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My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside the Personal Library of a Librarian
The author describes her personal library and collection of books. She mentions that her parents enjoyed reading when they had time. She reveals that she collects fiction books by Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Juliet Marillier and Jack McDevitt, among others. Due to her interest in books about English writer Beatrix Potter, she spent a week at the Lindeth House in the Lake District, England where the Potter family had stayed
The catalytic role of beta effect in barotropization processes
The vertical structure of freely evolving, continuously stratified,
quasi-geostrophic flow is investigated. We predict the final state
organization, and in particular its vertical structure, using statistical
mechanics and these predictions are tested against numerical simulations. The
key role played by conservation laws in each layer, including the fine-grained
enstrophy, is discussed. In general, the conservation laws, and in particular
that enstrophy is conserved layer-wise, prevent complete barotropization, i.e.,
the tendency to reach the gravest vertical mode. The peculiar role of the
-effect, i.e. of the existence of planetary vorticity gradients, is
discussed. In particular, it is shown that increasing increases the
tendency toward barotropization through turbulent stirring. The effectiveness
of barotropisation may be partly parameterized using the Rhines scale . As this parameter decreases (beta increases) then
barotropization can progress further, because the beta term provides enstrophy
to each layer
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Gravitational Effects in Supersymmetric Domain Wall Backgrounds
A recent study of supersymmetric domain walls in supergravity theories
revealed a new class of domain walls interpolating between supersymmetric vacua
with different non-positive cosmological constants. We classify three classes
of domain wall configurations and study the geodesic structure of the induced
space-time. Motion of massive test particles in such space-times shows that
these walls are always repulsive from the anti-deSitter (AdS) side, while on
the Minkowski side test particles feel no force. Freely falling particles far
away from a wall in an AdS vacuum experience a constant proper acceleration,
\ie\ they are Rindler particles. A new coordinate system for discussing AdS
space-time is presented which eliminates the use of a periodic time-like
coordinate.Comment: 13 pages + 4 figures (not included
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