Purpose The millennia long struggles of various oppressed groups have over time illuminated widespread social injustices, organically leading to the recognition yet further injustices captured by umbrella discriminatory isms, such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism, anti-Semitism, ageism, heterosexism and many others. In recent years, debate has become increasingly fierce, polarized even phys...

The aim of this study is to investigate the capability of the image source method (ISM) for predicting medium and high frequency flexural vibrations of damped convex polygonal thin plates including various boundary conditions. Besides its classical use in room acoustics, ISM has already been applied to polygonal plates comprising simply supported and roller supported edges. Such boundaries incl...

A previously developed interacting segment model [ISM-see J. Chern. Phys. 67, 2109 (1977)] is applied to a full-scale treatment of the electric dipole moments, isotropic and anisotropic polarizabilities, and hyperpolarizabilities of a series of t 2 halogenated methane molecules CXn Y 4-n(X, Y = H,F ,Ct; n = 0-4). The ISM scheme enables the molecular properties considered to be fitted in terms o...

We investigate the far infrared spectrum of NGC 1266, a S0 galaxy that contains a massive reservoir of highly excited molecular gas. Using the SPIRE-FTS, we detect the CO ladder up to J=(13-12), [C I] and [N II] lines, and also strong water lines more characteristic of UltraLuminous IR Galaxies (ULIRGs). The CO line emission is modeled with a combination of a low-velocity C-shock and a PDR. Sho...

Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is a well-established methodology for identifying relationships among specific items, which define a problem or an issue. This approach has been increasingly used by various researchers to represent the interrelationships among various elements related to the issue. ISM approach starts with an identification of variables, which are relevant to the problem...

We report the detection of fully resolved absorption lines of A−X bands from interstellar CO and CO, through high-resolution spectroscopy of X Per with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The first ultraviolet measurement of an interstellar CO column density shows that its isotopomeric ratio is CO/CO = 8700 ± 3600. Simultaneously, the second ultraviolet detection of interstellar CO establ...

The extinction curve derived from ISO mid-infrared (IR) observations of the Galactic center (GC) exhibits a surprisingly flat behavior in the ∼ 3 to 8 μm region, contrary to the deep minimum expected from standard interstellar dust models consisting of bare silicate and graphite dust particles. We show that this extinction is likely caused by the presence of metallic needles in the interstellar...