In certain circumstances when two branes pass through each other a third brane is produced stretching between them. We explain this phenomenon by the use of chains of dualities and the in ow of charge that is required for the absence of chiral gauge anomalies when pairs of D-branes intersect. At large distances D-branes [1, 2] interact through the long-range elds of supergravity. At substringy ...

I think that contemporary society is like a great, complex network of attitudes, values, and worldviews, in which everything exists within different cultures and environments. This network keeps changing at every moment, with different parties interacting with each other, so that each experience that we come across can become an exciting source and medium for creation. As for music composition,...

This paper deals with the automatic real-world face corpus creation. The main contribution consists in proposition and evaluation of the automatic face corpus creation algorithm. Next, we statistically analysed the structure of the created face corpus when the automatic algorithm is used. We further compared the face recognition accuracy of our previously developed face recognition approach on ...

Many public school teachers are caught in a “no-mans land” when it comes to the teaching of origins. On the one hand, they want to teach creation. On the other hand they are told, ordered, coerced, or otherwise led to believe that they cannot teach creation and must teach evolution. Not only must they teach it, they must teach it as truth. What are these teachers to do? When should they “step o...

I argue that string creation may have played a role in reheating the universe after inflation. For strings in four dimensions that arise from branes wrapping cycles in the extra dimensions, estimates from effective field theory show that the string tension need only fall a couple of orders of magnitude below the Planck scale in order for string creation to extract a significant fraction of the ...

doi: 10.1188/16.ONF.131-132 The end of each year and the beginning of the next usually involves the media printing lists of what was talked about in the past year and what is going to be “hot” in the coming 12 months. The world of oncology is no different. MedPageToday conducted a nonscientific survey of readers (Sergel, 2015), asking oncologists what game changers they saw in 2015. Seventy-fou...

Psychiatrists and historians owe a debt to David Healy. Over the years he has conducted interviews with all the leading figures in psychopharmacology. The resultant three volumes of The Psychopharmacologists (Healy, 1996, 1998, 2000) captured a crucial period in the history of psychiatry. Drawing on these interviews and his wide reading of the scholarly literature, Healy has now constructed a s...