Recent conversations with IT managers suggest that IT professionalism is a growing problem for them and for their organizations. Managers are frustrated that many of their newer employees simply don’t understand what it means to “be professional” in their job. Neither schools nor companies teach professionalism. Instead, it remains an unarticulated set of working behaviors, attitudes, and expec...

Nanosized metal oxides dispersed polymer composites constitute a fascinating class of polymer composite materials. Synthesis of such composite materials through solvent casting enhances the polymer synthetic technology. Solvent casting method was used to prepare Cobalt oxide (Co3O4) dispersed Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) nano composite<span style="text-decoration: und...

We calculate four-fermion decays of a Higgs boson via WW and/or ZZ intermediate states for Higgs masses below mW . We examine models with a doublycharged Higgs boson H and show that the four-fermion decay is the dominant mode for a wide range of parameter space. Existing searches for H in Z decays have not looked for this mode. We also derive four-fermion decay rate for a neutral Higgs boson.

We develop a phenomenological description of the nu=5/2 quantum Hall state in which the Halperin-Lee-Read theory of the half-filled Landau level is combined with a p-wave pairing interaction between composite fermions (CFs). The electromagnetic response functions for the resulting mean-field superconducting state of the CFs are calculated and used in an RPA calculation of the q and omega depend...