Quantum arithmetics provides a possible resolution of a long-lasting challenge of finding a mathematical justification for the canonical identification mapping p-adics to reals playing a key role in TGD in particular in p-adic mass calculations. p-Adic numbers have p-adic pinary expansions ∑ anp n satisfying an < p. of powers p n to be products of primes p1 < p satisfying an < p for ordinary p-...

Maritime transport has been playing a decisive role in global trade. Its contribution to the air pollution of the sea and coastal areas has been widely recognized. The air pollutant emission inventories of several harbors in China have already been established. However, the emission factors of local ships have not been addressed comprehensively, and thus are lacking from the emission inventorie...

By assessing the association strength with TRUE and FALSE, the autobiographical Implicit Association Test (aIAT) [Sartori, G., Agosta, S., Zogmaister, C., Ferrara, S. D., & Castiello, U. (2008). How to accurately detect autobiographical events. Psychological Science, 19, 772-780. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02156.x ] aims to determine which of two contrasting statements is true. To efficientl...

The primes or prime polynomials (over finite fields) are supposed to be distributed ‘irregularly’, despite nice asymptotic or average behavior. We provide some conjectures/guesses/hypotheses with ‘evidence’ of surprising symmetries in prime distribution. At least when the characteristic is 2, we provide conjectural rationality and characterization of vanishing for families of interesting infini...

Energy conservation is an important global issue. The home is the third largest energy consumer, and 10% of the home energy use is standby power of home appliances. The proliferation of home networks increases the standby power. The conventional technologies for low networked standby power such as WoL require continuous AC power, as much as 0.5 watts, to monitor wake-up signals. A large portion...

The programme of qualification and improvement of materials for use in a fusion power station is crucial to the introduction of fusion power into the energy market and power plant studies are used to guide the targets for materials development. It is common to mis-interpret these targets as minimum values that must be achieved for fusion power to be a viable energy source, implying that failure...

A variety of manuscripts on the treatment of man's ills was available to healers of the Middle Ages. Knowledge of therapeutics, set down by ancient scholars, was supplementedl by contemporary theories and observations. The lore of healing was expounded not only in conventional medical texts but occasionally in bestiaries(l) and to a much greater extent in herbals. Additional repositories were t...

Discussion of the democratic strengths or, more usually, weaknesses of the EU tends to focus on the degree of democracy that is available or possible at the EU level. Such thinking reflects a certain neo-functionalist logic that has governed much scholarly writing about the relationship between EU integration and democracy. It assumes that enhanced competences for EU institutions potentially cr...

Post-match assessments of peak power output (PPO) during countermovement jumps and creatine kinase (CK) concentrations are common markers of recovery status in soccer players. Yet, the impact of soccer match-play on recovery in the 48 hours after competition is unclear, and the between-match variability of these responses has not been examined. Fourteen reserve team players from an English Prem...