Subject: any post ? FTIR, LCs and so on
From: raven@david.silesia.pik-net.pl (Grzegorz Kruk Ph.D.)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 19:04:14 GMT
ADDRESS:
Grzegorz Kruk, Ph.D.
Wysoka 12A/146
41-200 Sosnowiec
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or ph./fax/modem (2400-8-N-1) +48 32 1995546
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
13th of December 1993, graduated from Trinity
College, University of Dublin, Ireland.
Thesis: FT Infrared Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals.
Papers:
A. Kocot, R. Wrzalik, G. Kruk, J.K. Vij, Molecular Materials, v.1,
p.273-279, (1992).
A. Kocot, G. Kruk, R. Wrzalik, J.K. Vij, Liquid Crystals, v.12, n.6,
p.1005-1012, (1992).
J.K. Vij, A. Kocot, G.Kruk, R. Wrzalik, R. Zental, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.,
v. 14, p. 337-350, (1993).
G. Kruk, A. Kocot, R. Wrzalik, J.K. Vij, O. Karthaus, H. Ringsdorf, Liquid
Crystals, v.14, n.3, p.807-820, (1993).
G. Kruk, J.K. Vij, O. Karthaus, H. Ringsdorf, Supramolecular Science, v.2,
p.51-58, (1995).
6th of July 1989, graduated from Silesian University, Katowice, Poland,
(specialization: experimental and applications of physics).
Degree of Magistri (Master) in Physics.
M.Sc. Graduation Exam: "A"
Total Grade Point Average "B" (4.0)
Thesis: Strong Thermal Lens Induced by Laser Light in Mixtures of
Organic Liquids with Ferrocene.
Published in Berichte der Bunsenges. Phys. Chem., v.94, p.417-420, (1990)
by G. Kruk and Z. Gburski.
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS:
Internal EC SCI*0291 project meeting, 1990, University of Dublin, Ireland.
14th International Liquid Crystal Conference, 1991, Pisa, Italy,
(Presented 2 posters).
Internal EC SCI*0291 project meeting, 1992, University of Manchester,
U.K., (Seminar).
WORK EXPERIENCE
1988-1994 physicist, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland.
Duties:
1) preparing and explaining basic experiments on physics for
undergraduate students.
2) writing computer programmes for experiments
3) designing and performance supervising of new experimental
setups for experiments within undergraduate course
4) supervising students performing their own experiments
5) supervising maintenance jobs on experimental hardware
6) assembling electronic hardware for experiments like e.g.
interfaces for meters and also writing software in ASSEMBLER
1989-1990 part time teacher of programming in PASCAL and BASIC, III Liceum
Ogolnoksztalcace im. A. Mickiewicza, Katowice, Poland.
Duties:
1) Installing software
2) Teaching programming in Pascal and Basic and also how to
run and operate other applications
1991-1993 research student, EEE Department, Trinity College, University of
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. (working for EC research project SCI*0291
in cooperation with groups of University of Mainz and University of
Manchester).
Duties:
1) Laboratory research on liquid crystals and discotic liquid
crystals using FTIR spectroscopy equipment and polarizing
microscopy including:
a) FTIR Spectrometer BIO-RAD FTS60A a Motorola 68000 based
system with IDRIS operating system
b) Programmable Intelligent Temperature Controller
Oxford ITC4
2) Writing software applications for data handling in FORTRAN
3) Data handling and plotting on VAX/VMS (MATLAB), UNIX, DOS
(EASYPLOT, WORD, LOTUS MANUSCRIPT)
4) Preparing seminars for internal project meetings and conferences
5) Correcting tutorials
6) Supervising students working with MATLAB during first course of
Digital Signal Processing
03.1994 - Owner of "RAVEN" -Translation & Interpreting Services Bureau.
Cooperating with:
East Europen Business Centre, Welling, London, Kent
International Language Engineering, Boulder, CO, USA (signed
contract)
Duties:
1) Manager
2) Accountant
3) Translator
4) Writing and modifying own software for accountancy
PROGRAMMING: PASCAL, FORTRAN, C
EXPERIENCE WITH OPERATING SYSTEMS: VMS, UNIX, DOS, RSX-11, CP/M, TOS,
LANGUAGES: English-fluent, Polish-native.
OTHER SKILLS: driving licence, yacht steersman licence
INTERESTED IN: programming, robotics, computer simulations, AI,
optical computing, OB, optical transistor, space research.
OTHER FIELDS OF INTEREST: sailing, skiing, sport driving, basketball, swimming,
movies, chess.
already 33 y.o. (born on July 27th, 1963) , married, 2 children.
REFERENCES:
Prof. H. Robinson-Hammerstein, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
ph. +353-1-7021045
Prof. J.K. Vij, EEE Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
ph. +353-1-7021431
Subject: Re: What is a constant? (was: Sophistry 103)
From: Bob Gore
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:15:40 -0700
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Richard Harter wrote:
> Bob Gore wrote:
>
>
>
> >On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Richard Harter wrote:
>
> >> moggin@mindspring.com (moggin) wrote:
> >>
> >> >cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter):
> >>
> >> >>>:Who was that masked man from Crete, anyway?
> >>
> >> >moggin@mindspring.com (moggin)
> >>
> >> >>> Ask him and he'll tell you.
> >>
> >> >Richard:
> >>
> >> >>Liar
> >>
> >> > Like, duh.
> >>
> >> What are you gibbering about?
> >>
>
> > Ahem. Richard, you missed your cue. You said, "liar!" Moggin gave
> >the standard reply, "like, duh!" At this point, the script allows you a
> >small degree of improvisation; you may choose between a). "moron!" or b)
> >"retard!" Think of it as Kabuki without eyeshadow.
> > Btw, isn't this in the FAQ?
>
>
> You're absolutely right. Color me abashed, distraught, confounded.
> Not only did I step out of the script, I used a line without its
> proper prerequisites. I think I'll go fall on my sword, fortunately a
> virtual.
>
> One summer whilst in college I played in summer-stock melodrama. We
> had but a week to put together the sets, put up the tent, learn all
> our lines and rehearse. The first few performances were a tad rocky.
> It was not just that people missed their cues; sometimes people
> responded to a cue with a line from another act and the scene proceded
> to launch off into weirdland. Somehow we always managed gracefully
> [or not so gracefully] to wrench the blasted thing back into its
> proper course.
>
> So, you see, I am no stranger to this sort of thing. Think of it as
> improvisional kabuki.
>
Graciously conceded, sir. Btw, during your acting career, did you
ever have the experience of other actors feeding you lines, not merely
from another act, but from an entirely different play? Gives a
completely different meaning to the word "improv," let me tell you. You
think you're performing Neil Simon pseudo-farce, and before you know it,
you're trying to kill Tybalt sans epee.
Bob
Subject: Re: Cryonics bafflegab? (was re: organic structures of consciousness)
From: cryofan@brokersys.com (Randy)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 22:11:45 GMT
lkh@mail.cei.net (Lee Kent Hempfling) wrote:
>CryoCare Foundation http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
>I can not fault the intentions of this organization but I can quote:
>"After legal death is pronounced, delicate human tissues are quickly
>damaged by lack of blood flow. During cryopreservation, further tissue
>damage occurs as a result of the freezing process."
>OK!
>I agree.
>Then:
>"Some people feel it may be unnecessary to minimize these two types of
>injury, since future science should be able to undo any harm that
>occurs today. We feel differently: that we should do everything
>in our power to minimize damage today, because there is no absolute
>guarantee that this damage will
>be reversible tomorrow."
>I applaud the organizations attitude toward the "do no harm" precept.
It would seem that "do as little as harm as possible" is more what is
meant by this. If you had a gangrenous leg and a surgeon refused to
amputate on grounds that the remaining stump would be aesthetically
unappealling, and used this "do no harm" argument.
When present-day patients are pronounced legally dead, cryonics is the
last hope for them. Do you agree? Or is there some afterlife from
which the patient is excluded?
>But I wonder...if it were possible to revive dead bodies (aka Mary
>Shelly) claiming that science may be able to undo any previous damage
>is putting science into the business of creationism.
So what's wrong with science being in the business of creationism?
Any fertile human male and female can be in the same business with a
little pleasureable effort and a little luck. Are you saying that
there is something "sacred" about creating life?
>And why isn't it listened to when the statement is made that there is
>no guarantee that damage will be reversible tomorrow?
Consider the alternative: There is a guarantee that I will never see
another sunset if I am NOT cryopreserved. I LIKE sunsets; I want to
see more of them. I can't see ANY sunsets if my brain rots. Agreed?
A thought experiment for you: you're walking in the jungle and you spy
a man-eating tiger rushing toward you. You quickly look around,
looking for escape routes. There is a tree nearby. You have a small
chance of climbing the tree before the tiger reaches you. You know
it's your only chance. Do you try for the tree, or since the chance is
small, do you give up?
>If thawing out a pile of mush can be made to be alive again it should
>at least be a vegatable.
What a wit.
>But I point out the same thing mentioned earlier: It will take quite a
>long time to see if this happens. In the mean time the companies doing
>it will have to remain financially solvent. It appears efforts have
>been made to see that such happens. So in the end if nothing does work
>as planned, we can be assured that a group of people will have had
>careers, guaranteed to be paid for.
Why don't you do some investigating into cryonics and find these
cryo-hucksters. If you can indeed find such, I, and every other
cryonicist, will be quite grateful.
>And also be assured that nothing will happen to those people for
>having pulled off something that didn't work since they state right up
>front that it just might not.
Of course, you can't know this, but take it from me, in the entire
history of cryonics, there has never been one person involved with any
cryonics company who didn't fervently want to be preserved himself.
>But there might be a zealous prosecutor somewhere who decides to try
>the desecration of a corpse issue. Then again, those who benefitted
>from the endeavor will not have to worry about that issue. Piles of
>human mush do not make good defendants.
You mean good 'witnesses." Why do I bother?
>It is such a perfectly developed machine I wonder who to give the
>credit to.
Huh?
>As a Russian acquiantance of mine has recently said, upon learning of
>this country's ridiculous overwrought preoccupation with trying to
>stay alive:
>"They proceed to freeze after death ?
> If just so then the cryonics is the double deception since
> both a live brain and a dead brain will be destroyed by ice
>crystals."
Semantic games?
>And all of the effort so far has rested on the need to protect such
>freezing from causing damage. Which mean preparatory efforts, not
>something that can be corrected later.
>Which I guess leaves all those heads and those frozen cadavers
>hanging. They died too soon? Why didn't someone tell them to hang in
>there a bit longer....... Nah.
I give up. I'm lost in a semantic and logical morass here....
>lkh
>Lee Kent Hempfling...................|lkh@cei.net
>chairman, ceo........................|http://www.aston.ac.uk/~batong/Neutronics/
>Neutronics Technologies Corporation..|West Midlands, UK; Arkansas, USA.
Subject: Re: When will the U.S. finally go metric?
From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:10:19 -0500
kim kyongsok wrote:
> what's the difference between cm3 and ml.
Originally (definition of 1901), the liter was the volume of 1 kg
pure water at maximum density and at standard athmospheric pressure.
In the 1950s, volume measurement techniques became precise enough to
discover that the liter and dm^3 differed by around 28*10^-6. Therefore,
in 1964, the word "liter" was redefined to be a special short name for
cubic decimeter. Since then, a liter has been only approximately the
volume of a kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees Celsius, but you need
*extremely* good volume measurement equipment to tell the difference.
Therefore, today 1 cm^3 and 1 mL are exactly the same volume, and mL is
just easier to write.
About the abbreviation of liter: based on existing practice, the SI
standard allows both L and l, i.e. also both mL and ml. In Europe, I
have so far seen mostly ml as the abbreviation for milliliter. In the
U.S., NIST SP PUB 330 (the official translation of the SI standard for
the U.S.) allows only the L as the abbreviation for liter, therefore you
see here on products usually text like 500 mL. The reason: In the U.S.,
the number one is written by hand just as a vertical single stroke, and
not like in Europe with an upstroke. Therefore, l and 1 can be confused
here much more easily than in Europe.
[About the U.S. way of writing a 1 as a single vertical stroke: I
personally think it is a bit of a pain in science classes when you copy
notes from a blackboard, because a subscript 1 and a comma after a
variable are absolutely not distinguishable, and often the context also
gives you not many hints. But as Americans confuse the European
handwritten 1 with a American handwritten 7 (no vertical bar) very
easily, I gave up the European upstroke at the 1. However I still write
my 7 the European way, as this causes no confusion and adds some safety
redundancy. I guess this is the optimal digit compatibility solution.]
> is it o.k. to say that 1 ml is equal to 1 cm3
Yes, since 1964, they have been exactly the same thing.
> also what's the difference between cc and cm3?
cc is an English abbreviation of the words "cubic centimeter". It is not
defined in the SI standard and you should not use it. "mL" is as easy to
write and pronounce as "cc", so better use "mL" instead. You can use
cm^3 or ml or mL whatever you prefer, but please not cc.
Markus
--
Markus Kuhn, Computer Science grad student, Purdue
University, Indiana, US, email: kuhn@cs.purdue.edu
