Observations of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies offer an attractive method for setting cosmological constraints. The physics of the BAO production is well understood, and it is hard to imagine that galaxy formation processes will significantly distort this large-scale signal. The large volume of the Universe and redshift range probed by proposed SKA surveys will...

Two glasses of the compositions 2 BaO - TiO2 - 2.75 GeO2 and 2 BaO - TiO2 -3.67 GeO2 (also known as BTG55) are annealed at temperatures from 680 to 970 °C to induce surface crystallization. The resulting samples are analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) including electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Ge-Fresnoite (Ba2TiGe2O8, BTG) is observed at the immed...

Single crystals of α-Ba(2)P(2)O(7), dibarium diphosphate, were obtained by solid-state reaction. The ortho-rhom-bic structure is isotypic with α-Sr(2)P(2)O(7) and is the second polymorph obtained for this composition. The structure is built from two different BaO(9) polyhedra (both with m symmetry), with Ba-O distances in the ranges 2.7585 (10)-3.0850 (6) and 2.5794 (13)-2.9313 (4) Å. These pol...

We present two results characterizing minimizers of the Chan-Esedoḡlu LTV functional F (u) ≡ ∫ |∇u|dx + λ ∫ |u − f |dx; u, f : R → R. If we restrict to u = χΣ and f = χΩ, Σ,Ω ∈ R, the LTV functional reduces to E(Σ) = Per(Σ) + λ|Σ M Ω|. We show that there is a minimizer Σ such that its boundary ∂Σ lies between the union of all balls of radius nλ contained in Ω and the corresponding union of n λ ...

Peng Xi county, Sichuan province, the Bao Fan temple mural digitization survey mapping project: we use three-dimensional laserscanning, multi-baseline definition digital photography, multi-spectral digital image acquisition and other technologies for digital survey mapping. The purpose of this project is to use modern mathematical reconnaissance mapping means to obtain accurate mural shape, col...

Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is a relatively infrequent but catastrophic disease with dismal natural course, carrying 85% to 95% mortality even during anticoagulant and fibrinolytic therapy if not recanalized.1,2 The disease also poses a diagnostic challenge because it often starts with transient nonspecific prodromal symptoms, whereas complete BAO precipitates a sudden or gradually progressi...

ROLES IN CHOLESTEROL UPTAKE Jin-Hui Zhang , Liang Ge , Wei Qi , Liqing Zhang, Hong-Hua Miao, Bo-Liang Li, Maojun Yang and Bao-Liang Song 2 From The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Scho...