I\u27m Nobody\u27s Child

By Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr.Fictional account of an abused child who, while not a delinquent, struck back through violence. The social workers who knew him were shocked, and the parents moved from the state with their children. The child welfare system which was partially responsible continued its routine work in its own bureaucratic manner. This story is told in order that others might be helped.--from the Introductionhttps://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/bookshelf/1232/thumbnail.jp

Comment on: "Roughness of Interfacial Crack Fronts: Stress-Weighted Percolation in the Damage Zone"

This is a comment on J. Schmittbuhl, A. Hansen, and G. G. Batrouni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 045505 (2003). They offer a reply, in turn.Comment: 1 page, 1 figur

For Want of a Better Estimate, Let’s Call It the Year 2000: The Twilight Zone and the Aural Conception of a Dystopian Future

This paper examines the aural conceptions of futuristic dystopias in episodes of The Twilight Zone, focusing on one specific episode, season five’s “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” I examine how the music director of CBS conceived of the future, aurally representing these episodes as having an affinity with the premise of Brave New World by reusing its radio score by Bernard Herrmann. As a result, I will explore the use of the radio score in the episode and the ways in which dystopian futures were aurally represented in the series

Broad Histogram Relation Is Exact

The Broad Histogram is a method designed to calculate the energy degeneracy g(E) from microcanonical averages of certain macroscopic quantities Nup and Ndn. These particular quantities are defined within the method, and their averages must be measured at constant energy values, i.e. within the microcanonical ensemble. Monte Carlo simulational methods are used in order to perform these measurements. Here, the mathematical relation allowing one to determine g(E) from these averages is shown to be exact for any statistical model, i.e. any energy spectrum, under completely general conditions. We also comment about some troubles concerning the measurement of the quoted microcanonical averages, when one uses a particular approach, namely the energy random walk dynamics. These troubles appear when movements corresponding to different energy jumps are performed using the same probability, and also when the correlations between successive averaging states are not adequately treated: they have nothing to do with the method itself.Comment: 10 pages, tex, 1 figure to appear in Eur. Phys. J.