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Are you a researcher as well as a medical illustrator?
When we list the areas of practice for medical illustrators we always include research, but how involved in research are we? The aim of this activity is to encourage your professional development not just as a medical illustrator but your involvement with research whether that is undertaking your own research, undertaking evidence based practice (1) , working as part of a research team, advising researchers on the value of medical illustration or supporting a student undertaking a research project for their degree or post-graduate qualification
Special tool seals conductors with combination of plastic sleeves
Special tool seals electrical conductors connecting instrumentation within space vehicle cryogenic fuel tanks and oxidizer tanks. An inner sleeve of fluorinated ethylene-propylene and an outer sleeve of tetrafluoroethylene enclose a bundle of conductors and are heated with the tool to form a tight seal of the bundle and each individual wire
Evaluation of the Edinburgh Police research and practice group
The EPRPG began in January 2011 as a means of feeding findings from the community policing knowledge transfer project, and the related small research studies, back to the police. However, it quickly emerged that there was an appetite for research seminars and workshops on a much broader range of police-related topics, many of which arose from discussion at the sessions themselves. Over the course of the year two further series of sessions were run, providing academics and PhD researchers from many institutions with opportunities to present and discuss
their research within the EPRPG forum.
The evaluation of the EPRPG set out to:
Explore the organisation and delivery of knowledge exchange activities;
Obtain the views of programme leaders about their experiences of running the project and of participants who attended the events in order to assess the advantages and limitations of the project;
Examine the possibility of measuring the impact of the project in terms of strengthening police and academic relations, the practical application of academic research and benefits for both the policing and academic
communities;
Generate feedback from participants on suggestions for future development of the project
Ultrasonic metal etching for metallographic analysis
Ultrasonic etching delineates microstructural features not discernible in specimens prepared for metallographic analysis by standard chemical etching procedures. Cavitation bubbles in ultrasonically excited water produce preferential damage /etching/ of metallurgical phases or grain boundaries, depending on hardness of metal specimens
Innovation and Organisation in the UK magazine print publishing industry: a survey
This paper examines innovation within the UK magazine publishing industry. We find that publishers are able to engage with niche interest groups in order to supply a high value-added product. The paper attempts define the characteristics of the industry and to examine the drivers of innovation through a survey and an exploratory approach to data analysis. We suggest that the frequently employed simple output measures of innovation do not adequately capture the innovation process in this industry or the range of activities carried out by firms. We find that groups of firms engage different patterns of innovative behaviour depending on the drivers of innovation. Firms that are more responsive to consumer trends are more likely to engage in a wider range of associated activities in order to add value from their consumer knowledge
A dipolar droplet bound in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
We study the statics and dynamics of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
droplet bound by inter-species contact interaction in a trapped non-dipolar
BEC. Our findings are demonstrated in terms of stability plots of a dipolar
164Dy droplet bound in a trapped non-dipolar 87Rb BEC with a variable number of
164Dy atoms and the inter-species scattering length. A trapped non-dipolar BEC
of a fixed number of atoms can only bind a dipolar droplet containing atoms
less than a critical number for the inter-species scattering length between two
critical values. The shape and size (statics) as well as the small breathing
oscillation (dynamics) of the dipolar BEC droplet are studied using the
numerical and variational solutions of a mean-field model. We also suggest an
experimental procedure for achieving such a 164Dy droplet by relaxing the trap
on the 164Dy BEC in a trapped binary 87Rb-164Dy mixture
Mixing, demixing, and structure formation in a binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
We study static properties of disk-shaped binary dipolar Bose-Einstein
condensates of Er-Dy and Cr-Dy mixtures under
the action of inter- and intra-species contact and dipolar interactions and
demonstrate the effect of dipolar interaction using the mean-field approach.
Throughout this study we use realistic values of inter- and intra-species
dipolar interactions and the intra-species scattering lengths and consider the
inter-species scattering length as a parameter. The stability of the binary
mixture is illustrated through phase plots involving number of atoms of the
species. The binary system always becomes unstable as the number of atoms
increases beyond a certain limit. As the inter-species scattering length
increases corresponding to more repulsion, an overlapping mixed state of the
two species changes to a separated demixed configuration. During transition
from a mixed to a demixed configuration as the inter-species scattering length
is increased for parameters just below the stability line, the binary
condensate shows special structures in density in the form of
red-blood-cell-like biconcave and Saturn-ring-like shapes, which are direct
manifestations of dipolar interaction
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