Deutsche Version unter: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1055/s-0042-108897 1. We welcome the fact that the Board of the D.I.R rated 4 of the 5 criticisms as “not altogether wrong” and repeatedly indicated that our criticism was justified (“Kadi and Wiesing pointed out [...] rightly...”). That the Board has again stated that the approach of the D.I.R is “considered exemplary, also by international standar...

Neurological reports of "tactile blindsight" suggest that the human somatosensory system can extract behaviorally useful information about the location of a tactile stimulus in the absence of conscious awareness that the stimulus occurred (Paillard et al., 1983; Rossetti et al., 1995). However, in a series of psychophysical experiments with neurologically intact subjects, we found no evidence f...

Highlights are presented mainly from two recent measurements of the diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering cross section at HERA. In the first, the process ep → eXp is studied by tagging the leading final state proton. In the second, events of this type are selected by requiring a large rapidity gap devoid of hadronic activity in the proton direction. The two measurements are compared in detail ...

We report on the calculation of the factorisable one-loop weak-interaction corrections to the initial and final states for three-jet observables in electron-positron annihilations. We show that whereas such corrections are negligibly small at LEP energies they are significantly enhanced at a future Linear Collider, where we argue that they may be similar in size to the two-loop QCD effects. The...

An exact solution has an axial symmetry is obtained in the teleparallel theory of grav-itation. The associated metric has the structure function G(ξ) = 1 − ξ 2 − 2mAξ 3. The cubic nature of the structure function can make calculations cumbersome. Using a coordinate transformation we get a tetrad that its associated metric has the structure function in a factorisable form. This new form has the ...

The first measurements of the diffractive structure function F D(3) 2 at HERA are discussed. A factorisable interpretation in which a partonic structure is assigned to the pomeron is investigated through QCD analyses in which both the quark and gluon densities are permitted to vary freely. A method of measuring the longitudinal structure function of the pomeron without changing the ep centre of...