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Looking Toward the Future: A Review of Western New York\u27s Early Childhood System
In 2017, Liftoff--Western New York Early Childhood Funders for Change--wanted to better understand how the region serves its youngest residents, how other communities structure systems to improve life and learning for young children and their families, and how stakeholders across the system could come together to affect change. Together with partners across Western Yew York (including Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee, Erie, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming Counties), Liftoff engaged Public Sector Consultants to provide an outside, objective review of early childhood systems and programs in the region. We hope this report will be the foundation for many conversations in the months and years to come
Public Sector Safety Report, Winter 2002
Diagrammatic many-body theory is used to calculate the scattering phase
shifts, normalized annihilation rates and annihilation gamma
spectra for positron collisions with the hydrogen-like ions He, Li,
B and F. Short-range electron-positron correlations and
longer-range positron-ion correlations are accounted for by evaluating nonlocal
corrections to the annihilation vertex and the exact positron self-energy. The
numerical calculation of the many-body theory diagrams is performed using
B-spline basis sets. To elucidate the r\^ole of the positron-ion repulsion, the
annihilation rate is also estimated analytically in the Coulomb-Born
approximation. It is found that the energy dependence and magnitude of is governed by the Gamow factor that characterizes the suppression of the
positron wave function near the ion. For all of the H-like ions, the
correlation enhancement of the annihilation rate is found to be predominantly
due to corrections to the annihilation vertex, while the corrections to the
positron wave function play only a minor r\^ole. Results of the calculations
for , and d-wave incident positrons of energies up to the positronium
formation threshold are presented. Where comparison is possible, our values are
in excellent agreement with the results obtained using other, e.g.,
variational, methods. The annihilation vertex enhancement factors obtained in
the present calculations are found to scale approximately as
, where is the net charge of the ion and is
the positron orbital angular momentum. Our results for positron annihilation in
H-like ions provide insights into the problem of positron annihilation with
core electrons in atoms and condensed matter systems, which have similar
binding energies.Comment: 26 pages, 25 figure
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