The fact that most of the Universe is dark and composed of new, exotic components has been established over the years by means of various sets of observations, which recently have converged into a consistent picture where the Universe is about critical and dominated by an exotic form of matter and by an unexpected type of dark energy. In terms of the density parameter Ω, the current view can be...

Figure 1: Fundamental region R of the Modular Group, given by {z ∈ H : |z| > 1,− 2 ≤ Re(z) ≤ 1 2} The Klein Quartic curve is famous for its symmetries and many visualizations are created to capture these in lower dimensions. In fact, it has the largest possible automorphism group for its genus, the simple group of order 168. Yet, interest in this algebraic curve started with knowledge of the ex...

Examples are given of the usefulness of electrons in interaction with nuclei for probing fundamental interactions and structure.

A complex tone composed of only higher-order harmonics elicits a pitch percept equivalent to the tone's missing fundamental frequency (f0). When judging the direction of residue pitch change between two such tones, however, listeners may have completely opposite perceptual experiences depending on whether they are biased to perceive changes based on the overall spectrum or the missing f0 (harmo...

Developing persuasive and consistent models of educational performance has proved elusive. Existing modelling suggests no clear relationship between resources and student performance. This mirrors observed policy outcomes. A possible explanation is that the achievement process is a complicated interactive one such that simple linear additive formulations break down. This analysis presents a sty...

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This paper deals with the prcblem of simulating the notions of a complex land vehicle moving in a natural environment. The contribution presented here is z motion generctor which predicts the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle when executing a given nominal motion plan. This ptan is expressed in terms of a channel to follow and of a set of intermediate subgoals to reach. Solving this motion gener...

We investigate the dynamic evolution of jamming in granular media through fluctuations in the granular drag force. The successive collapse and formation of jammed states give a stick-slip nature to the fluctuations which is independent of the contact surface between the grains and the dragged object – thus implying that the stress-induced collapse is nucleated in the bulk of the granular sample...

HyperPuja is a novel controller that closely mimicks the behavior of a Tibetan Singing Bowl rubbed with a “puja” stick. Our design hides the electronics from the performer to maintain the original look and feel of the instrument and the performance. This is achieved by using wireless technology to keep the stick un-tethered as well as burying the electronics inside the the core of the stick. Th...