Innovative, knowledge-intensive products are essential for companies to stay competitive in a globalised market. For the development of such products, small and medium-sized enterprises combine their core competences and resources in dynamic, loosely coupled networks. The basis for efficient and robust production of the newly developed subject can already be provided in the early phases of such...

We show that in 3-3-1 models there exist a natural relation among the SU(3)L coupling constant g, the electroweak mixing angle θW , the mass of the W , and one of the vacuum expectation values, which implies that those models can be realized at low energy scales and, in particular, even at the electroweak scale. So that, being that symmetries realized in Nature, new physics may be really just a...

A gold-catalyzed mild and general oxidative homo-coupling of arenes using PhI(OAc)2 as the oxidant is described (13 examples, 31-81% yield).

A new scenario of hybrid-like inflation is considered for sneutrino and MSSM fields. Contrary to the usual hybrid inflation model, the direct coupling between a trigger field and the sneutrino/MSSM inflaton field is not necessary for the scenario. The dissipation and the radiation from the sneutrino/MSSM inflaton can be written explicitly by using the Yukawa couplings. Remote inflation does not...

The current status of the QCD coupling constant S and experimental and theoretical studies of hadronic jets are reviewed.

SUSY effects on various flavor changing neutral current processes are discussed in the minimal supergravity model and the SU(5) grand unified theory with righthanded neutrino supermultiplets. In particular, in the latter case the neutrino Yukawa coupling constants can be a source of the flavor mixing in the right-handeddown-type-squark sector. It is shown that due to this mixing the time-depend...

The Standard Model [1] contains one neutral scalar Higgs boson, which is a remnant of the mechanism that breaks the SU(2) × U(1) symmetry and generates the W and Z boson masses. The Higgs couples to quarks and leptons of mass m f with a strength gm f /2M W. Its coupling to W and Z bosons is of strength g, where g is the coupling constant of the SU(2) gauge theory. The branching ratio of the Hig...

In this survey paper, we describe and characterize an extension to the classical path coupling method applied to statistical mechanical models, referred to as aggregate path coupling. In conjunction with large deviations estimates, we use this aggregate path coupling method to prove rapid mixing of Glauber dynamics for a large class of statistical mechanical models, including models that exhibi...

In 1999 William Epstein was invited (by Ugo Savardi) to participate in a conference organized in Padua. The idea was to celebrate the work of Paolo Bozzi (1930 2003) and Epstein was asked to give a presentation on “percept-percept coupling”. This topic was close to Bozzi’s heart as it was related to his work on experimental phenomenology. Epstein had introduced the concept in 1982 in a paper wh...