So what is the Tadpole Topaz and what does it have to offer? That would be a tough, rugged notebook computer with a large 15.1-inch 1400 x 1050 pixel sunlight-viewable display and enough performance to power through very demanding applications, delivering stunning graphics performance in the process. While the Topaz is compact and lightweight by military standards, that still means a 12-pound p...

We present a high-spectral-resolution and experimentally simple version of spectral interferometry using optical fibers and crossed beams, which we call SEA TADPOLE. Rather than using collinear unknown and reference pulses separated in time to yield spectral fringes-and reduced spectral resolution-as in current versions, we use time-coincident pulses crossed at a small angle to generate spatial...

A cDNA segment encoding the Ca2+-binding protein, parvalbumin, was isolated with the use of antibodies, from a lambda gtll expression library of Xenopus laevis tadpole poly(A)+ RNAs. The bacterially expressed beta-galactosidase-parvalbumin fusion protein of one lambda recombinant shows high affinity 45Ca2+ binding. The sequence of the tadpole parvalbumin is highly similar to previously characte...

A bstract The large volume scenario (LVS) for de Sitter compactifications of the type IIB string is, at least in principle, well protected from various unknown corrections. reason is that, by construction, Calabi-Yau exponentially large. However, as has recently been emphasised, practice most explicit models are rather on border parametric control. We identify and quantify parametrically what w...

_ The heavy quark-self-energy in nonrelativistic lattice QCD is calculated to O(cx,) in perturbation theory. An action which includes all spin-independent relativistic corrections to order v2, where v is the typical heavy quark velocity, and all @n-dependent corrections to order v4 is used. The standard Wilson action and . _ an improved multi-plaquette action are used for the gluons. Results fo...

The masses and dispersions of light hadrons are calculated in lattice QCD using an O(a) tadpole-improved gluon action and an O(a) tadpole-improved next-nearest-neighbor fermion action originally proposed by Hamber and Wu. Two lattices of constant volume with lattice spacings of approximately 0.40 fm and 0.24 fm are considered. The results reveal some scaling violations at the coarser lattice sp...