In the mathematics mathematical field of knot theory , a chiralknot is a knot mathematics knot that is not knot equivalence equivalent to its mirror image. An oriented knot that is equivalent to its mirror image is an amphichiral knot , also called an achiral knot or amphicheiral knot . The chirality of a knot is a knot invariant . A knot s chirality can be further classified depending on whether or not it is Invertible knot invertible . Background The chirality of certain knots was long suspected ... 4 0 7 0 17 0 41 0 113 OEIS link A052400 Chiralknot gallery caption Both possible trefoil knot s. widths 80px heights 80px align right perrow 3 Image TrefoilKnot 02.png The left handed trefoil knot. Image TrefoilKnot 01.svg The right handed trefoil knot. gallery The simplest chiralknot is the trefoil knot , which was shown to be chiral by Max Dehn . All torus knot s are chiral. The Alexander polynomial cannot detect the chirality of a knot, but the Jones polynomial can in some cases if V sub k sub q   V sub k sub q sup &minus 1 sup , then the knot is chiral, however the converse is not true ... can fully detect chirality. ref http arxiv.org pdf hep th 9401095.pdf ref Reversible knot A chiral ... generated title ref Fully chiralknot If a knot is not equivalent to its invertible knot inverse or its mirror image, it is a fully chiralknot. ref name Atlas Amphichiral knot Image figure8knot 01.png ... number knot theory crossing number , but a counterexample was found by Morwen Thistlethwaite ... of Knot Theory and Certain Applications of Knots and Links Bot generated title ref However, Tait s conjecture was proven true for prime knot prime , alternating knot s. ref name Mathworld align center class wikitable Number of knots of each type of chirality for each Crossing number knot theory ... align right Chiral knots align right 1 0 2 2 7 16 49 152 552 2118 9988 46698 253292 1387166 N A align ... right Fully chiral knots 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 27 187 1103 6919 37885 226580 1308449 OEIS link A051766 align ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Cleanup rewrite date May 2009 In theoretical physics , one often analyzes theories with supersymmetry in which chiral superfields play an important role. In four dimensions, the minimal N 1 supersymmetry may be written using the notion of superspace . Superspace contains the usual space time coordinates math x mu math , math mu 0, ldots,3 math , and four extra fermionic coordinates math theta 1, theta 2, bar theta 1, bar theta 2 math , transforming as a two component Weyl spinor and its conjugate. In N 1 supersymmetry in 3 1D, a chiral superfield is a function over chiral superspace . There exists a projection from the full superspace to chiral superspace. So, a function over chiral superspace can be Differential geometry pulled back to the full superspace. Such a function satisfies the covariant constraint math overline D f 0 math . Similarly, we also have an antichiral superspace which is the complex conjugate of chiral superspace and antichiral superfield s. Superspace is the homogeneous space of the SUSY supergroup with the Lorentz group as the stabilizer. Chiral superspace is the homogeneous space with the supergroup generated by the Lorentz transformations and math overline Q math as the stabilizer. Clearly, there is a projection mathematics projection from the former to the latter. Every superfield i.e. a field that depends on all coordinates of the superspace may be expanded with respect to the fermionic coordinates. There exists a special kind of superfields, the so called chiral superfields , that, in the chiral representation of supersymmetry, depend only on the variables math theta math but not their conjugates. See also F term s. Chiral superfields satisfy the relation math overline D dot alpha f 0 math . They can also be expressed as fields over chiral superspace . See also vector superfield current superfield F term superpotential DEFAULTSORT Chiral Superfield Category Supersymmetry Particle stub it Superc ... more details
A chiral auxiliary is a chemical compound or unit that is temporarily incorporated into an organic synthesis so that it can be carried out asymmetrically with the selective formation of one of two enantiomer s ref Compendium of chiral auxiliary applications ed. Roos, G. , Academic Press, New York, 2002 . ref ref Chiral auxiliaries principles and recent applications Gnas, Y. Glorius, F. Synthesis 2006 , 1899 DOI 10.1055 s 2006 942399 . ref . Chiral auxiliaries are optically active compounds and introduce chirality in otherwise racemic compounds. The temporary stereocenter then forces the asymmetric formation of a second stereocenter using steric hindrance or directing groups to determine chirality. After the creation of the second stereocenter the original auxiliary can be removed in a third step and recycling recycled . Chiral auxiliaries were introduced by E.J. Corey in 1978 with chiral menthol 8 phenylmenthol and by B.M. Trost in 1980 with chiral mandelic acid . The menthol compound is difficult to prepare and an alternative is trans 2 phenyl 1 cyclohexanol introduced by J. K. Whitesell in 1985. Oxazolidone auxiliaries A good example of chiral auxiliaries are the class of Evans auxiliaries comprising oxazolidinone s substituted at the 4 and 5 positions. Through steric hindrance ... auxiliaries Both R,R and S,S pseudoephedrine are used as a chiral auxiliary. ref Myers, A. G., et al., Pseudoephedrine as a Practical Chiral Auxiliary for the Synthesis of Highly Enantiomerically Enriched ... chiral auxiliary is subsequently removed by cleaving the amide bond with an appropriate nucleophile ... . In one study the chiral auxiliary is ephedrine ref Chiral Polycyclic Ketones via Desymmetrization ... EphedrineChiralAuxiliary.svg 600px Ephedrine as chiral auxiliary See also Example of use of trans 2 Phenyl 1 cyclohexanol as chiral auxiliary Ojima lactam Valine as a Chiral auxiliary in the Sch llkopf method Tert butanesulfinamide as reagent for asymmetric synthesis of amines Chiral synthesis ... more details
primarysources date January 2009 Nitro CHiRAL is the BL game making branch of the company Nitroplus that launched in 2004. Their first work was Togainu no Chi . Their team included scenario writer Kabura Fuchii and artist Kana Tatana, who resigned in 2006 and was replaced by artist Seiji Onitsuka. List of works Togainu no Chi February 25, 2005 Lamento BEYOND THE VOID October 27, 2006 Chiral Mori January 25, 2008 sweet pool December 19, 2008 False Alkanet December 16, 2010 DRAMAtical Murder February 24, 2012 Staff Producer Dejitarou Director Gen Urobuchi Illustrator Seiji Onitsuka Scenario Writer Kabura Fuchii Graphics Namaniku ATK Script Reito Chiyoko super deformed SD Character Illustrator Yuupon Public Relations Chiral kun Former Staff Illustrator Kana Tatana who now uses the name Chinatsu Kurahana Music Performance Kanako Itou ZIZZ STUDIO Kazuhiro Watanabe Pale Green External links http www.nitrochiral.com pc index.html Nitro CHiRAL http www.nitroplus.co.jp pc Nitroplus http www.chroma.cc Chinatsu Kurahana Category Video game developers Japan videogame company stub ko Nitro CHiRAL ja Nitro CHiRAL ... more details
Wikify date August 2011 In mathematics, a chiral algebra is an algebraic structure introduced by harvtxt Beilinson Drinfeld 2004 as a rigorous version of the rather vague concept of a chiral algebra in physics. References Citation last1 Beilinson first1 Alexander last2 Drinfeld first2 Vladimir title Chiral algebras url http books.google.com books?id yHZh3p kFqQC publisher American Mathematical Society location Providence, R.I. series American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications isbn 978 0 8218 3528 9 mr 2058353 year 2004 volume 51 Category Conformal field theory Category Representation theory ... more details
In chemistry a chiral ligand is a specially adapted ligand used for asymmetric synthesis . This ligand is an enantiopure organic compound which combines with a metal center by chelation to form an asymmetric catalyst . This catalyst engages in a chemical reaction and transfers its chirality to the reaction product which as a result also becomes chiral. In an ideal reaction one equivalent of catalyst ... amount of a chiral compound from achiral precursors with the aid of a very small often expensive chiral ligand. First discovery The first such ligand, the phosphine diphosphine DiPAMP was developed ... 550px Asymmetric L DOPA synthesis Privileged ligands Many thousands of chiral ligands have been ... scope. These ligands are therefore called privileged ligands . ref Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric ... DOI 10.1073 pnas.0307152101 ref ref Privileged Chiral Catalysts Tehshik P. Yoon, Eric N. Jacobsen ... of chiral ligands Other members are Salen ligand Salen , cinchona alkaloid s and phosphoramidite ... reaction pathways and thereby increasing enantioselectivity . Chiral fence Image ChiralLigandsInnerWorkings.png 400px right The chiral fence Chiral ligands work asymmetric induction somewhere along the reaction coordinate . The image depicted on the right gives a general idea how a chiral ligand ... formation of the R enantiomer. The re face will simple hit the chiral fence . ref Chiral and C2 symmetrical ... is very similar the strategy will fail. Chiral counterions In a novel concept, so called chiral ions team up with traditional cationic catalysts in asymmetric synthesis as demonstrated in this allene hydroxyalkoxylation in which the active catalyst is a salt of gold I and a phosphate of a chiral binaphthol ref A Powerful Chiral Counterion Strategy for Asymmetric Transition Metal Catalysis ... I chloride complex ref Image Chiralanions.png 400px Chiral anions in asymmetric synthesis Hamilton 2007 References reflist Chiral synthesis DEFAULTSORT Chiral Ligand Category Stereochemistry Category ... more details
File Snubcubes in grCO.svg thumb 320px A snub cube comes in two mirror image chiral copies, shown here as alternation s of a great rhombicuboctahedron In mathematics , a abstract polytope polytope P is chiral if it has two orbits of Flag geometry flags under its group of symmetries, with adjacent flags in different orbits. See also Chirality mathematics References Schulte, E. Chiral polytopes in ordinary space, I. Discrete Comput. Geom. 32 2004 , 55 99. Schulte, E. and Weiss, A.I. Chiral polytopes. In Applied Geometry and Discrete Mathematics The Victor Klee Festschrift , DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 4, eds. Gritzmann, P. and Sturmfels, B., Amer. Math. Soc. and Assoc. Computing Machinery, 1991, 493 516. Monson, B., Pisanski, T., Schulte, E., and Ivi Weiss, A. 2007. Semisymmetric graphs from polytopes. J. Comb. Theory Ser. A 114, 3 Apr. 2007 , 421 435. DOI http dx.doi.org 10.1016 j.jcta.2006.06.007 Hubard, I. and Weiss, A. I. 2005. Self duality of chiral polytopes. J. Comb. Theory Ser. A 111, 1 Jul. 2005 , 128 136. DOI http dx.doi.org 10.1016 j.jcta.2004.11.012 Conder, M., Hubard, I., and Pisanski, T. Constructions for chiral polytopes, J. London Math. Soc. 77 2008 115 129. Monson, B., Ivi Weiss, A., Cayley Graphs and Symmetric 4 Polytopes, Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 1 2008 185 205. External links mathworld urlname Chiral title Chiral mathworld urlname Enantiomer title Enantiomer geometry stub Category Chirality Category Polytopes ... more details
COI date June 2009 Chiral Photonics, Inc. is a photonics company based in Pine Brook, New Jersey , founded in 1999. The company is developing a new class of optical device s based on twisting glass optical ... filter filter s and Optical sensor sensor s. ref name CPProductLine cite web title Chiral Photonics ... more efficient than today s semiconductor lasers. ref cite news title Chiral Photonics brings a new ... 269439&p 109 work Small Times date May 10, 2004 accessdate 2008 11 04 ref Chiral Photonics is also ... quality projection displays. ref name CPProductLine Funding Chiral Photonics had received funding ... Development of chiral grating technology for advanced fiber laser url http jazz.nist.gov atpcf prjbriefs ... accessdate 2008 11 04 ref Technology Chiral Photonics technology is an outgrowth of the 1997 discovery ... liquid crystal CLC films is a result of their unique self assembling helical chiral microstructure ... changes. They change color because their molecules are arranged in a helical or chiral arrangement .... Drs. Genack and Kopp decided to pursue the possibility that CLCs, with their natural chiral ..., Chiral Photonics has abstracted the self assembled structure of the organic CLCs to produce analogous ..., William Sargeant, the National Science Foundation program officer who oversaw Chiral Photonics ... host of applications for which chiral fiber gratings could find markets. ref cite web title ... National Science Foundation Website date July 1, 2004 accessdate 2008 11 04 ref Chiral Photonics components ..., while not of chiral geometry, leverages the company s glass microfabrication knowhow. The spot ... in silicon photonic s and other applications. Chiral Photonics also offers twisted capillary tubes ... phone and other handheld device use. Patents Chiral Photonics has been issued 19 United States or International patent s relating to its photonics research. ref cite web title Chiral Photonics Patents url http www.chiralphotonics.com Web patents.html work Chiral Photonics Website accessdate 2008 11 ... more details
essay entry date December 2011 In particle physics phenomenology , chiral color is a model building particle physics speculative model ref cite journal author Paul H. Frampton and Sheldon L. Glashow title Chiral Color An Alternative to the Standard Model journal Physics Letters B volume 190 pages 157 year 1987 doi 10.1016 0370 2693 87 90859 8 bibcode 1987PhLB..190..157F ref which extends quantum chromodynamics QCD , the generally accepted theory for the strong interactions of quark s. QCD is a gauge field theory based on a gauge group known as color SU 3 sub C sub with an octet of colored gluon s known as gluons acting as the force carriers between a triplet of colored quarks. In Chiral Color, QCD is extended to a gauge group which is SU 3 sub L sub × SU 3 sub R sub and leads to a second octet of force carriers. SU 3 sub C sub is identified with a diagonal subgroup of these two factors. The gluons correspond to the unbroken gauge bosons and the color octet axigluons which couple strongly to the quarks are massive. Hence the name is Chiral Color. Although Chiral Color has presently no experimental support which is not really any worse than most models currently investigated it has the aesthetic advantage of rendering the Standard Model more similar in its treatment of the two short range forces, strong and weak interactions. Unlike gluons, the axigluons are predicted to be massive. Extensive searches for axigluons at CERN ref cite journal author C. Albajar et al. UA1 collaboration title Two jet mass distributions at the CERN proton antiproton collider journal Physics Letters B volume 209 pages 127 year 1988 doi 10.1016 0370 2693 88 91843 6 bibcode 1988PhLB..209..127A ref and Fermilab ref cite journal author F. Abe et al. CDF Collaboration title Two jet invariant mass distribution at s sup frac 1 2 sup 1.8 TeV journal Physical Review D volume 41 pages 1722 year 1990 ... Hadron Collider . References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Chiral Color Category Particle physics particle ... more details
Chiral resolution in stereochemistry is a process for the separation of racemic compounds into their enantiomer s. ref cite journal title Resolution of chiral drugs author William H. Porter journal Pure Appl. Chem. volume 63 issue 8 pages 1119 1122 year 1991 url http www.iupac.org publications pac 1991 pdf 6308x1119.pdf doi 10.1351 pac199163081119 ref It is an important tool in the production of optically active drug s. Other terms with the same meaning are optical resolution and mechanical resolution . One disadvantage of chiral resolution of racemates compared to direct asymmetric synthesis of one of the enantiomers is that only 50 of a desired enantiomer is obtained. Several methods exist. Resolution by crystallization Typically 5 10 of all racemates are known to crystallize as mixtures of enantiopure crystals, so called conglomerates ref Enantiomers, racemates, and resolutions Jean Jacques, Andr Collet, Samuel H Wilen 1981 ISBN 0 471 08058 6 ref . Louis Pasteur was the first to conduct chiral resolution when he discovered the concept of optical activity in the first place by the manual separation of left handed and right handed tartaric acid crystals in 1849. Later in 1882 he went on to demonstrate that by Seed crystal seeding a supersaturation supersaturated solution of tartrate sodium ammonium tartrate with a d crystal on one side of the reactor and a l crystal on the opposite ... purity can be obtained. Chiral resolving agents Derivatization of racemic compounds is possible ... and a carboxylic acid . Simple deprotonation affords the pure enantiomer. Examples of so called chiral ... of chiral resolution is used in the organic synthesis of the drug Duloxetine ref cite journal title ... is known as RRR synthesis in which the R s stand for Resolution Racemization Recycle . Chiral column chromatography In chiral column chromatography the stationary phase is made chiral with similar resolving agents as described above. References div class references small references div Chiral synthesis ... more details
About speeds Knot unit other uses Knot disambiguation Image Nf knots.png frame right Some knots ol li Yarn knot The Ashley Book of Knots ABoK 2688 li li Manrope knot Manrope  knot li li Granny knot li li Rosebud stopper knot ? li li Matthew Walker s knot li li Shroud knot li li Turks head knot li li Overhand knot , Figure eight knot ropes Figure of eight knot li li Reef knot , Square knot li li Two half hitches li ol A knot is a method of fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying ..., and the area of mathematics known as knot theory knot  theory . Use Citations missing section ... best by watching how a knot is tied. Knot tying skills are often transmitted by sailor s, Scouting ... should have basic knowledge of knots and knot systems to increase safety and the ability to do ... by a type of knot called a whipping knot . Many types of textile s use knots to repair damage ... Knots weaken the rope in which they are made. ref name Richards2005 Cite journal title Knot ..., it almost always fails at the knot or close to it, unless it is defective or damaged elsewhere. The bending, crushing, and chafing forces that hold a knot in place also unevenly stress rope fibers ... are complex and are the subject of continued study. Relative knot strength, also called knot ... without the knot. Determining a precise value for a particular knot is difficult because many factors can affect a knot efficiency test the type of fiber , the Rope Styles of rope construction style of rope , the size of rope, whether it is wet or dry, how the knot is dressed before loading, how rapidly it is loaded, whether the knot is repeatedly loaded, and so on. The efficiency of common ... grog reliability Cite web url http www.animatedknots.com reliability.php title Knot & Rope Safety ..., other factors come into play. Security Even if the rope does not break, a knot may still fail to hold ... back through the knot in the direction of the load. If this continues far enough, the working ... more details
Noref date August 2009 In nuclear physics , the chiral model is a Phenomenology particle physics phenomenological model describing meson s in the chiral limit where the masses of the quark s go to zero without mentioning quarks at all . It s a nonlinear sigma model with the principal homogeneous space of the Lie group special unitary group SU N as its target manifold where N is the number of quark flavor s. The Riemannian metric of the target manifold is given by a positive constant multiplied by the Killing form acting upon the Maurer Cartan form of SU N . The internal global symmetry of this model is SU N sub L sub × SU N sub R sub , the left and right copies respectively where the left copy acts as the group action left action upon the target space and the right copy acts as the group action right action . The left copy describes rotations among the left handed quarks while the right copy describes rotations among the right handed quarks and they are independent of each other. This model admits topological soliton s called Skyrmion s. Category Quantum field theory Category Quantum chromodynamics Category Nuclear physics Quantum field theories particle stub ... more details
About method of fastening linear material Knot other uses Knot disambiguation Infobox radio station name KNOT airdate 1957 in radio 1957 frequency 1450 Kilohertz kHz city Prescott, Arizona area Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff Prescott, Arizona format Oldies owner Guyann Corporation power 1,000 watt s class C branding Fun Oldies 100.9 1450 webcast none website http www.funoldies1450.info FunOldies1450.com sister stations KAFF AM KAFF , KAFF FM , KFSZ , KMGN , KTMG KNOT 1450 AM and KNOT FM 100.9 are commercial radio station s in Prescott, Arizona , simulcasting to the Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff Prescott, Arizona , area. In August 2011, the stations dropped classic country and switched to a 1960s oldies format. Bo Woods, who worked at Los Angeles oldies station KRTH , 2002 06, is the program director and morning disc jockey. External links AM station data KNOT Category Radio stations in Flagstaff, Arizona NOT Category Prescott, Arizona Category Classic country radio stations in the United States Category Radio stations established in 1957 Arizona radio station stub ... more details
A chiral anomaly is the anomaly physics anomalous nonconservation of a chirality physics chiral current. In some theories of fermion fermions with chiral symmetry , the Quantization physics quantization may lead to the breaking of this global chiral symmetry. In that case, the charge associated with the chiral symmetry is not conserved. The non conservation happens in a tunneling process from one Vacuum Quantum mechanical definition vacuum to another. Such a process is called an instanton . In the case of a symmetry related to the conservation of a fermionic particle number , one may understand the creation of such particles as follows. The definition of a particle is different in the two vacuum states between which the tunneling occurs therefore a state of no particles in one vacuum corresponds to a state with some particles in the other vacuum. In particular, there is a Dirac sea of fermions and, when such a tunneling happens, it causes the energy level s of the sea fermions to gradually shift upwards for the particles and downwards for the anti particles, or vice versa. This means ... on its complex conjugate math d bar psi math . The transformations of both parts under a chiral symmetry do not cancel in general. Note that if math psi math is a Dirac fermion , then the chiral symmetry ... The chiral anomaly can be calculated exactly by one loop Feynman diagram s, e.g. the famous ... fields under the chiral transformation. Wess and Zumino developed a set of conditions on how ... chiral anomaly. The classic electroweak Lagrangian conserves baryon ic charge. Quarks always ... and the Chiral Anomaly journal Physical Review volume D69 pages 096002 doi 10.1103 PhysRevD.69.096002 ... cite arxiv eprint hep ph 0309311 last1 Yang first1 J. F. title Trace and chiral anomalies in QED and their underlying .... title Trace anomalies and chiral Ward identities year 2004 doi 10.1088 0256 307X 21 5 008 journal Chinese ... cite journal last1 Gozzi first1 E. last2 Mauro first2 D. last3 Silvestri first3 A. title Chiral ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2009 In quantum field theory , chiral symmetry is a possible symmetry in physics symmetry of the Lagrangian under which the chirality physics left handed and chirality physics right handed parts of Fermionic field Dirac fields Dirac field s transform independently. The chiral symmetry transformation can be divided into a component that treats the left handed and the right handed parts equally, known as vector symmetry , and a component that actually treats them differently, known as axial symmetry . Citation needed date May 2009 Example u and d quarks in QCD Consider quantum chromodynamics QCD with two massless quarks u and d . The Lagrangian is math mathcal L overline u ,i displaystyle not D ,u overline d ,i displaystyle not D , d mathcal L mathrm gluons math In terms of left handed and right handed spinors it becomes math mathcal L overline u L ,i displaystyle not D ,u L overline u R ,i displaystyle not D ,u R overline d L ,i displaystyle not D ,d L overline d R ,i displaystyle not D ,d R mathcal L mathrm gluons math Hereby i is the imaginary unit and math displaystyle not D math the well known Dirac operator . Defining math q begin bmatrix u d end bmatrix math it can be written as math mathcal L overline q L ,i displaystyle not D ,q L overline q R ,i displaystyle not D , q R mathcal L mathrm gluons math The Lagrangian is unchanged under a rotation of math q L math by any 2 x 2 unitary matrix L , and math q R math by any 2 x 2 unitary matrix R . This symmetry of the Lagrangian is called flavor symmetry or chiral symmetry , and denoted as math U 2 L times U 2 R math . It can be decomposed into math SU 2 L times SU 2 R times U 1 V times U 1 A math The vector symmetry math U 1 V , math acts as math q L rightarrow e i theta q L qquad q R rightarrow e i theta q R math and corresponds to baryon number conservation. The axial symmetry math U 1 A , math ... chiral symmetry math SU 2 L times SU 2 R math turns out to be spontaneous symmetry breaking ... more details
About the film the company The Knot company Infobox Chinese Film name The Knot image image size caption director Yin Li director Yin Li producer writer Liu Heng br Zheng Kehui starring Chen Kun actor Chen Kun br Vivian Hsu br Li Bingbing music Zou Ye cinematography Wang Xiaole editing distributor released China br December 1, 2006 runtime 117 min. language Mandarin budget jianti fanti pinyin Y n sh i y o The Knot zh t s p Y n sh i y o l The Song of the Clouds and Waters is a 2006 Cinema of China Chinese film Film director directed by Yin Li director Yin Li . It was China s submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated. ref name YahooMoviesSubmissions cite web url http oscars.movies.yahoo.com news iw 20071018 1355.html title A Record 63 Countries Vying For Best Foreign Language Oscar Nod publisher Yahoo Movies date 2007 10 17 accessdate 2008 06 23 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref ref name VarietyShortlist cite web url http www.variety.com awardcentral article VR1117979064.html?nav news&categoryid 1982&cs 1 title Oscar s foreign film race heats up publisher Variety magazine Variety author Gaydos, Steven coauthors McCarthy, Libby date 2008 01 15 accessdate 2008 06 23 ref It won the Best Film in the 2007 Golden Rooster Awards , and was named Outstanding Film by the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards . Plot They fell in love Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre , Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War , where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell ... title id 0924003 title The Knot Amg movie 392451 The Knot http www.dianying.com en title ysy2006 The Knot at the Chinese Movie Database CinemaofChina DEFAULTSORT Knot, The Category 2006 films Category ... War romance films China film stub id The Knot hu The Knot nl The Knot vi V n th y dao zh ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name A Knot Of Type video Artist Dir En Grey Cover Cover size Released February 2, 2009 Recorded 2005 2008 br Worldwide Genre Rock music Rock Heavy metal music metal Length Label Gan Shin Director Producer Reviews Chronology Last album In Weal or Woe br 2008 This album A Knot Of br 2009 Next album Tour 08 The Rose Trims Again br 2009 Misc A Knot Of stylized A KNOT OF is a DVD by Dir En Grey , released in Europe, North America and Japan between February 2 and February 24, 2009, marking Dir En Grey s first worldwide DVD release. Material on the DVD consists of rehashed material from the band s prior three fan club only releases, Tour 05 It Withers and Withers It Withers and Withers Bootlegged , Despair in the Womb , and In Weal or Woe . The live video was shot from early 2005 through late 2007, which encompasses several international tours and appearances, as well as three domestic tours. Tours Featured Tour05 It Withers and Withers Rock am Ring 2005 Rock im Park 2005 United States Showcase Tour Tour06 It Withers and Withers Rock am Ring 2006 Rock im Park 2006 Tour05 06 It Withers and Withers Final Tour06 Inward Scream The Family Values Tour Tour07 Inward Scream Deftones U.S. Tour 2007 Summer Wacken Open Air Ankkarock Festival Tour07 The Marrow of a Bone Release history class wikitable Region Date Label Catalog United Kingdom , Spain , Portugal February 2 align center Gan Shin FWEDVD 0002 Japan rowspan 2 February 4 align center Free Will Sub divisions Firewall Div. Sony Music Entertainment Japan SMEJ SFBD 0016 France , Finland rowspan 2 align center Gan Shin rowspan 2 FWEDVD 0002 Germany , Austria , Switzerland br Poland , Sweden , Denmark br Italy , Netherlands , Belgium February 6 United States , Canada February 24 align center ... Knot Of, A Category Dir En Grey video albums Category 2009 video albums Category Live video albums Category 2009 live albums ja A KNOT OF ... more details
In loop quantum gravity , an s knot is an equivalence class of spin network s under diffeomorphism s. In this formalism, s knots represent the quantum state s of the gravitational field . External links Living Reviews in Relativity http relativity.livingreviews.org open?pubNo lrr 1998 1&page node21.html Loop Quantum Gravity Diffeomorphism invariance Carlo Rovelli, Black Hole Entropy from Loop Quantum Gravity , http arxiv.org abs gr qc 9603063v1 Phys.Rev.Lett. 77, 3288 3291 1996 . Category Loop quantum gravity physics stub ... more details
Image Knot table.svg thumb 300px A small table of all prime knots excluding chiralknot mirror images with 7 Crossing number knot theory crossings or less. Ever since Sir William Thomson s vortex theory , mathematicians have tried to classify and tabulate all possible knot mathematics knots . As of May 2008 all prime knot s up to 16 Crossing number knot theory crossings have been tabulated. Beginnings main History of knot theory In an attempt to make a periodic table of the elements , P. G. Tait , C. N. Little and others started counting all possible knots. ref name Hoste http pzacad.pitzer.edu jhoste HosteWebPages downloads Enumeration.pdf ref Perko pair main Perko pair In 1974 Perko discovered a duplication in the Tait Little tables, called the Perko pair . New methods Hoste et al. and Morwen Thistlethwaite Thistlethwaite each independently counted all knots with 16 crossings, and both got the same number. References reflist See also Knot theory Knot mathematics History of knot theory DEFAULTSORT Knot Tabulation Category Knot theory ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2008 In particle physics , chiral symmetry breaking is an example of spontaneous symmetry breaking affecting the chiral symmetry of gauge theory such as Quantum Chromodynamics . The origin may be described as a fermion condensate vacuum condensate of bilinear expressions involving the fermion s . The pion decay constant may be viewed as a measure of the magnitude of the chiral symmetry breaking. Category Quantum chromodynamics phys stub ... more details
Infobox VG title Chiral image Deleted image removed Image Chiral icon.png Chiral icon developer Ambrosia Software publisher Ambrosia Software distributor designer engine version 1.0.4 released genre puzzle computer game Puzzle modes single player ratings platforms Mac OS media requirements input computer keyboard Keyboard , computer mouse Mouse preceded by followed by Chiral is a puzzle computer game Puzzle computer game for Mac OS by Ambrosia Software . Gameplay is built around the idea of linking atoms together to make molecules. External links http www.ambrosiasw.com games chiral Game homepage Ambrosia Software Category Ambrosia Software games Category Mac OS only games Category Puzzle video games puzzle videogame stub ... more details
In quantum field theory , a chiral gauge theory is a quantum field theory with charged chiral i.e. Weyl spinor Weyl fermions. For instance, the Standard Model is a chiral gauge theory. For topological reasons, chiral charged fermions cannot be given a mass without breaking the gauge symmetry, which will lead to inconsistencies unlike a global symmetry. It is notoriously difficult to construct a chiral gauge theory from a theory which does not already contain chiral fields at the fundamental level. ref Ball, Chiral Gauge Theory, http www.sciencedirect.com science? ob ArticleURL& udi B6TVP 46P3YY5 FT& user 10& coverDate 10 2F31 2F1989& rdoc 1& fmt high& orig search& origin search& sort d& docanchor &view c& searchStrId 1620873114& rerunOrigin google& acct C000050221& version 1& urlVersion 0& userid 10&md5 a21865048ac27a85afcb8bc9ac604f19&searchtype a ref A consistent chiral gauge theory must have no gauge anomaly or global anomaly . Almost by necessity, regularization physics regulator s will have to break the gauge symmetry. This is responsible for gauge anomalies in the first place. Fermion doubling on a lattice Lattice regularizations suffer from fermion doubling s leading to many tastes, and a loss of chirality. 3 4 5 model The simplest model has 1 spatial and 1 time dimension. We have a U 1 gauge symmetry. There are left mover chiral fermions with charges 3 and 4. We have a right mover with charge 5. This is a Pythagorean triple. This theory is free from gauge anomalies. See also gauge anomaly References reflist External links Blog post http www.nonequilibrium.net lattice chiral gauge theories problem Category Quantum field theory Category Gauge theories particle stub ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Chiral column chromatography is a variant of column chromatography in which the Stationary phase chemistry stationary phase contains a single enantiomer of a chirality chemistry chiral compound rather than being achiral. The two enantiomers of the same analyte compound differ in Chemical affinity affinity to the single enantiomer stationary phase and therefore they exit the column at different times. The chiral stationary phase can be prepared by attaching a suitable chiral compound to the surface of an achiral support such as silica gel , which creates a Chiral Stationary Phase CSP . Many common chiral stationary phases are based on oligosaccharides such as cellulose or cyclodextrin in particular with cyclodextrin, a seven sugar ring molecule . As with all chromatographic methods, various stationary phases are particularly suited to specific types of analytes. Chiral Stationary Phases are much more expensive than comparable achiral stationary phases such as High performance liquid chromatography Reversed phase chromatography C sub 18 sub . The principle can be also applied to the fabrication of monolithic HPLC column s ref cite journal url http www.sciencedirect.com science? ob ArticleURL& udi B6THP 4XBR4HT 2& user 10& coverDate 01 2F31 2F2010& rdoc 1& fmt high& orig search& sort d& docanchor &view c& acct C000050221& version 1& urlVersion 0& userid 10&md5 82e7f892341f4e4aae35f52fa7b0153f title Fabrication and evaluation of chiral monolithic column modified by cyclodextrin derivatives author Yingjie Li, Chunhui Song, Lingyi Zhang, Weibing Zhang, Honggang Fu journal Talanta volume 80 issue 3 month January year 2010 pages 1378 1384 doi 10.1016 ... chromatography mass spectrometry with cyclodextrin chiral columns author Yi Ming Liu, Patricia Gordon ... year 2000 pages 81 88 doi 10.1016 S0003 2670 00 00986 7 ref References Reflist See also Chiral synthesis Chiral synthesis DEFAULTSORT Chiral Column Chromatography Category Chromatography Category ... more details
. Though the trefoil knot is chiral, it is also invertible , meaning that there is no distinction ...Otheruses4 the topological concept the protein fold trefoil knot fold unreferenced date June 2006 File Blue Trefoil Knot.png thumb right Trefoil knot File Trefoil non 3 symm.svg thumb right Form of trefoil knot without visual three fold symmetry In topology , a branch of mathematics , the trefoil knot is the simplest example of a nontrivial knot mathematics knot . The trefoil can be obtained by joining together the two loose ends of a common overhand knot , resulting in a knotted loop topology loop . As the simplest knot, the trefoil is fundamental to the study of mathematical knot theory , which has diverse applications in topology , geometry , physics , and chemistry . The trefoil knot is named ... the simplest example of a torus knot . Specifically, the trefoil is the 2,3 torus knot, since the curve ... deformation of the curve above is also considered a trefoil knot. Specifically, any curve Homotopy Isotopy isotopic to a trefoil knot is also considered to be a trefoil. In addition, the mirror image of a trefoil knot is also considered to be a trefoil. In topology and knot theory, the trefoil is usually defined using a knot diagram instead of an explicit parametric equation. In algebraic ... handed trefoil. image1 Trefoil knot left.svg alt1 Left handed trefoil image2 TrefoilKnot 01.svg alt2 Right handed trefoil Symmetry The trefoil knot is chirality mathematics chiral , in the sense that a trefoil knot can be distinguished from its own mirror image. The two resulting variants are known ... Tricoloring.png thumb right 180px The trefoil knot is tricolorability tricolorable . Nontriviality The trefoil knot is nontrivial, meaning that it is not possible to untie a trefoil knot in three dimensions without cutting it. From a mathematical point of view, this means that a trefoil knot is not isotopic ... a trefoil. Proving this requires the construction of a knot invariant that distinguishes the trefoil ... more details
Chiral pool synthesis is a strategy that aims to improve the efficiency of chiral synthesis . It starts the organic synthesis of a complex enantiopure chemical compound from a stock of readily available enantiopure substances. Common chiral starting materials include monosaccharide s and amino acid s. The built in chirality chemistry chirality is then preserved in the remainder of the reaction sequence. This strategy is especially helpful if the desired molecule bears a great resemblance to cheap enantiopure natural products. Otherwise, a long, tortuous synthesis involving many steps with attendant losses in yield may be required. At times, it may be difficult to find a suitable enantiopure starting material other techniques may prove more fruitful. General methods used in chiral pool synthesis are the use of protecting groups , and functional group interconversion FGI . Examples Chiral pool synthesis is used to build a part of the epothilone molecule an alternative to Paclitaxel , from readily available enantiopure pantolactone. ref cite journal author Ulrich Klar, et al. title Efficient Chiral Pool Synthesis of the C1 C6 Fragment of Epothilones journal Synthesis journal Synthesis year 2005 volume 2005 pages 301 305 doi 10.1055 s 2004 834936 issue 2 ref Enantiopure tartaric acid is also used to synthesize chiraphos ref cite journal author M. D. Fryzuk, B. Bosnich title Asymmetric synthesis. Production of optically active amino acids by catalytic hydrogenation journal J. Am. Chem. Soc. volume 99 year 1977 pages 6262 6267 doi 10.1021 ja00461a014 pmid 893889 issue 19 ref Image Synth Chiraphos.png 450px Enantiomeric scaffolding Enantiomeric scaffolding is a related concept whereby a conceptually simple but synthetic core molecule of high enantiopurity with many functional group ..., 2008 . DOI 10.1021 jo702006z ref . References reflist chiral synthesis Category Organic chemistry de Chiral Pool it Pool chirale ... more details