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Expanding the parameters of academia
This paper draws on qualitative data gathered from two studies funded by the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education to examine the expansion of academic identities in higher education. It builds on Whitchurchâs earlier work, which focused primarily on professional staff, to suggest that the emergence of broadly based projects such as widening participation, learning support and community partnership is also impacting on academic identities. Thus, academic as well as professional staff are increasingly likely to work in multi-professional teams across a variety of constituencies, as well as with external partners, and the binary distinction between âacademicâ and ânon-academicâ roles and activities is no longer clear-cut. Moreover, there is evidence from the studies of an intentionality about deviations from mainstream academic career routes among respondents who could have gone either way. Consideration is therefore given to factors that influence individuals to work in more project-oriented areas, as well as to variables that affect ways in which these roles and identities develop. Finally, three models of academically oriented project activity are identified, and the implications of an expansion of academic identities are reviewed
Collective Modes of Tri-Nuclear Molecules
A geometrical model for tri-nuclear molecules is presented. An analytical
solution is obtained provided the nuclei, which are taken to be prolately
deformed, are connected in line to each other. Furthermore, the tri-nuclear
molecule is composed of two heavy and one light cluster, the later sandwiched
between the two heavy clusters. A basis is constructed in which Hamiltonians of
more general configurations can be diagonalized. In the calculation of the
interaction between the clusters higher multipole deformations are taken into
account, including the hexadecupole one. A repulsive nuclear core is introduced
in the potential in order to insure a quasi-stable configuration of the system.
The model is applied to three nuclear molecules, namely Sr + Be +
Ba, Mo + Be + Te and Ru + Be +
Sn.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figure
On several families of elliptic curves with arbitrary large Selmer groups
In this paper, we calculate the Selmer groups
S^{(\phi)} (E / \Q) and S^{(\hat{\varphi})} (E^{\prime} / \Q) of elliptic
curves via descent theory
(see [S, Chapter X]), in particular, we obtain that the Selmer groups of
several families of such elliptic curves can be arbitrary large.Comment: 22 page
Asymptotic normalization coefficients for 8B->7Be+p from a study of 8Li->7Li+n
Asymptotic normalization coefficients (ANCs) for 8Li->7Li+n have been
extracted from the neutron transfer reaction 13C(7Li,8Li)12C at 63 MeV. These
are related to the ANCs in 8B->7Be+p using charge symmetry. We extract ANCs for
8B that are in very good agreement with those inferred from proton transfer and
breakup experiments. We have also separated the contributions from the p_1/2
and p_3/2 components in the transfer. We find the astrophysical factor for the
7Be(p,gamma)8B reaction to be S_17(0)=17.6+/-1.7 eVb. This is the first time
that the rate of a direct capture reaction of astrophysical interest has been
determined through a measurement of the ANCs in the mirror system.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 table
Singularities of -fold integrals of the Ising class and the theory of elliptic curves
We introduce some multiple integrals that are expected to have the same
singularities as the singularities of the -particle contributions
to the susceptibility of the square lattice Ising model. We find
the Fuchsian linear differential equation satisfied by these multiple integrals
for and only modulo some primes for and , thus
providing a large set of (possible) new singularities of the . We
discuss the singularity structure for these multiple integrals by solving the
Landau conditions. We find that the singularities of the associated ODEs
identify (up to ) with the leading pinch Landau singularities. The second
remarkable obtained feature is that the singularities of the ODEs associated
with the multiple integrals reduce to the singularities of the ODEs associated
with a {\em finite number of one dimensional integrals}. Among the
singularities found, we underline the fact that the quadratic polynomial
condition , that occurs in the linear differential equation
of , actually corresponds to a remarkable property of selected
elliptic curves, namely the occurrence of complex multiplication. The
interpretation of complex multiplication for elliptic curves as complex fixed
points of the selected generators of the renormalization group, namely
isogenies of elliptic curves, is sketched. Most of the other singularities
occurring in our multiple integrals are not related to complex multiplication
situations, suggesting an interpretation in terms of (motivic) mathematical
structures beyond the theory of elliptic curves.Comment: 39 pages, 7 figure
A light-fronts approach to electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
We perform a gauge-transformation on the time-dependent Dirac equation
describing the evolution of an electron in a heavy-ion collision to remove the
explicit dependence on the long-range part of the interaction. We solve, in an
ultra-relativistic limit, the gauged-transformed Dirac equation using
light-front variables and a light-fronts representation, obtaining
non-perturbative results for the free pair-creation amplitudes in the collider
frame. Our result reproduces the result of second-order perturbation theory in
the small charge limit while non-perturbative effects arise for realistic
charges of the ions.Comment: 39 pages, Revtex, 7 figures, submitted to PR
Core handling and processing for the WAIS Divide ice-core project
On 1 December 2011 the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice-core project reached its final depth of 3405 m. The WAIS Divide ice core is not only the longest US ice core to date, but is also the highest-quality deep ice core, including ice from the brittle ice zone, that the US has ever recovered. The methods used at WAIS Divide to handle and log the drilled ice, the procedures used to safely retrograde the ice back to the US National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) and the methods used to process and sample the ice at the NICL are described and discussed
Core handling and processing for the WAIS Divide ice-core project
On 1 December 2011 the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice-core project reached its final depth of 3405 m. The WAIS Divide ice core is not only the longest US ice core to date, but is also the highest-quality deep ice core, including ice from the brittle ice zone, that the US has ever recovered. The methods used at WAIS Divide to handle and log the drilled ice, the procedures used to safely retrograde the ice back to the US National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) and the methods used to process and sample the ice at the NICL are described and discussed
Conformational changes of calmodulin upon Ca2+ binding studied with a microfluidic mixer
A microfluidic mixer is applied to study the kinetics of calmodulin conformational changes upon Ca2+ binding. The device facilitates rapid, uniform mixing by decoupling hydrodynamic focusing from diffusive mixing and accesses time scales of tens of microseconds. The mixer is used in conjunction with multiphoton microscopy to examine the fast Ca2+-induced transitions of acrylodan-labeled calmodulin. We find that the kinetic rates of the conformational changes in two homologous globular domains differ by more than an order of magnitude. The characteristic time constants are â490 ÎŒs for the transitions in the C-terminal domain and â20 ms for those in the N-terminal domain of the protein. We discuss possible mechanisms for the two distinct events and the biological role of the stable intermediate, half-saturated calmodulin
Revenue allocation in Formula One: a pairwise comparison approach
A model is proposed to allocate Formula One World Championship prize money
among the constructors. The methodology is based on pairwise comparison
matrices, allows for the use of any weighting method, and makes possible to
tune the level of inequality. We introduce an axiom called scale invariance,
which requires the ranking of the teams to be independent of the parameter
controlling inequality. The eigenvector method is revealed to violate this
condition in our dataset, while the row geometric mean method always satisfies
it. The revenue allocation is not influenced by the arbitrary valuation given
to the race prizes in the official points scoring system of Formula One and
takes the intensity of pairwise preferences into account, contrary to the
standard Condorcet method. Our approach can be used to share revenues among
groups when group members are ranked several times.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures, 6 table
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