Thirty percent of Americans are overweight. There are many influences on overeating including genetic predispositions, overweight friends, and family. The good news is these influences can't force you to overeat since your actions come from your thinking and you can change your thinking.

In most (but by no means all) cases, being overweight results most directly from eating too much no matter what influences surround this problem. The simple (even if only partial) solution involves eating fewer calories. The difficult aspect involves putting this into practice.

Steps in overcoming obesity

Step 1. Apply the Problem Separation Technique (PST). Ask yourself: do I have an emotional problem such as anxiety, stress, guilt, or depression about my practical problem of eating too many calories?

Step 2. If the answer is yes, then determine if you have a secondary disturbance: a secondary disturbance means you're disturbing yourself about disturbing yourself. To put it another way, when your primary disturbance lies in your eating, Secondary disturbance means making yourself disturbed about eating too much and about gaining too much weight. Here's how it may manifest: suppose you notice you're eating more than is desirable. Primary disturbance: You tell yourself, "I must satisfy my craving for food right now and eat, I can't stand feeling deprived." Secondary disturbance: then as you are compulsively eating you think, "I must stop eating." You have a must about a must! Disturbing yourself about your problem doesn't help and only makes you feel worse. The demand often here is something like "I must not overeat." Demanding this of yourself is unrealistic, doesn't help, and only tends to make matters worse. A more realistic view would be something like, "I prefer not to overeat but clearly there's no law of the universe stating I must not. If I do, I do, I'll try to eat less next time."

Step 3. Remind yourself that you can accept yourself and still enjoy life and be productive with the extra pounds. Then why lose the weight? Because your life can be even better, satisfying, and more healthful without carrying around the extra pounds.

Step 4. Recognize eating too much and eating unhealthy food is a choice. You can choose to eat the ice cream or choose not to. You can choose to stop eating when you've had enough or choose to continue eating. You're not compelled to eat even though it may feel like you are and have no control. If you're skeptical imagine this: you are about to feast on your favorite ice cream. Someone shows up with a gun pointed at your head and threatens: "if you eat the ice cream I'll shoot." Clearly you decide to skip the ice cream.

Step 5. Go for unconditional self-acceptance (USA). You accept yourself unconditionally whether you overeat or you stay on your diet. Refuse to rate your total self based on the rating of your behavior. Whether you diet successfully or unsuccessfully you're still the same imperfect human who acts imperfectly. You always have been and you always will be.

Step 6. Go for unconditional life acceptance (ULA). You accept your life unconditionally with its frustrations, discomforts, and difficulties.

Practice implementing the above steps regularly. It's hard, but hard doesn't mean impossible. The good news: overeating is a choice. You can choose to stay on a reasonable eating regimen or choose not to. It's up to you!

Strong interactions between particles in physical systems can result in various highly correlated ground states. These states and the strong correlations underpinning them have been extensively explored in latest years.

Researchers at Purdue University, Monmouth College and Princeton University have recently observed a highly correlated state in composite fermions, particles that emerge from the binding of electrons and vortices. The state they observed, outlined in Nature Physics, is known as a "bubble phase," as it is marked by the clustering of composite fermions into a bubble.

"Experimentalists are thrilled to find anomalies in their data," Gábor A. Csáthy, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. "Years ago, with my former postdoc Ashwani Kumar, now an Associate Professor at Monmouth College in Illinois, we found some unexplained features in our data on a very special high mobility two-dimensional electron gas grown in Dr. Loren Pfeiffer's lab at Princeton University. I remember we got excited, but we brushed off the explanation as a trivial but well-known effect."

An anomaly similar to the one initially observed by the researchers was later observed during a study conducted by graduate students Vidhi Shingla and Haoyun Huang under Csáthy's supervision. Initially, the team suggested that this anomaly might reflect a trivial spin transition, yet this hypothesis was ruled out by later studies. Ultimately, they found that the anomaly might be linked to a new topological ground state.

"Topological physics permeates contemporary condensed matter, atomic and molecular optics, and other subfield of physics," Csáthy explained. "Electronic correlations are in general recognized to lead to novel topological states, but the nature of these topological phases is not always well understood. There were some very interesting predictions of certain higher order topological phases called composite fermion bubble phases by groups of Jainendra Jain at the Pennsylvania State University and of Cristiane Morais Smith at Fribourg and Utrecht University, but signatures of these phases have not been observed."

Using transport measurements, Csáthy and his colleagues detected the localization signature of a bubble phase of composite fermions. Composite fermions, which are formed by electrons capturing two magnetic flux quanta and carrying a fraction of the elementary charge, were previously well-documented in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Generally, these composite fermions are randomly localized, due to the ubiquitous disorder present in experimental samples.

"The typically low density of these composite fermions is not conducive to their interaction," Csáthy said. "However, when the interaction between the composite fermions overcomes disorder effects, composite fermions were predicted to cluster into bubbles of composite fermions. These bubbles then order on a triangular lattice. One may think of an impractical egg carton, in which each cup holds several eggs." The high-mobility demo the group used and the low temperature environment of the experiment provided auspicious conditions for these bubble to form.

Composite fermions clustered into a bubble during this phase produce characteristic transport signatures associated with their localization, which can be detected using transport measurement tools. More specifically, the researchers found that the longitudinal magnetoresistance in their demo vanished, while the Hall resistance is quantized to a fractional value of the so-called Klitzing constant.

"We observed these signatures at large density of the composite fermions, at which the bubble phase of the composite fermions is likely to form," Csáthy said. "We found the first member of a new class of highly correlated topological phases. In a sense, we expanded to periodic table of topological phases that can be stabilized in the two-dimensional electron gas not just with a new member, but with a new period."

The latest work by this team of researchers unveils the existence of a new correlated topological phase, which could be further examined in future works. In addition, their findings could impact new experimental applications of topological phases that involve the manipulation of composite fermion excitations, or other demo excitations.

"In our next studies, we will likely explore the fundamental properties of these bubble phases," Csáthy added. "There are numerous open questions: under what experimental conditions do these bubble phases form, how to detect different types of bubble phases, why bubble phases do not form everywhere where our current intuition would predict them to be stable at. We will also try manipulating electronic interactions leading to the formation of these bubble phases."

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Paris, France --News Direct-- Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, cloud and networking solutions tailored to customers’ industries, is hosting its global partner conference on February 8^th and 9^th 2023.

Following the success of the past year’s Connex events, this year’s Connex23 conference will again take to a virtual stage, enabling maximum participation from partners around the world.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise partners will have the chance to hear first-hand from CEO, Jack Chen and his executive and management teams about how Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise will help them to drive sustainable business for their companies and customers.

Solutions specialists will demonstrate new product roadmaps and show how Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise can help partners and end-customers achieve tangible business outcomes by making everything connect thanks to Advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Connectivity and platforms, and the Internet of Things.

Continuing its vertical focus, Connex23 will reveal Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s plans for further innovation across the healthcare, education, government, transportation, energy and utilities markets.

“Businesses on their path to digital transformation are embracing new technologies and models to boost their business outcomes through increased employee and customer collaboration with an enhanced user experience.” comments Rukmini Glanard, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Marketing. “We are offering an increased portfolio of value-added services to help accelerate this move to cloud subscription and as a Service business models.”

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is continuing to focus on supporting its global ecosystem of 3,400 business partners and its worldwide base of over a million customers. The management will demonstrate how the company is using flexible and agile methods, which have been successfully implemented over the last year, to go the extra mile to enable complex opportunities, manage industry shortages and support business continuity for partners and end customers on an hourly and daily basis.

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“The theme for this year’s event is ‘Technology for Good’. This underlines the importance of how our people, our partners, and our secure solutions work hand-in-hand to create and deliver positive outcomes, good for people, good for business and good for the environment. Technology can help individuals and companies to be better connected, to collaborate in more innovative and productive ways.” said Rukmini Glanard.

About Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise delivers the customised technology experiences enterprises need to make everything connect.

ALE provides digital-age networking, communications and cloud solutions with services tailored to ensure customers’ success, with flexible business models in the cloud, on premises, and hybrid. All solutions have built-in security and limited environmental impact.

Over 100 years of innovation have made Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise a trusted advisor to more than a million customers all over the world.

With headquarters in France and 3,400 business partners worldwide, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise achieves an effective global reach with a local focus.

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