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[Review of] William Oandasan. A Branch of California Redwood
One of the best ways to introduce readers to the diversity of Indian literatures (and, by implication, Indian experiences) is to expose them to poetry written in English by Indians. One-dimensional stereotypes about Nobel Savages simply cannot withstand the rich variety of a literature that extends at least back to the 19th-century attempts of a few Indian poets-such as William Wilson (Anishinabe), Emily Pauline Johnson (Mohawk), and Alexander Posey (Creek)-to imitate and modify English language poetic models up through the recent poems of hundreds of Indian writers whose backgrounds and poetic inclinations reflect numerous tribal, reservation, and urban experiences, as well as literary influences ranging from tribal chants and Japanese syllabic verse to 20th-century experiments with open verse and typography
Atmospheric densities and temperatures from precisely reduced observations of the Explorer IX satellite
Upper atmospheric densities and temperatures from photographs of Explorer IX satellit
Transport properties near the Anderson transition
The electronic transport properties in the presence of a temperature gradient
in disordered systems near the metal-insulator transition [MIT] are considered.
The d.c. conductivity , the thermoelectric power , the thermal
conductivity and the Lorenz number are calculated for the
three-dimensional Anderson model of localization using the
Chester-Thellung-Kubo-Greenwood formulation of linear response. We show that
, S, K and can be scaled to one-parameter scaling curves with a
single scaling paramter .Comment: 4 pages, 4 EPS figures, uses annalen.cls style [included]; presented
at Localization 1999, to appear in Annalen der Physik [supplement
Phase diagram of the three-dimensional Anderson model of localization with random hopping
We examine the localization properties of the three-dimensional (3D) Anderson
Hamiltonian with off-diagonal disorder using the transfer-matrix method (TMM)
and finite-size scaling (FSS). The nearest-neighbor hopping elements are chosen
randomly according to . We find that the
off-diagonal disorder is not strong enough to localize all states in the
spectrum in contradistinction to the usual case of diagonal disorder. Thus for
any off-diagonal disorder, there exist extended states and, consequently, the
TMM converges very slowly. From the TMM results we compute critical exponents
of the metal-insulator transitions (MIT), the mobility edge , and study
the energy-disorder phase diagram.Comment: 4 pages, 5 EPS figures, uses annalen.cls style [included]; presented
at Localization 1999, to appear in Annalen der Physik [supplement
Thermoelectric Transport Properties in Disordered Systems Near the Anderson Transition
We study the thermoelectric transport properties in the three-dimensional
Anderson model of localization near the metal-insulator transition [MIT]. In
particular, we investigate the dependence of the thermoelectric power S, the
thermal conductivity K, and the Lorenz number L_0 on temperature T. We first
calculate the T dependence of the chemical potential from the number density of
electrons at the MIT using averaged density of state obtained by
diagonalization. Without any additional approximation, we determine from the
chemical potential the behavior of S, K and L_0 at low T as the MIT is
approached. We find that the d.c. conductivity and K decrease to zero at the
MIT as T -> 0 and show that S does not diverge. Both S and L_0 become
temperature independent at the MIT and depend only on the critical behavior of
the conductivity.Comment: 11 pages, 10 eps figures, coded with the EPJ macro package, submitted
to EPJ
Spin noise spectroscopy in GaAs
We observe the noise spectrum of electron spins in bulk GaAs by Faraday
rotation noise spectroscopy. The experimental technique enables the undisturbed
measurement of the electron spin dynamics in semiconductors. We measure
exemplarily the electron spin relaxation time and the electron Lande g-factor
in n-doped GaAs at low temperatures and find good agreement of the measured
noise spectrum with an unpretentious theory based on Poisson distribution
probability.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Raising the critical temperature by disorder in unconventional superconductors mediated by spin fluctuations
We propose a mechanism whereby disorder can enhance the transition
temperature Tc of an unconventional superconductor with pairing driven by
exchange of spin fluctuations. The theory is based on a self-consistent real
space treatment of pairing in the disordered one-band Hubbard model. It has
been demonstrated before that impurities can enhance pairing by softening the
spin fluctuations locally; here, we consider the competing effect of
pair-breaking by the screened Coulomb potential also present. We show that,
depending on the impurity potential strength and proximity to magnetic order,
this mechanism results in a weakening of the disorder-dependent Tc-suppression
rate expected from Abrikosov-Gor'kov theory, or even in disorder-generated Tc
enhancements.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures + Supplementary Materia
Development and fabrication of bismaleimide-graphite composites
The successful fabrication of high temperature resistant composites depends mainly on the processability of the resin binder matrix. For two new bismaleimide type resins the processing of graphite fabric prepregs to composites is described. One resin coded M 751 has to be processed from N-Methylpyrrolidone, the other resin evaluated is a so-called hot melt solvent-less system. Commercial T300/3000 Graphite fabrics were used as reinforcement. The M 751 - Resin is a press grade material and laminates are therefore moulded in high pressure conditions (400 N/sq cm). The solvent-less resin system H 795 is an autoclave grade material and can be cured at 40 N/sq cm. The cure cycles for both the press grade and the autoclave grade material (Fiberite W 143 fabric prepregs) are provided and the mechanical properties of laminates at low (23 C) and high (232 C) temperatures were measured. For comparison, the neat resin flexural properties are also presented. The water absorption for the neat resins and the graphite fabric laminates after a 1000 hour period was evaluated
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