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Motion of a sphere through an aging system
We have investigated the drag on a sphere falling through a clay suspension
that has a yield stress and exhibits rheological aging. The drag force
increases with both speed and the rest time between preparation of the system
and the start of the experiment, but there exists a nonzero minimum speed below
which steady motion is not possible. We find that only a very thin layer of
material around the sphere is fluidized when it moves, while the rest of
suspension is deformed elastically. This is in marked contrast to what is found
for yield-stress fluids that do not age.Comment: latex, 4 figure
A chemical ionization mass spectrometer for continuous underway shipboard analysis of dimethylsulfide in near-surface seawater
A compact, low-cost atmospheric pressure, chemical ionization mass spectrometer ("mini-CIMS") has been developed for continuous underway shipboard measurements of dimethylsulfide (DMS) in seawater. The instrument was used to analyze DMS in air equilibrated with flowing seawater across a porous Teflon membrane equilibrator. The equilibrated gas stream was diluted with air containing an isotopically-labeled internal standard. DMS is ionized at atmospheric pressure via proton transfer from water vapor, then declustered, mass filtered via quadrupole mass spectrometry, and detected with an electron multiplier. The instrument described here is based on a low-cost residual gas analyzer (Stanford Research Systems), which has been modified for use as a chemical ionization mass spectrometer. The mini-CIMS has a gas phase detection limit of 220 ppt DMS for a 1 min averaging time, which is roughly equivalent to a seawater DMS concentration of 0.1 nM DMS at 20°C. The mini-CIMS has the sensitivity, selectivity, and time response required for underway measurements of surface ocean DMS over the full range of oceanographic conditions. The simple, robust design and relatively low cost of the instrument are intended to facilitate use in process studies and surveys, with potential for long-term deployment on research vessels, ships of opportunity, and large buoys
Surrogaatmoederskap: ’n teologies-etiese beoordeling
Surrogate motherhood is the process by which a woman (the surrogate mother) conceives, carries and gives birth to a child for another woman or couple. Surrogate motherhood is related to issues such as masturbation, artificial insemination, in vitrofertilization (in vitro conception) and experimentation with embryos, which could entail the destruction or killing of embryos. Opinions about these matters would undoubtedly influence one’s perception of surrogate motherhood. Christians believe that conception in or outside the human body is made possible by God God gives life at the moment of conception. Therefore an embryo can never be considered as mere matter From a Christian point of view it is not imperative to condemn surrogate motherhood in all instances. Nevertheless, in view of what is taught in the Holy Scriptures and also because of certain practical implications, Christians cannot but be negative about the whole issue and would therefore hesitate to make use of such procedures
Hartle-Hawking state is a maximum of entanglement entropy
It is shown that the Hartle-Hawking state of a scalar field is a maximum of
entanglement entropy in the space of pure quantum states satisfying the
condition that backreaction is finite. In other words, the Hartle-Hawking state
is a curved-space analogue of the EPR state, which is also a maximum of
entanglement entropy.Comment: Latex, 4 pages, Some comments are added on the "small backreaction
condition
Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction
This special issue considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of ‘planetary memory’ able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene – the epoch in which the combined activity of the human species has become a geological force in its own right. As Naomi Klein has recently argued, confronting the problem of anthropogenic climate change alters everything we know about the world: demanding wholesale recalibration of economic and political priorities; destabilising the epistemic frameworks through which quotidian life is interpreted and enacted; and decentring the dominant cultural imaginaries that seek to give form to historical experienc
On hyperovals of polar spaces
We derive lower and upper bounds for the size of a hyperoval of a finite polar space of rank 3. We give a computer-free proof for the uniqueness, up to isomorphism, of the hyperoval of size 126 of H(5, 4) and prove that the near hexagon E-3 has up to isomorphism a unique full embedding into the dual polar space DH(5, 4)
The radio source B 1834+620: A double-double radio galaxy with interesting properties
We present a study of the peculiar radio galaxy B 1834+620. It is
characterised by the presence of a 420-kpc large edge-brightened radio source
which is situated within, and well aligned with, a larger (1.66 Mpc) radio
source. Both sources apparently originate in the same host galaxy, which has a
R_s-magnitude of 19.7 and a redshift of 0.5194, as determined from the strong
emission-lines in the spectrum. We have determined the rotation measures
towards this source, as well as the radio spectral energy distribution of its
components. The radio spectrum of the large outer source is steeper than that
of the smaller inner source. The radio core has a spectrum that peaks at a
frequency of a few GHz. The rotation measures towards the four main components
are quite similar, within rad m of 58 rad m. They are
probably largely galactic in origin. We have used the presence of a bright
hotspot in the northern outer lobe to constrain the advance velocity of the
inner radio lobes to the range between 0.19c and 0.29c, depending on the
orientation of the source. This corresponds to an age of this structure in the
range between 2.6 and 5.8 Myr. We estimate a density of the ambient medium of
the inner lobes of \la 1.6 \times 10^{-30} gr\,cm (particle density
\la 8 \times 10^{-7} cm). A low ambient density is further supported
by the discrepancy between the large optical emission-line luminosity of the
host galaxy and the relatively low radio power of the inner lobes.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA
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