A Study of the Cosmic Ray Rate in the CHIPS-M Prototype Detector

Following the discovery of neutrino mass and neutrino oscillations, the next big question is whether or not neutrinos violate charge-parity symmetry. To achieve the precision in electron neutrino appearance necessary to make measurements of charge parity symmetry violation, we need a detector with a very large fiducial mass. These large detectors are beyond our budgetary reach and take an incredible amount of time to build. The CHIPS collaboration is building a series of prototype detectors with the aim to lower the cost of these massive detectors and develop an incremental approach so that the physics measurements can be made in all phases of the program. To lower the costs, the detectors will be deployed under the water in an existing mine pit. An underwater detector design relieves the need to build a site to house the detector, provides an overburden of water to block many cosmic rays, and structurally supports the detector

DISENTANGLING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ACUTE STRESS, CHRONIC STRESS, AND PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

Given the importance and prevalence of Prospective Memory (PM) in daily life and the common experience of stress, it is critical to understand the relations between them. Despite a growing literature base, the answers to some of the simplest questions about these relations remain unanswered. The present study was designed to investigate the relations between both acute and chronic stress and time- and event-based PM. Several methodological features make this study unique and may contribute to a broadening of our understanding of PM in daily life. The results of the present study revealed that chronic stress was negatively correlated with strategic clock monitoring and time-based PM. On the other hand, chronic stress measures did not correlate significantly with either focal or non-focal event-based PM. Acute stress was not correlated with significant differences in PM performance. Prospective memory performance was not significantly correlated with time of day, nor did time of day help to account for the general null findings between acute stress and PM abilities. Continuing to explore the nuanced ways in which stress and PM interact will clarify whether different types of stress can be beneficial or detrimental to one’s ability to complete intentions in the future, and under what conditions

Direct Comparisons of Polarimetric C-Band and S-Band Radar in Snow

The Canadian Weather Radar Network is currently undergoing an upgrade to po- larimetric, S-Band radar systems. Forecasting experiences in Canada with the legacy C-Band radars lends to the idea that the narrow beamwidth of C-Band sys- tems is preferential for nowcasting the typical shallow lake-effect snow event. This idea is tested by comparing moments from King City radar, just north of Toronto, to the neighboring Buffalo, NY WSR-88D. By transforming the radar data from spherical coordinates to the Cartesian coordinate system, the two radars can be compared directly. Objective analysis indicates that the spatial patterns of reflec- tivity are very similiar, with King maintaining the obvious advantage in resolving fine scale features of lake-effect snow bands through a narrow physical beamwidth. Also, it is shown that comparatively, the mean reflectivity values obtained through this method are similiar, but King City maintains a slight advantage over Buffalo in detecting shallow snow-squalls. In regards to differential reflectivity, a case by case comparison is performed to determine any event biases from the King City radar. With biases removed, both radars indicate similiar mean values of differential re- flectivity, which agrees with theoretical expectations. Results also indicate that the bulk hydrometeor type in synoptic snowfalls tend towards pristine crystals, while lake-effect events tend towards aggregated snow

Queenship, intrigue and blood-feud: deciphering the causes of the Merovingian civil wars, 561-613

The Frankish civil wars of AD 561-613 were a series of devastating encounters involving the four sons of Chlothar I and their descendants. While no party was guiltless during this period, modern scholars have tended to focus on two prominent Queens, Brunhild of Austrasia and Fredegund of Neustria, and the possibility of a blood-feud between their two families. King Sigibert of Austrasia married Brunhild because he believed she was worthy of a king, unlike many of the wives his brothers were taking. One of these women was Fredegund, who was married to King Chilperic of Neustria. Fredegund is often blamed for the assassination of Galswinth, Brunhild’s sister, even though Chilperic is the more likely culprit. This murder is what many modern scholars believe started a blood-feud between the two families, which both queens were integral in prosecuting. Even though Brunhild and Fredegund were integral figures throughout this series of bella civilia, it is apparent that the majority of the conflict which erupted during this period centered on the partition of Chlothar I’s kingdom in 561. Furthermore, the impact of the nobility, bishops, and even the armies of these kingdoms in promoting and prolonging civil war is largely ignored by modern scholars. This thesis will argue that the wars of this period cannot simply be reduced to the machinations of two queens or a blood-feud between the families. Instead, these wars were far more complex finding origins varying from scheming nobles to greed of the common soldier

Being Black in U.S. Urban Schools: No Assumptions

To be an African-American student attending a school dominated by working class, urban, minority learners means failure. Working class African-American students are not experiencing education, they are colliding with education. These collisions will continue as long as they are facilitated by the assumptive dominant theories regarding African- American students’ educational experiences. One strategy to constructively disrupt these assumptive theoretical notions buried within current theory is to look to a working class, urban African-American student’s qualitative longitudinal formation of identity as she progresses from student to teacher within the learning process as categorized by Bateson (1972). The understanding gleaned from this autobiographic self can explain the complexity of identity formation for this population, and refute assumptive theory

There\u27s a dear spot in Ireland : (where I long to be)

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The Physical Analysis of Mental States and Events

The purpose of the essay is to arrive at a clear assessment of what the doctrine of physicalism means, as it concerns mental events and mental states; and to exhibit and adjudicate the factors which bear on its truth or falsehood. The main themes of the essay are the reduction of the mental to the physical, and the identity theory. Chapter I explains why mental language is so apparently indispensable to various theoretical enterprises, and shows why it seems impossible to dispense with mental language in favour of behavioural language. The reductive programmes of Carnap are discussed, and alternatives to them are introduced. In Chapter II two theories with a physicalistic conclusion are examined, and found wanting. The first is Putnam's theory that mental states are functional states of the organism, and that a Turing Machine table can represent the relation between mental states without implying what physical realisations they have. The second is Davidson's "proof" that mental events are identical with physical events; its main weakness lies in the premiss that the mental and the physical interact causally. Chapter III is addressed to the ontological question of what mental phenomena there are. The main conclusion is that the evidence suggests that, in a strict sense, there are no mental events. This entails that physicalism is to be best understood in terms of the truth-relations between mental and physical sentences (or equivalently, in terms of the identity either of mental properties with physical properties, or of mental facts with physical facts). Chapter IV argues that physicalism can only be coherently stated in terms of the nomological equivalences between mental and physical sentences. The arguments which obstruct the truth of this doctrine for the case in(ii)which the physical sentences have a behavioural content cannot be applied to the case in which the physical sentences have a cerebral content. One important general difference between the truth-grounds of mental sentences and the truth-grounds of physical sentences (explained in terms of a consciousness condition) provides an explanation for why a reduction of the mental to the cerebral is the only possibility open for physicalism