The renormalization group (RG) method developed by Ken Wilson more than four decades ago has revolutionized the way we think about problems involving a broad range of energy scales such as phase transitions, turbulence, continuum limits and bifurcations in dynamical systems. The Theme Issue provides articles reviewing recent progress made using the RG method in atomic, condensed matter, nuclear...

As sibling cases of one and the same family showed almost complete similarities in their clinical and pathological findings with uniform biochemical disturbances, it may safely be asserted that the disease is inherited in a single factor. As for the genetic ratio, the difference between the value calculated from the Haldane's formula and the theoretical value 0.25 proved statistically insignifi...

OBJECTIVE To develop a system to guide interpretation of scores generated from 2 new instruments measuring work-related physical and behavioral health functioning (Work Disability - Physical Function (WD-PF) and WD - Behavioral Function (WD-BH)). DESIGN Cross-sectional, secondary data from 3 independent samples to develop and validate the functional levels for physical and behavioral health f...

I report the current status of the heavy-light decay constants, the bag parameters and the semileptonic form factors. I compare the heavy-light decay constants with Wilson-Wilson and clover-clover fermions. Systematic errors such as scale setting and renormalization factors are also discussed. 1/M dependences for the heavy-light semi-leptonic form factors near q = q m ax with clover-clover and ...

We present and discuss results for cutoff effects in the PCAC masses and the mass dependence of r0 for full QCD and various fermion actions. Our discussion of how one computes mass dependences – here of r0 – is also relevant for comparisons with chiral perturbation theory.

Some key features of the overlap operator with a UV-filtered Wilson kernel are discussed. The first part concerns spectral properties of the underlying shifted hermitean Wilson operator and the relation to the observed speedup of the overlap construction. Next, the localization of the filtered overlap and its axial-vector renormalization constant are discussed. Finally, results of an explorator...

We investigated the genetic mutations involved in Wilson's disease to improve prenatal genetic diagnosis and presymptomatic diagnosis. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify the exons and exon-intron boundaries of the ATP7B gene in 35 Wilson's disease pedigrees. The PCR products were further analyzed by Sanger sequencing. Prenatal genetic diagnoses were performed by chorionic v...

Lower bounds on the magnitude of the spectrum of the Hermitian WilsonDirac operator H(m) have previously been derived for 0 < m < 2 when the lattice gauge field satisfies a certain smoothness condition. In this paper lower bounds are derived for 2p−2 < m < 2p for general p = 1, 2, . . . , d where d is the spacetime dimension. The bounds can alternatively be viewed as localisation bounds on the ...