We study chiral symmetry structure at finite density and temperature in the presence of external magnetic field and gravity, a situation relevant in the early Universe and in the core of compact stars. We then investigate the dynamical evolution of phase transition in the expanding early Universe and possible formation of quark nuggets and their survival.

The recent experimental indications of density dependence in the pion decay constant f π and ω meson mass m ⋆ ω and the discovery of S (3115) and other strange “nuggets” are providing a strong support for kaon condensation in dense hadronic matter, thereby re-kindling the interest in the issue of the critical stable mass of neutron stars. The density-dependent quantities provide increases in th...

Astrophysical bounds on the properties and abundances of primordial quark nuggets and cosmic ray strangelets are reviewed. New experiments to search for cosmic ray strangelets in lunar soil and from the International Space Station are described. Analogies with baryonic and supersymmetric Q-balls are briefly mentioned, as are prospects for strangelets as ultra-high energy cosmic rays.

In this paper we describe automatic information nuggetization and its application to text comparison. More specifically, we take a close look at how machine-generated nuggets can be used to create evaluation material. A semiautomatic annotation scheme is designed to produce gold-standard data with exceptionally high inter-human agreement.

In August 2004, “Nuggets from NSSE” summarized a number of key findings gleaned from the responses of KSU’s first-year and senior students to the individual items on the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). In November, NSSE released the Institutional Benchmark Report which contained multi-item institutional scores for KSU on five clusters or benchmarks of effective educational pr...

In the present study the effect of Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) added to predust and batters of Talang queen fish (Scomberoides commersonnianus) nugget on the quality and its shelf life during four months of frozen storage were evaluated. The treatments consisted of control (without HPMC in coating), A (with 2%HPMC in pre-dust), B (with 2%HPMC in batter) and C (with 1% HPMC in pre-dust ...

Tuna is an adequate source of animal protein tall. Animal-based food ingredients such as tuna have high content but low in fiber so it necessary to add materials that contain meet the nutrients body needs. Fiber contained plant vegetables and nuts, one which found green spinach. Nutritional spinach quite availability many ingredients, provide opportunities be utilized processing diversification...