The talk is quite subjective in character, and is in no way complete. It is not a chapter of history of particle physics. It is a collection of a few short stories related to neutrino physics. Two of these, about Pauli and Fermi, touch on subjects already covered by a number of physicists, including the suthor, in connection with the recent neutrino's fiftieth birthday. A story about Majorana's...

Music is beautiful, and music communication is a dissemination of beauty, which could make more people enjoy that kind of beauty. MicroBlogging, as a new media, is more and more popular for users, especially for younger people. The timeliness of Microblogging makes it more convenient for music communication on the Internet. In this paper, we study how a musical event is propagated according to ...

Together with a sense of entering a New Economy, the US experienced in the second half of the 1990s an economic expansion, a stock market boom, a financing boom for new firms and productivity gains. In this paper, we propose an interpretation of these events within a general equilibrium model with financial frictions and decreasing returns to scale in production. We show that the mere prospect ...

Abstract Understanding the value of a product development project is central to a firm’s choice of project portfolio. The value of a project to a firm depends not only on the project’s properties but also on the other projects being developed by the firm. This is due to interactions with other projects in the portfolio that address the same consumer need and with other projects that require the...

We study a planar model of a nonrelativistic electron in periodic magnetic and electric fields that produce a 1D crystal for two spin components separated by a half-period spacing. We fit the fields to create a self-isospectral pair of finite-gap associated Lamé equations shifted for a half-period, and show that the system obtained is characterized by a new type of supersymmetry. It is a specia...

Teams developing innovations work in a context ripe with uncertainty, and handling this uncertainty places special demands on the leaders of such teams. We empirically tested the role of leader personality in the success of two different types of New Product Development (NPD) teams: radical and incremental. Using the five-factor model of personality as a framework, results based on a sample of ...

The supersymmetric SU(NC) Yang-Mills theory coupled to NF matter fields in the fundamental representation has meta-stable vacua with broken supersymmetry when NC < NF < 3 2 NC . By gauging the flavor symmetry, this model can be coupled directly to the standard model. We show that it is possible to make a slight deformation to the model so that gaugino masses are generated and the Landau pole pr...

This paper introduces a platform to support the provision of pedagogical units especially designed to Interactive Digital TV. We have developed an authoring tool to create the educative content according to both the technical and social peculiarities of this new media. Besides, a set of software modules were also set up to support the suitable broadcasting and visualization in the receiver devi...

Online news comments are often confronted with issues of civility and inclusivity, which are sometimes pegged to the anonymity afforded to contributors in those spaces. In this work we study one form of anonymity in online comments that manifests as users changing their display name when they write a given comment. We undertake a predominantly quantitative analysis of how display names are chan...

Semantic annotation of media resources has been a focus in research since many years, the closing of the “semantic gap” being seen as key to significant improvements in media retrieval and browsing and enabling new media applications and services. However, current tools and services exhibit varied approaches which do not easily integrate and act as a barrier to wider uptake of semantic annotati...