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Clarett v. National Football League and the Nonstatutory Labor Exemption in Antitrust Suits
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Analysis of polarizability measurements made with atom interferometry
We present revised measurements of the static electric dipole
polarizabilities of K, Rb, and Cs based on atom interferometer experiments
presented in [Phys. Rev. A 2015, 92, 052513] but now re-analyzed with new
calibrations for the magnitude and geometry of the applied electric field
gradient. The resulting polarizability values did not change, but the
uncertainties were significantly reduced. Then we interpret several
measurements of alkali metal atomic polarizabilities in terms of atomic
oscillator strengths , Einstein coefficients , state lifetimes
, transition dipole matrix elements , line strengths
, and van der Waals coefficients. Finally, we combine atom
interferometer measurements of polarizabilities with independent measurements
of lifetimes and values in order to quantify the residual contribution to
polarizability due to all atomic transitions other than the principal
- transitions for alkali metal atoms.Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures, 6 table
‘You can tell a victim by the tilt of her head as she walks’: psychopathic personality and social–emotional processing
Much contention and speculation exists regarding the emotional and social skills associated with psychopathic personality, including the idea of a predatory perception. The current study examined the relationship between psychopathic personality and social and emotional processing. The study utilised a quasi-experimental design along with self-report measures to examine psychopathy in a community sample (N = 115) of males and females. To examine psychopathy and social information processing, a series of Mixed Design ANOVA’s were conducted to examine the effect of psychopathy on character recall. Psychopathy was found to significantly predict recall of the unsuccessful character, however, did not predict recall of character gender or emotion. Two hierarchical regressions analyses were conducted to examine emotional intelligence and empathy. Psychopathy was found to be a significant negative predictor of empathy, however, did not significantly predict emotional intelligence. Implications for the current study lie within advancing the empirical understanding on psychopathic personality and victim vulnerability
Cleaning up Eta Carinae: Detection of Ammonia in the Homunculus
We report the first detection of ammonia in the Homunculus nebula around eta
Carinae, which is also the first detection of emission from a polyatomic
molecule in this or any other luminous blue variable (LBV) nebula. Observations
of the NH3 (J,K)=(3,3) inversion transition made with the Australia Telescope
Compact Array reveal emission at locations where infrared H2 emission had been
detected previously, near the strongest dust emission in the core of the
Homunculus. We also detect ammonia emission from the so-called ``strontium
filament'' in the equatorial disk. The presence of NH3 around eta Car hints
that molecular shells around some Wolf-Rayet stars could have originated in
prior LBV eruptions, rather than in cool red supergiant winds or the ambient
interstellar medium. Combined with the lack of any CO detection, NH3 seems to
suggest that the Homunculus is nitrogen rich like the ionized ejecta around eta
Car. It also indicates that the Homunculus is a unique laboratory in which to
study unusual molecule and dust chemistry, as well as their rapid formation in
a nitrogen-rich environment around a hot star. We encourage future observations
of other transitions like NH3 (1,1) and (2,2), related molecules like N2H+, and
renewed attempts to detect CO.Comment: 4 pages, accepted to ApJ letter
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