Quantum Imaging beyond the Diffraction Limit by Optical Centroid Measurements

I propose a quantum imaging method that can beat the Rayleigh-Abbe diffraction limit and achieve de Broglie resolution without requiring a multiphoton absorber as the detector. Using the same non-classical states of light as those for quantum lithography, the proposed method requires only intensity measurements, followed by image post-processing, to produce the same complex image patterns as those in quantum lithography. The method is expected to be experimentally realizable using current technology.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; v2: accepted by PRL, see also the accompanying Viewpoint commentary by Anisimov and Dowling [Physics 2, 52 (2009), http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/52

Building on MaineCare’s Success

This commentary provides a particular viewpoint on MaineCare (Maine’s Medicaid program). Lisa Pohlmann and Christine Hastedt critique reform efforts in several states and emphasize the key role of MaineCare in the state’s overall health care system

Don\u27t Forget, It\u27s a Small Island: A Case Study of Population Policy and Research Utilization

This case study describes, from a participant\u27s viewpoint, the chronological unfolding of Taiwan\u27s first island-wide population education approach in the classroom. Cultural, bureaucratic and political obstacles to change and their complex interaction are discussed. A commentary and suggestions for discussion are included

Dirigo Health: A Small Business Perspective

In her commentary Deborah Cook, executive director of the Maine Small Business Alliance, discusses Dirigo Health from the viewpoint of small businesses, whose employees and families, along with the self-employed, represent the largest proportion of uninsured in Maine’s population. She notes that rising costs of health care and insurance are a major threat to the viability of small businesses

Exploring the soliloquies of Romeo and Juliet: exemplification level 5 (Active Shakespeare: Capturing evidence of learning)

Part of the 'Active Shakespeare: Capturing evidence of learning' suite of resources. "What is it about Providing active and engaging ways to integrate Shakespeare in the ongoing periodic assessment of pupils’ reading. What is it for? To support the teaching and assessment of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3." - Back cover

Exploring viewpoint in The Tempest: exemplification level 5 (Active Shakespeare: Capturing evidence of learning)

Part of the 'Active Shakespeare: Capturing evidence of learning' suite of resources. "What is it about Providing active and engaging ways to integrate Shakespeare in the ongoing periodic assessment of pupils’ reading. What is it for? To support the teaching and assessment of Shakespeare at Key Stage 3." - Back cover

Identity, Speech, and Equality

My experience as a litigator tells me that the First Amendment as provided the most reliable path to success of any of the doctrinal claims utilized by lesbian and gay rights lawyers. Certainly no other block of cases can rival the success rate of the cases seeking recognition and even funding of lesbian and gay student organizations, all of which were brought on First Amendment grounds and ultimately won by plaintiffs

The question of objectivity in Zola's Thérse Raquin : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in French at Massey University

Some French throughout.The first chapter examines the fascination the concept of objectivity held for certain French Realists including Emile Zola, acknowledged leader of the Naturalists who believed in the application of the scientific method to novel-writing. These writers sought to produce works of mimetic value and attached themselves to the tenets of objectivity in an attempt to achieve this. However it was recognized that their efforts at producing 'objective' novels were threatened by a requirement for artistry in published fiction. More recent thinking acknowledges that objectivity is not achievable, at least not in absolute terms. The problems inherent in various definitions of objectivity in fiction are examined and reveal general agreement that this kind of objectivity requires at least the appearance of detachment and neutrality by the author. In order to examine the question of the author's detachment, Chapter 2 ,makes a case for the distinctions of author, implied author and narrator to be blurred in Zola's Therese Raguin. Four distinct aspects of the narrating voice are examined. Examples are given of the various forms of commentary in the narrative which reveal the presence of the author-narrator. The author's preconceptions which threaten his neutrality are focused on in Chapter 3. The theory of determinism involving both causality and fatalism is seen as both abetting and threatening the author's attainment of a semblance of objectivity in the text. We examine the basis on which characters are presented and milieu is described in Therese Raquin. Zola is shown to be far from neutral

Different Clusters of Text from Ancient China, Different Mathematical Ontologies

Sources attesting to mathematical activities in ancient China form at least four distinct clusters of texts, bespeaking at least four different—though overlapping—ways of practicing mathematics. I will focus on two such sets of documents: the canons that in the seventh century constituted one of the two curricula taught in the Imperial “School of Mathematics,” and manuscripts recently excavated from tombs sealed in the last centuries BCE. I will argue that these two sets of documents testify to two different ways of practicing mathematics, which related to different material practices. Accordingly, we can perceive that mathematical objects were shaped and explored in different ways, with significant consequences for the knowledge produced