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Sibley’s Improbable How-to-Identify-Rare-Birds Advice
https://improbable.com/2024/03/04/sibleys-improbable-how-to-identify-rare-birds-advice/

Sibley’s Improbable How-to-Identify-Rare-Birds Advice
Birders, heed David Sibley’s improbable advice about how to identify rare birds: If you think that you, of all people, have found a rare bird, ask yourself the following questions: Is this id…

Deze Zeeuwse woningen zijn vogelvrij ingepakt om zonder vertraging te kunnen worden gesloopt en weer, uiterlijk precies eender maar dan duurzamer, te worden herbouwd. https://nos.nl/l/2511808

Zeeuwse woningen ingepakt à la Christo om broedende vogels te weren
De huizen worden binnenkort gesloopt. Als voor die tijd een vogel een nestje bouwt, kan die sloop flinke vertraging oplopen.

"The witnesses told investigators that boxes of government materials were haphazardly chosen for return to the National Archives and that Trump himself stopped them from returning dozens of additional boxes that were later found during the execution of a search warrant".
Trump worker who now refuses to talk spilled beans to Jack Smith before indictment: CNN - Raw Story

Trump worker who now refuses to talk spilled beans to Jack Smith before indictment: CNN
One of Donald Trump's employees who has been charged in the Mar-a-Lago case has already provided testimony that could be used in an eventual trial — even though he stopped cooperating as soon as he was indicted, CNN reported.Newly unsealed court filings show Walt Nauta told a grand jury two months b...

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb predicted that special counsel Jack Smith will ultimately and successfully seek judge Cannon’s removal from the case by the 11th Circuit:
I think that Jack Smith– I think the filing today makes it plain that she has to rule, and if she doesn’t rule under either scenario, they’ll be in a position to take her up to the 11th Circuit. And I think the 11th circuit will likely take her off the case.
“Just to be clear, you’re saying that you don’t b…

Former Trump White House Lawyer Predicts ‘Incompetent’ Judge Cannon Will Get Booted from Ex-President’s Docs Trial: ‘The 11th Circuit Will Likely Take Her off the Case’
An attorney who worked in Donald Trump's White House predicted that Judge Aileen Cannon's "partiality" will lead to her removal from the former president's documents case.

Coarsening in Bent-core Liquid Crystals: Intermediate Splay Bend State en route to the Twist Bend Phase
Nishant Birdi, Nigel B. Wilding, Sanjay Puri, Varsha Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03189

Coarsening in Bent-core Liquid Crystals: Intermediate Splay Bend State en route to the Twist Bend Phase
We use molecular dynamics simulations to study coarsening dynamics in achiral banana-shaped bent-core liquid crystals following a quench from the high concentration polar smectic (SmX) phase to lower concentrations that favor the exotic twist-bend (TB) phase. Our novel result is the identification of an intermediate splay-bend state emerging prior to the eventual TB phase. The latter coarsens via the annihilation of {\it beta lines} which are analogous to string defects in nematic liquid crysta…

Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ films as Alternatives to Copper for Advanced Interconnect Metallization
Jean-Philippe Souli\'e, Kiroubanand Sankaran, Geoffrey Pourtois, Johan Swerts, Zsolt T\H{o}kei, Christoph Adelmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02046

Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ films as Alternatives to Copper for Advanced Interconnect Metallization
Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ thin films with $0.2 \le x \le 0.7$ have been studied as potential alternatives for the metallization of advanced interconnects. First-principles simulations were used to obtain the Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ electronic structure and cohesive energy to benchmark different intermetallics and their prospects for interconnect metallization. Next, thin Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ films were deposited by PVD with thicknesses in the range between 3 and 28 nm. The lowest resistivities of 9.5 $μΩ$cm were…

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Characterizing inner automorphisms and realizing outer automorphisms
Benjamin Sambale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02992 https://arxiv.…

Characterizing inner automorphisms and realizing outer automorphisms
We give elementary proofs of the following two theorems on automorphisms of a finite group G: (1) An automorphism of G is inner if and only if it extends to an automorphism of every finite group containing G. (2) There exists a finite group, whose outer automorphism group is isomorphic to G. The first theorem was proved by Pettet using a graph-theoretical construction of Heineken-Liebeck. A Lie-theoretical proof of the second theorem was sketched by Cornulier in a MathOverflow post. Our proofs …

Higher-order topology protected by latent crystalline symmetries
L. Eek, M. R\"ontgen, A. Moustaj, C. Morais Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02704 ht…

Higher-order topology protected by latent crystalline symmetries
We demonstrate that rotation symmetry is not a necessary requirement for the existence of fractional corner charges in Cn-symmetric higher-order topological crystalline insulators. Instead, it is sufficient to have a latent rotation symmetry, which may be revealed upon performing an isospectral reduction on the system. We introduce the concept of a filling anomaly for latent crystalline symmetric systems, and propose modified topological invariants. The notion of higher- order topology in two d…

Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ films as Alternatives to Copper for Advanced Interconnect Metallization
Jean-Philippe Souli\'e, Kiroubanand Sankaran, Geoffrey Pourtois, Johan Swerts, Zsolt T\H{o}kei, Christoph Adelmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02046

Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ films as Alternatives to Copper for Advanced Interconnect Metallization
Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ thin films with $0.2 \le x \le 0.7$ have been studied as potential alternatives for the metallization of advanced interconnects. First-principles simulations were used to obtain the Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ electronic structure and cohesive energy to benchmark different intermetallics and their prospects for interconnect metallization. Next, thin Cu$_x$Al$_{1-x}$ films were deposited by PVD with thicknesses in the range between 3 and 28 nm. The lowest resistivities of 9.5 $μΩ$cm were…