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Does My Hair Bother You? Part 2
I stopped shaving my legs in May. The decision to quit shaving was part social experiment, but a lot of it had to do with NOT HAVING TO SHAVE MY LEGS ANYMORE.
Honestly I didnât make the decision to stop shaving my leg hair as some sort of feminist statement. I really just found it stupid how society pressures women to have smooth âsexyâ legs. How did this pressure begin? Historically women didnât shave their legs or underarms in the United States; however, hair removal was a common cultural practice in many other parts of the world such as in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and some Native American tribes for centuries. In some societies, the practice was purely religious. In ancient Greece and Rome, the presence of hair on the body indicated poverty and filth. [excerpt
Fearless: Adrienne Ellis
Taking the initiative to change college policies related to LGBTQ issues, restructuring a sustainable community garden in Gettysburg over the summer, and continually being motivated to change and challenge the powers that be through her love of people, Adrienne Ellis â14 fearlessly fights for what she believes to help the people she lovesâ everybody. [excerpt
Packet loss characteristics of IPTV-like traffic on residential links
Packet loss is one of the principal threats to quality of experience for IPTV systems. However, the packet loss characteristics of the residential access networks which carry IPTV are not widely understood. We present packet level measurements of streaming IPTV-like traffic over four residential access links, and describe the extent and nature of packet loss we encountered. We discuss the likely impact of these losses for IPTV traffic, and outline steps which can ameliorate this
Using Simulation and Critical Thinking in Speech-Language Pathology: A University Case Study
Abstract
Education is changing. Virtual learning is now a common occurrence. Along with this change, more and more virtual learning tools are being used in the educational setting. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has recognized this change and has modified certification standards to include clinical simulation experiences in graduate speech-language training programs. Along with this modification, critical thinking skills are an expected goal, not only in face-to-face experiences, but also in simulation experiences. Educators need to meet this expectation to ensure that future speech-language pathologists are fully prepared to make sound decisions within the clinical setting. Educators may benefit from the following suggestions in regards to the use of critical thinking skills within a clinical simulation experience
Prospects for Discovering Supersymmetry at the LHC
Supersymmetry is one of the best-motivated candidates for physics beyond the
Standard Model that might be discovered at the LHC. There are many reasons to
expect that it may appear at the TeV scale, in particular because it provides a
natural cold dark matter candidate. The apparent discrepancy between the
experimental measurement of g_mu - 2 and the Standard model value calculated
using low-energy e+ e- data favours relatively light sparticles accessible to
the LHC. A global likelihood analysis including this, other electroweak
precision observables and B-decay observables suggests that the LHC might be
able to discover supersymmetry with 1/fb or less of integrated luminosity. The
LHC should be able to discover supersymmetry via the classic missing-energy
signature, or in alternative phenomenological scenarios. The prospects for
discovering supersymmetry at the LHC look very good.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure
Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Lasting Legacies of Covering Kids & Families
Outlines results of a survey of Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program officials in forty-six states on the impact of RWJF's initiative to increase outreach and enrollment, including grantees' strategies, effectiveness, and sustainability
Exotic Baryons in Two-Dimensional QCD
Two-dimensional QCD has often been used as a laboratory for studying the full
four-dimensional theory, providing, for example, an explicit realization of
baryons as solitons. We review aspects of conventional baryons in
two-dimensional QCD, including the classical and quantum contributions to their
masses. We then discuss the spectrum of exotic baryons in two-dimensional QCD,
commenting on the solitonic radius inferred from the excitation spectrum as
well as the two-dimensional version of the Goldberger-Treiman relation relating
meson couplings to current matrix elements. Two-dimensional QCD provides strong
overall support to the chiral-soliton picture for the structure of normal and
exotic baryons in four dimensions.Comment: 15 pages latex, no figure
On the Solution to the Polonyi Problem with (10~TeV) Gravitino Mass in Supergravity
We study the solution to the Polonyi problem where the Polonyi field weighs
as and decays just before the primordial nucleosynthesis. It
is shown that in spite of a large entropy production by the Polonyi field
decay, one can naturally explain the present value of the baryon-to-entropy
ratio, if the Affleck-Dine mechanism for
baryogenesis works. It is pointed out, however, that there is another
cosmological problem related to the abundance of the lightest superparticles
produced by the Polonyi decay
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