Adventures in Librarianship: You May Have Already Won

Getting to the information you already have

Knowledge workers need to find information but even when it is stored on their local computer systems, finding it can be costly. There are many researchers working on solutions to reduce these costs, but there has been little research into exactly what these costs are, and what the ties are between these costs and users’ choices between ways to access their local information. This paper provide...

Flavor - singlet hybrid baryons may already have been discovered

The splittings between the spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 iso-singlet baryons Λs(1405) and Λs(1520), and their charmed counterparts Λc(2593) and Λc(2625), have been a theoretical conundrum. Here we investigate the possibility that the QCD binding of color octets comprised of three quarks in a flavor singlet configuration is stronger than previously envisaged, allowing these states to be interpreted as h...

Have we won?

Could the South Have Won the War?

Although the Confederate surrenders in April 1865 marked the end of major hostilities of the American Civil War, disputes of interpretation continue to characterise the study of the conduct and outcomes of the War. Whilst this may be simply a feature of all historiography, the extent of these interpretive disputes may well be a direct consequence of the nature of the primary sources that have s...

Five signs you may have joined the wrong practice.

My first clinical job out of residency was working part-time at an urgent care clinic. In my mind, it was the perfect post-residency position. It would fit well with my part-time academic position, expose me to the world of acutely ill patients, allow me to practice clinical procedures and give me some professional autonomy. But my first job lasted less than 24 hours. I felt like a warm body co...