Some comments on Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods

We highlight some links between molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo algorithms used to simulate condensed matter systems. Special attention is paid to the question of sampling the desired statistical ensemble

Folding kinetics of a polymer [corrigendum]

In our original article (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 60446053) a convergence problem resulted in an averaging error in computing the entropy from a set of Wang-Landau Monte-Carlo simulations. Here we report corrected results for the freezing temperature of the homopolymer chain as a function of the range of the non-bonded interaction. We find that the previously reported forward-flux sampling (FFS) and brute-force (BF) simulation results are in agreement with the revised Wang-Landau (WL) calculations. This confirms the utility of FFS for computing crystallisation rates in systems of this kind.Comment: 2 pages, 4 figure

Reluctant Charity: Poor Laws in the Original Thirteen States

The poor laws of the original thirteen states can best be described as reluctant public charity. Assistance was provided to some of the poor but, when provided, was strictly rationed to those local residents considered worthy of help. Visitors, strangers and nonresident poor people were not helped and were legally run out of town. Poor relief for the locals was frequently given in ways that were demeaning and destructive to families. Poor people were always expected to work, and even poor children were taken from their families by the authorities and apprenticed to others. Poor adults that could work were not helped, and were forced to work upon pain of whipping, imprisonment, and banishment. Poor people who worked fared little better. Many of the poor, working or not, were not allowed to vote. Maximum wages were set. Child labor was common, often away from the family. The working poor were held back by the laws of settlement, indenture, and slavery. As the United States was formed, its legal treatment of the poor remained anchored in the punitive mode of the English and colonial poor laws

Five Hundred Years of English Poor Laws, 1349-1834: Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor

This article will review how the working and the nonworking poor were regulated by 500 years of English poor laws. It will conclude with ideas about the principles which have since evolved to regulate the working and nonworking poor

Revolutionary Lawyering: Addressing the Root Causes of Poverty and Wealth

It is true that lawyers are rarely revolutionaries. In fact, the idea may seem like an oxymoron (like corporate ethics), but some people are, and others can be, revolutionary lawyers. Our profession is, at the core of its practice, the primary profession world-wide that protects and defends the machines, computers, profit motives and property rights so rightly condemned by Dr. King. We use our training, wealth, and position in society to facilitate commerce without conscience, to accumulate wealth without responsibility, and to serve the needs of corporations over and above the rights and needs of people. Yet still, some lawyers can be revolutionaries. Part I of this Article highlights some of the most glaring details about poverty, wealth and the working poor and provides some facts about racism, materialism and militarism, both nationally and internationally. The briefest look at who is rich and who is poor, and the reasons behind such status, demonstrates the continued accuracy of Dr. King’s prophetic description of why a radical revolution of values is needed, now even more than when he first spoke these words. Part II of this Article discusses some areas of the law that need radical change, law that needs to be torn up by its roots and replaced. Part III reflects on how lawyers who want to be revolutionaries can do so. The Article concludes with signs of hope and a charge to lawyers to consider joining the radical revolution of Dr. King

Expressive arts in music education: A creative and integrative curriculum

Despite the National Coalition for Arts Standards providing a framework for creative and integrative music education, relatively few opportunities for students to express their creativity and connect with music in their lives and culture exist due to a fixation on competitive performance. Such a disproportionate reliance on performance-based music education ignores students’ creative potential and severs their connection to more-than-human musics. Meanwhile, during a student mental health crisis, competition not only ignores the health and wellness needs of students and teachers but leads to unhealthy and unsustainable life practices causing stress and anxiety. The expressive and creative arts offer dramatic alternatives, actively engaging senses and creating embodied experiences that can foster curiosity, wellness, positive development, and social emotional learning. Anchored in poiesis, person-centered psychotherapy, intermodal arts integration, eco-consciousness, and health and wellness, this curriculum helps educators facilitate expressive and creative arts experiences in the context of standards-based music learning

Introduction to Clinical Teaching for the New Clinical law Professor: A View from the First Floor

New clinical teachers, full of enthusiasm and energy, arrive at the law school having just crossed over into the new vocation of professor from their previous work as practicing lawyers. As many as ten eager, dedicated, inexperienced law students will shortly be representing several clients each, under the close supervision of the new clinical faculty member. There is a new office, new coworkers, new cases, new students, but most new of all, a new way of operating. No longer the lone advocate, now the advocate has-become a clinical teacher, working with law students. Dedicated to education and service, the clinic teacher is ready to start. But where are the instructions on clinical teaching? Where is the clinic teacher\u27s manual