Interstate educational programs: Are we ready?

During the past 15 years, Utah State University and other institutions have vigorously investigated the possibility of sharing educational resources across state lines. This concept, while very important to higher education\u27s future, has not been fully realized. The most obvious barriers have been lack of financial resources and working models. This paper outlines models and procedures that could benefit institutions in the development of cooperative degrees

Suppression of Bremsstrahlung at Non-Zero Temperature

The first-order bremsstrahlung emission spectrum is $\alpha d\omega/\omega$ at zero temperature. If the radiation is emitted into a region that contains a thermal distribution of photons, then the rate is increased by a factor $1+N(\omega)$ where $N(\omega)$ is the Bose-Einstein function. The stimulated emission changes the spectrum to $\alpha Td\omega/\omega^{2}$ for $\omega\ll T$. If this were correct, an infinite amount of energy would be radiated in the low frequency modes. This unphysical result indicates a breakdown of perturbation theory. The paper computes the bremsstrahlung rate to all orders of perturbation theory, neglecting the recoil of the charged particle. When the perturbation series is summed, it has a different low-energy behavior. For $\omega\ll\alpha T$, the spectrum is independent of $\omega$ and has a value proportional to $d\omega/\alpha T$ .Comment: 16 pages (plain TeX), figures available on reques

Knowledge Sharing Through MS SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is being used in Government, private, public and association offices throughout the United States. SharePoint was created to increase accountability for projects within a team environment. How could SharePoint help increase accountability in information management? This article will review SharePoint’s positive and negative characteristics in the hopes of helping information professionals understand what SharePoint really is in the information world and how it can be applied to libraries and other information management organizations

Light-front Schwinger Model at Finite Temperature

We study the light-front Schwinger model at finite temperature following the recent proposal in \cite{alves}. We show that the calculations are carried out efficiently by working with the full propagator for the fermion, which also avoids subtleties that arise with light-front regularizations. We demonstrate this with the calculation of the zero temperature anomaly. We show that temperature dependent corrections to the anomaly vanish, consistent with the results from the calculations in the conventional quantization. The gauge self-energy is seen to have the expected non-analytic behavior at finite temperature, but does not quite coincide with the conventional results. However, the two structures are exactly the same on-shell. We show that temperature does not modify the bound state equations and that the fermion condensate has the same behavior at finite temperature as that obtained in the conventional quantization.Comment: 10 pages, one figure, version to be published in Phys. Rev.

On the Role of Chaos in the AdS/CFT Connection

The question of how infalling matter in a pure state forms a Schwarzschild black hole that appears to be at non-zero temperature is discussed in the context of the AdS/CFT connection. It is argued that the phenomenon of self-thermalization in non-linear (chaotic) systems can be invoked to explain how the boundary theory, initially at zero temperature self thermalizes and acquires a finite temperature. Yang-Mills theory is known to be chaotic (classically) and the imaginary part of the gluon self-energy (damping rate of the gluon plasma) is expected to give the Lyapunov exponent. We explain how the imaginary part would arise in the corresponding supergravity calculation due to absorption at the horizon of the black hole.Comment: 18 pages. Latex file. Minor changes. Final version to appear in Modern Physics Letters

Skyrmions, Hadrons and isospin chemical potential

Using the Hamiltonian formulation, in terms of collective variables, we explore the evolution of different skyrmionic parameters as function of the isospin chemical potential ($\mu$), such as the energy density, the charge density, the isoscalar radius and the isoscalar magnetic radius. We found that the radii start to grow very fast for $\mu \gtrsim 140$ MeV, suggesting the occurrence of a phase transition.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure

Nickel in Non-ferrous General Engineering Alloys

ALTHOUGH nickel in its wrought forms has important applications as an engineering material, particularly in the chemical and electronic industries, the major usage of the metal, in both ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, is as an alloying element. Nickel-base alloys can be broadly divided into the nickel-chromium -base " Superalloys" for high-temperature service , and materials , such as nickel-copper and nickel-chromium- iron alloys, which are used for more general engineering purposes, particularly where resist-ance to corrosion is involved. The technology of the former type of material tends to be rather specialized, since it is concerned very largely with high-temperature properties, and it is not proposed to discuss these high-temperature alloys in this paper but to describe some recent developments in the nickel-base alloys of general engineering interest and in the nickel-containing copper-base and aluminiumbase alloys

Skyrme model and Isospin Chemical Potential

We discuss the stability of the Skyrmion solution in the presence of a finite isospin chemical potential $\mu$. Solving numerically the mass of the Skyrmion as function of $\mu$, we find a critical value $\mu_c=222.8$ MeV where the Skyrmion mass vanishes. We compare the exact numerical treatment with an analytical discussion based on a special shape for the profile of the Skyrmion due to Atiyah and Manton. The extension of this ansatz for finite $\mu$ works quite well for $\mu<121$ MeV. Then, for small values of $\mu$, where the analytical approach is valid, we consider the possibility of having an angular deformation for the Skyrmionic profile, which is possible for finite values of $\mu$. This is however, a small effect. Finally we introduce finite temperature corrections, which strength the instability induced by the chemical potential, finding the dependence of the critical temperature on $\mu$.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure