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Obama and Reid would rather shut down the government than fix Obama care.
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Did anyone read about the rampant Medicaid fraud in our neighboring state of WV? How do we know it's not happening here?
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Thank you, Ms. Hall. We need to hear more about the positives. Too many people focused on negativity these days!
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Roast Rib of Beef
Categories: Christmas, Entertaining, New Year's, Passover, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day
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Type: Main Dishes
Be sure to let this magnificent roast stand at least 15 minutes
Prep Time: 20M, plus standing
Cooking Time: 1H30M-2H
Serves: makes 4-6 servings
- 3lb 3oz ( 1.5kg) beef rib roast with bones
- 2 tbsp butter, softened
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the gravy
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 cups beef stock
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- Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C). Spread the beef with the butter and season with salt and pepper. Place the beef, bone-side down, in a roasting pan.
- Roast for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 375°F (190°C) and roast to the desired doneness, allowing 15 minutes per 1lb (450g) plus 15 minutes for medium-rare beef. A meat thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the roast will read 130°F (55°C).
- Transfer the beef to a platter and tent with aluminum foil. Let stand for 15-20 minutes before carving.
- To make the gravy, discard all but 2 tbsp of fat from the roasting pan. Place the pan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour, scraping up the browned bits in the pan. Whisk in the stock and bring to a boil, whisking constantly, until thickened and smooth. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Strain into a gravy boat. Carve the beef and serve with the gravy.
- Good with Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, and vegetables of your choice.
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individuals writing unfounded stories in certain Yemeni press. Prince Salman confirmed that
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strong ties, and that relations between the two countries would remain fraternal, with mutual
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In the very beginning of the book "Introduction to Invariants and Moduli" Shigeru Mukai proves Molien's formula for the Hilbert series of the invariant ring of a finite group action on $\mathbb C^n$. For example, in the case of the standard action of Quaternions on $\mathbb C^2$ the Hilbert series is $\frac{1-t^{12}}{(1-t^4)^2(1-t^6)}$.
After this Mukai explains that this formula hints us that the ring of invariants can be generated by two elements of order $4$ and one element of order $6$, and indeed such elements can be found: $A=x^4+y^4$, $B=x^2y^2$, and $C=xy(x^4-y^4)$. Then one finds a relation $C^2=A^2B -4B^3$ and this gives a complete description of the ring of invariants.
Moreover the same procedure is shown to work in several other cases (e.g. binary icosahedral group).
My question is a follows: Is there some theorem that say that this heuristics works often? Namely, if we have an action of a finite group $G$ on $\mathbb C^n$, in order to describe the ring of invariants, we first look on the denominator of the Hilbert series (given by Molien's formula) and try to associate an invariant polynomial of degree $n$ to each factor $(1-t^n)$ (so that this gives us a full set of generators). Or at least, in practice, is this the first thing that one tries to do?


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Ferrarelli F, Tononi G. The thalamic reticular nucleus and schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 2011 Mar ; 37(2):306-15. Pubmed Abstract
Ferrarelli F, Tononi G. The thalamic reticular nucleus and schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 2011 Mar ; 37(2):306-15. Pubmed Abstract
Schizophrenia and Thalamus Dysfunction
The pathophysiology of schizophrenia still conceals many secrets (Meyer-Lindenberg, 2010; Insel, 2010), which is the reason why the neurobiology of schizophrenia is the relentless object of experimental and clinical investigations. These point out that schizophrenia is a complex, multifunctional disorder involving dysfunctional networks.
Guller and colleagues recently published, in the Archives of General Psychiatry (published online March 5, 2012), clinical data in favor of the hypothesis of thalamic dysfunction in schizophrenia. The authors objective was to test the hypothesis that the thalamus of patients with schizophrenia responds abnormally to cortical activation. The authors used fMRI to record in healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia the vascular response in their cerebral cortex (medial superior frontal cortex [mSFC] and insula) and thalamus following a single pulse TMS (spTMS) of the precentral gyrus. The authors recorded a reduced hemodynamic response in the thalamus, mSFC, and insula in the patients. Taken together, these results reveal abnormal decreases in thalamus-mSFC and thalamus-insula functional connectivity. The authors conclude that the thalamus contributes to the patterns of aberrant connectivity, a central feature of schizophrenia. This interesting study opens up new vistas, leaving a certain number of questions open.
What are the corticothalamic (CT)-induced neural mechanisms underlying the thalamic hemodynamic response?
No definitive answer can be given since the TMS-induced effects depend on many factors, including TMS protocol, the cortical target, and state, as previously demonstrated by the same research team (Massimini et al., 2007; 2010). The subjects of the study by Guller et al. were awake with open eyes. During wakefulness, TMS evokes a time-locked high-frequency (20-35 Hz) sustained EEG oscillation during the first 100 ms (Massimini et al., 2010). Such a cortically evoked, short-lasting oscillation is expected to reflect simultaneous waves of excitation and inhibition in the CT/thalamocortical (TC) systems. On the other hand, the neural mechanisms underlying the slowness of the BOLD neuro-glio-vascular response remain elusive.
Let us consider the appealing concept of grouping of brain rhythms in CT systems (Steriade, 2006). Indeed, the grouping of brain rhythms in CT/TC systems is the result of interplays between synaptic and intrinsic properties of the corresponding neural excitatory and inhibitory elements. Such functional-anatomic interactions would thus generate state-dependent complex wave sequences, which are readily apparent in spontaneously occurring cortical EEG. Therefore, it is tempting to suggest that every spTMS evoked both excitation and inhibition in the target cortical area with their respective amount and time course, which would subsequently modulate the activity of local and distant structures, including the thalamus potentially inducing the BOLD response. The CT-induced activity pattern depends on the anatomical and electrophysiological properties of the engaged nerve elements. Among the most responsive thalamic elements to CT activation are the GABAergic thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) neurons (Pinault, 2004). TRN cells can behave like resonators. For instance, in the awake rat, it was demonstrated that, during natural CT 5-9 Hz oscillations, TRN cells start to fire with robust, high-frequency bursts of action potentials in a rhythmic manner and almost always do so before TC neurons (Pinault, 2003). It is worth specifying that the intracellular events underlying CT 5-9 Hz and TC spindle oscillations are distinctively different in thalamic neurons (Pinault et al., 2006). The rodent CT 5-9 Hz oscillation emerges during quiet, immobile wakefulness and is thought to be a sensorimotor rhythm, and it may be the equivalent of the alpha rhythm of the human occipital cortex.
What are the mechanisms underlying the smaller thalamic hemodynamic response in patients with schizophrenia?
Guller and colleagues think that the structural abnormalities observed in the thalamus of patients with schizophrenia and the functional-anatomical properties of the thalamo-reticular (TC-TRN) system account for its dysfunction, reflected in their results by the smaller spTMS-induced vascular response (Guller et al., 2012) and by a deficit in sleep spindles (Ferrarelli et al., 2007; 2010). Moreover, structural, metabolic, and neurochemical changes (Clinton and Meador-Woodruff, 2004; Harms et al., 2007; Popken et al., 2000) and abnormalities in the expression of glutamate receptors (Ibrahim et al., 2000) were observed in the brains of patients with schizophrenia.
Assuming that the functional-anatomical properties of thalamic circuits are severely affected in schizophrenia, the impact would be major. Indeed, one cannot think about the thalamus without thinking about the cerebral cortex and vice versa, since they are reciprocally connected and work in tandem to generate physiological and pathological rhythms (Steriade and Deschenes, 1984; Steriade and Llinas, 1988). Both the neocortex and the thalamus and their related CT/TC circuits are prominently involved in the same global brain operations (consciousness, perception, and cognition). The thalamus also innervates the striatum, amygdala, and hippocampus (Lisman et al., 2010). Postmortem and high-resolution functional-anatomical studies support the hypothesis of dysfunctional CT/TC and basal ganglia networks in patients with schizophrenia (Cronenwett and Csernansky, 2010; Clinton and Meador-Woodruff, 2004).
The thalamus relays sensorimotor and higher-order information to the cerebral cortex and plays a key role in large-scale cortico-cortical communication (Guillery and Sherman, 2002). The thalamus is reciprocally connected not only with the cerebral cortex, but also with the TRN. The TC and CT neurons are glutamatergic and cross the TRN, wherein they give off axon collaterals (Jones, 2007). The TRN contains only GABAergic neurons, which project to the dorsal thalamus (Pinault, 2004). The firing pattern (single-action potential or high-frequency burst of APs) of TC and TRN neurons is state and voltage dependent. Pathological changes in the firing pattern of thalamic neurons might involve, among many other factors (Pinault, 2011), potassium channel dysfunction (Vukadinovic and Rosenzweig, 2012).
The TRN is a thin GABAergic layer interface strategically located between the thalamus and the neocortex. It is more than the mediator of selective attention (Pinault, 2004). It works like a combinatorial matrix since it holds and can combine all functional, sensorimotor, limbic, and cognitive modalities. Furthermore, it is endowed with extraordinary intrinsic oscillatory properties. TRN cells work like integrators under the leading influence of CT inputs. Of importance, although the thalamus and the TRN are reciprocally connected, this anatomical rule does not apply at the cellular level. Indeed, TRN and TC neurons principally form two-neuron, open-loop circuits, meaning that they do not form reciprocal connections (Pinault and Deschenes, 1998). The functioning principle of such open GABAergic-glutamatergic circuits is lateral inhibition, which allows the relaying of relevant streams of information to the neocortex and the deletion of distracting activities during brain operations. Disruption of thalamic lateral inhibition is thought to contribute to a lack of coordination between neuronal assemblies, as observed in schizophrenia (Pinault, 2011).
The thalamic abnormalities observed in the brains of patients with schizophrenia might cause abnormally excessive, ongoing noisy activities in TC circuits (Behrendt, 2006), which would prominently disrupt thalamic lateral inhibitions (Pinault, 2011) and subsequently impair the ability of TC networks to discriminate relevant information from such ongoing distracting activities (Pinault, 2008; Hakami et al., 2009; Kulikova et al., 2011).
Is the amplitude of the thalamic neuro-glio-vascular response a signature of clinical symptoms?
Guller and colleagues emphasize that the observed changes in sleep spindles (Ferrarelli et al., 2010) and in the amplitude of the thalamic hemodynamic response (Guller et al., 2012) may be related to clinical symptoms, in particular, to positive symptoms. Both the thalamus and the neocortex work under the influence of neuromodulatory inputs from the forebrain and brainstem. Disorders in neuromodulatory transmission might generate excessive TC background activity, subserving, for instance, the emergence of hallucinations (Behrendt, 2006) and impairing information processing in CT/TC circuits. So, one may wonder whether or not schizophrenia-related thalamic anatomo-functional abnormalities are secondary to dysfunctional pre-thalamic (e.g., neuromodulatory) inputs.
Behrendt RP (2006) Dysregulation of thalamic sensory "transmission" in schizophrenia: neurochemical vulnerability to hallucinations. J Psychopharmacol 20:356-372. Abstract
Clinton SM, Meador-Woodruff JH (2004) Thalamic dysfunction in schizophrenia: neurochemical, neuropathological, and in vivo imaging abnormalities. Schizophr Res 69:237-253. Abstract
Cronenwett WJ, Csernansky J (2010) Thalamic pathology in schizophrenia. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 4:509-528. Abstract
Ferrarelli F, Huber R, Peterson MJ, Massimini M, Murphy M, Riedner BA, Watson A, Bria P, Tononi G (2007) Reduced sleep spindle activity in schizophrenia patients. Am J Psychiatry 164:483-492. Abstract
Ferrarelli F, Peterson MJ, Sarasso S, Riedner BA, Murphy MJ, Benca RM, Bria P, Kalin NH, Tononi G (2010) Thalamic dysfunction in schizophrenia suggested by whole-night deficits in slow and fast spindles. Am J Psychiatry 167:1339-1348. Abstract
Guillery RW, Sherman SM (2002) Thalamic relay functions and their role in corticocortical communication: generalizations from the visual system. Neuron 33:163-175. Abstract
Guller Y, Ferrarelli F, Shackman AJ, Sarasso S, Peterson MJ, Langheim FJ, Meyerand ME, Tononi G, Postle BR (2012) Probing Thalamic Integrity in Schizophrenia Using Concurrent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Arch Gen Psychiatry (published online March 5, 2012). Abstract
Hakami T, Jones NC, Tolmacheva EA, Gaudias J, Chaumont J, Salzberg M, O'Brien TJ, Pinault D (2009) NMDA receptor hypofunction leads to generalized and persistent aberrant gamma oscillations independent of hyperlocomotion and the state of consciousness. PLoS One 4:e6755. Abstract
Harms MP, Wang L, Mamah D, Barch DM, Thompson PA, Csernansky JG (2007) Thalamic shape abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia and their nonpsychotic siblings. J Neurosci 27:13835-13842. Abstract
Ibrahim HM, Hogg AJ, Jr., Healy DJ, Haroutunian V, Davis KL, Meador-Woodruff JH (2000) Ionotropic glutamate receptor binding and subunit mRNA expression in thalamic nuclei in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 157:1811-1823. Abstract
Insel TR (2010) Rethinking schizophrenia. Nature 468:187-193. Abstract
Jones EG (2007) The Thalamus. 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Kulikova S, Gaudias J, Tolmacheva EA, Brendan EA, Zheng T, Pinault D (2011) Disruption of the thalamocortical signal-to-noise ratio in the pathogenesis of psychoses. Abstract
Lisman JE, Pi HJ, Zhang Y, Otmakhova NA (2010) A thalamo-hippocampal-ventral tegmental area loop may produce the positive feedback that underlies the psychotic break in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 68:17-24. Abstract
Massimini M, Ferrarelli F, Esser SK, Riedner BA, Huber R, Murphy M, Peterson MJ, Tononi G (2007) Triggering sleep slow waves by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:8496-8501. Abstract
Massimini M, Ferrarelli F, Murphy M, Huber R, Riedner B, Casarotto S, Tononi G (2010) Cortical reactivity and effective connectivity during REM sleep in humans. Cogn Neurosci 1:176-183. Abstract
Meyer-Lindenberg A (2010) From maps to mechanisms through neuroimaging of schizophrenia. Nature 468:194-202. Abstract
Pinault D, Deschenes M (1998) Anatomical evidence for a mechanism of lateral inhibition in the rat thalamus. Eur J Neurosci 10:3462-3469. Abstract
Pinault D (2003) Cellular interactions in the rat somatosensory thalamocortical system during normal and epileptic 5-9 Hz oscillations. J Physiol 552:881-905. Abstract
Pinault D (2004) The thalamic reticular nucleus: structure, function and concept. Brain Res Rev 46:1-31. Abstract
Pinault D, Slezia A, Acsady L (2006) Corticothalamic 5-9 Hz oscillations are more pro-epileptogenic than sleep spindles in rats. J Physiol 574:209-227. Abstract
Pinault D (2008) N-methyl d-aspartate receptor antagonists ketamine and MK-801 induce wake-related aberrant gamma oscillations in the rat neocortex. Biol Psychiatry 63:730-735. Abstract
Pinault D (2011) Dysfunctional thalamus-related networks in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 37:238-243. Abstract
Popken GJ, Bunney WE, Jr., Potkin SG, Jones EG (2000) Subnucleus-specific loss of neurons in medial thalamus of schizophrenics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:9276-9280. Abstract
Steriade M, Deschenes M (1984) The thalamus as a neuronal oscillator. Brain Res 320:1-63. Abstract
Steriade M, Llinas RR (1988) The functional states of the thalamus and the associated neuronal interplay. Physiol Rev 68:649-742. Abstract
Steriade M (2006) Grouping of brain rhythms in corticothalamic systems. Neuroscience 137:1087-1106. Abstract
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A Bronx Tale Unlike the One Hollywood Tells
Using Young, Untrained Local Actors, Michel Gondry's 'The We and the I' Tears at the Social Fabric of an MTA Bus Ride
They're not the Breakfast Club. But the nearly 40 high school students who came from across the Bronx to star in Michel Gondry's "The We and the I" reflect the same timeless struggles for identity and connection that informed John Hughes's seminal 1985 teen flick.
"We're not from your suburban high school, with the jock and the cheerleader," said 19-year-old Meghan Murphy, who plays Niomi, one of the teenagers whose bus ride home after the last day of school leads to life-changing revelations. "One of the things that's good about this movie, the characters are all from this urban environment but our experiences of being young and dealing with these issues is relatable to anybody. Our problems are not just pimples."
Mr. Gondry's slice-of-life film—a bit like a Bronx answer to "American Graffiti"—has its New York premiere Thursday as the closing-night selection of the Film Comments Selects series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, before opening March 8 at IFC Center. The immersive drama owes its realism to Mr. Gondry's use of local, nonprofessional performers and an extended workshop process that became a kind of parallel high school for many of them.
Working with a group of students who signed up for after-school improvisation classes at the Point, a community center in Hunts Point, the French director—best known for his ground-breaking music videos and surrealistic films like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"—cultivated a cast and fleshed out a script inspired by an actual bus ride he took 25 years ago in Paris, during which he observed interactions among a pack of students shift as the group dwindled.
"It sort of harmonized," said Mr. Gondry, who used the project as a platform for his ideas about "collective cinema." It was a concept he'd explored in earlier films such as "Be Kind, Rewind," which mixed residents of the Passaic, N.J., neighborhood where he shot the comedy with stars like Danny Glover and Jack Black. "The more you trust them, the more they will deliver. They really got engaged. It's rewarding to see people stepping into this world, feeling they have a lot to give."
The nine cast members who met recently at the Point to discuss the project described it as a form of group therapy. Character personalities were drawn from extensive interviews and role-playing sessions, with details from individual lives worked into the story. There's Michael (Michael Brodie), a bully who comes to bond with one of his targets, the misunderstood Teresa (Teresa Lynn). There's a friendship that frays when co-dependent Niomi (Ms. Murphy) wises up to her egomaniacal best friend, Laidychen (Laidychen Carrasco). Romances and betrayals, postures and provocations play out in text messages and verbal showdowns as the kids gradually exit the bus during one exceptionally long ride. ("Of course, it's a cheat," conceded Mr. Gondry, whose imaginary MTA bus unloads its last passengers after a chronologically improbable sundown. "I felt the night would [emphasize] the sense of the journey they'd been through.")
"We gave him some of our deepest, darkest secrets," said Ms. Lynn, 19.
"I was a freshman, super insecure, like every other 14-year-old girl," added Ms. Murphy. "I think they took that part and put it into my character. That was done really well with the writing."
In some cases, the approach prompted immediate parental feedback. Ms. Carrasco, 20, who appears in the movie with her three brothers, recalled how real-life anxiety over her Sweet 16 party filtered into the story. "They did a high-definition focus on that to make sure I was a psychotic girl who was crazy over her Sweet 16," she said. Naturally, her mother was concerned. "I told her, 'Mom, it's not a big deal. It's called acting.'"
Jonathan Worrell, 21, plays a character named Big T, whom he described as "the biggest d—bag you could ever meet." Though he's as loquacious offscreen as he is in the movie, Mr. Worrell insisted the similarities were few. He was just taking a note from the director. "He told me to stop being nice, and that made Big T. Thank you, Gondry."
Mr. Gondry's use of nonprofessional actors makes sense when exploring parts of the city that more often are exploited or ignored at the cinema. "It can be hard to find voices that really come from those places," said Eliza Hittman, a Flatbush native who recently unveiled her own coming-of-age drama, "It Felt Like Love," at the Sundance Film Festival. She found her cast at basketball courts and hip-hop dance classes. Shot around Gravesend and Gerritsen Beach, her film captures an Italian-American milieu saturated in underground rap music and teen angst. "But there's a need for balance," she said. "It's not all about white hipsters and ghetto project stories."
For the cast of the "The We and the I," the new balance may be between their lives before the film and after. A few said they may pursue acting careers. "Some of them are real geniuses," Mr. Gondry said. But whatever flourish of celebrity may come their way, they seem to be taking in stride. "I work in the Levi's store, and my boss came across the preview video on YouTube," said Ms. Carrasco. "He was like, 'You're in the movie!' Yeah, but I'm still folding jeans. It's not a big deal."


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We all know letting beer sit in the light for some time without any shield is a bad idea due to the flavor and aroma that are produced, but are there any other effects? Is a skunked beer more hospitable to microbes than a non-skunked beer?
I suspect no. Aged hops, with very low alpha potential, are used in lambic brewing specifically for their preservative qualities not their bittering properties. Therefore, if the low alpha isn't important it doesn't matter if they are skunked or not to be preservative.
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So if your beer is skunked, it seems to follow that it will have lost at least some of its preservative properties. Although I figure the beer would have some remaining anti-bacterial properties from the unskunked iso-humulone molecules & other alpha acids.


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December 10, 2010
New York University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) will host "Quechua Week," a celebration of language and cultures in the Andean Region of South America, from December 13 through December 17 at venues around the NYU campus and at Columbia University.
Quechua/Kichwa is an indigenous language spoken by millions of people in the Andean region in South America, spanning seven countries: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. Quechua language and cultural practices are also present in many other parts of the world – including New York City. The events of Quechua Week range in format and span a broad range of topics – from language rights and policies to the use of YouTube in fostering international exchange.
For a complete schedule of sessions, which are free and open to the public, click here. Registration is required for selected sessions. For more information, contact Christine Mladic, program administrator of CLACS, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 212.998.8683.
Located in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at NYU serves as a bridge to local and global communities. It creates a network of people interested in the region and collaborates to further expand Latin American and Caribbean studies. Founded in 1966, CLACS is a renowned leader in teaching, research and programming about the region.
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The 404's 58mm rim profile is a classic in Zipp's arsenal that dates back to the early 1990s. These days, the 404 Tubular is still winning races from the Queen K to L'Alpe d'Huez. Now, with the advanced Firecrest aero-rim shape, our leading all-around performer is an even greater threat to win any race on any terrain. This legendary wheelset is available in two decal options, the stealthy Beyond Black or the distinctive Classic White decals.
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Are there applications of supersymmetry in other branches of physics other than high energy/particle physics?
In 1980, Hermann Nicolai proved that the existence of a supersymmetry is equivalent to the statement that there exists a change of variables to turn the time evolution in the path integral into a stochastic equation. This change of variables is explicity known only for a handful of relativistic models, but it is known explicitly for all stochastic equations, because they are already stochastic equations--- there is nothing to transform.
Stochastic equations are the domain of condensed matter physics, and supersymmetry in these systems was discovered by Parisi and Sourlas in the early 1970's, almost simultaneously with the high energy discoveries. The stochastic applications are enormous, including SUSY QM, supersymmetric disorder averaging, supersymmetric phase transitions, etc. The applications are arguably more varied and interesting than those in high energy, because there is no necessary requirement of quantum unitarity, and you're allowed to play in swampland.
In nuclear physics, there is also an experimentally confirmed approximate supersymmetry between large nuclei with total spin differing by half.
Besides supersymmetric quantum mechanics and supersymmetric integrable systems, there is, e.g., supersymmetric fluid dynamics. Of course, nowadays, it seems that almost any kind of system may be derived as some limit of String Theory, so whether it is outside or inside of high energy/particle physics is a matter of definition.
Alan Kostelecky at Indiana Univ. has done research on supersymmetry in atomic physics.
Here's a paper with background info on atomic supersymmetry, and application of supersymmetry to Penning traps.
There are interesting applications in nuclear physics: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0402058


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It would be great if I didn't have to ruin a bottle of beer by opening it to test to see if it carbonated. Is there any way to tell?
This is possible, but not in a scientifically measurable way.
Try this:
You can compare store bought beer bottles to get an idea of what to look for, but keep in mind that different styles yield different levels of carbonation.
A time test is your best bet.
Bottle carbonation should be pretty mechanical unless you're experimenting with conditioning yeasts. If you're not doing anything fancy with the carbonation, it should be safe to assume that your beer is done carbonating after two weeks.
I usually wait a couple weeks then look for trub in the bottom of the bottle. If it's there, the yeast finished the job.
I often open one after a few days, and then I'll often open one every day or two after that. I find it interesting to see how it changes in the 2-3 weeks while it's carbonating. How many bottles are in the batch? Is it a big deal if you lose a few before they were completely ready?
Another thing you can do is determine the carbonation level roughly by the noise and feel of removing the cap. If it seems under-carbonated, just immediately put on a new cap. That bottle will end up slightly less carbonated than it would have been if you'd left it alone, but the difference will be tiny.
When I brew, I usually will do a number of mini bottles. Like the OP, I'm not one for patience. :) This allows me to have test bottles with minimal waste.


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so I'm sure my PC is 64 bit, but while downloading ubuntu gnome, I encountered this:
PC (Intel x86) desktop image For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure. 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.
so yeah, it says that 64 bit is for AMD, so with my i7, should I pick 32 bit then?
Greets, and thanks for the answer!