Breaking into the Business: A Guide to Creating a Dynamic Resume Reel and Securing a Job in Today’s Television News Industry

Broadcast journalists are experiencing turbulence in their field of expertise due to increasing digitalization and decreased funding. It is becoming commonplace for reporters to work as one-man-bands, or “multimedia journalists,” shooting and editing their own video in addition to writing and reporting. For people looking to begin a career in the highly competitive broadcast news industry, there is a great deal of information to understand and consider prior to beginning the job search. Creating a dynamic resume reel is central to landing a job as an on-air reporter. However, with the development of digital-first and multimedia journalism, there are certain techniques one must demonstrate in their reel to convince a news director that he/she can work as an excellent reporter. This study analyzes new trends and demands of television reporters in hopes of discovering fresh ideas about creating an impressive reel and launching a career in television news. The information collected in this study provides recommendations prospective broadcast journalists may implement in an effort to stand out to news directors and media professionals in our constantly evolving media landscape

Partially-disordered photonic-crystal thin films for enhanced and robust photovoltaics

We present a general framework for the design of thin-film photovoltaics based on a partially-disordered photonic crystal that has both enhanced absorption for light trapping and reduced sensitivity to the angle and polarization of incident radiation. The absorption characteristics of different lattice structures are investigated as an initial periodic structure is gradually perturbed. We find that an optimal amount of disorder controllably introduced into a multi-lattice photonic crystal causes the characteristic narrow-band, resonant peaks to be broadened resulting in a device with enhanced and robust performance ideal for typical operating conditions of photovoltaic applications.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure

Compton Scattered Transition Radiation from Very High Energy Particles

X-ray transition radiation can be used to measure the Lorentz factor of relativistic particles. At energies approaching gamma = E/mc^2 = 10^5, transition radiation detectors (TRDs) can be optimized by using thick (sim 5 - 10 mil) foils with large (5-10 mm) spacings. This implies X-ray energies >100 keV and the use of scintillators as the X-ray detectors. Compton scattering of the X-rays out of the particle beam then becomes an important effect. We discuss the design of very high energy detectors, the use of metal radiator foils rather than the standard plastic foils, inorganic scintillators for detecting Compton scattered transition radiation, and the application to the ACCESS cosmic ray experiment.Comment: To be published, Astroparticle Physic

Measurements of Compton Scattered Transition Radiation at High Lorentz Factors

X-ray transition radiation can be used to measure the Lorentz factor of relativistic particles. Standard transition radiation detectors (TRDs) typically incorporate thin plastic foil radiators and gas-filled x-ray detectors, and are sensitive up to \gamma ~ 10^4. To reach higher Lorentz factors (up to \gamma ~ 10^5), thicker, denser radiators can be used, which consequently produce x-rays of harder energies (>100 keV). At these energies, scintillator detectors are more efficient in detecting the hard x-rays, and Compton scattering of the x-rays out of the path of the particle becomes an important effect. The Compton scattering can be utilized to separate the transition radiation from the ionization background spatially. The use of conducting metal foils is predicted to yield enhanced signals compared to standard nonconducting plastic foils of the same dimensions. We have designed and built a Compton Scatter TRD optimized for high Lorentz factors and exposed it to high energy electrons at the CERN SPS. We present the results of the accelerator tests and comparisons to simulations, demonstrating 1) the effectiveness of the Compton Scatter TRD approach; 2) the performance of conducting aluminum foils; and 3) the ability of a TRD to measure energies approximately an order of magnitude higher than previously used in very high energy cosmic ray studies.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, To be published in NI

Spatial Evidence for Transition Radiation in a Solar Radio Burst

Microturbulence, i.e. enhanced fluctuations of plasma density, electric and magnetic fields, is of great interest in astrophysical plasmas, but occurs on spatial scales far too small to resolve by remote sensing, e.g., at ~ 1-100 cm in the solar corona. This paper reports spatially resolved observations that offer strong support for the presence in solar flares of a suspected radio emission mechanism, resonant transition radiation, which is tightly coupled to the level of microturbulence and provides direct diagnostics of the existence and level of fluctuations on decimeter spatial scales. Although the level of the microturbulence derived from the radio data is not particularly high, /n^2 ~ 10^{-5}$, it is large enough to affect the charged particle diffusion and give rise to effective stochastic acceleration. This finding has exceptionally broad astrophysical implications since modern sophisticated numerical models predict generation of much stronger turbulence in relativistic objects, e.g., in gamma-ray burst sources.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, ApJL accepte

Cultura e stato: fonti e contesto del pensiero politico di Ernst Cassirer

The political thought of Ernst Cassirer is the focus of the present research work. This aspect had been for a long time overlooked in the reception of his philosophy or it had been targeted to point out the weakness of its practical perspective, because at first glance it does not seem to play an important role in his philosophy as a whole. Despite the “Renaissance” of the studies in the 90’s or even its more recent interdisciplinary fortune in fields such as sociology, political science and law, the political thought remains to date one of the most controversial points in the Cassirerian studies. The present research starts from a critical assessment of the history of the reception and introduces a specific methodological approach in order to reconsider this issue and to clarify the sense in which it is legitimate to speak of a political thought in Cassirer’s philosophy of culture. Assuming that there is a continuity in his philosophy, this research focuses on the two fundamental moments in which Cassirer develops the principles of his political thought, that is to say the works “Leibniz’ System in seinen wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen” (1902) and “Freiheit und Form. Studien zur deutschen Geistesgeschichte” (1916). In his investigations on the ethical-legal foundation of the Geisteswissenschaften and on the problem of freedom and state, two crucial issues can be recognized as the basis of all developments in Cassirer’s political though between the World War I, the Weimar Republic and the Nazism: from the controversy with the philosopher Bruno Bauch about the concept of nation to the defense of a republican constitutionalism at the end of the 20’s, from the ethical and legal contributions of the 30’s till the inquiries on the political myth in his posthumous work “The Myth of the state” (1946). In this philosophical-political elaboration, Cassirer’s main concern is to study the problem of the idealistic transformation of the state from a historical-natural reality into a form of culture in the history of political philosophy and political science in modern Europe. For each of the main points of Cassirer’s political production, the historical-philosophical and cultural contests are therefore highlighted, along with the sources and the most important references, like in the case of the confrontation with the intellectual climate of the “Ideas of 1914”, with the historicism or with the neo-Kantianism of the Marburg School. The aim of this research work is to promote, if not a rehabilitation of Cassirer’s political thought, at least a revision of a certain image of his intellectual history, in order to plow the ground for further inquiries in this field of stud

Molecular mechanisms of diabetes reversibility after bariatric surgery

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Cinnamaldehyde Loaded poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) Microparticles for Antifungal Delivery Application against Resistant Candida albicans and Candida glabrata

Researchers have explored natural products to combat the antibiotic resistance of various microorganisms. Cinnamaldehyde (CIN), a major component of cinnamon essential oil (CC-EO), has been found to effectively inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi, and mildew, as well as their production of toxins. Therefore, this study aimed to create a delivery system for CIN using PLGA microparticles (CIN-MPs), and to compare the antifungal activity of the carried and free CIN, particularly against antibiotic-resistant strains of Candida spp. The first part of the study focused on synthesizing and characterizing the PLGA MPs, which had no toxic effects in vivo and produced results in line with the existing literature. The subsequent experiments analyzed the antifungal effects of MPs-CIN on Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, both resistant (R) and sensitive (S) strains and compared its efficacy with the conventional addition of free CIN to the culture medium. The results indicated that conveyed CIN increased the antifungal effects of the product, particularly towards C. albicans R. The slow and prolonged release of CIN from the PLGA MPs ensured a constant and uniform concentration of the active principle within the cell