A pricing policy for a computer facility with congestion externalities

The paper proposes an adaptive pricing mechanism which allocates computer resources among the different consumers in an economically efficient manner. Users are charged a unit price designed to reflect the marginal congestion load each imposes upon the system. Some of the more common allocation schemes are described briefly followed by a discussion of the desirable properties of an efficient allocative system. These properties are incorporated into a model of a computer facility, and a number of propositions regarding the behavior of this model are proposed. In order to test empirically the behavior of this system under conditions approximating those which would prevail in an actual computer center, the pricing mechanism was analyzed by a simulation model of a computer center, using data obtained from a survey of customers at the computer center of a university (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa, Israel). A few suggestions regarding the implementation of the proposed pricing policy conclude the paper.     

The effect of adsorption of various gas molecules on the EEEL Sof the (100) face of tungsten

The effect of adsorption on the EELS of the tungsten (100) surface plane, for loss energies in the range of 2–25 eV, is investigated for a series of adsorbates (i.e. O₂, N₂, NO, CO and H₂). Low-lying sharp structures observed in the energy loss spectra seem to be associated with prominent structures in the local surface density of states. A growth of a peak at a loss energy of about 7.5 eV, observed after exposing the surface to any one of the gases studied, is attributed to the breakdown of optic-like selection rules by the adsorption process. The effect of adsorption on the various surface plasmon peaks seems to be adsorbate-specific.     

Gluons in the hadronicS matrix

We derive a theoretical explanation of the similarities which have been experimentally observed between final state distributions in soft processes (K ^? p interactions andpp collisions at ISR) and hard processes (e ⁺ e ^? annihilations and deep inelastic scattering). The theoretical framework is the correspondence between QCD and dual topological unitarization (DTU), which expresses confinement as the equivalence of the hadron and parton bases to account for unitarity. Starting from the interpretation of the zero handle topology in DTU in terms of the naive quark parton model, we show how to characterize gluons in the hadron basis: primordial gluons are associated with the one handle topology, and the cascading of hard gluons is related to the sum of all higher topologies in DTU. We get this way a QCD interpretation of the reggeon calculus which is the theoretical framework of soft hadronic processes at asymptotic energies.     

Particle-hole states in 42K studied by the 44Ca(d, α)42K reaction

The ⁴⁴Ca(d, α)⁴²K reaction was studied at a bombarding energy of 11 MeV using a broadrange magnetic spectrograph and solid-state detectors. About thirty energy levels were identified in ⁴²K, up to an excitation energy of 3.5 MeV. Excitation functions corresponding to some of the low-lying energy states of ⁴²K were measured in the incident energy range from 10.4 to 11.6 MeV. Angular distributions of the α-particle groups corresponding to the excitation of about twenty energy levels in ⁴²K have been measured. DWBA calculations were performed and L-values for most of the above transitions were deduced. The results were compared with previous information and possible spin and configuration assignments are proposed for some of the states. Centroids of states interpreted as belonging to the (1d_{$\text{3}\text{2}$}^?1)_p (1f_{$\text{7}\text{2}$}³)_n, (2s_{$\text{1}\text{2}$}^?1)_p (1f_{$\text{7}\text{2}$}³)_n and the (1d_{$\text{3}\text{2}$}^?1)_P (1d_{$\text{3}\text{2}$}^?1 1f_{$\text{7}\text{2}$}⁴)_n configurations were found to be in good agreement with calculations based on the weak-coupling model.     

Photochemical studies: Irradiation induced transformations of reversibly dissociating cyclopentadienone-dimers and their monomers

Irradiation of dissociating cyclopentadienone-dimers (2 b, c, e) results in formation of two types of cage-products (5 and 8) in very low quantum yields and good, but wavelength and phase dependent chemical yields. Both processes are intramolecular, for 2b this was shown using isotopic labeling and massspectrometric techniques. Sensitization and quenching experiments indicate that triplet states are involved The mechanistic pathways are discussed. The cyclopentadienones(1 b,c,e) were isolated for the first time and irradiation of 1b in the solid gave exclusively the symmetric cage (8b)     

Study of 74As by the 73Ge(3He,d) reaction

The energy levels of ⁷⁴As have been studied using the ⁷³Ge(³He, d)⁷⁴As reaction at an incident energy of 17 MeV. The overall energy resolution was 30 keV. Twenty-five levels in ⁷⁴As were identified up to 2.2 MeV excitation energy and angular distributions were measured in the interval $\text{3}\text{3}\text{4}\text{°}$ to $\text{86}\text{1}\text{4}\text{°}$. Spectroscopic strengths and l_p values have been extracted for many of the transitions by means of a distorted-wave analysis of the differential cross sections. A comparison with the ⁷⁵As(p, d) data suggests the presence of several unresolved doublets in ⁷⁴As.     

Medium stabilization of localized Born—Oppenheimer states

It is demonstrated that in a dense medium the molecular stable states are the localized Born—Oppenheimer (LBO) states. The reason for this phenomenon     

Matching-perfect and cover-perfect graphs

It is shown that a graphG has all matchings of equal size if and only if for every matching setλ inG, G\V(λ) does not contain a maximal open path of odd length greater than one, which is not contained in a cycle. (V(λ) denotes the set of vertices incident with some edge ofλ.) Subsequently edge-coverings of graphs are discussed. A characterization is supplied for graphs all whose minimal covers have equal size.     

On the inverse M-matrix problem for (0,1)-matrices

A graph-theoretic approach is used to characterize (0,1)-matrices which are inverses of M-matrices. Our main results show that a (0,1)-matrix is an inverse of an M-matrix if and only if its graph induces a partial order on its set of vertices and does not contain a certain specific subgraph.