Sacred Hoop Dreams: Basketball in the Work of Sherman Alexie

The game of basketball serves as a fitting metaphor for the conflicts and tensions of life. It involves both cooperation and competition, selflessness and ego. In the hands of a gifted writer like Sherman Alexie, those paradoxes become even deeper and more revealing. In his short story collections, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Toughest Indian in the World, his debut novel, Reservation Blues, and his recent young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie uses basketball to explore the ironies of American Indian reservation life and the tensions between traditional lifeways and contemporary social realities. So central is basketball to the Lone Ranger and Tonto short story collection, in fact, that the paperback edition\u27s cover depicts a salmon - the Coeur d\u27Alene Indians are fishermen - flying over a basketball hoop

Dynamic capacitor having a peripherally driven element and system incorporating the same

A capacitor in which one plate or electrode element is vibratable to achieve a variation in capacitance is described. The capacitor includes two spaced stationary elements. The third element is supported at its center and in the form of a thin diaphragm which is vibrated at its inherent mechanical resonant frequency to achieve a corresponding variation in capacitance between one of the stationary elements and the vibrating diaphragm

On the Uniqueness of Quantum Equilibrium in Bohmian Mechanics

In Bohmian mechanics the distribution $|\psi|^2$ is regarded as the equilibrium distribution. We consider its uniqueness, finding that it is the unique equivariant distribution that is also a local functional of the wave function $\psi$.Comment: 15 pages, no figures, LaTe

Addressing data management training needs: a practice based approach from the UK

In this paper, we describe the current challenges to the effective management and preservation of research data in UK universities, and the response provided by the JISC Managing Research Data programme. This paper will discuss, inter alia, the findings and conclusions from data management training projects of the first iteration of the programme and how they informed the design of the second, paying particular attention to initiatives to develop and embed training materials

Implications of the Precautionary Principle for Environmental Regulation in the United States: Examples from the Control of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments

Goldstein and Carruth argue that the hazardous air pollutant provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments provide an example of the Precautionary Principle incorporated into US environmental legislation. Evaluating the outcome thus far leads them to the conclusion that utilizing the Precautionary Principle as a basis for legislation can be problematic to public-health goals

Remark on the (Non)convergence of Ensemble Densities in Dynamical Systems

We consider a dynamical system with state space $M$, a smooth, compact subset of some ${\Bbb R}^n$, and evolution given by $T_t$, $x_t = T_t x$, $x \in M$; $T_t$ is invertible and the time $t$ may be discrete, $t \in {\Bbb Z}$, $T_t = T^t$, or continuous, $t \in {\Bbb R}$. Here we show that starting with a continuous positive initial probability density $\rho(x,0) > 0$, with respect to $dx$, the smooth volume measure induced on $M$ by Lebesgue measure on ${\Bbb R}^n$, the expectation value of $\log \rho(x,t)$, with respect to any stationary (i.e. time invariant) measure $\nu(dx)$, is linear in $t$, $\nu(\log \rho(x,t)) = \nu(\log \rho(x,0)) + Kt$. $K$ depends only on $\nu$ and vanishes when $\nu$ is absolutely continuous wrt $dx$.Comment: 7 pages, plain TeX; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], to appear in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, Volume 8, Issue

The molecular basis for ethnic variation and histological subtype differences in prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is a common malignancy among men in Western countries. Recently the morbidity and mortality of prostate cancer increase dramatically in several oriental countries including China. Rapidly evolving technology in molecular biology such as high-throughput sequencing and integrative analysis of genomic and transcriptomic landscapes have enabled the identification of key oncogenic events for prostate cancer initiation, progression and resistance to hormonal therapy. These surging data of prostate cancer genome also provide insights on ethnic variation and the differences in histological subtype of this disease. In this review, differences in the incidence of prostate cancer and the prevalence of main genetic alterations between Asian and Western populations are discussed. We also review the recent findings on the mechanisms underlying neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer and the development of small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma after androgen deprivation therapy