The interpretation of extensive air shower (EAS) measurements often requires the comparison with EAS simulations based on high-energy hadronic interaction models. These interaction models have to extrapolate into kinematical regions and energy ranges beyond the limit of present accelerators. Therefore, it is necessary to test whether these models are able to describe the EAS development in a co...

We review predictions for the energy of the excited 0+state of 12O and present new calculations of its width. Results are compared with those of a recent experiment. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Suggested Citation: Fortune, H.T. and R. Sherr. (2010). Energy and width of the excited 0+ state in 12O. Physical Review C 82, 034325. Copyright 2010 American Institu...

This is an examination of two kinds of conversations that parents and children sometimes have about television programs: first, conversations in which parents and children seek and/or exchange information about some aspect of reality portrayed or referred to on television; second, conversations in which family members discuss the appropriateness or inappropriateness of behavior shown or mention...

The learning and accountability needs in a teacher education department drove the development of a novel, Web-based education accountability system (EAS). To fit the EAS with the organization, actor-network theory (ANT) was used to guide the social and technological development. In the course of this fitting, a novel multi-dimensional perspective to ANT was formalized. Four dimensions of organi...

“Doc, I read in the paper that painkillers can give you high blood pressure. What do you think?”My patient was a 49 year old man with rheumatoid arthritis. His disease had previously been severe, but it had been improving in recent months with etanercept and intraarticular corticosteroids. In trying to answer his question, I began by explaining the cardiovascular risks of non-steroidal anti-inf...

The lattice dynamics of C60 has been studied first by means of group theory and then by diagonalizing the dynamical matrix for two recently proposed intermolecular potentials. The libron and phonon energies are calculated as a function of momentum along various symmetry directions with and without phonon–libron interactions. The effects of these interactions on the density of states are also di...

This article hypothesized that the possibility to construct intellectual meaning of a terrorist attack (i.e., whether participants can cognitively understand why the perpetrators did their crime) reduces the negative psychological consequences typically associated with increased terrorist threat. Concretely, the authors investigated the effect of intellectual meaning (induced by providing addit...

We describe and discuss various three-body decay mechanisms for 9Be(5/2−). We find that its decay to n+ 8Be(2+) is a small fraction of the total decay. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Fortune, H. T. & Sherr, R. (2013). Continuum three-body decays of 9Be(5/2−). Physical Review C, 87(1), 014306. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.87.014306 ©2013 American Physical Society This ...

Your kid’s schoolwork not up to par? Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right? Any other problems caused by a mind’s eye seemingly not quite on the ball? Answers might lie in a brain-enhancing pill. Some argue this is merely better living through chemistry and in line with humanity’s self-improving actions throughout history, but others suggest that quick-fix medications could well distort the very things ...

KASCADE-Grande is a ground based multi-detector experiment measuring extensive air showers in order to study the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum in the energy range from 10 eV to 10 eV. A Flash-ADC based data acquisition system in KASCADE-Grande allows to study the temporal structure of extensive air showers. Muons in extensive air showers are thought to arrive on average earlier than the pa...