Problem: For temperature-dependent sex determination to respond to selection, there should be genetic variance underlying the threshold that switches development from a male-producing program to a female-producing program. Genetic variance for this threshold in reptiles has never been estimated under field conditions. Methods: We estimated variance components of the thermal sensitivity of the s...

Red-green color-discrimination thresholds were measured at eccentricities of 10 and 25 deg in the nasal retina. Thresholds were measured as a function of stimulus field size both during the cone plateau and after dark adaptation. During the cone plateau, threshold decreased with increasing field size, but the effect of field size was dependent on the color of the test stimulus. The decrease in ...

Dark-adapted static perimetric fields and rod full-field electroretinograms (ERGs) were measured in normal subjects and 15 patients with retinitis pigmentosa. Psychophysical thresholds for short-wavelength stimuli were obtained from 76 locations across the retina on a modified Octopus 201 perimeter; threshold differences to short- and long-wavelength stimuli were used to determine whether rods ...

Near- and below-threshold harmonic generation provides a potential approach to generate vacuum-ultraviolet frequency comb. However, the dynamical origin of in these lower harmonics is less understood and largely unexplored. Here we perform an ab initio quantum study of the near- and below-threshold harmonic generation of caesium (Cs) atoms in an intense 3,600-nm mid-infrared laser field. Combin...

The two-dimensional scaling Ising model in a magnetic field at critical temperature is integrable and possesses eight stable particles Ai (i = 1, . . . , 8) with different masses. The heaviest five lie above threshold and owe their stability to integrability. We use form factor perturbation theory to compute the decay widths of the first two particles above threshold when integrability is broke...

introduction: radiotherapy is a common treatment modality for patients with head and neck malignancies. as the nose lies within the field of radiotherapy of the head and neck, the olfactory fibers and olfactory receptors may be affected by radiation. the aim of this study was to evaluate changes in olfactory threshold in patients with head and neck malignancies who have received radiation to th...

We verify the QED Ward identity for the twoand three -point functions at non-equilibrium in the HTL limit. We use the Keldysh formalism of real time finite temperature field theory. We obtain an identity of the same form as the Ward identity for a set of one loop self-energy and one loop three-point vertex diagrams which are constructed from HTL effective propagators and vertices. Supported by ...