A ZOMBIE IS quite simply a physical and functional duplicate of you or me, who differs from us only in that she does not possess consciousness or phenomenological experience. 1 In other words, we know what it is to feel pain, happiness, and anger; a zombie does not: she completely lacks such experience. Many philosophers have recently befriended zombies. That is to say, these philosophers belie...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess social support and psychological and physical states among Japanese patients with breast cancer and their spouses prior to surgery. DESIGN Descriptive, comparative, and correlational. SETTING A general hospital in northern Japan. SAMPLE 38 Japanese patients with breast cancer and their spouses (N = 76). METHODS The Japanese versions of three questionnaires w...

This short article concerns α-particle and/or nucleon widths for several states in 19F and 19Ne. It addresses questions arising from new experiments or calculations. Many of the states involved are of interest in connection with reaction-rate calculations in astrophysics. For each state, or set of states, we discuss the new information in the context of what was previously known. Our recent art...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between physical activity, health-related quality of life (HRQL), and psychosocial functioning (mood states, physical self-efficacy, social support) in adults with cerebral palsy (N = 51). The data was heavily skewed, with many participants reporting that they performed minimal physical activity and experienced low levels of phys...

Brane-like states are defined by physical vertex operators in NSR superstring theory, existing at nonzero pictures only. These states exist both in open and closed string theories, in the NS and NS-NS sectors respectively. In this paper we present a detailed analysis of their BRST properties, giving a proof that these vertex operators are physical, i.e. BRST invariant and BRST non-trivial.

One of the major scientific undertakings over the past few years has been exploring the interaction between humans and machines in mobile environments. Research projects have brought forth various possibilities of interaction between humans and computers. Our daily lives are becoming more and more pervasive: we now have smart devices with high computational power. Until now, there is no smart d...

In the temporal gauge formulation of a gauge theory, Gauss’s Law is imposed as a constraint on the physical states. In the (2 + l)-dimensional Abelian theory the states satisfying the constraint are wavefunctionals of the magnetic field; .moreover, acting on such states, the Hamiltonian is a function of the magnetic field and its canonical conjugate. There is a parallel in the non-Abelian theor...

In 30Mg, existing data for B(E2) strengths connecting the ground and excited 0+ states to the first 2+ state have been used, together with earlier shell-model predictions of normal and intruder E2 strengths, to estimate the intruder-normal state mixing in the 0+ and 2+ states. Resulting mixing is small, as expected, and for the ground state my value of 0.11(7) has a larger uncertainty, but is i...

Analysis of energies and widths of the lowest 1/2+ T = 3/2 states in A = 11 nuclei suggests that the excitation energy in 11C should be about 200 keV below the energy in the literature, and the width should be 4 to 5 times the literature value. Properties of the state in 11B and 11N are in agreement with the present model. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Fortune...

We have used a potential model, together with information from 13Be, to compute expected energies and widths for the first two positive-parity states of 13F. Results are (all in MeV) Ep = 2.30 and 4.94 (or 5.26), width ∼0.6 and 0.3 (or 0.4), for 1/2+ and 5/2+, respectively. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Fortune, H. T., & Sherr, R. (2012). Predictions for the f...