Our recent determination of a Salpeter slope for the IMF in the field of 30 Doradus (Selman and Melnick 2005) appears to be in conflict with simple probabilistic counting arguments advanced in the past to support observational claims of a steeper IMF in the LMC field. In this paper we re-examine these arguments and show by explicit construction that, contrary to these claims, the field IMF is e...

The problem of high energy consumption is becoming more and more serious due to the construction of large-scale cloud data centers. In order to reduce the energy consumption and SLA violation, a new virtual machine (VM) placement algorithm named ATEA (adaptive three-threshold energy-aware algorithm), which takes good use of the historical data from resource usage by VMs, is presented. In ATEA, ...

This paper proposes a decentralized structure based on a set of local diagnosers to monitor discrete event manufacturing systems with discrete sensors and actuators. The occurrence of any fault entailing the violation of the desired behaviour must be detected and isolated by at least one local diagnoser using its own local observation about the system execution. These local diagnosers infer the...

We investigate lepton flavor violation in the context of intersecting D-brane models. We point out that these models have a source to generate flavor violation in the trilinear scalar couplings while the geometry of the construction leads to degenerate soft scalar masses for different generations (as in the minimal supergravity model) at the string scale. The trilinear scalar couplings are not ...

The effects of new heavy particles appearing in extensions of the standard model (SM) can be accounted for at low energies in terms of effective operators. The unprecedented accuracy reached by the electroweak (EW) precision measurements performed at the high-energy colliders LEP and SLC impose stringent constraints on the coefficients of the operators entering the EW sector. Other severe const...

The institution of criminal punishment is a part the statelegal mechanism coercive influence on population to stimulate lawabiding behavior and prevent law violation. history Russian contains more than thousand years experience in consolidating this law. At different stages state development, system punishments other measures nature had significant differences due various socio-economic, politi...