The rape trial of former Notre Dame football p layer Donald Dykes began this week and his accuser, a former Notre Dame student, testified as the first wit­ ness for the p ro se c u t io n on Tuesday. Dykes is the second of the four former Notre Dame football play­ ers accused of sexually assaulting the woman to be tr ied . He is charged with rape, conspiracy to commit rape and sexual battery. D...

In the United States, nursing programs are commonly evaluated by their graduates success on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN c ©). The purpose of this paper is to describe a change in NCLEX-RN c © success rates following the addition of standardized exams throughout our program’s curriculum, and to compare these exam scores between graduates who pass NC...

The filled skutterudite superconductor PrPt4Ge12 was studied in muon-spin rotation (muSR), specific heat, and electrical resistivity experiments. The continuous increase of the superfluid density with decreasing temperature and the dependence of the magnetic penetration depth lambda on the magnetic field obtained by means of muSR, as well as the observation of a T3 dependence of the electronic ...

We present a study of the in-plane and out-of-plane magnetoresistance (MR) in heavily-underdoped, antiferromagnetic YBa2Cu3O6+x, which reveals a variety of striking features. The in-plane MR demonstrates a “d-wave”-like anisotropy upon rotating the magnetic field H within the ab plane. With decreasing temperature below 20-25 K, the system acquires memory: exposing a crystal to the magnetic fiel...

SmFeAsO1−xFx was irradiated in a fission reactor by a fast (E > 0.1 MeV) neutron fluence of 4 × 1021 m−2. The introduced defects increased the normal state resistivity due to a reduction in the mean free path of the charge carriers. This leads to an enhancement of the upper critical field at low temperatures. The critical current density within the grains, Jc, increases upon irradiation. The se...

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), synthesized using the arc-discharge method and the direct-injection-pyrolytic synthesis (DIPS) method, were dispersed in a tetrahydrofuran solution containing propylamine and used to prepare transparent and conductive thin films on PET films using an airbrush technique. The SWNTs were analyzed using vis-near infrared absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectro...

Ni0.25Fe0.75Zr₃ metallic glassy ribbons were annealed in evacuated quartz ampoules beyond the crystallization temperatures (Tx ~655 K) over the range 773 to 1,173 K for varying periods of time. The resistivity of samples annealed over the temperature range 923 to 1,073 K for periods less than four hours increased as a function of decreasing temperature, while it decreased for samples annealed f...

PECVD technology was used for deposition of a-SiC:H films at different temperature from SiH4 and CH4 gas mixture. A P-type silicon wafer with resistivity 2-7 cm and (100) orientation was used as the substrate for the growth of SiC films. Irradiation of samples by fast neutrons with fluence 1.4x10 14 cm -2 was used. Raman band feature intensity decreasing after neutron irradiation. The measured ...