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Understanding the True Nature of War: Dr. James Cliftonâs Lecture Mediated War
Wartime artwork allows us to experience certain aspects of battle and its aftermath and yet to also be distanced from it: When viewing the artwork, we get a small visual window into the carnage and devastation of war, but we are spared the affronts to our other senses. This concept was present in Dr. James Cliftonâs lecture, Meditated War. Dr. Clifton, the director of the Sarah Cambell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, coordinated with Gettysburg College to loan the collection of European war prints for the exhibit, The Plains of Mars. The exhibition is currently on display at Schmucker Art Gallery and will remain so until December 7th. The pieces are comprised of wartime images from 1500 through 1825 and depict battles, individual soldiers, and civilians. Dr. Cliftonâs lecture focused primarily on what one can learn from wartime art, specifically war prints, but also what they lack. [excerpt
Making Photographs Speak
It has often been said that âa picture is worth a thousand words.â Making that picture spit out those mythical thousand words, as we can all attest, is no easy task. Over the course of the first half of the fall semester, the three of us were tasked with developing brief interpretive captions for two Civil War photographs each, with the end goal to display our work at the Civil War Instituteâs 2019 Summer Conference. What initially appeared as a simple project quickly revealed itself to be a difficult, yet rewarding, challenge that taught us all important lessons concerning history, photography, and writing that we will not soon forget. Producing the photography exhibit enhanced our skills as historical writers, introduced us to the challenge of writing for a popular audience, and deepened our understanding of Civil War photography. [excerpt
Collisional dissipation of Alfvén waves in a partially ionised solar chromosphere
Certain regions of the solar atmosphere are at suïŹciently low temperatures to be only partially ionised. The lower chromosphere contains neutral atoms, the existence of which greatly increases the eïŹciency of the damping of waves due to collisional friction momentum transfer. More specifically the Cowling conductivity can be up to 12 orders of magnitude smaller than the Spitzer value, so that the main damping mechanism in this region is due to the collisions between neutrals and positive ions (Khodachenko et al. 2004, A&A, 422, 1073). Using values for the gas density and temperature as functions of height taken from the VAL C model of the quiet Sun (Vernazza et al. 1981, ApJS, 45, 635), an estimate is made for the dependance of the Cowling conductivity on height and strength of magnetic field. Using both analytic and numerical approaches the passage of AlfvĂ©n waves over a wide spectrum through this partially ionised region is investigated. Estimates of the eïŹciency of this region in the damping of AlfvĂ©n waves are made and compared for both approaches. We find that AlfvĂ©n waves with frequencies above 0.6 Hz are completely damped and frequencies below 0.01 Hz unaïŹected
SpineML and Brian 2.0 interfaces for using GPU enhanced Neuronal Networks (GeNN)
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On the Representation Theory of an Algebra of Braids and Ties
We consider the algebra introduced by F. Aicardi and J.
Juyumaya as an abstraction of the Yokonuma-Hecke algebra. We construct a tensor
space representation for and show that this is faithful. We use
it to give a basis for and to classify its irreducible
representations.Comment: 24 pages. Final version. To appear in Journal of Algebraic
Combinatorics
The theory of heating of the quantum ground state of trapped ions
Using a displacement operator formalism, I analyse the depopulation of the
vibrational ground state of trapped ions. Two heating times, one characterizing
short time behaviour, the other long time behaviour are found. The short time
behaviour is analyzed both for single and multiple ions, and a formula for the
relative heating rates of different modes is derived. The possibility of
correction of heating via the quantum Zeno effect, and the exploitation of the
suppression of heating of higher modes to reduce errors in quantum computation
is considered.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Introducing Health Promotion Agenda-Setting for Health Education Practitioners
Health professionals must continuously address health promotion issues using the latest strategies and research. Currently in health care, too often an underdeveloped and under supported agenda prioritizes problems, issues, and solutions. Further, an ongoing competition exists among issues due to an undocumented agenda-setting process to gain the attention of media, public, and policy makers. Agendasetting is based on the belief that the media influence what we talk about, rather than controlling what we think, and how often an issue appears in the media influences the policy agenda (Dearing & Rogers, 1996). If an issue is âsalientâ and receives frequent or expansive coverage by media, audience members will talk more about that issue than one that is not as salient. A Health Promotion Agenda-Setting approach works to specify and prioritize problems and alternative solutions for increasing media exposure and setting agendas for âsustainedâ courses of action, (Kozel et al., 2003). The crucial link between agenda-setting and the process of establishing effective legislation, policy, and programs has been researched. However, many health practitioners do not understand what agenda setting is, nor how to apply agenda setting within the field of health education. Professional development in Health Promotion Agenda-Setting offers health education practitioners new knowledge, skills, methods, and opportunities to strengthen practices that influence the public health agenda and transform health promotion leadership
The impact of heavy-quark loops on LHC dark matter searches
If only tree-level processes are included in the analysis, LHC monojet
searches give weak constraints on the dark matter-proton scattering cross
section arising from the exchange of a new heavy scalar or pseudoscalar
mediator with Yukawa-like couplings to quarks. In this letter we calculate the
constraints on these interactions from the CMS 5.0/fb and ATLAS 4.7/fb searches
for jets with missing energy including the effects of heavy-quark loops. We
find that the inclusion of such contributions leads to a dramatic increase in
the predicted cross section and therefore a significant improvement of the
bounds from LHC searches.Comment: 12 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, v2: extended discussion and improved
relic density calculation - matches published versio
Golden gaskets: variations on the Sierpi\'nski sieve
We consider the iterated function systems (IFSs) that consist of three
general similitudes in the plane with centres at three non-collinear points,
and with a common contraction factor \la\in(0,1).
As is well known, for \la=1/2 the invariant set, \S_\la, is a fractal
called the Sierpi\'nski sieve, and for \la<1/2 it is also a fractal. Our goal
is to study \S_\la for this IFS for 1/2<\la<2/3, i.e., when there are
"overlaps" in \S_\la as well as "holes". In this introductory paper we show
that despite the overlaps (i.e., the Open Set Condition breaking down
completely), the attractor can still be a totally self-similar fractal,
although this happens only for a very special family of algebraic \la's
(so-called "multinacci numbers"). We evaluate \dim_H(\S_\la) for these
special values by showing that \S_\la is essentially the attractor for an
infinite IFS which does satisfy the Open Set Condition. We also show that the
set of points in the attractor with a unique ``address'' is self-similar, and
compute its dimension.
For ``non-multinacci'' values of \la we show that if \la is close to 2/3,
then \S_\la has a nonempty interior and that if \la<1/\sqrt{3} then \S_\la$
has zero Lebesgue measure. Finally we discuss higher-dimensional analogues of
the model in question.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figure
Exploring Agenda-Setting for Healthy Border 2010: Research Directions and Methods
Policy makers take action largely on issues that attain the pinnacle of the policy agenda (Pertschuck, 2001). As a result, how decision makers choose which issues are important has been the subject of much research. Agenda-setting conceptualizes the process of how issues move from relative unimportance to the forefront of policymakersâ thoughts (Dearing & Rogers, 1996). An area within agenda-setting research, Health Promotion Agenda-Setting, provides Health Promotion practitioners with an innovative framework and strategy to set agendas for sustained courses of action (Kozel, Kane, Rogers, & Hammes, 1995). In this interdisciplinary and bi-national exploratory study, funded by the Center for Border Health Research of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, we examine agenda-setting processes in the Paso del Norte Region and evaluates how the public health agenda is determined within the U.S.-Mexico border population. Integrating both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, the current research is focused on identifying deficiencies in the public health infrastructure in the U.S.-Mexico border area, and identifying channels that exist for working toward the bi-national goals presented in Healthy Border 2010 (U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, 2003). Research directions, design, and methodologies for exploring health promotion agenda-setting in applied settings, such as Healthy Border 2010, provide health practitioners and policy makers the potential to improve public health leadership by influencing the public health and policy agendas
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