Moving Up the Ladder: Strategies for Economic Independence

Reports the findings of a statewide conference co-sponsored by the Heldrich Center and Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University, and issues a call for universal support for magnifying public and policy attention on improving how public funds and programs are managed and deployed to assist the working poor

Adaptive numerical integration technique for the analysis of open planar circuits and antennas

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Strengthening Career Guidance for New Jersey High School Students

This report is based on the findings of a conference held in October 2003 by the Heldrich Center and the State of New Jersey. The report includes the highlights of major speeches by Heldrich Center director Van Horn, Labor Commissioner Kroll, and Education Commissioner Librera, and of breakout discussions that included educators, counselors, business people, and researchers. The report highlights well-documented recommendations regarding improvements in career guidance, education, and awareness in the public schools, and in how local alliances and partnerships can play a major role in preparing students for a dynamic workforce. Includes findings of Heldrich Center-Fund for New Jersey survey of high school students regarding careers and preparation for college

Imaging-based Parametric Resonance in an Optical Dipole Atom Trap

We report sensitive detection of parametric resonances in a high-density sample of ultracold $^{87}Rb$ atoms confined to a far-off-resonance optical dipole trap. Fluorescence imaging of the expanded ultracold atom cloud after a period of parametric excitation shows significant modification of the atomic spatial distribution and has high sensitivity compared with traditional measurements of parametrically-driven trap loss. Using this approach, a significant shift of the parametric resonance frequency is observed, and attributed to the anharmonic shape of the dipole trap potential

Architecture Emerging from Landscape: A Reading of Spinoza in Landscape Architecture

In what follows, Benedict de Spinoza’s ontology of immanence and monism is deployed as a means to launch a rethinking in between landscape and architecture. Public urban landscape, I suggest, is not a static and neutral construction, but a complex system of dynamic relationships within a continuous process of becoming and a generative field of non-oppressive, non-hegemonic power. This study focuses on two temporary structures by different European practices in the Royal Park of Kensington Gardens, in London. This study uses these works to ground a philosophy of radical immanence within our understanding of a contemporary world of landscape architectural objects. As this paper will show, within any landscape there exists a topology of multiple encounters modified or affected by each other, thus making landscape and architecture emerge from inside out — that is, from the matter or the territory

Stories That I\u27ve Heard Before

An episodic narrative about a family from New Jersey, told from the perspective of a mother to her young son and focusing on the decline of her father

Light Scattering in Ultracold High Density Rubidium Vapor

Recent developments in laser cooling and trapping opened the door to a world full of new opportunities for research in atomic, molecular and optical physics as well as condensed matter physics. It became possible to do experiments under conditions that are hard to achieve in condensed matter systems but recently have been observed in atomic systems. Bose Einstein Condensation, the Mott insulator transition, and superfluidity are examples of such achievements. Another considerable interest to both condensed matter and atomic physics is Anderson localization of light. The localization phenomenon is named after P. W. Anderson who suggested the possibility of localization of electrons in a disordered medium. Localization of light is an interference effect in a disordered medium and there have been a number of observations in different types of media. It has still not been observed in atomic systems in three dimensions. We report experimental results obtained from an ultracold 87Rb gas of atoms near the localization limit from the F=2 to F=3 transition. I will discuss the sample formation, characterization of the sample and the progress made towards achievement of light localization in an ultracold atomic gas, including difficulties which so far have frustrated observation

Multiparameter symbolic sensitivity analysis enhanced by nullor model and modified coates flow graph

In symbolic sensitivity analysis very important role plays the number of additionally generated expressions and in consequence additional number of arithmetical operations. The main drawback of some methods based on the adjoint graph or on the two-graph technique, i.e. the necessity to multiply analyze the corresponding graph, is avoided. Advantages of the method suggested are that, the matrix inversion is not required and the Coates graph is significantly simplified. Simplifications of the method introduced in this paper lead to the significant reduction of the final symbolic expressions without violation of accuracy. This simplification method can be considered as SBG-type and has an important impact on symbolic analysis. A special software tool called "HoneySen" has been developed to implement the suggested method. In the paper, it was shown that the presented method is more effective than the transimpedance method taking the number of arithmetical operations and the circuit insight into consideration. Comparison results for the multiparameter sensitivity calculations of the voltage the transfer function for a fourth-order low pass filter and a second-order high-pass filter are presented