Be unto me as a precious ointment : lady Grace Mildmay, sixteenth-century female practitioner

Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscripts represent an unusual presentation of three interrelated areas of family, devotion, and medicine. By examining her autobiography, meditations, and medical papers, I draw together literary analysis and discourses of female devotional and social practices with that of medical discourses to illustrate the ways in which women practitioners may have acquired and disseminated medical knowledge, and interacted with their patients, as well as how Lady Mildmay, and presumably other landed women practitioners, formed a textual community of women who administered medical treatment to lay people in late sixteenth-century England

«Be unto me as a precious ointment.: Lady Grace Mildmay, Sixteenth-Century Female Practitioner

Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscripts represent an unusual presentation of three interrelated areas of family, devotion, and medicine. By examining her autobiography, meditations, and medical papers, 1 draw together literary analysis and discourses of female devotional and social practices with that of medical discourses to illustrate the ways in which women practitioners may have acquired and disseminated medical knowledge, and interacted with their patients, as well as how Lady Mildmay, and presumably other landed women practitioners, formed a textual community of women who administered medical treatment to lay people in late sixteenth-century England

Community Engagement in Journalism: Transferable Techniques for Mid-Sized Cities

57 pagesJournalists are becoming increasingly aware that they need to build relationships with the communities they serve. This paper explores the current discourses around community engagement, addresses challenges to this topic, argues for the importance of these practices and proposes techniques for carrying out community engagement within the context of Eugene as a representation of mid-sized cities. The proposed techniques emerged from interviews with six working journalists from Eugene, Ore., Los Angeles, Calif., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho. This paper finds that engagement techniques can be promoted to create a formal infrastructure at an outlet or can be utilized by journalists individually

Research on nonlinear optical materials: an assessment. IV. Photorefractive and liquid crystal materials

This panel considered two separate subject areas: photorefractive materials used for nonlinear optics and liquid crystal materials used in light valves. Two related subjects were not considered due to lack of expertise on the panel: photorefractive materials used in light valves and liquid crystal materials used in nonlinear optics. Although the inclusion of a discussion of light valves by a panel on nonlinear optical materials at first seems odd, it is logical because light valves and photorefractive materials perform common functions

Time resolved observation of resonant and non-resonant contributions to the nonlinear susceptibility χ(3)

The resonant and nonresonant part of χ(3) are distinguished by their different time behavior. The medium is coherently excited by two picosecond light pulses of defined frequency difference and the state of the system is monitored by a third properly delayed probe pulse. Results are presented on neat liquids of carbontetrachloride and cyclohexane and on the mixture of CCl4: C6H12

Mobility of slow electrons in a polar crystal

We have obtained an approximate expression for the impedance function at all frequencies, temperatures, and coupling strengths of an electron coupled to a polar lattice (a system commonly called a polaron). The starting point for the calculation is the quantum mechanical expression for the expected current. The phonon coordinates are eliminated from this expression by well-known field-theory techniques. The resulting exact "influence functional" is then approximated by a corresponding quadratic "influence functional" which, it is hoped, imitates the real polaron. Correction terms are computed to account for the difference between the approximate impedance and the exact polaron impedance in a manner closely analogous to Feynman's treatment of the polaron self-energy. In fact, the analytic evaluation of the expression for the impedance obtained here is carried out using the approximate "influence functional" that was successfully employed in minimizing the binding (and free) energy of the polaron in earlier calculations. However, the accuracy obtained using this approximation, for the impedance calculation, is less satisfactory and its limitations are discussed. Nevertheless, beginning at intermediate coupling strengths, the approximate impedance produces a level structure of increasing complexity and narrowing resonances as the coupling strengthens. This suggests that further refinements may be fruitful. Methods for finding a better quadratic influence functional for use in our impedance expression as well as ways of improving the expression further are suggested. A comparison of our results with those of the Boltzmann equation points up interesting differences which arise from reversing the order of taking limits of zero frequency and coupling

Phase-conjugation of the isolated optical vortex using a flat surfaces

The robust method for obtaining the helical interference pattern due to the phase-conjugation of an isolated optical vortex by means of the non-holographic technique is proposed. It is shown that a perfect wavefront-reversal of the vortex in a linear polarization state via even number of reflections is achievable due to the turn of the photon's momentum $\vec p \approx \hbar \vec k$ with respect to the photon's orbital angular momentum projection $L_z$. The possible experimental realization is based upon $catseye-prism$ like reflections inside the confocal optical $loop$ cavity. The alternative scheme contains the Dove prism embedded in the optical $loop$ with the odd number of reflections from mirrors. This $confocal$ interferometric technique is applicable to the optical tweezers, atomic traps, Sagnac laser loops and metamaterials fabrication.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to referred journa

On the Localization of One-Photon States

Single photon states with arbitrarily fast asymptotic power-law fall-off of energy density and photodetection rate are explicitly constructed. This goes beyond the recently discovered tenth power-law of the Hellwarth-Nouchi photon which itself superseded the long-standing seventh power-law of the Amrein photon.Comment: 7 pages, tex, no figure