Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is used to investigate the formation of one-dimensional organic nanostructures by chemisorption of specific molecules on silicon nanowires. STM data demonstrate that depending on the molecular functional groups, the molecules adsorb either randomly on the substrate or preferentially on the nanowires. In the latter case, chemisorption of suitable organic molec...

This paper develops and estimates a model of college basketball teams’ search for scoring opportunities, to provide a benchmark of the winning margin distributions that should arise if teams’ only goal is to win. I estimate the model’s structural parameters using first-half playby-play data from college games and simulate the estimated model’s predicted winning margin distributions. Teams’ opti...

This paper develops and estimates a model of college basketball teams’ search for scoring opportunities, to provide a benchmark of the winning margin distributions that should arise if teams’ only goal is to win. I estimate the model’s structural parameters using first-half play-by-play data from college games and simulate the estimated model’s predicted winning margin distributions. Teams’ opt...

The observed Magellanic Cloud (MC) Cepheid data pose a new challenge to both stellar structure and stellar evolution. The Fourier analysis of the LMC and SMC data indicate that the 2;1 resonance (P 2 /P 0 5 0.5) between the fundamental mode of pulsation and the second overtone occurs with a period P 0 of 210 days, just as in our Galaxy. The implications of this resonance are difficult to reconc...