If neutrino mass and mixing consistent with the neutrino oscillation data are the only source of lepton flavor violation (LFV)in nature, the other LFV decays like the radiative and semileptonic decays would be too small to be observed experimentally in the foreseeable future. These decays have been the objects of recent Belle measurments. We analyze LFV in Little Higgs Model with T-parity and f...

A special case of optical aperture synthesis, homothetic mapping, is the topic of this paper. It allows for a wide field of view for interferometric instruments, interesting for astrometric measurments of wide objects. This paper describes a testbed constructed and tested in TNO-TPD in Delft (the Netherlands). This testbed is intended as a tool to investigate the ins and outs of homothetic mapp...

izabilities have been formed. These proceedings will concentrate on recent measurments on the neutron via a polarized 3He target in the low Q2 region. In particular, experiment E97-110 was performed in Hall A to study the neutron and 3He spin structure at four-momentum transfers between 0.02 and 0.3 GeV2. This Q2 range allows us to make a benchmark-check of Chiral Perturbation Theory calculatio...

Accurate global measurments of tropospheric CO2 abundance to the "parts per million" (ppm) level is required to better quantify processes that regulate CO2 exchange between atmosphere, land and ocean. To this end NASA has planned the ASCENDS mission, Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons. We report on an airborne laser-based remote sensing instrument we have developed at...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Phagocytosis depends on the formation of engulfment pseudopodia surrounding the target. We tested in microglia, monocyte-derived cells in the brain, whether a swelling-activated Cl(-)-current (I(Cl,swell)), required for global cell volume (CV) regulation, also contributes to local expansion and retraction of engulfment pseudopodia. METHODS We used scanning electron microscopy ...