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Has Anyone Ever Died of Old Age?
The omission of aging as a legal cause of death and the largely unrecognized contribution the aging process plays in mortality is scrutinized
Depositing spacing layers on magnetic film with liquid phase epitaxy
Liquid phase epitaxy spacing layer is compatible with systems which are hard-bubble proofed by use of second magnetic garnet film as capping layer. Composite is superior in that: circuit fabrication time is reduced; adherence is superior; visibility is better; and, good match of thermal expansion coefficients is provided
Investigation of the growth of garnet films by liquid phase epitaxy
Liquid phase expitaxy was investigated to determine its applicability to fabricating magnetic rare earth garnet films for spacecraft data recording systems. Two mixed garnet systems were investigated in detail: (1) Gd-Y and (2) Eu-Yb-Y. All films were deposited on Gd3Ga5012 substrates. The uniaxial anisotropy of the Gd-Y garnets is primarily stress-induced. These garnets are characterized by high-domain wall mobility, low coercivity and modest anisotropy. Characteristic length was found to be relatively sensitive to temperature. The Eu-Yb-Y garnets exhibit acceptable mobilities, good temperature stability and reasonable quality factors. The uniaxial anisotropy of these garnets is primarily growth-induced. The system is well suited for compositional "tailoring" to optimize specific desirable properties. Liquid phase epitaxy can be used to deposit Gd3Ga5012 spacing layers on magnetic garnet films and this arrangement possesses certain advantages over more conventional magnetic filmspacing layer combinations. However, it cannot be used if the magnetic film is to be ion implanted
Similar Sublattices and Coincidence Rotations of the Root Lattice A4 and its Dual
A natural way to describe the Penrose tiling employs the projection method on
the basis of the root lattice A4 or its dual. Properties of these lattices are
thus related to properties of the Penrose tiling. Moreover, the root lattice A4
appears in various other contexts such as sphere packings, efficient coding
schemes and lattice quantizers.
Here, the lattice A4 is considered within the icosian ring, whose rich
arithmetic structure leads to parametrisations of the similar sublattices and
the coincidence rotations of A4 and its dual lattice. These parametrisations,
both in terms of a single icosian, imply an index formula for the corresponding
sublattices. The results are encapsulated in Dirichlet series generating
functions. For every index, they provide the number of distinct similar
sublattices as well as the number of coincidence rotations of A4 and its dual.Comment: 8 pages, paper presented at ICQ10 (Zurich, Switzerland
Bioconjugation of Green Fluorescent Protein via an Unexpectedly Stable Cyclic Sulfonium Intermediate
Bioconjugation of superfolder GFP involving the formation of an unusually stable, and unprecedented, cyclic sulfonium species is described. This sulfonium can undergo smooth reaction with a range of nucleophiles to give sulfur-, selenium- and azide-modified GFP derivatives in high conversions
The rings of n-dimensional polytopes
Points of an orbit of a finite Coxeter group G, generated by n reflections
starting from a single seed point, are considered as vertices of a polytope
(G-polytope) centered at the origin of a real n-dimensional Euclidean space. A
general efficient method is recalled for the geometric description of G-
polytopes, their faces of all dimensions and their adjacencies. Products and
symmetrized powers of G-polytopes are introduced and their decomposition into
the sums of G-polytopes is described. Several invariants of G-polytopes are
found, namely the analogs of Dynkin indices of degrees 2 and 4, anomaly numbers
and congruence classes of the polytopes. The definitions apply to
crystallographic and non-crystallographic Coxeter groups. Examples and
applications are shown.Comment: 24 page
The Language of the Two Ordinances: Reply to a Tract by R. S. Gavin
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Liminal
My porcelain sculptural work explores the passage from life to death in the form of boat imagery. Many cultures and belief systems have water and boat references in their mythoi surrounding the passage of the soul or spirit to the afterlife. I combine many disparate boat elements into each piece in order to allude to an archetypal form. The black and white tones refer to mourning rituals of various cultures as well as the traditional practice of scrimshaw, in which sailors once made carvings on whale bone or walrus tusks and then inked the lines. My boats are intended as metaphors for passage into the afterlife and symbols of human commonality. They hold their place in both the physical and the spiritual realms
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