We discuss recent research in the area of critical current densities (JC) in superconductors. This shall cover recent work on newly discovered superconductors, as well as on the magnetic-field dependence of JC .

BACKGROUND Current anti-doping in competitive sports is advocated for reasons of fair-play and concern for the athlete's health. With the inception of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), anti-doping effort has been considerably intensified. Resources invested in anti-doping are rising steeply and increasingly involve public funding. Most of the effort concerns elite athletes with much less imp...

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neuropsychiatric complication of cirrhosis and/or porto-systemic shunting. The clinical symptoms are widely variable, extending from subtle impairment in mental state to coma. The utility of categorizing the severity of HE accurately and efficiently serves not only to provide practical functional information about the current clinical status of the patie...

this paper represents the performance of a squirrel-cage high temperature superconducting induction/ synchronous motor (hts-ism) based on nonlinear electrical equivalent circuit. the structure of the hts-ism is the same as that of the squirrel-cage type induction machine, and the secondary windings are fabricated by the use of the hts wires. it has already been shown that based on the experimen...

Human interaction involves a number of factors. One key and noticeable factor is the mass perceptual problem. Humans are equipped with a large number of receptors, equipped for seeing, hearing and touching, to name just a few. These stimuli bombard us continuously, often not on a singular basis. Typically multiple stimuli are activated at once, and in responding to these stimuli, variations of ...

The use of a blog as a pedagogical aid for the learning of foreign languages is gaining support among teachers’ communities (Soubrié, 2006; Tomé, 2007) as it can help students develop online interactions and authentic productions. The current study is analysing the use of such a multimedia setting in a group of Master’s students in France, studying English as a Foreign Language, who had to keep...

Enhancing aircrew situational awareness has become recognized as a critical element in reduction of overall aircraft accident rates. Improved display concepts have been investigated for several decades as a means of enhancing awareness of position, flight path, and terrain in three dimensions. One of the most promising is the “Tunnel-in-the-Sky” primary flight display, which presents a three-di...