Characterization of foreign exchange market using the threshold-dealer-model

We introduce a deterministic dealer model which implements most of the empirical laws, such as fat tails in the price change distributions, autocorrelation of price change and non-Poissonian intervals. We also clarify the causality between microscopic dealers’ dynamics and macroscopic market's empirical laws.     

Stability of human insulin in solutions containing sodium bisulfite.

The stabilities of human insulin (HI) in aqueous solutions were investigated in the pH range of 4.0-7.0 in the presence (1.0-3.0 x 10(-3) M) and absence of sodium bisulfite (SBS) both in the dark and under scattered light (1000 lux) using high performance liquid chromatography. Increasing concentrations of SBS tended to degrade HI. In the presence of SBS, with an increase in the pH value, the stability of HI decreased in the pH range of 4.0-7.0. There was a partial difference in the stability of HI in the presence of SBS in the dark and that under scattered light. HI was stabilized by glucose in the presence of SBS in the dark, and the stability of HI was revealed to depend on the concentration of free SBS. The reason for this phenomenon was postulated to be the formation of bisulfite-glucose adduct.     

丰中子核125Sb的高自旋态

利用在束γ谱学方法,通过¹²⁴Sn(⁷Li,α2n)反应首次研究了丰中子核¹²⁵Sb的高自旋态.建立了自旋达23/2⁺、激发能至2637keV的能级纲图,其中包括21条新γ跃迁和14个新能级.在1970,2110和2471keV识别出了3个同质异能态,估计了它们的寿命范围,并建议分别具有πg_7/2ν(h_11/2s_1/2),πg_7/2ν(h_11/2d_3/2),πg_7/2ν(h²_11/2)三准粒子组态.根据价质子与¹²⁴Sn核芯激发态的耦合讨论了¹²⁵Sb的能级结构.     

Preparation of self-assembled fluorinated molecular aggregates, fluorescein nanocomposites: an extremely enhanced light absorption in nanocomposites

Self-assembled fluorinated molecular aggregates formed by fluoroalkyl end-capped N-(1,1-dimethyl-3-oxobutyl)acrylamide oligomers, N,N-dimethylacrylamide oligomers, and acrylic acid oligomers in methanol could selectively recognize fluoresceins as guest molecules to form a new class of fluorinated aggregates-fluorescein nanocomposites. These fluorinated fluorescein nanocomposites that are obtained exhibit an extraordinarily enhanced light absorption (_max ca. 440 nm) compared to that (_maxs 452, 480 nm) of the parent fluorescein in the absence of fluorinated aggregates.     

A Network of Analog Metal Oxide Semiconductor Circuits for Motion Detection with Local Adaptation to a Background Image

Inspired by a mechanism of biological vision systems, a model and a network of analog metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) circuits are proposed which display an optical flow with local adaptation to the relative velocity of a background image. A function of displaying an optical flow successfully worked as a result of simulations using the simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE). A function of varying an optical flow at a certain instant by local adaptation was also demonstrated. The proposed network is suitable for the realization of a large-scale integrated circuit (LSI), which displays an optical flow with local adaptation to the local velocity of a background.     

B(0)-B(0) mixing in unquenched lattice QCD

We present an unquenched lattice calculation for the B(0)-B(0) transition amplitude. The calculation, carried out at an inverse lattice spacing 1/a=2.22(4) GeV, incorporates two flavors of dynamical quarks described by the O(a)-improved Wilson fermion action and heavy quarks described by nonrelativistic QCD. Particular attention is paid to the uncertainty that arises from the chiral extrapolation, especially the effect of pion loops, for light quarks, which we find could be sizable for the leptonic decay constant, whereas it is small for the B parameters. We obtain f(B(d))=191(10)(+12-22) MeV, f(B(s))/f(B(d))=1.13(3)(+13-2), B(B(d))(m(b))=0.836(27)(+56-62), B(B(s))/B(B(d))=1.017(16)(+56-17), and xi=1.14(3)(+13-2), where the first error is statistical, and the second is systematic, including uncertainties due to chiral extrapolation, finite lattice spacing, heavy quark expansion, and perturbative operator matching.     

Search for supernova relic neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

A search for the relic neutrinos from all past core-collapse supernovae was conducted using 1496 days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector. This analysis looked for electron-type antineutrinos that had produced a positron with an energy greater than 18 MeV. In the absence of a signal, 90% C.L. upper limits on the total flux were set for several theoretical models; these limits ranged from 20 to 130 macro nu(e) cm(-2) s(-1). Additionally, an upper bound of 1.2 macro nu(e) cm(-2) s(-1) was set for the supernova relic neutrino flux in the energy region E(nu)>19.3 MeV.     

Conversion electron measurement in the β<Superscript>-</Superscript>-decay of <Superscript>151</Superscript>Pr

The β^--decay of ¹⁵¹Pr produced by the thermal neutron-induced fission of ²³⁵U has been studied using an on-line isotope separator. From an internal-conversion electron measurement with a Si(Li) detector, K-conversion coefficients were obtained for 20 γ-transitions. Spins and parities of 6 excited levels in ¹⁵¹Nd were newly determined from the deduced multipolarities: even parities for the 543 and 627 keV levels, odd parities for 250 and 599 keV, (3/2, 5/2)⁺ for 685 keV, and (1/2, 3/2)⁺ for 880 keV. The level structure was compared with the rotation-vibration coupling Nilsson model. Received: 28 June 2002 / Accepted: 31 October 2002 / Published online: 25 February 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: ykojima@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Communicated by J. ?yst?     

Highly sodium-selective fluoroionophore based on conformational restriction of oligoethyleneglycol-bridged biaryl boron-dipyrromethene

A non-PET and non-PCT fluoroionophore has been designed and synthesized based on the combination of a biaryl boron-dipyrromethene fluorophore with an oligoethyleneglycol bridge. A specific red-shift response of absorption for NaClO4 in acetonitrile was demonstrated based on conformational restriction triggered by cation recognition at the bridge. The concentration of Na+ can be determined accurately using fluorescence due to a high extinction coefficient (epsilon = 50 000), a high fluorescence quantum yield (Phif = 0.68), and the sharpness of absorption and emission peaks of the boron-dipyrromethene derivative.