The Giant Sequoia played several crucial roles in the founding of the modern science of tree -ring dating. These included at least two central theoretical constructs and at least two minor ones; however, historical studies of dendrochronology are actively continuing and this list is expected to expand. Second only to the importance of the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) in the earliest days of...

We propose a correspondence between the physics of certain small charge black holes in AdSk × Sl and large charge black holes in AdSl × Sk. The curvature singularities of these solutions arise, following Myers and Tafjord, from a condensate of giant gravitons. When the number of condensed giants Ng is much greater than the number of background branes N , we propose that the system has an equiva...

In this paper‎, ‎we suggest a fifth order convergence three-step method for solving system of nonlinear equations‎. ‎Each iteration of the method requires two function evaluations‎, ‎two first Fr'{e}chet derivative evaluations and two matrix inversions‎. ‎Hence‎, ‎the efficiency index is $5^{1/({2n+4n^{2}+frac{4}{3}n^{3}})}$‎, ‎which is better than that of other three-step methods‎. ‎The advant...

this paper presents approximate analytical solutions for nonlinear oscillators using the multi-step homotopy analysis method (msham). the proposed scheme is only a simple modification of the homotopy analysis method, in which it is treated as an algorithm in a sequence of small intervals (i.e. time step) for finding accurate approximate solutions to the corresponding problems. several illustrat...

We introduce a class of supersymmetric cycles in spacetimes of the form AdS times a sphere or T 1,1 which can be considered as generalizations of the giant gravitons. Branes wrapped on these cycles preserve 12 , 1 4 or 1 8 of the supersymmetry. On the CFT side these configurations correspond to superpositions of the large number of BPS states. On leave from the Institute of Theoretical and Expe...

in this study, a new efficient semi-analytical method is introduced to give approximate solutions of strongly nonlinear oscillators. the proposed method is based on combination of two different methods, the multi-step homotopy analysis method and spectral method, called the multi-step spectral homotopy analysis method (msham). in this method, firstly, we propose a new spectral homotopy analysis...

Movement sensitive giant neurons in the lobula plate of the fly (H,-neurons, V-neurons) are affected by low con­ centrations of volatile anesthetics (halothane, N20): the spike frequency generated by motion in the preferred di­ rection decreases, that in the opposite direction increases. This means that the response to the motion stimulus de­ fined as the spike frequency modulation decreases. H...