Consociationalism in Lebanon

Should Lebanon abandon the consociational democratic system? This paper attempts to answer the question by examining the pathologies of the current system and then evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and potential for reform. Theories of consociational democracy and of conflict regulation are used in this analysis. This paper concludes that there is potential for limited reforms that will make the Lebanese consociational system fairer and therefore more robust to international, regional, and internal disturbances

Conversion of neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers to negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy centers through selective oxidation

The conversion of neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers to negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers is demonstrated for centers created by ion implantation and annealing in high-purity diamond. Conversion occurs with surface exposure to an oxygen atmosphere at 465 C. The spectral properties of the charge-converted centers are investigated. Charge state control of nitrogen-vacancy centers close to the diamond surface is an important step toward the integration of these centers into devices for quantum information and magnetic sensing applications.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

Alien Registration- Thompson, Thelma G. (Caribou, Aroostook County)

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Alliances and evidence: Building the capacity and effectiveness of rural health advocacy in Australia

© 2018 The Authors. Australian Journal of Rural Health published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of National Rural Health Alliance Ltd. This article describes two strategies that have strengthened the capacity and effectiveness of rural health advocacy in Australia over the past nearly three decades. The first is the development of the National Rural Health Alliance, an organisation that grew from strategic efforts to develop relationships between rural and remote health practitioners and organisations. The second is the development, organisation and use of data and evidence to highlight rural health needs. There has been important synergy between these two streams of activity, with research and evidence providing the tools and the National Rural Health Alliance providing the strategy and techniques to influence the rural and remote health care agenda

Chip-based microcavities coupled to NV centers in single crystal diamond

Optical coupling of nitrogen vacancy centers in single-crystal diamond to an on-chip microcavity is demonstrated. The microcavity is fabricated from a hybrid gallium phosphide and diamond material system, and supports whispering gallery mode resonances with spectrometer resolution limited Q > 25000

Nanocavity enhanced diamond nitrogen-vacancy center zero phonon line emission

Resonantly enhanced emission of the zero phonon line of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center in single crystal diamond is demonstrated experimentally using a hybrid whispering gallery mode nanocavity

Supersymmetric quantum mechanics based on higher excited states

We generalize the formalism and the techniques of the supersymmetric (susy) quantum mechanics to the cases where the superpotential is generated/defined by higher excited eigenstates. The generalization is technically almost straightforward but physically quite nontrivial since it yields an infinity of new classes of susy-partner potentials, whose spectra are exactly identical except for the lowest m+1 states, if the superpotential is defined in terms of the (m+1)-st eigenfunction, with m=0 reserved for the ground state. It is shown that in case of the infinite 1-dim potential well nothing new emerges (the partner potential is still of P\"oschl-Teller type I, for all m), whilst in case of the 1-dim harmonic oscillator we get a new class of infinitely many partner potentials: for each m the partner potential is expressed as the sum of the quadratic harmonic potential plus rational function, defined as the derivative of the ratio of two consecutive Hermite polynomials. These partner potentials of course have m singularities exactly at the locations of the nodes of the generating (m+1)-st wavefunction. The susy formalism applies everywhere between the singularities. A systematic application of the formalism to other potentials with known spectra would yield an infinitely rich class of "solvable" potentials, in terms of their partner potentials. If the potentials are shape invariant they can be solved at least partially and new types of analytically obtainable spectra are expected. PACS numbers: 03.65.-w, 03.65.Ge, 03.65.SqComment: 15 pages LaTeX file, no figures, submitted to J. Phys. A: accepted for publication

Transport processes of particles in dilute suspensions in turbulent water flow—phase II

This work was concerned with an improved and more practical understanding of particle motion in a turbulent fluid field. It is felt that such an increased understanding has been achieved both in an analytical and in an experimental sense. Analytically, a theory simplified by the restrictive constraints of isotropy and Stokesian drag has been developed. Assumption of a reasonable particle energy spectrum allowed calculation of various statistical quantities important in the determination of the particle's turbulent motion. By such an analysis three characterizing parameters were found. Two describe inertial effects due to the particle's size and density. They were found to be of prime importance in the determination of the ratio of the particle's fluctuating velocity variance to that of the fluid. The crossing of the particle from one region of correlated fluid turbulence to another by virtue of its free fall velocity is described by the third parameters. This parameter was shown to be of particular importance in limiting the particle's velocity correlation. The two effects, of inertia and of free fall velocity, together act to determine dispersion. A well parameterized particle experiment was undertaken. Analysis of the particles' behavior in the turbulent flow gave a three dimensional characterization of their motion. In particular calculation of velocity variances, autocorrelations, and energy spectra were made. These measurements in conjunction with measurements on the turbulent fluid field allowed comparison between theory and experiment. Comparison of theoretical prediction to experimental observation showed good agreement provided the underlying assumptions inherent in the theoretical derivation were valid. Agreement suffered when these assumptions proved less valid. In particular non-Stokesian drag and anisotropic effects caused. disagreement between theory and experiment.U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological SurveyOpe