An Almost Subharmonic Instability in the Flow Past Rectangular Cylinders

The three-dimensional instability of the flow past a 5 :1 rectangular cylinder is investigated via Floquet analysis and direct numerical simulations. A quasi-subharmonic (QS) unstable mode is detected, marking an important difference with the flow past bodies with lower aspect ratio and/or with smooth leading edge. The QS mode becomes unstable at Reynolds number (based on the cylinder thickness and free-stream velocity) Re approximate to 480; its spanwise wavelength is approximately three times the cylinder thickness. The structural sensitivity locates the wavemaker region over the longitudinal sides of the cylinder, indicating that the instability is triggered by the mutual inviscid interaction of vortices generated by the leading edge shear layer

Local central limit theorem and potential kernel estimates for a class of symmetric heavy-tailted random variables

In this article, we study a class of heavy-tailed random variables on $\mathbb{Z}$ in the domain of attraction of an $\alpha$-stable random variable of index $\alpha \in (0,2)$ satisfying a certain expansion of their characteristic function. Our results include sharp convergence rates for the local (stable) central limit theorem of order $n^{- (1+ \frac{1}{\alpha})}$, a detailed expansion of the characteristic function of a long-range random walk with transition probability proportional to $|x|^{-(1+\alpha)}$ and $\alpha \in (0,2)$ and furthermore detailed asymptotic estimates of the discrete potential kernel (Green's function) up to order $\mathcal{O} \left( |x|^{\frac{\alpha-2}{3}+\varepsilon} \right)$ for any $\varepsilon>0$ small enough, when $\alpha \in [1,2)$.Comment: 33 page

Educating Students in Healthcare Information Technology: IS Community Barriers, Challenges, and Paths Forward

Healthcare information technology (HIT) is an exciting field to which information systems (IS) scholars have much to contribute. As the IS community continues to tackle enrollment and growth issues across the nation, HIT becomes an attractive topic for the IS educators to embrace. Careful consideration and domain understanding are needed to ensure a suitable depth and balance in curricula. The intent of this article is to provide guidance to the IS community to support and promote successful HIT educational courses and programs by investigating three important questions: (1) Does IS have a role in HIT? (2) Where does an IS educator look to begin with HIT education? (3) How do IS educators frame their vision for HIT curricula leveraging the discipline’s strengths? Our hope is that this article will illuminate HIT curriculum matters for the general IS faculty and generate purposeful debate regarding how best to position HIT education within the IS discipline if IS faculty want to join in the quest to successfully educate and place graduates in the growing health technology sector

The 4 K outer cryostat for the CUORE experiment: construction and quality control

The external shell of the CUORE cryostat is a large cryogen-free system designed to host the dilution refrigerator and the bolometers of the CUORE experiment in a low radioactivity environment. The three vessels that form the outer shell were produced and delivered to the Gran Sasso underground Laboratories in July 2012. In this paper, we describe the production techniques and the validation tests done at the production site in 2012.Comment: 11 pages, 13 figures; to appear in NIM