Water Quality Monitoring in North River and Little River in Nottingham, NH

The Town of Nottingham Conservation Commission (NCC) in New Hampshire purchased water testing equipment for monitoring the North and Little Rivers as part of the New Hampshire Volunteer River Assessment Program (VRAP). The equipment enabled NCC and Lamprey River Watershed Association (LRWA) volunteer water samplers to efficiently monitor water quality on the two rivers twice a month from May 2007 to June 2008

A Symplectic Case of Artin's Conjecture

Let K/F be an arbitrary Galois extension of number fields and r be a representation of Gal(K/F) into GSp(4,C). Let E_16 be the elemetary abelian group of order 16 and C_5 the cyclic group of order 5. If the image of r in the projective space PGSp(4,C) is isomorphic to the semidirect product of E_16 by C_5, then we show r satisfies Artin's conjecture by proving r corresponds to an automorphic representation. A specific case is given where r is primitive, so Artin's conjecture does not follow from previous results.Comment: Revised 13 June 2003: Corrected typographical errors, included the construction of an example in the introduction, and added a brief section at the end discussing the transfer to GSp(4

A Study of the Aurora of 1859

The two great auroral displays of August 28-29 and September 1-2, 1859 are studied from a collection of world-wide descriptive observations. Both auroras reached to unusually low latitudes. Red glows were reported as visible from within 23° of the geomagnetic equator in both north and south hemispheres during the display of September 1-2. It is shown that by using graphic symbols, descriptive reports may be used to indicate the significant features of an auroral display. A series of world-wide maps show the hourly locations and lowest latitude limits of auroral visibility and overhead aurora for the most active hours. They illustrate how the progress of an aurora may be followed throughout the night. Both auroras seen in North America reached their southern limits near local midnight. During the larger display of September 1-2 the aurora moved to lower latitudes and also covered a wide range in latitudes. This indicates that during great displays the auroral activity appears to expand in latitude until local midnight, at the same time moving towards the geomagnetic equator. Over large areas both displays were predominantly red. Magnetic records indicate that there were two distinct disturbances associated with the two displays. A tabulation of all known available auroral observations reported from August 28 to September 5, 1859 illustrates that by using a letter code, significant auroral activity may be recorded for use in auroral catalogues.Ye

A rating scale for measuring the validity of reading instructional materials for the use of minority groups

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Resource Letter VWCPF-1: Van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces. Journal articles, books, and other documents are cited on the following topics: van der Waals forces, retarded dispersion forces or Casimir-Polder forces between atoms or molecules, Casimir-Polder forces between a molecule and a dielectric or conducting body, the summation of Casimir-Polder forces as leading to the Casimir and Lifshitz forces between conducting and dielectric bodies, Casimir friction, applications to nanotechnology, the nature of the quantum vacuum, and experimental tests of the theory of Casimir and Casimir-Polder and van der Waals forces.Comment: 37 pages, no figures. This resource letter is intended to provide selected references to guide undergraduate students and people new to the field into the subject of CP and Casimir forces. References are not intended to be complete. This is substantially enlarged and revised versio