Discussion: “Cavitation Inception in Pumps” (Mc Nulty, P. J., and Pearsall, I. S., 1982, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 104, pp. 99–104)

Closure to “Discussion of ‘Factors of Safety for Richardson Extrapolation’ ” (2011, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 133, p. 115501)

The Technical Brief by Roache [1] presents ten items of discussion of our factor of safety (FS) method for solution verification [2]. Our responses are listed below item-by-item using the same numbering as Roache. The nomenclature mostly follows our own and not Roache’s such as pRE for the order of accuracy calculated using the Richardson Extrapolation as opposed to the observed order of conver...

J. Mar. Sci. Eng

The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the Minoan Santorini eruption have been proposed as a likely explanation of the biblical plagues. Particularly, it has been suggested that flooding b...

Inequalities of J-P-S-F type

By means of the theory of majorization and under the proper hypotheses, the following inequalities of Jensen-Pečarić-Svrtan-Fan (Abbreviated as J-P-S-F) type are established: f (A(x)) g(A(x)) · · · fk+1,n(x) gk+1,n(x) fk,n(x) gk,n(x) · · · A( f (x)) A(g(x)) , where fk,n(x) := 1 (k) ∑ 1 i1<···<ik n f ( xi1 + · · ·+ xik k ) , x ∈ [a,b] .

Religion and Spirituality: Adam Smith versus J-J Rousseau

Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into  and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost...

J / Ψ → ee and J / Ψ → μ μ Measurements in AuAu and pp Collisions at √ s NN = 200 GeV