Chantel Spies, an NSERC undergraduate summer research assistant in the department, has been invited to present her work on aspect mining in bio-informatics software at the Rising Stars of Research student conference at UBC.Aspects provide an alternative way to structure
PhysOrg.com) -- Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern. Similar structures also form in certain materials, called quasicrystals.
Although state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into them -- especially low-income people, who spend a greater percentage of their incomes on lottery tickets than the
Two new research studies have discovered a long sought molecular link between our metabolism and components of the internal clock that drives circadian rhythms, keeping us to a roughly 24-hour schedule.
For the first time, children as young as 5 have been shown to understand issues regarding integration and separation. The research confirms that the ethnic composition of primary schools has a direct impact on children's attitudes towards those in other
One of the reasons people on low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight is that they reduce their intake of fructose, a type of sugar that can be made into body fat quickly. Fructose is perhaps best known for its presence in
People are powerfully but subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them. Without being aware of it, researchers believe, human beings keep up with the weight of the Joneses. For a whole society, this can lead to a spiral
Along with all the other changes that come with age, healthy older people also lose some capacity for sleep. When asked to stay in bed for 16 hours in the dark each day for several days, younger people get an
It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the 'Terrestrial Revolution' that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects and reptiles all underwent a rapid expansion. During their last 50
We explore CP violation effects on the neutrino propagation in denseenvironments, such as in core-collapse supernovae, where the neutrinoself-interaction induces non-linear evolution equations. We demonstrate thatthe electron (anti)neutrino fluxes are not sensitive to the CP violating phaseif the muon and
The mass scale of fundamental strings can be as low as few TeV/c^2 providedthat spacetime extends into large extra dimensions. We discuss thephenomenological aspects of weakly coupled low mass string theory related toexperimental searches for physics beyond the Standard Model
Using a total of 2.74 x 10^7 decays of the psi(2S) collected with the CLEO-cdetector, we present a study of chi_cJ -> gamma V, where V = rho^0, omega, phi.The transitions chi_c1 -> gamma rho^0 and chi_c1 -> gamma omega
Current upper bounds of the neutron electric dipole moment constrain thephysically observable quantum chromodynamic (QCD) vacuum angle $\theta| 10^{12}$ GeV with $\theta_1
A rapid second order phase transition during inflation can result in auniversal local feature in the spectrum of primordial perturbations[1]. Thisfeature is characterized by a step in the spectral index modulated bycharacteristic oscillations and results in a large running of
One of the firm predictions of the single-scalar field inflationary cosmologyis the consistency relation between the scalar and tensor perturbations. It hasbeen argued that such a relation, if observationally verified, would offerstrong support for the idea of inflation. In this
