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Constructing the cultural repertoire in a natural disaster: The role of social media in the Thailand flood of 2011
In 2011, Thailand witnessed its worst flooding catastrophe in half a century. In this study, we explored social media as a new and promising weapon to address the physical and morale challenges caused by the natural disaster. A case study was conducted in the context of crisis response, whichinvestigated the use of social media to contribute to the collective cultural repertoire during the natural disaster. By investigating two paths toward the cultural repertoire construction considering different social groups, this study also identified the roles of social media as an information market and an information threshold in the crisis response
Exploring the use of learning communities of practice within a degree apprenticeship through university and partnership provision while incorporating the use of inclusive principles and practice
Learning communities and communities of practice (CoPs) are important aspects of the degree apprentice (DA) experience within higher education. DA programming differs to mainstream higher education programmes as the apprentices are ‘employees’ that spend most of their week working within an organisational setting. DAs in the United Kingdom are formally set 20% ‘off the job’ learning hours that include tuition as well as designated studies directly related to a job roles’ knowledge, skills, behaviours and values.
This presentation looks at how concepts of learning within communities and inclusive practice have been nurtured within a DA programme to develop sustainable curricular and extra-curricular elements. As a part of ongoing research being undertaken using the BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Business to Business Sales DA, this presentation focuses on how academic providers and partners work together to deliver inclusive tuition while considering the importance of learning communities of practice that must consider participation of employers and professional organisations. Inclusive practice includes requirements outlined in the new university strategic plan and in the Apprenticeship Standards. Emerging findings from recent apprentice/student questionnaires have indicated that apprentices, especially Generation Y and Z (McCrindle, 2014), are interested in how the providers might incorporate their insights about inclusive practice into their studies and professional practice.
The presentation includes reflections from the current Programme Leaders from Consalia Ltd. and Marketing Branding and Tourism and the past Programme Leader (Education) to consider practical recommendations that could be adopted within the learning communities of practice from a Sales area of practice perspective and deliberates on what more needs to be done to create a dialogue that promotes inclusion and diversity (CIPD, 2022) within the university contex
Ferromagnetic semiconductor single wall carbon nanotube
Possibility of a ferromagnetic semiconductor single wall carbon nanotube
(SWCNT), where ferromagnetism is due to coupling between doped magnetic
impurity on a zigzag SWCNT and electrons spin, is investigate. We found, in the
weak impurity-spin couplings, at low impurity concentrations the spin up
electrons density of states remain semiconductor while the spin down electrons
density of states shows a metallic behavior. By increasing impurity
concentrations the semiconducting gap of spin up electrons in the density of
states is closed, hence a semiconductor to metallic phase transition is take
place. In contrast, for the case of strong coupling, spin up electrons density
of states remain semiconductor and spin down electron has metallic behavior.
Also by increasing impurity spin magnitude, the semiconducting gap of spin up
electrons is increased.Comment: 10 pages and 9 figure
Magnetization-controlled spin transport in DyAs/GaAs layers
Electrical transport properties of DyAs epitaxial layers grown on GaAs have
been investigated at various temperatures and magnetic fields up to 12T. The
measured longitudinal resistances show two distinct peaks at fields around 0.2
and 2.5T which are believed to be related to the strong spin-disorder
scattering occurring at the phase transition boundaries induced by external
magnetic field. An empirical magnetic phase diagram is deduced from the
temperature dependent experiment, and the anisotropic transport properties are
also presented for various magnetic field directions with respect to the
current flow.Comment: 3 pages with 3 figure
Is the Number of Giant Arcs in LCDM Consistent With Observations?
We use high-resolution N-body simulations to study the galaxy-cluster
cross-sections and the abundance of giant arcs in the CDM model.
Clusters are selected from the simulations using the friends-of-friends method,
and their cross-sections for forming giant arcs are analyzed. The background
sources are assumed to follow a uniform ellipticity distribution from 0 to 0.5
and to have an area identical to a circular source with diameter 1\arcsec. We
find that the optical depth scales as the source redshift approximately as
\tau_{1''} = 2.25 \times 10^{-6}/[1+(\zs/3.14)^{-3.42}] (0.6<\zs<7). The
amplitude is about 50% higher for an effective source diameter of 0.5\arcsec.
The optimal lens redshift for giant arcs with the length-to-width ratio ()
larger than 10 increases from 0.3 for \zs=1, to 0.5 for \zs=2, and to
0.7-0.8 for \zs>3. The optical depth is sensitive to the source redshift, in
qualitative agreement with Wambsganss et al. (2004). However, our overall
optical depth appears to be only 10% to 70% of those from previous
studies. The differences can be mostly explained by different power spectrum
normalizations () used and different ways of determining the
ratio. Finite source size and ellipticity have modest effects on the optical
depth. We also found that the number of highly magnified (with magnification
) and ``undistorted'' images (with ) is comparable to the
number of giant arcs with and . We conclude that our
predicted rate of giant arcs may be lower than the observed rate, although the
precise `discrepancy' is still unclear due to uncertainties both in theory and
observations.Comment: Revised version after the referee's reports (32 pages,13figures). The
paper has been significantly revised with many additions. The new version
includes more detailed comparisons with previous studies, including the
effects of source size and ellipticity. New discussions about the redshift
distribution of lensing clusters and the width of giant arcs have been adde
Quantum Reciprocity Conjecture for the Non-Equilibrium Steady State
By considering the lack of history dependence in the non-equilibrium steady
state of a quantum system we are led to conjecture that in such a system, there
is a set of quantum mechanical observables whose retarded response functions
are insensitive to the arrow of time, and which consequently satisfy a quantum
analog of the Onsager reciprocity relations. Systems which satisfy this
conjecture can be described by an effective Free energy functional. We
demonstrate that the conjecture holds in a resonant level model of a multi-lead
quantum dot.Comment: References revised to take account of related work on Onsager
reciprocity in mesoscopics by Christen, and in hydrodynamics by Mclennan,
Dufty and Rub
Evidence for O-atom exchange in the O(^1D) + N_2O reaction as the source of mass-independent isotopic fractionation in atmospheric N_2O
Recent experiments have shown that in the oxygen isotopic exchange reaction for O(^1D) + CO_2 the elastic channel is approximately 50% that of the inelastic channel [Perri et al., 2003]. We propose an analogous oxygen atom exchange reaction for the isoelectronic O(^1D) + N_2O system to explain the mass-independent isotopic fractionation (MIF) in atmospheric N_2O. We apply quantum chemical methods to compute the energetics of the potential energy surfaces on which the O(^1D) + N_2O reaction occurs. Preliminary modeling results indicate that oxygen isotopic exchange via O(^1D) + N_2O can account for the MIF oxygen anomaly if the oxygen atom isotopic exchange rate is 30–50% that of the total rate for the reactive channels
Reply to comment by Röckmann and Kaiser on "Evidence for O-atom exchange in the O(^1D) + N_2O reaction as the source of mass-independent isotopic fractionation in atmospheric N_2O"
Based upon the authors’ questioning of the existence
of the C_(2v) intermediate, we have reviewed our evidence for
the existence of this state. It now appears that this state was in fact an artifact of our calculation [Yung et al., 2004], and was a saddle point rather than a true minimum. Our desire to provide a timely response to this criticism has kept us from determining exactly what minimum structure will be obtained by a full minimization at the level of theory employed. However, it is clear that the C_(2v) symmetry of the compound is broken in such a way that the two N-O bonds are no longer equivalent. We are grateful to the authors for helping us resolve this issue
Quasi-classical determination of the in-plane magnetic field phase diagram of superconducting Sr_2RuO_4
We have carried out a determination of the magnetic-field-temperature (H-T)
phase diagram for realistic models of the high field superconducting state of
tetragonal Sr_2RuO_4 with fields oriented in the basal plane. This is done by a
variational solution of the Eilenberger equations.This has been carried for
spin-triplet gap functions with a {\bf d}-vector along the c-axis (the chiral
p-wave state) and with a {\bf d}-vector that can rotate easily in the basal
plane. We find that, using gap functions that arise from a combination of
nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions, the upper critical field can be
approximately isotropic as the field is rotated in the basal plane. For the
chiral {\bf d}-vector, we find that this theory generically predicts an
additional phase transition in the vortex state. For a narrow range of
parameters, the chiral {\bf d}-vector gives rise to a tetracritical point in
the H-T phase diagram. When this tetracritical point exists, the resulting
phase diagram closely resembles the experimentally measured phase diagram for
which two transitions are only observed in the high field regime. For the
freely rotating in-plane {\bf d}-vector, we also find that additional phase
transition exists in the vortex phase. However, this phase transition
disappears as the in-plane {\bf d}-vector becomes weakly pinned along certain
directions in the basal plane.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
The influence of baryons on the mass distribution of dark matter halos
Using a set of high-resolution N-body/SPH cosmological simulations with
identical initial conditions but run with different numerical setups, we
investigate the influence of baryonic matter on the mass distribution of dark
halos when radiative cooling is NOT included. We compare the concentration
parameters of about 400 massive halos with virial mass from \Msun to
\Msun. We find that the concentration parameters for the
total mass and dark matter distributions in non radiative simulations are on
average larger by ~3% and 10% than those in a pure dark matter simulation. Our
results indicate that the total mass density profile is little affected by a
hot gas component in the simulations. After carefully excluding the effects of
resolutions and spurious two-body heating between dark matter and gas
particles, we conclude that the increase of the dark matter concentration
parameters is due to interactions between baryons and dark matter. We
demonstrate this with the aid of idealized simulations of two-body mergers. The
results of individual halos simulated with different mass resolutions show that
the gas profiles of densities, temperature and entropy are subjects of mass
resolution of SPH particles. In particular, we find that in the inner parts of
halos, as the SPH resolution increases the gas density becomes higher but both
the entropy and temperature decrease.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, ApJ in press (v652n1); updated to match
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