New tetrasubstituted derivatives of thiacalix[4]arene functionalized with tris(2-aminoethyl)amine fragments at the lower rim in the cone, partial cone and 1,3-alternate conformations have been synthesized. It has been shown that during the interaction of tris(2-aminoethyl)amine with thiacalix[4]arenes in cone and partial cone conformation, the cyclic fragments are formed. The structure with acy...

bearing capacity prediction of axially loaded piles is one of the most important problems in geotechnical engineering practices, with a wide variety range of methods which have been introduced to forecast it accurately. machine learning methods have been reported by many contemporary researches with some degree of success in modeling geotechnical phenomena. in this study, a fairly new machine l...

Coloured surfaces in the normal environment may be brighter or dimmer than the mean adaptation level. Changes in the firing rate of cells of the parvocellular layers of macaque lateral geniculate nucleus were studied with such stim uli; chromatic mixtures briefly replaced a white adaptation field. This paradigm is therefore one of successive contrast. Families of intensity-response curves for d...

These lecture notes review the foundations and some applications of light– cone quantization. First I explain how to choose a time in special relativity. Inclusion of Poincaré invariance naturally leads to Dirac’s forms of relativistic dynamics. Among these, the front form, being the basis for light–cone quantization, is my main focus. I explain a few of its peculiar features such as boost and ...

The determination of the relative numbers of different cone types in the human retina is fundamental to our understanding of visual sensitivity and color vision; yet direct measurement which provide this basic information have not previously been made for all cone types. Here we present a model which links the detection of a test light of small dimension to the number of cones contributing to d...

Among the symmetries in physics, the rotation symmetry is most familiar to us. It is known that the spherical harmonics serve useful purposes when the world is rotated. Squeeze transformations are also becoming more prominent in physics, particularly in optical sciences and in high-energy physics. As can be seen from Dirac’s light-cone coordinate system, Lorentz boosts are squeeze transformatio...

We discuss the light-cone quantization of gauge theories from two perspectives: as a calculational tool for representing hadrons as QCD bound-states of relativistic quarks and gluons, and also as a novel method for simulating quantum field theory on a computer. The light-cone Fock state expansion of wavefunctions at fixed light cone time provides a precise definition of the parton model and a g...

Mammalian B-type horizontal cells make contact with both photoreceptor types: the dendrites contact cone photoreceptors, whereas the axon terminal processes contact rods. Despite their distinct synaptic contacts, horizontal cell somata and axon terminals receive a mixture of rod and cone inputs. Interaction of the two photoreceptor systems is essential for adaptation of photoreceptor sensitivit...