In the case that dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way could be detectable as gamma-ray point sources due to WIMP annihilations. In this thesis, we study the detectability of dark matter subhalos with Fermi-LAT. We improve on previous work in two ways. Firstly, we take into account the effects of baryons on the density profil...

Motivated by the requirements of the present archaeology, we are developing an automated documentation system for archaeological classification and reconstruction of ceramics. Our system works with the profile of an archaeological fragment, which is the cross-section of the fragment in the direction of the rotational axis of symmetry. Ceramic fragments are recorded automatically by a 3D-measure...

the one photon absorption (opa) cross section of a current carrying two-orbital quantum dot (qd) with strong electron-phonon interaction (polaron regime) is considered. using the self-consistent non-equilibrium hartree-fock (hf) approximation, we determine the dependence of opa cross section on the applied bias voltage, the strength of effective electron-electron interaction, and level spacing ...

The purpose of this study is to survey cross section changes of the animal brain samples during the tension and compression tests and comparison of the experimental results for three animals: bovine, sheep, and rabbit. A linear elastic theory with considering the necking in tension and barreling in compression has been considered for brain tissue. Bridgman method for tension and cross section u...

Two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is applied to better understand the effects of wing cross-sectional morphology on flow field and force production. This study investigates the influence of wing cross-section on insect scale flapping flight performance, for the first time, using a morphologically representative model of a bee (Bombus pensylvanicus) wing. The bee wing cross-sect...

In this report from the 1st European Conference of the European Science Foundation Programme on Functional Genomics, we provide coverage of the high-profile plenary talks and a cross-section of the many presentations in the disease analysis symposia and functional genomics technologies workshops.

Most Irish traditional folk dance music contains two musical themes; the tune begins with one musical theme which is usually repeated, then progresses to another theme with similar musical structure and motives, which is usually also repeated. The first section is typically called the A section while the second is called the B section. Our goal is to understand, at a quantitative level, the mus...

Few-body Glauber theory calculations of reaction cross sections for the proposed single neutron halo nucleus C are presented for an incident energy of 960 MeV/nucleon on a C target. The calculated reaction cross sections are shown to be significantly smaller than those obtained using the optical limit approximation to the Glauber theory elastic profile function. The implications of these differ...