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Training and Employment of People with Disabilities: Australia 2003
[Excerpt] Training and Employment of People with Disabilities: Australia 2003 is descriptive in nature. When the ILO commissioned the researchers for the Country Study Series, each was asked to follow the comprehensive research protocol appended to this document. The resulting report therefore includes country background information, statistics about people with disabilities and their organizations, a description of relevant legislation and policies and their official implementing structures, as well as the education, training and employment options available to people with disabilities. While few countries have all such information readily available, researchers were asked to note the existence or lack of specific data points and to report data when it did exist. Since the lack of information about people with disabilities contributes to their invisibility and social exclusion, the information itself is important. The protocol called for limited analysis and did not specifically ask for the researchers recommendations, however, researchers were asked to report on existing plans and recommendations of significant national stakeholders
Universal Level dynamics of Complex Systems
. We study the evolution of the distribution of eigenvalues of a
matrix subject to a random perturbation drawn from (i) a generalized Gaussian
ensemble (ii) a non-Gaussian ensemble with a measure variable under the change
of basis. It turns out that, in the case (i), a redefinition of the parameter
governing the evolution leads to a Fokker-Planck equation similar to the one
obtained when the perturbation is taken from a standard Gaussian ensemble (with
invariant measure). This equivalence can therefore help us to obtain the
correlations for various physically-significant cases modeled by generalized
Gaussian ensembles by using the already known correlations for standard
Gaussian ensembles.
For large -values, our results for both cases (i) and (ii) are similar to
those obtained for Wigner-Dyson gas as well as for the perturbation taken from
a standard Gaussian ensemble. This seems to suggest the independence of
evolution, in thermodynamic limit, from the nature of perturbation involved as
well as the initial conditions and therefore universality of dynamics of the
eigenvalues of complex systems.Comment: 11 Pages, Latex Fil
Same Polytechnic College - Phase Zero
The Same Polytechnic College, located in Same (Sah-may), Tanzania, is an on-going project that has been worked on by approximately 600 Cal Poly students over the past decade. The college is being designed for the Mbesese Initiative for Sustainable Development (MISD), a nonprofit organization working towards alleviating poverty in rural East Africa through the expansion of access to education. As an interdisciplinary team of architectural engineering, architecture, and landscape architecture students, the master plan of the college was refined and the design of “Phase Zero” was created as the first step towards the organization’s goal
From arbitrariness to ambiguities in the evaluation of perturbative physical amplitudes and their symmetry relations
A very general calculational strategy is applied to the evaluation of the
divergent physical amplitudes which are typical of perturbative calculations.
With this approach in the final results all the intrinsic arbitrariness of the
calculations due to the divergent character is still present. We show that by
using the symmetry properties as a guide to search for the (compulsory) choices
in such a way as to avoid ambiguities, a deep and clear understanding of the
role of regularization methods emerges. Requiring then an universal point of
view for the problem, as allowed by our approach, very interesting conclusions
can be stated about the possible justifications of most intriguing aspect of
the perturbative calculations in quantum field theory: the triangle anomalies.Comment: 16 pages, no figure
The Source of Ionization along the Magellanic Stream
Since its discovery in 1996, the source of the bright H-alpha emission (up to
750 mR) along the Magellanic Stream has remained a mystery. There is no
evidence of ionising stars within the HI stream, and the extended hot halo is
far too tenuous to drive strong shocks into the clouds. We now present a
hydrodynamical model that explains the known properties of the H-alpha emission
and provides new insights on the lifetime of the Stream clouds. The upstream
clouds are gradually disrupted due to their interaction with the hot halo gas.
The clouds that follow plough into gas ablated from the upstream clouds,
leading to shock ionisation at the leading edges of the downstream clouds.
Since the following clouds also experience ablation, and weaker H-alpha
(100-200 mR) is quite extensive, a disruptive cascade must be operating along
much of the Stream. In our model, the clouds are evolving on timescales of
100-200 Myr, such that the Stream must be replenished by the Magellanic Clouds
at a fairly constant rate. The ablated material falls onto the Galaxy as a warm
drizzle which suggests that diffuse ionized gas at 10**4 K may be an important
constituent of galactic accretion. The observed HI emission provides a new
constraint on the rate of disruption of the Stream and, consequently, the
infall rate of metal-poor gas onto the Galaxy. When the ionized component of
the Stream is fully accounted for, the rate of gas accretion is 0.4 Msun/yr,
roughly twice the rate deduced from HI observations alone.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures; high quality preprint and simulations available
at http://www.aao.gov.au/astro/M
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