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Rapidity Dependence of Elliptic Flow at RHIC
The measured elliptic flow (v2) of identified particles as a function of pT
and centrality at RHIC suggests the created medium in Au+Au collisions achieves
early local thermal equilibrium that is followed by hydrodynamic expansion. It
is not known if the eta dependence on v2 is a general feature of elliptic flow
or reflects other changes in the particle spectra in going from mid-rapidity to
foward rapidities. The BRAHMS experiment provides a unique capability compared
to the other RHIC experiments to measure v2 for identified particles over a
wide rapidity range. From Run 4 Au+Au collision at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200GeV,
identified elliptic flow is studied using the BRAHMS spectrometers, which cover
0<eta<3.4. The BRAHMS multiplicity array is used to determine the v2 event
plane for the identified particle elliptic flow and to measure the
pT-integrated flow for charged hadrons.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figues, PANCI05 Conference Proceedin
On (t,r) Broadcast Domination Numbers of Grids
The domination number of a graph is the minimum cardinality of
any subset such that every vertex in is in or adjacent to
an element of . Finding the domination numbers of by grids was an
open problem for nearly 30 years and was finally solved in 2011 by Goncalves,
Pinlou, Rao, and Thomass\'e. Many variants of domination number on graphs have
been defined and studied, but exact values have not yet been obtained for
grids. We will define a family of domination theories parameterized by pairs of
positive integers where which generalize domination
and distance domination theories for graphs. We call these domination numbers
the broadcast domination numbers. We give the exact values of
broadcast domination numbers for small grids, and we identify upper bounds for
the broadcast domination numbers for large grids and conjecture that
these bounds are tight for sufficiently large grids.Comment: 28 pages, 43 figure
Follow the leader or the pack? Regulatory focus and academic entrepreneurial intentions
Drawing on the academic entrepreneurship and regulatory focus theory literature, and applying a multilevel per- spective, this paper examines why university academics intend to engage in formal (spin-off or start-up companies and licensing university research) or informal (collaborative research, contract research, continuous professional development, and contract consulting) commercialization activities and the role local contextual factors, in partic- ular leaders and work-group colleagues (peers), play in their commercialization choices. Based on a survey of 395 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academics working in 14 Scottish universities, the research findings suggest that an individual’s chronic regulatory focus has a direct effect on their formal and informal commercialization intent. The results reveal that the stronger an individual’s chronic promotion focus the stronger their formal and informal commercialization intentions and a stronger individual chronic prevention focus leads to weaker intentions to engage in informal commercialization. In addition, when contextual interaction effects are considered, leaders and workplace colleagues have different influences on commercialization intent. On the one hand, promotion-focused leaders can strengthen and prevention-focused leaders can under certain cir- cumstances weaken a promotion-focused academic’s formal commercialization intent. On the other hand, the level of workplace colleague engagement, acting as a reference point, strengthens not only promotion-focused academ- ics’ intent to engage in formal commercialization activities, but also prevention-focused academics’ corresponding informal commercialization intent. As such, universities should consider the appointment of leaders who are strong role models and have a track record in formal and/or informal commercialization activities and also con- sider the importance workplace colleagues have on moderating an academic’s intention to engage in different forms of commercialization activities
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