Viscosities of binary solutions of non-electrolytes

Viscosities and molar volumes of binary solutions,viz., Toluene-Nitrobenzene, Toluene-Bromobenzene, Toluene-Cyclohexanone, Cyclohexane-Cyclohexanone, Cyclohexane-Nitrobenzene, Cyclohexane-Acetic acid, Cyclohexane-Propionic acid and Cyclohexane-Butyric acid have been measured. The experimental results have been discussed in terms of viscosity-composition relations developed for binary solutions by Grunberg and Nissan and Katti and Chaudhri.     

The new physiology of vision

Exchange of intensities among various spectra of Mn²⁺ in NaCl single crystal, corresponding to Mn⁺² ion associated with various point defects, is described as a function of temperature and time. The variation of line width with temperature is discussed. The fine structure parameter D for a particular spectrum is measured with temperature and is shown to behave like D=D₀ (1+bT+cT²). Thermal formation of new complexes and their lifetimes are discussed. A new short-lived complex is found and a model for the same is suggested.     

BISTAB: A portable bifurcation and stability analysis package

A portable bifurcation and stability analysis package, called BISTAB, is described. The package is written in FORTRAN V and can follow the connected set of equilibrium curves for a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations in the state × parameter space by varying a bifurcation parameter. The curves are traced from an initial point with the continuation method of Kubicek, and the tangent method of Keller is used to find initial points on bifurcating curves near simple bifurcation points. Linearized stability analysis, location of Hopf bifurcation points, and sorting of points for plotting are also supported. While the package contains no new numerical methods, the lack of a requirement for any derivative information higher than the Jacobian makes BISTAB computationally efficient and useful for applied problems where nonnumerical bifurcation analysis may be difficult.     

Canonical commutation relation for operators with bounded spectrum

A solution is obtained for the problem of the canonical commutation relation of the angular momentum operator and the phase.     

Quantum mechanics in finite dimensions

We explicitly compute, following the method of Weyl, the commutator [Q, P] of the position operatorQ and the momentum operatorP of a particle when the dimension of the space on which they act is finite with a discrete spectrum; and we show that in the limit of a continuous spectrum with the dimension going to infinity this reduces to the usual relation of Heisenberg.     

Aspects of Rich Accessibility User Experiences

We present an approach to providing broad-based accessibility to graphical applications by employing the capabilities of the Eclipse platform and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) in a way that leverages the strengths of each. We first describe the Eclipse platform and the variety of frameworks that can be useful to the effort. We also present the advantages of aspect-oriented programming and contrast aspect-oriented programming with object-oriented programming (OOP). Then, we discuss how to use the Eclipse frameworks and AOP in the design of accessible Eclipse-based applications and share some situations of when to leverage these frameworks and when we do not from the perspective of robustness and efficiency.