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Investigation of secondary charged particles emerged in the interaction of⁸⁴Kr+ emulsion at 1 A GeV
Abstract A major challenge in understanding the process of nucleus-nucleus interactions is the examination of the processes that occur in the participant and spectator areas of interacting nuclei, considering the central nature of the reactions. Nearly thresholdless detection of the secondary charged particles is made possible by nuclear emulsion detectors (NED), which provide a complete 4πangular coverage. This work is mainly concerned with the multiplicity distributions (MD) and fluctuation of the average multiplicities of secondary charged particles (slow proton, fast proton, and shower) brought about by the collision of⁸⁴Kr-nuclei with emulsion nuclei at 1 A GeV. The MD of these particles has been computed by use of a modified cascade evaporation model (MCEM). The MD of each of the several charged secondary particles is correlated and analyzed. The observation demonstrates that the theoretical calculation results for the average multiplicities of shower particles, fast and slow protons agree well with the experimental data. Correlations seen experimentally between the multiplicities of different emitted particles are faithfully reproduced by the MCEM. There is good agreement between the experimental data and the theoretical calculation results.
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Blockheads! : essays on Ned Block's philosophy of mind and consciousness
\"Ned Block has made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of mind concerning intelligence, representation and consciousness. This book is a collection of eighteen new essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, along with substantive and wide-ranging replies by Block. In addition to addressing Block's past contributions, the essays and Block's replies are rich with new ideas and arguments. They not only indicate where Block currently stands but also move the debates forward\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The accidental tour-ist : (final) dispatches from the road
Picking up where his memoir left off 15 years ago, Ned Boulting's love for the greatest cycling race on earth has deepened, his fascination has been sporadically rewarded, his fitness has slowly declined and his hairline has receded. Bringing the story up to the present day, Ned reflects on how the sport has somehow shrugged off the ghosts of its tainted past to reinvent itself. But his latest despatches from the front line of road racing don't stop at the finish line in Paris. Now graduated from reporting to commentating, his new role has seen him expand his horizons far beyond the reach of the Tour de France. 'The Accidental Tour-ist' takes us behind the scenes to bike races across the continent of Europe, to the Middle East, to China, Malaysia and around Italy six or seven times with a deep dive into life on the road of the Giro d'Italia.
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Investigation of secondary charged particles emerged in the interaction of Formula: see text + emulsion at 1 A GeV
A major challenge in understanding the process of nucleus-nucleus interactions is the examination of the processes that occur in the participant and spectator areas of interacting nuclei, considering the central nature of the reactions. Nearly thresholdless detection of the secondary charged particles is made possible by nuclear emulsion detectors (NED), which provide a complete 4π angular coverage. This work is mainly concerned with the multiplicity distributions (MD) and fluctuation of the average multiplicities of secondary charged particles (slow proton, fast proton, and shower) brought about by the collision of [Formula: see text]-nuclei with emulsion nuclei at 1 A GeV. The MD of these particles has been computed by use of a modified cascade evaporation model (MCEM). The MD of each of the several charged secondary particles is correlated and analyzed. The observation demonstrates that the theoretical calculation results for the average multiplicities of shower particles, fast and slow protons agree well with the experimental data. Correlations seen experimentally between the multiplicities of different emitted particles are faithfully reproduced by the MCEM. There is good agreement between the experimental data and the theoretical calculation results.
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Free the beaches : the story of Ned Coll and the battle for America's most exclusive shoreline
\"This book is the first to tell the story of the controversial protester who gathered a band of determined African American mothers and children and challenged the racist, exclusionary tactics of homeowners in a state synonymous with liberalism. Coll's legacy of remarkable successes--and failures--illuminates how our nation's fragile coasts have not only become more exclusive in subsequent decades but also have suffered greater environmental destruction and erosion as a result of that private ownership\"--Amazon.com.
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The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences
Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format(s) of biological cognition. This paper provides a survey of evidence from computational cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and social psychology, and concludes that one type of format that routinely crops up is the language-of-thought (LoT). We outline six core properties of LoTs: (i) discrete constituents; (ii) role-filler independence; (iii) predicate–argument structure; (iv) logical operators; (v) inferential promiscuity; and (vi) abstract content. These properties cluster together throughout cognitive science. Bayesian computational modeling, compositional features of object perception, complex infant and animal reasoning, and automatic, intuitive cognition in adults all implicate LoT-like structures. Instead of regarding LoT as a relic of the previous century, researchers in cognitive science and philosophy-of-mind must take seriously the explanatory breadth of LoT-based architectures. We grant that the mind may harbor many formats and architectures, including iconic and associative structures as well as deep-neural-network-like architectures. However, as computational/representational approaches to the mind continue to advance, classical compositional symbolic structures – that is, LoTs – only prove more flexible and well-supported over time.
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Ned Kelly under the microscope : solving the forensic mystery of Ned Kelly's remains
Ned Kelly was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, and his body buried in the graveyard there. Many stories emerged about his skull being separated and used as a paperweight or trophy, and it was finally put on display at the museum of the Old Melbourne Gaol - until it was stolen in 1978. It wasn't only Ned Kelly's skull that went missing. After the closure of the Old Melbourne Gaol in 1929, the remains of deceased prisoners were exhumed and reinterred in mass graves at Pentridge Prison. The exact location of these graves was unknown until 2002, when the bones of prisoners were uncovered at the Pentridge site during redevelopment. This triggered a larger excavation that in 2009 uncovered many more coffins, and led to the return of the skull and a long scientific process to try to identify and reunite Ned Kelly's remains.
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