This Report is Description of Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms at Gordon Conference.

Studies of nozzle optimization for a new piston bowl design were performed.

Nozzle optimization for a new piston bowl design is reported, covering several geometrical features. The influence of fuel sulfur level on PM emissions was investigated.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring 104-year-old Myrtle Perry McDaniel of Menard.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring fallen police officers on Peace Officers' Memorial Day and during National Police Week.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the use of the judicial and court personnel training fund.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the amount of sick leave for police officers employed by certain municipalities.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the eligibility for education benefits of surviving minor children of certain public employees killed in the line of duty.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to workers' compensation medical benefits for certain prosthetic or orthotic devices.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to the state prosecuting attorney.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to reporting certain information regarding residential property and personal automobile insurance and public Internet access to that information.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to summary destruction or summary forfeiture of controlled substance property or controlled substance plants.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of a joint elections administrator; providing penalties.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to including the international symbol of access on certain specialty license plates.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to advertising in Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas driver's license mailings.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to providing certain notices to be posted on the premises of alcoholic beverage retailers.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the authority of the asset management division of the General Land Office to sell real property to an economic development corporation.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to registration statements filed by an insurer that is a member of an insurance company holding system.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to a court order for a land surveyor to cross land.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Travis-Creedmoor Municipal Utility District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the assessment of charges by certain local governments to fund a stormwater permitting program under federal law.

Beam interaction with background gas and walls produces ubiquitous clouds of stray electrons that frequently limit the performance of particle accelerator and storage rings. Counterintuitively we obtained the electron cloud accumulation by measuring the expelled ions that are originated from the beam-background gas interaction, rather than by measuring electrons that reach the walls. The kinetic ion energy measured with a retarding field analyzer (RFA) maps the depressed beam space-charge potential and provides the dynamic electron cloud density. Clearing electrode current measurements give the static electron cloud background that complements and corroborates with the RFA measurements, providing an absolute measurement of electron cloud density during a 5 {micro}s duration beam pulse in a drift region of the magnetic transport section of the High-Current Experiment (HCX) at LBNL.

In this paper, we present the recent results of our research on the ultra-high power fast silicon RF switch and its application on active X-Band RF pulse compression systems. This switch is composed of a group of PIN diodes on a high purity silicon wafer and has achieved a switching time of 300ns. The wafer is inserted into a cylindrical waveguide operating in the TE01 mode. Switching is performed by injecting carriers into the bulk silicon through a high current pulse. The RF energy is stored in a room-temperature, high-Q 375 ns delay line; it is then extracted out of the line in a short time using the switch. The pulse compression system has achieved a gain of 8, which is the ratio between output and input power.

The AdS/CFT correspondence between string theory in AdS space and conformal field theories in physical space-time leads to an analytic, semi-classical model for strongly-coupled QCD which has scale invariance and dimensional counting at short distances and color confinement at large distances. One can use holography to map the amplitude describing the hadronic state in the fifth dimension of Anti-de Sitter space AdS5 to the light-front wavefunctions of hadrons in physical space-time, thus providing a relativistic description of hadrons in QCD at the amplitude level. In particular, we show that there is an exact correspondence between the fifth-dimensional coordinate of AdS space z and a specific impact variable {var_sigma} which measures the separation of the quark and gluonic constituents within the hadron in ordinary space-time. New relativistic light-front equations in ordinary space-time can then be derived which reproduce the results obtained using the 5-dimensional theory. The effective light-front equations possess elegant algebraic structures and integrability properties. This connection between the AdS and the light-front representations allows one to compute the analytic form of the frame-independent light-front wavefunctions, the fundamental entities which encode hadron properties and allow the computation of decay constants, form factors, deeply virtual Compton scattering, exclusive heavy hadron decays …