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Learning from Kaupapa MÄori: Issues and techniques for engagement
This article argues for recognition of the value and relevance of Indigenous knowledges about principles and practices of engagement to theory-building and praxis in public relations. Specifically, in this article, the Kaupapa MÄori body of knowledge and practice that has developed around Indigenous/non-Indigenous engagement in Aotearoa is identified as a valid source of insight for the analogous situation of organisation-public engagement where power imbalance is inherent
SSME structural dynamic model development
A mathematical model of the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) as a complete assembly, with detailed emphasis on LOX and High Fuel Turbopumps is developed. The advantages of both complete engine dynamics, and high fidelity modeling are incorporated. Development of this model, some results, and projected applications are discussed
A new sound mode in liquid Helium 4?
This letter is based on the hypothesis of a small entropy content of the
superfluid fraction of liquid helium. We show that such a superfluid entropy
gives rise to a new sound mode in a ring-shaped superleak. This mode is named
sixth sound. We propose an experiment by which its sound velocity and thereby
the superfluid entropy can be measured. A negative experiment would yield a new
upper limit for the superfluid entropy.Comment: 9 pages, latex, published in Phys. Lett. A 187 (1994) 8
Homogenization of the Equations Governing the Flow Between a Slider and a Rough Spinning Disk
We have analyzed the behavior of the flow between a slider bearing and a hard-drive magnetic disk under two types of surface roughness. For both cases the length scale of the roughness along the surface is small as compared to the scale of the slider, so that a homogenization of the governing equations was performed.
For the case of longitudinal roughness, we derived a one-dimensional lubrication-type equation for the leading behavior of the pressure in the direction parallel to the velocity of the disk. The coefficients of the equation are determined by solving linear elliptic equations on a domain bounded by the gap height in the vertical direction and the period of the roughness in the span-wise direction.
For the case of transverse roughness the unsteady lubrication equations were reduced, following a multiple scale homogenization analysis, to a steady equation for the leading behavior of the pressure in the gap. The reduced equation involves certain averages of the gap height, but retains the same form of the usual steady, compressible lubrication equations.
Numerical calculations were performed for both cases, and the solution for the case of transverse roughness was shown be in excellent agreement with a corresponding numerical calculation of the original unsteady equations
Critical properties and Bose Einstein Condensation in dimer spin systems
We analyze the spin relaxation time for a system made of weakly
coupled one dimensional ladders.This system allows to probe the dimensional
crossover between a Luttinger liquid and a Bose-Einstein condensateof magnons.
We obtain the temperature dependence of in the various dimensional
regimes, and discuss the experimental consequences.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX 4, 3 EPS figure
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The tarantula toxin GxTx detains K+ channel gating charges in their resting conformation.
Allosteric ligands modulate protein activity by altering the energy landscape of conformational space in ligand-protein complexes. Here we investigate how ligand binding to a K+ channel's voltage sensor allosterically modulates opening of its K+-conductive pore. The tarantula venom peptide guangxitoxin-1E (GxTx) binds to the voltage sensors of the rat voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channel Kv2.1 and acts as a partial inverse agonist. When bound to GxTx, Kv2.1 activates more slowly, deactivates more rapidly, and requires more positive voltage to reach the same K+-conductance as the unbound channel. Further, activation kinetics are more sigmoidal, indicating that multiple conformational changes coupled to opening are modulated. Single-channel current amplitudes reveal that each channel opens to full conductance when GxTx is bound. Inhibition of Kv2.1 channels by GxTx results from decreased open probability due to increased occurrence of long-lived closed states; the time constant of the final pore opening step itself is not impacted by GxTx. When intracellular potential is less than 0 mV, GxTx traps the gating charges on Kv2.1's voltage sensors in their most intracellular position. Gating charges translocate at positive voltages, however, indicating that GxTx stabilizes the most intracellular conformation of the voltage sensors (their resting conformation). Kinetic modeling suggests a modulatory mechanism: GxTx reduces the probability of voltage sensors activating, giving the pore opening step less frequent opportunities to occur. This mechanism results in K+-conductance activation kinetics that are voltage-dependent, even if pore opening (the rate-limiting step) has no inherent voltage dependence. We conclude that GxTx stabilizes voltage sensors in a resting conformation, and inhibits K+ currents by limiting opportunities for the channel pore to open, but has little, if any, direct effect on the microscopic kinetics of pore opening. The impact of GxTx on channel gating suggests that Kv2.1's pore opening step does not involve movement of its voltage sensors
Conditions for one-dimensional supersonic flow of quantum gases
One can use transsonic Bose-Einstein condensates of alkali atoms to establish
the laboratory analog of the event horizon and to measure the acoustic version
of Hawking radiation. We determine the conditions for supersonic flow and the
Hawking temperature for realistic condensates on waveguides where an external
potential plays the role of a supersonic nozzle. The transition to supersonic
speed occurs at the potential maximum and the Hawking temperature is entirely
determined by the curvature of the potential
The high-lying Li levels at excitation energy around 21 MeV
The H+He cluster structure in Li was investigated by the
H(,H He)n kinematically complete experiment at the incident
energy = 67.2 MeV. We have observed two resonances at =
21.30 and 21.90 MeV which are consistent with the He(H, )Li
analysis in the Ajzenberg-Selove compilation. Our data are compared with the
previous experimental data and the RGM and CSRGM calculations.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
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