VOLUME 37 • AUGUST 2012 • www.mrs.org/bulletin © 2012 Materials Research Society Plasmonics: Converting photons into the nanoscale Recently, photonic technologies have become universal in global data communications. 1 The unprecedented data bandwidths, ever falling power consumption requirements, and reduced cost margins of on-chip photonics 2,3 have established a photonic roadmap for scaling d...

A study was conducted which aimed to determine whether varying attractiveness and character integrity significantly affected the severity of the crime which participants associated with defendant portraits. Participants were shown attractive and unattractive portraits that were paired with a positive, negative or no-character statement. It was predicated that both variables would have effects o...

The mixed cold-hot dark matter cosmological model (CHDM) with Ωtot = 1 and a falling power-law initial spectrum of Gaussian adiabatic perturbations (n > 1) is tested using recent obserbational data. It is shown that its fit to the data becomes worse with the growth of n− 1, and may be considered as unreasonable for n > 1.1 for all possible values of the Hubble constant. Thus, the CHDM model wit...

In this work we examined morphological variation at different levels to study performance and population structuring of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. Our objectives were: (i) to develop an integrated technique for analyzing morphological variation in blue mussels and, based on this technique; (ii) to perform a morphometric description of mussels from the northern part of their range; and (iii...

W continental ice sheets melted about 15,000 years ago, rising seas inundated large regions of northern Australia, fl ooding valleys and creating vast, low-lying wetland areas. More recent transitions in some of these regions occurred as gradual siltation and levée formation reduced the movement of salt water to create freshwater swamps that were regularly fi lled by monsoon rains, a process th...

Koike, K., On a conjecture of Stanley on Jack symmetric functions, Discrete Mathematics 115 (1993) 211-216. The Jack symmetric function J,(x; G() is a symmetric function with interesting properties that J,(x; 2) is a spherical function of the symmetric pair (GL(n, FQ O(n, [w)) and that J,(x; 1) is the Schur function S,(x). Many interesting conjectures about the combinatorial properties of J,(x;...

We study a novel spline-like basis, which we name the falling factorial basis, bearing many similarities to the classic truncated power basis. The advantage of the falling factorial basis is that it enables rapid, linear-time computations in basis matrix multiplication and basis matrix inversion. The falling factorial functions are not actually splines, but are close enough to splines that they...