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Vibrated granular matter
Granular matter is defined as a large collection of particles the size of which is larger than one micron so that Brownian motion is negligible. Its behavior has been studied at least since the days of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806), who originally stated his law of friction for granular …
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Galactic Dark Matter
… distribution and properties of Galactic dark matter necessary for its direct and indirect detection are currently unknown. Since the distributions of normal and dark matter in the Milky Way are coupled to each other as they both move in the same gravitational potential, constraints on the …
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A Family Matter
… fictional town of Cresswind, Texas, <em>A Family Matter </em>is a heartbreaking story of grief, romance, and revenge.</p>
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Does anything matter?
I defend the claim that some things genuinely matter to human beings. This involves overcoming a series of arguments which suggest that the things that matter to us are arbitrary. These arguments arise out of Nagel’s claim (in Mortal Questions) that life is absurd. The thesis also discusses …
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Dark matter dynamics
… have revealed a wealth of information about dark matter halos but their results are largely empirical. Here we attempt to shed light on simulation results by using a combination of analytic and numerical methods. First we generalize an analytic model of halo formation, known as Secondary Infall, …
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Light and Matter
The images which comprise the majority of these pages have been given the name Light Sculptures. They are not computer generated or hand drawn, they are photographs of the interaction between light and a reflective cylinder. Originally color transparencies, the Sculptures have been interpreted by …
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Dark Matter Detection with the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber Collaboration
<p>Evidence from many sources suggests that dark matter (matter that does not interact electromagnetically) accounts for a significant fraction of the mass density of the universe. The fact that dark matter has yet to be observed directly is one of the biggest outstanding problems in modern …
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Does It Really Matter?
… education? Am I being too picky? Does it really matter?” One of the requirements of one of my graduate-level rhetoric and composition seminar classes was to write “reading responses” to assigned readings, and to post them on TRACS, an interactive Internet website so the entire class would be able …
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Do villages still matter?
… research asks the question: Do villages still matter? Three case studies were chosen that cover a wide geographic range, selecting two contemporary cases in areas with some of the highest rates of urbanization. The historic case broadens the geographic scope of the study, but also provides …
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A Matter of Taste.
… a soup for a cooking competition. The show <em>A Matter of Taste</em> chronicles an allegory concerning the evaluation of creative works. Through Gaudie and Baudie's "odd" recipe this work illustrates the ways in artists and art audiences interact and determine artistic value. The work is inspired …
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Cold, dense quark matter
… thesis discusses the properties of cold quark matter as exists in the core of massive neutron stars, with baryon densities several times of nuclear saturation density, n_0 ≈ 0.16 fm^-3, at zero temperature. Specifically, we study effective quark models, the symmetry pattern of different quark …
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Topological phases of matter
Topological phases are gapped quantum phases of matter classified beyond the paradigm of Landau's symmetry breaking theory. In particular, topologically ordered phases are topological phases with topological order. Unlike the conventional symmetry-breaking order described by local order parameter, …
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The Matter of Gautland
… literary cycles according to localised subject matter, such as the ‘Matter of France’, the ‘Matter of Britain’ and the ‘Matter of Rome’, has proven to be an enduring one in modern scholarship. This model has also been applied to Old Norse saga literature, particularly the fornaldarsögur, within …
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A matter of trust
This novel is entirely the work of the author's imagination. Set in South Africa in the '70s, it is the story of an illicit relationship between skinny, misfit Tina and her teacher Nick, whose eyes have the tuck-shop moms wanting to come and hither, and not necessarily in that order. Their mutual …
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Design of programmable matter
Programmable matter is a proposed digital material having computation, sensing, actuation, and display as continuous properties active over its whole extent. Programmable matter would have many exciting applications, like paintable displays, shape-changing robots and tools, rapid prototyping, and …
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Hot and dark matter
… media, and we propose two new reactions for dark matter in the early universe. In the first part, we analyze the transverse momentum broadening in the absence of radiation of an energetic parton propagating through quark-gluon plasma via Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). We show that the …
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A matter of context
All buildings are a response to the environment, but some are more sensitive than others. Those structures designed as artistic statements are considered to be works of architecture. Buildings make statements with shapes and materials, but often the message is lost. The use of veneers and hidden …
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