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Reactions of VX in concrete have been studied in situ using solid state (31)P NMR. The size of VX drops deposited on concrete affect the natural degradation rate, with 4 L drops reacting faster than 0.2 L drops. Water added to concrete samples containing sorbed VX to mimic precipitation and/or a potential decontamination strategy resulted in the desorption of copious amounts of VX into the water along with its decomposition products. The rate of VX degradation in the presence of external water...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wagner, George W, EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD,...
In this study, Ridgway et al. found mixed results, depending on the assessment test used. With the Balanced Assessment (BA) test, positive significant differences were found between the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) students and non-CMP students in grades 6, 7, and 8. The results for the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) were less favorable in the CMP group, with results ranging from negative significance in 6th grade to nonsignificance in the 7th and 8th grades. Since the analysis was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 6, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Curriculum, Program Effectiveness,...
Topics: cbsnews.com, cbsnews, The Early Show, 60 Minutes, Evening News
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Carisa Cunningham , director of public affairs at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & defenders, about their organization, their recent victories and defeats, gay marriage, and what lies ahead Nancy Nangeroni & Ethan St. Pierre , trans activists, on the International Transgender Day of Remembrance - how it came about and their personal involvement Program Details: GenderTalk #486 (more information, timings and links) GenderTalk Archive Listings: Topic Index Programs by Date
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An electronic composition culled from a split 7" Oso recorded with another Galerie Pache artist, Manuel J Grotesque.
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Powerful winds were blowing across Greenland on November 14, 2004, when Terra MODIS captured this image. The winds appear to be pulling a streamer of snow off of Greenland’s southeastern coast, though the white could also be partly caused by sea surface roughness.Hurricane-force winds are not uncommon in the area. They often occur when there are no clouds over Greenland. The air closest to Greenland.s icecap cools off rapidly while the layer of air above it stays warm, so the temperature...
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Greenland, Where -- The Valley
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=6602
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TelevisionWeek 2004-11-15: Volume 23 , Issue 46. Digitized from IA1627628-03 . Previous issue: sim_televisionweek_2004-11-08_23_45 . Next issue: sim_televisionweek_2004-11-22_23_47 .
Topics: Communications--Television And Cable, Trade Journals, microfilm
Source: IA1627628-03
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Snow dusted Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of New York on November 14, 2004, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (<a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov">MODIS</a>) on NASA’s <a href="http://terra.nasa.gov/">Terra</a> satellite acquired this image. In the north, Quebec, Canada is also largely blanketed with snow. Fall still holds sway in the south, where streaks of orange mark out...
Topics: Where -- Massachusetts, Where -- Connecticut, Where -- Rhode Island, Where -- New York, Where --...
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=6749
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We study minimal vertex covers of trees. Contrarily to the number $N_{vc}(A)$ of minimal vertex covers of the tree $A$, $\log N_{vc}(A)$ is a self-averaging quantity. We show that, for large sizes $n$, $\lim_{n\to +\infty} _n/n= 0.1033252\pm 10^{-7}$. The basic idea is, given a tree, to concentrate on its degenerate vertices, that is those vertices which belong to some minimal vertex cover but not to all of them. Deletion of the other vertices induces a forest of totally degenerate trees. We...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411382v1
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It is shown, that the small decay width of $\Theta^+ = uudd\bar{s}$ baryon is suppressed by chirality violation. It is shown that $\Theta^+$ decay width $\Gamma$ is proportional to $\alpha^2_s < 0 | \bar{q} q | 0 >^2$, for any pentaquark current without derivatives.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0410335v2
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Numero intero de l'Unità del giorno 2004-11-15, dall'archivio de l'Unità.
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CIA Purges Bush Adversaries Central Intelligence Agency staffers say Bush administration officials have ordered a purge of political adversaries in the agency.Matthew Swope reports from D.C. New Immigration Plan Starts Today Federal agents in three cities along the Mexican and Canadian borders began the first part of a new immigration security program that critics say uses the wrong techniques.From KPFT, Renee Feltz has more. US Flights to Torture A British newspaper reports that an executive...
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The Flyer is the student-run newspaper of Salisbury University. After the dissolution of the SSC Informer in 1973, The Flyer covers university and local news, carries advertisements for local businesses, and provides calendars for events.
Topics: Edward H. Nabb Research Center, Salisbury University, Newspapers, 2004
Looking back upon the centuries one would suspect that in earlier ages universities of medieval France and Italy were very different from the multiplicity of organizational and institutional forms of higher education institutions in modern times, and yet one would be surprised how much these old "universitas" and modern universities have in common. One of the common features may be corruption and academic misconduct that can often bee seen in universities. The increasing scale and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Ethics, Deception, Comparative Analysis, Medieval History, College...
The information provided in this report documents that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a well-managed and effective organization with an outstanding staff dedicated to ensuring that America's future is secure and prosperous. Despite its small size, NSF is widely recognized as the catalyst for the advancement of basic research in America. NSF funds research that opens new frontiers of scientific inquiry and contributes to developing a competitive workforce in science and engineering....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Quality Control, Scientific Research, Financial Support, Federal Aid,...
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The earliest phases of the chemical evolution of our Galaxy are analysed in the light of the recent VLT results (concerning abundance patterns in the most metal-poor stars of the Galactic halo) and of stellar nucleosynthesis calculations. It is argued that: 1) the unexpected abundance patterns observed in Pop. II stars are not the imprints of an early generation of supermassive Pop. III stars; 2) among the various suggestions made to exlain the observed abundance patterns, nucleosynthesis in...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411392v1
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The WMAP first year detection of a high redshift reionization through its imprints on CMB anisotropy T and TE mode angular power spectra calls for a better comprehension of the universe ionization and thermal history after the standard recombination. Different reionization mechanisms predict different signatures in the CMB, both in temperature and polarization anisotropies and in spectral distortions. The Planck capability to distinguish among different scenarios through its sensitivity to T,...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411415v1
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The method of fusion barrier distribution has been widely used to interpret the effect of nuclear structure on heavy-ion fusion reactions around the Coulomb barrier. We discuss a similar, but less well known, barrier distribution extracted from large-angle quasi-elastic scattering. We argue that this method has several advantages over the fusion barrier distribution, and offers an interesting tool for investigating unstable nuclei.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0411055v1
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The careful analysis of the duality properties of Riemann's curvature tensor points to possibility of extension of Einstein's General Relativity to the nonabelian Yang-Mills theory. The motion equations of the theory are Yang-Mills' equations for the curvature tensor. Einstein's equations (with cosmological term to appear as an integration constant) are contained in the theory proposed. New is that now gravitational field is not exceptionally determined by matter energy-momentum but can possess...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411073v1
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Here we describe the mission design for SMART-2/LISA Pathfinder. The best trade-off between the requirements of a low-disturbance environment and communications distance is found to be a free-insertion Lissajous orbit around the first co-linear Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system L1, 1.5x 10^6 km from Earth. In order to transfer SMART-2/LISA Pathfinder from a low Earth orbit, where it will be placed by a small launcher, the spacecraft carries out a number of apogee-raise manoeuvres, which...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411071v1
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A search for the pair production of doubly-charged Higgs bosons in the process $\ppbar\to\Hpp\Hmm\to \mu^+\mu^+\mu^-\mu^-$ is performed with the D\O\ Run II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron using inclusive di-muon events. These data taken at an energy of $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV correspond to an integrated luminosity of $113 $pb$^{-1}$ and were recorded by D{\O}between August 2002 and June 2003. In the absence of a signal, 95% Confidence Level mass limits of $M(\HpmL)>118.6$ GeV and...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0411048v1
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Aihong Tang
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We present the directed flow measurement ($v_1$) from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 62$ GeV. Over the pseudorapidity range we have studied, which covers $\eta$ from -1.2 to 1.2 and $2.4 < |\eta| < 4$, the magnitude of $v_1$ for charged particles is found to increase monotonously with pseudorapidity for all centralities. No ``$v_1$ wiggle'', as predicted by various theoretical models, is observed at midrapidity. Elliptic flow ($v_2$) from moderate high $p_t$ particles ($3-6 GeV/c$) at...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0409029v2
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We construct a new harmonic family: dielectric flow solutions with maximal supersymmetry in eleven-dimensional supergravity. These solutions are asymptotically AdS_4 x S^7, while in the infra-red the M2 branes are dielectrically polarized into M5 branes. These solutions are holographically dual to vacua of the mass deformed theory on M2 branes. They also provide an interesting insight on the supergravity solutions sourced by giant gravitons, allowing one to see how supergravity solves the giant...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406145v2
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Stephen S. Bullock; Dianne P. O'Leary; Gavin K. Brennen
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As a qubit is a two-level quantum system whose state space is spanned by |0>, |1>, so a qudit is a d-level quantum system whose state space is spanned by |0>,...,|d-1>. Quantum computation has stimulated much recent interest in algorithms factoring unitary evolutions of an n-qubit state space into component two-particle unitary evolutions. In the absence of symmetry, Shende, Markov and Bullock use Sard's theorem to prove that at least C 4^n two-qubit unitary evolutions are required,...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410116v2
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Michel G. Gauthier; Gary W. Slater
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We recently demonstrated that standard fixed-time lattice random-walk models cannot be modified to properly represent biased diffusion processes in more than two dimensions. The origin of this fundamental limitation appears to be the fact that traditional Monte Carlo moves do not allow for simultaneous jumps along each spatial direction. We thus propose a new algorithm to transform biased diffusion problems into lattice random walks such that we recover the proper dynamics for any number of...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0411139v1
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This is a collection of references (papers, books, preprints, book reviews, Ph. D. thesis, patents, web sites, etc.), sorted alphabetically and (some of them) classified by subject, on foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Specifically, it covers hidden variables (``no-go'' theorems, experiments), interpretations of quantum mechanics, entanglement, quantum effects (quantum Zeno effect, quantum erasure, ``interaction-free'' measurements, quantum ``non-demolition''...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0012089v12
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We use some general results regarding positive maps to exhibit examples of non-decomposable maps and 2^N x 2^N, N >= 2, bound entangled states, e.g. non distillable bipartite states of N + N qubits.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411098v1
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We calculate the current-pressure relation for pinholes connecting two volumes of bulk superfluid 3He-B. The theory of multiple Andreev reflections, adapted from superconducting weak links, leads to a nonlinear dependence of the dc current on pressure bias. In arrays of pinholes one has to take into account oscillations of the texture at the Josephson frequency. The associated radiation of spin waves from the junction leads to an additional dissipative current at small biases, in quantitative...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401637v2
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We present a model for microwave photoconductivity in two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) in a magnetic field at the microwave frequencies lower that the electron cyclotron frequency when the intra-Landau level (LL) transitions dominate. Using this model, we explain the effect of decrease in the 2DES dissipative conductivity (and resistivity) and smearing of its Shubnikov -- de Haas oscillations by microwave radiation observed recently \cite{1,2}. The model invokes the concept of...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411370v1
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Interview location: San Jose, California The beginnings of George's Service Center Segment 11 of 18 [ Previous segment ] -- [ Next segment ] For more information, visit Densho
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Interview location: San Jose, California Growing up and attending school in San Jose, California Segment 2 of 18 [ Previous segment ] -- [ Next segment ] For more information, visit Densho
Topics: Japanese Americans, Oral history
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“Exploring w/Erika” 11/15/04 part 1
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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 2004-11-15: Volume 40 , Issue 46. Digitized from IA1632418-07 . Previous issue: sim_weekly-compilation-of-presidential-documents_2004-11-08_40_45 . Next issue: sim_weekly-compilation-of-presidential-documents_2004-11-22_40_47 .
Topics: Government Documents, microfilm
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This Winamp Classic Skin is a port of the Windows Media Center 2005 theme that was leaked for Windows XP.
Topics: Art, Digital Art, Photography, Traditional Art, Community Art, Contemporary Art, Modern Art, Skins,...
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Following a purely algebraic procedure, we provide an exhaustive classification of local Weyl-invariant scalar densities in dimension D=8.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405228v2
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Discrimination between electron and nuclear recoil events in a liquid argon scintillation detector has been demonstrated with simulations by using the differences in the scintillation photon time distribution between these classes of events. A discrimination power greater than 10^{8} is predicted for a liquid argon experiment with a 10 keV threshold, which would mitigate electron and gamma-ray backgrounds, including beta decays of 39-Ar and 42-Ar in atmospheric argon. A dark matter search using...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411358v1
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D. Schiminovich; O. Ilbert; S. Arnouts; B. Milliard; L. Tresse; O. Le Fevre; M. Treyer; T. K. Wyder; T. Budavari; E. Zucca; G. Zamorani; D. C. Martin; the GALEX-VVDS Collaboration
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In a companion paper (Arnouts et al. 2004) we presented new measurements of the galaxy luminosity function at 1500 Angstroms out to z~1 using GALEX-VVDS observations (1039 galaxies with NUV 0.2) and at higher z using existing data sets. In this paper we use the same sample to study evolution of the FUV luminosity density. We detect evolution consistent with a (1+z)^{2.5+/-0.7} rise to z~1 and (1+z)^{0.5+/-0.4} for z>1. The luminosity density from the most UV-luminous galaxies (UVLG) is...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411424v1
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Radio loud active galactic nuclei present a remarkable variety of signs indicating the presence of periodical processes possibly originating in binary systems of supermassive black holes, in which orbital motion and precession are ultimately responsible for the observed broad-band emission variations, as well as for the morphological and kinematic properties of the radio emission on parsec scales. This scenario, applied to the quasar 3C345, explains the observed variations of radio and optical...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411417v1
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Gustavo C. Branco; M. N. Rebelo
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We discuss leptonic mixing and CP violation at low and high energies, emphasizing possible connections between leptogenesis and CP violation at low energies, in the context of lepton flavour models. Furthermore we analyse weak basis invariants relevant for leptogenesis and for CP violation at low energies. These invariants have the advantage of providing a simple test of the CP properties of any lepton flavour model.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0411196v1
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We present a general overview of recent QCD results at hadronic colliders.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0411051v2
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Among the many families of nonperiodic tilings known so far, SCD tilings are still a bit mysterious. Here, we determine the diffraction spectra of point sets derived from SCD tilings and show that they have no absolutely continuous part, that they have a uniformly discrete pure point part on the z-axis, and that they are otherwise supported on a set of concentric cylinder surfaces around this axis. For SCD tilings with additional properties, more detailed results are given.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0411052v1
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This paper concerns the self-similarity of topological spaces, in the sense defined in math.DS/0411344. I show how to recognize self-similar spaces, or more precisely, universal solutions of self-similarity systems. Examples include the standard simplices (self-similar by barycentric subdivision) and solutions of iterated function systems. Perhaps surprisingly, every compact metrizable space is self-similar in at least one way. From this follow the classical results on the role of the Cantor...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411345v1
