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The eternal triangle
Examines the centes inside a triangle. Based on a presentation at the SMC Conference, University of Stirling, 28 April 2001
Computers and Liquid State Statistical Mechanics
The advent of electronic computers has revolutionised the application of
statistical mechanics to the liquid state. Computers have permitted, for
example, the calculation of the phase diagram of water and ice and the folding
of proteins. The behaviour of alkanes adsorbed in zeolites, the formation of
liquid crystal phases and the process of nucleation. Computer simulations
provide, on one hand, new insights into the physical processes in action, and
on the other, quantitative results of greater and greater precision. Insights
into physical processes facilitate the reductionist agenda of physics, whilst
large scale simulations bring out emergent features that are inherent (although
far from obvious) in complex systems consisting of many bodies. It is safe to
say that computer simulations are now an indispensable tool for both the
theorist and the experimentalist, and in the future their usefulness will only
increase.
This chapter presents a selective review of some of the incredible advances
in condensed matter physics that could only have been achieved with the use of
computers.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures. Chapter for a boo
American Medical and Intellectual Reaction to African Health Issues, 1850-1960: From Racialism to Cross-Cultural Medicine
During recent decades, social scientists, particularly anthropologists, sociologists and medical historians, have looked increasingly at how social and cultural factors inform a society\u27s medical community and vice-versa. As Roger Cooter recently stated, ... medicine is a social phenomenon capable of being properly studied only when treated as a part of its social, political, economic and cultural totality. [1] In America, a steady flow of medical sociologists -- most notably Henry E. Sigerist in the 1940s, Talcott Parsons in the 1950s, David Mechanic in the 1960s and 1970s, and Vern and Bonnie Bullough in the 1980s -- contributed numerous empirical studies that revealed that the development of American medicine was shaped moreso by its social and cultural context than clinical discoveries.[2] These studies have demonstrated conclusively that the American health profession\u27s approaches to disease (etiology and therapy), the institutional structure of medical research and care, and public health care policy all have been deeply influenced by socioeconomic and cultural factors specific to historical epochs of evolving American society
Relation of Magnetic and Gravity Field Data to Selected Structural Elements of the Central Portion of the Arkoma Basin
In order to acquire a greater understanding of some of the major basement structural features characteristic of the Arkoma basin, magnetic and gravity data have been collected and analyzed for a selected area. Several anomalies exist and are found to be associated with faulting or major fracturing in the Precambrian basement. Modelling of source bodies based on magnetic and gravity values provides quantitative estimates of the depth as well as the geometry of basement structural geology
Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Covered Persons
Estimates how proposed reforms would affect health insurance coverage rates in each state and what percentage of the newly covered would benefit from provisions for Medicaid, subsidies, mandates, and children. Compares rural and urban areas
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