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New concept in brazing metallic honeycomb panels
Aluminum oxide coating provides surface which will not be wetted by brazing alloy and which stops metallic diffusion welding of tooling materials to part being produced. This method eliminates loss of tooling materials and parts from braze wetting and allows fall-apart disassembly of tooling after brazing
Letter from Gertrude E. Stratton
Letter concerning information on the system of accounts at Utah Agricultural College
Why and when the Minkowski's stress tensor can be used in the problem of Casimir force acting on bodies embedded in media
It is shown that the criticism by Raabe and Welsch of the
Dzyaloshinskii-Lifshitz-Pitaevskii theory of the van der Waals-Casimir forces
inside a medium is based on misunderstandings. It is explained why and at which
conditions one can use the ''Minkowski-like '' stress tensor for calculations
of the forces. The reason, why approach of Raabe and Welsch is incorrect, is
discussed.Comment: Comment, 2 pages. 2 misprints were correcte
Living with multiple myeloma: A focus group study of unmet needs and preferences for survivorship care
Purpose: To describe the unmet informational, psychological, emotional, social, practical, and physical needs and preferences for posttreatment survivorship care of individuals living with multiple myeloma to inform the development of relevant, personcentered, survivorship services.
Methods: An exploratory, descriptive study using 2 focus groups with 14 participants, 6 to 49 months postdiagnosis. Results: Thematic analysis revealed 7 key themes: information needs, experience with health-care professionals, coping with side effects, communicating with family and friends, dealing with emotions, support needs, and living with the chronicity of myeloma. Participants described key characteristics of survivorship care relevant to their needs and indicated they would like a more whole of person approach to follow-up when the main treatment phases had completed.
Conclusion: Participants in this study described unmet needs across a breadth of domains that varied over time. The development of flexible, person-centered approaches to comprehensive survivorship care is needed to address the considerable quality-of-life issues experienced by people living with multiple myeloma. Nurse-led care may offer 1 viable model to deliver enhanced patient experience—providing the vital “link” that people described as missing from their survivorship care
Quantum Optics with Surface Plasmons
We describe a technique that enables strong, coherent coupling between
individual optical emitters and guided plasmon excitations in conducting
nano-structures at optical frequencies. We show that under realistic
conditions, optical emission can be almost entirely directed into the plasmon
modes. As an example, we describe an application of this technique involving
efficient generation of single photons on demand, in which the plasmon is
efficiently out-coupled to a dielectric waveguide.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Non-existence of normal tokamak equilibria with negative central current
Recent tokamak experiments employing off-axis, non-inductive current drive
have found that a large central current hole can be produced. The current
density is measured to be approximately zero in this region, though in
principle there was sufficient current drive power for the central current
density to have gone significantly negative. Recent papers have used a large
aspect-ratio expansion to show that normal MHD equilibria (with axisymmetric
nested flux surfaces, non-singular fields, and monotonic peaked pressure
profiles) can not exist with negative central current. We extend that proof
here to arbitrary aspect ratio, using a variant of the virial theorem to derive
a relatively simple integral constraint on the equilibrium. However, this
constraint does not, by itself, exclude equilibria with non-nested flux
surfaces, or equilibria with singular fields and/or hollow pressure profiles
that may be spontaneously generated.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Physics of Plasmas, Feb. 14, 2003.
Revised Feb. 24, 2003. Vers. 2: revised May 29 to clarify points raised by
referee, add references to recent work. July 18, accepted for publicatio
Dynamics of a liquid dielectric attracted by a cylindrical capacitor
The dynamics of a liquid dielectric attracted by a vertical cylindrical
capacitor is studied. Contrary to what might be expected from the standard
calculation of the force exerted by the capacitor, the motion of the dielectric
is different depending on whether the charge or the voltage of the capacitor is
held constant. The problem turns out to be an unconventional example of
dynamics of a system with variable mass, whose velocity can, in certain
circumstances, suffer abrupt changes. Under the hypothesis that the voltage
remains constant the motion is described in qualitative and quantitative
details, and a very brief qualitative discussion is made of the constant charge
case.Comment: To appear in European Journal of Physic
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