UD Spirit Flags will Show Game Day Pride in University

News release announces that UD spirit flags will be available for purchase to show pride on game days

Safeguarding people living in vulnerable conditions in the COVID-19 era through universal health coverage and social protection

The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The pandemic not only induced a public health crisis, but has led to severe economic, social, and educational crises. Across economies and societies, the distributional consequences of the pandemic have been uneven. Among groups living in vulnerable conditions, the pandemic substantially magnified the inequality gaps, with possible negative implications for these individuals' long-term physical, socioeconomic, and mental wellbeing. This Viewpoint proposes priority, programmatic, and policy recommendations that governments, resource partners, and relevant stakeholders should consider in formulating medium-term to long-term strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19, addressing the virus's impacts, and decreasing health inequalities. The world is at a never more crucial moment, requiring collaboration and cooperation from all sectors to mitigate the inequality gaps and improve people's health and wellbeing with universal health coverage and social protection, in addition to implementation of the health in all policies approach

A FDFD based Eigen-Dielectric Formulation of the Maxwell Equations for Material Characterization in Arbitrary Waveguide Structures

This paper presents a novel numerical scheme for the extraction of di- electric material parameters using the transmission line method. This method is performed by formulating the discretized Maxwell equa- tions as an eigenpermittivity, permeability or an eigenconductivity problem of the considered sample within an arbitrary and generally inhomogeneous filled waveguide cross section. This allows the direct calculation of the desired material parameter by performing only one full wave simulation. Hence, it is very useful if simplified analytical ap- proaches do not provide the aimed accuracy or even fail completely. This procedure will be demonstrated by applying a modified 2D Finite Differences Frequency Domain scheme to the complex permittivity simulation of arbitrary shaped and placed samples within a waveguide cross section