A new mean-field type theory is proposed to study order-disorder transitions (ODT) in block copolymers. The theory applies to both the weak segregation (WSL) and the strong segregation (SSL) regimes. A new energy functional is proposed without appealing to the random phase approximation (RPA). We find new terms unaccounted for within RPA. We work out in detail transitions to the lamellar state ...

Competitive political parties and election campaigns are central to the health of democracies. Parties and campaigns require significant resources to be effective. India has developed complex election expenditure, political party funding, and reporting and disclosure laws. We suggest that these laws may have perverse impacts on the electoral system: they tend to drive campaign expenditure under...

In this memo we study the dynamic range loss for wide fields of view caused by unaccounted delay terms due to the retarded baseline effect. It is shown that the effect is quite strong for a 3000 km array (for a field of view as small as 1 " , the dynamic range is only). Most of this is due to the orbital motion of the Earth and is equivalent to the differential aberration. Although there is no ...

We present the results of Monte Carlo simulation aiming to estimate the frequency of semi-detached Algol-type binaries among the stars observed as single. When an account is taken of various detection biases (mostly due to inclination of orbits), the fraction of Algols among the Galactic disk stars appears to be 0.1–0.2%. However, this number should be regarded as a lower limit only, since ther...

In a representative sample of the UK population we found that common mental disorders (as a group and in ICD-10 diagnostic categories) and subthreshold psychiatric symptoms at baseline were both independently associated with new-onset functional disability and significant days lost from work at 18-month follow-up. Subthreshold symptoms contributed to almost half the aggregate burden of function...

For the implementation of time-critical decision support algorithms a precise relation between intervention and effect needs to be established. We evaluated for catecholamines and infusions the relation in time between charted dose and effect on hemodynamic variables. The onset of the change of the hemodynamic variables was determined by autoregressive models. The lag of 13 min (0 29) between i...

Small compression noises, despite being transparent to human eyes, can adversely affect the results of many image restoration processes, if left unaccounted for. Especially, compression noises are highly detrimental to inverse operators of high-boosting (sharpening) nature, such as deblurring and superresolution against a convolution kernel. By incorporating the non-linear DCT quantization mech...

We demonstrate high-contrast state detection of a superconducting flux qubit. Detection is realized by probing the microwave transmission of a nonlinear resonator, based on a SQUID. Depending on the driving strength of the resonator, the detector can be operated in the monostable or the bistable mode. The bistable operation combines high-sensitivity with intrinsic latching. The measured contras...

We analyze the sensitivity of next-generation tonne-scale neutrinoless double β-decay (0νββ) experiments and searches for same-sign di-electrons plus jets at the Large Hadron Collider to TeV scale lepton number violating interactions. Taking into account previously unaccounted for physics and detector backgrounds at the LHC, renormalization group evolution, and long-range contributions to 0νββ ...

(FR) notice requesting comments on alternative approaches to analyzing data related to EPA's perchlorate regulatory determination (the Notice; U.S. EPA, 2009b). The Notice says that " these additional comments are sought in an effort to ensure consideration of all the potential options for evaluating whether there is a meaningful opportunity for human health risk reduction of perchlorate throug...