An evacuated tubular solar collector was fabricated from acrylics for improved resistance to shattering. A plasmatron was employed to apply a thin gas-barrier coating to the surfaces of the plastic tube to prevent/alleviate gas infiltration. Experiments were conducted to investigate the effect...

The fluctuation of the intensity of superradiant pulse is calculated by applying a general asymptotic evaluation method of quantal macrovariables to a superradiant master equation. It is shown that the fluctuation of superradiant intensity is proportional to the cube of the number of the...

Non-equilibrium aging dynamics in 3D Ising spin glass Cu<Subscript>0.5</Subscript>Co<Subscript>0.5</Subscript>Cl<Subscript>2</Su bscript>-FeCl<Subscript>3</Subscript> GBIC has been studied by zero-field cooled (ZFC) magnetization and low frequency AC magnetic susceptibility (f=0.05 Hz), where <InlineEquation ID="Equ5"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$T_{g}=3.92 \pm 0.11$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> K. The time dependence of the relaxation rate S(t)=(1/H)d<InlineEquation ID="Equ6"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$M_{\rm...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></subscript><//su></subscript></subscript></subscript>

This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors of the individual chapters show that Asian states play games of conflict and cooperation...