Psychopathological reactions to solitary confinement were extensively described by nineteenth-century German clinicians. In the United States there have been several legal challenges to the use of solitary confinement, based on allegations that it may have serious psychiatric consequences. The recent medical literature on this subject has been scarce. The author describes psychiatric symptoms t...

The differential cross sections of the 208Pb(d, p)2MPb transitions to the states 9/2% 5/2+, l /2+ , 7/2+, and 3/2+ in 209Pb were measured at 135° laboratory angle for deuteron energies between 7.0 and 10.5 MeV. The data below 8.0 MeV were analyzed in COULOMB Wave B O R N Approximation to give accurate spectroscopic factors of the five levels according to a simple shell model potential in the fi...

Gate-induced quantum-confinement transition of a single dopant atom in a silicon FinFET" (2008). Birck and NCN Publications. Paper 129.

In this paper, we study the set of stationary solutions of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP) equation. This equation describes the time evolution of the probability distribution of a particle moving under the influence of a double-well potential, an interaction potential, a friction force and a stochastic force. We prove, under suitable assumptions, that the VFP equation does not have a unique sta...

Aims. Using the CoRoT space based photometry of the O-type binary HD 46149, stellar atmospheric effects related to rotation can be separated from pulsations, because they leave distinct signatures in the light curve. This offers the possibility of characterising and exploiting any pulsations seismologically. Methods. Combining high-quality space based photometry, multi-wavelength photometry, sp...

A general class of nonlinear evolution equations is described, which support stable spatially oscillatory steady solutions. These equations are composed of an indefinite self-adjoint linear operator acting on the solution plus a nonlinear function, a typical example of the latter being a double-well potential. Thus a Lyapunov functional exists. The linear operator contains a parameter ρ which c...

The majority of nearby early-type galaxies contains detectable amounts of emission-line gas at their centers. The emission-line ratios and gas kinematics potentially form a valuable diagnostic of the nuclear activity and gravitational potential well. The observed central gas velocity dispersion often exceeds the stellar velocity dispersion. This could be due to either the gravitational potentia...

I present here a microscopic theory for the superfluidity of 4 He (He II) derived from experiments, and answer its essential questions. With a " momenton " model, the superfluid is shown to feature as a " harmonic superfluid ". In which a new bonding type, the " superfluid bond " , is formed. Its activation causes the anomalous thermal excitation, the large excess of specific heat, etc. The sup...

A class of damped wave equations with superlinear source term is considered. It is shown that every global solution is uniformly bounded in the natural phase space. Global existence of solutions with initial data in the potential well is obtained. Finally, not only finite time blow up for solutions starting in the unstable set is proved, but also high energy initial data for which the solution ...

We add a Gauss-Bonnet term to the Einstein-Hilbert action and study the recent proposal to solve the cosmological constant problem. We also consider the possibility of adding a dilaton potential to the action. In the absence of supersymmetry, we obtain first order Bogomol'nyi equation as a solution-generating method in our scenario. When the coefficient of the Gauss-Bonnet term is positive, the...