We describe the present status of the pion distribution amplitude as originated from two sources: (i) a nonperturbative approach, based on QCD sum rules with nonlocal condensates, and (ii) a NLO QCD analysis of the CLEO data on Fγγ ∗π(Q2), supplemented by the E791 data on diffractive dijet production, and the JLab F(pi) data on the pion electromagnetic form factor. 1. PION DISTRIBUTION AMPLITUD...

Plasmonic materials currently have a plethora of applications. How would dielectric matrix, such as diblock copolymers, tune plasmonic properties? In this work, self-assembled gold nanoparticles were fabricated in medium vacuum conditions on heated Corning glass substrates (kept at 440 °C) under the coexistence argon and air by means DC magnetron sputtering. These samples compared structurally ...

Reaction of [Co(TC-n,m)]+ with (Me4N)(SC6F5), where (TC-n,m) is a tropocoronand with n and m linker chain methylene groups, yielded the thiolate complexes [Co(SC6F5)(TC-3,3)] (1a), and [Co(SC6F5)(TC-4,4)] (2a), which were structurally characterized. Use of more electron-releasing thiolates afforded the [Co(TC-n,m)] reduction product and the corresponding disulfide. The bent nitrosyl complexes [...

For a fixed density matrix it is natural to ask what class of ensembles $pi ,uc i&% gives rise to that density matrix? This problem was addressed by Schrödinger @3#, whose results have been extended by Jaynes @4#, and by Hughston, Jozsa, and Wootters @5#. The result of these investigations, the classification theorem for ensembles, has been of considerable utility in quantum statistical mechani...

This paper presents a crowd detection system based on texture analysis. The state-of-the-art techniques based on co-occurrence matrix have been revisited and a novel set of features proposed. These features provide a richer description of the co-occurrence matrix, and can be exploited to obtain stronger classification results, especially when smaller portions of the image are considered. This i...

A K(pi)=13+, 280 ns four-quasiparticle isomer in the odd-odd nucleus 174Lu has been identified and characterized. The isomer decays to both K(pi)=7(+) and K(pi)=0(+) rotational bands obtained from the parallel and antiparallel coupling of the proton 7/2+[404] and neutron 7/2+[633] orbitals. K mixing caused by particle-rotation coupling explains the anomalously fast transition rates to the 7+ ba...

There has been a recent focus in reinforcement learning on addressing continuous state and action problems by optimizing parameterized policies. PI is a recent example of this approach. It combines a derivation from first principles of stochastic optimal control with tools from statistical estimation theory. In this paper, we consider PI as a member of the wider family of methods which share th...

where μ(Pi,Pj) = ∑ ck∈Pi,cl∈Pj σ(ck, cl). We now transform this simplified VCtoS problem into the quadratic assignment (QAP) problem, which is known to be NP-hard [SG76], as follows. Given n facilities denoted by set NF , n locations denoted by set NL, a flow matrix A, where each entry Aij represents the flow of materials moving from facility i to facility j, and a distance matrix D, where each...

The de-N-acetylation of N-acetyl-D-glucosaminylphosphatidylinositol (GlcNAc-PI) is the second step of mammalian and trypanosomal glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis. Glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis is essential for Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, and GlcNAc-PI de-N-acetylase has previously been validated as a drug target. Inhibition of the t...

An affiliation network consists of actors and events. Actors are affiliated with each other by virtue of the events they mutually attend. This article introduces a family of affiliation measures that captures the extent of actors‘ affiliations in the network. At one extreme, one might have an actor who attended many events, but none of these events were attended by any of the other actors in th...