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Pressurized panel
Large area pressurized meteoroid penetration detector panels with maximum inherent structural rigidity are provided. The panels measure directly the penetration rate in materials to be used in spacecraft. Panel structure include an interconnected cellular configuration in which the cells have spaced periphery welds and tufts in their centers. A spot weld is made at the center point joining the panels
Diagrammatic insights into next-to-soft corrections
We confirm recently proposed theorems for the structure of next-to-soft
corrections in gauge and gravity theories using diagrammatic techniques, first
developed for use in QCD phenomenology. Our aim is to provide a useful
alternative insight into the next-to-soft theorems, including tools that may be
useful for further study. We also shed light on a recently observed double copy
relation between next-to-soft corrections in the gauge and gravity cases.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Method of making pressurized panel Patent
Method for making pressurized meteoroid penetration detector panel
The Cornell Potential from General Geometries in AdS / QCD
We consider the heavy quark-antiquark potential in the AdS / QCD
correspondence, focusing in particular on a recently calculated AdS-like metric
deformed by back-reaction effects. We find that tuning the long-distance
behaviour of the potential leads to a discrepancy at small distances, and
discuss how to better constrain AdS / QCD geometries. A systematic comparison
of various geometries is presented, based on goodness of fit to lattice data in
the quenched approximation. The back-reacted geometry is seen to be
phenomenologically favoured over an alternative geometry with the same number
of parameters, although it does not perform as well as some other geometries.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures. Revised and expanded version to appear in
Physics Letters
New insights into soft gluons and gravitons
The study of gluon radiation in QCD, in the limit of small ("soft") momentum,
remains an active research area, with a variety of phenomenological and
theoretical applications. Soft gluon emission leads to large logarithms in
perturbation theory which have to be summed up to all orders in the coupling,
and also governs the structure of infrared singularities. Recently, new
techniques and mathematical structures have been discovered, which enhance our
understanding of these all-order properties. This contribution will review a
number of key topics, including the relationship between QCD and gravity.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of 36th International Conference on
High Energy Physics, July 4-11, 2012, Melbourne, Australi
KULTUR: showcasing art through institutional repositories
Showcasing work has always been at the heart of the arts community, whether it be through an exhibition, site-specific installation or performance. Representation of the original work has also been important and use of print-based options like exhibition catalogues is now complemented by websites and multi-media friendly services like Flickr and YouTube and Vimeo. These services also provide options for sharing born-digital material. For those working in higher education there is a need to profile both the personal and the institutional aspects of creative outputs. The KULTUR project created a model for arts-based institutional repositories and it is hoped that this approach will be useful for other arts institutions
Room-temperature ballistic transport in narrow graphene strips
We investigate electron-phonon couplings, scattering rates, and mean free
paths in zigzag-edge graphene strips with widths of the order of 10 nm. Our
calculations for these graphene nanostrips show both the expected similarity
with single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and the suppression of the
electron-phonon scattering due to a Dirichlet boundary condition that prohibits
one major backscattering channel present in SWNTs. Low-energy acoustic phonon
scattering is exponentially small at room temperature due to the large phonon
wave vector required for backscattering. We find within our model that the
electron-phonon mean free path is proportional to the width of the nanostrip
and is approximately 70 m for an 11-nm-wide nanostrip.Comment: 5 pages and 5 figure
Making it Rich and Personal: crafting an institutional personal learning environment
Many of the communities interested in learning and teaching technologies within higher education now accept the view that a conception of personal learning environments provides a the most realistic and workable perspective of learners’ interactions with and use of technology. This view may not be reflected in the behaviour of those parts of a university which normally purchase and deploy technology infrastructure. These departments or services are slow to change because they are typically, and understandably, risk-averse; the more so, because the consequences of expensive decisions about infrastructure will stay with the organisation for many years. Furthermore across the broader (less technically or educationally informed) academic community, the awareness of and familiarity with technologies in support of learning may be varied. In this context, work to innovate the learning environment will require considerable team effort and collective commitment. This paper presents a case study account of institutional processes harnessed to establish a universal personal learning environment fit for the 21st century. The challenges encountered were consequential of our working definition of a learning environment, which went beyond simple implementation. In our experience the requirements became summarised as “its more than a system, it’s a mindset”. As well as deploying technology ‘fit for purpose’ we were seeking to create an environment that could play an integral and catalytic part in the university’s role of enabling transformative education. Our ambitions and aspirations were derived from evidence in the literature. We also drew on evidence of recent and current performance in the university; gauged by institutional benchmarking and an extensive student survey. The paper presents and analyses this qualitative and quantitative data. We provide an account and analysis of our progress to achieve change, the methods we used, problems encountered and the decisions we made on the way
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