We consider the QCD corrections to the electric dipole moment of the neutron in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We provide a master formula for the Wilson coefficients at the low energy scale including for the first time the mixing between the electric and chromoelectric operators and correcting widely used previous LO estimates. We show that, because of the mixing between the electr...

We consider the linear heat equation on the half-line with a Dirichlet boundary control. We analyze the null-controllability problem. More precisely, we study the class of initial data that may be driven to zero in finite time by means of an appropriate choice of the L2 boundary control. We rewrite the system on the similarity variables that are a common tool when analyzing asymptotic problems....

An object tracking algorithm using the Mean Shift framework is presented which is largely invariant to both partial and full occlusions, complex backgrounds and change in scale. Multiple features are used to gain a descriptive representation of the target object. Image moments are used to determine the scale of the target object. A kalman filter is used to successfully track the target object t...

A new time-domain model order reduction method based on the Laguerre function expansion of the impulse response is presented. The Laguerre coefficients of the impulse response of the reduced-order model, which is calculated using a projection whose matrices form basis of appropriate Krylov subspaces, match, up to a given order, those of the original system. In addition, it is shown that the obt...

This paper presents a new design of a low cost, unlubricated, self-deploying, self-locking hinge whose properties can be easily modified to meet different requirements. A particular implementation is considered, providing a hinge that is 135 mm long, 30 mm high and 45 mm wide, with a deployment moment varying between 0.1 and 0.3 Nm and a locking moment of 13 Nm. Stiffness tests have been carrie...

Hybrid moment frame come together with reinforced concrete columns with structural steel beams (RCS). This Composite system provides several key advantages over current steel or concrete moment resisting frame. Past studies have shown this system to be efficient in both design and building stage while able to keep sufficient strength and necessary ductility in seismic zone.Although past researc...

Multivariate orthogonal polynomials can be introduced by using a moment functional defined on the linear space of polynomials in several variables with real coefficients. We study the so-called Uvarov and Christoffel modifications obtained by adding to the moment functional a finite set of mass points, or by multiplying it times a polynomial of total degree 2, respectively. Orthogonal polynomia...

A simple and computationally feasible procedure for the calculation of net charges and dipole moments of proteins at arbitrary pH and salt conditions is described. The method is intended to provide data that may be compared to the results of transient electric dichroism experiments on protein solutions. The procedure consists of three major steps: (i) calculation of self energies and interactio...

Here we show that the charge transfer (CT) absorption signal in bulk-heterojunction solar cell blends, measured by photothermal deflection spectroscopy, is directly proportional to the density of molecular donor:acceptor interfaces. Since the optical transitions from the ground state to the interfacial CT state are weakly allowed at photon energies below the optical gap of both the donor and ac...

Let I = 〈g1, . . . , gn〉 be a zero-dimensional ideal of R[x1, . . . , xn] such that its associated set G of polynomial equations gi(x) = 0 for all i = 1, . . . , n is in triangular form. By introducing multivariate Newton sums we provide a numerical characterization of polynomials in √ I. We also provide a necessary and sufficient (numerical) condition for all the zeros of G to be in a given se...