In a recent paper, Yates and Jagacinski (1979) presented evidence for what was referred to as a "reference effect" in the process by which people evaluate multiattribute alternatives. Barton and John (1980) argue that it is inappropriate to characterize the observed phenomenon as a reference effect. We wish to take this opportunity to clarify what the issues are and what the data and analyses o...

In this paper we examine Casimir effect in the case of tachyonic field, which is connected with particles with negative four-momentum square (m2 < 0). We consider here only the case of the one dimensional, scalar field. In order to describe tachyonic field, we use the absolute synchronization scheme preserving Lorentz invariance. The renormalized vacuum energy is calculated by means of the Abel...

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive or repulsive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is reexamined for one to three-dimensional pistons in this paper. Especially, we consider Casimir pistons with hybrid boundary conditions, where the boundary condition on the piston is Neumann and those on other surfaces are Dirichlet. We show that the C...

This is a progress report on the subject of fatigue-enhanced photoemission. In our studies on fatigueenhanced photoemission, the ultimate goal is to see whether or not the photoyield can be used as a tool to uniquely define the early and later stages of fatigue on structural materials. This yield results in an electron current off the specimen. Disciplines Materials Science and Engineering | St...

In this paper, we review some of the work our group has done in the past few years to obtain the electron self-energy of high temperature superconductors by analysis of angle-resolved photoemission data. We focus on three examples which have revealed: (1) a d-wave superconducting gap, (2) a collective mode in the superconducting state, and (3) pairing correlations in the pseudogap phase. In eac...