COMPARED TO SOME OF ITS EAST ASIAN NEIGHBORS, SUCH AS SOUTH Korea and Japan, Taiwan’s party system has been much more stable over the last two decades. Remarkably, the same two parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), dominate the party scene in 2012 as in 1986. The year 1986 was particularly significant as it was the first election in which the KMT faced a genuine ...

The dense plasma focus device is one of the few fusion systems that is capable of burning advanced fuels such as D – He and p – B. An study has been performed and shown that three main requirements must be satisfied to reach breakeven for DPF fusion: a high Ti/Te ration (~ 20), an order of magnitude higher pinch lifetime, and the reflection and absorption if at least 50% Bremsstrahlung radiatio...

One of the most critical parameters in characterization of gas condensate reservoirs is dew point pressure (DPP), and its accurate determination is a challenging task in development and management of these reservoirs. Experimental measurement of DPP is a costly and time consuming method. Therefore, searching for a quick, reliable, inexpensive, and robust algorithm for determination of DPP is of...

The search reaches for new gauge bosons at future hadron and lepton colliders are summarized for a variety of extended gauge models. Experiments at these energies will vastly improve over present limits and will easily discover a Z ′ and/or W ′ in the multi-TeV range. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study on New Directions for High Energy Physics-Snowmass96, Snowmass, CO...

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Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of photometric redshift errors and their distributions, including identification of likely catastrophic failures in photo-z estimates. We consider several methods of estimating photo-z errors and propose...

For deuteron scattering from 58Ni at laboratory energies of 56, 79, and 120 MeV, we study the dynamic polarization potentials (DPPs) induced by S-wave andD-wave breakup (BU), separately and together, in order to gain insight into the nature of the DPP as well as a counterintuitive property: the existence of L values for which the BU coupling increases |SL|, a ‘wrong-way’ effect. The effect is a...

We discuss the most recent calculations of the top quark total cross section and transverse momentum distributions at the Tevatron and the LHC. These calculations include the soft-gluon corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). The soft NNLO corrections stabilize the scale dependence of the cross section. Presented at DPF 2004, Riverside, California, August 26-31, 2004.

This paper discusses a pair of experiments in which groups of consumer photographers were given the opportunity to crop and zoom their pictures. In the first of these studies, a group of 33 customers were intercepted as they obtained their print orders from their photofinisher. While reviewing their prints, the participants were asked which of their pictures they would like to zoom and crop. Th...

Using hadronic ZO decays recorded by the SLD experiment at SLAC, we have measured the vector/ (vector+pseudoscalar) production ratio, V/(V + P), for the prompt charmed mesons, D*+ and D+ Using the channels D*+ ~ D“n$ , Do + Ii–T+, and Do _ li-–T~n–T~ , as well as D+ ~ Ii’– T~T– , we f ind V/(V + P) = 0.61 + 0.09( .stat.) + 0.03(BR), which disfavors the expectation of 0.75 from naive spin-counti...