767 research outputs found
Michael Rodriguez interviews writer Charles Baxter
No full textCharles Baxter talks about his book "The Feast of Love", the relationship between the landscape of Michigan and the setting of his novels, metaphysics in his novels, his career as both a writer and a college teacher, how a male author writes female characters, and voyeurism in his book. Baxter is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
APY751783_Appendix – Supplemental material for Identifying characteristics and practices of multidisciplinary team reviews for patients with severe mental illness: a systematic review
No full textSupplemental material, APY751783_Appendix for Identifying characteristics and practices of multidisciplinary team reviews for patients with severe mental illness: a systematic review by Charlotte A Woody, Amanda J Baxter, Meredith G Harris, Dan J Siskind and Harvey A Whiteford in Australasian Psychiatry</p
An Annotated Translation of Fred W . Seeley's “The Production of a Baxter Colour Print.”
No full textThis note is the Japanese translation of the full text of “The Production of a Baxter Colour Print.” by Fred W.
Seeley, with its bibliographical introduction. The text, which was initially published as a series of articles in
The Baxter Times from September 1924 to March 1925, provides an explanation of the Baxter process that
was invented and patented by George Baxter to amateurs and collectors. For many years the author Seeley
was responsible for overseeing the production of colour prints for J. M. Kronheim & Co., which was a licensee
of Baxter.repor
Functionals of exponential Brownian motion and divided differences
No full textWe provide a surprising new application of classical approximation theory to a fundamental asset-pricing model of mathematical finance. Specifically, we calculate an analytic value for the correlation coefficient between
exponential Brownian motion and its time average, and we find the use of divided differences greatly elucidates formulae, providing a path to several new results. As applications, we find that this correlation coefficient is always at least 1/p2 and, via the Hermite–Genocchi integral relation, demonstrate that all moments of the time average are certain divided differences of the exponential function. We also prove that these moments agree with the somewhat more complex formulae obtained by Oshanin and Yor
Application of the optimized Baxter model to the hard-core attractive Yukawa system
No full textWe perform Monte Carlo simulations on the hard-core attractive Yukawa system to test the optimized Baxter model that was introduced by Prinsen and Odijk [J. Chem. Phys. 121, 6525 (2004) ] to study a fluid phase of spherical particles interacting through a short-range pair potential. We compare the chemical potentials and pressures from the simulations with analytical predictions from the optimized Baxter model. We show that the model is accurate to within 10% over a range of volume fractions from 0.1 to 0.4, interaction strengths up to three times the thermal energy, and interaction ranges from 6% to 20% of the particle diameter, and performs even better in most cases. We furthermore establish the consistency of the model by showing that the thermodynamic properties of the Yukawa fluid computed via simulations may be understood on the basis of one similarity variable, the stickiness parameter defined within the optimized Baxter model. Finally, we show that the optimized Baxter model works significantly better than an often used, naive method determining the stickiness parameter by equating the respective second virial coefficients based on the attractive Yukawa and Baxter potentials.Applied Science
Occupational health : additional support for the aging anesthesiologist : author reply
No full textReply to : FitzGerald D, Reid A, Fitzpatrick G, O'Neill D. Occupational health: additional support for the aging anesthesiologist. Can J Anaesth. 2015 Mar;62(3):329. doi: 10.1007/s12630-014-0296-5. Epub 2014 Dec 31. PMID: 25549987, which is a Comment on : Baxter AD, Boet S, Reid D, Skidmore G. The aging anesthesiologist: a narrative review and suggested strategies. Can J Anaesth. 2014 Sep;61(9):865-75. doi: 10.1007/s12630-014-0194-x. Epub 2014 Jul 2. PMID: 24985937; PMCID: PMC4160565. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:183126</a
Left braces and the quantum Yang-Baxter equation
No full text[EN] Braces were introduced by Rump in 2007 as a useful tool in the study of the set-theoretic solutions of the Yang¿Baxter equation. In fact, several aspects of the theory of finite left braces and their applications in the context of the Yang¿Baxter equation have been extensively investigated recently. The main aim of this paper is to introduce and study two finite brace theoretical properties associated with nilpotency, and to analyse their impact on the finite solutions of the Yang¿Baxter equation.This work was supported by the research grant MTM2014-54707-C3-1-P from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spanish Government, and FEDER, European Union, and PROMETEO/2017/057 from Generalitat (Valencian Community, Spain). The first author was supported by grant number 201606890006 of the China Scholarship Council.Meng, H.; Ballester Bolinches, A.; Esteban Romero, R. (2019). Left braces and the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 62(2):595-608. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091518000664S595608622Yang, C. N. (1967). Some Exact Results for the Many-Body Problem in one Dimension with Repulsive Delta-Function Interaction. Physical Review Letters, 19(23), 1312-1315. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.19.1312Smoktunowicz, A. (2018). On Engel groups, nilpotent groups, rings, braces and the Yang-Baxter equation. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 370(9), 6535-6564. doi:10.1090/tran/7179Etingof, P., Schedler, T., & Soloviev, A. (1999). Set-theoretical solutions to the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. Duke Mathematical Journal, 100(2), 169-209. doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-99-10007-xCedó, F., Jespers, E., & Okniński, J. (2014). Braces and the Yang–Baxter Equation. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 327(1), 101-116. doi:10.1007/s00220-014-1935-yCedó, F., Gateva-Ivanova, T., & Smoktunowicz, A. (2017). On the Yang–Baxter equation and left nilpotent left braces. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 221(4), 751-756. doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2016.07.014Bachiller, D., Cedó, F., & Jespers, E. (2016). Solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation associated with a left brace. Journal of Algebra, 463, 80-102. doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2016.05.024Rump, W. (2007). Braces, radical rings, and the quantum Yang–Baxter equation. Journal of Algebra, 307(1), 153-170. doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.03.040Smoktunowicz, A. (2018). A note on set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation. Journal of Algebra, 500, 3-18. doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2016.04.015Kurzweil, H., & Stellmacher, B. (2004). The Theory of Finite Groups. Universitext. doi:10.1007/b9743
Yang–Baxter deformations, AdS/CFT, and twist-noncommutative gauge theory
No full textAbstractWe give an AdS/CFT interpretation to homogeneous Yang–Baxter deformations of the AdS5×S5 superstring as noncommutative deformations of the dual gauge theory, going well beyond the canonical noncommutative case. These homogeneous Yang–Baxter deformations can be of so-called abelian or jordanian type. While abelian deformations have a clear interpretation in string theory and many already had well understood gauge theory duals, jordanian deformations appear novel on both counts. We discuss the symmetry structure of the deformed string from the uniformizing perspective of Drinfeld twists and indicate that this structure can be realized on the gauge theory side by considering theories on various noncommutative spaces. We then conjecture that these are the gauge theory duals of our strings, modulo subtleties involving singularities. We support this conjecture by a brane construction for two jordanian examples, corresponding to noncommutative spaces with [x−,⋆xi]∼xi (i=1,2). We also discuss κ-Minkowski type deformations of AdS5×S5, one of which may be the gravity dual of gauge theory on spacelike κ-Minkowski space
How parents and children evaluate emollients for childhood eczema: a qualitative study
No full textBackground: eczema affects one in five children in the UK. Regular application of emollients is routinely recommended for children with eczema. There are four main emollient types, but no clear evidence of which is best. The current ‘trial and error’ approach to find suitable emollients can be frustrating for parents, children, and clinicians.Aim: to identify how parents and children experience and evaluate emollients.Design and setting: qualitative interview study, nested within a primary care trial of emollients (Best Emollients for Eczema [BEE] trial).Method: semi-structured interviews with children with eczema and their parents were conducted. Participants were purposively sampled on emollient type (lotion, cream, gel, or ointment), age, and eczema severity.Results: forty-four parents were interviewed, with children participating in 24 of those interviews. There was no clear preference for any one emollient type. The strongest theme was the variation of experience in each of the four types. Participants focused on thickness and absorbency, both positively and negatively, to frame their evaluations. Effectiveness and acceptability were both considered when evaluating an emollient but effectiveness was the primary driver for continued use. For some, participating in the trial had changed their knowledge and behaviour of emollients, resulting in use that was more regular and for a longer duration.Conclusion: there is no one emollient that is suitable for everyone, and parents/children prioritise different aspects of emollients. Future research could evaluate decision aids and/or tester pots of different types, which could enable clinicians and parents/children to work collaboratively to identify the best emollient for them
J.G. Ballard's surrealist imagination: spectacular authorship
No full textMaking the case that J. G. Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings must be read within the framework of Surrealism, Jeannette Baxter argues for a radical revisioning of Ballard that takes account of the political and ethical dimensions of his work. Ballard's appropriation of diverse Surrealist aesthetic forms and political writings, Baxter suggests, are mobilised to contest official narratives of postwar history and culture and offer a series of counter-historical and counter-cultural critiques. Thus Ballard's work must be understood as an exercise in Surrealist historiography that is politically and ethically engaged. Placing Ballard's illustrated texts within this critical framework permits Baxter to explore the effects of photographs, drawings, and other visual symbols on the reading experience and the production of meaning. Ballard's textual spectacles raise a variety of questions about the shifting role of the reader and the function of the written text within a predominantly visual culture, while acknowledging the visual contexts of Ballard's Surrealist writings allows a very different historical picture of the author and his work to emerge
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