Abstract Many population axiologies avoid the Repugnant Conclusion (RC) by endorsing Superiority: some number of great lives is better than any mediocre lives. But as Nebel shows, RC follows (given plausible auxiliary assumptions) from Intrapersonal (IRC): a guaranteed life sufficiently small probability life. This result concerning because IRC plausible. Recently, Kosonen has argued that can b...

We report the preliminary results of a survey for water vapor in a sample of eight C stars with large mid-IR continuum fluxes: V384 Per, CIT 6, V Hya, Y CVn, IRAS 15194−5115, V Cyg, S Cep, and IRC+40540. This survey, performed using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory, entailed observations of the lowest transitions of both orthoand para-water: the 556.936 GHz 110–101 an...

We argue that the presence of water vapor in the circumstellar outflow of a carbon-rich AGB star is potentially a distinctive signature of extra-solar cometary systems. Detailed models show that at suitable distances from the star, water ice can survive well into the carbon-rich AGB phase; water vapor abundances as large as 10 could result from the vaporization of a collection of orbiting icy b...

Aims. The JK = 10−00 rotational transition of phosphine (PH3) at 267 GHz has been tentatively identified with a TMB ∼ 40 mK spectral line observed with the IRAM 30-m telescope in the C-star envelope IRC +10216. Methods. A radiative transfer model was used to fit the observed line profile. Results. The derived PH3 abundance relative to H2 is 6 × 10−9, although it may have a large uncertainty due...

As a part of developing new systems for continuously monitoring the presence of pesticides in groundwater, a microfluidic amperometric immunosensor was developed for detecting the herbicide residue 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) in water. A competitive immunosorbent assay served as the sensing mechanism and amperometry was applied for detection. Both the immunoreaction chip (IRC) and detection (D)...

Infection of RBC by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum activates, at the trophozoite stage, a membrane current 100- to 150-fold larger than in uninfected RBC. This current is carried by small anion channels initially described in supraphysiological ion concentrations (1.115 M Cl(-)) and named plasmodial surface anion channels (PSAC), suggesting their plasmodial origin. Our results obtai...

We propose a new secure communication primitive called an Intrusion-Resilient Channel (IRC) that limits the damage resulting from key exposures and facilitates recovery. We define security against passive but mobile and highly adaptive adversaries capable of exposing even expired past secrets. We describe an intuitive channel construction using (as a black box) existing public key cryptosystems...

We present NAOMI/OASIS adaptive-optics assisted integral-field spectroscopy of the transitional massive hypergiant IRC +10420, an extreme masslosing star apparently in the process of evolving from a Red Supergiant toward the Wolf-Rayet phase. To investigate the present-day mass-loss geometry of the star, we study the appearance of the line-emission from the inner wind as viewed when reflected o...

An infrared and collinear (IRC) safe definition of the partonic flavour a jet is vital for precision predictions quantum chromodynamics at colliders. Jet definitions have been presented in literature, but they are typically defined through modification algorithm to be sensitive every stage clustering. While this does ensure that sum flavours IRC safe, flavour-sensitive clustering procedure diff...

In the present study, we have theoretically obtained enthalpies and activation energies of several gas reactions by Intrinsic Reaction Coordinate (IRC) calculations. Being a first time, approximate transition states used in IRC calculations were from saddle points on two dimensional Potential Energy Surface (PES) scans trucking pathway reactions. all calculations, Density Functional Theory (DFT...