The contribution introduces the notion of framelets. They are essentially small frameworks. Thus framelets can be easily understood and modified. As framelets are not aimed at complex application domains, they can also be assembled without the problems associated with the combination of large frameworks. Our first experiences with framelets demonstrate that these architectural building blocks a...

B-physics with pp collisions at CDF is reviewed, including production cross sections, masses, and decay properties. with a focus on lifetime and mixing measurements. A two-component lifetime t of B 0 s ! ` + D ? s X results in the limit ? s =? s < 0:81 (95% C.L.), which is converted into an indirect upper bound on m s. From our ve B 0 d-B 0 d oscillation analyses, we highlight the use of \same ...

proposals released by the Empowered Committee, have vehemently opposed the scheme of SSI itself and have recommended withdrawal of the SSI Exemption for the manufacturers, The Hon'ble Finance Minister in his proposals has showered benevolence to the SSI sector. This Budget has extended great concessions to the SSI sector as under: ¾ Rule 4 of Cenvat Credit Rules 2004, has been amended by notifi...

“The most obvious facts are most easily forgotten. Both the existing economic order and too many of the projects advanced for reconstructing it break down through their neglect of the truism that, since even quite common men have souls, no increase in material wealth will compensate them for arrangements which insult their self-respect and impair their freedom. A reasonable estimate of economic...

You may have heard of Ramanujan (it is hard to believe you haven’t), but you may know little or nothing of his work. Of all the many identities he presented, Hardy chose one which for him represented the best of Ramanujan. I would like to show you this identity, and prove it. Following Euler, we define a partition of the positive integer n as a representation of n as a sum of positive integers,...

The marriage of evolution and development to produce the new discipline 'evo-devo' in biology is situated in the general history of evolutionary biology, and its significance for developmental cognitive science is discussed. The discovery and description of the highly conserved, robust and 'evolvable' mechanisms that organize the vertebrate body plan and fundamental physiology have direct impli...

CP violation is observed to date only inK decays and is parameterizable by a single quantity ǫ. Because it is one of the least understood phenomena in the Standard Model and holds a clue to baryogenesis, it must be investigated further. Highly specialized searches in K decays are possible. Effects in B decays are much larger. In addition to the traditional Bd → J/ψKS , ππ asymmetries, CP violat...

John Forbes Nash, Jr. was a child prodigy. While other boys his age were playing childhood games in their hometown of Bluefield, West Virginia, John was reading E.T. Bell’s Men of Mathematics. Learning more at home than he did at school, the young lad (who was encouraged by his educated parents) was able to solve some of math’s most difficult problems. Accepting a full-ride fellowship to Prince...

The amazing disparity of living birds is self-apparent, yet immensely challenging to fully quantify. After all, birds are represented by nearly 11,000 living species, comprising a mind-boggling spectrum of shapes, sizes, and colors (1). This incredible variability manifests in an incalculable number of ways (from habitat type to diet to life history), but adequately characterizing any of these ...

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this...