“A Scandalous Woman”? Beauvoir in Paris, January 2008

January 2008.pub

Participants will study with eight Yeats scholars from the United States, Ireland, Canada and Great Britain. In addition to O'Shea, author of two books on Yeats, they are Daniel Albright of Harvard University, author of "The Myth Against Myth: A Study of Yeats's Imagination in Old Age"; Brian Arkins of the National University of Ireland, Galway, author of a book on Greek and Roman themes in Yea...

January 10, 2008

Systemic reform followed by standards based reform in K-12 education begins with state content standards. Based at least in part on policy research in education, the pair of reforms make the assumption that what is taught is a strong predictor of what students will learn. Thus, being clear about what it is that we want students to know and be able to do and expressing that message in content st...

Avian Influenza Survey in North-West of Iran from January to March 2008, Using RT-PCR

Washington University Record, January 24, 2008

SLAC - PUB - 13096 January 18 , 2008

We propose a bootstrap method for approximating the long-range terms in the Contractor Renormalization (CORE) method. The idea is tested on the 2-D Heisenberg antiferromagnet and the frustrated J2 −J1 model. We obtain renormalization group flows that directly reveal the Neel phase of the unfrustrated HAF and the existence of a phase transition in the J2 − J1 model for weak frustration. However,...