We present a comprehensive black-hole event generator, BlackMax, which simulates the experimental signatures of microscopic and Planckian black-hole production and evolution at the LHC in the context of brane world models with low-scale quantum gravity. The generator is based on phenomenologically realistic models free of serious problems that plague low-scale gravity, thus offering more realis...

We report the draft genome of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. Integration of shotgun sequence assembly with genetic mapping enabled chromosome-scale reconstruction of the genome. More than 45,000 putative protein-coding genes were identified. Analysis of the assembled genome revealed a whole-genome duplication event; about 8000 pairs of duplicated genes from that event survived ...

Printing with custom inks is of interest both for artistic purposes and for printing security documents such as banknotes. However, in order to create designs with only a few custom inks, a general purpose high-quality gamut reduction technique is needed. Most existing gamut mapping techniques map an input gamut such as the gamut of a CRT display into the gamut of an output device such as a CMY...

A 35‐year‐old male presented with asymptomatic dark slate‐gray hyperpigmentation over both eyelids on both sides for the past 1 year. There was no history of trauma, pre‐existing dermatosis, or topical and/or systemic medications before the onset of pigmentation. Local cutaneous examination revealed well‐defined dark slate‐gray hyperpigmented patches chiefly involving both the right and left up...

An orbiting ray pattern produces an unexpected gray disk. Here we demonstrate this visual effect and its possible insights into visual temporal integration.

In an effort to address this problem, we present a new method called the gray-box method. It is called a “gray box” because a deterministic model of the system, i.e., a “white box,” is used to filter the data and generate a residual, while a stochastic model, i.e., a “black-box,” is used to describe the residual. Instead of setting a threshold on the residual, the residual is modeled by a three...

Reference 1. Cross-Villasana F, Gröpel P, Doppelmayr M, Beckmann J (2015) Unilateral Left-Hand Contractions ProduceWidespread Depression of Cortical Activity after Their Execution. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0145867. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145867 PMID: 26709832 Fig 2. Spectral plot of the last second during contractions (black), first second after contractions (red), and their difference (gray). A) F...

An extended visual secret sharing (EVSS) scheme with innocent looking (unsuspicious) cover images was firstly proposed by Naor and Shamir. Most recent papers about EVSS schemes are dedicated to get a higher contrast of the concealed secret or a less size of shadow image. The conventional EVSS scheme uses the whiteness of black and white sub pixels to represent the gray level of the covered imag...