Journal- Based Reflection in Undergraduate Service Learning and the University Therapeutic Riding Center

Principles of Therapeutic Riding, Animal Science 3309, is a service- based learning course that gives undergraduates the opportunity to participate in hippotherapy sessions. This course first offered in 1998, has been held for 12 semesters. A total of 233 students from over 15 majors have been trained in this discipline. Advanced Therapeutic Riding, Animal Science 4001, is a continuation of the Principles class that allows students to participate in the sessions and serve in leadership roles. This class has been active for 8 semesters and has included 51 students

Water Fluoridation: The Engineers' Contribution

The benefits of fluoridation were formally endorsed in North America in 1951 and for nearly sixty years a diverse range of communities have been adjusting the fluoride content in water supplies to reduce dental decay. Australian fluoridation commenced in 1953 in Tasmania and expanded to the other states because of the enthusiastic efforts of engineers in partnership with the dental profession. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the early contribution of engineers in fluoridation research and to acknowledge the role of four Australian engineers, Mr F Grey (Tasmania), Mr H J N Hodgson (South Australia), Mr M A Simmonds (Queensland) and Dr M J Flynn (New South Wales). The history of fluoridation and the multidisciplinary approach to its implementation has relevance today as reuse of water and beneficial use of biosolids is subjected to community debate

Multiple hadron production in e+e- annihilation induced by heavy primary quarks. New analysis

In this paper we present an analysis of the multiple hadron production induced by primary heavy quarks in e+e- annihilation with the account of most complete and corrected experimental data. In the framework of perturbative QCD, new theoretical bounds on the asymptotically constant differences of the multiplicities in processes with light and heavy quarks are given.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Particles & Nucle

Questions and Remarks About Clans in Multiparticle Dynamics

The fact that several important effects in multiparticle dynamics, on which QCD has not yet satisfactory predictions, have been interpreted in terms of the validity of negative binomial (Pascal) regularity and related clan properties at the level of simpler substructures, raises intriguing questions on clan properties in all classes of collisions, the main one being whether clans are observable objects or merely a mathematical concept. We approach this problem by studying clan masses and rapidity distributions in each substructure for e+e- annihilation and hh collisions, and find that such properties can indeed characterise the different components. These results support the idea that clans could be observable, a challenging problem for future experiments.Comment: 11 pages; 3 figures; latex 2e and amsmat

The lepton flavor violating decays Z→liljZ\to l_i l_j in the simplest little Higgs model

In the simplest little Higgs model the new flavor-changing interactions between heavy neutrinos and the Standard Model leptons can generate contributions to some lepton flavor violating decays of $Z$-boson at one-loop level, such as $Z \to \tau^{\pm}\mu^{\mp}$, $Z\to \tau^{\pm}e^{\mp}$, and $Z \to \mu^{\pm}e^{\mp}$. We examine the decay modes, and find that the branching ratios can reach $10^{-7}$ for the three decays, which should be accessible at the Giga$Z$ option of the ILC.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figure

ELM Characteristics in MAST

Edge localized mode (ELM) characteristics in a large spherical tokamak (ST) with significant auxiliary heating are explored. High confinement is achieved in mega ampere spherical tokamak (MAST) at low ELM frequencies even though the ELMs exhibit many type III characteristics. These ELMs are associated with a reduction in the pedestal density but no significant change in the pedestal temperature or temperature profile, indicating that energy is convected from the pedestal region into the scrape-off layer. Power to the targets during an ELM arrives predominantly at the low field outboard side. ELM effluxes are observed up to 20 cm from the plasma edge at the outboard mid-plane and are associated with the radial motion of a feature at an average velocity of 0.75 km s-1. The target balance observed in MAST is potentially rather favourable for the ST since H-mode access is facilitated in a regime where ELM losses flow mostly to the large wetted area, outboard targets and, in addition, the target heat loads are reduced by an even distribution of power between the upper and lower targets

Phenomenological Study of Strong Decays of Heavy Hadrons in Heavy Quark Effective Theory

The application of the tensor formalism of the heavy quark effective theory (HQET) at leading order to strong decays of heavy hadrons is presented. Comparisons between experimental and theoretical predictions of ratios of decay rates for B mesons, D mesons and kaons are given. The application of HQET to strange mesons presents some encouraging results. The spin-flavor symmetry is used to predict some decay rates that have not yet been measured.Comment: 10 page