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On Intelligent Home Offices â A Model and Potential Impacts
CABA Intelligent & Integrated Buildings Council (IIBC): CABA White PaperThe idea of âteleworkingâ or âtelecommutingâ or âworking from homeâ is not new. The practice is still not very popular because most organizations lack a policy for âtelecommuting.â There are two schools of thought fighting against each other related to the implementation of this practice in a broad sense. The main theme of this CABA White Paper suggests that technology is available to let employees, whose work is information-based, work at home for three or four days a week. While many employees are provided with cell and smart phones to be accessible while they work from anywhere when away from their desks, what is lacking is a cultural acceptance and clearly defined guidelines for telecommuting as part of business activities. The thesis of this paper is to inquire hoe home offices would become popular.published_or_final_versio
Non classical velocity statistics in a turbulent atomic Bose Einstein condensate
In a recent experiment Paoletti et al (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 154501, 2008)
monitored the motion of tracer particles in turbulent superfluid helium and
inferred that the velocity components do not obey the Gaussian statistics
observed in ordinary turbulence. Motivated by their experiment, we create a
small turbulent state in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, which enables us
to compute directly the velocity field, and we find similar non-classical
power-law tails. Our result thus suggests that non-Gaussian turbulent velocity
statistics describe a fundamental property of quantum fluids. We also track the
decay of the vortex tangle in the presence of the thermal cloud.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Coherent laminar and turbulent motion of toroidal vortex bundles
Motivated by experiments performed in superfluid helium, we study numerically
the motion of toroidal bundles of vortex filaments in an inviscid fluid. We
find that the evolution of these large-scale vortex structures involves the
generalised leapfrogging of the constituent vortex rings. Despite three
dimensional perturbations in the form of Kelvin waves and vortex reconnections,
toroidal vortex bundles retain their coherence over a relatively large distance
(compared to their size), in agreement with experimental observations.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figure
Cognitive Information Processing
Contains reports on six research projects.National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 PO1 GM14940-04)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 PO1 GM15006-03)Joint Services Electronics Programs (U. S. Army, U. S. Navy, and U. S. Air Force) under Contract DA 28-043-AMC-02536(E
Cognitive Information Processing
Contains goals, background, research activities on one research project and reports on three research projects.Center for Advanced Television StudiesAmerican Broadcasting CompanyAmpex CorporationColumbia Broadcasting SystemsHarris CorporationHome Box OfficePublic Broadcasting ServiceNational Broadcasting CompanyRCA CorporationTektronix3M CompanyProvidence Gravure Co. (Grant)International Business Machines, Inc
Contextualizing legal norms: a multi-dimensional view of the 2014 legal capital reform in China
This paper intends to shed light on the contentious theme of the reception of legal transplantation in the host environment, by examining the 2014 legislative reform of legal capital in China, which at least on paper imitates the enabling settings of US Revised Model Business Corporation Act (RMBCA). The paper looks at the interconnections between national-specific contextual elements, the resultant complexities, and the spillover effects of transplanted configurations in the unique Chinese socio-cultural setting, implicating the discrepancy between the âlaw in practiceâ and the borrowed words âon the booksâ, and suggesting the importance of gaining a holistic understanding of âlawâ involving the legal traditions in both the donor country and the recipient nation
Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste
The transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson dâAspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Rolandâs sword of Song of
Roland fame, as an object inherited by Roland from its former royal Muslim owner.
Drawing on cultural history and a number of object-translation models derived from
material and spolia studies, I read the swordâs symbolic transfer as evidence of Norman
desire for and appropriation of former Fatimid imperium in Sicily
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