic Smooth Structures on Small 4-Manifolds
Let M be either CP^2#3CP^2bar or 3CP^2#5CP^2bar. We construct the first
example of a simply-connected symplectic 4-manifold that is homeomorphic but
not diffeomorphic to M.Comment: 11 page
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Diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by insurance type before and after the Affordable Care Act: a national database study
The Affordable Care Act (ACT) was implemented to increase health care access and reduce the uninsured in the age group between pediatric and Medicare populations (18-64). The association of the ACA with insurance type upon diagnosis (uninsured, Medicaid, non-Medicaid) has been investigated for otolaryngologic, gynecologic, and the top five non-skin malignancies. Such studies for cutaneous malignancies are lacking. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the prospective National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer database to assess the impact of the ACA on new diagnoses of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) by insurance type. Unlike prior studies of other malignancies, we did not observe significant differences between rate of diagnosis of CTCL by insurance type before and after full implementation of the ACA in all states, expansion states, and non-expansion states. Skin cancers do not have screening guidelines and CTCL is an uncommon malignancy, both of which may contribute to these findings. However, Medicaid-expansion states were much closer to reducing the percentage of newly diagnosed uninsured patients with CTCL than non-expansion states. As such, it may be prudent to investigate intrinsic socioeconomic barriers to care in Medicaid patients to improve their access to care to decrease the uninsured population and improve outcomes
Earth feature identification for onboard multispectral data editing: Computational experiments
A computational model of the processes involved in multispectral remote sensing and data classification is developed as a tool for designing smart sensors which can process, edit, and classify the data that they acquire. An evaluation of sensor system performance and design tradeoffs involves classification rates and errors as a function of number and location of spectral channels, radiometric sensitivity and calibration accuracy, target discrimination assignments, and accuracy and frequency of compensation for imaging conditions. This model provides a link between the radiometric and statistical properties of the signals to be classified and the performance characteristics of electro-optical sensors and data processing devices. Preliminary computational results are presented which illustrate the editing performance of several remote sensing approaches
The monoclinic phase in PZT: new light on morphotropic phase boundaries
A summary of the work recently carried out on the morphotropic phase boundary
(MPB) of PZT is presented. By means of x-ray powder diffraction on ceramic
samples of excellent quality, the MPB has been successfully characterized by
changing temperature in a series of closely spaced compositions. As a result,
an unexpected monoclinic phase has been found to exist in between the
well-known tetragonal and rhombohedral PZT phases. A detailed structural
analysis, together with the investigation of the field effect in this region of
compositions, have led to an important advance in understanding the mechanisms
responsible for the physical properties of PZT as well as other piezoelectric
materials with similar morphotropic phase boundaries.Comment: 5 pages REVTeX file, 6 figures embedded. Presented at the Workshop on
"Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics" held in Aspen, February 00. To appear
in the proceeding
Painlev\'{e} analysis of the coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for polarized optical waves in an isotropic medium
Using the Painlev\'{e} analysis, we investigate the integrability properties
of a system of two coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations that describe
the propagation of orthogonally polarized optical waves in an isotropic medium.
Besides the well-known integrable vector nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, we
show that there exist a new set of equations passing the Painlev\'{e} test
where the self and cross phase modulational terms are of different magnitude.
We introduce the Hirota bilinearization and the B\"{a}cklund transformation to
obtain soliton solutions and prove integrability by making a change of
variables. The conditions on the third-order susceptibility tensor imposed by these new integrable equations are explained
Statistical Mechanics of Three-dimensional Kerr-de Sitter Space
The statistical computation of the (2+1)-dimensional Kerr-de Sitter space in
the context of the {\it classical} Virasoro algebra for an asymptotic isometry
group has been a mystery since first, the degeneracy of the states has the
right value only at the infinite boundary which is casually disconnected from
our universe, second, the analyses were based on the unproven Cardy's formula
for complex central charge and conformal weight. In this paper, I consider the
entropy in Carlip's "would-be gauge" degrees of freedom approach instead. I
find that it agree with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy but there are no the
above problems. Implications to the dS/CFT are noted.Comment: Added comments about diffeomorphism generators and Wheeler-de Witt
equation; Added references; Accpected in CQ
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