I outline experimental results on heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for a non-technical audience. This includes: elliptic flow and nearly ideal hydrodynamics; the suppression of hard particles and the ratio RAA; and electromagnetic signals, including dileptons and direct photons. Especially puzzling is why the behavior of heavy (charm) quarks appears to be so similar t...

This paper accompanies a lecture given at the 2003 CCP4 Study Weekend on experimental phasing. The first part is an overview of the fundamentals of Patterson methods and direct methods with the audience of the CCP4 Study Weekend in mind. In the second part, a new hybrid substructure search is outlined.

is appropriate, here in Bristol, the city of William Budd, to address a medical audience on the subject of tuberculosis, a disease for ever associated with his name. If the responsibilities of a large practice and the study of typhoid fever and other diseases closed for William Budd the paths of experimental investigation and research that were so successfully followed by his great French conte...

Existing IEEE software reliability standards do not address the characteristics of distributed systems, including client-server systems. Furthermore, these standards were issued before the widespread application of COTS and safety-critical systems. In addition, these standards do not take into account the influence on reliability of such process improvement measures as inspections, reuse, and o...

Audience complete action immersion sensation is still the ultimate goal of the multimedia industry. In spite of the significant technical audiovisual advances that enable more realistic contents, coping with individual audience needs and desires is still an incomplete achievement. The proposed project’s intention is to solve this issue through enabling real-time dynamic multimedia storylines wi...

Introduction: Direct access day-case surgery is feasible in the management of symptomatic groin or para-umbilical hernia. With adequate coordination between the surgical team, GP and the patient, the average waiting time could be reduced without compromising quality of care. Methods: A retrospective review of case notes of patients who underwent hernia repair, under the care of a single consult...

Abstr act { This paper addr essestwo problems associated with the traditional appr oach to teaching a junior level course in signals and systems. First, students are exp ectedto develop facility with a variety of transforms and we have observed that this overwhelms many, reducing them to simply \memorizing equations." Second, the usual treatment of Dir ac'sdelta as a function not only leads to ...