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Trump: The Threat of Chaos and the Promise of Stability
In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination to be President of the
United States, Donald J. Trump presented the audience with a stark world of good
vs. evil, chaos vs. stability. We use Burke's concept good terms and evil terms to
rhetorically analyze the acceptance speech. While Trump used specific references
to real events in his use of good and evil terms, his promises for stability over
chaos are indefinite terms, which allowed a divided Republican Party to unite
behind his candidacy. However, governance has required concrete concepts to
solve real world issues
Inelastic Dark Matter at the LHC
We perform a model-independent study of inelastic dark matter at the LHC,
concentrating on the parameter space with the mass splitting between the
excited and ground states of dark matter above a few hundred MeV, where the
direct detection experiments are unlikely to explore. The generic signatures of
inelastic dark matter at the LHC are displaced pions together with a monojet
plus missing energy, and can be tested at the 7 TeV LHC.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Constraints on Light Majorana Dark Matter from Colliders
We explore model-independent collider constraints on light Majorana dark
matter particles. We find that colliders provide a complementary probe of WIMPs
to direct detection, and give the strongest current constraints on light DM
particles. Collider experiments can access interactions not probed by direct
detection searches, and outperform direct detection experiments by about an
order of magnitude for certain operators in a large part of parameter space.
For operators which are suppresssed at low momentum transfer, collider searches
have already placed constraints on such operators limiting their use as an
explanation for DAMA.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Chaos and Stability in The Crucible
The script of The Crucible is built on a structure of binary oppositions, particularly good vs. evil and stability vs. chaos. Revealing the structure deconstructs the binary oppositions and explains how the play challenges audiences to reconsider what they understand about good and evil in their contemporary times
A Case Study of Electronic Commerce in Nepal
The authors conducted a study of the state of the Internet and telecommunication in Nepal during January, 2000 (ITU, 2000). Part of our charge was to recommend electronic commerce projects that would generate hard currency and increase social and geographic equity and increase rural employment. We present background on Nepal, a statement of our charge, ecommerce alternatives and our conclusions
Constraints on Dark Matter from Colliders
We show that colliders can impose strong constraints on models of dark
matter, in particular when the dark matter is light. We analyze models where
the dark matter is a fermion or scalar interacting with quarks and/or gluons
through an effective theory containing higher dimensional operators which
represent heavier states that have been integrated out of the effective field
theory. We determine bounds from existing Tevatron searches for monojets as
well as expected LHC reaches for a discovery. We find that colliders can
provide information which is complementary or in some cases even superior to
experiments searching for direct detection of dark matter through its
scattering with nuclei. In particular, both the Tevatron and the LHC can
outperform spin dependent searches by an order of magnitude or better over much
of parameter space, and if the dark matter couples mainly to gluons, the LHC
can place bounds superior to any spin independent search.Comment: 23 pages, 16 figure
Global water cycle
The primary objective is to determine the scope and interactions of the global water cycle with all components of the Earth system and to understand how it stimulates and regulates changes on both global and regional scales. The following subject areas are covered: (1) water vapor variability; (2) multi-phase water analysis; (3) diabatic heating; (4) MSU (Microwave Sounding Unit) temperature analysis; (5) Optimal precipitation and streamflow analysis; (6) CCM (Community Climate Model) hydrological cycle; (7) CCM1 climate sensitivity to lower boundary forcing; and (8) mesoscale modeling of atmosphere/surface interaction
Searches with Mono-Leptons
We explore the implications of the mono-lepton plus missing transverse energy
signature at the LHC, and point out its significance on understanding how dark
matter interacts with quarks, where the signature arises from dark matter pair
production together with a leptonically decaying W boson radiated from the
initial state quarks. We derive limits using the existing W' searches at the
LHC, and find an interesting interference between the contributions from dark
matter couplings to up-type and down-type quarks. Mono-leptons can actually
furnish the strongest current bound on dark matter interactions for axial
vector (spin-dependent) interactions and iso-spin violating couplings. Should a
signal of dark matter production be observed, this process can also help
disentangle the dark matter couplings to up- and down-type quarks.Comment: four pages; six figures; the LHC 8 TeV results have been updated;
final version in PL
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