Study of adhesion and cohesion in vacuum Final report

Vacuum metal-metal bonding tests to determine conditions of accidental adhesion of spacecraft structural material

Shifting Immigration Policies in Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis Across the European Union: A Case Analysis of Germany, Hungary, and Lithuania

Over one million refugees have entered the borders of the European Union (EU) in 2015, forcing a discordant shift in the immigration policies of individual member states and upsetting the political stability of the region. This analysis answers the question of how immigration policies regarding asylum seekers in Germany, Hungary, and Lithuania specifically have changed recently and what these changes could indicate for the future of the European Union’s own immigration legislation. This research primarily paper analyzes asylum policy before the onset of the refugee crisis and evaluates how policy interests in the three different governments have developed in responses to the crisis. The approaches of each country towards immigration and asylum policy are distinct, and it is important to recognize these developments in order to understand the vulnerability of the Schengen Agreement as well as the future of EU solidarity. This research would fit to panels on the EU’s immigration and asylum policy, responses to the current refugee crisis, and the future of EU solidarity

Preparation of Nursing Students to Address Challenging Behaviors of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Health Care Settings

The purpose of this research was to examine the use of a training program, designed for this study, to educate nursing students in addressing challenging behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in health care settings. The training program designed for this study included lecture, role-play, and debriefing components. Two main components were evaluated in this research study: the nursing students’ knowledge and understanding of ASD, and the students’ self-perceived competency in addressing challenging behaviors of children with ASD in a health care setting. The researcher used a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures, through pre-training and post-training assessments, to evaluate the effectiveness of this training program. The results of this study show that the training program used was effective for both improving the nursing students’ understanding and knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as improving their self-perceived competency in addressing challenging behaviors in children with ASD in a health care setting. Extending this research to a larger sample size, multiple nursing programs, and related health care fields is needed to further study the effectiveness of this training program

Noncooperative algorithms in self-assembly

We show the first non-trivial positive algorithmic results (i.e. programs whose output is larger than their size), in a model of self-assembly that has so far resisted many attempts of formal analysis or programming: the planar non-cooperative variant of Winfree's abstract Tile Assembly Model. This model has been the center of several open problems and conjectures in the last fifteen years, and the first fully general results on its computational power were only proven recently (SODA 2014). These results, as well as ours, exemplify the intricate connections between computation and geometry that can occur in self-assembly. In this model, tiles can stick to an existing assembly as soon as one of their sides matches the existing assembly. This feature contrasts with the general cooperative model, where it can be required that tiles match on \emph{several} of their sides in order to bind. In order to describe our algorithms, we also introduce a generalization of regular expressions called Baggins expressions. Finally, we compare this model to other automata-theoretic models.Comment: A few bug fixes and typo correction

Study of adhesion and cohesion in vacuum summary report 1 jul. 1963 - 30 jun. 1964

Adhesion and cohesion of metal couples in vacuum chambe

Introduction: Versions of Cultural Objects

The version of a cultural object is identified, defined, articulated, and analysed through diverse mechanisms in different fields of research. The study of versions allows for the investigation of the creative processes behind the conception of the object, a closer inspection of the socio-political contexts that affect it, and may even provide the means to investigate the object’s provenance and circulation. At a symposium at Maynooth University, scholars from different research areas exchanged ideas about different forms of media, including text, image, and sound, to work towards an understanding of the term versioning in the broadest sense. While the understanding of versions and related terminology differs between disciplines, a cross-disciplinary dialogue will highlight the range and depth of existing studies and provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the term versioning which will be useful for a more holistic conceptualisation. The present volume tries to contribute to this dialogue by providing eight peer-reviewed articles resulting from the discussion and presentations held at Maynooth University