It is proposed that the apparent positive acceleration of the cosmological scale factor is due to the vacuum energy of an incomplete chiral phase transition in a hidden SU(2) sector. Constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis imply that the present metastable phase is in a substantially supercooled state. It is argued that massless chiral condensates can substantially enhance the possibility o...

In this paper we study the ability of array-based networks to tolerate worst-case faults. We show that an N N two-dimensional array can sustain N 1? worst-case faults, for any xed > 0, and still emulate a fully functioning N N array with only constant slowdown. Previously it was known only that an array could tolerate a constant number of faults with constant slowdown. We also show that if faul...

Intracellular free calcium concentration in the sea urchin egg was calculated to increase from 0.1 mM in an unfertilized egg to 1 mM in a fertilized egg 10 min after fertilization, based on measurement of the dissociation constant between free calcium and sea urchin egg homogenate. The dissociation constant between free calcium (dialyzable calcium) and homogenate of sea urchin eggs was measured...