Extended cubical sets (with connections and interchanges) are presheaves on a ground category, the extended cubical site K, corresponding to the (augmented) simplicial site, the category of finite ordinals. We prove here that K has characterisations similar to the classical ones for the simplicial analogue, by generators and relations, or by the existence of a universal symmetric cubical monoid...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mentha longofolia plant (mlp) and its essential oils (mle) on ruminal fermentation and protozoa population in goat. the mlp at six levels 0, 25, 35, 55, 75 and 100 mg/30 ml, and the essential oil at six levels 0, 1700,3000,6700,8300 and 10000 mg/l plus monensin (as positive control, 50 mg and dissolved in ethanol) added to rumen fluid respect...

A recently discovered relation between 4D and 5D black holes is used to derive exact (weighted) BPS black hole degeneracies for 4D N = 8 string theory from the exactly known 5D degeneracies. A direct 4D microscopic derivation in terms of weighted 4D D-brane bound state degeneracies is sketched and found to agree.

We present a microscopic index formula for the degeneracy of dyons in four-dimensional N = 4 string theory. This counting formula is manifestly symmetric under the duality group, and its asymptotic growth reproduces the macroscopic Bekenstein-Hawking en-tropy. We give a derivation of this result in terms of the type II ve-brane compactiied on K3, by assuming that its uctuations are described by...

A number of recent papers have demonstrated that camera "selfcalibration" can be accomplished purely from image measurements, without requiring special calibration objects or known camera motion. We describe a method, based on self-calibration, for obtaining (scaled) Euclidean structure from multiple uncalibrated perspective images using only point matches between views. The method is in two st...

Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from a cosmological distribution of clusters carry information on the underlying cosmology as well as the cluster gas physics. In order to study either cosmology or clusters one needs to break the degeneracies between the two. We present a toy model showing how complementary informations from SZ power spectrum and the SZ flux counts, both obtained from upcoming SZ ...

We characterize the conditions under which completing a Delaunay tessellation produces a connguration that is a nondegenerate Delaunay triangulation of an arbitrarily small perturbation of the original sites. One consequence of this result is a simple postpro-cessing step for resolving degeneracies in Delaunay triangulations that does not require symbolic perturbation of the data. We also give ...

The authors present a higher-order Godunov method for the solution of the twoand three-dimensional equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This work is based both on a suitable operator-split approximation to the full multidimensional equations, and on a one-dimensional Riemann solver. TIlls Riemann solver is sufficiently robust to handle the nonstrictly hyperbolic nature of the MHD equa...

I review recent constraints on and claimed detections of a time-varying fine-structure constant α. Our results are consistent with no variation in α from the epoch of recombination to the present day, and restrict any such variation to be less than about 4%. The forthcoming MAP and Planck experiments will be able to break most of the currently existing degeneracies between α and other cosmologi...