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Local Reorientation Dynamics of Semiflexible Polymers in the Melt
The reorientation dynamics of local tangent vectors of chains in isotropic
amorphous melts containing semiflexible model polymers was studied by molecular
dynamics simulations. The reorientation is strongly influenced both by the
local chain stiffness and by the overall chain length. It takes place by two
different subsequent processes: A short-time non-exponential decay and a
long-time exponential reorientation arising from the relaxation of medium-size
chain segments. Both processes depend on stiffness and chain length. The strong
influence of the chain length on the chain dynamics is in marked contrast to
its negligible effect on the static structure of the melt. The local structure
shows only a small dependence on the stiffness, and is independent of chain
length. Calculated correlation functions related to double-quantum NMR
experiments are in qualitative agreement with experiments on entangled melts. A
plateau is observed in the dependence of segment reorientation on the
mean-squared displacement of the corresponding chain segments. This plateau
confirms, on one hand, the existence of reptation dynamics. On the other hand,
it shows how the reptation picture has to be adapted if, instead of fully
flexible chains, semirigid chains are considered.Comment: 29 pages, several figures, accepted by Macromolecule
Alfv\'en-dynamo balance and magnetic excess in MHD turbulence
3D Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows with initially magnetic and
kinetic energies at equipartition spontaneously develop a magnetic excess (or
residual energy), as well in numerical simulations and in the solar wind.
Closure equations obtained in 1983 describe the residual spectrum as being
produced by a dynamo source proportional to the total energy spectrum, balanced
by a linear Alfv\'en damping term. A good agreement was found in 2005 with
incompressible simulations; however, recent solar wind measurements disagree
with these results. The previous dynamo-Alfv\'en theory is generalized to a
family of models, leading to simple relations between residual and total energy
spectra. We want to assess these models in detail against MHD simulations and
solar wind data. The family of models is tested against compressible decaying
MHD simulations with low Mach number, low cross-helicity, zero mean magnetic
field, without or with expansion terms (EBM or expanding box model). A single
dynamo-Alfv\'en model is found to describe correctly both solar wind scalings
and compressible simulations without or with expansion. It is equivalent to the
1983-2005 closure equation but with critical balance of nonlinear turnover and
linear Alfv\'en times, while the dynamo source term remains unchanged. The
discrepancy with previous incompressible simulations is elucidated. The model
predicts a linear relation between the spectral slopes of total and residual
energies . Examining the solar wind data as in
\cite{2013ApJ...770..125C}, our relation is found to be valid whatever the
cross-helicity, even better so at high cross-helicity, with the total energy
slope varying from to .Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&
Online Resumes: Optimizing Design to Service Recruiters
Despite the increasing number of publications in e-Recruiting, there is still scant research on the specific requirements of online resume fields, in particular from the recruitersâ perspective. In this paper, the fields for resume forms are investigated by analyzing literature, interviewing recruiters and systematically categorizing and content-analyzing the resume fields of the 40 largest Dutch e- Recruiting sites. The findings reflect the main categories currently used in online resume forms: current career status, desired job, education, work experience, extracurricular activities, skills and personal and contact information. These identified online resume fields are discussed in light of prior resume design literature and compared with resume requirements derived from interviewing recruiters. Recommendations for resume design theory and practice are proposed
Local chain ordering in amorphous polymer melts: Influence of chain stiffness
Molecular dynamics simulation of a generic polymer model is applied to study
melts of polymers with different types of intrinsic stiffness. Important static
observables of the single chain such as gyration radius or persistence length
are determined. Additionally we investigate the overall static melt structure
including pair correlation function, structure function and orientational
correlation function.Comment: 13 pages, 15 figures, PCCP accepte
First results with the boloSource() algorithm: Photometry of faint standard stars observed by Herschel/PACS
The boloSource() algorithm is a tool to separate the signal of compact
sources from that of the diffuse background in the timeline of far-infrared
measurements performed by the PACS camera of the Herschel Space Observatory. An
important characteristic and quality indicator of this method is that how well
it can reproduce the flux of faint standard stars which have reliable flux
estimates. For this propose we selected a few calibrator targets and
constructed light curves by extracting point source flux for each repetition of
the measurements independently using standard aperture photometry methods.
These were compared with the light curves obtained using the boloSource()
method on the same dataset. The results indicate that boloSource() provides a
similar level of photometric accuracy and reproducibility as the usual flux
extraction and photometry methods. This new technique will be developed further
and also tested against other methods in more complex fields with the goal to
make it usable for large-scale studies in the future.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, 4 table
Vom Ende des jĂŒdischen Schulwesens in Breslau
Der nachfolgende Bericht basiert auf dem Manuskript fĂŒr einen Vortrag vor Mitgliedern des Verbandes ehemaliger Breslauer in Israel im September 2006. Viele der heute dort lebenden ehemaligen Breslauer waren SchĂŒlerinnen und SchĂŒler der jĂŒdischen Schulen in ihrer Heimatstadt. Das Ende des jĂŒdischen Schulwesens wird im Folgenden vor allem nach den im (polnischen) Staatsarchiv zu Breslau [Archivum Panstwowe we Wrocławia] befindlichen Akten des Magistrats der schlesischen (Provinz) Hauptstadt Breslau und darunter insbesondere den der Magistratsschulverwaltung und soweit Dokumente darĂŒber vorlagen fĂŒr die Zeit zwischen 1933 und 1942 in groben ZĂŒgen aufgezeichnet. Auf die Wiederholung von Einzelheiten, die bereits in anderen Publikationen veröffentlicht wurden, und die breite Einbeziehung anderer Quellen wurde im Sinne, einen Ăberblick ĂŒber die Ereignisse und die betroffenen SchĂŒler und Lehrer zu vermitteln, verzichtet. Eine umfangreichere Arbeit mit vielen weiteren Details, die sich aus den Archivalien in Wrocław / Breslau ergeben und die auch anderes Quellenmaterial mit einschlieĂt, ist unter dem Arbeitstitel âBreslaus jĂŒdische SchĂŒler, Lehrer und Schulen 1919 â 1943â in Vorbereitung. Diese geplante Publikation und der vorliegende Artikel sollen dazu beitragen, dass das Andenken an die Opfer des nationalsozialistischen Regimes gewahrt wird. Deshalb werden auch die Namen der Lehrer, von denen viele ermordet wurden, genannt. Sie sollen unvergessen bleiben. Zugleich sollen ĂŒber diese Veröffentlichung Kontakte zu anderen Forschern, die sich auch mit der Thematik der JĂŒdischen Schulen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik und wĂ€hrend der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus befassen, hergestellt und weitere Berichte von Zeitzeugen und Dokumente erschlossen werden, um dazu beizutragen, Einzelschicksale bzw. Lebenswege von Lehrern und SchĂŒlern und auch von jenen, die sich schuldig gemacht haben, aufzudecken
Three-dimensional Iroshnikov-Kraichnan turbulence in a mean magnetic field
Forced, weak MHD turbulence with guide field is shown to adopt different
regimes, depending on the magnetic excess of the large forced scales. When the
magnetic excess is large enough, the classical perpendicular cascade with
scaling is obtained, while when equipartition is imposed, an isotropic
scaling appears in all directions with respect to the mean field
(\cite{2010PhRvE..82b6406G} or GM10). We show here that the scaling of
the GM10 regime is not ruled by a small-scale cross-helicity cascade, and
propose that it is a 3D extension of a perpendicular weak Iroshnikov-Kraichnan
(IK) cascade. We analyze in detail the structure functions in real space and
show that they closely follow the critical balance relation both in the local
frame and the global frame: we show that there is no contradiction between this
and the isotropic scaling of the spectra. We propose a scenario
explaining the spectral structure of the GM10 regime, that starts with a
perpendicular weak IK cascade and extends to 3D by using quasi-resonant
couplings. The quasi-resonance condition happens to reduce the energy flux in
the same way as is done in the weak perpendicular cascade, so leading to a
scaling in all directions. We discuss the possible applications of these
findings to solar wind turbulence.Comment: Major re-write of manuscrip
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