490 research outputs found
Report of Legislative Subcommitee on Justice Court Procedure
Last year your Subcommittee on Practice and Procedure of Justices of the Peace and Inferior Courts, following the failure of the state Legislature to provide funds for a study, accepted the responsibility of making a report this year. Contact was immediately established with the local bar associations in the state and the prosecuting attorneys of the state. Most of the counties have from one to seven justices of the peace. Lincoln, Whitman, Okanogan, Lewis, Grant, Snohonish, and Yakima have eight to seventeen. Pierce County has twenty-one and King County fifty-three. Eighteen counties reported that there were no justices of the peace who are attorneys in their counties. The other counties reported from one to sixteen in their counties. Following this survey, reports and suggestions were requested from designated members of the bar in different parts of the state and reports were requested of the presidents of the bar associations in the states. From the reports received and the suggestions made, the following is being presented as a preliminary report and matters for legislative improvements now under discussion by your Committee. A complete report, with recommendations, will be made before the Legislature meets next Januar
Equilibration and freeze-out in an exploding system
We use a simple gas model to study non-equilibrium aspects of the
multiparticle dynamics relevant to heavy ion collisions. By performing
numerical simulations for various initial conditions we identify several
characteristic features of the fast dynamics occurring in implosion-explosion
like processes.Comment: 4 pages, submitted to PR
Teleportation of Nonclassical Wave Packets of light
We report on the experimental quantum teleportation of strongly nonclassical
wave packets of light. To perform this full quantum operation while preserving
and retrieving the fragile non-classicality of the input state, we have
developed a broadband, zero-dispersion teleportation apparatus that works in
conjunction with time-resolved state preparation equipment. Our approach brings
within experimental reach a whole new set of hybrid protocols involving
discrete- and continuous-variable techniques in quantum information processing
for optical sciences
High purity bright single photon source
Using cavity-enhanced non-degenerate parametric downconversion, we have built
a frequency tunable source of heralded single photons with a narrow bandwidth
of 8 MHz, making it compatible with atomic quantum memories. The photon state
is 70% pure single photon as characterized by a tomographic measurement and
reconstruction of the quantum state, revealing a clearly negative Wigner
function. Furthermore, it has a spectral brightness of ~1,500 photons/s per MHz
bandwidth, making it one of the brightest single photon sources available. We
also investigate the correlation function of the down-converted fields using a
combination of two very distinct detection methods; photon counting and
homodyne measurement.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures; minor changes, added referenc
NO adsorption and thermal behavior on Pd surfaces. A detailed comparative study
The adsorption and thermal behavior of NO on `flat¿ Pd(111) and `stepped¿ Pd(112) surfaces has been investigated by temperature programmed desorption (TPD), high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), and electron stimulated desorption ion angular distribution (ESDIAD) techniques. NO is shown to molecularly adsorb on both Pd(111) and Pd(112) in the temperature range 100¿373 K. NO thermally desorbs predominantly molecularly from Pd(111) near 500 K with an activation energy and pre-exponential factor of desorption which strongly depend on the initial NO surface coverage. In contrast, NO decomposes substantially on Pd(112) upon heating, with relatively large amounts of N2 and N2O desorbing near 500 K, in addition to NO. The fractional amount of NO dissociation on Pd(112) during heating is observed to be a strong function of the initial NO surface coverage. HREELS results indicate that the thermal dissociation of NO on both Pd(111) and Pd(112) occurs upon annealing to 490 K, forming surface-bound O on both surfaces. Evidence for the formation of sub-surface O via NO thermal dissociation is found only on Pd(112), and is verified by dissociative O2 adsorption experiments. Both surface-bound O and sub-surface O dissolve into the Pd bulk upon annealing of both surfaces to 550 K. HREELS and ESDIAD data consistently indicate that NO preferentially adsorbs on the (111) terrace sites of Pd(112) at low coverages, filling the (001) step sites only at high coverage. This result was verified for adsorption temperatures in the range 100¿373 K. In addition, the thermal dissociation of NO on Pd(112) is most prevalent at low coverages, where only terrace sites are occupied by NO. Thus, by direct comparison to NO/Pd(111), this study shows that the presence of steps on the Pd(112) surface enhances the thermal dissociation of NO, but that adsorption at the step sites is not the criterion for this decomposition
Crossover Scaling Functions in One Dimensional Dynamic Growth Models
The crossover from Edwards-Wilkinson () to KPZ () type growth is
studied for the BCSOS model. We calculate the exact numerical values for the
and massgap for using the master equation. We predict
the structure of the crossover scaling function and confirm numerically that
and , with . KPZ type growth is
equivalent to a phase transition in meso-scopic metallic rings where attractive
interactions destroy the persistent current; and to endpoints of facet-ridges
in equilibrium crystal shapes.Comment: 11 pages, TeX, figures upon reques
Moving From the Periphery to the Inner Circle: Getting Published From Your Thesis
Competition to publish in the top journals is fierce. This book provides entrepreneurship researchers with relevant material and insights to support them in their efforts to publish their research in the most prestigious entrepreneurship outlets. This essential guide to publishing in entrepreneurship brings together a wealth of contributors, all of whom have published in the leading entrepreneurship journals. Based on their experiences as researchers and editors, they bring useful hands-on advice and insight into the research publication process. Both fledgling and experienced entrepreneurship faculty members will find this an essential resource as they strive towards publication in A-ranked entrepreneurship or management journals
All-optical generation of states for "Encoding a qubit in an oscillator"
Both discrete and continuous systems can be used to encode quantum
information. Most quantum computation schemes propose encoding qubits in
two-level systems, such as a two-level atom or an electron spin. Others exploit
the use of an infinite-dimensional system, such as a harmonic oscillator. In
"Encoding a qubit in an oscillator" [Phys. Rev. A 64 012310 (2001)], Gottesman,
Kitaev, and Preskill (GKP) combined these approaches when they proposed a
fault-tolerant quantum computation scheme in which a qubit is encoded in the
continuous position and momentum degrees of freedom of an oscillator. One
advantage of this scheme is that it can be performed by use of relatively
simple linear optical devices, squeezing, and homodyne detection. However, we
lack a practical method to prepare the initial GKP states. Here we propose the
generation of an approximate GKP state by using superpositions of optical
coherent states (sometimes called "Schr\"odinger cat states"), squeezing,
linear optical devices, and homodyne detection.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Optics Letter
Single-cell analysis reveals key differences between early-stage and late-stage systemic sclerosis skin across autoantibody subgroups
OBJECTIVES: The severity of skin involvement in diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) depends on stage of disease and differs between anti-RNA-polymerase III (ARA) and anti-topoisomerase antibody (ATA) subsets. We have investigated cellular differences in well-characterised dcSSc patients compared with healthy controls (HCs). METHODS: We performed single-cell RNA sequencing on 4 mm skin biopsy samples from 12 patients with dcSSc and HCs (n=3) using droplet-based sequencing (10× genomics). Patients were well characterised by stage (>5 or <5 years disease duration) and autoantibody (ATA+ or ARA+). Analysis of whole skin cell subsets and fibroblast subpopulations across stage and ANA subgroup were used to interpret potential cellular differences anchored by these subgroups. RESULTS: Fifteen forearm skin biopsies were analysed. There was a clear separation of SSc samples, by disease, stage and antibody, for all cells and fibroblast subclusters. Further analysis revealed differing cell cluster gene expression profiles between ATA+ and ARA+ patients. Cell-to-cell interaction suggest differing interactions between early and late stages of disease and autoantibody. TGFβ response was mainly seen in fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells in early ATA+dcSSc skin samples, whereas in early ARA+dcSSc patient skin samples, the responding cells were endothelial, reflect broader differences between clinical phenotypes and distinct skin score trajectories across autoantibody subgroups of dcSSc. CONCLUSIONS: We have identified cellular differences between the two main autoantibody subsets in dcSSc (ARA+ and ATA+). These differences reinforce the importance of considering autoantibody and stage of disease in management and trial design in SSc
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