A psychoanalytic concept illustrated: Will, must, may, can — revisiting the survival function of primitive omnipotence

The author explores the linear thread connecting the theory of Freud and Klein, in terms of the central significance of the duality of the life and death instinct and the capacity of the ego to tolerate contact with internal and external reality. Theoretical questions raised by later authors, informed by clinical work with children who have suffered deprivation and trauma in infancy, are then considered. Theoretical ideas are illustrated with reference to observational material of a little boy who suffered deprivation and trauma in infancy. He was first observed in the middle of his first year of life while he was living in foster care, and then later at the age of two years and three months, when he had been living with his adoptive parents for more than a year

Power density measurements in the near field of the DSS 13 26-meter antenna

Power density measurements were made at Deep Space Station (DSS) 13 in the near field of the 26-m antenna to determine if radio frequency (rf) fields generated by the 20-kW transmitters could be responsible for the failure of three solid state rf amplifiers. These amplifiers are used in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Radio Spectrum Surveillance System, which is currently located at the site. Measurements were made independently for one transmitter at 7150 MHz, and both transmitters together. Measurement results are tabulated and compared with predicted power densities under the measurement conditions. The results agree with the predictions within a factor of two. The predictions appear to give worst case values. Measurements indicated that amplifier failures are not attributable to the transmitter

Thermodynamics and quark susceptibilities: a Monte-Carlo approach to the PNJL model

The Monte-Carlo method is applied to the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. This leads beyond the saddle-point approximation in a mean-field calculation and introduces fluctuations around the mean fields. We study the impact of fluctuations on the thermodynamics of the model, both in the case of pure gauge theory and including two quark flavors. In the two-flavor case, we calculate the second-order Taylor expansion coefficients of the thermodynamic grand canonical partition function with respect to the quark chemical potential and present a comparison with extrapolations from lattice QCD. We show that the introduction of fluctuations produces only small changes in the behavior of the order parameters for chiral symmetry restoration and the deconfinement transition. On the other hand, we find that fluctuations are necessary in order to reproduce lattice data for the flavor non-diagonal quark susceptibilities. Of particular importance are pion fields, the contribution of which is strictly zero in the saddle point approximation

Electrolytically regenerative hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell Patent

Electrolytically regenerative hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell

Non-resonant Raman response of inhomogeneous structures in the electron doped t−t′t-t' Hubbard model

We calculate the non-resonant Raman response, the single particle spectra and the charge-spin configuration for the electron doped $t-t'$ Hubbard model using unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations. We discuss the similarities and differences in the response of homogeneous versus inhomogeneous structures. Metallic antiferromagnetism dominates in a large region of the $U-n$ phase diagram but at high values of the on-site interaction and for intermediate doping values, inhomogeneous configurations are found with lower energy. This result is in contrast with the case of hole doped cuprates where inhomogeneities are found already at very low doping. The inhomogeneities found are in-phase stripes compatible with inelastic neutron scattering experiments. They give an incoherent background in the Raman response. The $B_{2g}$ signal can show a quasiparticle-like component even when no Fermi surface is found in the nodal direction.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.