The paper investigates systems thinking and systems engineering. After a short literature review, the paper presents, as a means for systems thinking, twelve thinking tracks. The tracks can be used as creativity starter, checklist, and as means to investigate effects of design decisions taken early in the process. Tracks include thinking about time, risk and safety, and different types of life-...

finder [3], a Kalman filter based track fitter [4] (both are SIMDized), a primary vertex finder and a procedure for finding short lived decayed particles (both are implemented within the KF Particle package [5]) and a procedure for selecting charm track candidates. These routines exist already in the cbmroot framework, but in order to develop and test the full selection chain on different moder...

Massive and very massive stars can play important roles in stellar populations by ejecting strong winds exploding energetic phenomena. It is therefore imperative that their behavior be properly accounted for synthetic model populations. We present nine grids of evolutionary sequences, together with finely resolved interpolated sequences populations, 9-500 Msun metallicities ranging from Galacti...

We demonstrate optical manipulation of 1 μm sized polystyrene microparticles on silicon nitride microdisk resonator devices using whispering-gallery modes in an integrated optofluidic chip. We demonstrate multiple trapping tracks and extended trapping ranges within single wavelengths through exciting high-order modes. We observe various sets of trapping tracks and ranges through exciting variou...