Understanding Aceh’s contemporary architecture: Neuheun Mandiri Housing, in the hills of Aceh Besar coastal village

This paper attempts to examine the uniqueness of architectural culture to show that through regionalism, Acehnese architecture can still be built by saving and adapting regional conceptions of culture and nature. In the design and construction of housing in Aceh today, the territorial approach is rarely considered due to the dominance of universal architectural trends that spread through globalization. The process of building the Neuheun Mandiri housing includes an astute attitude in dealing with the currents of modernity by reinterpreting the architecture of the past to be updated, and making modifications to suit the current environmental conditions. This paper aims to interpret the vernacular aspects of Aceh in the modernity of the housing development of Neuheun Mandiri in the hills of a coastal village, Aceh Besar, where the locality aspect is shown through the building mass pattern, traditional material approaches, and construction techniques.

On the relationship between histogram indexing and block-mass indexing

Histogram indexing , also known as jumbled pattern indexing and permutation indexing is one of the important current open problems in pattern matching. It was introduced about 6 years ago and has seen active research since. Yet, to date there is no algorithm that can preprocess a text T in time o (| T | 2 /polylog| T |) and achieve histogram indexing, even over a binary alphabet, in time independent of the text length. The pattern matching version of this problem has a simple linear-time solution. Block-mass pattern matching problem is a recently introduced problem, motivated by issues in mass-spectrometry. It is also an example of a pattern matching problem that has an efficient, almost linear-time solution but whose indexing version is daunting. However, for fixed finite alphabets, there has been progress made. In this paper, a strong connection between the histogram indexing problem and the block-mass pattern indexing problem is shown. The reduction we show between the two problems is amazingly simple. Its value lies in recognizing the connection between these two apparently disparate problems, rather than the complexity of the reduction. In addition, we show that for both these problems, even over unbounded alphabets, there are algorithms that preprocess a text T in time o (| T | 2 /polylog| T |) and enable answering indexing queries in time polynomial in the query length. The contributions of this paper are twofold: (i) we introduce the idea of allowing a trade-off between the preprocessing time and query time of various indexing problems that have been stumbling blocks in the literature. (ii) We take the first step in introducing a class of indexing problems that, we believe, cannot be pre-processed in time o (| T | 2 /polylog| T |) and enable linear-time query processing.

CHARGES AND MASS SPECTRUM IN THE PISANO–PLEITEZ–FRAMPTON 3-3-1 GAUGE MODEL

The Pisano–Pleitez–Frampton 3-3-1 model is revisited here within the framework of the general method for solving gauge models with high symmetries. This exact algebraical approach — proposed several years ago by one of us — was designed to include a minimal Higgs mechanism that spontaneously breaks the gauge symmetry up to the universal U(1)em electromagnetic one and, consequently, to supply the mass spectrum and the couplings of the currents for all the particles in the model. We prove in this paper that this powerful tool, when is applied to the PPF 3-3-1 model, naturally recovers the whole Standard Model phenomenology and, in addition, predicts — since a proper parametrization is employed — viable results such as: (i) the exact expressions for the boson and fermion masses, (ii) the couplings of the charged and neutral currents and (iii) a plausible neutrino mass pattern. A generalized Weinberg transformation is implemented, while the mixing between the neutral bosons Z and Z′ is performed as a necessary step by the method itself. Some phenomenological consequences are also sketched, including the strange possibility that simultaneously m(Z) = m(Z′) and m(W) = m(V) hold.

NEUTRINOS: LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE

I discuss some aspects of future prospects of the experimental exploration of the unknowns in the neutrino mass pattern and the lepton flavor mixing. I start from measuring θ13 by reactors and accelerators as a prerequisite for proceeding to search for leptonic CP violation. I then discuss how CP violation can be uncovered, and how the neutrino mass hierarchy can be determined. I do these by resolving so called the "parameter degeneracy" which is required anyway if one wants to seek precision measurement of the lepton mixing parameters. As a concrete setting for resolving the degeneracy I use the Tokai-to-Kamioka-Korea two detector complex which receives neutrino superbeam from J-PARC, which is sometimes called as "T2KK". It is shown that T2KK is able to resolve all the eight-fold parameter degeneracy in a wide range of the lepton mixing parameters. Some alternative ways of measuring the unknowns are also briefly mentioned.