We investigate the evolution of cosmological low mass (low virial temperature) objects and the formation of the first luminous objects. First, the ‘cooling diagram’ for low mass objects is shown. We assess the cooling rate taking into account the contribution of H2, which is not in chemical equilibrium generally, with a simple argument of time scales. The reaction rates and the cooling rate of ...

In this study we investigated the generality of the electrophysiological mechanisms underlying verb agreement relations by looking not only at subject-verb (SV) but, moreover, at object-verb (OV) agreement phenomena in Basque-a language in which both the subject and the object have to agree with the verb. We first provide event-related potentials (ERP) evidence for processing differences in SV ...

meSch has the goal of designing, developing and deploying tools for the creation of tangible interactive experiences that connect the physical dimension of museums and exhibitions with relevant digital cross-media information in novel ways. In particular, meSch will deliver a platform to enable curators, artists, designers and cultural heritage professionals in general to create smart objects a...

Real world images often contain similar objects but with different rotations, noise, or other visual alterations. Vision systems should be able to recognize objects regardless of these visual alterations. This paper presents a novel approach for learning optimized structures of classifiers for recognizing visual objects regardless of certain types of visual alterations. The approach consists of...

We present a simple brane-world model in five dimensions. In this model we do not need any fine-tuning between the five dimensional cosmological constant and the brane tension to obtain four dimensional flat Minkowski space. The spacetime of our solution has no naked singularities. Further the compactification scale of the fifth direction is automatically determined. [email protected]...

This paper examines the methods for identifying and choosing a QA collaboration tool, whichcan serve to support and reinforce process for an organization. The following points will be addressed: • Introduction increasing importance of quality and what tools can facilitate quality • Definition of the term QA collaboration tool what is it and what can it do for you • How to select a QA collab...

ion: To allow easy creation of visual objects containing code to draw themselves, we should provide a higher-level drawing mechanism than the AWT‟s screen-coordinate system. Objects should be concerned only with drawing themselves in virtual space; whilst the Display should allow the user to navigate this virtual space by zooming, translating and rotating his view. The plan is to first build th...

The low-redshift IGM probes the last ten billion years of metal enrichment from galactic feedback processes. We present preliminary results from a survey of intergalactic metal-line absorption systems in archival HST STIS, GHRS, and FUSE spectra of ≈ 50 z . 2 UV-bright objects. We summarize the detailed analysis of one sightline (PKS1302–102, zQSO = 0.2784) with which we set the methodology for...