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Comment on "Observation of Spin Injection at a Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Interface, by P.R. Hammar et al
In a recent Letter Hammar et al. claim the observation of injection of a
spin-polarized current in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). This is an
important observation, since, despite considerable effort of several groups,
all attempts to realize spin-injection into a 2DEG using purely electrical
measurements have failed sofar. However, in my opinion the claim made is not
correct, and the observed behaviour can be explained by a combination of a
magneto resistance (Hall) effect (e.g. generated by the fringe magnetic fields
present at the edges of the ferromagnetic electrode), with a {\it
spin-independent} rectification effect due to the presence of a metal-
semiconductor junction.Comment: accepted for PRL, 1 pag
Political and Media Discourses about Integrating Refugees in the UK
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This article addresses political and media discourses about integrating refugees in the UK in the context of the ârefugee crisisâ. A discursive psychological approach is presented as the best way to understand what talk about the concept is used to accomplish in these debates. A large corpus of political discussions (13 hours of debate featuring 146 politicians) and 960 newspaper articles from the UK were discourse analysed. The analysis identified five dilemmas about integration: Integration is positive and necessary, but challenging; Host communities are presented as welcoming, but there are limits to their capacity; Refugees are responsible for integration, but host communities need to provide support; Good refugees integrate, bad ones don't; Refugees are vulnerable and are skilled. All are used to warrant the inclusion or exclusion of refugees. The responsibility of western nations to support refugees is therefore contingent on the refugees behaving in specific ways
Higher order Delaunay triangulations
For a set P of points in the plane, we introduce a class of triangulations that is an
extension of the Delaunay triangulation. Instead of requiring that for each triangle the
circle through its vertices contains no points of P inside, we require that at most k points
are inside the circle. Since there are many different higher-order Delaunay triangulations
for a point set, other useful criteria for triangulations can be incorporated without sacrificing
the well-shapedness too much. Applications include realistic terrain modelling and
mesh generation
On R-trees with low query complexity
The R-tree is a well-known bounding-volume hierarchy that
is suitable for storing geometric data on secondary memory. Unfortu-
nately, no good analysis of its query time exists. We describe a new algo-
rithm to construct an R-tree for a set of planar objects that has provably
good query complexity for point location queries and range queries with
ranges of small width. For certain important special cases, our bounds
are optimal. We also show how to update the structure dynamically, and
we generalize our results to higher-dimensional spaces
Active learning in engineering education: a (re)introduction
The informal network âActive Learning in Engineering Educationâ (ALE) has been promoting Active Learning since 2001. ALE creates opportunity for practitioners and researchers of engineering education to collaboratively learn how to foster learning of engineering students. The activities in ALE are centred on the vision that learners construct their knowledge based on meaningful activities and knowledge. In 2014, the steering committee of the ALE network reinforced the need to discuss the meaning of Active Learning and that was the base for this proposal for a special issue. More than 40 submissions were reviewed by the European Journal of Engineering Education community and this theme issue ended up with eight contributions, which are different both in their research and Active Learning approaches. These different Active Learning approaches are aligned with the different approaches that can be increasingly found in indexed journals.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Diffuse transport and spin accumulation in a Rashba two-dimensional electron gas
The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a
result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an asymmetric confinement
potential and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined
narrow-gap semiconductors. Due to the mixing of spin states some care has to be
exercised in the calculation of transport properties. We derive the diffusive
conductance tensor for a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with
spin-orbit interaction and show that the applied bias induces a spin
accumulation, but that the electric current is not spin-polarized.Comment: REVTeX4 format, 5 page
Observation of Field-Induced Transverse N\'{e}el Ordering in the Spin Gap System TlCuCl
Neutron elastic scattering experiments have been performed on the spin gap
system TlCuCl in magnetic fields parallel to the -axis. The magnetic
Bragg peaks which indicate the field-induced N\'{e}el ordering were observed
for magnetic field higher than the gap field T at with odd in the plane. The spin structure in the ordered
phase was determined. The temperature and field dependence of the Bragg peak
intensities and the phase boundary obtained were discussed in connection with a
recent theory which describes the field-induced N\'{e}el ordering as a
Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons.Comment: 4 pages, 5 eps figures, jpsj styl
Nursing assistants mattersâAn ethnographic study of knowledge sharing in interprofessional practice
© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Interprofessional collaboration involves some kind of knowledge sharing, which is essential and will be important in the future in regard to the opportunities and challenges in practices for delivering safe and effective health care. Nursing assistants are seldom mentioned as a group of health care workers that contribute to interprofessional collaboration in health care practice. The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore how the nursing assistantsâ knowledge can be shared in a team on a spinal cord injury rehabilitation ward. Using a sociomaterial perspective on practice, we captured different aspects of interprofessional collaboration in health care. The findings reveal how knowledge was shared between professionals, depending on different kinds of practice architecture. These specific culturalâdiscursive, materialâeconomic, and socialâpolitical arrangements enabled possibilities through which nursing assistantsâ knowledge informed other practices, and othersâ knowledge informed the practice of nursing assistants. By studying what health care professionals actually do and say in practice, we found that the nursing assistants could make a valuable contribution of knowledge to the team
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