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What are the three characteristics of Trumpism?: A Discourse Analysis of Trumpâs Four Major Campaign Speeches
Rachel\u27s goal in this paper is to advance a moderate voice on a controversial presidency. She uses text analysis techniques and a program outside her comfort zone called ATLAS.ti, with the help of her faculty mentor Dr. Roseanne Mirabella, to analyze four campaign speeches by President Trump. She hopes future research will take advantage of text analysis to explore how rhetorical patterns and cues might provide insight into the characteristics of leaders and elected officials
Comparison of oral iron and injectable iron for the prevention of iron deficiency anemia in baby pigs
One of two oral iron compounds or an injectable iron (100 mg iron per treatment) were administered to pigs on d 1 and 15 postfarrowing, and they were compared with untreated littermates. There was no significant difference between the pigs receiving the oral iron and the negative controls in serum iron or total iron binding capacity. Pigs that received iron by injection had higher serum iron and packed cell volume and a lower total iron binding capacity compared with pigs given oral iron or untreated controls.; Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 19, 199
16 x 25 Ge:Ga Detector Arrays for FIFI LS
We are developing two-dimensional 16 x 25 pixel detector arrays of both
unstressed and stressed Ge:Ga photoconductive detectors for far-infrared
astronomy from SOFIA. The arrays, based on earlier 5 x 5 detector arrays used
on the KAO, will be for our new instrument, the Far Infrared Field Imaging Line
Spectrometer (FIFI LS). The unstressed Ge:Ga detector array will cover the
wavelength range from 40 to 120 microns, and the stressed Ge:Ga detector array
from 120 to 210 microns. The detector arrays will be operated with multiplexed
integrating amplifiers with cryogenic readout electronics located close to the
detector arrays. The design of the stressed detector array and results of
current measurements on several prototype 16 pixel linear arrays are reported.
They demonstrate the feasibility of the current concept. ***This paper does not
include Figures due to astro-ph size limitations. Please download entire file
at http://fifi-ls.mpe-garching.mpg.de/spie.det.ps.gz ***Comment: 8 pages, SPIE Proceedings, Astronomical Telescopes and
Instrumentation 200
Analysis of repetitive DNA distribution patterns in the Tribolium castaneum genome
Approximately 30% of the Tribolium castaneum genome is comprised of repetitive DNA. These repeats accumulate in certain regions in the assembled T. castaneum genome, these regions might be derived from the large blocks of pericentric heterochromatin in Tribolium chromosomes
Optimized Verlet-like algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations
New explicit velocity- and position-Verlet-like algorithms of the second
order are proposed to integrate the equations of motion in many-body systems.
The algorithms are derived on the basis of an extended decomposition scheme at
the presence of a free parameter. The nonzero value for this parameter is
obtained by reducing the influence of truncated terms to a minimum. As a
result, the new algorithms appear to be more efficient than the original Verlet
versions which correspond to a particular case when the introduced parameter is
equal to zero. Like the original versions, the proposed counterparts are
symplectic and time reversible, but lead to an improved accuracy in the
generated solutions at the same overall computational costs. The advantages of
the new algorithms are demonstrated in molecular dynamics simulations of a
Lennard-Jones fluid.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev.
The Albedo, Size, and Density of Binary Kuiper Belt Object (47171) 1999 TC36
We measured the system-integrated thermal emission of the binary Kuiper Belt
Object 1999 TC36 at wavelengths near 24 and 70 microns using the Spitzer space
telescope. We fit these data and the visual magnitude using both the Standard
Thermal Model and thermophysical models. We find that the effective diameter of
the binary is 405 km, with a range of 350 -- 470 km, and the effective visible
geometric albedo for the system is 0.079 with a range of 0.055 -- 0.11. The
binary orbit, magnitude contrast between the components, and system mass have
been determined from HST data (Margot et al., 2004; 2005a; 2005b). Our
effective diameter, combined with that system mass, indicate an average density
for the objects of 0.5 g/cm3, with a range 0.3 -- 0.8 g/cm3. This density is
low compared to that of materials expected to be abundant in solid bodies in
the trans-Neptunian region, requiring 50 -- 75% of the interior of 1999 TC36 be
taken up by void space. This conclusion is not greatly affected if 1999 TC36 is
``differentiated'' (in the sense of having either a rocky or just a non-porous
core). If the primary is itself a binary, the average density of that
(hypothetical) triple system would be in the range 0.4 -- 1.1 g/cm3, with a
porosity in the range 15 -- 70%.Comment: ApJ, in press (May, 2006
Predicting the response of a submillimeter bolometer to cosmic rays
Bolometers designed to detect. submillimeter radiation also respond to cosmic, gamma, and x rays. Because detectors cannot be fully shielded from such energy sources, it is necessary to understand the effect of a photon or cosmic-ray particle being absorbed. The resulting signal (known as a glitch) can then be removed from raw data. We present measurements using an Americium-241 gamma radiation source to irradiate a prototype bolometer for the High Frequency Instrument in the Planck Surveyor satellite. Our measurements showed no variation in response depending on where the radiation was absorbed, demonstrating that the bolometer absorber and thermistor thermalize quickly. The bolometer has previously been fully characterized both electrically and optically. We find that using optically measured time constants underestimates the time taken for the detector to recover from a radiation absorption event. However, a full thermal model for the bolometer, with parameters taken from electrical and optical measurements, provides accurate time constants. Slight deviations from the model were seen at high energies; these can be accounted for by use of an extended model
Correlation between structure and electrical transport in ion-irradiated graphene grown on Cu foils
Graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition and supported on SiO2 and
sapphire substrates was studied following controlled introduction of defects
induced by 35 keV carbon ion irradiation. Changes in Raman spectra following
fluences ranging from 10^12 cm^-2 to 10^15 cm^-2 indicate that the structure of
graphene evolves from a highly ordered layer, to a patchwork of disordered
domains, to an essentially amorphous film. These structural changes result in a
dramatic decrease in the Hall mobility by orders of magnitude while,
remarkably, the Hall concentration remains almost unchanged, suggesting that
the Fermi level is pinned at a hole concentration near 1x10^13 cm^-2. A model
for scattering by resonant scatterers is in good agreement with mobility
measurements up to an ion fluence of 1x10^14 cm^-2
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