The composite galaxy luminosity function (hereafter LF) of 39 Abell clusters of galaxies is derived by computing the statistical excess of galaxy counts in the cluster direction with respect to control fields. Due to the wide field coverage of the digitised POSS-II plates, we can measure field counts around each cluster in a fully homogeneous way. Furthermore, the availability of virtually unli...

Two unital dual operator algebras A,B are called ∆-equivalent if there exists an equivalence functor F : AM → BM which “extends” to a ∗−functor implementing an equivalence between the categories ADM and BDM. Here AM denotes the category of normal representations of A and ADM denotes the category with the same objects as AM and ∆(A)-module maps as morphisms (∆(A) = A ∩A ). We prove that any such...

I review recent progress on the Higgs production in 77 collisions at the photon mode of the Next Linear Collider (NLC). I mainly focus on two particular topics. The first topic is the Higgs-two photon vertex, which is sensitive to new physics, and can be considered a counter of the number of new heavy particles. I recall the results on QCD and electroweak two loop radiative corrections. The sec...

We present a fast and robust method for moving object tracking directly in the compressed domain using features available in MPEG videos. DCT domain background subtraction in Y plane is used to locate candidate objects in subsequent I-frames after a user has marked an object of interest in the given frame. DCT domain histogram matching using Cb and Cr planes and motion vectors are used to selec...

background: bilingual individuals reported that they experience more intensive emotions in native language. this study tries to investigate this claim psychophysiologicaly. the effect of age and second language acquisition context on physiological appearances of first and second languages were also investigated.   methods: 60turkish and kurdish bilinguals were explored. the emotional stimuli em...