The end of representative politics by Simon Tormey

Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low.These are the initial remarks in Simon Tormey’s new book. Simon Tormey is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Sydney. His research areas are Contemporary Political Theory and Global Politics, Critical Theories and Global Civil Society. In his new book his main research questions are the following:Why do people reject representative politics? Where does that rejection come from? What comes after representative politics

Local motifs in GeS2_2-Ga2_2S3_3 glasses

The structure of (GeS$_2$)$_{0.75}$(Ga$_2$S$_3$)$_{0.25}$ and (GeS$_2$)$_{0.83}$(Ga$_2$S$_3$)$_{0.17}$ glasses was investigated by Raman scattering, high energy X-ray diffraction and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements at the Ga and Ge K-edges. The reverse Monte Carlo simulation technique (RMC) was used to obtain structural models compatible with diffraction and EXAFS datasets. It was found that the coordination number of Ga is close to four. While Ge atoms have only S neighbors, Ga binds to S as well as to Ga atoms showing a violation of chemical ordering in GeS$_2$-Ga$_2$S$_3$ glasses. Analysis of the corner- and edge-sharing between [GeS$_{4/2}$] units revealed that about 30% of germanium atoms participate in the edge-shared tetrahedra.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys and Compound

Infectious hospital agents: A HAI spreading simulation framework

Infectious Hospital Agents (IHA) is an individual-based simulation framework that is able to model wide range of infection spreading scenarios in the hospital environment. The simulations are agent-based simulations driven by stochastic events, the evolution of the model is tracked in discrete time. Our aim was to build a general, customisable and extensible simulation environment for the domain of Hospital-Associated Infections (HAIs). The system is designed in Object Oriented fashion, and the implementation is in C++. In this paper, the authors describe the motivations and the background of the framework, sketch the conceptual framework, and present a demonstration example. © 2017, Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution. All rights reserved