The time needed for a particle to exit a confining domain through a small window, called the narrow escape time (NET), is a limiting factor of various processes, such as some biochemical reactions in cells. Obtaining an estimate of the mean NET for a given geometric environment is therefore a requisite step to quantify the reaction rate constant of such processes, which has raised a growing int...

ATLAS and CMS have each reported a modest diphoton excess consistent with the decay of a broad resonance at ∼ 750 GeV. We show how this signal can arise in a weakly coupled theory comprised solely of narrow width particles. In particular, if the decaying particle is produced offshell, then the associated diphoton resonance will have a broad, adjustable width. We present simplified models which ...

In English, broad and late narrow focus have identical accent patterns: Pitch accents are aligned with the last ac-centable constituent within an intonation contour. Under early narrow focus, the pitch accent is claimed to shift to an earlier location and the last accentable syllable is deaccented. This study examined the acquisition of the narrow focus pattern, using a picture-naming task, in ...

An 80-year-old man underwent an electrophysiologic procedure because of recurrent episodes of supraventricular tachycardia. Episodes of nonsustained narrow QRS complex tachycardia occurred spontaneously after catheter placement. Examples of the onset and termination of an episode of tachycardia are shown in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. What is the mechanism of the tachycardia? What is the lev...

The unconvent ional states o f qqqq, q~l and pure gluon type, appearing in BB dual diagrams with nonplanar baryons are discussed, treating their interpolating fields in a conf inement approach to QCD due to Migdal. The mass spect rum is given to lowest order and the quan t um numbers are discussed. It is argued that some of the resonances should have narrow width and hence could be identified w...

We consider a decisionmaker who "narrowly brackets", i.e. evaluates her decisions separately. Generalizing an example by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) we show that if the decisionmaker does not have constant-absolute-risk-averse preferences, there exists a simple pair of independent binary decisions where she will make a …rstorder stochastically dominated combination of choices. We also character...

We study misère Dots-and-Boxes, where the goal is to minimize score, for narrow boards. In particular, we characterize the winner for 1× n boards with an explicit winning strategy for the first player with a score of b(n − 1)/3c. We also give preliminary results for 2 × n and for Swedish 1× n (where the boundary is initially drawn).

The study addresses postural preparation to stepping. In particular, it tests a hypothesis that such preparation involves adjustments in the activity of ankle plantarflexors to produce shifts of the center of pressure. We investigated the initiation of a step from quiet stance when the subjects stood on boards with a decreased dimension of the support area in the anterior-posterior direction ("...