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Ethical dilemmas of a clinician/researcher interviewing women who have grown up in a family where there was domestic violence
This article attempts to illuminate some of the ethical dilemmas of a clinician/researcher interviewing women about a sensitive topic- their experience of having witnessed domestic violence in the family they grew up in, as part of a grounded theory study. Vignettes are presented to illustrate the self-reflexive process of the researcher and how she understood the effects of the interview process on her and the participants. The authors argue that doing in-depth qualitative research interviewing is an intervention in the life of the participants, especially, but not only, when the researchers are clinically-trained. However, this clinical training may also be an important resource from which to draw from, to act ethically and understand some of the complexity of the interaction between researcher and participants.peer-reviewe
Li+ solvation in pure, binary and ternary mixtures of organic carbonate electrolytes
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and quantum chemical density
functional theory (DFT) calculations have been employed in the present study to
investigate the solvation of lithium cations in pure organic carbonate solvents
(ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC) and dimethyl carbonate
(DMC)) and their binary (EC-DMC, 1:1 molar composition) and ternary (EC-DMC-PC,
1:1:3 molar composition) mixtures. The results obtained by both methods
indicate that the formation of complexes with four solvent molecules around
Li+, exhibiting a strong local tetrahedral order, is the most favorable.
However, the molecular dynamics simulations have revealed the existence of
significant structural heterogeneities, extending up to a length scale which is
more than five times the size of the first coordination shell radius. Due to
these significant structural fluctuations in the bulk liquid phases, the use of
larger size clusters in DFT calculations has been suggested. Contrary to the
findings of the DFT calculations on small isolated clusters, the MD simulations
have predicted a preference of Li+ to interact with DMC molecules within its
first solvation shell and not with the highly polar EC and PC ones, in the
binary and ternary mixtures. This behavior has been attributed to the local
tetrahedral packing of the solvent molecules in the first solvation shell of
Li+, which causes a cancellation of the individual molecular dipole vectors,
and this effect seems to be more important in the cases where molecules of the
same type are present. Due to these cancellation effects, the total dipole in
the first solvation shell of Li+ increases when the local mole fraction of DMC
is high
'Was it Good for you Darling?' – Intimacy, Sex and Critical Technical Practice
On the basis of forty-two weeks of ethnographic data collected across six pairs of co-habiting partners, we have theorized about the nature of intimacy, developed artifacts for its mediation and explored methods for its study. In this workshop we wish to take this work as our departure point, and reflect on: The importance of problematising intimacy carefully, that is, approaching intimacy critically. The complex and multiple meanings of intimacy in the context of ongoing intimate relationships. The losses and risks attendant on supporting intimacy between distributed couples
Slow and fast components in the X-ray light curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray burst light curves show quite different patterns: from very simple
to extremely complex. We present a temporal and spectral study of the light
curves in three energy bands (2-5, 5-10, 10-26 keV) of ten GRBs detected by the
Wide Field Cameras on board BeppoSAX. For some events the time profiles are
characterized by peaks superposed on a slowly evolving pedestal, which in some
cases becomes less apparent at higher energies. We describe this behaviour with
the presence of two components (slow and fast) having different variability
time scales. We modelled the time evolution of slow components by means of an
analytical function able to describe asymmetric rising and decaying profiles.
The residual light curves, after the subtraction of the slow components,
generally show structures more similar to the original curves in the highest
energy band. Spectral study of these two components was performed evaluating
their hardness ratios, used also to derive photon indices. Slow components are
found generally softer than the fast ones suggesting that their origin is
likely different. Being typical photon indices lower than those of the
afterglows there is no evidence that the emission processes are similar.
Another interesting possibility is that slow components can be related to the
presence of a hot photosphere having a thermal spectrum with kT around a few
keV superposed to a rapid variable non-thermal emission of the fast component.Comment: 16 pages, 20 figures (18 color, 2 B&W), accepted for publication in
Astronomy and Astrophysic
The Wrong of Publicity
The right of publicity has been, since at least 1977, a recognized concept. It was used, much like the other areas of intellectual property law to protect what a person had worked hard to create, in this case the concept of themselves. Their creativity in making themselves known and in having an act was worth protecting. However, the right of publicity has drastically changed since its conception. What is has become in the past almost forty years is a strange amalgamation of concepts, protected by laws that were never meant to be used to protect it in the first place. The time has come to take a hard look at the right of publicity, what it is meant to protect, and what we, as a country, should do with it. The right of publicity has long enjoyed protection under common law as a privacy Tort. Misappropriation of name or likeness has been the cause of action under which those whose right of publicity has been violated. Misappropriation has generally had three elements that must be satisfied to successfully bring a claim. One must show that 1. their name or likeness 2. has been appropriated, or used, 3. for another’s benefit. These elements apply to anyone, not just to celebrities, and do not explicitly require a commercial benefit. However, the focus of most right of publicity cases is on celebrities and performers, and it is on these types of cases that this argument focuses. People lacking notoriety generally have remedies in common tort privacy law or in State privacy laws. It is from this basic tort framework that the body of right of publicity law has grown
Verso un lessico computazionale aperto per la lingua italiana: il progetto Senso Comune
La mancanza di un lessico computazionale aperto per la lingua italiana limita l'accesso alle risorse informative in rete nel nostro Paese. Questo riguarda anche il patrimonio informativo della Pubblica Amministrazione, la cui accessibilità è da molti anni indicata come una delle priorità per migliorare il rapporto tra cittadini e amministrazioni. Senso Comune è un progetto per la costituzione di un lessico computazionale aperto della lingua italiana.2008-04-17Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2, Località Piscinamanna 09010 Pula (CA) - ItaliaPAAL 2008 - Pubblica Amministrazione Aperta e Libera: dalle tecnologie aperte alla libera circolazione dei contenuti digital
The complete catalogue of gamma-ray bursts observed by the Wide Field Cameras on board BeppoSAX
We present the complete on-line catalogue of gamma-ray bursts observed by the
two Wide Field Cameras on board \sax in the period 1996-2002. Our aim is to
provide the community with the largest published data set of GRB's prompt
emission X-ray light curves and other useful data. This catalogue
(BS-GRBWFCcat) contains data on 77 bursts and a collection of the X-ray light
curves of 56 GRB discovered or noticed shortly after the event and of other
additional bursts detected in subsequent searches. Light curves are given in
the three X-ray energy bands (2-5, 5-10, 10-26 keV). The catalogue can be
accessed from the home web page of the ASI Science Data Center-ASDC
(http://www.asdc.asi.it)Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
IMPROVED ATOM COUNTING USING SQUEEZED LIGHT FOR ATOM INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATIONS
Atom interferometer measurements are affected by the amount of quantum noise from the laser used to detect atoms. To improve the quantum limited sensitivity of interferometers, there needs to be a way to reduce the amount of quantum noise. Light is composed of two quadratures, where the product of the noise in each quadrature cannot be below a minimum threshold set by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. However, the noise in one quadrature can be reduced at the expense of the other. This form of light is referred to as “squeezed light.” Squeezed light can be produced using four-wave mixing (FWM). Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is an interference phenomenon that occurs when a three-level atom is driven by a coherent field that makes a non-linear medium transparent to the probing field and holds a great deal of similarities to FWM. This thesis developed a theoretical framework that describes the measurement of atomic states and associated noise when quantum light is used to drive the atom and lays the groundwork to produce squeezed light through developing an experiment to produce EIT, as well as discussing the similarities between EIT and FWM to create and further study FWM for improved atom interferometry.DoD Space Agency,Captain, United States Marine CorpsApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited
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