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As Yogi Berra said of baseball, it is 90 percent mental, and "the other half is physical." This 'Yogi-ism' is equally applicable to tennis, a sport in which elite players need to be "intuitive physicists" in order to win at the highest level.
This is going to be a big weekend of tennis for me, on my couch. That's right, I don't expect to even pick up a racket. There's no time for that, considering that I've cleared off my DVR and set it to record hours upon hours of the Tennis Channel and ESPN2, starting at 5am every morning. That means I have a lot of catching up to do on what I consider to be the best tennis of the year, which is played on the red clay courts of Roland Garros.
Hooray for clay!
Great athletes have a way of making the game look easy. On the other hand, the clay courts of Roland Garros have a way of making certain athletes appear very mortal. It happens every year, and that is why this particular Grand Slam event is perhaps the best test for the finest (and smartest) athletes in the world. It all comes down to physics.
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As Jonah Lehrer points out in "The Physics of Grass, Clay, and Cement,'' his excellent essay on the physics of tennis published last year:
During a typical rally, the ball will spend more than 99.5 percent of its time traveling between players, sailing through the air and ricocheting off the ground. It is in contact with the racket for the remaining fraction of a percent. The players control that fraction. Physics controls everything else.
Imagine if tennis, like most other sports, had only one type of playing surface. It would be significantly easier for a single player to dominate the sport through pure "athleticism." That would make a tennis match the survival of the strongest, as opposed to a competition of the truly fittest -- in terms of offering the full test of the set of skills that challenge the body and mind in equal measure.
Thankfully that is not the case. The International Tennis Federation recognizes 160 different types of surfaces. "That's a lot of frictional coefficients for Novak and Rafa to keep track of," The New York Times points out, "if they want to understand the physics of the bouncing balls they're trying to hit."
The coefficient of friction, "a measurement of the abrasive force between the ground and the tennis ball," writes Lehrer, is the most important factor at play in tennis. The clumps of crushed brick that make up clay court surfaces, for instance, act as a "speed bump," resulting in the slow, high bounces that make it harder to hit winners. Professor Rod Cross, associate professor in the school of physics at the University of Sydney, uses the word "stick" to describe the friction that slows down a ball on clay.
In marked contrast to clay surfaces is the frictional coefficient of the grass courts of Wimbledon and the Har-Tru courts of the U.S. and Australian Open events that partisans of clay say can exaggerate a player's skill level. In other words, fast courts can reward brute force while the physics of clay requires a more refined skill set, and great finesse, not to mention the physical and mental endurance required for extended volleys.
Does that mean clay court tennis is the only "real" tennis? Certainly not. It would be a regrettable thing for the sport if tennis courts were to become homogenized. After all, it is the mark of a truly elite player who can adapt to different surfaces, alter his or her playing style accordingly, and win at the highest level. That is why it happens so rarely.
For over a decade, Bjorn Borg owned Wimbledon and the French Open but wasn't able to translate that dominance over to the hard court. On the other hand, Pete Sampras won 14 grand slam titles but never the French Open. Indeed, the history of tennis in the Open Era has been the triumph of the specialist. Andre Agassi was a rare exception.
That is no longer the case today. There are two active players, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who have won the Career Grand Slam, which means winning the four Major tennis tournaments that are played on three different surfaces -- clay, grass and hard court. A third player, Novak Djokovic, is hoping to join this elite company with a win at the French Open later this month. It is no accident that these players are ranked 1, 2 and 3 in the world, considering the remarkable fact that at least one of the three has appeared in a Grand Slam Final dating back to January, 2005. Based on this trio's uncommon feats, many consider today to be the golden age of men's singles tennis.
What's the Significance?
Like Babe Ruth, who hit 59 home runs for The New York Yankees in 1921 when the next highest total was 24, the gap between Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, and everyone else, is enormous (sorry, Andy Murray).
So what accounts for this? I don't know, and that is what makes the current competition so thrilling to watch.
After all, as we've noted, you need to be a "physicist" as well as a bona fide athlete to win a grand slam. Alright, not to push this point too far, as Lehrer notes, "Roger Federer probably isn't thinking about the angular momentum of his cross-court shot when approaching the net, just as Andy Roddick isn't contemplating the "kinetic chain principle" before unleashing his serve." The game is simply played too fast for anyone to think about physics. It is one thing to return a 125 mph serve. It is quite another thing to be computing data while you're at it.
Fair enough. And yet, there is a lot to be said about playing intelligently, even though it is difficult to define what that means. According to Douglas Hofmann, a materials scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech who Lehrer quotes in his essay, top ranked players like Djokovic, Nadal and Federer are all "intuitive physicists" who know how the ball will bounce "even if they can't explain why."
In fact, few can explain why players like Federer are able to perform acts that seem like magic on the court, although poets have certainly tried. After witnessing a so-called "Federer Moment," David Foster Wallace described his reaction to a play at the 2005 U.S. Open in his great New York Times essay, "Federer as Religious Experience":
...given Agassi's position and world-class quickness, Federer had to send that ball down a two-inch pipe of space in order to pass him, which he did, moving backwards, with no setup time and none of his weight behind the shot. It was impossible. It was like something out of "The Matrix." I don't know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs.
So what exactly does it mean to be an "intuitive physicist" and how does one become one? How does one learn to gauge the velocity, the angular and linear momentum of the ball, select a shot, and deliver a winner better than the world's best competition? Can it be learned?
If you know the answer to that question, you will put Ivan Lendl and other tennis greats out of a coaching job.
And yet, as we've noted, a rudimentary survey of the physical forces at play on the court can go a long way to serve the coach and player and fan, in different ways, of course. Jonah Lehrer suggests that a crash course in physics would certainly help pro tour players gain an advantage in a sport in which the slightest edge can make the difference in a match.
For us mortals, physics can help us be better fans and deepen our appreciation of the game, and understand the link between the mental and the physical. After all, one need only look to a few notable 'failed physicists' from the early rounds at Roland Garros to see how valuable the 'intuitive' skill of physics is on the court.
Consider the collapse of Serena Williams, who exited in the first round despite a 5-1 lead in the second set tie-breaker. The best clay court players utilize a defensive strategy. Control the ball and let the other guy make a mistake. Williams is a great finisher, but she was overly aggressive, overhitting as she tried to put Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano away.
Or consider the clay court misery of former #1 ranked Andy Roddick. After his first-round exit at Roland Garros, a dumbfounded Roddick told the press, "You can't fake it out here…I move horrendously out here. My first step is so bad on this stuff. I feel like I'm always shuffling or hopping or not stopping or something."
Roddick, of course, will have his chance to rebound on the fast surfaces of Wimbeldon. In the meantime, all the attention is on the Big Three, Djokovic, Nadal and Federer, those intuitive physicists who can adapt to any surface and play at the highest level of their sport.
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A national problem with health insurance is illustrated by a California bill to prevent companies from raising drug deductibles and co-payments during the course of a patient's illness. This bill, AB 1722, has passed the California Assembly and been sent to the Senate. Recently it has turned out that the bill might not be needed in California -- yet it illustrates a national issue.
On August 17 we talked with a consultant in the office of the bill's sponsor, Assembly Member Gallegos. Their office just met with the new California Department of Managed Care, which has taken a fresh look at existing law, and interpreted it in a way more favorable to patients than the Department of Corporations, which had jurisdiction in the past. Since the new interpretation should be better than AB 1722 would have been, Gallegos might not "move" the bill in the Senate.
But the issue is a national one, so to explain it we quote from an action alert, which was sent by the Lambda Letters Project:
"AIDS care is expensive. And many insurance companies are doing all they can to get out of those costs. In past years they used to drop coverage of expensive medications, leaving patients without life saving medicines. So the state legislature passed a bill to prohibit this practice.
"Now, instead of dropping coverage of these medications, many insurers are drastically increasing the co-payment owed by the patient. This often means again that the patient is left without vital medications because he or she cannot afford the co-payment. AB 1722 addresses this problem by saying that insurers cannot increase the co-payment or other deductible for the medication during the course of treatment of a disease for which the medication has been prescribed."
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We are hearing about this problem elsewhere; it is likely that federal or other state legislation will be necessary. Also, health insurance and managed care companies are using unworkable "caps" when they can no longer discriminate directly against patients with expensive illnesses.
AB 1722 itself should not be a national model, because it excludes off-label use of medications (prescription for an FDA-approved medicine, but for a purpose different from that for which it was approved). Off-label prescription is often a necessary part of the standard of care (especially in cancer, for example, where many drugs officially approved for treating one kind of tumor, or several kinds, may in fact be standard treatment for other cancers as well). Insurance companies should not be able to use this excuse to nullify their medication coverage for persons who are seriously ill.
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The Weavers Way Environmental Committee and Chestnut Hill Meeting's Peace and Social Committee came together on Saturday to host an electronics-recycling event to both better the environment and raise money for a few noble causes.
Kathy Miller, event coordinator and member of both committees, said recycling electronics is important because it contributes to less pollution.
"[Old electronics] have materials in them that are poisonous," she said. "So if they go into a landfill then that stuff leaches out and gets into the water. So environmentally, to get the computers and electronics recycled is really better."
She added that a lot of folks find it difficult to rid themselves of old electronics, since they're not taken at the curb. And it wasn't until recently that recyclers didn't have to pay by the pound for what they were recycling. Since the change, she said, there have been many more people bringing in their old items.
Eric McKinley, who said he lived down the street from the collection area on Mermaid Lane, said he lets his unwanted electronics pile up because he doesn't know what to do with them.
"I had these TVs that I've been wanting to unload from my house for a long time," he said, adding that the three TVs he brought in had been sitting unused for several years. "[Old electronics] just sit in my house."
Roland Williams, who brought several items to be recycled, said he also ends up with piled-up electronics because he doesn't know what else to do with them.
"One [reason I brought my electronics was] to clear space in my home office and also to try and save the world," he said, adding that he wouldn't have thrown his old electronics away. "It's a much better idea to recycle."
Jay Segal, from eForce Compliance, said this is common among Philadelphians because there are not many places to take them.
Segal said companies, like his, are solely responsible for electronics recycling in the city of Philadelphia.
"Philadelphia won't accept them," he said. "In order to recycle it you have to take it to a recycling center."
But Segal said companies like his are the ones who ultimately end up with the electronics so they can disassemble them and wipe the hard drives.
But recycling is important, he said, to ensure that the environment is safe.
"An event like this, we'll do 30,000 pounds, which is a lot of computers," he said. "Each individual consumes between 8 and 12 pounds of electronics every year."
"It's important because folks know exactly where [their electronics] are going and they're sure their information being destroyed. And it's not going into a landfill and destroying the earth. So they're being responsible."
In addition to the environmental benefits, Miller said the event also helps raise funds – through donations – to help both organizations perform their duties.
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The Friends' Peace and Social Committee will use raised funds to donate to a Quaker garden on 9th Street and Indiana Avenue, as well as to the Germantown nonprofit Every Murder is Real.
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In their stretch of road games before coming home, the Gauchos went 1-3, with their only win coming at St. John's in a 4-3 victory. Despite their overall 3-4 record, Coach Marty Davis said after UCSB's most recent loss that the team is "playing better in doubles" and have shown improvement from the start of the season.
After having played only four games in the span of a month, the men's tennis season will begin to ramp up in the coming weeks, including a four-game home stand in the next week.
The Gauchos' first game on the home-stand is against Boston College in a game that was added to the schedule after UCSB's Feb. 18 match at California was cancelled. The BC Eagles are 4-4 on the season and are coming off a 5-2 loss to Big West rival UC Davis. Boston College will play NAIA opponent Westmont before taking on the Gauchos on Friday.
UCSB will have a bigger challenge the next day against #36 SDSU, who boast a nationally ranked player and a number of wins against top-ranked teams. SDSU's Derek Siddiqui is the No. 71-ranked singles player in the country and has a 7-4 record playing at court 1. The Aztecs have gone 3-1 in their past four games, including an upset win over 16th-ranked Cal last week.
With wet weather forecasted for the Santa Barbara area on Friday, the Gauchos are hoping it will clear out before their matches on Friday and Saturday are slated to start.
Weather permitting; action is set to begin at 2:00 PM (PST) against Boston College at the Rec Cen Courts on Friday, March 8. Saturday's game against #36 San Diego State is set to start at 12:00 PM (PST), also at the Rec Cen courts.


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The Senate Gang of Eight made a series of overt attempts Thursday to win over Republicans on immigration reform, using the first day of Judiciary Committee debate to tighten border security measures on the bill.
None of the amendments impose drastic changes on the legislation. The most significant concession involved requiring the government to achieve "effective control" of the entire Southwestern border, not just high-risk areas.
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The lead reform proponents don't expect any single amendment to sway Republicans and guarantee Senate passage, but by accepting eight GOP amendments, Gang of Eight members attempted to send the message that they are sensitive to demands for an open committee process and stricter border security.
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But the four members of the Gang of Eight who sit on the committee also held together to turn back amendments that they view as poison pills, effectively controlling the proceedings.
The two Republican Gang members sided with Democrats in rejecting Republican Texas Sen Ted Cruz's bid to multiply agents and other resources along the border. The same coalition defeated Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's proposal to prohibit undocumented immigrants from gaining provisional legal status until the entire Southern border is deemed secure.
The Judiciary Committee markup could take weeks to complete, and the Gang of Eight will meet the day before every session to hash out strategy on committee amendments, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
GOP senators not in the Gang weren't persuaded by the overtures of accepting certain amendments and continued to focus on border security.
"The committee has voted down every serious border security amendment that's been presented here today," Cruz said shortly before the committee adjourned for the day. "The current draft represents merely a fig leaf on border security."
Cruz's comments set off the most heated exchange of the day as Republican and Democratic members of the Gang of Eight spoke up to defend the bill.
"Sen. Cruz is opposed to the path to citizenship," Schumer said, adding that no amount of border enforcement would satisfy the Republican. "Let's not keep bringing up this false issue that we do nothing on border security. Our bill is tough as nails."
The panel approved by voice vote an amendment from Grassley that would set a higher bar on border security.
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COSTA MESA — Fighters came out in red and blue T-shirts with numbers on the back of them during the introduction portion of Fight Club OC on Thursday.
A sports drink brand sponsored the professional boxing and mixed martial arts event, but in the fight game, the only numbers that count are the wins and losses in a fighter's record.
The numbers on the T-shirts belonged to professional athletes in other sports. The fighters in the red corner sported Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim outfielder Mike Trout's No. 27 and the blue New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski's No. 87.
One fighter continued the football theme inside the hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center.
Rhonda Luna knows all about football. She played organized women's tackle football before she returned to boxing this year.
In her second fight this year, Luna's former football teammates, wearing their jerseys, walked her to the ring. Once the 35-year-old from Rowland Heights got in, Luna was on her own, fighting for the vacant International Female Boxers Assn. World Lightweight title.
She and her opponent, Crystal Morales, slugged it out for 10 rounds. The two met back in June, when Luna, fighting for the first time in two years, won a unanimous decision.
They returned to the same venue and battled in front of another sold-out crowd.
This time, the decision went to Morales. The Oxnard fighter pulled out a split decision in front of 1,482 fans, which came out to support the women fighters and five other bouts on the card.
Seventeen days after she turned 29, Morales survived her first 10-round fight. She got revenge against Luna and a late birthday gift, the IFBA World Lightweight title belt.
Morales (8-9-1) wore it proudly after two judges scored it, 98-91, 95-94, in favor of Morales, and 96-93 for Luna.
Morales became the fourth fighter to outlast Luna in a 10-round fight. She even knocked down Luna (17-4-2) in the second round.
The women weren't even Fight Club OC's featured fight, but they earned the night's lone standing ovation.
The main event saw Fullerton's Curtis Millender (3-0) record a unanimous decision against Bakersfield's J.C. Llamas (4-2) in a MMA welterweight fight.
The card's first fight featured super welterweight boxers John Hays and Donte Stower. One remained unbeaten and the other winless.
Hays, fighting for the first time outside of the San Fernando Valley, controlled much of the four-round bout, until Stower delivered a flurry of shots in the final round.
Stower, out of Victorville, spent much of the first three rounds on the ropes and in the corner, trying to elude Hays' punches. He slipped out before Hays hurt him.
Stower became the aggressor in the last round, but it wasn't enough. Hays improved to 4-0-1 after scoring a unanimous decision against Stower (0-3).
The win via unanimous decision turned out to be Hays' third in his career. Fans yelled for a knockout.
They almost got one in an MMA bantamweight fight between Anaheim's Mauricio Diaz and Bell Gardens' Jose Huerta.
Diaz came out and backed Huerta into a corner, where they locked arms. Diaz maneuvered out, and all of a sudden, the MMA fight looked like a boxing one.
Diaz caught Huerta, making his debut, with a punch to the head, knocking him into the ropes. Huerta fell and Diaz pounced on him and maintained position for quite some time. In the final seconds of the 3-minute round, Huerta pulled out a reversal.
In the third and final round, Diaz slammed Huerta at the start and Huerta appeared gassed. Diaz then dragged Huerta into Huerta's corner, striking him with his fists until the final bell sounded. Diaz came away with a unanimous decision to improve to 2-0.
Another young fighter out of Anaheim who pushed his record to 2-0 was boxer Dwain Victorian. The super lightweight took care of business, earning a unanimous decision against Riverside's Ricardo Cubias.
Cubias (0-5) hung around with Victorian for four rounds. The only time he went down was when Victorian accidentally pushed him in the third round.
Three rounds are all fans saw in a MMA heavyweight matchup between Fullerton's Jack May and San Diego's Keishaun Hill. Fans really looked up to the two fighters in the ring, as May is 6-foot-8 and Hill 6-5.
When it ended, May towered over Hill. May usually does after fights.
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Carolyn Taylor, I'm still trying to figure out what points you were trying to reference about my tea party letter in your column, "Constitution more than 'just piece of paper'"in the June 18 edition of The Lancaster News.
John A. Delfausse's letter "Consider roundabouts instead of intersections" in the June 11 edition of The Lancaster News,reflects his concern for beauty and orderly flow of traffic through Indian Land. Who is gonna teach the driving public to maneuver on a roundabout? A roundabout is a stationary merry-go-round and drivers have to exit sometime into the flow of heavy through traffic. Much like the fear you have when a vehicle is merging from a ramp without regard to the posted "Yield" sign. Sure hope the guy riding your bumper is alert.
Partners for Youth invests in students, their future
I would like to thank Laura Caskey for recently writing about the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR Up) at Lancaster High School and Andrew Jackson High School.
Six years of college-focused workshops, special events, college trips, counseling, scholarship awards and other ways highlighting the path for students to attend college culminates at graduation this month followed by the students enrolling in college.
We recently moved to Indian Land and are building a house in Van Wyck. We are struck by the opportunity and the risk ahead for Lancaster County.
Ballantyne is growing at a rapid rate and will continue to grow down U.S. 521 toward Lancaster.
We're all for development, but if it is not properly managed, Indian Land will become the next Huntersville or Fort Mill and will be nothing but gridlock, overcrowded schools and poorly planned roads. With proper planning, the Panhandle can be the crown jewel of Lancaster County.
For millions of young adults here in South Carolina and across the country, it's an exciting and uncertain time – graduation time.
Many South Carolina colleges have recently held May commencement exercises, and most high schools hold graduation ceremonies in late May or early June.
For high school and college graduates alike, beginning a new chapter in life can be both exciting and scary.
Seems like my more vocal neighbors up on the northern frontier are struggling for home rule. Home rule usually means you make your own laws and can amend financial support to the rest of Lancaster County.
I urge you good folks to be careful what you wish for.
Lancaster County's northern Panhandle has been given a rare gift, with U.S. 521's wide grass median.
With this beautiful boulevard as a gateway to our community from the north, we have the opportunity to preserve and improve the way our roadways look to citizens, visitors and those wanting to establish businesses in our county.
As a resident of Indian Land, I have seen tremendous growth in development of properties along the U.S. 521 and S.C. 160 corridor.
I am delighted that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally moved to abate the disastrous impacts of climate change by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
But, given the adverse reaction from the coal industry, the agency should have issued parallel regulations on emissions from meat industry operations. Each state could than determine its own optimal strategy for curbing greenhouse gases.
A 2006 U.N. report estimated that meat production accounts for 18 percent of man-made greenhouse gases.
There was an incorrect statement in my June 1 article, entitled "Democrats protect all Americans." I said that voters in Lancaster County could not vote for Tim Scott. That proved to be incorrect.
I called Lancaster County Voter Registration Office twice to verify that before writing the letter and I was given incorrect information.
In my previous state, residents only voted for the senator in their district, not both senators.
Michael Jedson
Indian Land
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Within these years we have witnessed the education, hard work and sincere concern shown from the teachers, staff and the wonderful Pastor Charles Phillips for the children.
Manners and sharing are always implemented and the evidence is in their everyday activities in the classroom and on the playground.
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Despite the many technological and social advances made so far in the 21st century, there are some areas in the entertainment industry seemingly undergoing a period of stagnation. The number of rehashes and remakes of classic film and gaming brands is ever increasing with largely mixed-to-negative results. Such failures beg the question of whether original works can be bettered? If Conquist 2 is anything to go by there may be hope yet.
Military strategy games have always been amongst my favourites, whether it be the classic board game Risk or the legendary Command & Conquer series. Conquist 2 takes direct influence from the former, Risk, boldly mimicking the title's famous premise and daring to try and better it. Can it succeed? Or is another rehash destined to fail? Stick around to find out more! (more…)


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Margin Killer: How a Pair of Pants Plummeted Profits
Recently, I ordered a pair of athletic pants from a high-fashion, online retailer. The pants were a well-known brand and cost $96.00. The package arrived within a few days. However, when I opened the box, I found it did not contain the product I expected. The brand and color were correct, but it was not the style I'd chosen. Disappointed, I wrote the retailer, explaining the issue and requesting the correct product. Then, I returned the incorrect product.
According to recent research, the average vendor's "cost per return" is $20.00. That means that my return was a Margin Killer for the retailer.
Three days later, the replacement delivery arrived. Whoop there it is… Disappointment number two. It was the exact same incorrect product. Yet another Margin Killer, Return Number 2. Another $20.00 in costs for the retailer. What would it take for this retailer's logistic team to avoid repeating their error? Could they scan the product? Could they use a QR code, a bar-code or some sort of picture?
I returned the incorrect product for the second time. Eventually, shipment number three reached my home. Can you guess what was in the box? Yes, the same incorrect product, again, for the third time. The Margin Killer: Return Number 3. For this retailer, the math is simple:
Return 1: $20.00
Return 2: $20.00
Return 3: $20.00
Total return cost: $60.00
Revenue = Possibly zero?
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Electron density of an artificial atom. Specifically, the image shown displays the excited electron state in an Indium Arsenide (InAs) / Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) self-assembled quantum dot. The nanometer-scaled structure of the semiconductor InAs embedded in GaAs can confine electrons much like a proton can attract an electron in a hydrogen atom. This artificial atom is 100 times larger than a natural atom, and its properties can be manipulated by material composition, size and shape.
The semiconductor InAs can be grown as a crystal on top of a GaAs substrate. Since the natural InAs lattice constant is larger than that of GaAs, the material can clump up to form perfect crystal structures at nanoscale, that can take on pyramidal or dome shapes. The typical sizes of these quantum dots are 20nm in diameter and 5nm in height. The InAs material is typically capped and overgrown with GaAs. The central structure can confine additional electrons and form an artificial atom. These artificial atoms have the ability to absorb and emit light similar to natural atoms. The frequency or wavelength of this optical activity can be designed by quantum dot size, shape and material composition. The image shows an excited electron state in such InAs quantum dot. The electron density is colored by the orbital-resolved s, p, d character of the electron wavefunction contribution.
The wavefunction was computed with the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool (NEMO 3D) and visualized with the nanoVIZ tool on nanoHUB.org.
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Gerhard Klimeck, Shaikh Ahmed, Hansang Bae, Neerav Kharche, Steve Clark, Benjamin Haley, Sunhee Lee, Maxim Naumov, Hoon Ryu, Faisal Saied, Marta Prada, Marek Korkusinski, and Timothy B. Boykin, "Atomistic Simulation of Realistically Sized Nanodevices Using NEMO 3-D: Part I - Models and Benchmarks", Special Issue on Nanoelectronic Device Modeling in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 54, Issue 9, pg. 2079 - 2089 (2007). (available on nanoHUB.org)
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Wei Qiao, Michael Mclennan, Rick Kennell, David Ebert, and Gerhard Klimeck, "Hub-based Simulation and Graphics Hardware Accelerated Visualization for Nanotechnology Applications", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, pg. 1061-1068 (2006).
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Alejandro Strachan, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark S. Lundstrom, "Cyber-Enabled Simulations in Nanoscale Science and Engineering", Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 12, pg: 12-17 (2010). (available on nanoHUB.org)
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The report provides a detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter viral partnering deals. The majority of deals are discovery or development stage whereby the licensee obtains a right or an option right to license the licensors viral technology. These deals tend to be multicomponent, starting with collaborative R&D, and commercialization of outcomes.
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Understanding the flexibility of a prospective partner's negotiated deals terms provides critical insight into the negotiation process in terms of what you can expect to achieve during the negotiation of terms. Whilst many smaller companies will be seeking details of the payments clauses, the devil is in the detail in terms of how payments are triggered - contract documents provide this insight where press releases do not.
This report contains over 1,500 links to online copies of actual viral deals and contract documents as submitted to the Securities Exchange Commission by companies and their partners. Contract documents provide the answers to numerous questions about a prospective partner's flexibility on a wide range of important issues, many of which will have a significant impact on each party's ability to derive value from the deal.
The initial chapters of this report provide an orientation of viral dealmaking and business activities. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the report.
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the trends in viral dealmaking since 2009 covering trends by year, deal type, stage of development, technology type and therapeutic indication. In addition the chapter includes an analysis of financial deal terms by stage at signing covering headline value, upfront payment, milestone payments and royalty rates. Analysis includes median values and distribution of values for each stage of development.
Chapter 3 provides a review of the leading viral deals since 2009. Deals are listed by headline value, signed by bigpharma, most active bigpharma, and most active of all biopharma companies. Where the deal has an agreement contract published at the SEC a link provides online access to the contract.
Chapter 4 provides a comprehensive listing of the top 50 bigpharma companies with a brief summary followed by a comprehensive listing of viral deals, as well as contract documents available in the public domain. Where available, each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the actual contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.
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