Choosing a career within the military has many positive and negative factors associated with it. For instance, many recruits join as young adults when they are beginning to shape their own values, beliefs and attitudes about their self, world and others. The armed forces (AF) culture socialises these young adults, leading them to adopt military values and ideals as their own which they will pro...

Quantities associated with Casimir forces are calculated in a model wave system of one spatial dimension where the physical ideas are transparent and the calculations allow easy numerical evaluation. The calculations show strong dependence upon fixedor free-end (Dirichlet or Neumann) boundary conditions for waves on a one-dimensional string, analogous to infinitely-conducting or infinitely-perm...

“We are without allies amongst the Iraqi populace, including those who have benefited from the ouster of Saddam. . . . Across Baghdad, Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah, Salman Pak, Baqubah, Balad, Taji, Baiji, Ramadi, and just about everywhere else you can name, the people absolutely hate us. . . . The Iraqi people have not bought into what the Americans are selling, and no amount of military activity is ...

Microactuators have become essential elements of microelectromechanical systems, for example, for positioning purposes and for fluid-handling tasks in microfluidic systems. UV depth lithography and other new micromachining technologies, which have been developed since the 1990s, have initiated extensive investigations of electromagnetic microactuators, which are characterized by high forces, la...

A typical passive mechanical isolation system utilizes a mass-spring-damper as a mechanical filter. Active isolation control systems typically include an electromagnetic transducer to develop the required control forces. In this paper, the technique of sensor-less active shunt control is applied to a mechanical isolation system. An electrical impedance is designed and connected to an electromag...

This is a small pattern language for running online trainings. The language starts with an entry pattern ONLINE TRAINING. All other patterns are supporting this pattern and help to make online trainings more alive. Some of the patterns are not exclusive for online uses, for instance PREPARED EXAMPLE or TEST RUN. These patterns could be part of a pattern language for trainings as well. They are ...

The equations of parallel transport for a non-linear connection on phase space are examined. It is shown that, for a free-particle Lagrangian, the connection term first-order in momentum reproduces the geodesic equation of General Relativity and the term zeroth-order in the momentum reproduces the Lorentz electromagnetic force law. Hence from one mathematical expression, a non-linear parallel t...

Breakup reactions are generally quite complicated, they involve nuclear and electromagnetic forces including interference effects. Coulomb dissociation is an especially simple and important mechanism since the perturbation due to the electric field of the nucleus is exactly known. Therefore firm conclusions can be drawn from such measurements. Electromagnetic matrixelements, radiative capture c...

Abstract: This work presents a novel electromagnetic actuation concept that aims at the conversion of electromagnetic force into fluid power to enable gentle handling of biomedical fluids through circular microchannel. This concept is tested successfully on a mesoscale model and showed attractive concept suitable for microfluidic applications. In microtechnology, planar microcoils that offer en...