Although the evidence for neutrino oscillation is growing year after year, the final proof that the observed anomalies are due to oscillation is still outstanding. Alternative models (neutrino decay, potential decoherence effect, influence of large extra-dimensions) to explain the SuperKamiokande (SK) atmospheric neutrinos results have been proposed. On the experimental side, as pointed out als...

By using electron beam lithography, we fabricated pairs of gold nanoparticles with varying interparticle separation. Double-beam femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy was used to determine the coherent lattice oscillation frequency as a function of the interparticle separation in the presence of the plasmon field excited by the monitoring probe light. We found that the fractional shift ...

The dynamical evolution of Classical Kuiper Belt Objects (CKBOs) divides into two parts, according to the secular theory of test particle orbits. The first part is a forced oscillation driven by the planets, while the second part is a free oscillation whose amplitude is determined by the initial orbit of the test particle. We extract the free orbital inclinations and free orbital eccentricities...

BACKGROUND Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) was originally identified as a paroxysm proliferator activated receptor-α target gene product and is a hormone involved in metabolic regulation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the diurnal variation of serum FGF21 concentration in obese and non-obese healthy volunteers. METHODS Blood samples were collected from five non-obese (body m...

We propose the deterministic dynamics of a free particle in a physical vacuum, which is considered as a discrete (quantum) medium. The motion of the particle is studied taking into account its interactions with the medium. It is assumed that this interaction results in the appearance of special virtual excitations, called ”inertons,” in the vacuum medium in the surroundings of the canonical par...

In this paper, we consider a second-order singularly perturbed differential-difference equations with mixed delay and advance parameters. At first, we approximate the model problem by an upwind finite difference scheme on a Shishkin mesh. We know that the upwind scheme is stable and its solution is oscillation free, but it gives lower order of accuracy. So, to increase the convergence, we propo...

Abstract The quasi‐biennial oscillation (QBO) impacts the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) activity with a stronger MJO in QBO easterly (QBOE) than westerly (QBOW) winters. However, this relationship is poorly represented current generation climate models. For first time, paper applies stratospheric zonal‐mean nudging subseasonal prediction system to capture it. Two strong cases QBO‐neutral wint...

We investigated the influence of the relative humidity on amplitude and phase of the cantilever oscillation while operating an atomic force microscope ~AFM! in the tapping mode. If the free oscillation amplitude A0 exceeds a certain critical amplitude Ac , the amplitudeand phase-distance curves show a transition from a regime with a net attractive force between tip and sample to a net repulsive...