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Should Engineering Students Learn About Human Factors at Universities?
One of the biggest challenges related to the practical implementation of human performance (HP)/human factors (HF) is the lack of awareness among very large and diverse groups of people. These individuals include leaders at all levels of the hierarchy; engineers; health, safety, and environment (HSE) professionals; and front-line employees. Further, most of them may have an engineering or related technical background as discussed in Closing the Gap in Human Factors: Everybody Has a Role To Play
Effects of spatial size, lattice doubling and source operator on the hadron spectrum with dynamical staggered quarks
We have extended our previous study of the lattice QCD spectrum with 2
flavors of staggered dynamical quarks at and and 0.01
to larger lattices, with better statistics and with additional sources for the
propagators. The additional sources allowed us to estimate the mass
and to measure the masses of all mesons whose operators are local in time.
These mesons show good evidence for flavor symmetry restoration, except for the
masses of the Goldstone and non-Goldstone pions. PCAC is observed in that
, and is estimated. Use of undoubled lattices
removes problems with the pion propagator found in our earlier work. Previously
we found a large change in the nucleon mass at a quark mass of when
we increased the spatial size from 12 to 16. No such effect is observed at the
larger quark mass, . Two kinds of wall source were used, and we
have found difficulties in getting consistent results for the nucleon mass
between the two sources.Comment: 30 pages PostScript fil
Increase in knowledge of the marine gastropod fauna of Lebanon since the 19th century
We hereby review and update the current state of knowledge on the Lebanese gastropod biota based on published literature and the study of new samples. Review of 1543 published records yielded 237 gastropod taxa. New samples from the Lebanese coast yielded 2414 living specimens and 4003 empty shells, belonging to 188 taxa. Forty-six of the taxa are new records for the Lebanese fauna, bringing the gastropods known from Lebanon to 283 species. Literature records also included 71 nominal gastropod taxa based on type material from Lebanon, including 3 genera, 8 species, and 60 subspecific units. Of these, only 13 are retained as available. Of the 283 gastropod taxa known from Lebanon, 41 are aliens and 7 are cryptogenic. The majority of nonnative taxa were recorded only during the last decades, particularly from 1980 to 2019. Results from the present study question the common assumption that this region has extremely low native diversity. The flora and fauna of the Lebanese coast remain relatively unexplored and our data support the perception that several formerly abundant species have recently collapsed. Despite these advances, the lack of scientific data on biodiversity and community structure of Lebanese habitats and geographic zones is likely to hamper conservation actions and legal protection of critical species. We therefore recommend additional field and laboratory research to increase knowledge of both taxonomic composition and speciesâ distributions in Lebanon and elsewhere in the easternmost Mediterranean Sea
Networked Cournot Competition in Platform Markets: Access Control and Efficiency Loss
This paper studies network design and efficiency loss in open and discriminatory access platforms under networked Cournot competition. In open platforms, every firm connects to every market, while discriminatory platforms limit connections between firms and markets to improve social welfare. We provide tight bounds on the efficiency loss of both platforms; (i) that the efficiency loss at a Nash equilibrium under open access is bounded by 3/2, and (ii) for discriminatory access platforms, we provide a greedy algorithm for optimizing network connections that guarantees efficiency loss at a Nash equilibrium is bounded by 4/3, under an assumption on the linearity of cost functions
Biogeographical homogeneity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea - I: the opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Lebanon
A reviewed knowledge of the opisthobranch species from Lebanon (eastern Mediterranean Sea), based on literature records (scattered throughout various papers published over a period of more than 150 years) and recently collected material (1999-2002 within the CEDRE framework and other samples), is presented, yielding a total number of 35 taxa recorded from the Lebanese shores identified to species level. Special emphasis has mainly been given to the alien species, for which scattered notes are also given. The known opisthobranch biota is composed of 22 native (~ 63%), 12 alien (~ 34%) and one cryptogenic (~ 3%) taxa. Eleven of these (Berthella aurantiaca, B. ocellata, Aplysia fasciata, Felimare picta, Felimida britoi, F. luteorosea, F. purpurea, Phyllidia flava, Dendrodoris grandiflora, D. limbata and Aeolidiella alderi) constitute new records for the Lebanese fauna, whilst the examined material of a further seven species (Elysia grandifolia, Pleurobranchus forskalii, Aplysia dactylomela, Bursatella leachii, Syphonota geographica, Goniobranchus annulatus, Flabellina rubrolineata) anecdotally cited from Lebanon on the basis of the samples here studied, is here first explained. One additional taxon belonging to the genus Haminoea has been identified to genus level only. Despite the searching effort poning the basis of the material analyzed here, data reported clearly suggest that strong investments are still needed for a better understanding of the eastern Mediterranean opisthobranch fauna
Biogeographical homogeneity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea - I: the opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Lebanon
A reviewed knowledge of the opisthobranch species from Lebanon (eastern Mediterranean Sea), based on literature records (scattered throughout various papers published over a period of more than 150 years) and recently collected material (1999-2002 within the CEDRE framework and other samples), is presented, yielding a total number of 35 taxa recorded from the Lebanese shores identified to species level. Special emphasis has mainly been given to the alien species, for which scattered notes are also given. The known opisthobranch biota is composed of 22 native (~ 63%), 12 alien (~ 34%) and one cryptogenic (~ 3%) taxa. Eleven of these (Berthella aurantiaca, B. ocellata, Aplysia fasciata, Felimare picta, Felimida britoi, F. luteorosea, F. purpurea, Phyllidia flava, Dendrodoris grandiflora, D. limbata and Aeolidiella alderi) constitute new records for the Lebanese fauna, whilst the examined material of a further seven species (Elysia grandifolia, Pleurobranchus forskalii, Aplysia dactylomela, Bursatella leachii, Syphonota geographica, Goniobranchus annulatus, Flabellina rubrolineata) anecdotally cited from Lebanon on the basis of the samples here studied, is here first explained. One additional taxon belonging to the genus Haminoea has been identified to genus level only. Despite the searching effort poning the basis of the material analyzed here, data reported clearly suggest that strong investments are still needed for a better understanding of the eastern Mediterranean opisthobranch fauna
The beta function and equation of state for QCD with two flavors of quarks
We measure the pressure and energy density of two flavor QCD in a wide range
of quark masses and temperatures. The pressure is obtained from an integral
over the average plaquette or psi-bar-psi. We measure the QCD beta function,
including the anomalous dimension of the quark mass, in new Monte Carlo
simulations and from results in the literature. We use it to find the
interaction measure, E-3p, yielding non-perturbative values for both the energy
density E and the pressure p. uuencoded compressed PostScript file Revised
version should work on more PostScript printers.Comment: 24 page
Light Quark Masses from Lattice QCD
We present estimates of the masses of light quarks using lattice data. Our
main results are based on a global analysis of all the published data for
Wilson, Sheikholeslami-Wohlert (clover), and staggered fermions, both in the
quenched approximation and with dynamical flavors. We find that the
values of masses with the various formulations agree after extrapolation to the
continuum limit for the theory. Our best estimates, in the MSbar scheme
at , are \mbar=3.4 +- 0.4 +- 0.3 MeV and in the quenched approximation. The results, \mbar = 2.7 +- 0.3 +-
0.3 MeV and , are preliminary. (A linear
extrapolation in would further reduce these estimates for the physical
case of three dynamical flavors.) These estimates are smaller than
phenomenological estimates based on sum rules, but maintain the ratios
predicted by chiral perturbation theory. The new results have a significant
impact on the extraction of from the Standard Model. Using
the same lattice data we estimate the quark condensate using the
Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation. Again the three formulations give consistent
results after extrapolation to , and the value turns out to be
correspondingly larger, roughly preserving m_s \vev{\bar \psi \psi}.Comment: 32 pages. Package submitted in uufiles format: unpack and tex
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