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    The battle for South End: group areas removals in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s

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    Since the late 1850s a vibrant cosmopolitan community developed in South End, Port Elizabeth and a variety of communities and nationalities lived in harmony with one another, respecting one another's culture, religion and way of life. After more than a century, the government of the day decreed that people of different colours and cultures could not live together any longer. The Group Areas Act (No. 14) of 1950 set aside separate residential areas for each population group as provided for by the Population Registration Act of 1950. The Group Areas Act aimed at restricting each population group to defrned places as far as ownership, occupancy and trading were concerned. The ultimate goal of the Group Areas Act however, was to extend restrictions in order to establish residential racial purity by shifting groups from one place to another

    Are Interaction-free Measurements Interaction Free?

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    In 1993 Elitzur and Vaidman introduced the concept of interaction-free measurements which allowed finding objects without ``touching'' them. In the proposed method, since the objects were not touched even by photons, thus, the interaction-free measurements can be called as ``seeing in the dark''. Since then several experiments have been successfully performed and various modifications were suggested. Recently, however, the validity of the term ``interaction-free'' has been questioned. The criticism of the name is briefly reviewed and the meaning of the interaction-free measurements is clarified.Comment: 11 pages, 3 eps figures. Contribution to the ICQO 2000, Raubichi, Belaru

    Manager dans un contexte de post-crise Covid 19 : Comment anticiper et accompagner ses équipes et la reprise de l\u27activité

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    Ce guide a pour vocation de permettre aux services RH et aux managers d’accompagner les collectifs de travail dans cette transition en proposant une approche plusieurs étapes : préparer la reprise opérationnelle, dans le mois précédent le début du déconfinement, libérer la parole et reconstruire les échanges au moment de la reprise,organiser le retour d’expérience pour progresser et mieux anticiper, et retenir l’essentiel pour l’inscrire dans un projet de service coconstruit durant les mois suivants

    A high-throughput 3D bioprinted cancer cell migration and invasion model with versatile and broad biological applicability

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    Understanding the underlying mechanisms of migration and metastasis is a key focus of cancer research. There is an urgent need to develop in vitro 3D tumor models that can mimic physiological cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions, with high reproducibility and that are suitable for high throughput (HTP) drug screening. Here, we developed a HTP 3D bioprinted migration model using a bespoke drop-on-demand bioprinting platform. This HTP platform coupled with tunable hydrogel systems enables (i) the rapid encapsulation of cancer cells within in vivo tumor mimicking matrices, (ii) in situ and real-time measurement of cell movement, (iii) detailed molecular analysis for the study of mechanisms underlying cell migration and invasion, and (iv) the identification of novel therapeutic options. This work demonstrates that this HTP 3D bioprinted cell migration platform has broad applications across quantitative cell and cancer biology as well as drug screening

    On tree amplitudes with gluons coupled to gravitons

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    In this paper, we study the tree amplitudes with gluons coupled to gravitons. We first study the relations among the mixed amplitudes. With BCFW on-shell recursion relation, we will show the color-order reversed relation, U(1)U(1)-decoupling relation and KK relation hold for tree amplitudes with gluons coupled to gravitons. We then study the disk relation which expresses mixed amplitudes by pure gluon amplitudes. More specifically we will prove the disk relation for mixed amplitudes with gluons coupled to one graviton. Using the disk relation and the properties of pure gluon amplitudes, the color-order reversed relation, U(1)U(1)-decoupling relation and KK relation for mixed amplitudes can also be proved. Finally, we give some brief discussions on BCJ-like relation for mixed amplitudes.Comment: 33pages,no figur

    Multiplexed, High Density Electrophysiology with Nanofabricated Neural Probes

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    Extracellular electrode arrays can reveal the neuronal network correlates of behavior with single-cell, single-spike, and sub-millisecond resolution. However, implantable electrodes are inherently invasive, and efforts to scale up the number and density of recording sites must compromise on device size in order to connect the electrodes. Here, we report on silicon-based neural probes employing nanofabricated, high-density electrical leads. Furthermore, we address the challenge of reading out multichannel data with an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) performing signal amplification, band-pass filtering, and multiplexing functions. We demonstrate high spatial resolution extracellular measurements with a fully integrated, low noise 64-channel system weighing just 330 mg. The on-chip multiplexers make possible recordings with substantially fewer external wires than the number of input channels. By combining nanofabricated probes with ASICs we have implemented a system for performing large-scale, high-density electrophysiology in small, freely behaving animals that is both minimally invasive and highly scalable
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