The Higgs effective potential with temperature corrections is considered and different cases of scalar field symmetry state are discussed within gauge theories of gravity. It is shown that nonsingular oscillating solutions of cosmological equations exist for this model. PACS: 04.50, 98.80Cq

Column separation refers to the breaking of liquid columns in fully filled pipelines. This may occur in a water hammer event when the pressure drops to the vapor pressure at specific locations such as closed ends, high points or knees (changes in pipe slope). A vapor cavity, driven by the inertia of the parting liquid columns, will start to grow. The cavity acts as a vacuum, a low-pressure poin...

Mixed-redox (suboxic, or oscillating between oxidizing and reducing conditions) to anoxic marine sediments from the Raritan –New York Bay complex and the Inner New York Bight of the eastern U.S. were studied to investigate the factors controlling the accumulation of pore-water dissolved organic carbon (DOC). DOC increased with depth at each of four study sites, but accumulation was generally li...

The effects of surface gravity waves on pore-water release from permeable sediment (k 5 1.3–1.8 3 10211 m2) in shallow water were studied in a wave tank. Our tracer experiments demonstrated that shallow-water waves can increase fluid exchange between sandy sediment and overlying water 50-fold, relative to the exchange by molecular diffusion. The main driving force for this increased exchange ar...

A stochastic approach is used to gain a sophisticated understanding of a nonaxisymmetric floating oscillating water column’s response to random waves. A linear, frequencydomain performance model that links the oscillating structure to air-pressure fluctuations with a Wells Turbine in 3-dimensions is used to study the device performance at a northern California deployment location. Both short-te...

Tengen Murakami 1,*, Yasutaka Imai 1, Shuichi Nagata 1, Manabu Takao 2 and Toshiaki Setoguchi 1 1 Institute of Ocean Energy, Saga University, 1, Honjo, 840-8502 Saga, Japan; [email protected] (Y.I.); [email protected] (S.N.); [email protected] (T.S.) 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Matsue National College of Technology, 14-4, Nishiikuma, Matsue, 690-8518 Shimane, Japan...

Ice nucleation is a stochastic process and it is very difficult to be controlled. Freezing technologies and more specifically crystallisation assisted by magnetic, electric and electromagnetic fields have the capability to interact with nucleation. Static magnetic field (SMF) may affect matter crystallisation; however, this is still under debate in the literature. Static electric field (SEF) ha...

Considering that blood fluoride concentration varies according to fluoride exposure and that dental fluorosis is related to the amount of enamel formed under a given fluoride dose, the present study investigated whether the fluorosis produced by an oscillating chronic fluoride dose would be similar to that caused by exposure to a constant dose, representing the mean of the oscillation during a ...

Air-cushion-assisted platforms (ACAPs) are floating supported by both buoyancy pontoon and air cushion, which have merits of wave bending moment reduction, better stability, hydrodynamic performance. However, there is barely a concise method that can quickly predict the motion response ACAPs. In this paper, simplified panel (sPM) was presented for evaluating hydrodynamics The sPM extends conven...