586 research outputs found
Dynamical capture of the moon by the earth
Numerical integration of equations for dynamic capture of moon by eart
Health and development: knowledge systems and local practice in rural Thailand
The specific framing of health within a development context has implications for constructions of wellness and illness and how people react in times of ill health. In Thailand, recent national HIV/AIDS education-prevention campaigns commonly use top-down relay of public health information. This pattern replicates numerous development projects that aim to bring useful and beneficial knowledge to rural villagers. How villagers integrate this information depends, in part, on previous experiences with development programs in general and public health programs in particular. This paper considers the political economy of medical knowledge and multiple local health strategies in rural Northeast Thailand as a background to the contingent response to public health directives
Objects of conflict: (re) configuring early childhood experiences of gender in the preschool classroom
This qualitative research paper discusses how the material environment of preschool classrooms contributes to early childhood experiences of gender. It applies poststructuralist and posthumanist concepts – primarily Barad’s agential-realism – to analyse ethnographic data extracts drawn from the author’s semi-longitudinal study in a UK nursery. This data focuses on two specific areas of the classroom, the ‘home corner’ and the ‘small world’, and the paper argues that these areas and the objects contained within them can support or challenge/queer gender roles depending on temporal material-discursive conditions. It concludes with specific thinking points for practitioners, arguing that applying these theoretical concepts to explore gender in the early years produces interesting perspectives on how rigid, binary gender roles can be challenged effectively in non-discursive ways within classrooms
Client service capability matching
In order to tailor web-content to the requirements of a device, it is necessary to access information about the attributes of both the device and the web content Profiles containing such information from heterogeneous sources may use many different terms to represent the same concept (eg Resolution/Screen_Res/Res). This can present problems for applications which try to interpret the semantics of these terms
In this thesis, we present an architecture which, when given profiles describing a device and web service, can identify terms that are present in an ontology of recognised terms in the domain of device capabilities and web service requirements The architecture can semi-automatically identify unknown terms by combining the results of several schemamatching applications. The ontology can be expanded based on end-user’s interaction with the semi-automatic matchers and thus over time the application’s ontology will grow to include previously unknown terms
Young carers speak out! Final Report
This report considers the opinions and experiences of children and young people identified as ‘young carers’ in the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan regions of South Wales as they relate to the main aims of the Carers Strategies (Wales) Measure 2010
Analytical approximation for the structure of differentially rotating barotropes
Approximate analytical formula for density distribution in differentially
rotating stars is derived. Any barotropic EOS and conservative rotation law can
be handled with use of this method for wide range of differential rotation
strength. Results are in good qualitative agreement with comparison to the
other methods. Some applications are suggested and possible improvements of the
formula are discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notice
Spontaneous Breaking of Rotational Symmetry in Rotating Solitons - a Toy Model of Excited Nucleons with High Angular Momentum
We study the phenomenon of spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry (SBRS)
in the rotating solutions of two types of baby Skyrme models. In the first the
domain is a two-sphere and in the other, the Skyrmions are confined to the
interior of a unit disk. Numerical full-field results show that when the
angular momentum of the Skyrmions increases above a certain critical value, the
rotational symmetry of the solutions is broken and the minimal energy
configurations become less symmetric. We propose a possible mechanism as to why
SBRS is present in the rotating solutions of these models, while it is not
observed in the `usual' baby Skyrme model. Our results might be relevant for a
qualitative understanding of the non-spherical deformation of excited nucleons
with high orbital angular momentum.Comment: RevTex, 9 pages, 9 figures. Added conten
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