Simulating Drug-Eluting Stents: Progress Made and the Way Forward

Drug-eluting stents have significantly improved the treatment of coronary artery disease. Compared with their bare metal predecessors, they offer reduced rates of restenosis and thus represent the current gold standard in percutaneous coronary interventions. Drug-eluting stents have been around for over a decade, and while progress is continually being made, they are not suitable in all patients and lesion types. Furthermore there are still real concerns over incomplete healing and late stent thrombosis. In this paper, some modelling approaches are reviewed and the future of modelling and simulation in this field is discussed

Ligeti and Stockhausen: A concert of piano and electronics works from the 195

I curated a concert of piano and electronics pieces including the premiere of my new realisation of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Studie II.

Influence of a local change of depth on the behavior of bouncing oil drops

The work of Couder \textit{et al} (see also Bush \textit{et al}) inspired consideration of the impact of a submerged obstacle, providing a local change of depth, on the behavior of oil drops in the bouncing regime. In the linked videos, we recreate some of their results for a drop bouncing on a uniform depth bath of the same liquid undergoing vertical oscillations just below the conditions for Faraday instability, and show a range of new behaviors associated with change of depth. This article accompanies a fluid dynamics video entered into the Gallery of Fluid Motion of the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.Comment: High and low resolutions videos included as ancillary file

Interactive physics: a virtual library of simulations for use in physics undergraduate teaching

This report outlines the design and deployment of a virtual (online) library ofinteractive simulations (principally Java applets) designed to be used inUndergraduate Physics teaching. The project was funded by an LTSN PhysicalSciences Project Development Grant in 2001

Fully fault tolerant quantum computation with non-deterministic gates

In certain approaches to quantum computing the operations between qubits are non-deterministic and likely to fail. For example, a distributed quantum processor would achieve scalability by networking together many small components; operations between components should assumed to be failure prone. In the logical limit of this architecture each component contains only one qubit. Here we derive thresholds for fault tolerant quantum computation under such extreme paradigms. We find that computation is supported for remarkably high failure rates (exceeding 90%) providing that failures are heralded, meanwhile the rate of unknown errors should not exceed 2 in 10^4 operations.Comment: 5 pages, 3 fig

Juvenile crime stories use police blotter without comment from suspects

This article discusses a research on news media coverage of juvenile crime. It seeks to answer two questions: what sources do present-day reporters rely on in writing juvenile justice stories; and, are reporters more likely to balance police and defendants comments. The study focused on stories published in Connecticut\u27s three largest newspapers--the Hartford Courant, the New Haven Register, and the Connecticut Post--between January 1, 2002, and March 31, 2002. The study\u27s design was based on a census of all newspaper stories, not a random sample, in the three-month period. The methodology yielded 180 news stories, those generated by both the staff and six Associated Press stories. Results suggest that, at least in the newspapers studied here, not much has changed since Doris Graber first documented the shortcomings of crime reporting more than two decades ago in her book, Crime News and the Public. The economic efficiency that allows reporters to chum out stories with little effort from the police blotter has not changed. Coverage of juvenile crime issues followed the same pattern

Two-dimensional phononic-photonic bandgap optomechanical crystal cavity

We present the fabrication and characterization of an artificial crystal structure formed from a thin-film of silicon which has a full phononic bandgap for microwave X-band phonons and a two-dimensional pseudo-bandgap for near-infrared photons. An engineered defect in the crystal structure is used to localize optical and mechanical resonances in the bandgap of the planar crystal. Two-tone optical spectroscopy is used to characterize the cavity system, showing a large vacuum coupling rate of 220kHz between the fundamental optical cavity resonance at 195THz and a co-localized mechanical resonance at 9.3GHz.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure