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Ukraine is officially celebrating Christmas on Dec The government last year changed the date from January 7 The Christmas Day attack targeted the central Dnipropetrovsk region whose governor Sergiy Lysak said Russia was "trying to destroy the region's power system." The attacks killed one person in Dnipropetrovsk Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times as an "undesirable" organization criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution This follows our earlier unjust labeling as a "foreign agent." These actions are direct attempts to silence independent journalism in Russia The authorities claim our work "discredits the decisions of the Russian leadership." We see things differently: we strive to provide accurate We, the journalists of The Moscow Times, refuse to be silenced. But to continue our work, we need your help please support us monthly starting from just $2 and every contribution makes a significant impact independent journalism in the face of repression entering the same industry that made her husband a billionaire and could push the superstar musician closer to the same title depending on how it performs Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award onstage during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards on April 01 Beyoncé took to Instagram Tuesday morning to announce the launch of the brand holding a glass of dark liquid and captioning the photo "DAVIS IN MY BONES." The first images released of the beverage show a custom leather case with a ribbed glass bottle inside featuring a logo with the famous horse Reneigh who was first featured on the cover of Beyonce's "Renaissance" album a subsidiary of mega luxury goods brand LVMH Beyoncé had an estimated net worth of $760 million in May built on her music career and other ventures like her now-defunct Ivy Park clothing line with Adidas a collaboration with fashion house Balmain perfume Cé Noir and production company Parkwood Entertainment The size of Beyoncé’s stake in SirDavis wasn’t immediately clear and representatives for the star and LVMH did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for more information Tuesday $89.99. That's how much a 750ml bottle of SirDavis sells for on the brand's website Bottles are expected to ship as soon as early September Other big names with their own brands include Dwayne Johnson Robert de Niro and Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranson of "Breaking Bad." Beyoncé who released her first country music album Cowboy Carter earlier this year is not the first musician in the genre to launch a whiskey—she's joined by Daris Rucker (Backstage Southern Whiskey) Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley (Old Camp Whiskey) Jason Aldean (Wolf Moon Bourbon) and Willie Nelson (Old Whiskey River) has a net worth of $189.1 billion and is the world's third richest person 2024 at 11:36 pm ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Voters who live in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District went the polls on Nov The district includes several municipalities in Essex (Patch Graphics)This article was last updated at 11:15 p.m Mikie Sherrill has successfully defended her Congress seat in New Jersey's 11th District Voters who live in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District went the polls on Tuesday to cast ballots for a seat in the U.S Candidates appearing on the ballot in the 2024 general election include incumbent Mikie Sherrill (Democrat) Lily Benavides (Green Party) and Joshua Lanzara (Independent) With 88 percent of votes counted, the Associated Press is projecting that Sherrill is the winner. 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Israeli forces on Saturday evening carried out two more airstrikes on the same school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City that was targeted an hour earlier The Palestinian Civil Defense said in a statement that the new bombing on Hamama School in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood killed six more displaced people and injured scores more some of them being in “serious” condition Civil Defense teams are having difficulty retrieving more victims due to the renewed bombing Israeli aircraft bombed the same school and its surroundings with three missiles "Some 10 Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured by Israeli occupation (forces) warplanes that targeted a school sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City." Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital received “several martyrs and wounded as a result of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Hamama School,” sources in the health facility said Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that the bombing destroyed several classrooms at the school which is overcrowded with displaced Palestinians The Israeli military admitted in a statement that it attacked the school in northern Gaza claiming that Hamas was using it as a "weapons storage." describing it as "blatant lies," and questioned the justification for targeting the schools used by displaced Palestinians as shelter The Israeli attack on the Hamama School is "a continued insistence by the terrorist occupation government to persist in its brutal genocide campaign," the resistance movement said flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct More than 39,500 Palestinians have since been killed vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6 Instead of repeating the same things over and over again we were able to flip Groundhog Day 2024 around by graciously hosting Prof She holds the Charles Kittel Chair in Physics at UC Berkeley is a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and is an expert in just about all aspects of condensed matter physics and material science that's the Kittel from the famous thermal physics and solid-state textbooks that are probably on your shelves She gave a super cool talk about ARPES techniques can probe topological excitonic states and their fingerprints on electronic structure Alessandra Lanzara is the Charles Kittel Professor of Physics and a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory She is also the Chair of the Far West section of the American Physical Society and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University Her research is focused on understanding electron behavior and fundamental interactions in quantum materials and on their manipulation with coherently sculpted field of light Rammstein keyboardist Christian ‘Flake’ Lorenz has decided to take a solo step in his career as a musician and announced the release of his first Christmas album ‘Flake feiert Weihnachten’ which will be available from December 22 ‘Flake feiert Weihnachten’ will contain a total of 16 songs including new versions of Christmas classics in the purest Flake style as well as some of his own compositions and collaborations with artists such as Knorkator The album is now available for pre-order via RammsteinShop in CD “It starts with gingerbread from Netto stores in late summer the shelves of which turn into a civil war on Sundays And then it ends with talks full of lies about love and peace The kids end up surrounded by plastic from China that is – never find anything appropriate to give “What if we don’t give each other anything this year,” we tell ourselves we avoid the disappointed faces on Christmas Eve.” I recorded music for a movie late last year and ended up writing a Christmas song and decided to sing it myself why do we have to give gifts at Christmas and birthdays Don't we love our family every other day of the year I played it for her that night telling her it was her Christmas present Soon the first comments started coming in and someone said that if there was a full album they would be willing to buy it That was incentive enough for me and I sat down at my piano again to play the Christmas songs I knew which contained the lyrics to the songs… but when I heard the result So I decided to ask some colleagues and friends if they could sing them for me… and many said no because they didn’t have time or didn’t want to have anything to do with Christmas I found people who did want to participate: Joey Kelly Christmas always comes and there's nothing you can do to stop it ‘Flake feiert Weihnachten’ - Tracklist: Most of my early childhood I spent being embarrassed that my parents had accents and that my food at lunch always smelled differently than everyone else’s My dad always made me Arepas for school and no one would know what it was Kids would just stare and continue eating their goldfish Back then I didn’t get why it was always such a big deal when my grandparents came to visit I didn’t get why every time that we ordered at a restaurant we would get asked where we were from and at that age what kid really knows what’s going on A couple of days ago I went back home to visit my family in Sammamish sipping wine and looking through old photo albums while sharing memories of the last couple years A coffee-stained photo album wrapped in a sticky plastic case sat on the table I could tell it was one of the old ones because of the faded rose color and the bent worn-out corners Inside it held a grainy picture of me and my baby sister at the apartment pool in Caracas the caption read “Ana Paula cumple quatro!” My mind often wonders how a memory can feel so familiar yet so distant Something is still familiar about that photo except the location I grew up in the United States raised with a Hispanic family That was and has been my reality for as long as I can remember I never thought it was cool or special as a kid I never understood the sacrifices and the hard work that my parents had to take I never appreciated the opportunity that my family got to move here until recently I have never sat down and talked to my parents about what it was like from their perspective to move to another country There is something very brave about having to leave your parents My dad always plays it down any time the topic comes up “It’s just something we had to do” he says It was a beautiful country with rich food and majestic white sand beaches It was walking down to the local bakery and buying a ham “cachito” every morning It was the big family barbecues at the apartment pool and Christmas with all of the cousins It’s were they grew up and that is something Anyone with common sense will tell you Venezuela is at the brink of extinction now and only the wealthy can live somewhat comfortably Maybe one day I will ask my parents what it was like for them to move but sometimes I just think it’s easier for me to be naïve and not know   I remember my first day of kindergarten like it was yesterday Florida in 2003 and I did not understand a lick of English That day I was taken out of class to speak to a translator and she explained that I needed to take some English tests so they could see where I was at I was humiliated because I thought I was in trouble for not understanding what the teacher was saying and mats were laid down on the stinky carpet For someone that did not understand what nap time was but I used nap time as my excuse to why I didn’t like school That day and every day after I would cry to my mom at drop off time because of Little problems like these felt like the end of the world to me but I am sure there were much bigger that I never knew of I get asked all the time “Do you think in Spanish And my favorite one of all… “So why don’t you look Hispanic?” Most times I just laugh it off and give a simple answer I think that these questions deserve a deeper answer I think multiculturalism can be confusing and at the same time fascinating for those that are not a part of it and I choose to share interesting things about my culture but at times I have found that some people are just not educated on how to react or ask these types of questions These are all distant memories that flash into my mind when I think about moving countries Looking back now that Microsoft job opportunity that was offered to my dad was the most influential decision that he ever made for us I am 21 years old now and I can say that I appreciate my upbringing more now than ever before It is a part of my life that I want my kids to grow up with I believe that multiculturalism is something beautiful and should be celebrated instead of something to hide from with only a plastic bag full of homemade wheat bread and desire for a better life my father and his friend crossed an old wire fence as if they were going on a picnic Keep Your Distance By: Angie Griggs | December 16 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLVkKyr7vqk&feature=youtu.be Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Share on print Print Recent “This I Timberline: A Board Story By: Mitchell Delmage | December 17 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=EewCstkkrAA Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Share on print Print Recent “This Northwest Public Broadcasting Watch Online Listen Online Download KTNW Schedule Download 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She attended Citizen Science Water Monitor Training to become a certified Roanoke River Monitor focused on obtaining samples of benthic invertebrates This helps the Roanoke River Roundtable team to assess the health of the Roanoke River and identify areas to improve water quality She is constantly looking for ways to improve herself and our department with a great attitude and a team-based approach she ensures everyone is aware of it to get as much training for our department as possible She shares her knowledge with other team members and takes their advice on ways that we can improve operations She is always asking if she can be of assistance with any items on my plate and has consistently performed these tasks amazingly well.” Lanzara: “I love that numerous resources are readily available to anyone in the Roanoke community that seeks them From leadership classes through the Roanoke Regional Chamber to kayaking hiking and biking in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.” How does your 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topological material opening intriguing new research directions for optoelectronics and quantum computing Excitons are charge-neutral quasiparticles created when light is absorbed by a semiconductor Consisting of an excited electron coupled to a lower-energy electron vacancy or hole surviving only until the electron and hole recombine which limits its usefulness in applications “If we want to make progress in quantum computing and create more sustainable electronics we need longer exciton lifetimes and new ways of transferring information that don’t rely on the charge of electrons,” said Alessandra Lanzara Lanzara is a senior faculty scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a UC Berkeley physics professor “Here we’re leveraging topological material properties to make an exciton that is long lived and very robust to disorder.”  the researchers hoped to achieve a state in which an electron trapped on the surface was coupled to a hole that remained confined in the bulk Such a state would be spatially indirect – extending from the surface into the bulk – and could retain the special spin properties inherent to topological surface states “If we want to make progress in quantum computing and create more sustainable electronics we need longer exciton lifetimes and new ways of transferring information that don’t rely on the charge of electrons.” The team used a state-of-the-art technique that Lanzara helped pioneer and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy which uses ultrafast pulses of light to probe the properties of electrons in a material a well-studied topological insulator that offered the precise properties they needed: an electronic state combining the topological surface characteristics with those of the insulating bulk “We knew that bismuth telluride had the right electronic structure to support a spatially indirect exciton but finding the right experimental conditions took hundreds of hours,” said Lanzara “It was a huge joy for everyone when we saw the excitonic state we were looking for.”  The team studied the formation of the excitonic state and characterized its interaction with other charge carriers in the material These observations already constituted a breakthrough but the team went a step further by also measuring the state’s spin character and demonstrating the persistence of the topological material’s strong spin polarization in the excitonic state “We studied this new excitonic state and found that it does indeed inherit characteristics of both excitons and topological states,” said first-author Ryo Mori who worked on this project as a postdoctoral scholar and is now a faculty member at the University of Tokyo “This finding opens up opportunities for future applications that combine properties of both such as opto-spintronics and possibly new quantum information technology.” and many mysteries remain in the fundamental properties,” Mori continued we still cannot conclude the hole’s spin in the current measurement How does spin affect the exciton pairing mechanism how do we control the properties of this state so we can use it in an application?”  The team’s findings are described in a paper published in the journal Nature Co-authors include researchers from Berkeley Lab The research was supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest scientific challenges are best addressed by teams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its scientists have been recognized with 16 Nobel Prizes Berkeley Lab researchers develop sustainable energy and environmental solutions Scientists from around the world rely on the Lab’s facilities for their own discovery science Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to 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For more information, please visit energy.gov/science The annual Bakar Prize provides additional resources to help innovators translate their discoveries into real-world solutions Three former Bakar Fellows were named winners of the 2023 Bakar Prize: Markita Landry Four UC Berkeley faculty members have been awarded the 2023 Bakar Prize which is designed to give a boost to innovators as they translate their discoveries into real-world solutions The prize is given annually to former Bakar Fellows and provides additional resources to ensure a successful transition of their technology from academic research to industry applications the Bakar Fellows Programs has supported 64 Faculty Fellows and more than 50 Innovation Fellows as graduate students or postdoctoral fellows The program continues to attract and support innovative research teams that are committed to moving their basic research discoveries into real-world applications Markita Landry associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering: Bypassing plant regeneration with nanotechnologies to deliver DNA Plants are vastly underrepresented among the many biological systems in which genetic engineering is routine Technologies to genetically manipulate plants yield random DNA integration into the plant genome are inefficient and require transgene segregation through laborious breeding if labeling as a genetically modified organism (GMO) is to be avoided it can take months or years to obtain and test a plant genetic variant One main bottleneck facing efficient plant genetic modification is efficient biomolecule delivery into plant cells through the rigid and multi-layered cell wall Landry’s lab has developed a nanotechnology that enables high-throughput delivery of biomolecules to plants without requiring expensive equipment or refrigeration of reagents The method results in transient protein expression without incorporation of foreign DNA into the plant genome Alessandra Lanzara professor of physics: A New Quantum Detection Tool for Quantum Information Science There is a worldwide race to build quantum computers that will allow for complex and currently impossible calculations in fields such as cryptography and protein modeling Key to this revolution in computing is an understanding of how to build a quantum bit or “qubit,” the basic unit of information in a quantum computer an intrinsic property of all elementary particles and the quantum-mechanical counterpart of angular momentum in classical physics is viewed as one of the leading candidates for qubits Scientists will need new tools to access and control the spin quantum number especially in those materials such as superconductors and topological insulators that hold great promise for quantum computing Lanzara’s research group has developed a one-of-a-kind tool called spin-Time of Flight (spin-TOF) which allows mapping and manipulation of the spin property of materials and is a thousandfold more efficient than other existing tools Her Bakar Fellows Award will enable her to commercialize spin-TOF for use by researchers in the fields of quantum materials and computing and also undertake research and development of the next generation tool for industry applications Rikky Muller associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences: Ear EEG: Hearables That Read Your Mind and Your Dreams Smart earbuds and hearing aids known as hearables have transformed the headphone and audiology landscape In addition to enhancing enjoyment of music and conversation technologically advanced electronic in-ear devices controlled by touch movement or voice are being applied to medical monitoring Muller’s research group has developed EarEEG which uses lightweight in-ear earbuds to detect the brain’s electrical activity Electroencephalography (EEG) is recorded non-invasively from the ear canal and transmitted wirelessly to the user’s smartphone Her goal is to enable the seamless connection of mind to device in a variety of user interface Jaijeet Roychowdhury professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences: Oscillator Ising Machines for Combinatorial Optimization combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous drug design and communication networks all involve finding the optimal solution from among millions or billions of possibilities “Quantum annealing” machines have been proposed to solve such problems quickly expensive and difficult to scale to solve ever-larger problems have invented a new approach called an Oscillator Ising Machine (OIM) which solves combinatorial optimization problems using coupled electronic oscillator circuits Because OIMs are based on conventional integrated circuit technology less expensive and more scalable alternative OIM chips may become a standard technology The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is launching its inaugural USD5-billion multicurrency Euro Commercial Paper (AIIB ECP) program in February 2023 The program expands AIIB’s short-term funding options and demonstrates the Bank’s agility in meeting investors’ demand for sustainable investment through high-quality debt capital market issuance programs “We are excited to give our global investment community partners access to another high-quality short-term debt instrument that will also help AIIB build on its strong development agenda,” said AIIB Treasurer Domenico Nardelli “The program will address investors’ demand and help AIIB optimize its liquidity management.” AIIB has received a top short-term rating of Prime-1 (P-1) from Moody’s Investors Service, A-1+ from Standard and Poor’s (S&P) and F-1+ from Fitch Ratings. The highest level of credit quality is also reflected on AIIB’s long-term Triple-A ratings received from major international credit rating agencies The current AIIB ECP program dealers are Bank of America Merrill Lynch Goldman Sachs International and Natwest Markets The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank whose mission is financing the Infrastructure for Tomorrow—infrastructure with sustainability at its core We began operations in Beijing in January 2016 and have since grown to 106 approved members worldwide We are capitalized at USD100 billion and Triple-A-rated by the major international credit rating agencies AIIB meets clients’ needs by unlocking new capital and investing in infrastructure that is green technology-enabled and promotes regional connectivity AIIB logo is available in JPEG and PDF format The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) hosted a panel discussion on “Mobilizing Finance for Sustainable Infrastructure” on April 29 at the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) as part of a series of lead-up events for the tenth Annual Meeting of the AIIB Board of Governors Antalya Airport – Türkiye’s second-busiest international gateway – is receiving significant support for its expansion programs from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) The airport is undergoing major expansion to meet growing demand while integrating sustainable infrastructure solutions As an important entry point for international tourism Antalya Airport plays a key role in supporting Türkiye’s rapidly recovering tourism sector and enhancing regional connectivity the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF) have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to enhance collaboration on ASEAN-related infrastructure initiatives reaffirming the three institutions’ commitment to jointly supporting sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in the region The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) today announced the appointment of Ajay Bhushan Pandey as Vice President of Investment Solutions Pandey provides strategic leadership and oversees three key departments: the Sectors Themes and Finance Solutions Department (STF); the Sustainability and Fiduciary Solutions Department (SFD); and the Portfolio Management Department (PMD) This site uses cookies. 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Read our privacy policy 2023] At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2023 Huawei will launch and showcase 10 new energy-efficient high-performance wireless network products and solutions The rapid development of 5G will stimulate the evolution of all bands to 5G To help operators maximize the value of each band and continuously improve network capabilities in multiple dimensions Huawei's 10 new wireless products and solutions not only deliver industry-leading performance they are also easier to operate and maintain (simplified O&M) The new products don't compromise on energy efficiency and are future-ready in terms of their ability to evolve as new user requirements come up 0 watt" for the lowest energy consumption and optimal energy efficiency By combining advanced software and hardware such as extremely large antenna array (ELAA) and the AHR algorithm the new ELAA-upgraded MetaAAU can achieve excellent coverage with optimal energy efficiency and ultra-low power consumption under a light load the upgraded MetaAAU can provide the same coverage with 50% less power consumption its power consumption can be slashed to less than 10 W #2 MetaAAU with the industry's largest bandwidth of 800 MHz: a single module for simplified deployment of full C-band; Meta BladeAAU featuring the industry's highest integration: a single antenna for the optimal configuration of all sub-6 GHz bands Huawei will launch the 800 MHz MetaAAU featuring the industry's largest bandwidth for discrete spectrum scenarios Thanks to innovative breakthroughs in ultra-wideband RF modules the ultra-wideband MetaAAU can cover full C-band enabling simplified deployment of 3400 MHz to 3800 MHz as well as 3800 MHz to 4200 MHz in the future For scenarios with limited antenna installation space Huawei will launch Meta BladeAAU by innovatively integrating Meta and Blade technologies The Meta BladeAAU allows all sub-6 GHz bands to be deployed on a single pole achieving optimal energy efficiency and performance for TDD bands while its passive part is upgraded to 2L8H to support on-demand optimal configuration of sub-3 GHz #3 Industry's lightest macro base station M-MIMO: weighing only 12 kg Through continuous innovation in M-MIMO system engineering Huawei's new 32T32R M-MIMO module for macro base stations weighs only 12 kg it also features the industry's lightest design meaning it can be installed with only one person and carried with one hand This helps increase operators' network construction efficiency #4 Ultra-wideband 4T4R RRU with the industry's lowest power consumption: worry-free deployment of all FDD bands and all RATs Huawei's ultra-wideband FDD RRU series consistently maintains the industry's lowest power consumption Incorporating the latest hardware and algorithms ultra-wideband 4T4R remote radio unit (RRU) supports simplified deployment of all FDD bands and all radio access technologies (RATs) while slashing energy consumption by 20% the RRU features built-in PIM interference cancellation technology and SingleCell to improve edge user-perceived rate by 20% the industry's outstanding performer: all-scenario optimal power consumption Owing to the 5G New Radio high-precision beamforming technology designed for FDD bands ultra-wideband 8T8R RRU can simultaneously boost network capacity and coverage the Power-Boosting technology enables 100% dynamic power sharing between carriers and between RATs allowing the same performance at 30% lower power consumption Power-Adapting supports on-demand power scheduling to achieve equivalent basic power consumption for 8T8R and 4T4R RRUs #6 Industry's unique large-scale commercial FDD M-MIMO an outstanding performer; FDD BladeAAU for the simplest deployment of sub-3 GHz on a single pole Huawei's FDD M-MIMO has been widely commercialized around the world as it is able to increase capacity by five times The newly launched FDD BladeAAU is a combination of FDD M-MIMO and advanced transparent antenna technology It achieves optimal sub-3 GHz coverage and ultimate capacity while supporting single-pole deployment #7 LampSite 5.0 featuring the industry's highest integration: simplified deployment and lowest power consumption and industry-unique distributed M-MIMO for optimal experience Huawei's LampSite 5.0 supports TDD+FDD multi-band Its high integration design reduces weight and volume by 25% With the help of industry's unique distributed M-MIMO it translates interference to gains and brings 4-fold network capacity It has become the top choice for scenarios such as airports #8 SDIF: 20% higher all-band energy efficiency becoming a leading sustainable developer of the antenna industry Signal direct injection feeding (SDIF) is Huawei's unique advanced antenna technology It saves a large number of feeders and cables and improves amplitude and phase precision while significantly reducing impedance loss Huawei's SDIF technology is designed for all antenna scenarios and series to meet band- and region-specific configuration requirements bringing about a 20% increase in the energy efficiency of all bands enabling comprehensive transport network upgrade The new 2T products that support conventional bands (with 800 MHz bandwidth) allow more carriers to be aggregated The new 2T products supporting E-band provide 25 Gbps capacity And thanks to higher transmission power and intelligent beam tracking antennas their transmission distance is 50% longer than the industry's best #10 IntelligentRAN: doubled energy saving gains signaling a new direction for RAN intelligence Huawei IntelligentRAN brings intelligence to the radio access network (RAN) and provides three major functions: iPowerstar The live network test results have demonstrated that the iPowerstar doubles the energy saving effect compared with conventional solutions while the iHashband improves user experience by 30% and the iFaultcare boosts troubleshooting efficiency by 40% IntelligentRAN will bring various intelligent applications to more scenarios and enable in-depth collaboration between all bands and all scenarios Huawei's 10 new solutions will help operators evolve all bands to 5G through multiple unique innovations in the industry and provide users with the ultimate mobile network experience Huawei will continue to innovate with global customers to achieve a win-win future for 5G Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists and an affiliate scientist have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a prestigious organization honoring excellence in science The 242-year-old academy supports multidisciplinary research to advance the country’s common good. Current focus areas include energy and environment, science and technology, and global affairs. The Berkeley Lab members were among 261 new members announced recently The new members are faculty scientists Gerbrand Ceder Ramamoorthy Ramesh and Pamela Ronald and affiliate scientist Omar Yaghi Gerbrand Ceder is a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division and a materials science and engineering professor at UC Berkeley machine learning and experimentation to study relationships between materials’ structures and their physical and chemical properties The goal is to better design high-quality functional materials for energy storage applications sodium and multi-valent ion-based batteries Alessandra Lanzara is a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division Kittel Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and the founder and director of the university’s Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation Lanzara’s research focuses on a fascinating class of new materials where quantum phenomena drive exceptional new properties Her main focus is on unconventional superconductivity and two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures angle- and spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to understand the fundamental physics that drives these properties Ramamoorthy Ramesh is a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division and a professor of materials science and engineering and physics at UC Berkeley His lab studies complex functional oxides to develop nanomaterials for improved computing power and low-power electronics He is recognized globally for his contributions to the complex functional oxides field and pioneered research in areas including the materials physics of ferroelectrics and multiferroics Pamela Ronald is a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division the director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute and a distinguished professor in the department of plant pathology and the Genome Center at UC Davis Ronald studies plant genes that control resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress Her work includes isolation of a gene that enables rice to survive weeks of flooding and dramatically increases yield improving food security globally for subsistence farmers Omar Yaghi is an affiliate scientist in the Materials Sciences Division former director of the Molecular Foundry user facility at Berkeley Lab and a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley His research group has pioneered metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): synthetic porous materials created by binding individual metal atoms or clusters and organic molecules in repeating patterns to form a crystal lattice MOFs could enable exciting new technologies including devices that capture and store greenhouse gases next-generation batteries and supercapacitors and platforms for efficient water filtration and drug delivery Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest scientific challenges are best addressed by teams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its scientists have been recognized with 14 Nobel Prizes DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science. Get important news about your town as it happens. Something went wrong. Please subscribe again. Get the top stories from across our network. Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from daily updates? A North Jersey fire official and his sister were taken into custody after a dispute allegedly got physical, multiple responders have confirmed. Police charged both Kevin Todd, 58, and Monica Todd Lanzara, 57, with simple assault following the incident at their parent's home on Williams Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights on Wednesday, Oct. 18.  Lanzara said she independently went to a CityMD in Teterboro on Thursday, rather than a hospital emergency room on Wednesday, and was diagnosed with fractured ribs. She said Friday that she's sent the report to police. Both siblings were released pending a hearing in Municipal Court -- which may have to be moved to another venue because Todd is the first assistant fire chief in Hasbrouck Heights. Todd also is a captain with North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue, which covers all of northern Hudson County, the fire official in Allendale and an instructor at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. Police got a call from Lanzara's husband at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 18, according to the daily public Hasbrouck Heights Police Department blotter. He then took photos of Todd being arrested, which Lanzara posted publicly on Facebook on Thursday along with a comment calling the incident "just another act of domestic violence on a woman." Methods: According to PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic search of the literature on PubMed, Scopus, ISI Web of Science, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, and ScienceDirect. The articles were selected using multiple combinations of relevant search terms (e.g., defined somatization and related disorders, and migration status). Each database was searched systematically from January 2000 to December 2017. Conclusion: Somatization is a challenge for health professionals due to its vague nature. In this regard, clinical management of immigrant patients should include further efforts to address emotional distress, with special attention to social, cultural, and linguistic differences. Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02792 This article is part of the Research TopicRefugee Mental HealthView all 15 articles Background: Somatic and psychopathological conditions (e.g. and somatization) are frequent among immigrants belonging to various ethnic groups Worldwide findings on the epidemiology regarding specific mental conditions still vary with respect to different migration samples and migration contexts This inconsistency also holds true in the incidence of somatization among migrants We carried out a systematic review analyzing the relationship between migration and somatization by providing a qualitative data synthesis of original research articles on the topic we conducted a systematic search of the literature on PubMed The articles were selected using multiple combinations of relevant search terms (e.g. defined somatization and related disorders Each database was searched systematically from January 2000 to December 2017 Results: The initial search identified 338 records of which 42 research reports met the predefined inclusion criteria and were analyzed Most studies (n = 38; 90%) were cross-sectional The main findings of this study are that migrants with somatization exhibited more psychological distress had an increased perceived need for healthcare service utilization and reported more post-migration living difficulties and/or post-traumatic stress disorder than those without somatization It was also found that specific individual features mediate the association between somatization and migration The prevalence and correlates of somatization were found to vary across the immigrant groups depending on cultural variation in reasons for migration Conclusion: Somatization is a challenge for health professionals due to its vague nature clinical management of immigrant patients should include further efforts to address emotional distress imposing a considerable economic burden on health services systematic attempts to investigate the frequency and clinical-psychological correlates of somatization in a wide spectrum of migrant populations have thus far not been undertaken we carried out a systematic review examining the prevalence and treatment of somatization in individuals with migratory background by providing a qualitative data synthesis of the studies The inclusion of papers in this review was extended to those investigating somatization as the somatic clinical presentation of psychological distress or mental disorder (according to DSM-IV or DSM-5) we expected that: (1) somatization would be significantly associated with migration because of the supposed high exposure to stressful experiences in individuals with migratory backgrounds; and (2) the prevalence and correlates of somatization would vary across immigrant groups depending on cultural variations in reasons for migration Eligible articles included all English language papers published in peer-reviewed journals from January 2000 to December 2017 reporting data on the presence of somatization in first-generation immigrants When a title or abstract seemed to describe a study eligible for inclusion the full text was examined to consider its relevance according to the inclusion criteria and clearly irrelevant papers were excluded Since somatization is particularly difficult to operationalize we also excluded articles published before 2000 for a greater homogeneity on the meaning of somatization (1) examine a population of first-generation adult immigrants. Immigrants are defined as foreign born people who have moved to another country for the purpose of settlement (Perruchoud and Redpath-Cross, 2011) This definition includes economic migrants (2) investigate somatization defined as somatic presentation of psychological distress or high levels of somatic preoccupation and worry about illness or the clinical presentation of psychiatric disorder according to DSM-IV or DSM-5; or DSM criteria for assessing somatization This systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines (Liberati et al., 2009) Each database was systematically searched for articles from January 2000 to December 2017 for reports thus identified as potentially relevant Studies were discarded where the full text was unavailable Searching and determining the eligibility of target responses were carried out independently by the three investigators M.S.) performed the initial data extraction by removing duplicates and all the articles that appeared clearly irrelevant based on the salience of the title and after reading the specific abstract The full texts of the remaining studies were independently assessed for eligibility by all authors After a full-text evaluation of the potentially relevant studies the three authors reached a consensus regarding eligibility and excluded all the research articles that not meet the inclusion criteria Distribution of the 43 relevant selected studies The reviewed studies were published between 2000 and 2017 These 42 papers reported the results of 38 cross-sectional analyses and four longitudinal analyses the studies are mainly grouped and described based on the characteristics of migrant populations at risk for somatization participants were classified as somatizers when they reported six or more DSM-IV symptoms of somatization disorder no significant group differences in rates of somatization were found who investigated somatization-related complaint differences between 144 Turkish immigrants found that Turkish groups living in Turkey reported a higher tendency to somatize followed by Turkish immigrants and Belgians where 24.2% of the total sample exhibited severe levels of somatization 53.1% also reported comorbid severe levels of depression (r = 0.74) adverse lifetime events (p < 0.05) and social support (p < 0.05) were significantly related to somatization investigating a sample of pregnant immigrant women found that although abused women were more likely to have inadequate social support and to report more depression social support status did not affect somatization and psychological distress of Tibetan refugees in India who reported trauma exposure The authors used data on coping strategies and cognitive appraisal of experience severity to test the hypothesis that these mechanisms mediate psychological outcomes Participants reported notably low psychological and somatic symptoms; thus coping activity (primarily religious) and subjective appraisals of the severity of their experiences (i.e. social comparison) appeared to mitigate the psychological effects of trauma exposure participants experienced a significant decrease in symptoms of PTSD Six studies explored the associations between somatization and variations in perceptions of health, service utilization patterns, and treatment preferences in migrant populations. Karasz et al. (2007) investigated cultural differences in illness experience using a sample of immigrants divided into two groups: European Americans (n = 36) and South Asians (n = 35) but the organization of illness episodes and explanatory models associated with these episodes differed sharply Twenty percent of all European American psychological illness problems (but none of South Asian problems) were explained entirely by physical or somatic causes 43% of European American psychological problems included at least one physical cause while only 4% of psychological problems in the South Asian group included at least one physical cause The study showed that immigrant women who reported abuse associated with pregnancy (7.6%) were more likely to have symptoms of somatization (p < 0.001) and PTSD (p < 0.001) despite the high prevalence of potentially traumatizing events The authors observed that coping activity appeared to mediate the effects of trauma exposure on psychological distress [F(2 and talked about current difficult life conditions (financial worries and lack of social support) as perpetuating their symptoms and posing barriers to improvement The present study aimed to systematically investigate published original research reports evaluating the emerging clinical links between migration and somatization by providing a qualitative data synthesis of the studies The main findings of this study are that migrants with somatization were more psychologically distressed and reported more PMLD and/or PTSD than those without somatization Specific individual features mediated the association between somatization and migration the likelihood of somatization varied widely among the different groups and was significantly higher in Latin Americans These results suggest that the relationship between somatization and migration is particularly complex and culturally mediated; hence any diagnosis or treatment of the individual with migratory background must be grounded in some knowledge of the person's ethnic origin Postulating the existence of such an intimate and harmonious connection between somatization and ethnicity overlooks a pivotal distinction: while it is true that ethnic variations can and do affect psychopathological presentations some pathogenic features are so overwhelming that they will be expressed in any environment However, negative emotions seem to be associated with somatization, independent of the migration factor (Beirens and Fontaine, 2011). The explanatory models of illness episodes may differ sharply among different cultural groups, yet psychological attribution is rarely accepted; instead, individuals tend to communicate distress through concrete expressions about the body (Bäärnhielm and Ekblad, 2000; Karasz et al., 2007) somatization may not necessarily be a pathological mechanism among migrant populations but rather a product of cultural differences it would be advisable for future studies to use the same instruments with consistent cutoff points for somatization and after that a validation of the questionnaire health care professionals should be aware of the immigrant patients' tendency to somatize psychological distress and of their ascriptions of meaning of symptoms within a multicultural milieu and post-migration experiences all include risk factors for mental health the complexity of both the migratory phenomenon and acculturative stress The present review supports the need to determine the psychological 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spirit get the money and time to translate their laboratory breakthroughs into technologies ready for the marketplace faculty scientists with novel ideas and an entrepreneurial spirit have been named to the 2019-20 cohort of Bakar Fellows an honor that gives the fellows the money and time to translate their laboratory breakthroughs into technologies ready for the marketplace The awards foster a culture that led Forbes magazine to rank Berkeley the No 3 entrepreneurial university in the country several years ago and keeps the campus at the top nationwide in terms of venture capital-funded startups and women-led venture capital-backed startups While some new fellows may become future CEOs mentors and faculty founders with advice for equally entrepreneurial students according to the program’s faculty director “Our goal is to boost projects with applied potential but also to make visible the faculty who are interested in translating their discoveries out into the world in some way,” Herr said “This is particularly important for students and postdocs who are in environments where startups are not visible or celebrated — or perhaps they have not viewed themselves as entrepreneurial just yet — to connect them with people who can advise and make connections.” The Bakar Fellows Program at Berkeley fosters faculty entrepreneurship in fields including engineering the biological and physical sciences and architecture The seven new Bakar Faculty Fellows, up from five fellows in previous years Arash Komeili associate professor of plant and microbial biology who is engineering bacteria to efficiently isolate metals from minerals thereby minimizing the environmental damage typical of traditional mining Markita Landry assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering who has invented a nanoparticle-based method for delivering DNA and other biomolecules into plants that she is developing for high-throughput Alessandra Lanzara whose research group has invented a way to measure and control the spin quantum number of electrons in materials She is now exploring the technique’s application in quantum computing Roya Maboudian professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering who is adapting her discovery — an environmentally-friendly porous crystalline material with a strong affinity for carbon dioxide — into an inexpensive and highly sensitive color-coded carbon dioxide detector Niren Murthy who created a chemical amplification system called DETECT that will help rapidly identify bacterial drug resistance and improve the treatment of bacterial infections in humans Raluca Ada Popa assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science who is designing a secure computation platform that allows collaborative study of aggregated encrypted data to maintain data privacy and to avoid transfers of unencrypted data Kenichi Soga Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who invented next-generation sensor systems based on distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technology He is adapting these sensors to aid engineers in understanding the performance of the nation’s infrastructure and to identify age-related weaknesses and potential failures faculty director of the Bakar Fellows Program the Bakar Fellows Program has benefited 43 Berkeley faculty and their research groups by helping them develop their innovations for the market in areas considered likely to stimulate California’s economy The program is a resource as innovators navigate the so-called Valley of Death — the gap between benchtop discovery and real-world application — that “The goal of the program is to keep entrepreneurial faculty at the university,” emphasized Herr “Taking entrepreneurial leave to get a startup off the ground is wonderful Having faculty with startup experience on our campus every day — advising mentoring — transforms the student experience We work to make faculty who are experienced inventors and entrepreneurs a visible resource to our community.” “often the best qualified and best positioned people to lead these startups are our postdoctoral and grad student alumni.” To build this larger community, the Bakar Innovation Fellows program was launched two years ago to engage graduate students and postdoctoral scholars already working in the research groups of Bakar Faculty Fellows Several of the Bakar Innovation Fellows are now leading startups stemming from the program The 2018-19 Bakar Innovation Fellows: Christopher Barnes A prime example is Tinctorium Inc. Its chief scientific officer was a Bakar Innovation Fellow with John Dueber a Berkeley professor of bioengineering and a 2014-2015 Bakar Faculty Fellow They created a genetically engineered microbe that produces an environmentally friendly and sustainable indigo dye to color blue jeans Hsu launched Tinctorium last year with Dueber as bioengineering adviser “Tammy was considering starting a company based on her graduate work but there is obviously a lot more to starting a company than the science and technology,” Dueber said “The Bakar Fellows Program was emboldening by providing interactions with other students who were undergoing similar challenges while having an eye toward ultimately commercializing their work The program also provided organized interactions with successful entrepreneurs where fellows could ask questions and get valued advice.” and Michelle Zhu are co-founders of Tinctorium a company producing a sustainable indigo dye “We focus on faculty because they are the node through which we can sustainably infuse experience and resources to the campus,” Herr added “but the more I learn about taking discoveries and inventions out into the world the more I realize that it is really pioneering alumni like Tammy who are going to make it happen.” Current Bakar Fellow David Schaffer — who has spun off four companies focused on gene therapies protein engineering and biomaterials — is sold on the program “The Bakar is an important and terrific program that provides critical resources to give freedom to entrepreneurs as they translate their ideas and innovations toward companies and products,” said Schaffer a Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center Alessandra Lanzara, a Piedmont resident and physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley is among the 261 members nominated on April 28 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) Lanzara joins the company of other notable AAAS members spanning multiple fields and professions ranging from the founders of the Academy and scientists that have shaped our society such as John F in addition to more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners “We are celebrating a depth of achievements in a breadth of areas,” said David Oxtoby “These individuals excel in ways that excite us and inspire us at a time when recognizing excellence and working toward the common good is absolutely essential to realizing a better future.” The new members will work together with the Academy to set the direction of research and analysis in science and technology policy “It is an incredible honor for me to join a circle of thinkers and visionaries who have inspired the history of humanity Leaving my country and my family has required many sacrifices and to overcome a lot of challenges being awarded with this incredible recognition makes it all worthwhile,” Lanzara said Italy in 1999 to conduct postdoctoral research at Stanford University “I thought I was going to be here for only six months,” Lanzara said “But life often has a different plan for us so here I am 20 years later.”  Lanzara joined UC Berkeley’s physics faculty in 2002 and the founder and director of the Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation She works in the area of quantum materials — materials where quantum phenomena dictate exceptional new properties “If we are able to understand the fundamental physics that drives these properties then we will be able to harvest these materials to drive revolutionary advances in electronics Lanzara has also been an active advocate for women in science and a promoter of kids engaging with science from a young age serving on the scientific board of the Lawrence Hall of Science appearing as a presenter at the “Scienza palooza” fair and taking on the role of speaker at Nano High She has served here in Piedmont on the board of the Piedmont Makers and has been a speaker at the Makers Fair Lanzara lives in Piedmont with her husband an entrepreneur and chief product officer at Nauto “Piedmont is an incredible community; I have found many friends here and it has been great to see my kids thrive over the years through the Piedmont school system inspired by incredible and dedicated teachers I hope I can help to set a strong science program in the high school and continue being an inspiration for young women and young kids who want to pursue a scientific career,” Lanzara said We are so proud to have this incredible scholar The Exedra comments section is an essential part of the site. 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Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" independent news site created by a group of Piedmont citizens and launched in November 2018 Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News a form of carbon whose existence was thought to be impossible until it was actually made in 2004 holds the promise of a new generation of faster before graphene can be engineered into transistors or other electronic devices a gap must be introduced into the electronic band structure of its two-dimensional crystal by a multi-institutional collaboration under the leadership of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California at Berkeley Utilizing intensely bright beams of x-rays from Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) the collaborative team showed that when an epitaxial film of graphene is grown on a silicon carbide substrate a significant energy band gap — 0.26 electron volts (eV) — is produced "We propose that this gap is created when the graphene lattice's symmetry is broken as a result of the interaction between the graphene and the substrate and we believe that these results highlight a promising direction for the band-gap engineering of graphene," says Alessandra Lanzara a physicist who holds a joint appointment with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department Lanzara was the principal investigator for this study Graphene is a densely packed single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern like a honeycomb that forms a two-dimensional sheet; it has been described as a carbon nanotube "unrolled." Although made from graphite graphene is seen more as a diamond-in-the-rough by the electronics industry Electrons can move ballistically through graphene even at room temperature which means they can fly through the sheet like photons through a vacuum undergoing none of the collisions with atoms that generate heat and limit the speed and size of silicon-based devices because carbon has the highest melting point of any element and graphene the highest rate of thermal conductivity it should be possible to operate electronic devices made from graphene at much higher temperatures than silicon-based devices What graphene lacks is a gap between its valence and conduction electron-energy bands — the band gap that defines semiconductors These bands are the energies where electrons are either tightly bound to their host atoms (valence band) or free to move through the material (conduction band) graphene sheets cannot be used in electronics technology While there are several promising efforts underway to induce such a gap through doping or through the fabrication of confined geometric structures like quantum dots or nanoribbons Lanzara and her team have demonstrated that growing epitaxial graphene on a silicon carbide substrate could be a much easier approach one that would work even with bulk graphene this is the first demonstration that a semiconducting band gap can be created in graphene without doping or confining the geometry," says physicist Shuyn Zhou a member of Lanzara's research group who also holds a joint appointment with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department Using a probe technique called ARPES (angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) plus the unique research capabilities of ALS beamlines 12.0.1 and 7.0.1 also known as the Electronic Structure Factory Zhou and their colleagues obtained electronic spectra of graphene layers on a silicon carbide substrate with unprecedented detail in the low-energy portion of the spectrum The detail revealed a semiconductor band gap where none had been previously reported "The band gap decreases as sample thickness increases and eventually approaches zero when the number of graphene film layers exceeds four," says Lanzara "Manipulating sample thickness might be one way of doing band-gap engineering but the range of band gaps achievable is relatively small We believe a more promising way to achieve a large range of band gaps might be through substrate engineering Different substrates will have different potentials and the strength of the interaction between the graphene and the substrate should lead to different band-gap sizes Already there are predictions that a similar mechanism might open band gaps in graphene on a boron nitride substrate." we need the interaction between graphene and the substrate to be strong enough that a band gap will be opened up But on the other hand the interaction cannot not be so strong that we lose the important properties of graphene We will be investigating possible substrates for achieving this but we have shown that epitaxial graphene devices can in principle be fabricated using the existing silicon-based technology." Although the use of epitaxial graphene as the host material for microelectronic technology remains a few miles down the road the demonstration that electronic band gaps can be created in bulk graphene is a critical step towards that goal Alessandra Lanzara and Wentao Zhang used time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) to demonstrate a link between electron-boson coupling and high-temperature superconductivity in a high-Tc cuprate Imagine being able to tune the properties of a solid material just by flashing pulses of light on it for example turning an  insulator into a superconductor That is just one potential payoff down-the-road from the physical phenomenon of electrons and atoms interacting with ultrashort pulses of light The technology of ultrafast spectroscopy is a key to understanding this phenomenon and now a new wrinkle to that technology has been introduced by Berkeley Lab researchers In a study led by Alessandra Lanzara of Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) was used to directly measure the ultrafast response of electron self-energy – a fundamental quantity used to describe “many-body” interactions in a material – to photo-excitation with near-infrared light in a high-temperature superconductor The results demonstrated a link between the phenomena of electron-boson coupling and superconductivity such an atomic nucleus with an even number of protons and neutrons “Below the critical temperature of the superconductor ultrafast excitations triggered a synchronous decrease of electron self-energy and the superconducting energy gap that continued until the gap was quenched,” says Lanzara “Above the critical temperature of the superconductor electron–boson coupling was unresponsive to ultrafast excitations These findings open a new pathway for studying transient self-energy and correlation effects in solids The study of electrons and atoms interacting with intense ultra-short optical pulses is an emerging field of physics because of the roles these interactions play in modulating the electronic structures and properties of materials such as high-temperature superconductors ARPES has been the long-standing technique of choice for studying the electronic structure of a material beams of ultraviolet or X-ray light striking the surface or interface of a sample material cause the photoemission of electrons at angles and kinetic energies that can be measured to reveal detailed information about the material’s electronic band structures ARPES lacks the temporal component required for studying band structural dynamics These trARPES spectra of doped Bi2212 show photoemission intensity before pumping (t= −1 ps) and after pumping (t=1 and t=10 ps) The arrows mark the position of a kink that signifies the coupling of the electrons to bosons Lanzara and a collaboration that included Wentao Zhang lead author of a paper on this work in Nature Communications added the necessary temporal component in their trARPES study They applied this technique to a material known as Bi2212 and copper oxide that is considered one of the most promising of high-temperature superconductors They energized the Bi2212 samples with femtosecond pulses of near-infrared laser light then probed the results with femtosecond pulses of ultra-violet laser light The delay time between pump and probe pulses was precisely controlled so that the electron-boson coupling and the superconducting gap could be tracked at the same time there is a known kink in the photoemission pattern that signifies the coupling of the electrons to bosons,” says Zhang whether this kink is related in any way to superconductivity has been highly debated Zhang’s Nature Communications paper, for which Lanzara is the corresponding author, is titled “Ultrafast quenching of electron–boson interaction and superconducting gap in a cuprate.” Other co-authors are Choongyu Hwang Department of Energy’s Office of Science For more about the research of Alessandra Lanzara go here it presents the seas and oceans – 71% of the Earth’s surface – as a unified body of water.The map was designed by a renaissance man who also invented the skyways of Minneapolis and the secret weather balloon that caused the Roswell Incident Dr Spilhaus was not just a distinguished meteorologist and oceanographer a device for measuring sea temperature at great depth – making it easier to detect German submarines he moved to the Minnesota Institute of Technology in Minneapolis Perhaps because of the huge contrast between the harsh local winters and Cape Town’s Mediterranean climate he conceived of a network of elevated covered walkways between buildings The Minneapolis Skyway System is currently 11 miles long connecting buildings across 80 city blocks Following his work on the undersea thermometer Dr Spilhaus helped develop a similar system of weather balloons for the Air Force When one such balloon crashed in New Mexico in 1947 the wreckage was whisked away with such speed and secrecy that the rumour mill went into overdrive Some today still claim the crashed device was an extra-terrestrial space ship – the infamous ‘Roswell UFO’ Dr Spilhaus built some 3,000 varieties of children’s toys and for 15 years authored a science-focused globally syndicated weekly comic strip called Our New Age Dr Spilhaus became America’s first representative on the executive board of Unesco the UN’s educational and cultural department president Kennedy appointed him to direct the U.S exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair “The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip” Image: Picturing Meteorology Dr Spilhaus also proposed the establishment of Sea Grant Colleges – a network of institutes of higher learning focusing on the exploitation and conservation of marine areas Designed in 1942 while Dr Spilhaus was working on his bathythermograph it reverses the land-based bias of traditional cartographic projections The Spilhaus projection – a combination of the Hammer and Spielmann projections – places the poles of the map in South America and China ripping up continents to show the high seas as one interrupted whole The earth-sea is perforated by Antarctica and Australia one at the top of the map and the other on the lower right hand side mark the same spot: the Bering Strait – as a reminder that what we’re looking at is not in fact a vast inland sea but a body of water that circles the entire globe the oceans are so vast that they become easy to ignore Rather than just use them as background noise this map focuses on the watery bits of our planet That’s not just a refreshingly different viewpoint but Our oceans produce between 50% and 85% of the world’s oxygen and are a major source of food for humanity Maritime ‘dead zones’ – with zero oxygen and zero marine life – have quadrupled since the 1950s The trend is fuelled by climate change (warmer waters hold less oxygen) and fertiliser and sewage runoff from the land Perhaps this map can do what Earthrise did for the planet as a whole Taken in 1966 by astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8 – the first manned mission to circle the moon – that picture shows our planet rising above the lunar surface an inversion of the moonrises so familiar to humankind It’s been called “the most influential environmental photograph ever” because it so clearly visualises the earth as a single The oceans need a similarly powerful unifying visual this projection reminds us that saving the planet is pointless if we don’t also save the seas it generates new fantasy countries out of two existing ones Got a strange map? 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By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy Get your intro offer.  It looks like your email isn't registered yet—let’s get you set up We've sent a code to the below email.  Clearly, Aussies love running A growing number of run clubs are popping up across the country with runners meeting up at one spot and finishing together at a designated spot – a local cafe generally many with their own specialty when it comes to food and drinks have also amassed significant followings online and turned into little pockets of influence in their local communities.  Co-founded by three gym mates Jacob Fidler Alesio Lanzara and Brendan Ng in November 2023 The Sandwich Run can be spotted on the social feeds of various eating establishments in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond “We’d set out on a 30km long run during marathon training the first time a few of us had run this distance we went for a sandwich together and we concluded hitting these types of distances and keeping ourselves accountable for our races were a whole lot easier with good mates and good sandwiches This is where the idea for The Sandwich Run was born,” the co-founders told SmartCompany.  Building a community from the ground up proved easy as the trio reached out to fellow gym members who also expressed interest in the idea.  “This is when we created The Sandwich Run social media accounts so that we could share details about our upcoming runs and post videos capturing a summary of each week’s run,” they say.  “The social media accounts have been a real catalyst for us our community has expanded significantly and we now regularly have 30+ runners in attendance each week.” The unique sandwich place for each week is found through social media or community recommendations.  “We also give consideration to any special events that sandwich stores may have we visited Hugo’s Deli in Richmond for their second birthday event and Phuoc Thanh Bakery North Richmond for Lunar New Year.” You will find loads of local cafes using the group’s social media posts to run ads for their own business.  “We always encourage our followers to get out and visit the stores we run to We often get followers that meet us at the sandwich shop after the run instead of running and have had members tell us that they tried a place purely because we visited,” they added Initially created by a personal trainer with a social following to supplement her gym workouts with running Brisbane Girls Run Club started out as a Facebook page that held group runs intermittently took up the mantle in September 2023 with Megan Roxburgh and “officially” started the club with regular runs on Wednesdays and Sundays.  there would be no way to grow the club,” Reissis confesses.  The run club regularly visits the coffee shop Drip in Newstead because “we loved their vibe and they were right where our run course started and finished”.  “After going to Drip a few times we reached out to the owners who were so kind and generous and agreed to give us 10% off our orders Our Kangaroo Point cafe location (The Loop Cafe) actually reached out to us offering us also 10% off so we agreed to go there.” “The cafes have always been welcoming and obviously are expecting us.” the She Runs Club was founded by Millie Rowley only over a month ago It publishes a roster for its monthly runs and walks and the locations where each such run will end which boasts hundreds of thousands of views on its videos online has special events planned for the upcoming International Women’s Day and recorded 140 participants on its latest ‘Sydney walk’ last Sunday The club also has exclusive merchandise that members can get their hands on Rowley says she has “always been passionate about female friendship and wanted to create a community one day to empower one another as long as I can remember” “I saw run clubs were on the rise recently gaining so much traction and went to a few to discover the beauty of community,” she tells SmartCompany The club started by visiting the AP Bakery and Paramount Coffee Project Inspired by other run clubs that finish their runs with a treat like a pastry or a coffee Rowley says she feels “this is the perfect way to wrap up with a catch-up and treat” She admits the group has received social media attention and “personal thanks from the small businesses we have visited (recently Lou Lou and AP Bakery) as our reposting of their brands has helped them in reaching new audiences” who immigrated to Australia from the UK at the age of 11 A post shared by SHE RUNS (@she_runs_club) “I learn of the individual stories of girls who have moved to Sydney recently and haven’t been able to find any friends or how this community has now provided them with weekly girls that they hang out with outside She Runs An Oracle study suggests consumers are 37% more likely to believe posts shared by influencers online than a brand the importance of these run clubs can hardly be overstated While not influencers in the traditional sense of the word these run clubs have their dedicated followings online that also materialises in the real world — a feat even not many online celebrities can achieve.  Many of the businesses these run clubs have visited have been running sponsored ads on social media platforms using content curated by them A post shared by @thesandwichrun the co-founder of Saul’s – one of the businesses visited by The Sandwich Run – says the run clubs usually come in unannounced but after having about three such clubs visit “we are in conversation about having some planned ones” The business is also planning to collaborate with these run clubs in the future and believes it is a great way to build connections within the local community Reissis of the Brisbane Girls Run Club also shared how cafes roster more staff on the days they visit.  “They have put more staff on and reserved tables for us,” she says It seems running is no longer a solitary activity but a community-driven exercise that 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All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices whose unusual properties include electron-electron interactions between particles widely separated on graphene’s honeycomb lattice - here suggested by an artist’s impression of Feynman diagrams of such interactions unlike those that occur only over very short distances in ordinary metals alter the fundamental character of charge carriers in graphene a sheet of carbon only a single atom thick was an object of theoretical speculation long before it was actually made Theory predicts extraordinary properties for graphene but testing the predictions against experimental results is often challenging Now researchers using the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have taken an important step toward confirming that graphene is every bit as unusual as expected – perhaps even more so the lead author of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reporting the research team’s results with electronic properties that are even more interesting than one might suspect at first glance.” Siegel is a graduate student in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division (MSD) and a member of Alessandra Lanzara’s group in the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley He and his colleagues used ALS beamline 12.0.1 to probe a specially prepared sample of graphene with ARPES (angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) in order to observe how undoped graphene – the intrinsic material with no extra charge carriers – behaves near the so-called “Dirac point.” The Dirac point is a unique feature of graphene’s band structure Unlike the band structure of semiconductors graphene has no band gap – no gap in energy between the electron-filled valence band and the unoccupied conduction band In graphene these bands are represented by two cones (“Dirac cones”) whose points touch When the valence band of graphene is completely filled and the conduction band is completely empty the graphene can be considered “undoped” or “charge neutral,” and it is here that some of the interesting properties of graphene may be observed An ARPES experiment neatly measures a slice through the cones by directly plotting the kinetic energy and angle of electrons that fly out of the graphene sample when they are excited by an x‑ray beam from the ALS A spectrum develops as these emitted electrons hit the detector screen gradually building up a picture of the cone Dirac cones of graphene are often drawn with straight sides (left) indicating a smooth increase in energy but an ARPES spectrum near the Dirac point of undoped graphene (sketched in red at right) exhibits a distinct inward curvature indicating electronic interactions occurring at increasingly longer range and leading to greater electron velocities – one of the ways the electronics of semimetallic graphene differ from a metal’s The way the electrons interact in undoped graphene is markedly different from that of a metal: the sides of the cone (or legs of the X in an ARPES spectrum) develop a distinct inward curvature indicating that electronic interactions are occurring at increasingly longer range – distances of up to 790 angstroms apart – and lead to greater electron velocities of a widespread phenomenon called “renormalization.” To understand the significance of the team’s findings it helps to start with their experimental set-up measurements of undoped graphene would be done with a suspended sheet of freestanding graphene But many experiments can’t be done unless the target is resting on a solid substrate which can influence the electronic properties of the layer on the surface and interfere with the experiment So Siegel and his colleagues decided to investigate a special kind of “quasi-freestanding” graphene starting with a substrate of silicon carbide the silicon is driven out of the silicon carbide and carbon gathers on the surface as a relatively thick layer of graphite (the kind of carbon in pencil lead) But adjacent layers of graphene in the thick graphite sample are rotated with respect to one another so that each layer in the stack behaves like a single isolated layer “In solid-state physics one of the most fundamental questions one can ask about a material is the nature of its charge carriers,” Siegel says the answer can be described by the most powerful theory of solids known as Landau’s Fermi-liquid theory,” after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau and the Italian and naturalized-American physicist Enrico Fermi While individual electrons carry charge – the electric current in a copper wire for example – even in a metal they can’t fully be understood as simple Because they are constantly interacting with other particles the effects of the interactions have to be included; electrons and interactions together can be thought of as “quasiparticles,” which behave much like free electrons but with different masses and velocities These differences are derived through the mathematical process called renormalization Landau’s Fermi liquid is made up of quasiparticles Besides describing features of electrons plus interactions Fermi liquids have a number of other characteristic properties and in most materials the theory takes generally the same form It holds that charge carriers are “dressed” by many-body interactions which also serve to screen electrons and prevent or reduce their longer-distance interactions “Since the properties of so many materials are pretty much the same in a generalized way physicists are always interested in finding systems that differ from a normal Fermi liquid,” says Siegel “This is what makes our results so exciting Undoped graphene really does differ from what we expect for a normal Fermi liquid and our results are in good agreement with theoretical calculations.” Perhaps the most vivid example of the difference is the long-range interaction among electrons in semimetallic graphene interactions which would be screened in a normal metal Siegel grants that there may be continuing controversy about how exactly graphene should be expected to behave “but our main result is that we have confirmed the presence of these unscreened which change the behavior of quasiparticles in graphene in a fundamental way.” The District Court of Western Australia, date unknown. (ABC News) Link copiedShareShare articleA sleep-deprived and drug affected motorist has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years' jail for causing a crash that claimed the life of a Perth motorist. Adrian Lanzara, 43, had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Tracy McInnes in Bribra Lake in August 2014. He was driving about 70 or 80 kilometres an hour in morning peak hour traffic when he crossed a median strip onto the wrong side of the road and smashed head on into Ms McInnes's car. The District Court heard that about three hours before the crash, Lanzara had been prescribed a sedative by doctors at Saint John of God hospital in Murdoch after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains. He was told by a doctor and a nurse not to drive or operate machinery for 24 hours after taking one of the tablets because it caused drowsiness. The court heard Lanzara was given the drug to take home on the basis he would not drive after taking it. However, an analysis of his blood after the crash detected the medication in his system along with codeine and morphine — a combination which a toxicologist found would have made him incapable of controlling his vehicle. Lanzara's lawyer Max Crispe said his client had no recollection of events leading up to the crash, but Judge Christopher Stevenson said he made a conscious decision to drive despite being given "clear and unequivocal" advice by staff at the hospital not to. Judge Stevenson said Lanzara also should have "appreciated that he was sleep deficient" because he had not had a slept properly the night beforehand. Lanzara will have to serve 21 months in prison before he can released on parole. His drivers' licence was also disqualified for three years. Topic:Food and Beverage Processing Industry CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Zhou Shuyun examines a sample in a lab at Tsinghua University on April 26 During her undergraduate study at Tsinghua University Zhou developed a keen interest in condensed matter physics she continued her PhD studies at the University of California she became a postdoctoral fellow of the Advanced Light Source and later a project scientist of the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Zhou decided to return to Tsinghua and start her own research group in the Physics Department "The academic level of undergraduate students at Tsinghua is excellent and is well recognized in international academia but the overall research level of our doctorate students has large room to improve," Zhou said As the country is improving both soft and hardware for scientific research I feel obliged to come back and make my own contribution to the university Zhou Shuyun in a lab at Tsinghua University on April 26 Zhou wishes that there will be no need to distinguish between male and female scientists one day The professor said she has been quite used to the scenario of stepping into a conference hall and being one of a handful of female scientists among a sea of suits and ties "One good thing is that the evaluation criteria in scientific field are based on one's work what matters most is the call of the heart and not to be interrupted by the social stereotype that girls are not born as scientists," Zhou said for her doctoral supervisor Alessandra Lanzara is a female professor Lanzara started her research group from nothing during Zhou's study in Berkeley and received excellent research achievements while building her family and taking good care of the kids "I never thought about whether female is suitable for scientific research and the only thing I am concerned is whether I like it or not and whether I can have fun and sense of accomplishment through scientific research." "I hope I can be a positive support to my female students and let them know that girls can strike a balance between scientific research and family," Zhou said