Recently it has been suggested to use the perigee of the proposed LARES/WEBER-SAT satellite in order to measure the secular precession which would be induced on such Keplerian orbital element by a weak-field modification of gravity occurring in some Brane-World scenarios put forth by Dvali, Gabadadze and Porrati. This precession, derived for the first time by Lue and Starkman, amounts to∼ ∓4×10...

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[1] Solar energetic particle events (SEPEs) can exhibit flux increases of several orders of magnitude over background levels and have always been considered to be random in nature in statistical models with no dependence of any one event on the occurrence of previous events. We examine whether this assumption of randomness in time is correct. Engineering modeling of SEPEs is important to enable...

BACKGROUND Little is known about motor function in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its relation to the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVE To examine motor function in persons with MCI and its relation to risk of AD. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING More than 40 Catholic religious orders across the United States. PARTICIPANTS We studied 816 older Catholic clergy membe...

In order to fully characterize the performance of the colloid thruster system the electrospray (ES) beam must itself be fully characterized. This may be achieved by measuring various properties such as flow rate, current, droplet/ion charge to mass ratio and current profile. Beam properties of both standard electrospray mass spectrometry (ESMS) emitters and arrays of custom made micro-fabricate...

in recent years, the cloning technology has remarkably developed iran, but unfortunately, the required legal framework has not been created to support and protect such developments yet. this legal gap may lead to abuse of scientific researches to obtain illegal benefits and to undermine the intellectual property rights of scientists and researchers. thus to prevent such consequences, the attemp...

An analysis of 131 Greek temple orientations is presented with the aim to determine whether specific architectural orders can be linked certain orientations, whilst seeking conventions for a number temples, which combine two or even all three orders. The results this study indicate an apparent preference Doric temples towards declinations visited by sun during year, although not necessarily mos...