Steven Kohm reviews Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control by Stephanie C Kane

As we started to think about a Special Issue of the Journal Gerontological Social Work honoring Rosalie Kane, turned Spring 2012 Generations entitled, “30 Years HCBS: Movin...

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling is the crucial parameter to drive topological insulating phases in electronic band models. In particular, the generic emergence of SO coupling involves the Rashba term which fully breaks the SU(2) spin symmetry. As soon as interactions are taken into account, however, many theoretical studies have to content themselves with the analysis of a simplified U(1) conserving S...

In 1980’s, Lee proposed an energy-preserving discrete mechanics with variable time steps by taking (discrete) time as dynamical variable [2, 3, 4]. On the other hand, motivated by the symplectic property of Lagrangian mechanics, a version of discrete Lagrangian mechanics has been devoloped and variational integrators that preserve discrete symplectic two form have been obtained [11, 12, 15, 16,...

This paper proposes an adaptive robust control for spatial hydraulic industrial robot, with a view of improving the performance of trajectory tracking under varying uncertainty. The mathematical models of mechanical system and electro-hydraulic driven system of spatial 6-DOF industrial robot are described, under Kane method and hydromechanics method. The backstepping design methodology is adopt...

Recently, a new type of second-order topological insulator has been theoretically proposed by introducing an in-plane Zeeman field into the Kane-Mele model in two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. A pair corner states arise at corners with obtuse angles isolated diamond-shaped flake. To probe states, we study their transport properties attaching two leads to system. Dressed incoming electrons, dyn...