We study the domain wall problem of an axion in chaotic inflation models. We show that the production of domain walls does not occurs if the PecceiQuinn scalar has a flat potential and its breaking Fa is larger than ∼ 10GeV. We find that too large isocurvature fluctuations are produced for such high Fa. In order for those isocurvature fluctuations to be consistent with observations of the large...

A survey was conducted to investigate the prevalence of Enterobius vermicularis in 1352 Chinese children between the ages of 6-12 years from the three National Type Chinese Primary Schools in Pulau Ketam in 1988, using the scotch-tape technique on three successive days. The overall prevalence was high (56.88%). The prevalence in Sin Bin School was significantly lower (50.86%) compared to the ot...

This article reviews the treatment of functional neurological symptoms during World War I by Lewis Yealland at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London. Yealland was among the first doctors in Britain to incorporate electricity in the systematic treatment of shell shock. Our analysis is based on the original case records of his treatment of 196 soldiers with functional mo...

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian and Philip Mirowski, Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. London: Verso, pp. 368. 2020 Jessica Whyte, The Morals the Market: Human Rights Rise 288. 2019. James Carrier (ed.) After Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism Aftermath. Routledge, 212. 2016.

Quinn and Eimas (1998) reported that young infants include non-human animals (i.e., cats, horses, and fish) in their category representation for humans. To account for this surprising result, it was proposed that the representation of humans by infants functions as an attractor for non-human animals and is based on infants’ previous experience with humans. We report three simulations that provi...

We consider a phenomenological extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model which incorporates chaotic inflation and a radiatively generated intermediate mass scale. Initially a period of chaotic inflation is driven by a quartic potential associated with the right-handed electron sneutrino. Supersymmetry relates the quartic coupling of the inflationary potential to the electron Majora...

In this paper the author describes his practice of comprovisation, the making of new compositions from recordings of improvised material, and interrogates its validity within the debate about creative practice as research. Although the practice has random and intuitive elements he concludes that it is likely to produce new knowledge and is grounded in the tacit knowledge of composition techniqu...