We suggest that a neutron star with a strong magnetic field, spiraling into the envelope of a companion star, can generate a “companion induced SN-like off-center explosion”. The strongly magnetized neutron star (“magnetar”) is born in a supernova explosion before entering into an expanding envelope of a supergiant companion. If the neutron star collapses into a black hole via the hypercritical...

An international astronomical group lead by Ji-an Jiang, a PhD student from the University of Tokyo discovered a Type Ia supernova (named as "MUSSES1604D") within one day after the explosion by using the world-best wide-field camera mounted on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope, the Hyper Suprime-Cam. Follow-up observations carried out by eight telescopes over the world show that MUSSES1604D is signifi...

This overview ties together the various articles by relating them to the current debate on whether, and how, the Medicare program can add outpatient drugs as a covered benefit. The unifying theme for most of the articles is that they outline possible ways of administering a drug benefit and discuss policy issues that will arise, based on Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) experiences o...

This article presents a system to automatically generate compact explosion diagrams. Inspired by handmade illustrations, our approach reduces the complexity of an explosion diagram by rendering an exploded view only for a suitable subset of the assemblies of an object. However, the exploded views are chosen so that they allow inferring the remaining unexploded assemblies of the entire 3D model....

The atomic bomb resembles bombs of the more conventional type in so far as the explosive effect is the result of the very rapid liberation of a large quantity of energy in a relatively small space. It differs however from other bombs in three important respects.

In this study, probabilistic risk assessment has been carried out for the prediction of gas explosion loads due to hydrocarbon leaks and subsequent explosions in the topside of offshore platforms. In the initial phase of the risk assessment, the effect of various scenario parameters on the annual probability of gas explosion was quantified via a MATLAB code. For calculating the gas explosion fr...