Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. [1] In this study we report about the first in‐situ analysis of terrestrial dust devil tracks (DDTs) observed in the Turpan depression desert in northweste...

Each year when I attend the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, I stroll up and down the vendor exhibits to see what’s new, and, at the most recent meeting, I noticed one booth that stopped me in my tracks. The company was Complete Genomics, and I asked the rep about the cost of sequencing small stretches of the genome for a project in the lab. She told me they only do ‘‘complete’’ sequ...

Swift heavy ions cause material modification along their tracks, changes primarily due to their very dense electronic excitation. The available data for threshold stopping powers indicate two main classes of materials. Group I, with threshold stopping powers above about 10 keV nm(-1), includes some metals, crystalline semiconductors and a few insulators. Group II, with lower thresholds, compris...

Ion tracks, formed by the interaction of energetic charged particles with matter, have played an important role in the development of modern physics. More recently, MeV-GeV ion track production has been used to modify materials in a controlled manner [1,2], being a potential tool to engineer material properties in the nanometer to micrometer scale. MeV-GeV ions are finding recently wider use in...

Most e-Training programs of enterprises were mainly developed by senior employees who have plenty of knowledge and experience; therefore, it becomes a challenging issue to efficiently and effectively translate the knowledge and experience of the engineers to computerized subject materials, especially for those who are not experienced teachers. In addition, to develop an eTraining course, person...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Introduction Participation by a massive number of learners is one defining characteristic of MOOCs; the other is that courses should be open. The initial c...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. ABSTRACT Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are growing substantially in numbers, and also in interest from the educational community. MOOCs offer particu...

1 Kimberly Sward, Westinghouse Electric Co., LLC, [email protected] 2 Janis P. Terpenny, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, [email protected] Direct all correspondence on this paper to JP Terpenny. 3 William G. Sullivan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, [email protected] The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding received from the National Science...