I have studied a number of visual phenomena that Lothar Spillmann has already elucidated. These include: Neon spreading: when a small red cross is superimposed on intersecting black lines, the red cross seems to spread out into an illusory disk. Unlike the Hermann grid, neon spreading is relatively unaffected when the black lines are curved or wiggly. This suggests that the Hermann grid, but no...

We make new Non-LTE calculations to deduce abundances of neon from visible-regionéchelle spectra of selected Ne i lines in 7 normal stars and 20 HgMn stars. We find that the best strong blend-free Ne line which can be used at the lower end of the T eff range is λ6402, although several other potentially useful Ne i lines are found in the red region of the spectra of these stars. The mean neon ab...

The 12A00 2 XA 0 1 electronic transition of the B3 molecule with origin band at 5990 cm 1 has been observed in a 6 K neon matrix. A vibrational progression in the spectrum corresponds to the excitation of the m1ða1Þ vibrational mode in the 1 A 00 2 state with a frequency of 1092 cm . The band system was detected after laser ablation of a boron rod and the origin band also after mass-selected de...

The NA62 RICH detector is used for the separation of pions and muons in the momentum range 15 – 35 GeV/c and is expected to provide a muon suppression factor better than 10−2. A prototype of the final detector equipped with about 400 PMs (RICH-400 prototype) was built and tested in a dedicated run in 2009. The π−μ separation was tested, as well as the effect of the pollution of the neon radiato...

Ontologies are considered a key technology enabling semantic interoperability and integration of data and processes. We are now entering a phase of knowledge system development, in which ontologies are produced in larger numbers and exhibit greater complexity. Also we have witnessed an increasing need for technologies that enable the reuse of existing (Semantic) Web resources from within the on...

The recent downward revision of the solar photospheric abundances now leads to severe inconsistencies between the theoretical predictions for the internal structure of the Sun and the results of helioseismology. There have been claims that the solar neon abundance may be underestimated and that an increase in this poorly-known quantity could alleviate (or even completely solve) this problem. Ea...

We investigated the difference in cell-killing effect and mutation induction between carbon- and neon-ion beams in normal human cells. Carbon- and neon-ion beams were accelerated by the Riken Ring Cyclotron (RRC) at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Japan. Cell-killing effect was measured as the reproductive cell death using the colony formation assay. Mutation induction at the...