This chapter examines the importance of “where” mobile work/life practices occur. By discussing excerpts of data collected through in-depth interviews with mobile professionals, we focus on the importance of place for mobility, and highlight the social character of place and the intrinsically social motivations of workers when making decisions regarding where to move. In order to show how the e...

The concept of blended learning, defined in a range of ways, has begun to change the nature of all teaching and learning in higher education. Information and communication technologies have impacted by providing a means of access to digital resources and interactive communication for all courses and the blending of pedagogy and technology has produced a range of approaches to teaching and learn...

Basic concepts of crystal growth and their practical use to semi-quantitatively estimate growth processes are explained: surface energy and free energy, driving force of crystallization, atomically rough vs smooth interface structure and the corresponding normal vs layer-by-layer growth modes, application of the activated complex concept to derive kinetic coefficient characterizing crystal grow...

In contrast to scalar and tensor modes, vector modes of linear perturbations around an expanding Friedmann–Robertson–Walker universe decay. This makes them largely irrelevant for late time cosmology, assuming that all modes started out at a similar magnitude at some early stage. By now, however, bouncing models are frequently considered which exhibit a collapsing phase. Before this phase reache...

Peptide growth factors (PGF’s) are potent regulators of cell growth from unicellular to complex multicellular organisms. Through a combination of autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine modes of action, PGF’s control the activity of all other growth modulators including classical hormones, such as the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone (RAA) system, which they predate on the evolutionary scale [3]. Epid...

in this paper, we investigate variation of the wavelength, intensity and polarization of the self-assembled inas/gaas quantum dots emission by microphotoluminescence spectroscopy at the liquid helium temperature. the microcavity wafer sample is grown by molecular beam epitaxy (mbe) and chemically etched into the micropillar structure (with elliptical cross section - long and short axis 2µm×1.5µ...

Prefrontal squall lines are mesoscale convective systems that often cannot be linked to any preexisting organizing mechanism. This suggests the possibility that they are self-forced disturbances, driven by a cooperative interaction between convective and larger scales. To investigate this hypothesis, a wave-CISK model is developed for two-dimensional disturbances in a baroclinic basic state wit...

Identity formation is a dynamic process during adolescence. Trajectories of identity formation were assessed longitudinally in early and middle adolescents, taking into account the personality underpinnings of this process. Identity formation was conceptualized according to the circumplex of identity formation modes. The model distinguishes basic modes rooted in Marcia's categories of explorati...

The mechanism responsible for the natal kicks of neutron stars continues to be a challenging problem. Indeed, many mechanisms have been suggested, and one hydrodynamic mechanism may require large initial asymmetries in the cores of supernova progenitor stars. Goldreich, Lai, & Sahrling (1997) suggested that unstable g-modes trapped in the iron (Fe) core by the convective burning layers and exci...

The conditions that limit the possible excitation of ideal MHD axisymmet-ric ballooning modes in thin accretion disks are discussed. As shown earlier by Coppi & Coppi (2001a), these modes are well-localized in the vertical direction but have characteristic oscillatory and non-localized profiles in the radial direction. A necessary condition for their excitation is that the magnetic energy be co...