This paper presents the case of an unusual photographic anomaly. A picture with an ‘extra’, an uncanny face-like shape, was taken in the depths of the night during a birthday party in a barbecue area on a hill in the south German countryside. The reported circumstances as well as the quality of the ‘extra’ itself seemed so interesting and challenging that an investigative team from the IGPP exa...

In this study, I investigate whether market learning explains the absence of the accrual anomaly in recent years by examining three conditions associated with the presence of the anomaly in prior research: (i) a differential relation between future earnings and cash flows versus accruals, (ii) incorrect weighting of cash flows and accruals by investors when predicting earnings, and (iii) associ...

Commercial and residential buildings are responsible for a substantial portion of total global energy consumption and as a result make a significant contribution to global carbon emissions. Hence, energy-saving goals that target buildings can have a major impact in reducing environmental damage. During building operation, a significant amount of energy is wasted due to equipment and human-relat...

There have been several experiments 10,11,12,13 which suggest neutrino oscillations. To explain the solar, atmospheric and LSND data within the framework of neutrino oscillations, it is necessary to have at least four kinds of neutrinos. It has been shown in the two flavor framework that the solar neutrino deficit can be explained by neutrino oscillation with the sets of parameters (∆m⊙, sin 2 ...

We discuss the physics of the mirror (shadow) world which is completely analogous to the visible one except that its 'weak' scale is larger by one or two orders of magnitude than the weak scale in the standard model. The mirror neutrinos can mix the ordinary ones through the Planck scale induced higher order operators, which can help to reconcile the present neutrino puzzles that are the solar ...

We extend the anomaly mediation mechanism by including the effect due to Kähler anomaly. We give a general method analyzing the soft breaking terms in MSSM by introducing a set of parameters. One of the parameters describes the magnitude of the Kähler contribution as opposed to the ordinary super-Weyl contribution. The other parameters come from the so-called bilinear terms which are added to t...