Arguments are presented for the odderon intercept being exactly equal to unity. A variational method is presented based on a complete system of onegluon functions. For the odderon, the highest intercept calculated by this method is 1− (3αs/π) 0.45. March 1996 hep-ph/9603218 US-FT/7-96 ∗ Visiting Professor IBERDROLA. On leave of absence from the Department of High Energy Physics, University of S...

Highly linear CMOS radio receivers increasingly exploit linear RF V-I conversion and passive down-mixing, followed by an OpAmp based Transimpedance Amplifier at baseband. Due to the finite OpAmp gain in wideband receivers operating with large signals, virtual ground is imperfect, inducing distortion currents. We propose to apply a negative conductance to cancel this distortion. In an RF receive...

The locomotion and load carriage energetics of the southwestern American harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, were quantified at several temperatures within their normal foraging temperature range using a voluntary locomotion regime (‘running tube respirometer’). In a metabolic rate (MR) versus running speed regression, the intercepts for the individual ants differed significantly, so data were...

We evaluated methods for measuring average and regional pulse-wave velocity along the full length of the aorta in 18-mo-old ether-anesthetized male spontaneously hypertensive rats. Catheter-tip manometers were placed in the ascending and descending thoracic aorta via the right carotid and left femoral arteries, respectively. As the distal catheter was withdrawn at 1-cm intervals, the relationsh...

An ELISA for measuring thyroglobulin (Tg) in serum was developed with polyclonal antibodies to Tg on the solid phase and two monoclonal antibodies to Tg as the second antibodies. The assay has a detection limit of 1 microgram/L, a within-run imprecision (CV) of <7%, and a between-run CV of < 10%. Parallelism of the assay was shown in dilution studies, in which the percent observed/expected valu...

RATIONALE During exercise, heart failure patients (HF) show an out-of-proportion ventilation increase, which in patients with COPD is blunted. When HF and COPD coexist, the ventilatory response to exercise is unpredictable. OBJECTIVES We evaluated a human model of respiratory impairment in 10 COPD-free HF patients and in 10 healthy subjects, tested with a progressive workload exercise with di...

Due to the absence of internal nodes, inverter-based Gm-C filters [1,2] allow achieving bandwidths beyond what is possible with opamp-RC techniques. The inverter’s class-AB behavior, together with the high transconductance per quiescent current, results in a high dynamic range per power when optimally biased [3]. The major disadvantage of traditional inverter-based GmC filters is that they are ...

It has long been thought that degeneracy in unfolding only concerned non-metric unfolding. Recently, Busing, Groenen, and Heiser have established that degeneracy occurs for all transformations that include estimation of an intercept and a slope. Consequently, degeneracy also plagues metric unfolding, since one member of the metric transformation family, the interval transformation, includes est...

Stability data were generated by the Monte Carlo method, and batch-to-batch variability was evaluated by analysis of differences in slope and intercept according to the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) approach recommended in the FDA Guidance. Using the same generated data, batch-to-batch variability was also evaluated by assessing the equivalence of shelf lives estimated for individual batches ...