Euclid is a space-based survey mission from the European Space Agency designed to understand the origin of the Universe's accelerating expansion. It will use cosmological probes to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by tracking their observational signatures on the geometry of the universe and on the cosmic history of structure formation. The mission is optimised for two independent primary cosmological probes: Weak gravitational Lensing (WL) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The Euclid payload consists of a 1.2 m Korsch telescope designed to provide a large field of view. It carries two instruments with a common field-of-view of ~0.54 deg2: the visual imager (VIS) and the near infrared instrument (NISP) which contains a slitless spectrometer and a three bands photometer. The Euclid wide survey will cover 15,000 deg2 of the extragalactic sky and is complemented by two 20 deg2 deep fields. For WL, Euclid measures the shapes of 30-40 resolved galaxies per arcmin2 in one broad visible R+I+Z band (550-920 nm). The photometric redshifts for these galaxies reach a precision of dz/(1+z) < 0.05. They are derived from three additional Euclid NIR bands (Y, J, H in the range 0.92-2.0 micron), complemented by ground based photometry in visible bands derived from public data or through engaged collaborations. The BAO are determined from a spectroscopic survey with a redshift accuracy dz/(1+z) =0.001. The slitless spectrometer, with spectral resolution ~250, predominantly detects Ha emission line galaxies. Euclid is a Medium Class mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, with a foreseen launch date in 2019. This report (also known as the Euclid Red Book) describes the outcome of the Phase A study.
Abstract Under appropriate conditions, the activity of phosphofructokinase of skeletal muscle from frog and mouse is extremely sensitive to small changes in pH in the physiological range, a low pH decreasing the affinity of the enzyme for fructose 6-phosphate. It is concluded that shifts in intracellular pH are important in the regulation of phosphofructokinase, but that this effect makes interpretation of data from intact muscle quite difficult.
Abstract The paper comprises an (s,S) production inventory facility in which multiple vacations and varying service rates are considered for the multiple servers. The arrival of customers constitutes a Markovian Arrival Process (MAP) and service completion times follow the phase type distributions with representations ( α, S ) and ( β, T ) respectively. Manufacturing needs to begin at the moment when the stock position falls to s. Service is offered at a lower rate if the stock level ranges from 0 to s and the service time distribution has the representations (α, η 1 S) and (β, η 2 T ), 0 < η 1, η 2 < 1 respectively. If the stock level reaches the maximum S, production is ceased to operate. 1-limited service policy, Bernoulli service schedule, and Exhaustive service disciplines are considered for the servers. A suitable cost function is outlined as per performance assessment. The impact of negative correlated inter arrival times on cost function is illustrated. Also, a relative study of expected cost function on different service modes is presented.