Quark confinement in Buchmüller’s picture of a rotating flux tube is reconsidered in the context of a minimum area evaluation of the Wilson loop. The question is asked whether resulting spin independent dynamics are consistent with Thomas precessional spin dependence leading from electric confinement. The answer appears to be in the negative; self-consistency of the picture found in the literat...

We consider a Laplace operator on a random graph consisting of infinitely many loops joined symmetrically by intervals of unit length. The arc lengths of the loops are considered to be independent, identically distributed random variables. The integrated density of states of this Laplace operator is shown to have discontinuities provided that the distribution of arc lengths of the loops has a n...

Quark confinement in Buchmüller’s picture of a rotating flux tube is reconsidered in the context of a minimum area evaluation of the Wilson loop. The question is asked whether resulting spin independent dynamics are consistent with Thomas precessional spin dependence leading from electric confinement. The answer appears to be in the negative; self-consistency of the picture found in the literat...

This study examines how adults pay attention to cognitive and affective illustrations on a cancer-related webpage and explores age differences in the attention to these cognitive and affective webpages. Results of an eyetracking experiment (n = 20) showed that adults spent more time attending to the illustrations on the cognitive webpage than the illustrations on the affective webpage. Furtherm...

Purpose: Inaccurate portrayals of nurses and their roles in the media contribute to misleading public stereotypes that negatively affect status value nurses. This study aims clarify how are portrayed visually on Internet Japan what these images suggest about role, value, professional Japan. Methods: A descriptive mixed methods study: Forty photographs 40 illustrations were analysed make judgmen...

Hatching lines are often used in line illustrations to convey tone and texture of a surface. In this report an approach for rendering hatched line drawings for polygonal meshes is presented.The proposed method allows the generation of hatching lines for interactive on-screen display as well as for vector-based printer output.We use local curvature information to compute streamlines on the surfa...

Traditionally, in technical expository writing, illustrations are treated as adjuncts to the text where the reader is referred to the illustrations by the text which describes or explains the illustration rather than being tightly integrated into the narrative. Recent research in cognitive psychology is producing a new set of guidelines that define how to effectively use illustrations. Based on...

The variety described here is representative of colloquial Assamese spoken in the eastern districts of Assam.1 Assam is a North-Eastern state of India, therefore Assamese and creoles of Assamese like Nagamese are spoken in the different North-Eastern states of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and also the neighbouring country of Bhutan. Approximately 15 million people speak Assamese in I...

Statistical procedures underpin the process of scientific discovery. As researchers, one way we use these procedures is to test the validity of a null hypothesis. Often, we test the validity of more than one null hypothesis. If we fail to use an appropriate procedure to account for this multiplicity, then we are more likely to reach a wrong scientific conclusion-we are more likely to make a mis...

In this paper we describe a project that integrates a non-photorealistic rendering pipeline into an existing CAD system. The pipeline enables the customers of the CAD company to create aesthetically appealing renderings in addition to the classical CAD output. Since these customers are operating in the high-quality segment of furniture and interior design, the visual style of the sales brochure...