The UK publishing industry in the twenty-fi rst century is one populated by high-profi le, multicultural authors. Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru, Andrea Levy and Zadie Smith have enjoyed critical and commercial success, building on the literary and marketplace achievements of postcolonial writers such as Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri and Arundhati Roy. Postcolonial and multicultural writers, and novels wit...

e consider a “probe” particle translating at constant velocity through an otherwise quiescent ispersion of colloidal “bath” particles, as a model for particle-tracking microrheology experiments n the active nonlinear regime. The probe is a body of revolution with major and minor semiaxes and b, respectively, and the bath particles are spheres of radii b. The probe’s shape is such that hen its m...

ity a nonlocal potential which could fit neutron elastic scattering data in the energy range from 0.4 to 24 MeV and where the optical-model parameters were energy independent. This is, of course, a remarkable result since we know that the absorption, for instance, is changing quite dramatically by going from 0.4 to 24 MeV incident projectile energy. We believe that these findings of Perey and B...

The issue of sprawl has become a major focus for planning researchers and practitioners and often underlies the debate on creating sustainable communities. Rising dependence on the automobile, rapid population growth, and migration out of existing urban centers in search of affordable housing are some of the factors that have reshaped the American landscape into a pattern of low-density, sprawl...

M. E. Wagshul, A. Azizian, S. Fiore, M. S. Korgaonkar, C. J. Perkins, T. Watson, N. K. Squires Radiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Neurology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States Introduction Aphasia ...

The next generation geostationary satellite system starting with GOES-R will include a geostationary lightning mapper (GLM). The GLM will provide nearly continuous times and locations of total lightning with an accuracy of about 10 km over most of the field of view of GOES-east and –west. This coverage will include nearly all of the regions where tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic and nort...

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci R ecent years have seen rapid proliferation of ablative and antiarrhythmic therapies for treating various ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias. Yet cardioversion and de-fibrillation remain the main modalities to restore normal sinus rhythm. Their simplicity, reliability, safety, and, most important , their efficacy in promptl...

H ISTOLOGICAL studies of testes from developing boars have given information on the initiation of spermatogenesis but do not provide information on the age at which young boars develop the ability and desire to mate. Phillips and Andrews (1936) examined the testes of eight Chester White and Berkshire boars castrated at ages varying from 10 to 147 days of age. Little testicular development was n...

The UNCCD has been ratified by over 190 countries. It is the attempt by nations, both rich and poor to control the scourge of desertification. The definition of which is “land degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It is now widely accepted that desertification is not the relentless advance of des...

Social cognition is a key feature of human-level intelligence. However, social reasoning faculties are rarely included in cognitive systems. To encourage research in this direction, we introduce a practical, computational framework that enables socially aware inference. We demonstrate the framework’s ability to model a common, complex, and under-investigated aspect of human social behavior: dec...