This paper considers warm inflation as an interesting application of multifield inflation. Delta-N formalism is used for the calculation of the evolution of the curvature perturbations during warm inflation. Although the perturbations considered in this paper are decaying after the horizon exit, the corrections to the curvature perturbations sourced by these perturbations can remain and dominat...

The adoption of the polygraph instrument and its related methods and procedures were not introduced to the People's Republic of China (PRC) until late in the 20th century. Although the use of these methods was slow to begin, the use of the polygraph and its application in the day-to-day activities of many investigators at the different levels of government has grown quickly in the last decade. ...

We construct a model of industry evolution in which the central force for change is the creation and destruction of submarkets. Firms expand when they are able to exploit new opportunities that arrive in the form of submarkets; they contract and ultimately exit when the submarkets in which they operate are destroyed. This simple framework can transparently explain a wide range of well-known reg...

We present a new method for solving the BFKL evolution applicable at both leading and next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, and tailored to the study of QCD multijet events at colliders. We utilise this to discuss corrections to the standard analysis. There are known, large corrections from energy and momentum conservation. We show that, despite claims to the contrary in the literature, these a...

Opinions about the value of biological control are often extreme. Colloquially, biological control most often refers to classical biological control, in which one species is introduced from another region to control pests such as arthropod herbivores in agricultural systems, or weeds in managed and natural systems. As such, biological control has the potential to be a low-cost, chemical free, m...

To make a case for or against a trend in the evolution of complexity in biological evolution, complexity needs to be both rigorously defined and measurable. A recent information-theoretic (but intuitively evident) definition identifies genomic complexity with the amount of information a sequence stores about its environment. We investigate the evolution of genomic complexity in populations of d...

The construction of an Information System takes several years. Part of the solution is in the improvement of methods technique and tools to adapt systems. In this context, we propose an evolution process at the requirement level based on the concept of gap. This approach allows, on the one hand, thanks to the abstraction mechanism to focus only on goals and ways to achieve them avoiding the det...

This paper argues that quantitative process models must be considered essential to support sustained improvement of E-type software evolution processes and summarises some of the experiences gained in the FEAST projects to date. Modelling guidelines are provided.

■ Abstract Growth of the Japanese arc system, which has mainly taken place along the continental margin of Asia since the Permian, is the result of subduction of the ancient Pacific ocean floor. Backarc basin formation in the Tertiary shaped the presentday arc configuration. The neotectonic regime, which is characterized by strong eastwest compression, has been triggered by the eastward motion ...