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Dynamical Heterogeneity close to the Jamming Transition in a Sheared Granular Material
The dynamics of a bi-dimensional dense granular packing under cyclic shear is
experimentally investigated close to the jamming transition. Measurement of
multi-point correlation functions are produced. The self-intermediate
scattering function, displaying slower than exponential relaxation, suggests
dynamic heterogeneity. Further analysis of four point correlation functions
reveal that the grain relaxations are strongly correlated and spatially
heterogeneous, especially at the time scale of the collective rearrangements.
Finally, a dynamical correlation length is extracted from spatio-temporal
pattern of mobility. Our experimental results open the way to a systematic
study of dynamic correlation functions in granular materials.Comment: 4 pages, final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Managing Knowledge and Risk:a Literature Review on the Interdependency of QRM and KM as ICH Q10 Enablers
Quality Risk Management (QRM) and Knowledge Management (KM) have been positioned as co-enablers to the Pharmaceutical Quality System since the 2010 issuance of ICH Q10. Yet these disciplines have remained largely distinct and disconnected in practice. This paper presents a two-part literature review on this topic. First is a review of how other industries have connected risk management and knowledge management. This is followed by a review of relevant biopharmaceutical industry regulatory guidance to explore expectations for how risk, risk management, knowledge and knowledge management are interdependent. The results suggest there is a strong argument in favor of linking risk management and knowledge management and other industries have demonstrated benefits in doing so. Furthermore, the review of the biopharmaceutical industry regulatory guidance shows the clear and persistent benefits of connecting the expectations of managing risk and knowledge together. A key conclusion is that risk varies inversely with knowledge application and therefore, a lower level of risk to quality (and ultimately to the patient) can be achieved through risk management practices when a thoughtful and programmatic approach to knowledge management is in place, providing the best possible knowledge to assess and control risk
Subdiffusion and cage effect in a sheared granular material
We investigate experimentally the diffusion properties of a bidimensional
bidisperse dry granular material under quasistatic cyclic shear.The comparison
of these properties with results obtained both in computer simulations of hard
spheres systems and Lenard-Jones liquids and experiments on colloidal systems
near the glass transition demonstrates a strong analogy between the behaviour
of granular matter and these systems. More specifically, we study in detail the
cage dynamics responsible for the subdiffusion in the slow relaxation regime,
and obtain the values of relevant time and length scales.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PR
Temperature dependence of the resonance and low energy spin excitations in superconducting FeTeSe
We use inelastic neutron scattering to study the temperature dependence of
the low-energy spin excitations in single crystals of superconducting
FeTeSe ( K). In the low-temperature superconducting
state, the imaginary part of the dynamic susceptibility at the electron and
hole Fermi surfaces nesting wave vector ,
, has a small spin gap, a two-dimensional
neutron spin resonance above the spin gap, and increases linearly with
increasing for energies above the resonance. While the intensity
of the resonance decreases like an order parameter with increasing temperature
and disappears at temperature slightly above , the energy of the mode is
weakly temperature dependent and vanishes concurrently above . This
suggests that in spite of its similarities with the resonance in electron-doped
superconducting BaFe(Co,Ni)As, the mode in
FeTeSe is not directly associated with the superconducting
electronic gap.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
High-quality highly strained InGaAs quantum wells grown on InP using (InAs)n(GaAs)0.25 fractional monolayer superlattices
International audience(InAs) n /(GaAs) m n1.5-2, m0.25 monolayer fractional monolayer superlattices FMS have been used to grow highly strained InGaAs quantum wells QWs on InP by molecular beam epitaxy. We show that FMS quantum wells have better structural and optoelectronic properties compared to equivalent QWs grown using standard procedures. In addition, the onsets of the three-dimensional growth mode and plastic relaxation are delayed, which allows the highest emission wavelength in the In x Ga 1x As/InGaAlAs/InP system to be extended up to 2.35 m at high growth temperatures 500 °C
Studenten am Hausärzte-Kongress in Arosa
Medizinstudenten an einem Hausärztekongress? Vor 10 Jahren noch undenkbar, heute eine Realität. Dieser Beitrag schildert kurz die Entwicklung des «Studentenprojekts » am H ausärzte-Kongress Arosa und zeigt, dass ein innovatives Weiterbildungsformat auch bei angehenden Ärzten Interesse wecken kann
Controlled switching of N\'eel caps in flux-closure magnetic dots
While magnetic hysteresis usually considers magnetic domains, the switching
of the core of magnetic vortices has recently become an active topic. We
considered Bloch domain walls, which are known to display at the surface of
thin films flux-closure features called N\'eel caps. We demonstrated the
controlled switching of these caps under a magnetic field, occurring via the
propagation of a surface vortex. For this we considered flux-closure states in
elongated micron-sized dots, so that only the central domain wall can be
addressed, while domains remain unaffected.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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