Takashi Torii ‡ Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152, Japan (June 4, 2005) In higher-curvature inflation models (R + αnR ), we study a parametric preheating of a scalar field χ coupled non-minimally to a spacetime curvature R (ξRχ). In the case of R-inflation model, efficient preheating becomes possible for rather small values of ξ, i.e. |ξ|∼ several. Although...

A long-standing controversy on the mechanism of an actomyosin motor is the role of the Brownian motion of the myosin head in force generation. In order to shed light on this problem, we calculate free-energy landscapes of interaction between an actin filament and the head (S1) of myosin II by using a coarse-grained model of actomyosin. The results show that the free-energy landscape has a globa...

We present a detailed numerical study of inhomogeneous Big Bang nucleosynthesis where, for the first time, nuclear reactions are coupled to all significant fluctuation dissipation processes. These processes include neutrino heat transport, baryon diffusion, photon diffusive heat transport, and hydrodynamic expansion with photon-electron Thomson drag. Light element abundance yields are presented...

We discuss the application of the density functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA) near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. The LDA fails to describe the critical fluctuations in this regime. This provides a fingerprint of a materials near ferromagnetic quantum critical points: overestimation of the tendency to magnetism in the local density approximation. This is in contr...

introduction: umbilical cord blood is a rich source of hematopoietic cells and can be used in the clinical setting for hematopoietic cell transplantation in graft versus host disease (gvhd). a number of different drugs have been used as prophylaxis against gvhd including corticosteroids, cyclosporine a (cy a) and fk506. in this study, the in vitro effects of fk506 on cord blood mononuclear cell...

− Static expansion systems are used to generate known pressures in the high and medium vacuum range. In these systems the volume ratios are the crucial parameters and have to be determined very accurately. For this task different methods can be used. We have used the gas accumulation method with a dead weight pressure balance, a force-balanced piston gauge (FPG) and a differential pressure tran...

The temperature stability of optical reference cavities is significant in state-of-the-art ultra-stable narrow-linewidth laser systems. In this paper, the thermal time constant and thermal sensitivity of reference cavities are analyzed when reference cavities respond to environmental perturbations via heat transfer of thermal conduction and thermal radiation separately. The analysis as well as ...

One of the main distinctions between geomaterials and other engineering materials is the spatial variation of their properties in different directions. This characteristic of geomaterials -so called heterogeneity- is studied herewith. Several spatial distributions are introduced to describe probabilistic variation of geotechnical properties of soils. Among all, the absolute normal distribution ...

I n this paper, the evaluation of the real exchange rate transfer and the asymmetric transmission of real exchange rate fluctuations to the export prices of food products for the country during the period (2001-2015) was studied using two approaches of PMG and GMM systems. The TGARCH method was used to calculate the real exchange rate fluctuation index and the Markov Switching method was u...