Coming Together through Exam Cram

The Kirkwood Community College library (along with Tutoring Services) has held an Exam Cram event for students each semester since the fall of 2014. It is an idea we borrowed from other academic libraries in Iowa. However, over the years, it has evolved into an event that has included more and more of our college\u27s departments and services to make it a community event. It has included Counseling Services, Campus Health, U. S. Bank on-campus branch, the Cafe, Student Life, Writing Center, the Campus Book and Computer store, the Veterinary Technology program, the Nursing program and Agriculture/Horticulture program. This session will share what we have done to create an event enjoyed by students and provided ownership to many at Kirkwood

Profile alterations of a symmetrical light pulse coming through a quantum well

The theory of a response of a two-energy-level system, irradiated by symmetrical light pulses, has been developed.(Suchlike electronic system approximates under the definite conditions a single ideal quantum well (QW) in a strong magnetic field {\bf H}, directed perpendicularly to the QW's plane, or in magnetic field absence.) The general formulae for the time-dependence of non-dimensional reflection {\cal R}(t), absorption {\cal A}(t) and transmission {\cal T}(t) of a symmetrical light pulse have been obtained. It has been shown that the singularities of three types exist on the dependencies {\cal R}(t), {\cal A}(t), {\cal T}(t). The oscillating time dependence of {\cal R}(t), {\cal A}(t), {\cal T}(t) on the detuning frequency \Delta\omega=\omega_l-\omega_0 takes place. The oscillations are more easily observable when \Delta\omega\simeq\gamma_l. The positions of the total absorption, reflection and transparency singularities are examined when the frequency \omega_l is detuned.Comment: 9 pages, 13 figures with caption

Coming home, coming out: Achmat Dangor's journeys through myth and Constantin Cavafy

Despite his international status, the impact of Constantin Cavafy’s poetry on South African letters has gone largely unnoticed. This article draws attention to the range of Cavafy's, influence on the local poets, writers, critics and cultural activists, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, but directs most of its attention to two early short stories by Achmat Dangor, ‘The Homecoming’ and ‘Waiting for Leila’, and his most recent novel Bitter Fruit. In all of these works Dangor refers directly and indirectly to Cavafy’s poetry, his sexuality, his evocations of place and his use of Greek mythology, particularly in one of his most famous poems ‘Ithaka’. The article also addresses Dangor’s ambivalence towards Cavafy, particularly the disjuncture between Cavafy’s ironic, apolitical modernism, modernism’s appeal to Dangor, his desire to produce accessible protest literature and his need to justify recourse to the classics in Africa.Web of Scienc

Spring 2008, Four UNH students named recipients of national awards for academic work abroad in 2008-2009

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program has awarded UNH seniors Erin Kiley and Lisa Mulvey prestigious national scholarships for post-baccalaureate work abroad in the coming academic year. Sophomore Jordan Caley and junior Holly Eaton will study abroad during the coming academic year on Boren Scholarships awarded competitively through the National Security Education Program (NSEP). They are among a group of 150 students selected from a national pool of 697

The Stink Coming Through the Revolving Door

A Montana Public Radio Commentary by Evan Barrett

A short note on the multiplier ideals of monomial space curves

Thompson (2014) exhibits a formula for the multiplier ideal with multiplier lambda of a monomial curve C with ideal I as an intersection of a term coming from the I-adic valuation, the multiplier ideal of the term ideal of I, and terms coming from certain specified auxiliary valuations. This short note shows it suffices to consider only one auxiliary valuation. This improvement is achieved through a more intrinsic approach, reduction to the toric case.Comment: This version adds Corollary 10 and fixes several typo

Neutrino Detection with Inclined Air Showers

The possibilities of detecting high energy neutrinos through inclined showers produced in the atmosphere are addressed with an emphasis on the detection of air showers by arrays of particle detectors. Rates of inclined showers produced by both down-going neutrino interactions and by up-coming $\tau$ decays from earth-skimming neutrinos as a function of shower energy are calculated with analytical methods using two sample neutrino fluxes with different spectral indices. The relative contributions from different flavors and charged, neutral current and resonant interactions are compared for down-going neutrinos interacting in the atmosphere. No detailed description of detectors is attempted but rough energy thresholds are implemented to establish the ranges of energies which are more suitable for neutrino detection through inclined showers. Down-going and up-coming rates are compared.Comment: Submitted to New Journal of Physic

"It's coming through!" Leakage in portal quest fantasies

In Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn proposes four categories of the fantastic. In one of these, Portal Quest fantasies, she observes, “the fantastic is on the other side and does not leak. Although individuals may cross both ways, the magic does not”. This paper considers some of the Portal Quest fantasies and discusses how the magic does indeed leak through into the "real world"