We perform an exact and asymptotic analysis of the model of n vicious walkers interacting with a wall via contact potentials, a model introduced by Brak, Essam and Owczarek. More specifically, we study the partition function of watermelon configurations which start on the wall, but may end at arbitrary height, and their mean number of contacts with the wall. We improve and extend the earlier (p...

Domestic violence is traditionally associated with cases of physical violence occurring within intimate relationships and in a domestic setting. It is most commonly perpetrated by a male against a female partner, but it also includes violence against men. Domestic violence occurs in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships and includes married, de facto and separated adolescents and adult...

We prove the GGS conjecture [GGS] (1993), which gives a particularly simple explicit quantization of classical r-matrices for Lie algebras gl(n), in terms of a matrix R ∈ Matn(C) ⊗ Matn(C) which satisfies the quantum YangBaxter equation (QYBE) and the Hecke condition, whose quasiclassical limit is r. The r-matrices were classified by Belavin and Drinfeld in the 1980’s in terms of combinatorial ...

Title: Identification of microbial indicators and free living protozoa in natural mineral water using cultural and molecular methods. Author list: Michele Totaro*, Beatrice Casini*, Paola Valentini*, Mario Miccoli°, Pier Luigi Lopalco*, Angelo Baggiani* Affiliations: *Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy. ° Department of Cl...

The web scene was created by Zhihang (Steven) Li, Michael Rodriguez, and Alec Zhang, who are students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. They were working on a special project under the guidance of Dr. Sven Fuhrmann, associate professor of Geovisualization and Geoinformation Science (GGS) at George Mason University, and Michael Piccione, faculty at Thomas Jefferson work...

What we will call the age-based TMFR is computed conventionally by adding up agespecific marital-fertility rates in the hope of estimating the number of children ever born to a woman who is married throughout her childbearing years. Demographers have long been strongly skeptical about this quantity because it normally indicates implausibly many children. Our analysis of data from the Romanian G...

Grafting is a method of asexual plant propagation that joins plant parts for them to live together. So they will grow as one plant. Normally the method has been largely applied to propagate trees that will not root well as cuttings or whose own root systems are not strong enough or resistant to several soil-borne pathogens. Now the method is used for other crops, as vegetables, such as solanace...

Since the inception of the construct of transaction governance structure (TGS), transaction cost economics (TCE) has become an important anchor for the analysis of a wide range of economic and organizational issues. As theory of TCE advances, the perception of TGS has shifted from a polar classification (market/hierarchy) towards a continuum of market-hierarchy [17][20]. Despite the development...

Viruses are the most common causes of diseases affecting cucurbits in New York. These diseases result in losses through reduction in growth and yield and are responsible for distortion and mottling of fruit , making the product unmarketable. A complex of viruses is able to infect cucurbits, a plant group that includes cucumber , melon , squash, pumpkins , and watermelon. The most important viru...