Final states produced by a decay have a much broader energy spectrum than the natural line width at times much shorter than the decay lifetime. This tends to render impossible the use for neutrino detection of the high value of the resonance absorption cross section at the peak of the resonance. Proposals to use the very sharp neutrino emission line for neutrino detectors have been discussed fo...

This paper investigates controllability of underactuated rolling systems consisting of a smooth object rolling on a moving smooth surface. Our system consists of a spherical ball which rolls on the inside of an ellipsoidal bowl. The bowl has a single translational degree of freedom not aligned with any of its principal axes. The single control input is the bowl's acceleration in this direction....

OBJECTIVE The use of smaller dishware as a way of reducing food consumption has intuitive appeal and is recommended to the general public. Recent experimental studies have failed to find an effect of plate size on food intake, although the methods used across studies have varied. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect that bowl size had on snack food consumption in a 'typical' s...

This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the Dust Bowl era or the Dirty Thirties. Recent events, including the 2008 financial crisis, severe droughts in the US corn belt, and the release of a popular documentary film, have spawned a resurgence in public interest in th...

ness, nor founded on any profound scientific deduction. A bowl to be kept and pressed to the hips if the woman lies on her back, to the upper and posterior part of the thigh if she lies on her side, in order to catch discharge of any kind which may come from the vulva. Such a bowl I have used for many years in my ordinary management of labour, and I have so high an opinion of its utility that I...

Super Bowl XLVIII drew the largest television audience in American history with 111.5 million US viewers.[1] This surpassed the previous record set by Super Bowl XLVI two years prior with 111.3 million viewers.[2] In fact, the last four Super Bowls have been the four most watched TV programs in U.S. history.[20] Despite the uneventful game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, wh...

Objective: Stress plays an important role in affecting adrenal gland anatomy and structure which may have connection with suicidal behaviour in depressed patients. The increase in adrenal cortical function is paralleled by increased adrenal weight and zone specific cortical width. Method: Adrenal glands from persons aged 20-85 years who died unexpectedly either from road traffic accident or com...

The Hypertension Singing Bowl is an Acoustic Sonification shaped by a year of blood pressure data that has been 3D printed in stainless steel so that it rings. The design of the bowl was a response to a medical diagnosis of hypertension that required regular self-tracking of blood pressure. The culture of selftracking, known as the Quantified Self movement, has the motto “self knowledge through...

The present study compared the memory of young and older adults for details pertaining to two public events of close temporal proximity but varying emotional import-the Columbia shuttle explosion and the 2003 Super Bowl. Participants responded to surveys sent within 2 weeks of these events and then again 7 months later, providing information about event-related details (i.e., of the events them...