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[Book Review of] \u3cem\u3eWhat Is Marriage? Marriage in the Catholic Church\u3c/em\u3e, by Theodore Mackin, S.J.
Some Skeptical Thoughts About Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
William May argues for a middle course regarding euthanasia and assisted suicide, rejecting absolutist positions and makes the point that neither life at any cost nor killing to cure a disease serves society or individuals very well. Elsa Ramsden, David Hufford, Neville Strumpf, Albert Stunkard, all participate in a panel discussion after the formal lecture
Bostonia. Volume 3
Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs
Thermodynamic insights into the intricate magnetic phase diagram of EuAl
The tetragonal intermetallic compound EuAl hosts an exciting variety of
low temperature phases. In addition to a charge density wave below 140 K, four
ordered magnetic phases are observed below 15.4 K. Recently, a skyrmion phase
was proposed based on Hall effect measurements under a -axis magnetic field.
We present a detailed investigation of the phase transitions in EuAl
under -axis magnetic field. Our dilatometry, heat capacity, DC magnetometry,
AC magnetic susceptibility, and resonant ultrasound spectroscopy measurements
reveal three magnetic phase transitions not previously reported. We discuss
what our results reveal about the character of the magnetic phases. Our first
key result is a detailed magnetic phase diagram mapping the
seven phases we observe. Second, we identify a new high-field phase, phase VII,
which directly corresponds to the region were skyrmions have been suggested.
Our results provide guidance for future studies exploring the complex magnetic
interactions and spin structures in EuAl.Comment: 20 pages, 15 figure
An Atlas of Warm AGN and Starbursts from the IRAS Deep Fields
We present 180 AGN candidates based on color selection from the IRAS
slow-scan deep observations, with color criteria broadened from the initial
Point-Source Catalog samples to include similar objects with redshifts up to
z=1 and allowing for two-band detections. Spectroscopic identifications have
been obtained for 80 (44%); some additional ones are secure based on radio
detections or optical morphology, although yet unobserved spectroscopically.
These spectroscopic identifications include 13 Sy 1 galaxies, 17 Sy 2 Seyferts,
29 starbursts, 7 LINER systems, and 13 emission-line galaxies so heavily
reddened as to remain of ambiguous classification. The optical magnitudes range
from R=12.0-20.5; counts suggest that incompleteness is important fainter than
R=15.5. Redshifts extend to z=0.51, with a significant part of the sample at
z>0.2. The sample includes slightly more AGN than star-forming systems among
those where the spectra contain enough diagnostic feature to make the
distinction. The active nuclei include several broad-line objects with strong
Fe II emission, and composite objects with the absorption-line signatures of
fading starbursts. These AGN with warm far-IR colors have little overlap with
the "red AGN" identified with 2MASS; only a single Sy 1 was detected by 2MASS
with J-K > 2. Some reliable IRAS detections have either very faint optical
counterparts or only absorption-line galaxies, potentially being deeply
obscured AGN. The IRAS detections include a newly identified symbiotic star,
and several possible examples of the "Vega phenomenon", including dwarfs as
cool as type K. Appendices detail these candidate stars, and the
optical-identification content of a particularly deep set of high-latitude IRAS
scans (probing the limits of optical identification from IRAS data alone).Comment: ApJ Suppl, in press. Figures converted to JPEG/GIF for better
compression; PDF with full-resolution figures available before publication at
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/aoagn.pd
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