Supernova Ia magnitude surveys measure the dimensionless luminosity distance $H_{0}D_{L}$. However, from distances alone one cannot obtain quantities like $H(z)$ or dark energy equation of state, unless further cosmological assumptions are imposed. Here we show that by measuring power spectrum density contrast and peculiar velocities supernovae can estimate also $H(z)/H_{0}$ regardless backgrou...

background: a precise impression is mandatory to obtain passive fi t in implant-supported prostheses. the aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of three impression materials in both parallel and nonparallel implant positions. materials and methods: in this experimental study, two partial dentate maxillary acrylic models with four implant analogues in canines and lateral incisors areas w...

We introduce canonical antisymmetric quasiconformal maps, which minimize the quasiconformality constant among maps sending the unit circle to a given quasicircle. As an application we prove Astala’s conjecture that the Hausdorff dimension of a k-quasicircle is at most 1 + k. A homeomorphism φ of planar domains is called k-quasiconformal, if it belongs locally to the Sobolev class W 1 2 and its ...

Weak lensing is the distortion (polarization) of images of distant objects, such as high redshift galaxies, by gravitational elds in the limit where the distortion is small. Gravitational potential uctuations due to large scale structure cause correlated distortions of the images of high redshift galaxies. These distortions are observable with current large telescopes and instrumentation. In a ...

The renormalized elasticity Jheory for jsolated flexible polymers developed recently by de Gennes is extended to the case of strong elongation ( Z / R F >> 1,Z is the average end-to-end length in response to a uniform tension and R F is the excluded volume Flory radius !fa free coil). I t is shown that, in this regime, the elastic restoring force f is nonlinear in the distortion and varies as Z...

This paper presents the comparative study of various Multicarrier Pulse Width Modulation techniques with Sinusoidal reference for single phase seven level cascaded Z-source inverter designed with three intermediate Z-source networks connected between the input source inverter circuit. The cascaded Z-source based MLI technique enhances the fundamental output voltage and reduces the Total Harmoni...

We found that the conventional model of orbital-ordering of 3x(2)-r(2)/3y(2)-r(2) type in the e(g) states of La0.5Sr1.5MnO4 is incompatible with measurements of linear dichroism in the Mn 2p-edge x-ray absorption, whereas these e(g) states exhibit predominantly cross-type orbital ordering of x(2)-z(2)/y(2)-z(2). LDA+U band-structure calculations reveal that such a cross-type orbital-ordering re...

Abstract For functions f(z) which are starlike of complex order b (b = 0) in the open unit disk U introduced by M. A. Nasr and M. K. Aouf (J. Natural Sci. Math. 25(1985), 1 12), in consideration of its properties, some sufficient conditions, necessary conditions and distortion theorems with coefficient inequalities of f(z) as the improvement of the well-known result due to H. Silverman (Proc. A...

We calculate the non-linear galaxy power spectrum in real space, including non-linear distortion of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, using the standard 3rd-order perturbation theory (PT). The calculation is based upon the assumption that the number density of galaxies is a local function of the underlying, non-linear density field. The galaxy bias is allowed to be both non-linear and stochasti...