240 research outputs found
Flipping a Graduate Classroom: Corporate Buying Project
A graduate Retail Buying and Assortment Planning is taught each year, whereby students complete a buying and assortment planning project for a corporate retailer. This course is taught using the primary principles of a flipped classroom : a flexible environment, a culture of learner-centered class time, securing intentional content, and relevant feedback in the moment. The purpose of this course and the method of instruction allows students to analyze corporate retail data to make decisions about the appropriate merchandising, assortment, and purchase of goods. The process enhances the students\u27 classroom experience by allowing them to apply the concepts learned in the curriculum to a real-life project. Although, students often see the project as the only important learning experience, the out-of-classroom activities are essential to the learning process and the success of the project. Students complete reading assignments and case studies outside of the classroom. There are also videos to clarify concepts
A Natural Application for High Temperature Superconductors: a Bearing for the Azimuth Mount of a Lunar Telescope
A bearing for telescope mounts on the moon has to function in a cold dusty vacuum environment that impairs the operation of almost all traditional bearings, but it is a natural environment for bearings constructed out of magnets and high temperature superconductors. The challenge lies not so much in the weight of the telescope that has to be supported, but in the smoothness of forces required for precision positioning control over a long stretch of time without human intervention. In this paper, we present a design of hybrid superconductor magnet bearings intended for use on the azimuth mount of an altitude-azimuth telescope mount system. In addition to the general features of hybrid super conducting magnet bearings, we will address particular issues connected with the application of these bearings on a telescope mount
'The world is full of big bad wolves': investigating the experimental therapeutic spaces of R.D. Laing and Aaron Esterson
In conjunction with the recent critical assessments of the life and work of R.D. Laing, this paper seeks to demonstrate what is revealed when Laingâs work on families and created spaces of mental health care are examined through a geographical lens. The paper begins with an exploration of Laingâs time at the Tavistock Clinic in London during the 1960s, and of the co-authored text with Aaron Esterson entitled, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964). The study then seeks to demonstrate the importance Laing and his colleague placed on the time-space situatedness of patients and their worlds. Finally, an account is provided of Laingâs and Estersonâs spatial thinking in relation to their creation of both real and imagined spaces of therapeutic care
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Large-area proportional counter camera for the US National Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Facility
An engineering model of a multiwire position-sensitive proportional-counter (PSPC) was developed, tested, and installed at the US National Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Facility at ORNL. The PSPC is based on the RC-encoding and time-difference decoding method to measure the spatial coordinates of the interaction loci of individual scattered neutrons. The active area of the PSPC is 65 cm x 65 cm, and the active depth is 3.6 cm. The spatial uncertainty in both coordinates is approx. 1.0 cm (fwhm) for thermal neutrons; thus, a matrix of 64 x 64 picture elements is resolved. The count rate capability for randomly detected neutrons is 10/sup 4/ counts per second, with < 3% coincidence loss. The PSPC gas composition is 63% /sup 3/He, 32% Xe, and 5% CO/sub 2/ at an absolute pressure of approx. 3 x 10/sup 5/ Pa (3 atm). The detection efficiency is approx. 90% for the 0.475-nm (4.75-A) neutrons used in the scattering experiments
Properties of Cosmic Ray Interactions at PeV Energies
An analysis has been made of the present situation with the high energy
hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interaction models. As is already known
there are inconsistencies in the interpretation of experimental data on the
primary mass composition, which appear when different EAS components are used
for the analyses, even for the same experiment. In the absence of obvious
experimental defects, there is a clear need for an improvement to the existing
models; we argue that the most promising way is to introduce two effects which
should be present in nucleus-nucleus collisions and have not been allowed for
before. These are: a few percent energy transfer into the EAS electromagnetic
component due to electron-positron pair production or electromagnetic radiation
of quark-gluon plasma and a small slow-down of the cascading process in its
initial stages associated with the extended lifetime of excited nuclear
fragments. The latter process displaces the shower maximum deeper into the
atmosphere.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Astroparticle Physic
Phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended attractive Hubbard model for large nearest-neighbor repulsion
We consider the extended Hubbard model with attractive on-site interaction U
and nearest-neighbor repulsions V. We construct an effective Hamiltonian
H_{eff} for hopping t<<V and arbitrary U<0. Retaining the most important terms,
H_{eff} can be mapped onto two XXZ models, solved by the Bethe ansatz. The
quantum phase diagram shows two Luttinger liquid phases and a region of phase
separation between them. For density n<0.422 and U<-4, singlet superconducting
correlations dominate at large distances. For some parameters, the results are
in qualitative agreement with experiments in BaKBiO.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
A Multi-Component Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Composition Between 10^{17} eV and 10^{18} eV
The average mass composition of cosmic rays with primary energies between
eV and eV has been studied using a hybrid detector consisting
of the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) prototype and the MIA muon array.
Measurements have been made of the change in the depth of shower maximum,
, and in the change in the muon density at a fixed core location,
, as a function of energy. The composition has also been
evaluated in terms of the combination of and . The
results show that the composition is changing from a heavy to lighter mix as
the energy increases.Comment: 14 pages including 3 figures in revtex epsf style, submited to PR
Tricritical Behavior in the Extended Hubbard Chains
Phase diagrams of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model (including
nearest-neighbor interaction ) at half- and quarter-filling are studied by
observing level crossings of excitation spectra using the exact
diagonalization. This method is based on the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory
including logarithmic corrections which stem from the renormalization of the
Umklapp- and the backward-scattering effects.
Using this approach, the phase boundaries are determined with high accuracy,
and then the structure of the phase diagram is clarified. At half-filling, the
phase diagram consists of two
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition lines and one Gaussian
transition line in the charge sector, and one spin-gap transition line.
This structure reflects the U(1) SU(2) symmetry of the electron
system. Near the line, the Gaussian and the spin-gap transitions take
place independently from the weak- to the intermediate-coupling region, but
these two transition lines are coupled in the strong-coupling region. This
result demonstrates existence of a tricritical point and a
bond-charge-density-wave (BCDW) phase between charge- and spin-density-wave
(CDW, SDW) phases. To clarify this mechanism of the transition, we also
investigate effect of a correlated hopping term which plays a role to enlarge
BCDW and bond-spin-density-wave (BSDW) phases. At quarter-filling, a similar
crossover phenomenon also takes place in the large- region involving
spin-gap and BKT-type metal-insulator transitions.Comment: 18 pages(REVTeX), 17 figures(EPS(color)), 3 tables, Detailed paper of
JPSJ 68 (1999) 3123 (cond-mat/9903227), see also cond-mat/000341
Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum and Composition from 10^{17} to 10^{18.3} eV Using a Hybrid Fluorescence Technique
We study the spectrum and average mass composition of cosmic rays with
primary energies between 10^{17} eV and 10^{18} eV using a hybrid detector
consisting of the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) prototype and the MIA muon
array. Measurements have been made of the change in the depth of shower maximum
as a function of energy. A complete Monte Carlo simulation of the detector
response and comparisons with shower simulations leads to the conclusion that
the cosmic ray intensity is changing f rom a heavier to a lighter composition
in this energy range. The spectrum is consistent with earlier Fly's Eye
measurements and supports the previously found steepening near 4 \times 10^{17}
eV .Comment: 39 pages, 15 figures, in revtex4 epsf style, submited to AP
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