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S.R. Lewis letter to Z. Eastman, March 5, 1874
No full textBrief letter from S.R. Lewis to Z. Eastman, marking the announcement of an abolitionists' reunion to be held in Chicago in June of 1875. Lewis requests that Eastman, given his close acquaintance with Benjamin Lundy, prepare a public statement of remembrance on Lundy and his contributions to the anti-slavery movement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Modelling and optimization of a permanent-magnet machine in a flywheel
No full textThis thesis describes the derivation of an analytical model for the design and optimization of a permanent-magnet machine for use in an energy storage flywheel. A prototype of this flywheel is to be used as the peak-power unit in a hybrid electric city bus. The thesis starts by showing the feasibility of using a flywheel energy storage system for this application, as opposed to other energy storage technologies. It then continues by describing a prototype flywheel system and the required electrical machine: a radial-flux external-rotor permanent-magnet synchronous machine without slots in the stator iron and with a shielding cylinder. An analytical model for the machine is derived, based on 2D electromagnetic field calculations, including the reaction field of the eddy currents in the shielding cylinder. Torque and losses are calculated by means of the Theorem of Poynting and the Lorentz force. Such a machine was built and the analytical model has been validated by experimental measurements. Lastly, the thesis suggests and implements a machine optimization algorithm.Information Technology and System
Hadronic decays of the D/sub s/ meson
No full textThe D/sub s//sup +/ is the lowest-lying pseudoscalar meson containing charm and anti-strange quarks. Evidence for this state was first reported in 1977, although more recent observations disagree with some of the early results. Since 1983 the weakly decaying D/sub s//sup +/ has been observed in many experiments. Relative branching fractions have been measured for many non-leptonic decay modes, including D/sub s//sup +/ /yields/ /phi//pi//sup +/, /phi//pi//sup +//pi//sup +//pi//sup /minus//, /bar K/*/sup 0/K/sup +/, and f/sub 0/(975)/pi//sup +/. The absolute branching fractions are estimated in high energy e/sup +/e/sup /minus// annihilation from the observed numbers of reconstructed D/sub s//sup +/ decays and the expected D/sub s//sup +/ production cross section. The lowest-lying vector c/bar s/ meson, the D/sub s/*/sup +/, has also been seen in its decay to /gamma/D/sub s//sup +/. Weak decays of the heavy quark and lepton flavors are relevant to the development of the Standard Model of both the electroweak and the strong interactions. Measurements of charmed particle weak decay are useful for determining the parameter of the Standard Model and for testing phenomenological models which include strong effects. 83 refs., 56 figs., 12 tabs
Design metrics for evaluating the propulsive efficiency of future ships
No full textThere is an increasing need for the ship design process to take account of environmental issues such as the emission of greenhouse gases and the likely extension of a carbon dioxide charging mechanism to international shipping. These issues, together with the need for economic viability, provide further incentives to improve the efficiency of propulsion of ships. The main components of powering are firstly reviewed. Individual components and other power saving devices are identified which should contribute to improvements in the overall efficiency of propulsion. Suitable design metrics and procedures, taking into account economic and environmental factors, are recommended for the design of future ships
Description of S.R. Krom's system and machinery for dry crushing and concentrating ores.
No full textCover title.Mode of access: Internet.MAIN; TN500.K7 1876: Introduction signed by author, S.R. Krom
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Results on D and D/sub s/ decays from Mark III
No full textThe decays D/sup 0/ /yields/ /pi//sup /minus//e/sup +//nu//sub e/ and D/sup 0/ /yields/ K/sup /minus//e/sup +//nu//sub e/ are observed in a sample of e/sup +/e/sup /minus// /yields/ /psi/(3770) events collected with the Mark III detector at SPEAR. The branching fractions B(D/sup 0/ /yields/ /pi//sup /minus//e/sup +//nu//sub e/) = (0.39/sub /minus/0.11//sup +0.23//plus minus/0.04)% and B(D/sup 0/ /yields/ K/sup /minus//e/sup +//nu//sub e/) = (3.4/plus minus/0.5/plus minus/0.4)% are measured. The ratio of Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements V/sub cd//V/sub cs/ /sup 2/ = (0.057/sub /minus/0.015//sup +0.0.38//plus minus/0.005) is obtained under the assumption that the form factors f/sub +//sup K/(0) and f/sub +//sup /pi// are equal. A study of the absolute D/sub s//sup +/ hadronic branching fractions is made by searching for fully reconstructed e/sup +/e/sup /minus// /yields/ D/sub s//sup /asterisk//plus minus//D/sub s//sup /minus plus// events at /radical/s = 4.14 GeV. The 90% confidence level limit B(D/sub s//sup +/ /yields/ /phi//pi//sup +/) < 5.9% is established. 23 refs., 2 figs
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Results on charmed meson decays from Mark III
No full textWe report recent results on charmed meson decays, obtained using the Mark III detector at SPEAR. The first topic discussed is the observation of e/sup +/e/sup -/ ..-->.. D/sub s/D/sub s/* at ..sqrt..s = 4.14 GeV. The D/sub s/* is detected as a peak in the mass distribution recoiling from D/sub s//sup + -/ ..-->.. phi..pi../sup + -/. The mass of the D/sub s/* is found to be (2109.3 +- 2.1 +- 3.1)MeV/c/sup 2/, yielding a D/sub s/*-D/sub s/ mass difference of (137.9 +- 2.1 +- 4.3) MeV/c/sup 2/. The production cross section times branching ratio is also measured. Next, a search for the decay D/sup +/ ..-->.. ..mu../sup +/nu/sub ..mu../ is described. A preliminary upper limit (90% CL) on B(D/sup +/ ..-->.. ..mu../sup +/nu/sub ..mu../) of 8.4 x 10/sup -4/ is obtained, corresponding to an upper limit on the decay constant f/sub D/ of 340 MeV/c/sup 2/. Finally, we present results of a search for the lepton family number violating decay D/sup 0/ ..-->.. ..mu..e. We find B(D/sup 0/ ..-->.. ..mu..e) < 1.5 x 10/sup -4/ at 90% CL
Refinement of solutions to the linear complimentarity problem
No full textNash equilibrium;game theaory;matrices
Toward more efficient heuristic construction of Boolean functions
No full textBoolean functions have numerous applications in domains as diverse as coding theory, cryptography,and telecommunications. Heuristics play an important role in the construction of Boolean functions with the desired properties for a specific purpose. However, there are only sparse results trying to understand the problem’s difficulty. With this work, we aim to address this issue. We conduct a fitness landscape analysis based on Local Optima Networks (LONs) and investigate the influence of different optimization criteria and variation operators. We observe that the naive fitness formulation results in the largest networks of local optima with disconnected components. Also, the combination of variation operators can both increase or decrease the network size. Most importantly, we observe correlations of local optima’s fitness, their degrees of interconnection, and the sizes of the respective basins of attraction. This can be exploited to restart algorithms dynamically and influence the degree of perturbation of the current best solution when restarting.Domagoj Jakobovic, Stjepan Picek, Marcella S.R. Martins, Markus Wagne
Correction to: Clinical Trials in High-Risk Medulloblastoma: Evolution of the SIOP-Europe HR-MB Trial (Cancers, (2022), 14, 2, (374), 10.3390/cancers14020374)
No full text\ua9 2024 by the authors.In the original publication [1], the funder Cancer Research UK, A2524 was not included. Keith Wheatley, Simon Gates, and Victoria Homer were not included as authors in the original publication. The reason we would like to add the authors is that the statistical element of the trial and the trial design were in a large part done by the statistical authors and the team were necessary for the running of the trial. The corrected Author Contributions Statement appears here. Author Contributions: Conceptualization, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., K.W., S.R. and S.C.C.; methodology, K.W., S.G. and V.H.; project administration, S.G. and V.H.; resources, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., S.R. and S.C.C.; writing—original draft preparation, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., S.R. and S.C.C.; writing—review and editing, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., S.R. and S.C.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. Author Contributions: Conceptualization, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., K.W., S.R. and S.C.C.; methodology, K.W., S.G. and V.H.; project administration, S.G. and V.H.; resources, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., S.R. and S.C.C.; writing—original draft preparation, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., S.R. and S.C.C.; writing—review and editing, S.B., N.A., L.G., M.M., S.R. and S.C.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birimingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; [email protected](K.W.); [email protected] (S.G.); [email protected] (V.H.) The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated
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