The ferrite plating a method synthesizing ferrite films from an aqueous solution -has developed lately as follows; (1) Applying power ultrasound to aqueous solution improves the qualities of ferrite coating on polymer microspheres much, (2) similarity is found between mechanisms of the ferrite plating and bacterial FesO4 ( magnetsome) synthesis, (3) using highly alkaline (pH=13) solution contai...

Basic developments in the analytic study of the QCD vacuum structure and of the QCD spectrum, including glueballs and hybrids are reviewed.

We here present some recent developments of MadGraph/MadEvent since the latest published version, 4.0. These developments include: Jet matching with Pythia parton showers for both Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model processes, decay chain functionality, decay width calculation and decay simulation, process generation for the Grid, a package for calculation of quarkonium amplitudes, cal...

Ancient DNA research is on the crest of a 'third wave' of progress due to the introduction of a new generation of DNA sequencing technologies. Here we review the advantages and disadvantages of the four new DNA sequencers that are becoming available to researchers. These machines now allow the recovery of orders of magnitude more DNA sequence data, albeit as short sequence reads. Hence, the pot...

We study models of inflation where the inflaton corresponds to a flat direction in field space and its mass term is generated by gravity mediated soft supersymmetry breaking at high scale. Assuming the inflaton to have non negligible couplings to other fields, its mass runs with scale and can reach the small value required by slow roll inflation at a lower scale, even if its initial value is to...

The reconstruction conjecture claims that every graph on at least three vertices is uniquely determined by its collection of vertex deleted subgraphs. Even though it is one of the foremost unsolved problems in Graph Theory, work on it has slowed down, may be due to the general feeling that existing techniques are not likely to lead to a complete solution. Here we give the results that have appe...

In this paper we discuss ongoing activity within the approach to natural language processing known as ontological semantics, as defined in Nirenburg and Raskin (forthcoming). After a brief discussion of the principal tenets on which this approach is built, and a revision of extant implementations that have led toward its present form, we concentrate on some specific aspects that are key to the ...

After allogeneic stem cell transplantation, the establishment of the donor's immune system in an antigenically distinct recipient confers a therapeutic graft-versus-malignancy effect, but also causes graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and protracted immune dysfunction. In the last decade, a molecular-level description of alloimmune interactions and the process of immune recovery leading to tolera...

Hay and pasture crops are critical to Kentucky Agriculture and to that of the entire temperate region of the US. The sale of cattle, calves and dairy products provide 29% of Kentucky's farm income compared with 23% for tobacco. Beef cowcalf enterprises comprise the majority of cattle numbers in the state, however, dairy production is also significant. A substantial horse industry also exists in...

We review new findings and new theoretical developments in the field of intelligence. New findings include the following: (a) Heritability of IQ varies significantly by social class. (b) Almost no genetic polymorphisms have been discovered that are consistently associated with variation in IQ in the normal range. (c) Much has been learned about the biological underpinnings of intelligence. (d) ...