664 research outputs found
FIRST REPORT ON GRADUATES OF METHODIST UNIVERSITY COLLEGEGHANA (MUCG) IN THE ACCRA METROPOLIS: A TRACER STUDY
Alumni Associations play a crucial role in the lives of several universities all over the world. These alumni often help universities financially in addition to helping provide work for graduates from their alma maters. Alumni can also be helpful in getting students to undertake practical attachment while they are in school. These and other reasons are among those that motivated MUCG to follow up on its graduates. Additionally, tracer studies help institutions to find out how their graduates are placed and are performing and also whether the institutions programmes are useful and whether they need to be modified and in what direction
A renormalisation group approach to two-body scattering in the presence of long-range forces
We apply renormalisation-group methods to two-body scattering by a
combination of known long-range and unknown short-range potentials. We impose a
cut-off in the basis of distorted waves of the long-range potential and
identify possible fixed points of the short-range potential as this cut-off is
lowered to zero. The expansions around these fixed points define the power
countings for the corresponding effective field theories. Expansions around
nontrivial fixed points are shown to correspond to distorted-wave versions of
the effective-range expansion. These methods are applied to scattering in the
presence of Coulomb, Yukawa and repulsive inverse-square potentials.Comment: 22 pages (RevTeX), 4 figure
Choosing more mathematics : happiness through work?
This paper examines how A-level students construct relationships between work and happiness in their accounts of choosing mathematics and further mathematics A-level. I develop a theoretical framework that positions work and happiness as opposed, managed and working on the self and use this to examine students' dual engagement with individual practices of the self and institutional practices of school mathematics. Interviews with students acknowledge four imperatives that they use as discursive resources to position themselves as successful/unsuccessful students: you have to work, you have to not work, you have to be happy, you have to work at being happy. Tensions in these positions lead students to rework their identities or drop further mathematics. I then identify the practices of mathematics teaching that students use to explain un/happiness in work, and show how dependable mathematics and working together are constructed as 'happy objects' for students, who develop strategies for claiming control over these shapers of happiness. © 2010 British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics
Extending the Ehresmann-Schein-Nambooripad Theorem
We extend the `join-premorphisms' part of the Ehresmann-Schein-Nambooripad
Theorem to the case of two-sided restriction semigroups and inductive
categories, following on from a result of Lawson (1991) for the `morphisms'
part. However, it is so-called `meet-premorphisms' which have proved useful in
recent years in the study of partial actions. We therefore obtain an
Ehresmann-Schein-Nambooripad-type theorem for meet-premorphisms in the case of
two-sided restriction semigroups and inductive categories. As a corollary, we
obtain such a theorem in the inverse case.Comment: 23 pages; final section on Szendrei expansions removed; further
reordering of materia
Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma Cosmology
We study the linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, both in the
Newtonian and the general-relativistic limit, as regards a viscous magnetized
fluid of finite conductivity and discuss instability criteria. In addition, we
explore the excitation of cosmological perturbations in anisotropic spacetimes,
in the presence of an ambient magnetic field. Acoustic, electromagnetic (e/m)
and fast-magnetosonic modes, propagating normal to the magnetic field, can be
excited, resulting in several implications of cosmological significance.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX, To appear in the Proceedings of the Peyresq X
Meeting, IJTP Conference Serie
Modelling the electric field applied to a tokamak
The vector potential for the Ohmic heating coil system of a tokamak is
obtained in semi-analytical form. Comparison is made to the potential of a
simple, finite solenoid. In the quasi-static limit, the time rate of change of
the potential determines the induced electromotive force through the
Maxwell-Lodge effect. Discussion of the gauge constraint is included.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, final versio
Future Directions in Parity Violation: From Quarks to the Cosmos
I discuss the prospects for future studies of parity-violating (PV)
interactions at low energies and the insights they might provide about open
questions in the Standard Model as well as physics that lies beyond it. I cover
four types of parity-violating observables: PV electron scattering; PV hadronic
interactions; PV correlations in weak decays; and searches for the permanent
electric dipole moments of quantum systems.Comment: Talk given at PAVI 06 workshop on parity-violating interactions,
Milos, Greece (May, 2006); 10 page
Surface and capillary transitions in an associating binary mixture model
We investigate the phase diagram of a two-component associating fluid mixture
in the presence of selectively adsorbing substrates. The mixture is
characterized by a bulk phase diagram which displays peculiar features such as
closed loops of immiscibility. The presence of the substrates may interfere the
physical mechanism involved in the appearance of these phase diagrams, leading
to an enhanced tendency to phase separate below the lower critical solution
point. Three different cases are considered: a planar solid surface in contact
with a bulk fluid, while the other two represent two models of porous systems,
namely a slit and an array on infinitely long parallel cylinders. We confirm
that surface transitions, as well as capillary transitions for a large
area/volume ratio, are stabilized in the one-phase region. Applicability of our
results to experiments reported in the literature is discussed.Comment: 12 two-column pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Physical
Review E; corrected versio
Inclusive electron scattering in a relativistic Green function approach
A relativistic Green function approach to the inclusive quasielastic (e,e')
scattering is presented. The single particle Green function is expanded in
terms of the eigenfunctions of the nonhermitian optical potential. This allows
one to treat final state interactions consistently in the inclusive and in the
exclusive reactions. Numerical results for the response functions and the cross
sections for different target nuclei and in a wide range of kinematics are
presented and discussed in comparison with experimental data.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, REVTeX
A Mathematical Model of Liver Cell Aggregation In Vitro
The behavior of mammalian cells within three-dimensional structures is an area of intense biological research and underpins the efforts of tissue engineers to regenerate human tissues for clinical applications. In the particular case of hepatocytes (liver cells), the formation of spheroidal multicellular aggregates has been shown to improve cell viability and functionality compared to traditional monolayer culture techniques. We propose a simple mathematical model for the early stages of this aggregation process, when cell clusters form on the surface of the extracellular matrix (ECM) layer on which they are seeded. We focus on interactions between the cells and the viscoelastic ECM substrate. Governing equations for the cells, culture medium, and ECM are derived using the principles of mass and momentum balance. The model is then reduced to a system of four partial differential equations, which are investigated analytically and numerically. The model predicts that provided cells are seeded at a suitable density, aggregates with clearly defined boundaries and a spatially uniform cell density on the interior will form. While the mechanical properties of the ECM do not appear to have a significant effect, strong cell-ECM interactions can inhibit, or possibly prevent, the formation of aggregates. The paper concludes with a discussion of our key findings and suggestions for future work
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