This sixth edition of the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, is devoted to providing younger students and general readers with a foundation upon which to build an understanding of modern science and its applications to contemporary global issues...Although as expansive and inclusive as size allows, any encyclopedia devoted to science can only hope to wade a bit along the shore of a vast ocean of knowledge. For that reason, the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 6th Edition topics are carefully selected to present fundamental and relevant information in key areas across...
I am in the inaugural class of Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) who are entering a new era of international affairs. As graduates were announcing jokingly that they were graduating from "Zoom University," new FSOs are feeling something similar--we are graduating into age of "Google Hangouts Diplomacy," or to put a spin of grandeur on it, "Virtual Diplomacy."
In 2019, I joined the 1,600 FSOs serving with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) diplomatic corps as a Health Development Officer. Starry eyed and ready to pursue a career that I have been...
Local instabilities have been observed when a large DC voltage is applied to a dielectric elastomer film, attached to a rigid and conducting substrate on one side and coated with a compliant electrode on the other side. Threshold voltage and wavelength of these local instabilities are analyzed in the following using the energy minimization method.
