in this work, one and two-dimensional lattices are studied theoretically by a statistical mechanical approach. the nearest and next-nearest neighbor interactions are both taken into account, and the approximate thermodynamic properties of the lattices are calculated. the results of our calculations show that: (1) even though the next-nearest neighbor interaction may have an insignificant effect...

We construct the Lagrangian for an effective theory of highly energetic quarks with energy Q, interacting with collinear and soft gluons. This theory has two low energy scales, the transverse momentum of the collinear particles, p⊥, and the scale p 2 ⊥/Q. The heavy to light currents are matched onto operators in the effective theory at one-loop and the renormalization group equations for the co...

One particular case of the intersection between the photorealistic presentation and the dynamics of 3D scene of objects is snow in nature, which presents behavioral aspects of the environment such as accumulation, particle movement, and redistribution, with the added time element that allows change and progress analysis. Due to the complexity of the phenomenon, little to no attention has been g...

The perception of biological motion is influenced by motion and form information. Point-light technique has been used to capture the kinematic properties of biological motion. Integration of auditory-visual information in speech perception has been shown to be influenced by such degraded forms of display. The present experiment investigates the role of global shape information and motion in mul...

Long-term interactions in groups can be monitored through games in which the participants need to show their social preferences by making choice to help or to use egoistic game strategy. In this paper we analyse the facial expressions of a group of isolated individuals (astronauts) during repeated interactions in subsequent encounters in a game. The astronauts were taking part in the Mars-500 i...

Experimental data show a number of plateaus of varying widths in the magnetic-field dependence of the electron-spin-polarization for fractional quantum Hall states. We have calculated the magnetic-field dependence of the spin-polarization using a new theory. We start by adopting the Landau gauge and ignoring Coulomb interactions between electrons; then we construct single electron states in equ...

n e s s g f t p c s a w ( Here, the wet and dry adhesion properties of hybrid Ge/parylene nanowire (NW) connectors are examined. The ability of the NW connectors to bind strongly even under lubricating conditions, such as mineral oil, sheds light on the dominant role of van der Waals interactions in the observed adhesion. The superhydrophobic surface of the NW connectors enables the wet, selfcl...

Our study aims at gaining a better understanding of how speech-gesture synchronization is affected by the factors (1) mutual visibility and (2) linguistic information structure. To this end, we analyzed spontaneous dyadic interactions where interlocutors are engaged in a verbalized version of the game TicTacToe, both with and without mutual visibility. The setting allows for a straightforward d...

We report new shell-model calculations of the isospin-symmetry-breaking correction δC to superallowed 0+ → 0+ nuclear β decay. The most important improvement is the inclusion of core orbitals, which are demonstrated to have a significant impact on the mismatch in the radial wave functions of the parent and daughter states. We determine which core orbitals are important to include from an examin...