Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence

Science.gov (United States)

Delsemme, Armand H.; de Duve, Foreword by Christian

2001-01-01

Preface Christian de Duve; Foreword; 1. Locating man in the universe; 2. The race towards complexity; 3. The stellar alchemy of metals; 4. The formation of the planets; 5. Emergence of life; 6. History of life; 7. Awakening of intelligence; 8. The other worlds; 9. Perspectives; Appendices; Glossary; References; Name index; Subject index.

The minimum description length principle

NARCIS (Netherlands)

P.D. Grünwald (Peter)

2007-01-01

textabstractThe pdf file in the repository consists only if the preface, foreword and chapter 1; I am not allowed by the publisher to put the remainder of this book on the web. If you are a member of the CWI evaluation committee and yu read this: you are of course entitled to access the full

Foreword and introductory comments to CEA annual report 1989

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1990-01-01

This article is a foreword to the annual report of the Commisariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and summarises the main achievements of the research teams such as the commissioning of the electron-positron collision ring (LEP), the fuel reprocessing plant at The Hague, the PROTEINE 2000 programme, the laser enrichment programme and advances in microelectronics. (author)

Discussion of Alfred Alder's preface to The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Science.gov (United States)

Ansbacher, H L

1981-07-01

In his preface to The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Alfred Adler (1) found his theory of the dynamics of schizophrenia supported in the Diary, (2) alluded to Nijinsky's prepsychotic personality, and (3) briefly touched on the possibility and conditions of recovery. To add to the understanding of Adler's "Preface," this discussion (1) expands his theory of schizophrenia, (2) gives some concrete data of Nijinsky's prepsychotic personality, (3) describes two episodes of recovery subsequent to the "Preface," and (4) introduces an important aspect of Adler's theory, which he had to omit out of consideration for Nijinsky's wife, Romola-namely, her role in her husband's disorder. With the larger theoretical and historical context established. Adler's "Preface" can be appreciated for its predictive validity.

Foreword: Biomonitoring Equivalents special issue.

Science.gov (United States)

Meek, M E; Sonawane, B; Becker, R A

2008-08-01

The challenge of interpreting results of biomonitoring for environmental chemicals in humans is highlighted in this Foreword to the Biomonitoring Equivalents (BEs) special issue of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. There is a pressing need to develop risk-based tools in order to empower scientists and health professionals to interpret and communicate the significance of human biomonitoring data. The BE approach, which integrates dosimetry and risk assessment methods, represents an important advancement on the path toward achieving this objective. The articles in this issue, developed as a result of an expert panel meeting, present guidelines for derivation of BEs, guidelines for communication using BEs and several case studies illustrating application of the BE approach for specific substances.

Success through Failure: Wittgenstein and the Romantic Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Mark W. Rowe

2013-05-01

Full Text Available I argue that the Preface to Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations represents a form of preface found in several other major works of Romanticism. In essence, this kind of preface says: ‘I have tried very hard to write a work of the following conventional type … . I failed, and have thus been compelled to publish, with some reluctance, the following fragmentary, eccentric, unfinished or otherwise unsatisfactory work.’ It sometimes transpires, however, that a work which appeared unfinished and unsatisfactory to the author and his contemporaries, later comes to be seen as both complete and startlingly original. Indeed, not initially recognizing what you have achieved is sometimes a mark of the greatness-through-originality so highly prized by Romantic writers. Besides the Investigations, I concentrate on Coleridge’s Preface to ‘Kubla Khan’, and the first 269 lines of Wordsworth’s Prelude (in both the 1805 and 1850 versions, discussing exactly why all three authors found their projects so recalcitrant, why their solutions were so original, and why the magnitude of their achievements was not appreciated from the first. I end with some reflections on why Wittgenstein’s work on aesthetics, the aesthetic impact of his work, and the cognitive impact of his work should not be separated.

Foreword Thought and Practice: Taking Stock, Re-engaging

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous “Orphée noir” (1948) still ranks among the most memorable Prefaces aimed at capturing the significance of the moments of historical regeneration of interrupted cultural expressions. For that piece, simultaneously celebrated and controverted, Sartre borrowed the idea from the ancient Greek ...

Macro-Econophysics

Science.gov (United States)

Aoyama, Hideaki; Fujiwara, Yoshi; Ikeda, Yuichi; Iyetomi, Hiroshi; Souma, Wataru; Yoshikawa, Hiroshi

2017-07-01

Preface; Foreword, Acknowledgements, List of tables; List of figures, prologue, 1. Introduction: reconstructing macroeconomics; 2. Basic concepts in statistical physics and stochastic models; 3. Income and firm-size distributions; 4. Productivity distribution and related topics; 5. Multivariate time-series analysis; 6. Business cycles; 7. Price dynamics and inflation/deflation; 8. Complex network, community analysis, visualization; 9. Systemic risks; Appendix A: computer program for beginners; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

32 CFR 644.1 - Preface.

Science.gov (United States)

2010-07-01

... Project Planning § 644.1 Preface. Subpart A sets out basic procedures to be followed in planning and scheduling for the acquisition of lands in connection with Military and Civil Works projects. It is not... the acquisition phase. Civil Works ...

Foreword in "RF imperfections in high-rate wireless systems: impact and digital compensation"

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Linnartz, J.P.M.G.; Schenk, Tim

2008-01-01

Foreword This book takes a modern, multidisciplinary view on radio system design: the advantages of digital signal processing are exploited to satisfy the ever increasing demands on better performing, flexible radio frequency (RF) circuits. By accepting that analog circuits are inherently imperfect,

Once Upon a Time There Was an Indian

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Arij Ouweneel

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Alas de maguey. La lucha de Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, by Marta Gómez-Rodulfo, with a preface by Elena Poniatowska, 2012.Embers of the Past. Essays in Times of Decolonization, by Javier Sanjinés C., with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo; translated by David Frye, 2013.The Village Is Like a Wheel: Rethinking Cargos, Family and Ethnicity in Highland Mexico, by Roger Magazine, 2012.

"Prefacing the Script" as an Ethical Response to State-Mandated Abortion Counseling.

Science.gov (United States)

Buchbinder, Mara; Lassiter, Dragana; Mercier, Rebecca; Bryant, Amy; Lyerly, Anne Drapkin

Laws governing abortion provision are proliferating throughout the United States, yet little is known about how these laws affect providers. We investigated the experiences of abortion providers in North Carolina practicing under the 2011 Women's Right to Know Act, which mandates that women receive counseling with specific, state-prescribed information at least 24 hours prior to an abortion. We focus here on a subset of the data to examine one strategy by which providers worked to minimize moral conflicts generated by the counseling procedure. Drawing on Erving Goffman's work on language and social interaction, we highlight how providers communicated moral objections and layered meanings through a practice that we call prefacing the script . We conducted semi-structured interviews with 31 physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and clinic managers who provide abortion care in North Carolina. Audio-recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using an inductive, iterative analytic approach, which included reading for context, interpretive memo-writing, and focused coding. Roughly half of the participants (14/31) reported that they or the clinicians who performed the counseling in their institution routinely prefaced the counseling script with qualifiers, disclaimers, and apologies that clarified their relationship to the state-mandated content. We identified three performative functions of this practice: 1) enacting a frame shift from a medical to a legal interaction, 2) distancing the speaker from the authorial voice of the counseling script, and 3) creating emotional alignment. Prefacing state-mandated abortion counseling scripts constitutes a practical strategy providers use to balance the obligation to comply with state law with personal and professional responsibilities to provide tailored care, emotional support, and serve the patient's best interests. Our findings suggest that language constitutes a powerful resource for navigating and

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Héctor Cancela

2017-04-01

Full Text Available The 20th volume of the CLEI electronic journal includes six papers selected from an open call for papers on Natural Language Processing (NLP, processed by invited editors Gerardo Sierra and César Aguilar, and an additional regular paper. The NLP subject was suggested by Gabriela Marín and Antonio Leoni de León, the chairs of NLPCR 2016, the First Costa-Rican Colloquium on Natural Language Processing. The invited editors took care of the review process and the selection of the six papers, as discussed in their Preface which opens this issue. The additional regular paper is a contribution by Jose Aguilar, Guido Riofrío, and Eduardo Encalada, titled "Learning Analytics focused on student behavior. Case study: dropout in distance learning institutions", which focuses on the use of Learning Analytics for undestanding student behavior in the context of distance learning universities, particularly focuses on the students’ behavior, with the goal of identifying factors that influence the decision of a student to abandon their studies, predicting students susceptible to abandon their studies, and defining their motivational patterns. This issue, which opens the 20th volume of the journal, is a mark of the success of the mission of CLEIej as a vehicle for publishing Latin American based original research in subjects of international interest; we are glad to be able to develop this mission with the support of the researchers who kindly contribute their time as invited editors and reviewers of the papers received.

Metadiscourse in Book Prefaces of Filipino and English Authors: A Contrastive Rhetoric Study

Science.gov (United States)

Munalim, Leonardo O.; Lintao, Rachelle B.

2016-01-01

Grounded on the tradition of Contrastive Rhetoric (CR), this paper aimed at contrasting the presence of metadiscourse resources in a book preface of Filipino and English authors. It especially sought to see the similarities and differences of interactive and interactional markers between two cultures. A total of thirty book prefaces on language…

“Prefacing the Script” as an Ethical Response to State-Mandated Abortion Counseling

Science.gov (United States)

Lassiter, Dragana; Mercier, Rebecca; Bryant, Amy; Lyerly, Anne Drapkin

2016-01-01

BACKGROUND Laws governing abortion provision are proliferating throughout the United States, yet little is known about how these laws affect providers. We investigated the experiences of abortion providers in North Carolina practicing under the 2011 Women’s Right to Know Act, which mandates that women receive counseling with specific, state-prescribed information at least 24 hours prior to an abortion. We focus here on a subset of the data to examine one strategy by which providers worked to minimize moral conflicts generated by the counseling procedure. Drawing on Erving Goffman’s work on language and social interaction, we highlight how providers communicated moral objections and layered meanings through a practice that we call prefacing the script. METHODS We conducted semi-structured interviews with 31 physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and clinic managers who provide abortion care in North Carolina. Audio-recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using an inductive, iterative analytic approach, which included reading for context, interpretive memo-writing, and focused coding. RESULTS Roughly half of the participants (14/31) reported that they or the clinicians who performed the counseling in their institution routinely prefaced the counseling script with qualifiers, disclaimers, and apologies that clarified their relationship to the state-mandated content. We identified three performative functions of this practice: 1) enacting a frame shift from a medical to a legal interaction, 2) distancing the speaker from the authorial voice of the counseling script, and 3) creating emotional alignment. CONCLUSIONS Prefacing state-mandated abortion counseling scripts constitutes a practical strategy providers use to balance the obligation to comply with state law with personal and professional responsibilities to provide tailored care, emotional support, and serve the patient’s best interests. Our findings suggest that language constitutes a

Introduction to probability with R

CERN Document Server

Baclawski, Kenneth

2008-01-01

FOREWORD PREFACE Sets, Events, and Probability The Algebra of Sets The Bernoulli Sample Space The Algebra of Multisets The Concept of Probability Properties of Probability Measures Independent Events The Bernoulli Process The R Language Finite Processes The Basic Models Counting Rules Computing Factorials The Second Rule of Counting Computing Probabilities Discrete Random Variables The Bernoulli Process: Tossing a Coin The Bernoulli Process: Random Walk Independence and Joint Distributions Expectations The Inclusion-Exclusion Principle General Random Variable

Translator's preface.

Science.gov (United States)

Lamiell, James T

2013-08-01

Presents a preface from James T. Lamiell, who translates Wilhelm Wundt's Psychology's Struggle for Existence (Die Psychologie im Kampf ums Dasein), in which Wundt advised against the impending divorce of psychology from philosophy, into English. Lamiell comments that more than a decade into the 21st century, it appears that very few psychologists have any interest at all in work at the interface of psychology and philosophy. He notes that one clear indication of this is that the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, which is Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (APA), remains one of the smallest of the APA's nearly 60 divisions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

Essentials of cloud computing

CERN Document Server

Chandrasekaran, K

2014-01-01

ForewordPrefaceComputing ParadigmsLearning ObjectivesPreambleHigh-Performance ComputingParallel ComputingDistributed ComputingCluster ComputingGrid ComputingCloud ComputingBiocomputingMobile ComputingQuantum ComputingOptical ComputingNanocomputingNetwork ComputingSummaryReview PointsReview QuestionsFurther ReadingCloud Computing FundamentalsLearning ObjectivesPreambleMotivation for Cloud ComputingThe Need for Cloud ComputingDefining Cloud ComputingNIST Definition of Cloud ComputingCloud Computing Is a ServiceCloud Computing Is a Platform5-4-3 Principles of Cloud computingFive Essential Charact

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2005-01-01

Full text:There is always a temptation while writing a Foreword to the Annual Report of a big research institute to address the big issues of the scientific policy in the country in which you operate. The declared policy in our country is to follow the Lisbon declaration, to increase the funding of research at an accelerating pace, so as to reach soon the goal of 3% of GNP. Along with that declaration, there is a steady decrease of the funding, the present state budget providing about 0,3% GNP with some wishful thinking about the private industry doing the rest. No comments. We can invite foreigners for various survival courses, fashionable in extreme sports but less attractive in normal daily life. There is a question of mission for a large, multi-disciplinary institute like ours in a country like Poland to-day, undergoing the convulsions of transformation and urgently trying to catch-up with the world of wealth, the world of hi-tech. Personally, I am convinced that we have such a mission, that there is an important role to fill in a modern society for an institute of our type: a fair size national laboratory with a fifty-fifty share of basic research and of R and D, being a natural research back-up for high technology development as well as an important contributor to the cultural and educational advancement of the country. Within the present organization of scientific research in Poland our mission should and could best be carried out under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences. I hope that the rather artificial difficulties in the transfer of our Institute from our present formal supervising body, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, to the Academy will eventually be removed and the transfer will finally take place. We try to pursue our mission within the limited resources we have, the best we can. I invite the reader to glance through the pages of this Report to hopefully find confirmation of this. A few highlights as well as some trends worth

Foreword. Annual report 2003

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2004-01-01

Full text: My Foreword to the 2002 Annual Report ended with a handful of best wishes for the year 2003. One of them, rather highly pitched, was addressed to our funding authorities: may their preaching about a ''Knowledge Based Society in Poland'' come true ! There is, unfortunately, little evidence that this preaching is taken seriously by the preachers, even though the time for that in a unifying Europe is high. I hope that this Annual Report bears witness that at least we are doing our bit in this direction. Thus: We have published 203 papers in international journals. Several of them quickly gain international recognition. There was hard competition for our internal awards. The four emerging winners are behind the contributions: on the creation of circular vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates (contribution 8.23), on our share in the NA49 experiment at CERN (contribution 6.4), on our use of solid state nuclear track detectors, SSNTD, in the hostile environment of hot plasma experiments (contribution 5.5) and on some special detectors for positron emission tomography to be applied in hadron therapy (contribution 3.7). We have also contributed to the general education by, e.g., having over 7000 young guests at our Training Department (see Chapter 11 ), taking part in the Science Festival in Warsaw and Lodz, or starting the ''Roland Maze project'' in that city. The project aims at involving a large number of high school pupils in active research concerning extensive air showers at highest energies (contribution 7.6). Very importantly, it has gained approval and financial support of the local authorities in Lodz. Two international meetings were organized by our Institute: the 28 Mazurian Lakes Conference, ''The Atomic Nucleus as a Laboratory for Fundamental Processes'', EPS sponsored, see e.g. CERN Courier 44 (2004), and the ''Conference on Plasma Research and Applications, PLASMA 2003'', biannual gathering of plasma physics its. Our attempts at obtaining EU

Preface: Remote Sensing in Coastal Environments

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Deepak R. Mishra

2016-08-01

Full Text Available The Special Issue (SI on “Remote Sensing in Coastal Environments” presents a wide range of articles focusing on a variety of remote sensing models and techniques to address coastal issues and processes ranging for wetlands and water quality to coral reefs and kelp habitats. The SI is comprised of twenty-one papers, covering a broad range of research topics that employ remote sensing imagery, models, and techniques to monitor water quality, vegetation, habitat suitability, and geomorphology in the coastal zone. This preface provides a brief summary of each article published in the SI.

Dynamos of the Sun, Stars, and Planets - Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Stix, M.

2005-04-01

The conference ``Dynamos of the Sun, Stars, and Planets'' was organized by the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik Freiburg, and was held at the University of Freiburg from 4th to 6th October 2004. About 50 participants attended the conference, with 8 review lectures, 20 contributed talks, and 6 posters. With only few exceptions, these contributions appear in the present issue of Astronomische Nachrichten. This preface summarizes the discussion of the closing session.

PREFACE: XXX International Conference on Interaction of Intense Energy Fluxes with Matter

Science.gov (United States)

Fortov, V. E.; Khishchenko, K. V.; Karamurzov, B. S.; Efremov, V. P.; Sultanov, V. G.

2015-11-01

This paper is a preface to the proceedings of the XXX International Conference on Interaction of Intense Energy Fluxes with Matter, which was held in Elbrus settlement, in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic of the Russian Federation, from March 1-6, 2015.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2002-01-01

Full text: Science in Poland seems to be like the horse in the story: the owner of the horse has embarked on an experimental programme to teach the animal to break its habit of eating. The programme was very successful. The final effect, however, was partly spoiled by the untimely death of the horse. With ever diminishing subsidies for science in Poland, we are still kicking. Our scientific output does not seem to be correlated with financing. We published nearly 200 papers in journals acknowledged by the Philadelphia Institute, about the same as in previous years, we managed to make progress in several fields of technology (e.g. the new, higher energy therapeutical accelerator, the installation of a new, quite powerful ion implantation device for modification of material properties, the further development of the ''photon needle'' for brachytherapy, or the very promising first experience with the innovative technique of niobium coating for superconducting cavities). One thing we did not manage: we did not manage to get younger. And this, really is correlated with finances, and even more so, with the lack of prospects for young people, as they see it, for careers in science. We do what we can in this respect, witness our PhD programme, but this is a loosing battle as long as the present policy towards science in Poland does not change. Details of development in various fields of activities carried out at our institute are best described in the forewords to each chapter of this Annual Report. Here, I wish to mention just a few highlights, pleasant happenings, to catch a few fleeting memories. Thus, e.g., our PhD programme for youngsters seems to be nicely supplemented by the one for grown-ups. Example: the honoris causa doctorate for professor Adam Sobiczewski, granted by Lublin University. Another pleasant memory: the fun under the roof of our Institute's tent during the ''Scientific Picnic'' at the New Marker Square in the Old Town. The fun (e.g. the in various

Prefreshman and Cooperative Education Program. [PREFACE training

Science.gov (United States)

1976-01-01

Of the 93 students enrolled in the PREFACE program over its four-year history, 70 are still in engineering school. Tables show profiles of student placement and participation from 1973 to 1977 (first semester completed). During the 1977 summer, 10 students were placed at NASA Goddard, 8 at DOE-Brookhaven, and 2 at American Can. Eleven students with less high school math preparation remained on campus for formal precalculus classes. Majors of the students in the program include civil, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Student satisfaction with their training experiences is summarized.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2003-01-01

Full text: For Polish science the year 2002 was the year of struggle for survival. The state financing has reached the lowest-ever level. The sudden drop in this financing was like pulling a pillow from under a dying. Many a weaker man dies, many a weaker institution perishes. This Annual Report bears witness that we have managed to survive, though we did not emerge quite unscathed: our personnel had decreased in number by about 15 %, the number of our publications did not increase (about 200), no discovery worth the Nobel prize was announced, etc. We do, however, have some pieces of good work to brag about (see the forewords to various chapters in this Report by the department leaders). As examples, I'll mention two very different award gaining contributions. One is a piece of advanced mathematics applied elegantly to a rather general physical problem, the other is a piece of advanced electronics which has finally matured to commercialization. We have also started to explore new research territories. Thus e.g. we are now actively engaged in the fast growing international collaboration on the hottest subject in subatomic physics: the neutrino physics (as it happens, the topic of the latest Nobel lecture). Our belt tightening happens at the time of a natural ''change of guards''. Several of our senior colleagues retire and leave the institute or continue part time only. One of the presently most essential tasks for our long term survival is to fill the vacancies with ''fresh blood''. Against the odds, we can claim at least a partial success in this task, though far below the needs. In addition to our Ph. D. studies and to opening a few post-doc positions, we also engage in educational activities at other levels. We took active part in the ''Warsaw Science Picnic'' in the spring and in the Science Festival in the autumn, we managed to greatly enrich the permanent exhibition of our Training Department (notably with a rather sophisticated, 1:10 scale model of a nuclear

Preface to Berk's "Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique"

OpenAIRE

de Leeuw, Jan

2003-01-01

It is pleasure to write a preface for the book ”Regression Analysis” of my fellow series editor Dick Berk. And it is a pleasure in particular because the book is about regression analysis, the most popular and the most fundamental technique in applied statistics. And because it is critical of the way regression analysis is used in the sciences, in particular in the social and behavioral sciences. Although the book can be read as an introduction to regression analysis, it can also be read as a...

Recent Trends in the Presentation of Neuroanatomy in Contemporary Neuroanatomy Books as Revealed in Their 'Preface's: A Review.

Science.gov (United States)

Yasmin, Q S; Banu, L A; Rahman, M F; Paul, S

2015-04-01

Many changes have been made in the field of Neuroanatomy teaching and assessment. One important way to know the changes in other country is by analyzing the Neuroanatomy text books and we can compare their reflections in our curriculum by analyzing the assessment system. To analyze the 'Preface's of contemporary Neuroanatomy text books, qualitatively, for noting the approaches taken and means applied in dealing with Neuroanatomy in the text books. This review was done in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka from July 2008 and June 2009. The 'Preface's of ten contemporary text books dealing with Neuroanatomy, published since 1993, was analyzed. Among them, the two that are most commonly recommended to the medical postgraduates in Bangladesh were selected for analyzing their presentation of text and illustrations. The 'Preface's of ten books were analyzed qualitatively to identify the information and explanations provided and comments made by their author(s)/editor(s) on the approaches taken and the means applied in the books in selecting and presenting topics, text and illustrations. The observations were organized into specific 'theme's. Twelve 'theme's were identified from the analyses of the 'Preface's of ten contemporary Neuroanatomy text books. These include special emphasis in the books on incorporation of new information, on practical application of Neuroanatomical facts. Addition and improvement regarding illustrations are also highlighted. By incorporating the findings of the present study with the present-day ideas and trends in Neuroanatomy in the developed world as evident from the available literature, suggestions could be formulated on improving the methods of teaching and assessment of Neuroanatomy in Bangladesh.

Preface [Special issue on dataTEL – Data Supported Research in Technology-Enhanced Learning

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Drachsler, Hendrik; Verbert, Katrien; Manouselis, Nikos; Vuorikari, Riina; Wolpers, Martin; Lindstaedt, Stefanie

2012-01-01

Drachsler, H., Verbert, K., Manouselis, N., Vuorikari, R., Wolpers, M., & Lindstaedt, S. (2012). Preface [Special issue on dataTEL – Data Supported Research in Technology-Enhanced Learning]. International Journal Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 4, Nos. 1/2, 2012.

Tax wedge on labour income in Croatia and the European Union : Preface to the special issue of Financial Theory and Practice

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Ivica Urban

2016-06-01

Full Text Available This article is a preface to a special issue of Financial Theory and Practice, which is devoted to the comparison of tax wedge on labour income in Croatia and other EU countries. The articles in this issue have arisen from the students’ research project, undertaken in 2015. This Preface outlines the motivation behind the research project, explains the most important methodological issues, and reviews the literature on the measurement of tax wedge in Croatia.

Preface to The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Alfred Adler, MD.

Science.gov (United States)

Ansbacher, H L

1981-07-01

This is a previously unpublished work by Alfred Adler that was written in 1936 as a preface to The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. A theory of schizophrenia is described in which characteristic prepsychotic features, especially lack of social interest and oversensitivity to real and imagined slights, lead to increasing irrationalism and preoccupation with grandiose ideas. The establishment of a cooperative therapeutic relationship and the instilling of hope are presented as central factors for successful treatment.

Sustainability in the Design, Synthesis and Analysis of Chemical Engineering Processes 1st edition (Preface)

Science.gov (United States)

This book preface explains the needs found by the book editors for assembling the state of the art of technical and scientific knowledge relevant to chemical engineering, sustainability, and sustainable uses of wastes and materials management, and to do so in an accessible and c...

Unbound color, prefaced by remarks on baryon spectroscopy

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Greenberg, O.W.

Theoretical and experimental issues related to the possibility that color is unbound are surveyed. This implies that quarks, gluons and other particles carrying color can exist as isolated objects. It is surprisingly difficult to distinguish models with unbound color from those in which color is permanently confined. None-the-less, the present situation seems discouraging for unbound color because there is no unambiguous support for it and because the crucial prediction of formation of a colored gluon in e + e - collisions has been ruled out wherever sufficient data exists. The above survey is prefaced by remarks on the symmetric quark model for baryon spectroscopy

Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing - 2nd Edition

Science.gov (United States)

Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe; Potters, Marc

2003-12-01

Foreword; Preface; 1. Probability theory: basic notions; 2. Maximum and addition of random variables; 3. Continuous time limit, Ito calculus and path integrals; 4. Analysis of empirical data; 5. Financial products and financial markets; 6. Statistics of real prices: basic results; 7. Non-linear correlations and volatility fluctuations; 8. Skewness and price-volatility correlations; 9. Cross-correlations; 10. Risk measures; 11. Extreme correlations and variety; 12. Optimal portfolios; 13. Futures and options: fundamental concepts; 14. Options: hedging and residual risk; 15. Options: the role of drift and correlations; 16. Options: the Black and Scholes model; 17. Options: some more specific problems; 18. Options: minimum variance Monte-Carlo; 19. The yield curve; 20. Simple mechanisms for anomalous price statistics; Index of most important symbols; Index.

On The Problem of Constructing Routes, Part I: Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Gertsbakh Ilya B.

2017-09-01

Full Text Available This is a preface of the translation of the 1967 paper by Linis and Maksim, “On the problem of constructing routes” (in Russian (in the Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Aviation Engineering, Issue 102, pp. 36-45. It marks 50-year to the deficit function (DF model initially developed in this 1967 work; the DF model then paved the way to further research of vehicle-fleet management in terms of optimal routing and scheduling. The merit of this translation is to describe the roots of the DF modelling to enable further studies to emerge with more contributions.

Preface for Discussion on Mid-Ocean Ridges: dynamics of processes associated with creation of new ocean crust

Science.gov (United States)

Cann, J. R.; Elderfield, H.; Laughton, A.

Preface for Discussion on Mid-Ocean Ridges: dynamics of processes associated with creation of new ocean crust. A Discussion held at the Royal Society on 6th and 7th March 1996. Organized and edited by J. R. Cann, H. Elderfield and A. Laughton.

Discrete chaos with applications in science and engineering

CERN Document Server

Elaydi, Saber N

2007-01-01

PREFACE FOREWORD The Stability of One-Dimensional Maps Introduction Maps vs. Difference Equations Maps vs. Differential Equations Linear Maps/Difference Equations Fixed (Equilibrium) Points Graphical Iteration and Stability Criteria for Stability Periodic Points and Their Stability The Period-Doubling Route to Chaos Applications Attraction and Bifurcation Introduction Basin of Attraction of Fixed Points Basin of Attraction of Periodic Orbits Singer's Theorem Bifurcation Sharkovsky's Theorem The Lorenz Map Period-Doubling in the Real World Poincaré Section/Map Appendix Chaos in One Dimension Introduction Density of the Set of Periodic Points Transitivity Sensitive Dependence Definition of Chaos Cantor Sets Symbolic Dynamics Conjugacy Other Notions of Chaos Rössler's Attractor Saturn's Rings Stability of Two-Dimensional Maps Linear Maps vs. Linear Systems Computing An Fundamental Set of Solutions Second-Order Difference Equations Phase Space ...

Foreword to the Special Focus on Mathematics, Data and Knowledge

KAUST Repository

Chen, Xiaoyu

2013-12-01

There is a growing interest in applying mathematical theories and methods from topology, computational geometry, differential equations, fluid dynamics, quantum statistics, etc. to describe and to analyze scientific regularities of diverse, massive, complex, nonlinear, and fast changing data accumulated continuously around the world and in discovering and revealing valid, insightful, and valuable knowledge that data imply. With increasingly solid mathematical foundations, various methods and techniques have been studied and developed for data mining, modeling, and processing, and knowledge representation, organization, and verification; different systems and mechanisms have been designed to perform data-intensive tasks in many application fields for classification, predication, recommendation, ranking, filtering, etc. This special focus of Mathematics in Computer Science is organized to stimulate original research on the interaction of mathematics with data and knowledge, in particular the exploration of new mathematical theories and methodologies for data modeling and analysis and knowledge discovery and management, the study of mathematical models of big data and complex knowledge, and the development of novel solutions and strategies to enhance the performance of existing systems and mechanisms for data and knowledge processing. The present foreword provides a short review of some key ideas and techniques on how mathematics interacts with data and knowledge, together with a few selected research directions and problems and a brief introduction to the four papers published in the focus. © 2013 Springer Basel.

The preface by João Cabral de Melo Neto to Em Va Fer Joan Brossa: Theory and practice of realism in two poets from the post-war.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Melcion Mateu

2009-12-01

Full Text Available In 1951, the book Em va fer Joan Brossa [Joan Brossa  Made me] was published in Barcelona, with a preface by João Cabral de Melo Neto. It is a useful text to better understand Brossa as well as Cabral; it is a significant text in order to grasp the individual response of these poets to the problem of returning to realism for the early post-war period. A translation of João Cabral de Melo Neto's preface, previously unpublished in Portuguese, is presented here.

Modeling and analysis with induction generators

CERN Document Server

Simões, M Godoy

2014-01-01

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAuthorsPrinciples of Alternative Sources of Energy and Electric GenerationScope of This ChapterLegal DefinitionsPrinciples of Electrical ConversionBasic Definitions of Electrical PowerCharacteristics of Primary SourcesCharacteristics of Remote Industrial, Commercial, and Residential Sites and Rural EnergySelection of the Electric GeneratorInterfacing Primary Source, Generator, and LoadExample of a Simple Integrated Generating and Energy-Storing SystemSolved ProblemsSuggested ProblemsReferencesSteady-State Model of Induction GeneratorsScope of This ChapterInterconnection and Disconnection of the Electric Distribution NetworkRobustness of Induction GeneratorsClassical Steady-State Representation of the Asynchronous MachineGenerated PowerInduced TorqueRepresentation of Induction Generator LossesMeasurement of Induction Generator ParametersBlocked Rotor Test (s = 1)No-Load Test (s = 0)Features of Induction Machines Working as Generators Interconnected to the Distribution NetworkHigh-...

Preface to the Focus Issue: Chaos Detection Methods and Predictability

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Gottwald, Georg A.; Skokos, Charalampos

2014-01-01

This Focus Issue presents a collection of papers originating from the workshop Methods of Chaos Detection and Predictability: Theory and Applications held at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, June 17–21, 2013. The main aim of this interdisciplinary workshop was to review comprehensively the theory and numerical implementation of the existing methods of chaos detection and predictability, as well as to report recent applications of these techniques to different scientific fields. The collection of twelve papers in this Focus Issue represents the wide range of applications, spanning mathematics, physics, astronomy, particle accelerator physics, meteorology and medical research. This Preface surveys the papers of this Issue

Preface to the Focus Issue: chaos detection methods and predictability.

Science.gov (United States)

Gottwald, Georg A; Skokos, Charalampos

2014-06-01

This Focus Issue presents a collection of papers originating from the workshop Methods of Chaos Detection and Predictability: Theory and Applications held at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, June 17-21, 2013. The main aim of this interdisciplinary workshop was to review comprehensively the theory and numerical implementation of the existing methods of chaos detection and predictability, as well as to report recent applications of these techniques to different scientific fields. The collection of twelve papers in this Focus Issue represents the wide range of applications, spanning mathematics, physics, astronomy, particle accelerator physics, meteorology and medical research. This Preface surveys the papers of this Issue.

Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security. Threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Brauch, Hans Guenter [Freie Univ. Berlin (Germany). Dept. of Political and Social Sciences; UNU-EHS, Bonn (DE). College of Associated Scientists and Advisors (CASA); Oswald Spring, Ursula [National Univ. of Mexico, Cuernavaca (MX). Regional Multidisciplinary Research Centre (CRIM); Mesjasz, Czeslaw [Cracow Univ. of Exonomics (Poland). Faculty of Management; Grin, John [Amsterdam Univ. (Netherlands). Dept. of Political Science; Dutch Knowledge network for Systems Innovations and Transitions (KSI), Amsterdam (Netherlands); Kameri-Mbote, Patricia [Strathmore Univ., Nairobi (Kenya). Dept. of Law; International Environmental Law Research Centre, Nairobi (Kenya); Chourou, Bechir [Univ. of Tunis-Carthage, Hammam-Chatt (Tunisia); Dunay, Pal [Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Switzerland). International Training Course in Security Policy; Birkmann, Joern (eds.) [United Nations Univ. (UNU), Bonn (DE). Inst. for Environment and Human Security (EHS)

2011-07-01

This policy-focused Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropo-cene (GEHSHA) addresses new security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks posed by global environmental change and disasters. In 6 forewords, 5 preface essays 95 peer reviewed chapcountries analyse in 10 parts concepts of military and political hard security and economic, social, environmental soft security with a regional focus on the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia and on hazards in urban centres. The major focus is on coping with global environmental change: climate change, desertification, water, food and health and with hazards and strategies on social vulnerability and resilience building and scientific, international, regional and national political strategies, policies and measures including early warning of conflicts and hazards. The book proposes a political geo-ecology and discusses a 'Fourth Green Revolution' for the Anthropocene era of earth history. (orig.)

Thomas Jefferson, I dilemmi della democrazia americana, translated and edited by Alberto Giordano, with a preface by Dino Cofrancesco (Novi Ligure: Città del Silenzio, 2007

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Pierluigi Chiassoni

2010-03-01

Full Text Available A review of Thomas Jefferson, I dilemmi della democrazia americana, translated and edited by Alberto Giordano, with a preface by Dino Cofrancesco (Novi Ligure: Città del Silenzio, 2007

History of Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control with Emphasis on Flight Resrearch: Monographs in Aerospace History Number 13

Science.gov (United States)

Braslow, A. L.

1999-01-01

The paper contains the following sections: Foreword; Preface; Laminar-Flow Control Concepts and Scope of Monograph; Early Research on Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control (Research from the 1930s through the War Years; Research from after World War II to the Mid-1960s); Post X-21 Research on Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control; Status of Laminar-Flow Control Technology in the Mid-1990s; Glossary; Document 1-Aeronautics Panel, AACB, R&D Review, Report of the Subpanel on Aeronautic Energy Conservation/Fuels; Document 2-Report of Review Group on X-21A Laminar Flow Control Program; Document 3-Langley Research Center Announcement, Establishment of Laminar Flow Control Working Group; Document 4-Intercenter Agreement for Laminar Flow Control Leading Edge Glove Flights, LaRC and DFRC; Document 5-Flight Report NLF-144, of AFTIF-111 Aircraft with the TACT Wing Modified by a Natural Laminar Flow Glove; Document 6-Flight Record, F-16XL Supersonic Laminar Flow Control Aircraft; Index; and About the Author.

Preface: Multiscale feedbacks in ecogeomorphology

Science.gov (United States)

Wheaton, Joseph M.; Gibbins, Chris; Wainwright, John; Larsen, Laurel G.; McElroy, Brandon

2011-01-01

Geomorphic systems are known to exhibit nonlinear responses to physical–biological feedbacks (Thornes, 1985; Baas, 2002; Reinhardt et al., 2010). These responses make understanding and/or predicting system response to change highly challenging. With growing concerns over ecosystem health, a pressing need exists for research that tries to elucidate these feedbacks (Jerolmack, 2008; Darby, 2010; National Research Council, 2010). A session was convened at the Fall 2008 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to provide an outlet for some of this truly interdisciplinary and original research, which is central to understanding geomorphic and ecological dynamics. The session attracted over 39 contributions, which were divided into two well-attended oral sessions and a very busy poster session. This special issue presents new research from the AGU session, which highlights clear physical–biological feedbacks. The aim is to bring together contrasting perspectives on biological and geomorphic feedbacks in a diversity of physiographic settings, ranging from wetlands and estuaries, through rivers, to uplands. These papers highlight biological and physical feedbacks which involve the modulation or amplification of geomorphic processes. These papers will be of interest to a core geomorphology audience, and should also draw attention from the fields of ecohydraulics, hydroecology, ecohydrology, ecomorphology, biogeochemistry and biogeography, and biogeomorphology as well as the more traditional fields of hydrology, ecology and biology. In this preface to the special issue, we a) review past contributions to the emerging field of ecogeomorphology and related disciplines, b) provide some context for how this topical special issue came to fruition, and c) summarize the contributions to this special issue.

PREFACE: International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces (ICSFS 2014)

Science.gov (United States)

Achete, C. A.; Almeida, C. M.; Cremona, M.; Rocca, M.; Stavale, F.

2015-03-01

Foreword The 17th ICSFS took place at the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the 8th to the 11th of September, 2014. The conference focused on recent advances in controlling and characterizing the physical and chemical properties of films and surfaces, with a particular emphasis on materials for electronic, photonic and spintronic applications. In addition, themes of bio-functionalized structures and devices were strongly discussed in the ICSFS, covering interdisciplinary nano and nano-bio science and technology. The conference has promoted, in various sub-fields of materials surfaces and thin films, an excellent forum for exchange of ideas, presentation of technical achievements and discussion of future directions in the field. In this volume of the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering we are glad to present 11 peer-reviewed ICSFS contributing papers. The cross-disciplinary nature of conference topics is clearly reflected in these Proceedings' contents. The themes discussed ranged from those close to more traditional condensed matter physics, such as semiconductor surfaces to physical chemistry related issues. The Proceedings were organized in accordance with contributions presented at the Conference. We were glad with the presence of over 160 participants, including 24 invited and plenary talks and over 50 oral contributions. We strongly believe that these Proceedings will be useful for a wide audience of those interested in basic and applied surfaces and thin solid interfaces. Acknowledgment We would like to acknowledge the hard work, professional skills and efficiency of the team which oversaw the general organization, particularly of Dicom (Social Communication Division) from the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology, Inmetro (Brazil). We also would like to thank all the invited speakers and session chairs for making the meeting such a great success. The Conference was supported and sponsored by Academia

Preface of the Special Issue: “Recent CMV Research”

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kayla Dufrene

2014-01-01

Full Text Available This Viruses Special Issue on Recent Cytomegalovirus (CMV Research is dedicated to the patients who have suffered CMV infection and to their parents, families and caregivers. We are including as a Preface to this issue the insights of a young college student, Kayla Dufrene, who suffered congenital CMV infection and contacted me and Dr. Roberta DeBiasi, to interview us to learn more about CMV. As I was just returning to the DC area from the 4th Congenital CMV Conference in San Francisco, I was particularly receptive to her request. When we met Kayla, we were both impressed with her personal strength and ability to cope with her disabilities and needed medical treatments. Despite it all, Kayla has an exceptionally positive outlook on life, feeling even lucky. She has not only coped, but has transcended her difficulties. I am proud to say that she was on the Dean’s List (Figure 1 at Gallaudet University. Ultimately, her hope lies in our fields’ efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent CMV disease in other children.

Preface: Current perspectives in modelling, monitoring, and predicting geophysical fluid dynamics

Science.gov (United States)

Mancho, Ana M.; Hernández-García, Emilio; López, Cristóbal; Turiel, Antonio; Wiggins, Stephen; Pérez-Muñuzuri, Vicente

2018-02-01

The third edition of the international workshop Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows was held at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) in Madrid from 6 to 8 July 2016. The event gathered oceanographers, atmospheric scientists, physicists, and applied mathematicians sharing a common interest in the nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluid flows. The philosophy of this meeting was to bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds into an environment that favoured a vigorous discussion of concepts across different disciplines. The present Special Issue on Current perspectives in modelling, monitoring, and predicting geophysical fluid dynamics contains selected contributions, mainly from attendants of the workshop, providing an updated perspective on modelling aspects of geophysical flows as well as issues on prediction and assimilation of observational data and novel tools for describing transport and mixing processes in these contexts. More details on these aspects are discussed in this preface.

Adipose-derived stem cells - Methods and protocols

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Carlo Alberto Redi

2011-09-01

Full Text Available This book is pleasing the reader already by the Authors’ preface. It is one in a million case to find a figure or a graph in the foreword presentation of a book. Here, Professors Gimble and Bunnell decided to give a warning to the reader about the increasing relevance that the topics covered by the book is playing in the life sciences researches: they simply decided to show the ISI Web of knowledge annual publications and citations for adipose stem cells. Clear enough, the statistics is impressive: few papers in 2000, nearly 600 in 2009 and 2010. The same pattern is present in the citations per year, quite a few in 2000 – 2001 and something like 12,000 in 2010 ! I think that these numbers justify the idea to have a volume devoted to cover all of the topics related to these intriguing stem cell type, likely originating from a perivascular histological niche within highly vascularized fat tissue. The book is divided in four parts.......

An Actor's Approach to Management Conceptual framework and company practices

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

of Contents Foreword: Actor-based managemet - long-term and sustainable management (Bo Prangsgaard) Chapter 1. Introduction (Morten Jakobsen, Inga-Lill Johansson & Hanne Nørreklit) Chapter 2. Actors and reality: a conceptual framework for creative governance (Lennart Nørreklit) Chapter 3. An actor...

Guest Foreword by Lord Phillips KG PC

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Nicholas A. Phillips

2012-04-01

Full Text Available The Rt Hon The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG PC, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Ambition and excellence. Those two words epitomize Qatar. Under the leadership of his Highness the Emir, this small State has set out to make an impact on the world that belies its size. Ambitious was the plan to have an international broadcasting station. Ambitious was the plan to build from scratch a Museum of Islamic Art. Ambitious was the bid – the successful bid to host the World Cup in 2022. Ambitious is the bid to stage the Olympic Games in 2020. Qatar not merely has ambitions, it realizes its ambitions. And when it does so it is not enough to say that the result is ‘world class’, for Qatar sets out to be a world leader in whatever it puts its hand to. Excellence is the norm. Al Jazeera has established itself as the broadcasting station of choice for many throughout the world. The Doha Museum of Islamic Art is recognized as being second to none. In addition, the scale and standard of development in Doha itself is setting new standards of excellence in the fields of architecture and civil engineering. Thus when Qatar focuses its energies on education and the law, high achievements are expected. I shall have the honour of helping to achieve those expectations when I succeed Lord Woolf as President of Qatar’s new and impressive Civil and Commercial Court. The College of Law at Qatar University is already achieving excellence in the field of legal education. So, naturally, all expect great things of this new International Review of Law and I am delighted to have been invited to welcome it by this foreword. The range of the first edition is both international and topical. Those countries that have experienced the turbulence of the Arab Spring are settling new constitutions, and other countries are bent on constitutional reform designed to avoid such turbulence. So an erudite article on

FOREWORD: Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

MacLaren, Ian

2014-06-01

EMAG2013 was certainly the biggest EMAG conference I can remember in my twenty years of going to EMAG conferences. We had a total of about 180 scientific delegates, not including exhibitors. The conference also benefited from the York conference centre allowing us to integrate the scientific sessions, refreshments and exhibition in one building. This all made for a very vibrant and focused conference. The quality of the presentations was again very high and judging by many of the student talks given, there is plenty of hope for an excellent future for electron microscopy in the UK. A unique feature of this conference was a chance to organise a session to commemorate the 80th year of one of the pioneers of electron microscopy in the UK, Professor Archie Howie. An excellent symposium was organised in his honour by one of his former students, Professor Pratibha Gai of the University of York. This was dedicated to one field that he made some important initial contributions to: in-situ microscopy. The symposium gave a depth and breadth of overview to this field unusual at an EMAG conference, with speakers from the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA and gave a real taste of some of the possibilities in the latest instruments to observe real materials at work at nanometre or even atomic resolution. Professor Howie himself gave a highly entertaining retrospective of his time working in microscopy from the 1950s until the present in his talk after the conference dinner on the Thursday evening at the excellent York National Railway Museum. We also had excellent plenary lectures from Professor Wolfgang Baumeister on a topic perhaps novel to many at EMAG, TEM in Structural Biology; from Professor Prathibha Gai on atomic resolution in-situ studies of chemical reactions in the TEM; and Professor Archie Howie discussing some of the important current open questions in TEM and STEM. This proceedings therefore presents a snapshot of a broad cross-section of the exciting work going on in electron microscopy in 2013. As always, the papers are ordered thematically according to the sessions organised at the conference. As ever, I have a great debt of gratitude to my fellow EMAG committee members who chaired the various sessions and who, together with the programme chair, Dr Cate Ducati of the University of Cambridge helped to put together such an excellent programme. I also gratefully acknowledge the many hours invested by Professor Pete Nellist of the University of Oxford who then edited this proceedings and ensured that the peer review and revision process ran as smoothly as possible. Finally, I hope that you enjoy reading the contributions made by many to this excellent conference. Dr Ian MacLaren, Chair of the Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group

FOREWORD Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Kuriplach, Jan; Procházka, Ivan

2011-01-01

The 6th International Workshop on Positron Studies of Defects (PSD) took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from September 1 to 5, 2008. It was hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. The PSD Workshop brought together positron scientists interested in studying various defects in mainly crystalline materials, and provided an opportunity to report on new results and achievements as well as on novel experimental and theoretical methods in this field. The workshop topics can be characterized as follows: Defect formation, migration, agglomeration and annealing Momentum distribution studies of defects: Doppler broadening, angular correlation of annihilation radiation (ACAR) Slow positron beam studies of defects at surface and near surface regions Theoretical calculations and simulations of momentum distributions, positron lifetimes and other characteristics for defects Defects in unusual materials: quasicrystals, nanostructures Advances in positron experimental methods applicable to defect studies Complementary experimental methods in defect studies (TEM, XRD, AP, SANS, DLTS, PL and others) Industrial applications of positron defect studies The first PSD workshop was organized in Wernigerode, Germany in 1987. The next four workshops were held in Halle, Germany (1994), Hamilton, ON, Canada (1999), Sendai, Japan (2002) and Pullman, WA, USA (2004) under the name Positron Studies of Semiconductor Defects (PSSD). As studying defects in metals is once again gaining importance - as is also documented in these Proceedings - the name of the Workshop in Prague was changed to the original version PSD. The PSD workshops will be organized every three years and the next one will be held in Delft, The Netherlands at the turn of August and September, 2011. We would like to express our gratitude to all of the workshop participants for their presentations and contributions to discussions, which made the PSD Workshop a successful scientific event. In total 65 scientists and students from 15 countries took part in the PSD Workshop. The workshop programme comprised 24 invited lectures, 19 contributed talks and 22 posters. Thirty contributions are included in these Proceedings, covering various aspects of positron defect studies. In particular, proceedings papers are divided into five categories: defects in semiconductors, defects in metals, nanostructures, larger free volumes and experimental apparatus including data evaluation. For the previous PSD/PSSD workshops proceedings were not published on a regular basis and, hopefully, these Proceedings will be the start of a new tradition. Jan Kuriplach Ivan Procházka Editors

FOREWORD Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Appourchaux, Thierry

2011-01-01

Volume 271 (2011) of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series provides a record of the invited and contributed talks, and of the posters presented at the GONG2010-SoHO24 conference entitled 'A new era of seismology of the Sun and solar-like stars'. The conference was held from 27 June 2010 to 2 July 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, France. More than 120 scientists from all over the world attended the conference. I would like to express my gratitude for the the financial support from the following organisations: Université Paris-Sud; the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES); the Programme National des Relations Soleil-Terre (PNST) and the Programme National de Physique Stellaire (PNPS) (both programmes under the umbrella of the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers, INSU); INSU of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); the SoHO project of the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Science Programme of ESA; the Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG); and finally the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). The Scientific Organizing Committee comprised Thierry Appourchaux (chairman, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France), Frank Hill (co-chairman, GONG / National Solar Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, United States), Annie Baglin (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France), William Chaplin (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark), Thierry Corbard (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France), Bernhard Fleck (European Space Agency), Laurent Gizon (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Lindau, Germany), Travis Metcalfe (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, United States), Michael Thompson (Sheffied University, United Kingdom; High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado, United States) and Jesper Schou (Stanford University, California, United States). The Editorial Committee of these proceedings was composed of Thierry Appourchaux (chairman), Annie Baglin, William Chaplin, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Laurent Gizon, Michael Thompson, Takashi Sekii (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo) and John Leibacher (IAS, Orsay, France; GONG / NSO, Tucson, Arizona, United States). This volume consists of 86 articles organised in sections reflecting the scientific programme of the conference: 012001-012024 Local helioseismology 012025-012030 Solar diameter, irradiance and activity 012031-012044 Solar and stellar modelling 012045-012056 Low degree stellar seismology 012057-012063 First results from space missions 012064-012082 Convection, dynamo and flows 012083-012086 Prospective All papers are freely accessible on the internet, in colour, at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/271/1, and an interactive picture of the conference is available in the attached PDF. I am also grateful to the Local Organizing Committee for making this conference a success: Catherine Cougrand (secretary), Stéphane Caminade (web designer), Delphine Prival (administration) and Jean-Paul Rozet (logistics). I could not have done it without your help! Last but not least, let me also thank the official photographer of the conference, Pierre Assus, for producing excellent photographs, including the group photo. Please feel free to send me an e-mail at Thierry.Appourchaux@ias.u-psud.fr if you would like copies of these pictures. Thierry Appourchaux Editor Orsay, France 24 December 2010 Conference photograph IAS logo  Université Paris-Sud logo  CNRS logo  SOHO logo ESA logo  NASA logo  Gong logo  EADS ASTRIUM logo

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Andrej BEKEŠ

2011-05-01

, Asia and beyond.   Acta Linguistica Asiatica will, following Roman Jakobson’s saying, “Linguista sum, linguistici nihil a me alienum puto”, cover all the subject areas and theoretical approaches pertaining to theoretical and applied research on Asian languages. An international editorial board takes care of the research quality of the journal. The contents of the first issue reflect this orientation and openness. Three papers deal with various aspects of the role played by language in the process of modernization during and after Meiji Japan, i.e., The Relation Between the View on the Language and Educational Ideology in the Early Meiji Period in Japan Through the Discourse of Regionalism by Ichimiya Yufuko, Towards Theoretical Approach to the Understanding of Language Ideologies in Post-Meiji Japan by Luka Culiberg, and Images of Pre-WW II: National Language Policies as Reflected in the Field of “National Language Studies” Itself by Andrej Bekeš. Another focus of interest is philological, represented by two papers. One is Morphology and Syntax in Holes and Scratches: The Latest Stage of Kugyol Research, an interesting research on kugyol, a system devised to facilitate reading Chinese Buddhist texts in Korean, by Lee Yong. The other,The Typology of Āmreḍita Compounds in the Ṛgveda by Tamara Ditrich, investigates āmreḍita compounds in the Ṛgveda, a type of coordinative nominal constructions, closely related to dvandva compounds. Finally, this issue is concluded with the article Collocational Relations in Japanese Language Textbooks and Computer-assisted Language Learning Resources, by Irena Srdanović and deals with the teaching of collocations in modern Japanese, based on corpora.         Andrej Bekeš University of Ljubljana and University of Tsukuba     April 23, 2011

London Calling

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Amos, Lisbeth Rieshøj

2008-01-01

The above contribution appears in Down The Block: An Anthology of City Life; available at http://www.lulu.com/content/4462396. In this anthology, new authors and bloggers react to life in cities throughout the world. With a foreword by Mary Beard, Cambridge University Professor and Times Literary...

The Expansion of Higher Education. Papers of the International Association of Universities. No. 6.

Science.gov (United States)

International Association of Universities, Paris (France).

Papers are presented from a conference of the International Association of Universities concerning the expansion of higher education. The contents are as follows: Foreword by J. Baugniet, International Association of Universities; "The Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil," by Rev. A. Alonso, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de…

Arms Control and Disarmament, Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 1972. A Quarterly Bibliography with Abstracts and Annotations

Science.gov (United States)

Contents: Preface; The international political environment; The strategic environment; Institutions and means for the maintenance of peace; Arms control--general discussion; Arms control--specific problems and measures; Author index ; Subject index.

European Atlantic Turtles

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Brongersma, L.D.

1972-01-01

CONTENTS Preface ................... 3 Introduction .................. 5 Identification.................. 13 The records................... 25 I. Dermochelys coriacea (L.), Leathery Turtle......... 30 IA. List of records of Dermochelys coriacea (L.)......... 31 IB. List of records of unidentified

PREFACE: International Conference on Structural Nano Composites (NANOSTRUC 2012)

Science.gov (United States)

Njuguna, James

2012-09-01

Dear Colleagues It is a great pleasure to welcome you to NanoStruc2012 at Cranfield University. The purpose of the 2012 International Conference on Structural Nano Composites (NanoStruc2012) is to promote activities in various areas of materials and structures by providing a forum for exchange of ideas, presentation of technical achievements and discussion of future directions. NanoStruc brings together an international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art, new research results, perspectives of future developments, and innovative applications relevant to structural materials, engineering structures, nanocomposites, modelling and simulations, and their related application areas. The conference is split in 7 panel sessions, Metallic Nanocomposites and Coatings, Silica based Nanocomposites, safty of Nanomaterials, Carboin based Nanocomposites, Multscale Modelling, Bio materials and Application of Nanomaterials. All accepted Papers will be published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), and included in the NanoStruc online digital library. The abstracts will be indexed in Scopus, Compedex, Inspec, INIS (International Nuclear Information System), Chemical Abstracts, NASA Astrophysics Data System and Polymer Library. Before ending this message, I would like to acknowledge the hard work, professional skills and efficiency of the team which ensured the general organisation. As a conclusion, I would like to Welcome you to the Nanostruc2012 and wish you a stimulating Conference and a wonderful time. On behalf of the scientific committee, Signature James Njuguna Conference Chair The PDF of this preface also contains committee listings and associates logos.

The Multi-Racial School: A Professional Perspective. Penguin Education Specials Series

Science.gov (United States)

McNeal, Julia, Ed.; Rogers, Margaret, Ed.

Contents of this anthology of essays by teachers in British multi-racial schools, each of whom deals with a different measure or set of measures which were under- taken to solve the school's problems, as these were defined over time by the head and staff, include: "Foreword," Dipak Nandy; "Introduction," Julia McNeal and…

Airman and Family Resilience: Lessons from the Scientific Literature

Science.gov (United States)

2015-01-01

www.rand.org/paf v Table of Contents Preface...initially for children and adolescents, the Army has modified its content for integration into MRT as part of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness...positively and significantly associated with the PTGI-C. Self- reporting of rumination was not significantly associated with PTG. Social support may be

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Jorissen, A.; Goriely, S.; Rayet, M.; Siess, L.; Boffin, H.

The international conference The Future Astronuclear Physics was held at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) from August 20 to 22, 2003, to celebrate Marcel Arnould on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Marcel Arnould is full professor at ULB and was appointed director of the Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique (IAA) of this university in 1983, when he was still a Research Associate of the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). Since the late sixties he has played a leading role in the development of a trans-disciplinary field of research, the object of which is the study of nuclear phenomena in astrophysics. Those phenomena being the main source of energy in stellar interiors and being also responsible for the synthesis of the chemical elements, the study of the often peculiar, sometimes exotic, nuclear physics in a rich variety of astrophysical conditions, is crucial to understand almost all stages of stellar evolution as well as the chemical and isotopic content of the neighboring and remote places of our universe. All along his scientific career, Marcel Arnould has worked to give the so-called nuclear astrophysics, born in the second half of the twentieth century and marked by a few prominent physicists in the United States and in Canada, a fertile ground for development inside Europe as a fully grown discipline, collecting the knowledge on the infinitely small with that on the infinitely large, a true interdisciplinary science that ought to be more appropriately called “astronuclear physics". We like to remind that to achieve this goal, Marcel Arnould has promoted and directed two important projects in the framework of the EU scientific programs. The first one (1989 1992), “Nuclear Astrophysics: experimental and theoretical studies", involved 11 European research centers and led to the first measurement, at the Louvain-la-Neuve cyclotron facility, of a nuclear reaction rate involving a short-lived nuclide, ^{13}N. This experiment was

A Preliminary Assessment of the Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF) Concept’s Implications for Army Personnel Management

Science.gov (United States)

2015-01-01

document is HQD146655. v Contents Preface...characteristics of a full range of countries in a region, however, is probably infeasible. For the moment, we are content to operate on the...27,021, is made up of infantry (CMF 11), followed by supply (92) at 19,264, medical personnel (68) at 13,959, and audiovisual (25) at 16,611

Developing Space Weather products and services in Europe – Preface to the Special Issue on COST Action ES0803

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Belehaki Anna

2014-01-01

Full Text Available COST Action ES0803 “Developing Space Weather products and services in Europe” primarily aimed at forming an interdisciplinary network among European scientists dealing with different issues relevant to Geospace as well as warning system developers and operators in order to assess existing Space Weather products and recommend new ones. The work that has been implemented from 2008 to 2012 resulted in advances in modeling and predicting Space Weather, in recommendations for the validation of Space Weather models, in proposals for new Space Weather products and services, and in dissemination, training, and outreach activities. This preface summarizes the most important achievements of this European activity that are detailed in this special issue by the key scientists who participated in COST Action ES0803.

FOREWORD Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP)

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

journal for their enthusiastic help. The articles contained in this section of the Special Issue represent diversity and content. We hope that the readers are stimulated by the choice of the articles and their presentation. May 2015. AMIT AGRAWAL. Department of Mechanical Engineering,. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ...

Facts 2009 - The Norwegian petroleum sector

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2009-07-01

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Contents: Foreword; The petroleum sector; Norwegian resource management; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology; Environmental considerations; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Facts 2009 - The Norwegian petroleum sector; Fakta 2009 - norsk petroleumsverksemd

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2009-07-01

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Contents: Foreword; The petroleum sector; Norwegian resource management; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology; Environmental considerations; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kristina HMELJAK SANGAWA

2012-10-01

collaborative project in which Italian learners of Japanese compiled an on-line Japanese-Italian dictionary using a purposely developed on-line dictionary editing system, under the supervision of a small group of teachers. One practical and obvious outcome of the project is a Japanese-Italian freely accessible lexical database, but the authors also highlight the pedagogical value of such an approach, which stimulates students' motivation for learning, hones their ICT skills, makes them more aware of the structure and usability of existing lexicographic and language learning resources, and helps them learn to cooperate on a shared task and exchange peer support. The third project report by Raoul Blin, Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary, focuses on the labelling of lexical genre, an aspect of word usage which is not satisfactorily presented in current Japanese dictionaries, despite its importance for foreign language learners when using dictionaries for production tasks. The article describes a procedure for automatic labelling of genre by means of a statistical analysis of internet-derived genre-specific corpora. The automatisation of the process simplifies its later reiteration, thus making it possible to observe lexical genre development over time. The final paper in this issue is a report on The Construction of a Database to Support the Compilation of Japanese Learners’ Dictionaries, by Yuriko Sunakawa, Jae-ho Lee and Mari Takahara. Motivated by the lack of Japanese bilingual learners' dictionaries for speakers of most languages in the world, the authors engaged in the development of a database of detailed corpus-based descriptions of the vocabulary needed by learners of Japanese from beginning to advanced level. By freely offering online the basic data needed for bilingual dictionary compilation, they are building the basis from which editors in under-resourced language areas will be able to compile richer and more up-to-date contents even

FOREWORD: Foreword from Peter Adams Foreword from Peter Adams

Science.gov (United States)

Adams, Peter D.

2009-11-01

As part of this twentieth anniversary special issue I was asked to write a few words about Richard Palmer, the one permanent fixture on the journal over its twenty year history. Richard and I go back a (very) long way! He began his career at IOP Publishing in Bristol in 1971 while my publishing career with the American Physical Society began a little earlier, located at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island NY. Since then, and for nearly forty years we have met often, if irregularly, at many locations throughout the world. As members of two very strong physics organizations we were clearly in competition with each other to seek out and publish the best physics research. At the same time we frequently exchanged experiences and policy ideas for dealing with serious violations of scientific ethical standards and how academic society-run journals can best serve the general scientific community. Overall my relationship with Richard has been a most rewarding one and I shall miss his opinions and sage advice. Richard: Compatriot; competitor; collaborator; I salute you!

Hazards in the chemical laboratory

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Bretherick, L.

1987-01-01

The contents of this book are: Preface; Introduction; Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; Safety Planning and Management; Fire Protection; Reactive Chemical Hazards; Chemical Hazards and Toxicology; Health Care and First Aid; Hazardous Chemicals; Precautions against Radiations; and An American View

75 FR 14245 - Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement

Science.gov (United States)

2010-03-24

... measures so that Contingency planning information can be shared with Participants to enable them to plan... Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) Table of Contents Abbreviations Definitions Preface I. Purpose II... of VISA Contingency Provisions A. General B. Notification of Activation C. Voluntary Capacity D...

Annual Report 2002

OpenAIRE

Institute, Marine

2003-01-01

Contents: Foreword by the CEO / Bryan Andrews, The Commissioners 5, Overview - Highlights of ‘02: Comment on changing economy 7, New Corporate Headquarters 8, 75 years of the LAC 9, Launch of www.publicjobs.ie 10, The modernisation programme 14, Client Services: Client Relations Management 16, Service Delivery Profile 16, Assessment Training Services 17, Client Survey 17, The Recruitment & Development Programme 18, Candidate Services...

Moscow City Telephone Network

Science.gov (United States)

1976-12-23

CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD 1 I. INTRODUCTION 2 II. 1881-1901. The Bell Society Concession h III. 1901-1918. The Concession...concerning the work. Readers should send their letters to Svyaz’izdat Press (Moscow, Kirov Street, 40). The Authors I. INTRODUCTION In 1876, Graham Bell... sweatshop conditions of labor. Whereas earlier, under the concessioners, operators were forbidden to marry, and pregnancy was grounds for immediate

Travel, infection and immunity

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Soonawala, Darius

2016-01-01

Preface: The content of this thesis is based on research that was conducted at the travel and vaccination clinic at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). This clinic provides pre-travel care to the general population, and to special groups of travellers, such as patients who use

Foreword. The Knowledge Economy: The Present Future

OpenAIRE

Constantin Bratianu

2017-01-01

All the statistics and evaluations show that the Knowledge Economy is our future. However, a close look at the developed economies demonstrates that the Knowledge Economy is already here, shaping our present time. Although there are many definitions of this new economic framework, their core content stresses the importance of data, information, and knowledge in the production of goods and delivering services in creating value for society. For instance, Powell and Snellman (2004, p.1999) defin...

Review of Signal Crosstalk in Plant Stress Responses

Science.gov (United States)

This book was prepared to summarize the current understanding of the dynamics of plant response to biotic and abiotic stresses. The preface of the book sets the stage for the contents of the different chapters by outlining that plants defend themselves from various environmental stresses through a v...

Pravastatin and endothelium dependent vasomotion after coronary angioplasty: the PREFACE trial.

Science.gov (United States)

Mulder, H J; Schalij, M J; Kauer, B; Visser, R F; van Dijkman, P R; Jukema, J W; Zwinderman, A H; Bruschke, A V

2001-11-01

To test the hypothesis that the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme-A reductase inhibitor pravastatin ameliorates endothelium mediated responses of dilated coronary segments: the PREFACE (pravastatin related effects following angioplasty on coronary endothelium) trial. A double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre study. Four hospitals in the Netherlands. 63 non-smoking, non-hypercholesterolaemic patients scheduled for elective balloon angioplasty (pravastatin 34, placebo 29). The effects of three months of pravastatin treatment (40 mg daily) on endothelium dependent vasomotor function were studied. Balloon angioplasty was undertaken one month after randomisation, and coronary vasomotor function tests using acetylcholine were performed two months after balloon angioplasty. The angiograms were analysed quantitatively. The efficacy measure was the acetylcholine induced change in mean arterial diameter, determined in the dilated segment and in an angiographically normal segment of an adjacent non-manipulated coronary artery. Increasing acetylcholine doses produced vasoconstriction in the dilated segments (p = 0.004) but not in the normal segments. Pravastatin did not affect the vascular response to acetylcholine in either the dilated segments (p = 0.09) or the non-dilated sites. Endothelium dependent vasomotion in normal segments was correlated with that in dilated segments (r = 0.47, p < 0.001). There were fewer procedure related events in the pravastatin group than in the placebo group (p < 0.05). Endothelium dependent vasomotion in normal segments is correlated with that in dilated segments. A significant beneficial effect of pravastatin on endothelial function could not be shown, but in the dilated segments there was a trend towards a beneficial treatment effect in the pravastatin group.

Nuclear Posture Review

Science.gov (United States)

2018-02-01

REVIEW margin for further delay in recapitalizing the physical infrastructure needed to produce strategic materials and components for U.S. nuclear... REVIEW 2018 This page left intentionally blank REVIEW NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW FEBRUARY 2018...OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE This page left intentionally blank REVIEW CONTENTS SECRETARY’S PREFACE

Argonne Code Center: compilation of program abstracts

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Butler, M.K.; DeBruler, M.; Edwards, H.S.

1976-08-01

This publication is the tenth supplement to, and revision of, ANL-7411. It contains additional abstracts and revisions to some earlier abstracts and other pages. Sections of the document are as follows: preface; history and acknowledgements; abstract format; recommended program package contents; program classification guide and thesaurus; and abstract collection. (RWR)

Argonne Code Center: compilation of program abstracts

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Butler, M.K.; DeBruler, M.; Edwards, H.S.

1976-08-01

This publication is the tenth supplement to, and revision of, ANL-7411. It contains additional abstracts and revisions to some earlier abstracts and other pages. Sections of the document are as follows: preface; history and acknowledgements; abstract format; recommended program package contents; program classification guide and thesaurus; and abstract collection

Preface paper to the Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) Program special issue

Science.gov (United States)

Goodrich, D.C.; Chehbouni, A.; Goff, B.; MacNish, B.; Maddock, T.; Moran, S.; Shuttleworth, W.J.; Williams, D.G.; Watts, C.; Hipps, L.H.; Cooper, D.I.; Schieldge, J.; Kerr, Y.H.; Arias, H.; Kirkland, M.; Carlos, R.; Cayrol, P.; Kepner, W.; Jones, B.; Avissar, R.; Begue, A.; Bonnefond, J.-M.; Boulet, G.; Branan, B.; Brunel, J.P.; Chen, L.C.; Clarke, T.; Davis, M.R.; DeBruin, H.; Dedieu, G.; Elguero, E.; Eichinger, W.E.; Everitt, J.; Garatuza-Payan, J.; Gempko, V.L.; Gupta, H.; Harlow, C.; Hartogensis, O.; Helfert, M.; Holifield, C.; Hymer, D.; Kahle, A.; Keefer, T.; Krishnamoorthy, S.; Lhomme, J.-P.; Lagouarde, J.-P.; Lo, Seen D.; Luquet, D.; Marsett, R.; Monteny, B.; Ni, W.; Nouvellon, Y.; Pinker, R.; Peters, C.; Pool, D.; Qi, J.; Rambal, S.; Rodriguez, J.; Santiago, F.; Sano, E.; Schaeffer, S.M.; Schulte, M.; Scott, R.; Shao, X.; Snyder, K.A.; Sorooshian, S.; Unkrich, C.L.; Whitaker, M.; Yucel, I.

2000-01-01

The Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere Program (SALSA) is a multi-agency, multi-national research effort that seeks to evaluate the consequences of natural and human-induced environmental change in semi-arid regions. The ultimate goal of SALSA is to advance scientific understanding of the semi-arid portion of the hydrosphere-biosphere interface in order to provide reliable information for environmental decision making. SALSA approaches this goal through a program of long-term, integrated observations, process research, modeling, assessment, and information management that is sustained by cooperation among scientists and information users. In this preface to the SALSA special issue, general program background information and the critical nature of semi-arid regions is presented. A brief description of the Upper San Pedro River Basin, the initial location for focused SALSA research follows. Several overarching research objectives under which much of the interdisciplinary research contained in the special issue was undertaken are discussed. Principal methods, primary research sites and data collection used by numerous investigators during 1997-1999 are then presented. Scientists from about 20 US, five European (four French and one Dutch), and three Mexican agencies and institutions have collaborated closely to make the research leading to this special issue a reality. The SALSA Program has served as a model of interagency cooperation by breaking new ground in the approach to large scale interdisciplinary science with relatively limited resources.

FOREWORD: Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO 2012)

Science.gov (United States)

Monebhurrun, Vikass; Lesselier, Dominique

2013-04-01

It was an honor and a great pleasure for all those involved in its organization to welcome the participants to the 'Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean' (RADIO 2012) international conference that was held from 24th to 27th September 2012 at the Sugar Beach Resort, Wolmar, Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius. RADIO 2012 is the first of a series of conferences that is to be regularly organized in the Indian Ocean region. The aim is to discuss recent developments, theories and practical applications covering the whole scope of radio-frequency engineering, including radio waves, antennas, propagation, and electromagnetic compatibility. Following discussions with engineers and scientists from the countries of the Indian Ocean as well as from other parts of the world, a need was felt for the organization of such an international event in this region. The Island of Mauritius, worldwide known for its white sandy beaches and pleasant tropical atmosphere, provided an excellent environment for the organization of the 1st RADIO international conference. The Local Organizing Committee consisted of scientists from SUPELEC, the University of Mauritius, and the University of Technology, Mauritius. Various members of staff of the University of Mauritius provided help for the organization of the conference. The International Union of Radio Science (URSI) made available technical and financial sponsorship for partial support of young scientists. A number of companies also supported RADIO 2012 ('Platinum': GSMA, ICTA & MMF, 'Gold': CST & FEKO). The event itself was organized in a premier hotel on Mauritius. In this foreword, we would like to take the opportunity again to thank all the people, institutions and companies that made the event such a success. More than 120 abstracts were submitted to the conference and were peer-reviewed by an international scientific committee. RADIO 2012 overall featured six oral sessions, one poster session and two workshops. Three internationally recognized

to view fulltext PDF

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

A reprint of this most interesting book appeared in 1967 with a foreword by C.P. Snow,. Hardy's ... Furthermore, Snow's foreword calls for some comment, especially his references .... unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

Facts 2010 - The Norwegian petroleum sector

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2010-07-01

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Content; Foreword; The petroleum sector - Norway's largest industry; Organisation of Norwegian petroleum activity; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology and industrial development; Environmental considerations in the Norwegian petroleum sector; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Proceedings 2013: Selected Papers from the Seventeenth College-Wide Conference for Students in Languages, Linguistics & Literature (17th, Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 20, 2013)

Science.gov (United States)

Holdway, Jennifer, Ed.; Wilson, Brittany, Ed.

2014-01-01

The theme for this year's College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was "Engaged Language Research and Practice," with the plenary speech given by Dr. Kathryn A. Davis. Following a preface from the editors and plenary speaker highlights, contents of these proceedings include: Section I:…

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Angelova, Maia; Zakrzewski, Wojciech

2011-03-01

the meeting was that all plenary talks presented the state-of-the-art and were at the same time educational and exciting, promoting the multidisciplinary aspects of the research, and thus were inspirational for young scientists considering work in these fields. The plenary talks, each lasting 1 hour, were given by distinguished world experts and some young 'rising stars': Richard Ward, Ulf Leonhardt, Jens Eisert, Michael Berry, Shahn Majid, Arndt von Haeseler, Michio Jimbo, Katrin Wendland, Raymond Goldstein, Mark Trodden, Maria Vozmediano and Giulio Chiribella. The public lecture was given by Francesco Iachello and was open to participants and other people from the Newcastle-Durham region. In addition, talks of 30 minutes duration each and including more technical content, were given in four parallel sessions. Each parallel session had a designated time for informal interaction with the speakers, discussions of new directions of research and for forming new collaborations. The poster session, in a room where posters were exhibited for the duration of the conference, was easily accessible, and had a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, encouraging discussions of work and exchanges of new ideas. To secure a high quality scientific programme, all contributions were reviewed. Another interesting feature of the conference was the Open Forum on the Friday afternoon, which was lively and well attended. It took the form of a question and answer session with a panel chaired by Allan Solomon, with the following members: Gerald Goldin, Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Mark Trodden and Giulio Chiribella. The focus was on new directions of research, novel applications and the further development of group theory, education, training and career opportunities for young researchers. The participants were asked to submit questions in advance; examples are: "What is the role of symmetries and conservation principles in deducing underlying physics from experimental data?" and "What are the most

Pocket book of integrals and mathematical formulas

CERN Document Server

Tallarida, Ronald J

2015-01-01

Preface to the Fifth EditionPreface to the Fourth EditionPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionAuthorGreek LettersElementary Algebra and GeometryFundamental Properties (Real Numbers)ExponentsFractional ExponentsIrrational ExponentsLogarithmsFactorialsBinomial TheoremFactors and ExpansionProgressionComplex NumbersPolar FormPermutationsCombinationsAlgebraic EquationsGeometryPythagorean TheoremDeterminants, Matrices, and Linear Systems of EquationsDeterminantsEvaluation by CofactorsProperties of DeterminantsMatricesOperationsPropertiesTransposeIdenti

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Ye, Chaohui; Wang, Zhong Lin; Zhou, Bingkun

2011-02-01

The 3rd International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meeting (POEM 2010) was held from November 2-5, 2011, in Wuhan, China. POEM takes place annually, usually in November, with the aim of focusing on the key techniques of scientific frontiers and industry in the field of optoelectronics, understanding future trends as well as making the most of the industrial advantages of Wuhan - Optics Valley of China (OVC). POEM 2010 presented a plenary session and six parallel sessions. The latter comprised Laser Technology and Applications; Nano-enabled Energy Technologies and Materials; Optoelectronic Devices and Integration; Optoelectronic Sensing and Imaging; Solar Cells, Solid State Lighting and Information Display Technologies; and Tera-Hertz Science and Technology. 700 delegates from the field of optoelectronics - including world-famous experts, researchers, investors and entrepreneurs from more than 20 countries - attended the conference, among whom were 160 invited speakers. POEM 2010 once again received extensive praise for its intricate planning, rich contents, and the high-level and influential invited speakers which it attracted. Participants remarked that the presentations by the invited experts, the 'hot topic' discussions, students' posters, and the awards for papers were very engaging. They appreciated this valuable and beneficial opportunity for exchanging ideas with top photonics and optoelectronics experts. Our thanks are extended to the Conference Secretariat and Local Organizing Committee, who have been completely dedicated to their work, and who made the conference such a great success. We are also grateful for the financial support from 111 Project (B07038), and for the help with organization and coordination from Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Proceedings of POEM 2010234 papers were selected out of the 343 manuscripts submitted. The organizers of POEM 2010 are grateful to all the authors

Argonne Code Center: compilation of program abstracts

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Butler, M.K.; DeBruler, M.; Edwards, H.S.; Harrison, C. Jr.; Hughes, C.E.; Jorgensen, R.; Legan, M.; Menozzi, T.; Ranzini, L.; Strecok, A.J.

1977-08-01

This publication is the eleventh supplement to, and revision of, ANL-7411. It contains additional abstracts and revisions to some earlier abstracts and other pages. Sections of the complete document ANL-7411 are as follows: preface, history and acknowledgements, abstract format, recommended program package contents, program classification guide and thesaurus, and the abstract collection. (RWR)

Argonne Code Center: compilation of program abstracts

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Butler, M.K.; DeBruler, M.; Edwards, H.S.; Harrison, C. Jr.; Hughes, C.E.; Jorgensen, R.; Legan, M.; Menozzi, T.; Ranzini, L.; Strecok, A.J.

1977-08-01

This publication is the eleventh supplement to, and revision of, ANL-7411. It contains additional abstracts and revisions to some earlier abstracts and other pages. Sections of the complete document ANL-7411 are as follows: preface, history and acknowledgements, abstract format, recommended program package contents, program classification guide and thesaurus, and the abstract collection

Facts 2011 - The Norwegian petroleum sector; Fakta 2011 - norsk petroleumsverksemd

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2011-07-15

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Content; Foreword; The petroleum sector - Norway's largest industry; Organisation of Norwegian petroleum activity; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology and industrial development; Environmental considerations in the Norwegian petroleum sector; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Facts 2011 - The Norwegian petroleum sector

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2011-07-15

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Content; Foreword; The petroleum sector - Norway's largest industry; Organisation of Norwegian petroleum activity; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology and industrial development; Environmental considerations in the Norwegian petroleum sector; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Ethno-confessional realities in the Romanian area: historical perspectives (XVII-XX centuries)

OpenAIRE

2011-01-01

Contents: Barbu ŞTEFĂNESCU: Foreword; Barbu ŞTEFĂNESCU: Confessionalisation and Community Sociability (Transylvania, 18th Century – First Half of the 19th Century); Ion GUMENÂI Religious Minorities in Bessarabia during the -Reaction‖ of Nikolai I (The Case of Jewish Population); Eugen GHIŢĂ: Population, Ethnicity and Confession in the County of Arad in the Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century; Lavinia BUDA: “Oratory or the Rosary? a Nonexistent Controversy” in the Greek Catholi...

Facts 2010 - The Norwegian petroleum sector

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2010-07-01

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Content; Foreword; The petroleum sector - Norway's largest industry; Organisation of Norwegian petroleum activity; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology and industrial development; Environmental considerations in the Norwegian petroleum sector; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Facts 2010 - The Norwegian petroleum sector; Fakta 2010 - norsk petroleumsverksemd

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

2010-07-01

The publication provides a general overview of information regarding the petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf. Content; Foreword; The petroleum sector - Norway's largest industry; Organisation of Norwegian petroleum activity; Government petroleum revenues; Exploration activities; Development and operations; Norwegian gas exports; Decommissioning; Research, technology and industrial development; Environmental considerations in the Norwegian petroleum sector; Petroleum resources; Fields in production; Fields under development; Future developments; Fields where production has ceased; Pipelines and onshore facilities. (AG)

Primary Medical Care in Chile

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Scarpaci, Joseph L.

Primary medical care in Chile: accessibility under military rule [Front Cover] [Front Matter] [Title Page] Contents Tables Figures Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Restructuring of Medical Care Financing in Chile Chapter 3: Inflation and Medical Care Accessibility Chapter 4: Help......-Seeking Behavior of the Urban Poor Chapter 5: Spatial Organization and Medical Care Accessibility Chapter 6: Conclusion...

Computer presentation of data in science.

Science.gov (United States)

Simmonds, D.; Reynolds, L.

Contents: How this book was created. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Choosing your system and software. 3. Working methods. 4. Preparing manuscripts and camera-ready copy. 5. Principles of typography and layout. 6. Using type and space to show the structure of text. 7. Artwork creation and drawing tips. 8. Posters, slides and OHP transparencies. 9. Designing with colour. Glossaries 1 and 2. Appendix 1: Copyfitting. Appendix 2: Signatures and imposition. Appendix 3: Publishing and the law. Appendix 4: Working comfort.

Empirical evaluation methods in computer vision

CERN Document Server

Christensen, Henrik I

2002-01-01

This book provides comprehensive coverage of methods for the empirical evaluation of computer vision techniques. The practical use of computer vision requires empirical evaluation to ensure that the overall system has a guaranteed performance. The book contains articles that cover the design of experiments for evaluation, range image segmentation, the evaluation of face recognition and diffusion methods, image matching using correlation methods, and the performance of medical image processing algorithms. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (228 KB). Chapter 1: Introduction (505 KB). Contents: Automate

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

on its surface, and in its atmosphere and oceans, particularly over the ... lunar samples. Amongst these are the discoveries of the signatures of ancient solar activity embed- ded in meteorites and of the characteristics of solar wind, solar energetic ... Bajpai, in his article, presents evidence of how these events influenced.

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (The National. Academies Press, 2003). molecular frontier' into creating and understanding supramolecular and nanoscale assemblies of molecules. 1 . The article by Ashwini Nangia discusses the art and science of supramolecular synthesis of organic molecules to create solid-.

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

While the article on epigenetics would reveal how the basic paradigm of gene regulation is fast changing in the post-genome era, the article on a detailed study on one type of protein throws light on the amazing diversity in functions and thereby the physiology of organisms that evolution can throw up by varying the structure ...

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Nina GOLOB

2016-06-01

Finally, Pankaj DWIVEDI and Somdev KAR contributed a survey article on a Hindi dialect called Kanauji. The article exposes problems researchers have to deal with on the field when monitoring and documenting spoken language of a certain area, and fitting the findings into concepts such as a language and a dialect.

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Bergheau, Jean-Michel; Drapier, Sylvain; Feulvarch, Éric; Ponthot, Jean-Philippe

2016-04-01

In the face of increasingly fierce global competition, industrial companies must develop products more and more quickly and cheaply. In such a context, the numerical simulation of manufacturing processes is a big challenge and a key factor for success. Indeed, numerical simulation enables the control of manufacturing processes and of the consequences that they induce on the manufactured parts in terms of material modifications, geometrical changes or residual stresses, each of them playing an important role in the lifetime of the component.

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Martín, Eduardo L.; Magazzù, Antonio

2005-12-01

These proceedings are hosted by Astronomische Nachrichten. In order to be published in such an international journal, all the contributions needed to go through a refereeing process. We thank all the referees for their reports, which have been very useful to the improve the quality of the proceedings. Thanks also to the authors, for their patience in making all the changes required by the referees and by ourselves. A special thank to the Astronomische Nachrichten staff for their collaboration. Finally, thanks to all the participants, who came to La Palma, this little spot on the Atlantic Ocean map, to gather and make an enjoyable and fruitful meeting.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Elena Gurgu

2017-09-01

Full Text Available The 10th anniversary of the worst downturn since the Great Depression finds the global economy at risk of a fresh crisis and ill-prepared for the disruption likely from the robot age, the World Economic Forum has warned.The body that organises the annual gathering of the global elite in Davos each January used its annual league table of competitiveness to stress that the failure to push through growth and productivity-friendly policies since the crash of 2007-08 had jeopardised chances of a sustained recovery.....

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2006-01-01

The year 2005 was the year of Physics, the year of Albert Einstein. Many scientific events were organized to mark this occasion. We took part in many of these, delivering lectures, organizing exhibitions, showing experiments for the general public, etc. In particular: - several lectures delivered at the 29 th Mazurian Conference on Physics organized by our Institute. These concerned the history of physics as well as an attempt to look into the future. The violin concert, coupled to a talk on physics, added an extra dimension to the issue. - The Environmental Physics laboratory of our Institute organized a countrywide experiment of air dust measurement with the participation of high school pupils. The year 2005 was also a special year for our Institute: the 50 th anniversary of establishing the Institute of Nuclear Research (IBJ) in Swierk, which was later transformed into several specialized institutes of nuclear science, one of which is ours. To celebrate the anniversary we organized a symposium Atomic Science in the XXI-st Century. Many other events took place during those days, including Open Days at Swierk with more than 1000 guests visiting the Institute. Besides celebrating, we did our everyday work. Some highlights are worth mentioning. There were 254 papers published in high ranking journals. Most of these report work done within major international collaborations. To our dismay, this is considered as a shortcoming by our funding authorities. Notwithstanding their lip service to the importance of the European dimension of scientific work, they downgrade the multi-institutional papers in their new evaluating procedure. We still hope to convince the authorities that, in the long run, this is suicidal. Our yearly internal award in the basic research category was won by work on the first evidence for the excited hyperon Y 0* (1480). Three distinctions were also won by: work on the role of coupling to the continuum in reactions with the B oromean nuclei , on the formation of superconducting regions in layers of MgB 2 obtained by implantation of magnesium ions into a boron substrate followed by intense pulsed plasma treatment, and on the first evidence of ν μ oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment. In the technical category, the winning work was on large scale production of straw tube modules for the LHCb experiment at CERN together with the design of basic hardware modules concerning overall control of this experiment. Another technical achievement was that the system for brachytherapy of brain tumors based on the Photon Needle X-ray generator has entered the phase of clinical testing. Worth mentioning is also the work of our DESY team on the leptoproduction in a nuclear medium as well as that of our KASCADE collaboration participants on the detection and imaging of atmospheric radio flashes from cosmic ray air showers (see Nature 435 (2005) 313) Participation in the EURATOM fusion program was continued. The International Conference Plasma 2005 was organized by our Plasma Physics Department. Our activity in the field of general education and popularization of science has increased. As usual in such cases, we owe this to a few enthusiasts. My thanks for this go to Leszek Nowicki, Jacek Jagielski, Marek Pawlowski, Jacek Szabelski and many others as well as to our Training Department led by Professor Ludwik Dobrzynski. There was a small but significant change in the organization of the Institute: the formation of the Information Technology Division headed by Jacek Szlachciak. This brings a degree of order and expertise into the rapidly developing field with even more rapidly growing needs, possibilities and expectations. We all wish Jacek and his colleagues every successes in carrying out their tasks. The Reader of our Annual Reports may notice a certain novelty in this year's issue: the expanded general part including some details about events which we judge significant. I hope the Reader will find this part as well as the whole of the Report interesting. (author)

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Andrej BEKEŠ

2013-04-01

In the fifth paper, We Have It too: A Strategy Which Helps to Grasp the Japanese Writing System for Students from Outside of the Chinese Character Cultural Zone, the author, Andrej BEKEŠ, argues for employment of analogy transfer strategies to help beginner learners of Japanese to overcome cognitive and affecctive blocade when facing the complexities of Japanese writing system.

Foreword

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Chrysanthis, P. K.; Jensen, Christian Søndergaard; Kumar, V.

2006-01-01

it is our great pleasure to welcome you all to the Fifth ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE 2006), which is held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2006. This workshop brings together researchers in databases, networking, and mobile computing...... of very high quality, making the selection process quite competitive. All submissions were reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. This was followed by a discussion phase, where the reviewers of each submission had the opportunity to discuss the submission and its reviews. As a result, 10...... in the program. This talk probes into the consumer side of the mobile environment.The program reflects the depth and breadth of the field, with sessions covering important aspects of mobility, location-based processing, and the introduction of sensor technology into the real world. Thus, these proceedings...

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kristina HMELJAK SANGAWA

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Having received a lively response to our call for papers on the lexicography of Japanese as a second language, the editorial board decided to dedicate two issues of this year's ALA to this theme, and I am happy to introduce the second round of papers, after the first thematic issue published in October this year. This issue is again divided into two parts. The first two papers offer analyses of two aspects of existing dictionaries from the point of view of Japanese language learners, while the following four papers present particular lexicographic projects for learners of Japanese as a foreign language. The first paper, by Kanako Maebo, entitled A survey of register labelling in Japanese dictionaries - Towards the labelling of words in dictionaries for learners of Japanese, analyses register labelling in existing dictionaries of Japanese, both in those expressly intended for learners of Japanese as a second language and those intended for native speakers, pointing out how register information provided by such dictionaries is not sufficient for L2 language production. After stressing the usefulness of usage examples for learners trying to write in Japanese, she offers an example of a corpus-based register analysis and proposes a typology of labels to be assigned to dictionary entries, calling for the development of corpora of different genres to be used for lexical analysis. In the second paper, An analysis of the efficiency of existing kanji indexes and development of a coding-based index, Galina N. Vorobеva and Victor M. Vorobеv tackle one of the most time-consuming tasks learners of Japanese are confronted with: looking up unknown Chinese characters. After a comprehensive description of existing indexes, including less known indexing systems developed by Japanese, Chinese, Russian and German researchers, they compare the efficiency of these systems using the concept of selectivity, and propose their own coding-based system. Although searching for unknown characters is becoming increasingly easy with the use of optical character recognition included in portable electronic dictionaries, tablets and smart-phones, not all learners have yet access to such devices. Efficient indexes for accessing information on Chinese characters are therefore still a valuable tool to support language learners in this most tedious task, while the ability to decompose a character into component parts remains an important basis for character memorisation. The second part of this issue presents four projects aimed at supporting particular lexical needs of learners of Japanese as a second language. In the first paper, Development of a learners' dictionary of polysemous Japanese words and some proposals for learners’ lexicography, Shingo Imai presents a new lexicographic approach to the description of polysemous words. As Imai rightfully stresses, the most basic and common words learned by beginning language learners are actually often very polysemous; being deceivingly simple at first glance, they are often introduced with simple glosses or basic prototypical examples at the first stages of learning, and later treated as known words in intermediate or advanced textbooks, even if used for less common senses which are still unknown to the learners, causing much confusion. In the dictionary series presented here, polysemous headwords are thoroughly and systematically described within their semantic networks, where the connections between core and derived meanings are schematically visualised and exemplified. The following two papers present two of the first and most popular web-based systems for Japanese language learning support, both of which have been developing for more than a decade, supporting Japanese language learners all over the world. Reading Tutor, a reading support system for Japanese language learners, presented by Yoshiko Kawamura, is a widely known and used system based at Tokyo International University, which offers automatic glossing of Japanese text with Japanese definitions and examples, and translations into 28 languages. After introducing the system, its development, functionalities and its tools for signalling the level of difficulty of single words, characters, or whole Japanese texts, the author describes its possible uses in language instruction and autonomous learning, and one concrete example of its application to the development of learning material for a specific segment of learners, foreign candidates to the Japanese national examination for certified care workers, mostly Filipino and Indonesian nurses working in Japan. The author concludes with suggestions for fostering autonomous vocabulary learning. The other Japanese language learning support system with an equally long and successful tradition, developed at Tokyo Institute of Technology, is presented by its initiator, Kikuko Nishina, and one of its younger developers, Bor Hodošček, in Japanese Learning Support Systems: Hinoki Project Report. The article presents the many components of this successful system, including Asunaro, a reading support system aimed especially at science and engineering students and speakers of underrepresented Asian languages, Natsume, a writing assistance system using large-scale corpora to support collocation search, Natane, a learner corpus, and Nutmeg, an automatic error correction system for learners' writing. The last project report, by Tomaž Erjavec and myself, introduces resources and tools being developed at the University of Ljubljana and at Jožef Stefan Institute: JaSlo: Integration of a Japanese-Slovene Bilingual Dictionary with a Corpus Search System. The dictionary, corpora and search tools are being developed primarily for Slovene speaking learners of Japanese, but part of the tools, particularly the corpus of sentences from the web-harvested texts, divided into five difficulty levels, can be used by any learner or teacher of Japanese. I hope you will enjoy reading these articles as much as I did, and wish you a peaceful New Year.  

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Manuela EPURE

2017-12-01

Full Text Available Digital world is changing constantly and the way in which it affects our life and work seems to be dramatically and somehow unpredictable. New skills and competencies are required and more than ever our learning efforts must be equally distributed between old, traditional and new knowledge, more abundant and diverse far from what you learned before and beyond any imagination a decade ago. Performance at work is redefined in such a way that has no connection at all with what was expected from us at the beginning of our working life. We have been trained to use our knowledge to solve problems, now we need to be trained to use machine learning systems to deal with complex problems and to relay on artificial intelligence when it comes about understanding our digital world and his diverse connectivity with our real life.....

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

The Editorial Board for the articles in the mathematical sciences section consisted of. G. Misra, R. Mukherjee, R. Sujatha and myself. We decided to seek articles on the follow- ing broad themes: mathematical analysis, probabil- ity and statistics, number theory, the theory of Lie and algebraic groups, and algebraic geometry.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kiat J.M.

2017-01-01

Full Text Available The international thematic school on “Crystallography and Neutrons” was organized in order to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography in 2014, under the patronage of the “Société Française de la Neutronique” (SFN with the support of the CNRS and the European neutron facilities network NMI3. The school took place in September 2014 in Oléron, France, as first part of the “22ème Journées de la Neutronique” (JDN22. The school gathered participants from European countries and therefore the lectures were given in English. It intended to promote cooperation and networking among users of large scale facilities with researchers involved in the field of Crystallography.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Andrej BEKEŠ

2012-01-01

In the technical article, in Slovene, at the end of this issue, Andrej BEKEŠ investigates the classification of genres in Japanese corpora, based on recent research he has also been involved in. He argues that various modal expressions, such as suppositional adverbs, may provide an interesting base for such classification.

Foreword

OpenAIRE

Elena Gurgu

2017-01-01

At the end of 2017, according to World Economic Forum Agenda, it seems that economic competitiveness matters, but not as an end in itself. It matters because nations that are more competitive are more productive, and are therefore more able to provide for the social needs of their people. The world has changed dramatically over the last decade, and measuring the factors that determine competitiveness continues to be a highly complex process. It is certainly true that the Fourth Industrial Rev...

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wieteska, K.

2011-01-01

Full text: The Institute's of Atomic Energy POLATOM main interest is safe energy generation with particular emphasis on nuclear energy as the most environment friendly technology. This has been expanded into the realm of hazards analysis and its applications to conventional plants. After Polish Government decision of 2005 on the use of nuclear power for electricity generation, the Institute in cooperation with few universities started training of students in the nuclear safety and radiation protection. The Institute takes part in preparation of expertise reports as well as research and education programs crucial for the implementation of nuclear power plants in Poland. The ionising radiation protection issues furnish the basis of our health physics research. Material science studies performed mainly with non-destructive nuclear techniques like neutron scattering and Moessbauer spectroscopy or X-rays form an important part of our research. The Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM operates the multifunctional nuclear research reactor MARIA. In 2010 the reactor was successfully operated for 3803 hours with fuel elements of 36% enrichment in 235 U. No radiological accidents, failures or breakdowns due to the fuel behaviour were recorded in 2010, confirming the good quality of the fuel elements. The tests of AREVA fuel element with 19% enrichment and 40% burnup have been successfully completed in 2010. The main technological facilities of the MARIA reactor for radioactive isotopes production, neutron doping of silicon and minerals properties modification were widely employed. The irradiations of 235 U targets for 99 Mo production started in March and MARIA has supplied 5% of world demand for 99 Mo in 2010. 320 spent fuel elements were transferred to Russia according to the Global Threat Reduction Initiative sponsored by the US government. One of our main goals is to provide the scientific community of Poland an easy access to source of neutrons. This involves widest possible applications of MARIA reactor in research and technology. The beams of thermal neutrons are used in neutron scattering and radiography studies of condensed matter structures and processes occurring at various levels of length scales. About 50 papers describing the results of our research were published in 2010. Some of the results were accounted for in 144 IAE Reports as the preliminary step before publication. Several new results obtained in 2010 on drying of particulate and rigid porous media, properties of ion beams modified materials as well as extensive use of synchrotron topography in crystal defects studies should be mentioned. The recombination methods for assessment of mixed radiation doses at various facilities were mastered. The studies on models and software tools for emergency management were carried out within the EU Framework projects by the Centre of Excellence Management of Health and Environmental Hazards MANHAZ. The research project ''Analysis of the thorium application in nuclear power reactors '' (THORIUM PROJECT) established within the Innovative Economy Operational Program has been performed in cooperation with Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology. The project on testing and implementation of radioisotopes for neuroendocrine tumour therapy has been accepted for realization within the Innovative Economy Operational Program. Our institute is open for the community. We are proud that above 5000 visitors came to enjoy our presentations and lectures on nuclear techniques developed on the basis of nuclear research reactor MARIA during 2010. Several students from Polish universities obtained student summer training in IAE laboratories in 2010. (author)

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wieteska, K.

2010-01-01

Full text: The Institute's of Atomic Energy POLATOM main topic is safe energy generation with particular emphasis on nuclear energy as the most environment friendly technology. This has been expanded into the realm of hazards analysis and its applications to conventional plants. After Polish Government decision of 2005 on the use of nuclear power for electricity generation, the Institute in cooperation with few universities started training of students in the nuclear safety and radiation protection. The Institute takes part in preparation of expertise reports as well as research and education programs crucial for the implementation of nuclear power plants in Poland. The ionising radiation protection issues furnish the basis of our health physics research. Material science studies performed mainly with non-destructive nuclear techniques like neutron scattering and Moessbauer spectroscopy or X-rays form an important part of our research. The Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM operates the multifunctional nuclear research reactor MARIA. In 2009 the reactor was successfully operated for 4270 hours with fuel elements of 36% enrichment in 235 U. No radiological accidents, failures or breakdowns due to the fuel behaviour were recorded in 2009, confirming the good quality of the fuel elements. Two new types of AREVA fuel elements with 19% enrichment and permitting higher burnup have been tested. The main technological facilities of the MARIA reactor for radioactive isotopes production, neutron doping of silicon and minerals properties modification were widely employed. The preparations for irradiation of 235 U targets for 99 Mo production conforming to the Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors programme have been accomplished. The Reactor Facility for Neutron Transmutation Doping of Silicon Single Crystals was used in doping of single crystalline and multicrystalline silicon wafers for research purposes. One of our main goals is to provide the scientific community of Poland an easy access to source of neutrons. This involves widest possible applications of MARIA reactor in research and technology. The beams of thermal neutrons are used in neutron scattering and radiography studies of condensed matter structures and processes occurring at various levels of length scales. About 60 papers describing the results of our research were published in 2009. Some of the results were accounted for in 136 IAE Reports as the preliminary step before publication. Several new results obtained in 2009 on water migration in particulate porous media, properties of ion beams modified materials as well as extensive use of synchrotron topography in crystal defects studies should be mentioned. The recombination methods for assessment of mixed radiation doses at various facilities were mastered. The studies on models and software tools for emergency management were carried out within the EU Framework projects by the Centre of Excellence Management of Health and Environmental Hazards MANHAZ. The research project '' Analysis of the thorium application in nuclear power reactors '' (THORIUM PROJECT) established within the Innovative Economy Operational Program has been performed in cooperation with Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology. The project on testing and implementation of radioisotopes for neuroendocrine tumour therapy has been accepted for realization within the Innovative Economy Operational Program. Our institute is open for the community. We are proud that above 5000 visitors came to enjoy our presentations and lectures on nuclear techniques developed on the basis of nuclear research reactor MARIA during 2009. Several students from Polish universities obtained student summer training in IAE laboratories in 2009. (author)

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Nina GOLOB

2016-12-01

Last but not least is a technical note by Qasier ABBAS "Semi-Semantic Annotation: A Guideline for the URDU.KON-TB Treebank POS Annotation", in which the author proposes annotation guidelines of semi-semantic parts of speech for the URDU.KON-TB treebank.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

2002-01-01

The present guide has been assembled within the International Scientific Center project No. 113 with purpose of enhancement both qualification and literacy of a whole population in the items of radioecology and radioactive waste management. During the project fulfillment the lectures texts with a set of figures and tabular materials have been composed. The lectures have been read for pupils, teachers of nature sciences and a wide circle of specialists. The guide structure has been composed under an influence of the American textbook on nuclear wastes: 'Science, Society, and American Nuclear Waste' (teacher guide in 4 units, US Department of Energy, 1993). In the guide only principal ideas of the American textbook have been preserved

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Elena Gurgu

2017-06-01

Full Text Available In the middle of 2017, global activity is firming broadly as expected. Manufacturing and trade are picking up, confidence is improving and international financing conditions remain benign. Global growth is projected to strengthen to 2.7 percent in 2017 and 2.9 percent in 2018-19, in line with OECD January forecasts. In emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs, growth is predicted to recover to 4.1 percent in 2017 and reach an average of 4.6 percent in 2018-19, as obstacles to growth in commodity exporters diminish, while activity in commodity importers continues to be robust. Risks to the global outlook remain tilted to the downside. These include increased trade protectionism, elevated economic policy uncertainty, the possibility of financial market disruptions, and, over the longer term, weaker potential growth.  .....

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wrochna, G.

2010-01-01

Full text: In 2010 our institute was again ranked among the best (class A) research organizations. This was mainly thanks to a large number of publications in prestigious scientific journals. A good example is given by prof. Janusz Wilczynski, who was awarded the prize for the best achievement in IPJ in 2010 in basic research. He published a series of papers in '' Physical Review Letters '' and '' Physical Review '' devoted to the discovery and study of a new mechanism of fast ternary or quaternary breakup of a heavy system into massive fragments. Experimental results obtained at LNS Catania in collaboration with an international, mostly Italian and Polish, were analyzed and interpreted by prof. Wilczynski and his collaborators. The corresponding award for applied research was given to dr Lukasz Swiderski for studies of liquid scintillators, in particular loaded with boron-10, as neutron detectors (work done in collaboration between IPJ and Germany). This work was a response to the world crisis of the shortage of 3 He, needed for neutron detection. Such detectors are used e.g. for security control at all borders and airports. The results of dr Swiderski show a path for application of liquid scintillators as neutron detectors for border monitoring. The synergy between basic and applied research was always the strong point of IPJ. The most evident case of this synergy is the construction of sophisticated apparatus for large international experiments. The largest one - the LHC at CERN in Geneva - began to collect data with the world record collision energy of 7 TeV. They are being analyzed with the participation of our physicists. In order to reach the designed beam energy and intensity, one needs to modernize several elements of the accelerator chain. In 2010 IPJ delivered for CERN a proton buncher and started preparation for production of Pi-mode Structures for the Linac4 accelerator. The second largest European research project is the X-ray Free-Electron Laser (E-XFEL). The Polish parliament ratified the XFEL convention and IPJ was nominated to represent Poland as the E-XFEL GmbH shareholder. Most of the 21 mln EUR of the Polish contribution will be provided in-kind. This includes elements of the accelerator delivered by our institute. IPJ was also granted over 4 mln EUR to provide Neutral Beam Injection elements for the stellarator (thermonuclear reactor) W7-X being built in Greifswald, Germany. Our experts are participating in the design of the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden. We are also considering contributions to other large research projects in Europe, especially those from the ESFRI roadmap. Development of new technologies resulted in 2010 in a few patent proposals. A method of surface modification by ion beams to make better forms for the production of rubber elements was given an award at international exhibition ITEX in Kuala Lumpur. It was a joint development with the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME) in Warsaw and the Institute for Engineering of Polymer Materials and Dyes (IMPiB) in Torun. Another award was given at the International Exhibition of Innovations in Warsaw to IPJ and the Techtra company for a new detector for non-destructive industrial radiography. An important element of the mission of our institute is to share the excitement of front-line research with the general public. It is not easy, however, for scientists to meet the demands of the media to present in just a few sentences the essence of a sophisticated theory or an advanced technology. This changed when dr Marek Pawlowski was appointed the IPJ Spokesman. Journalists appreciated his role in bridging the gap between scientists and the media and granted him a special award in the '' Science Popularizer of the Year 2010 '' contest. In the perspective of implementing nuclear power in Poland, society requires quite detailed information on this subject, given in an understandable way. This is the mission of our Department of Training and Education and the passion of its head, prof. Ludwik Dobrzynski. For his achievements he was awarded in 2010 the Medal of the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej. In addition to a research and information service related to nuclear power, IPJ has begun preparations to support public administration and future investors in this field. In the frame of the Swierk Computing Centre Project we hired a number of young people to create the Reactor Analysis Team. With the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency and experts from the Czech Republic, France, Japan, Korea and the US, they are learning intensively how to simulate phenomena inside a reactor and make safety assessment analyses. These activities are organized together with the Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM - our neighbor at Swierk. Following our common initiative, the Minister of Economy supervising the two institutes decided to begin the process of merging them together. This will be the largest research institute in Poland having about 1000 employees. I hope that the next issue of the Annual Report you receive from Swierk will have on the cover the name of the National Centre for Nuclear Research. (author)

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Zoupanos, G.

These are the Proceedings of the scientific activities of CORFU2016, the 16th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, which took place from August 31st till September 23rd, 2016. The School and Workshops were hosted by the European Institute for Sciences and their Applications (EISA) at the conference center of the ex-Royal Palace garden of Mon Repos in Corfu, Greece. The scientific activities consisted of a series of three events, the Summer School and Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, the Recent Developments in Strings and Gravity, the ATLAS Hadronic Calibration Workshop 2016 and a rich set of outreach activities ( TV and radio interviews, Master Classes, series of lectures to High School teachers and talks for the public). We refer to the website www.physics.ntua.gr/corfu2016 for the various organizational and practical details. These proceedings are dedicated to our beloved friend and colleague Giannis (Ioannis) Bakas who passed away on Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Elena Gurgu

2017-12-01

Full Text Available At the end of 2017, according to World Economic Forum Agenda, it seems that economic competitiveness matters, but not as an end in itself. It matters because nations that are more competitive are more productive, and are therefore more able to provide for the social needs of their people. The world has changed dramatically over the last decade, and measuring the factors that determine competitiveness continues to be a highly complex process. It is certainly true that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR – new, rapidly changing technologies in many different fields – has changed the way we need to measure some aspects of competitiveness, particularly in relation to innovation and ideas. We need to stress, for example, the value of ideas and collaboration within companies; the values of open-mindedness, of connectivity, and the value of an entrepreneurial spirit. And we have had to emphasize a new kind of education: one that is more conducive to students’ creativity, their ability to observe and generate ideas. The new industrial revolution, also known as the 4IR, has forced us to put more emphasis on all these aspects of a nation’s innovation ecosystem. The appearance of very disruptive technologies has been incredibly rapid. If we go back 10 years, the iPhone didn’t even exist. We have seen huge developments in artificial intelligence, new materials, synthetic biology, big data and on-demand technologies, and all these are changing the business landscape at a planetary level. Significantly, many of these innovations did not occur in those countries where technology used to be produced almost monopolistically. It is no longer the case that only the US and Europe innovate; the new industrial revolution has created opportunities for nations across the globe. This is a hugely important trend.

Foreword

African Journals Online (AJOL)

of ethnicity, and the third takes into account both ethnicity and religiosity. In our field of dealing ... are apparently observing the fascinating diversities on the human scene, but interpreting them as ... of being on top of the world. Our feet are kept ...

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

1998-01-01

The year 1997 was marked by the hundredth birthday anniversary of professor Andrzej Soltan, the first director of our Institute and the pioneer of nuclear physics in Poland. It is also about hundred years since nuclear physics has begun with the discovery of Polonium and Radium by Maria Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. In honour of these anniversaries an Exhibition entitled ''Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technique in Service of Medicine - from Radium Needle to Accelerators'' has been organized. Some lectures, radio broadcasts, popular level articles have supplemented this effort to bring the present day nuclear sciences closer to the general public. In the year of 1997 227 articles in international journals have been published, supplemented by 24 invited talks and 219 communications at conferences. The lists of these publications are given separately for each of the Research Departments throughout this Annual Report. They are preceded by articles on the work in progress and by the brief overviews written by the Department Heads. The selected highlights of the past year are: progress in materials science (deep surface layers - on transformation of uranium lattice induced by water corrosion). The work on modification of surface properties by hot and cold ion implantation. In nuclear physics the careful study of polarization phenomena in the decay of light, weekly bound nuclei. The works on the properties of the heaviest elements have been continued (Adam Sobiczewski - international prizes: in 1997 the Alfred Jurzykowski and the Flerov prize). The study of new scintillation techniques provided by Marek Moszynski has also mentioned. The highlight this time is the demonstration of advantages offered by avalanche diodes for the light output readout. The particle physicists continue their involvement in various international projects. This year they managed to give a noteworthy instrumental and technical input to: Resistive Plate Chambers for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at the LHC in CERN and on the development of the WASA system at CELSIUS, Uppsala. In plasma physics it was welcomed the decision to establish in Warsaw the International Centre of Dense Magnetized Plasma: This is one result of the increased international activities of our plasma group lead by Marek Sadowski. Our accelerator physics group and the production unit ZdAJ have embarked on a new project of a 15 MeV therapeutical accelerator. They also managed to export some high technology work to DESY (Hamburg) and to CERN. As usual most of our scientific effort is based on various international collaborations. A regular, every second year accent on the international exchanges is the International Mazurian Lakes School of Physics. This has been organized in 1997 for the 25th time. lt has had the symmetries in micro- and macro worlds as the main subject

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Lorenzo Bartalesi

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Evolutionary Aesthetics emerges today as a young and lively field of studies whose main aim is to rethink the traditional questions of philosophical Aesthetics in the light of biological theories, in particular in the light of Darwin's evolutionary theory by means of natural selection. The aim of this issue is to introduce Evolutionary Aesthetics into the Italian philosophical debate. Contributions collected cover almost entirely the lively, multifaceted spectrum of the discipline: 1 the high-debated question of the adaptive value of aesthetic sense, artistic practices and art fruition (Stephen Davies, Zach Norwood, Joseph Carroll; 2 the evolutionary explanation of human sexual preferences and production of artefacts (Hannes Rusch & Eckart Voland; 3 the possibility for a Darwinian non-reductionist definition of art as a culturally differentiated behavior (Kathryn Coe; Nancy E. Aiken; Roberta Dreon; 4 a comparative analysis of aesthetic experience from a cognitive viewpoint (Gianluca Consoli and from a morphological one (Salvatore Tedesco; 5 the influence of Darwinian perspective beyond the English boundaries, with particular reference to the Italian scientific community in the Nineteenth century (Elena Canadelli and to the tradition of Gestaltpsychologie (Michele Gardini; 6 a naturalistic approach to aesthetic experience and medial experience (Antonino Pennisi & Francesco Parisi.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Manuela Epure

2017-09-01

Full Text Available Human capital is an important asset for any organization or country. Looking into the future, it seems that a human-centric vision of the work of time ahead that recognizes the people’s knowledge, talent, creativity and skills is the key positioning for a prosperous and inclusive economy. “Human capital means the knowledge and skills people possess that enable them to create value in the global economic system”.  To measure the development of this capital is imperative to determine how it can be better used to achieve a solid economic growth. Similarly, at the company level, the development of the human capital means to secure a competitive advantage in the long run. More skilled and efficient employees will yield an increase of productivity and more competitive prices....

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1998-01-01

The year 1997 marked a minor jubilee for the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic (NRA SR), five years of its existence and activities in the area of nuclear safety of nuclear installations in the Slovak Republic. The main activities of the NRA SR are reviewed

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Tiina Ann Kirss

2012-04-01

Full Text Available Methis is a new quarterly journal of literary and cultural studies in Estonia, a collaborative publication of the Department of Literature and Theatre Research of the University of Tartu and the Estonian Literary Museum. Its predecessors were series of collections of articles “Studia litteraria estonica“ of the Chair of Estonian Literature of the University of Tartu, and series such as “Tradition and pluralism”, and “Accommodating Texts” of the Estonian Literary Museum. With due respect to its genealogy, the purpose of Methis is to provide a new forum for publication by young and established scholars, balancing between international and Estonian-language readerships. Since any new periodical is fraught with risk, especially in a country where the scholarly base is small, it is crucial to take the measure of the landscape, both in the homeland and in Europe. The pressures of publishing must take into account perils and perishing, both on the level of individual scholars and their institutions. Methis is primarily and philosophically committed to peer-reviewed publishing in the Estonian language. The editorial board sees this not as a symptom of insularity, but rather as a deep, intentional investment in the cultivation of scholarly Estonian as a flexible, rich medium for scientific expression and communication at a level in keeping with the highest international standards. The first double issue of Methis, published in December 2008 under the editorship of Dr. Marin Laak and Dr. Sirje Olesk, was devoted to the Young Estonia movement of the last decades of the 19th century and the opening decade of the 20th – a time of crucial self-positioning of Estonian scholars, thinkers and activists with respect to the Europe they both imagined and encountered in their peregrinations and political exile. It is, however highly and fortunately symbolic of Methis’ position in Estonian letters that this issue is published in English, and that it commemorates another important anniversary in Estonian cultural history. The editors, Dr. Luule Epner, and Dr. Anneli Saro, have elicited and prepared a very fine selection of articles based on papers given at a conference in December 2006 devoted to the 100th anniversary of the first professional theatres in Estonia. We anticipate that the future of Methis will entail other such occasions for English-language special issues and clusters of articles. 6 As with any new venture, Methis has already encountered controversy – particularly about its name, the choice of which entailed a tension between pure loyalty to long humanistic traditions and pragmatism. Metis is the mythological mother of Athena, and the symbolism of this lineage is connected with Tartu, a historic university city, referred to frequently with the locution “Emajõe Ateena” (“Athena on the Banks of the River Emajõgi“. The “Tartu spirit”, whether it is a figure for intellectual passion or a haunting of the past (or the name given to a very peppery chocolate truffle in one of Tartu’s famous cafes is part folklore and part ideology. We hope that on the pages of this journal, it will be “catching” in the best sense of that word. Scholarly wisdom, championed by Athena, needs nurture and protection, perhaps especially these days, when the heat of institutional production requirements and bureaucratic quotas threaten to overpower the coolness, caution, slow absorption, meticulous tending and acumen of real scholarship. As a journal, Methis seeks to honour the solicitude of its mythological patroness. However, many of our colleagues in Classical Studies have been quite vocal about the extra letter in the name of our journal. While their objections are certainly justified, there is no gratuitous playfulness in the extra letter “H“. Since another European journal of the humanities already exists under the name Metis, we merely wished to avoid confusion. While many of the forthcoming issues of Methis will be topical or thematic, at least every fourth issue will be a multi-topic or free issue. Methis 4 (2009, our first free issue, will be edited by Andrus Org, a lecturer in Estonian literature at the University of Tartu, and it will expand the full repertoire of regular features. In addition to the book reviews in Methis 3 (2009, each of the following issues will contain translations into Estonian of theoretical and methodological articles in literary and cultural studies, and publication of archival source material. The editorial board of Methis is grateful to the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, the Estonian Cultural Endowment, and the Publications Committee of the University of Tartu for ongoing financial support.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

1999-01-01

The Reports on Research are grouped in ten chapters corresponding to the ten scientific departments of the Institute. Chapters eleven and twelve give reports of activities of the Training Department and of the production unit ZdAJ, correspondingly. Each of these chapters begins with a short overview written by the head of the department; these are followed by short accounts of the work in progress and lists of publications and other output of each of the departments. The activities of the Institute concentrate on the nuclear physics (low, medium and high energy), the particle physics, the cosmic radiation and the hot plasma physics on one hand and on such domains of the applied research and instrumentation as the accelerator development, the materials science (notably the surface properties), the development of detectors and of specialised, short-series electronics. Therapeutical accelerators and diagnostic devices feature highly on the Institute technical output list. There is a clear shift of interest of nuclear physics experts towards higher energy accelerator experiments. There is still, however, a worthy output concerning the more traditional low energy nuclear physics. An example to mention is the work on the 6 He nucleus with the suggested two- neutron halo structure. The high energy nuclear and particle physics groups are increasingly involved in preparations for the ''next century physics'', be it at CERN or elsewhere. The two modest and aged nuclear accelerators: the 2MV van de Graaff and the 30 MeV proton cyclotron, serve successfully the solid state related research. Examples: the work on defects in GaAs crystals, one of the most studied material in the recent years because of its technological potential or the radiation-induced modification of optical properties of various materials. The plasma physics group continues the work on the polarisation of X-rays emitted during the PF-type discharges. They gained a new insight to the effect by observing it for discrete X-ray lines. A noteworthy also is their methodical work on the track detectors and their use in plasma research. The Institute nuclear electronics group, developed years ago to partly offset the shortages of ready-made electronics on the Polish market and partly to assist the physics oriented groups. The work on the front-end electronics for the Euroball system or on the acquisition system for the NA 48 experiment at CERN are examples of these activities. The Institute over many years has been engaged in development, construction and implementation of linear electron accelerators for cancer therapy. Last year the activity have been honoured by the award ''Teraz Polska'', the prestigious prize for the best industrial product made in Poland and based on Polish technology, for the therapeutical range SACON. The Report consists also descriptions of works on the high energy atomic physics, on the implantation techniques to technic modify the surface properties of materials and many other ''goodies''. The Institute has co-organized the ''International Workshop on Plasma - Focus Research PF'98'' in Kudowa in July 1998. A permanent exhibition ''Nuclear wastes: problems, solutions'' prepared by the Department of Training and Consulting has been opened in the fall of 1998

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

practical consequence of research in the domain of cognitive neurosciences. Raman Kutty traces the ascent of science in public health. He illustrates how ideas and methodological rigours of science helped to transform public health from a social science to a scientific discipline in its own right and in that process helped to ...

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Bradley, D. A.

2017-11-01

We live in a world in which the risks and benefits of the various influences impacting upon our lives are constantly being revisited and weighed against each other. Radiation, the issue with which we are concerned herein, forms one example of such a two-edged sword, offering immense benefits under well-controlled conditions but posing risks to health as well as more generally to the environment when controls are poor or absent. It is a truism, non the less true in its re-stating, that the extent to which control is successful can be measured through the amount of radiation imparted, the name accorded to the endeavour of measurement being 'radiation dosimetry'. It forms the basis of numerous technological approaches, passive or active. Passive forms of dosimeter will for instance include thermoluminescence, radioluminesence, optically stimulated luminescence, and numerous other diverse forms, offering advantages and disadvantages in accord with the particular applications. And here too the interests are manifold, ranging from the very low doses (for example the dose-rates of the undisturbed terrestrial environment or single bite-wing dental radiographs), through to general radiography (that of the chest for instance), highly specialised radiography (mammography, CT, PET/CT, fluoroscopy, angiography), the entire range of nuclear medicine, the various radiotherapies (eg external beam and brachytherapy), food irradiations and radiation processing. The range-change across this diverse set of interests approaches of the order of 1012 (from μGy through to in excess of 100 kGy) and yet there are technologies and the supporting science that can be demonstrated to serve that need. Undoubtedly there exists the need for highly versatile technologies, placing minimal demand on allied technological support and human resource. Clearly there is need to demonstrate useful response of dosimeters to a broad range of radiations, from the ultraviolet and low-energy x-rays, to electrons, gamma, alpha, proton, neutron and heavy ion irradiations as well as the need in unison to develop high throughput readout systems that perfectly augment the dosimetric devices that are on offer. No less desirable is the need for reusable/long lifetime systems that can be applied in highly inhospitable environments, including at elevated temperatures and in aqueous systems. These Proceedings are intended to showcase the various issues and solutions, also providing an awareness of state-of-the-art systems that can serve such a broad range of radiation dosimetry needs, adaptable to the less well endowed budget and modest desires through to applications involving highly sophisticated beam manipulations.

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Boulanger, François; Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine

Scientific awareness of the galactic magnetic field arose in the late 40's with Fermi's work on cosmic rays, the discovery of the polarization of dust reddened starlight by Hiltner and Hall, and its interpretation in terms of magnetically aligned dust grains by Spitzer and Tukey and Davis and Greenstein. It was soon clear that the magnetic field and the cosmic ray are tied to the interstellar gas and form together an active dynamical system. Its importance for star formation and interstellar matter energetics was also quickly recognized but more than 50 years after most questions remain quantitatively open due to the paucity of data on the small scale structure of the field. In the last decade, interferometric surveys have revealed striking patterns in the diffuse polarized emission, imposed by Faraday rotation, that give a way to study the field structure in the intervening ionized medium. The advent of high sensitivity measurements of polarized emission at sub-millimeter wavelengths promise to further open our perspective on the Galactic field. The dust observations will soon extend from high resolution observations from star forming regions with ground based telescopes and the ALMA interferometer to the continuous mapping of the diffuse interstellar medium with Planck. A few months after the discovery of optical interstellar polarization, the Galactic magnetic field was an unexpected highlight of the first symposium on Cosmical Gas Dynamics held in Paris in august 1949. The Polarization 2005 meeting held at the University of Orsay was also a premiere. For the first time, two communities with disconnected backgrounds but common interests in polarization observations were given the opportunity to meet and learn from each other's research. The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background has become a major Physics challenge of the decade(s) to come. The numerous experiments designed to achieve this goal have started providing data with unprecedented sensitivity on the Galactic polarization from sub-millimeter to centimetric wavelengths. Detailed modeling of the Galactic contribution to the observed polarization is a required key to the success of their endeavor. This book gathers invited lectures presented at the meeting. It gives an in depth account of our present knowledge of the Galactic magnetic field from measurements of its structure and intensity to its role in the physics of interstellar matter and star formation. The Galactic part of the book is complemented by three papers that introduce the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization and describe the experiments being built to observe it, with special attention to the Planck ESA mission. Few years after the Paris Cosmical Gas Dynamics symposium, the discovery of polarized synchrotron emission in the Crab was a new highlight in magnetic field research. Quoting a review by van de Hulst: “From that time on, measuring the polarization and thus mapping the magnetic field became a prime desideratum in galactic radio astronomy”. We hope that observations to come will stimulate similar enthusiasm and bring more and more scientists to the field for whom this book will be a useful and lasting reference. The editors would like to thank the IAS staff that took care of the organization with a special mention for Catherine Cougrand.

Foreword

African Journals Online (AJOL)

More recently, the peace-oriented set, 'peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding', has gained currency, especially since the publication of the. United Nations ... international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, impunity cannot be tolerated and perpetrators have to be held accountable.

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

H. Michael Rauscher; Richard E. Plant; Alan J. Thomson; Mark J. Twery

2000-01-01

This article includes the central themes of the keynote speakers for the scientific conference "The Application of Scientific Knowledge to Decisionmaking in Managing Forest Ecosystems." This International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) conference presented the latest developments concerning the entire range of topics dealing with ecosystem...

Foreword

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Sujkowski, Z. [The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-Swierk (Poland)

1999-10-01

The Reports on Research are grouped in ten chapters corresponding to the ten scientific departments of the Institute. Chapters eleven and twelve give reports of activities of the Training Department and of the production unit ZdAJ, correspondingly. Each of these chapters begins with a short overview written by the head of the department; these are followed by short accounts of the work in progress and lists of publications and other output of each of the departments. The activities of the Institute concentrate on the nuclear physics (low, medium and high energy), the particle physics, the cosmic radiation and the hot plasma physics on one hand and on such domains of the applied research and instrumentation as the accelerator development, the materials science (notably the surface properties), the development of detectors and of specialised, short-series electronics. Therapeutical accelerators and diagnostic devices feature highly on the Institute technical output list. There is a clear shift of interest of nuclear physics experts towards higher energy accelerator experiments. There is still, however, a worthy output concerning the more traditional low energy nuclear physics. An example to mention is the work on the {sup 6}He nucleus with the suggested two- neutron halo structure. The high energy nuclear and particle physics groups are increasingly involved in preparations for the ``next century physics``, be it at CERN or elsewhere. The two modest and aged nuclear accelerators: the 2MV van de Graaff and the 30 MeV proton cyclotron, serve successfully the solid state related research. Examples: the work on defects in GaAs crystals, one of the most studied material in the recent years because of its technological potential or the radiation-induced modification of optical properties of various materials. The plasma physics group continues the work on the polarisation of X-rays emitted during the PF-type discharges. They gained a new insight to the effect by observing it for discrete X-ray lines. A noteworthy also is their methodical work on the track detectors and their use in plasma research. The Institute nuclear electronics group, developed years ago to partly offset the shortages of ready-made electronics on the Polish market and partly to assist the physics oriented groups. The work on the front-end electronics for the Euroball system or on the acquisition system for the NA 48 experiment at CERN are examples of these activities. The Institute over many years has been engaged in development, construction and implementation of linear electron accelerators for cancer therapy. Last year the activity have been honoured by the award ``Teraz Polska``, the prestigious prize for the best industrial product made in Poland and based on Polish technology, for the therapeutical range SACON. The Report consists also descriptions of works on the high energy atomic physics, on the implantation techniques to technic modify the surface properties of materials and many other ``goodies``. The Institute has co-organized the ``International Workshop on Plasma - Focus Research PF`98`` in Kudowa in July 1998. A permanent exhibition ``Nuclear wastes: problems, solutions`` prepared by the Department of Training and Consulting has been opened in the fall of 1998

Foreword

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Wals, A.E.J.

2012-01-01

Scientists and ‘ordinary’ citizens alike have different thresholds with respect to the amount of un-clarity, conflict and confusion that they can handle. Some see merit in all three factors and embrace them as drivers of deeper thinking and reflection, while others need clarity, confirmation and

Foreword

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Sujkowski, Z. [The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-Swierk (Poland)

1998-12-31

The year 1997 was marked by the hundredth birthday anniversary of professor Andrzej Soltan, the first director of our Institute and the pioneer of nuclear physics in Poland. It is also about hundred years since nuclear physics has begun with the discovery of Polonium and Radium by Maria Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. In honour of these anniversaries an Exhibition entitled ``Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Technique in Service of Medicine - from Radium Needle to Accelerators`` has been organized. Some lectures, radio broadcasts, popular level articles have supplemented this effort to bring the present day nuclear sciences closer to the general public. In the year of 1997 227 articles in international journals have been published, supplemented by 24 invited talks and 219 communications at conferences. The lists of these publications are given separately for each of the Research Departments throughout this Annual Report. They are preceded by articles on the work in progress and by the brief overviews written by the Department Heads. The selected highlights of the past year are: progress in materials science (deep surface layers - on transformation of uranium lattice induced by water corrosion). The work on modification of surface properties by hot and cold ion implantation. In nuclear physics the careful study of polarization phenomena in the decay of light, weekly bound nuclei. The works on the properties of the heaviest elements have been continued (Adam Sobiczewski - international prizes: in 1997 the Alfred Jurzykowski and the Flerov prize). The study of new scintillation techniques provided by Marek Moszynski has also mentioned. The highlight this time is the demonstration of advantages offered by avalanche diodes for the light output readout. The particle physicists continue their involvement in various international projects. This year they managed to give a noteworthy instrumental and technical input to: Resistive Plate Chambers for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at the LHC in CERN and on the development of the WASA system at CELSIUS, Uppsala. In plasma physics it was welcomed the decision to establish in Warsaw the International Centre of Dense Magnetized Plasma: This is one result of the increased international activities of our plasma group lead by Marek Sadowski. Our accelerator physics group and the production unit ZdAJ have embarked on a new project of a 15 MeV therapeutical accelerator. They also managed to export some high technology work to DESY (Hamburg) and to CERN. As usual most of our scientific effort is based on various international collaborations. A regular, every second year accent on the international exchanges is the International Mazurian Lakes School of Physics. This has been organized in 1997 for the 25th time. lt has had the symmetries in micro- and macro worlds as the main subject

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Sol Picciotto

2011-01-01

Full Text Available It is very appropriate that this first issue of the first volume of the Oñati Socio-Legal Series should be devoted to the best of the Master´s theses produced in 2010 (those graded eximia or magna cum laude. These research papers demonstrate much of what is best about the Oñati Institute´s wide range of activities. The Institute is now well known worldwide, as well as being firmly rooted in the Basque Country. It welcomes researchers and scholars for short and long stays: as visiting researchers, from doctoral students to emeritus professors; as participants in the workshops held weekly from April to July on many topics organised by leading researchers from all over the world; and as teachers in the Master´s programmes. They come to use the excellent facilities: the Library, the Old University, the Residence; to debate and interact, think and write, while enjoying the pleasures of Basque cuisine and culture and the beautiful location.

Foreword

African Journals Online (AJOL)

National Code of Best Practice in Editorial Discretion and Peer Review for. South African Scholarly Journals, namely 'new findings and/or insights'. (ASSAf 2008:2, my emphasis). According to this Code of Best Practice, this is perhaps the most fundamental principle of research publishing. When reading this five-word ...

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

whom it made very interesting reading. Thirty odd years later, in the Platinum Jubilee. Year of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the two of us were requested by ... and anomalous behaviour in the normal phase in a variety of correlated systems. G. Ravindra. Kumar's article sheds light on light and its inter- action with matter.

Foreword

OpenAIRE

Baatz, Wolfgang

2014-01-01

Once graduates of conservation programs find employment at an institution or work to capacity as free-lance conservators, they are usually confronted with a large amount of different tasks. Young professionals are confronted with a wide array of new challenges and each of them requires time and attention. As a result, there will be little or no time for extra activities like research or writing papers – the necessities and priorities of everyday life prevail. Most job profiles in the area of ...

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Unknown

get activated under conditions of cellular stress) to ecological and ... (vii) S C Lakhotia: Role of a Non-coding RNA in Cellular Adaptation to ... (xi) Michèle Trémolières: Plant Response Strategies to Stress and Disturbance: The Case of Aquatic.

Foreword

African Journals Online (AJOL)

sizes, and in a well-planned collage-like arrangement, it contained a dozen motivating words. While I waited for a few minutes to see a consultant,. I wrote them down in my pocket book: confidence, excellence, honesty, inspiration, strength, freedom, ambition, team work, motivation, courage, creativity, passion, authenticity.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wieteska, K.

2008-01-01

Full text: The Institute's of Atomic Energy main topic is safe energy generation with particular emphasis on nuclear energy as the most environment friendly technology. This has been expanded into the realm of hazards analysis and its applications to conventional plants. After Polish Government decision of 2005 on the use of nuclear power for electricity generation, the Institute in cooperation with few universities started training of students in the nuclear safety and radiation protection. The Institute takes part in preparation of expertise reports as well as research and education programs crucial for the implementation of nuclear power plants in Poland. The ionizing radiation protection issues furnish the basis of our health physics research. Material science studies performed mainly with non-destructive nuclear techniques like neutron scattering and Moessbauer spectroscopy or X-rays form an important part of our research. The Institute of Atomic Energy operates the multifunctional nuclear research reactor MARIA. In 2007 the reactor was successfully operated for 4002 hours with a new type of fuel elements of 36% enrichment in U-235. No radiological accidents, failures or breakdowns due to the fuel behavior were recorded in 2007, confirming the good quality of the new fuel. The new fuel elements' integrity monitoring system was performing its task efficiently. The main technological applications of the MARIA reactor are: radioactive isotopes production, neutron doping of silicon and minerals properties modification. The Reactor Facility for Neutron Transmutation Doping of Silicon Single Crystals was used in doping of single crystalline and multicrystalline silicon wafers. One of our main goals is to provide the scientific community of Poland an easy access to the source of neutrons. This involves widest possible applications of MARIA reactor in research and technology. The beams of thermal neutrons are used in neutron scattering and radiography studies of condensed matter structures and processes occurring at various levels of length scales. 66 papers describing the results of our research were published in 2007. Some of the results were accounted for in 141 IAE Reports as the preliminary step before publication. Several new results obtained in 2007 on water migration in granular media, properties of ion beams modified materials as well as extensive use of synchrotron topography in crystal defects studies should be mentioned. The recombination methods for assessment of mixed radiation doses at various facilities were mastered. The studies on models and software tools for emergency management were carried out within the EU Framework projects by the Centre of Excellence Management of Health and Environmental Hazards MANHAZ. The Materials Testing Centre formed within a consortium of the IAE and the Radioactive Waste Management Plant for quick identification and categorization of unidentified or of unknown origin radioactive or nuclear items acts as an important link to the Polish response system to illicit trafficking and inadvertent movement of radioactive materials. Our institute is open for the community. We are proud that above 5000 visitors came to enjoy our presentations and lectures on nuclear techniques developed on the basis of nuclear research reactor MARIA during 2007. Several students from Polish and foreign universities obtained student summer training in IAE laboratories in 2007. The fusion of the Institute of Atomic Energy and the Centre of Isotope Production POLATOM, appears to be very advantageous and resulted in the substantial increase in the number of projects, publications and other accomplishments in 2007. (author)

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wieteska, K.

2009-01-01

Full text: The Institute's of Atomic Energy main topic is safe energy generation with particular emphasis on nuclear energy as the most environment friendly technology. This has been expanded into the realm of hazards analysis and its applications to conventional plants. After Polish Government decision of 2005 on the use of nuclear power for electricity generation, the Institute in cooperation with few universities started training of students in the nuclear safety and radiation protection. The Institute takes part in preparation of expertise reports as well as research and education programs crucial for the implementation of nuclear power plants in Poland. The ionizing radiation protection issues furnish the basis of our health physics research. Material science studies performed mainly with non-destructive nuclear techniques like neutron scattering and Moessbauer spectroscopy or X-rays form an important part of our research. The Institute of Atomic Energy operates the multifunctional nuclear research reactor MARIA. In 2008 the reactor was successfully operated for 4305 hours with a new type of fuel elements of 36% enrichment in U-235. No radiological accidents, failures or breakdowns due to the fuel behavior were recorded in 2008, confirming the good quality of the new fuel. The new fuel elements' integrity monitoring system was performing its task efficiently. The main technological applications of the MARIA reactor are: radioactive isotopes production, neutron doping of silicon and minerals properties modification. The Reactor Facility for Neutron Transmutation Doping of Silicon Single Crystals was used in doping of single crystalline and multicrystalline silicon wafers. One of our main goals is to provide the scientific community of Poland an easy access to the source of neutrons. This involves widest possible applications of MARIA reactor in research and technology. The beams of thermal neutrons are used in neutron scattering and radiography studies of condensed matter structures and processes occurring at various levels of length scales. 80 papers and 4 IAE monographs describing the results of our research were published in 2008. Some of the results were accounted for in 135 IAE B Reports as the preliminary step before publication. Several new results obtained in 2008 on water migration in zeolites, properties of ion beams modified materials as well as extensive use of synchrotron topography in crystal defects studies should be mentioned. The recombination methods for assessment of mixed radiation doses at various facilities were mastered. The studies on models and software tools for emergency management were carried out within the EU Framework projects by the Centre of Excellence Management of Health and Environmental Hazards MANHAZ. The Materials Testing Centre formed within a consortium of the IAE and the Radioactive Waste Management Plant for quick identification and categorization of unidentified or of unknown origin radioactive or nuclear items acts as an important link to the Polish response system to illicit trafficking and inadvertent movement of radioactive materials. Our institute is open for the community. We are proud that above 5000 visitors came to enjoy our presentations and lectures on nuclear techniques developed on the basis of nuclear research reactor MARIA during 2008. Several students from Polish and foreign universities obtained student summer training in IAE laboratories in 2008. The 2006 fusion of the Institute of Atomic Energy and the Centre of Isotope Production POLATOM has been very advantageous and resulted in the substantial increase in the number of projects, publications and other accomplishments in 2008. (author)

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Schneider, J.

This book deals with the, happy, encounter of one of the oldest well-formulated scientific questions, namely the quest for “other worlds”, with one of the most sophisticated developments in astronomical instrumentation, high contrast imaging. The quest for other worlds started indeed with the Greeks and has led, until the first scientific approach by Huygens in 1698, only to speculations by thinkers like Epicurus, Bruno, Descartes etc. A more profound question behind these other worlds is the existence of life outside the Solar System. It occupies a remarkable place in science: it is in the forefront of science and at the same time it is one of the easiest to understand by the general public and its philosophical and psychological subfoundations provides strong motivations to researchers. Until the recent times, astronomical instrumentation was powerless to detect the other planetary systems. Starting in the late '30s, the search for extrasolar planets has first begun with astrometry. After some unfortunate false alarms (e.g. the case of the Barnard star), no exoplanet could be detected until the late '80s. The first successes came from the radial velocity and the pulsar timing techniques. These discoveries by the way present an interesting case of the non-linearity of the development of science. On the one hand, what was found was a series of complete surprises. On the other hand, with the interplay of announcements, retractations, rediscoveries of planets and the ambiguities of the mass value for the planets γ Cephei b, ɛ Eridani b and HD 114762 b, it is not easy to tell what was the first planet discovered. All these discoveries, making use of the parent star's wobble, detect the planets only indirectly, they do not “see” it. The amount of informations on the planet is rather poor and the stellar wobble alone does not help for the goal behind all these efforts: the detection of extrasolar life. Here then comes the main topic of the present book: the development of high contrast imaging techniques. The high contrast is mandatory because the planets are so faint compared to their parent stars. Since they are so close to the star, they also required a sufficient angular resolution. These two areas of astronomical instruments are experiencing spectacular developments, both in the domain of interferometry and in coronagraphy. They lead to ambitious instrumental developments at the major ground-based telescopes (such as the Very Large Telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory Organization) and space mission projects such as the european Darwin project and the numerous NASA projects. Major preliminary technological efforts on subsystems and components such as adaptive optics, coronagraphic masks are necessary. The european astronomical community is very active in both the scientific and the instrumental aspects of the search for planets by imaging. Some of its members have met for one week and this volume presents an up-to-date account of this promising field of research.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Paulo J. Krischke

2005-01-01

Full Text Available The third issue of the International Interdisciplinary Journal INTERthesis covers a round-table about the Contemporary Brazil, explanation and discussion of Canadian and Brazilian University students' papers, accomplished at the Canadian Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS, in the city of Guelph (Ontario, Canada, on October 30, 2004. The president was Prof. W.E. (Ted Hewitt (University of Western Ontario, and the coordinator was Prof. Edgar Dosman (York University, having Prof. Judith Hellman (York as mediator. The round-table was organized and presented to honor Betinho (Herbert de Souza, creator of IBASE in Brazil, who was exiled in Canada between 1974 and 1978, becoming at that time highly acknowledged at the academic environment, for his capacity of leadership, organization and initiative towards the fight for social justice, for the intellectual innovation, and the practical sympathy with the Latin American peoples. Such qualities have been reconsidered today by several Brazilian and Canadian University professors and students, as necessary to rebuild and broaden the exchange, the convergence and the reflection in common, between Brazil and Canada. The reasons for this search for the mutual acknowledgement and cooperation between Brazil and Canada are many. Brazil is today very little known and studied in Canada and the same happens in Brazil concerning Canada. Whenever we hear something involving these two countries, it has to do with occasional incidents and conflicts of interests. Recently we have seen successive complaints from both countries to the World Trade Organization (WTO, mutually denouncing the state subsidies to the plane industries - Embraer, in Brazil, and Bombardier in Canada, for violation to the rules of free formation and price competition in the international market. Whatever the practical results of these arbitrages for interest might be, the Brazilian and Canadian public opinion just receives very partial information regarding the existence of competition and occasional contradictions between these two countries. However there are convergent characteristics and long-term contributions, even complementary, of both - Brazil and Canada - that have never reached the media. Among these characteristics which challenge the comparative study and the bilateral cooperation, we can highlight, in the internal aspect: the Canadian multiculturalism and the Brazilian ethnic pluralism; the importance of the civil society and of the social mobilizations in the magnification of the public sphere in both countries; the gradual integration of the migratory groups in the national society and the native peoples' rights to the defense of their cultural patrimony; the existence of vast inhabited areas and the challenges they mean to Nature preservation and the national integration. Beyond any doubt, the Parliament in Canada and the Presidentship in Brazil (among other inheritances and historical differences conditions the development of these common characteristics and challenges in each country. Therefore, this divergent institutional-juridical inheritance must also be the object of a comparative study, that enlightens its relative efficacy in the environmental, social and cultural diversity approach. But besides the convergent national challenges, there are also important Brazilian and Canadian experiences in the international scope, which are unknown to public opinion as well. Let us mention just three examples that present great similarities: 1 The contributions that both Brazil and Canada have been efficiently and constantly giving to the special forces of the UN for the maintenance and reestablishment of peace in areas of conflict all over the world; 2 Regarding the Americas, both countries, in their peculiar ways, have tried to oppose to the ambitions of the United States unilateral hegemony. In North America, Canada has been showing the virtues of the so called North Model accepted at a state of minimum welfare, contrasting with the individualization of the social problems predominant in the United States. Yet Brazil, even having pragmatically accepted the alliance with Bush's government, attempts, through Mercosur and new diplomatic cooperation, establish a constructive presence among its neighbors in South America and other emergent countries around the world; 3 There is also an influential presence of Canada in the British Community of the Nations, as well as of Brazil among the Portuguese speaking countries - in both cases, concerning the preservation and development of their political - cultural traditions. There is no doubt that there are many other national and international similar experiences worth mentioning, showing that both countries have played a most important role, having a moderating and multilateral influence in the construction of a more peaceful and pluralist world. Unfortunately, the international news does not highlight these common objectives practiced by Brazil and Canada, and by several other countries, in favor of the peace and the cooperation among the peoples of the world. This round-table about the contemporary Brazil at the CALACS Conference lines up, therefore, with a greater effort of cooperation, aiming at promoting a mutual study and knowledge of their national realities. The papers selected for presentation at CALACS, have chosen, for discussion among the Canadian University public, a few central themes of studies of the current Brazilian reality. Ted Hewitt begins presenting a report of recent studies about Brazil, performed by intellectual Canadians. The results of the studies have verified significant growth and pending challenges in the area. All the papers presented can be found in this issue of our journal; in the language they have been written and presented, followed by their abstracts. It is important to mention the importance of each study: Sérgio Costa, for instance, approaches the current changes in the ethnic mobilization in Brazil (mainly of those with Afro background, pointing out the contributions of the international studies on the theme, as well as the links that this mobilization establishes abroad. Paulo Krischke discusses the characteristics of the government social politics, emphasizing that they are not only redistributing, but they also turn to the acknowledgement of the social and cultural diversity and the political tolerance as well - hence its impact in the popular approval of the government, in spite of the pending social-economical problems. Leandro Vergara-Camus analyzes the objectives and principles that guide the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST (Landless Rural Workers' Movement, and pictures the existing tension between their objectives and the policies of the current government. Finally, Tullo Vigevani and Marcelo Fernandes de Oliveira show the attempts to change the Brazilian international politics in the last decade, concerning a more autonomous and deliberate participation, facing imminent difficulties, such as the ones occurring along the ALCA negotiations. In short, all the presentations reveal the current Brazilian reality, as a historical process in progress, dedicated to the accomplishment and development of democracy, and, as such, teeming with ambiguities, challenges and problems of difficult solutions. The examples of Canada and other democracies more fully consolidated than ours might provide profitable comparative studies and promote the strengthening of democracy in Brazil. Last, but not least, it is necessary to thank the multilateral support that allowed this round-table at CALACS to be held: the CNPq, which paid for the trip of some of the Brazilians who participated the Congress; their Universities, which released them from their classes and allowed them to travel during that week; CALACS, which paid for their stay and internal trips in Canada; The Study Center on Security and International Relations of the University of York, which provided opportunities of lodging, research and exchange with other colleagues of that University in Toronto and also sponsored all the trip of one of the Brazilian participants; all the Canadians at CALACS - participants, organizers, workers - who welcomed us, Brazilians, so warmly and cordially. We will surely never forget such hospitality and we hope we can soon meet again, this time in Brazil, so that we can also offer them a warm and cordial reception.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wieteska, K.

2006-01-01

Institute of Atomic Energy was established in 1983 on the basis of dissolved Institute for Nuclear Research. The IAE main topic is safe energy generation with particular emphasis on nuclear energy as the most environment friendly technology. This has been expanded into the realm of hazards analysis and its applications to conventional plants. The ionising radiation protection issues furnish the basis of our health physics research. The second topic of research is material science studies performed mainly with non-destructive nuclear techniques like X-rays and neutron scattering or Moessbauer spectroscopy. Institute of Atomic Energy is the operator of the multifunctional nuclear research reactor MARIA. In 2005 the reactor was successfully operated for 3850 hours with a new type of fuel elements of 36% enrichment in U-235. No radiological accidents, failures or breakdowns due to the new fuel were recorded in 2005, confirming the good quality of the new fuel. The new radiation monitoring system was completed at the reactor. One of our main goals is to provide the scientific community of Poland an easy access to source of neutrons. This involves widest possible applications of MARIA reactor in research and technology. The thermal neutrons are used in research for neutron scattering and radiography. The main applications of the MARIA in technology are radioactive isotopes production, neutron doping of silicon and minerals properties modification. 45 papers describing the results of our research were published in 2005. Some of the results were accounted for in 60 IAE Reports as the preliminary step before publication. Several new results obtained in 2005 such as temperature spikes occurring during soil imbibition, and determination of stress distribution in implanted GaAs layers should be mentioned. The recombination methods for assessment of mixed radiation doses were mastered. The numerical methods developed by Prof. Z. Woznicki found recognition with the award for the best paper at the IPSI-2005 conference. The studies on models and software tools for emergency management were carried out within the EU Framework projects by the Centre of Excellence Management of Health and Environmental Hazards MANHAZ. The experience of the Material Research Laboratory in radioactive materials analysis was employed in Materials Testing Centre formed within the consortium of the IAE and the Radioactive Waste Management Plant for quick identification and categorisation of the unidentified or of unknown origin radioactive or nuclear items. The Materials Test Centre has been one link of Polish system for the response to illicit trafficking and inadvertent movement of radioactive materials. After Polish Government decision on the use of nuclear power for electricity generation the Institute, in cooperation with few universities, began preparation for training students in the nuclear safety and radiation protection. In this endeavour we found the European Union assistance in the form of Transition Facility. Our institute is open for the community. We are proud that about 4,000 visitors took part during 2005 in our presentations and lectures on nuclear techniques developed on the basis of nuclear research reactor MARIA. The 50th anniversary of the establishing the National Nuclear Centre at Swierk as the Institute of Nuclear Research was celebrated officially on May 2005 and acknowledged by Polish President and State Ministry of Science and Polish Academy of Sciences. The Institute of Atomic Energy celebrated the event with special medal issued on this occasion and meetings, including the emeritus employees meeting

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Aime, C.; Soummer, R.

This book reports the proceedings of the second Journées d'Imagerie grave{a} Très Haute Dynamique et Détection d'Exoplanètes (Days on High Contrast Imaging and Exoplanets Detection) that were held in Nice in October, 6-10, 2003 with the joint efforts of the Collège de France, the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and the Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice which organized the meeting. The first Journées led to the publication of Volume 8, 2003 EAS Publications Series: Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging: From Planetary Systems to Active Galactic Nuclei that collected 33 papers presented during the session of May, 13-16, 2002. It covered a very large domain of research in high contrast imaging for exoplanet detection: astrophysical science (from protoplanetary disks to AGNs), instruments and techniques (from coronagraphy to nulling), data processing. These Journées took place because of the need of a working session giving enough time to the participants to explain their work and understand that of their colleagues. The second Journées took the form of an École thématique du CNRS. The courses were held in French, but the reports are in English. The present edition reports 29 courses and short presentations given at this occasion. The texts correspond to original presentations, and a few communications, too similar to those of 2002, were not reported here to avoid duplication. This makes the two books complementary. The general theme of the school was similar to that of the former meeting, with a marked teaching objective. The courses and presentations were also more centered in optics and instrumental techniques. The main idea was to study what we could call “exoplanetographs”, instruments using apodisation, coronagraphy, nulling or other techniques to directly record the light of an exoplanet. Fundamental aspects of signal processing were deferred to a third edition of the school. A very short explanation of how the reports are ordered is given here. The Journées of 2003 started with the delocalized lectures (delocalized means here “not in Paris”!) of the Collège de France, of Antoine Labeyrie who wrote a report on Removal of coronagraphy residues with an adaptive hologram. Three invited seminars follow: Olivier Guyon (Pupil remapping techniques), Daniel Rouan (Ultra-nulling interferometers), and Kjetil Dohlen (Phase masks in astronomy). An illustration from Daniel Rouan's talk on the properties of Prouhet-Thué-Morse series was also selected for the cover figure of this edition. These papers are followed by the courses and communications given during the 4 days of the school, in a slightly different order of their presentation. The first two days were on atmospheric turbulence and adaptive optics for coronagraphy, and also coronagraphic space projects. Steve Ridgway gives a general introduction to the problem (Astronomy with high contrast imaging). This is followed by a presentation on Fourier and Statistical Optics: Shaped and Apodized apertures (Claude Aime), The effect of a coronagraph on the statistics of adaptive optics pinned speckles (Claude Aime and Rémi Soummer). A general introduction to the problem of atmospheric turbulence is made by Julien Borgnino. A presentation of the Concordia site with emphasis on its advantages for high contrast imaging is given by Eric Fossat. Several presentations relative to numerical simulations of Adaptive Optics and coronagraphy follow: Marcel Carbillet (AO for very high contrast imaging), Lyu Abe and Anthony Boccaletti share two presentations on Numerical simulations for coronagraphy. These presentations are followed by reports on experiments: Sandrine Thomas (SAM-the SOAR adaptive module), Pierre Baudoz (Cryogenic IR test of the 4QPM coronagraph), Anthony Boccaletti (Coronagraphy with JWST in the thermal IR). Pierre Bourget (Hg-Mask Coronagraph) ends this part with a coronagraph using a mercury drop as a Lyot mask. The next session focused on nulling interferometry and we gather here the corresponding contribution. Two complementary reports on theory and experiment of Bracewell interferometry were made by Yves Rabbia (Theoretical aspects of Darwin) and Marc Ollivier (Experimental aspects of Darwin). Olivier Absil gave a report on the ground based nulling interferometer experiment (Effects of atmospheric turbulence on GENIE) and Valérie Weber on MAII (Nulling interferometric broadbord). A comparison between nulling and different classes of coronagraphs was made by Olivier Guyon (Coronagraphy vs. nulling). A few prospective papers have been regrouped at the end of the book: Interferometric remapped array nulling (Lyu Abe), Multiple-stage apodized Lyot coronagraph (Claude Aime and Rémi Soummer), Piston sensor using dispersed speckles (Virginie Borkowski), Principle of a coaxial achromatic interfero coronagraph (Jean Gay), Coronagraphic imaging on the VLTI with VIDA (Olivier Lardière), Phase contrast apodisation (Frantz Martinache) The last section regroups science aspects and results on sky, using high contrast imaging: Low mass companions searches using high dynamic range imaging (Jean-Luc Beuzit). The last paper by Claire Moutou (Ground-based direct imaging of exoplanets) can be read as a prospective conclusion of the Journées. C. Aime and R. Soummer

Foreword

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Rix, Robert William

2018-01-01

Augustus Tulk. Subsequent chapters go on to explore Wilkinson’s early role in publishing the poetry of William Blake; his dealings with Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson; his lifelong friendship with Henry James, Sr; his association with Daniel Dunglas Home, Thomas Lake Harris and Andrew Jackson Davis......; his homoeopathic practice and its influence on James Tyler Kent; and his engagement with such causes as utopian socialism, environmentalism, women’s suffrage, antivivisectionism and the deregulation of medicine. The book concludes with a broader study of Wilkinson’s interest in mythology, psychology......Malcolm Peet’s Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture explores the life and cultural milieu of the nineteenth-century Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), whose largely forgotten influence touched a diverse range...

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Boutron, Claude; Ferrari, Christophe

2003-05-01

It is our pleasure to host the “12th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment” in the city of Grenoble (France), in the heart of the Alps. This is the latest in this successful and popular series of conferences, which previously took place in Toronto (1975), London (1979), Amsterdam (1981), Heidelberg (1983), Athens (1985), New Orleans (1987), Geneva (1989), Edinburgh (1991), Hamburg (1995) and Ann Arbor (2000). Grenoble is one of the major research centres in Europe, with a very large number of researchers in various fields, especially Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Biology and Medicine, and Earth and Universe Sciences. There are two internationally recognized scientific Universities: Université Joseph Fourier (UJF), and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). There are also the main research laboratories of various French and European governmental organizations such as Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique (CEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimètrique (IRAM). Finally, there are various hi-tech companies such as Hewlett Packard, ST Microelectronics, Schneider Electric and SGS-Thomson. There is a long tradition of research in the field of heavy metals in the environment, especially at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement and at the Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique. These two volumes contain papers presented both in oral and poster sessions. The papers are not organised in order of presentation, but according to the alphabetical order of the family name of the first author of each paper. It is our pleasure to thank the authors for the excellent level of their submissions. We are also particularly grateful to Isabelle Houlbert and Laurence Castagné for editorial assistance. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the organising committee and Jerome Nriagu (chairman of the 11th Conference) for helping us to put together the program of this conference. Also, very special thanks are due to Christine Echevet for her continuous and expert efforts to make the Grenoble Conference a success, and to various members of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, especially Jocelyne Roquemora. Special thanks are also due to the President of Grenoble Alpes Métropole and the Mayor of the City of Grenoble. Finally, we are very grateful to the various co-sponsors of the conference, especially the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, the Ministère de l'Écologie et du Développement Durable, the Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie (ADEME), Grenoble Alpes Métropole (La Métro), the City of Grenoble, the Region Rhône-Alpes, the Conseil Général de l'Isère, the Association Minéraux, Métaux non ferreux, Santé, Environnement (AMSE), the University of Michigan and the Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF). Claude BOUTRON and Christophe FERRARI - Conference Co-Chairmen 12th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Grenoble, France, 26-30 May 2003 Préface C'est un grand plaisir pour nous d'accueillir la “12e Conférence Internationale sur les Métaux Lourds dans l'Environnement en France Grenoble, au coeur des Alpes. Cette conférence est la 12e du nom, après celles qui ont eu lieu avec beaucoup de succès à Toronto (1975), Londres (1979), Amsterdam (1981), Heidelberg (1983), Athènes (1985), La Nouvelle Orléans (1987), Genève (1989), Edimbourg (1991), Hambourg (1995) et Ann Arbor (2000). Grenoble est l'une des principales ville d'Europe pour la recherche scientifique avec un très grand nombre de chercheurs dans des domaines trés variés, notamment en Physique et Chimie, Mathématiques et Informatique, Biologie et Médecine, et Sciences de la Terre et de l'Univers. Il y a deux grandes Universités Scientifiques de renommée internationale: l'Université Joseph Fourier (UJF) et l'Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Il y a aussi d'importants laboratoires de différents organismes publics français et européen comme le Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), l'Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), l'European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) et l'Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimètrique (IRAM). C'est aussi le lieu d'implantation de nombreuses sociétés de haute technologie comme Hewlett Packard, ST Microelectronics, Schneider Electric and SGS-Thomson. Il a à Grenoble une longue tradition de recherches dans le domaine des métaux lourds dans l'environnement, notamment au Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement et au Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique. Ces deux volumes regroupent les articles issus de communication présentées aussi bien au cours des sessions orales que des sessions posters. Ces articles sont classés selon l'ordre alphabétique du nom de famille du premier auteur. Nous remercions vivement les auteurs pour l'excellente qualité de ces articles. Nous remercions aussi tout particulièrement Isabelle Houlbert et Laurence Castagné pour leur collaboration. Nous aimerions aussi remercier les membres du comité d'organisation ainsi que Jerome Nriagu (organisateur de la 11e conférence) pour l'aide apportée à l'organisation de cette conférence. Nous remercions aussi tout spécialement Christine Echevet qui n'a pas ménagé ses efforts pour faire de cette conférence un succés, ainsi que de nombreux collègues du Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, en particulier Jocelyne Roquemora. Nous tenons également à remercier le Président de Grenoble Alpes Métropole et le Maire de la Ville de Grenoble pour leur soutien. Cette conférence n'aurait pas pu avoir lieu sans le soutien financier de nombreux organismes: le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), l'Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, le Ministère de l'Écologie et du Développement Durable, l'Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie (ADEME), Grenoble Alpes Métropole (La Métro), la Ville de Grenoble, La Région Rhône-Alpes, le Conseil Général de l'Isère, l'Association Minéraux, Métaux non ferreux, Santé, Environnement (AIMSE), l'Université du Michigan et la Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF). Claude BOUTRON et Christophe FERRARI Co-organisateurs de la 12e Conférence Internationale sur les Métaux Lourds dans l'Environement, Grenoble, France, 26-30 Mai 2003

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Alan Burns

2014-06-01

Full Text Available I would like to welcome all readers to the first issue of this new not-for-profit open access journal: the Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems (LITES. Unless you have come across this journal by accident then you will already understand the key role that embedded systems have in modern life. One can hardly think of a single human activity that is not underpinned by such systems; transport, entertainment, supply lines for supermarkets, health care and drug production, energy production and transmission, robotic manufacturing, control systems and communication media of all kinds are now dependent on the fusion of embedded hardware and software. For researchers in this domain this provides great opportunities but also responsibilities. We need to make sure that society can justifiable rely on technology that is increasing beyond the understanding of most ordinary people. Computer-based technologies have been described as modern magic; it follows that we are therefore magicians. But the spells we cast must be based on sound principles, solid theory and demonstrable performance.One of the influences that embedded and other IT technology has had in the last decade is in publishing itself. Online services are now the norm. And early and open access to publicly funded research is now rightly demanded by Government bodies and related funding councils. This new journal has been created to meet this challenge. All papers are open access, with copyright being retained by the authors. Moreover, only a small fee is charged to authors due to low operational overheads and the support of Google and the Klaus Tschira Stiftung. But the lack of a physical page limit in an online-only journal does not mean that quality is undermined. All papers are thoroughly reviewed, with only the best work, in terms of originality and rigour, being accepted. Our aim is to evolve an excellent and effective venue for publish scholarly articles. To help achieve this aim LITES benefits greatly from having the name and reputation of Schloss Dagstuhl behind it.The volume of research material produced world-wide relating to embedded systems has lead to the spawning of many conferences and workshops, special issues and focused publications. In LITES we intend to cater for the broadest collection of relevant topics. We currently have subject editors to cover: the design, implementation, verification, and testing of embedded hardware and software systems; the theoretical foundations; single-core, multi-processor and networked architectures and their energy consumption and predictability properties; reliability and fault tolerance; security properties; applications in the avionics, automotive, telecommunication, medical and production domains; cyber-physical systems; high performance and real-time embedded systems; and hybrid systems. This is an impressive list, but it is not exhaustive. New areas will emerge and new editors will be appointed.LITES obtains its governance from EDAA (European Design and Automation Association and EMSIG (Embedded Systems Special Interest Group as a joint endeavour with Schloss Dagstuhl. EDAA/EMSIG appoint the Editor-in-Chief (EiC and the subject area editors. The terms for editors is four years, renewable once. All editorial work is done voluntarily.The first few issues of the journal will contain standard papers that have been through the review process. Later, comments on previously published papers will be allowed and commentaries included that will help the reader trace forward the influence of each paper. Comments will be reviewed; commentaries will just need to be passed by the EiC. I hope that as a reader you will find the papers in this journal of interest and often inspirational. As a researcher I hope you will consider it as a worthy place to entrust your work. All the editorial team will work towards building up the reputation of the journal. I hope the community at large will be part of that journey.I am proud to be the founding EiC of this journal, but I promise not to include editorials in future issues. The papers are quite capable of introducing themselves.Alan Burns

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Joanny MOULIN

2006-06-01

Full Text Available Orlando looking at Jaque's reverberated image: “Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.” ( As You Like It III.ii 279Melancholia posits the intersection of the biological and the symbolic, ambivalently motivating and undermining the imaginary (viz. for example, Kristeva's “On the melancholic imaginary”. That reverberates across history in assessments of loss, mourning and absence. “Acedia,” the radical melancholy of the Egyptian monks of early Christianity, the “noontime demon” of slot...

Foreword

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Sørensen, Bent; Thellefsen, Torkild Leo

2017-01-01

Hitherto, there has been no book that attempted to sum up the breadth of Umberto Eco's work and it importance for the study of semiotics, communication and cognition. There have been anthologies and overviews of Eco's work within Eco Studies; sometimes, works in semiotics have used aspects of Eco......'s work. Yet, thus far, there has been no overview of the work of Eco in the breadth of semiotics. This volume is a contribution to both semiotics and Eco studies. The 40 scholars who participate in the volume come from a variety of disciplines but have all chosen to work with a favorite quotation from...... Eco that they find particularly illustrative of the issues that his work raises. Some of the scholars have worked exegetically placing the quotation within a tradition, others have determined the (epistemic) value of the quotation and offered a critique, while still others have seen the quotation...

Foreword

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Thellefsen, Torkild Leo; Søresen, Bent

This volume contributes to the advancement of the understanding of Umberto Eco's (1932-2016) excellent work on semiotics, communication and cognition. Forty Eco-scholars from 12 contries located on 3 continents bring together insights across the wide range of Eco's writings, as well...... as the contemporary trends in his interpretation, including innovative applications of Eco's semiotic models...

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Prakash

An equally important purpose that we had in mind was to expose talented ... This special issue of Journal of Biosciences contains articles based on most of the presentations made at ... Basic Sciences Building, New York Medical College,.

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Lawler, James E.; Wahlgren, Glenn M.; Wiese, Wolfgang L.

2005-01-01

These proceedings include the invited papers plus a few contributed papers from the Eighth International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS 8). The meeting was held from 8 to 12 August 2004 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ASOS meetings bring together basic and applied atomic spectroscopists, including some astronomers, from across the globe. The triennial ASOS meetings provide important opportunities for interaction between "consumers" and "producers" in the field of atomic spectroscopy. With new orbiting facilities extending astronomical observations into the infrared, extreme UV, and x-ray regions, and with new greatly improved ground-based telescopes, there is widespread recognition that we are living in a "Golden Age" of astronomy. The increasing availability of very large aperture, ground-based telescopes has made it possible to record high spectral resolution data with a high signal-to-noise ratio on a rapidly growing number of stars in the disk and halo of our Galaxy. Recent progress in x-ray astronomy, some of which is described in these proceedings, has been breathtaking. High red-shift studies using both large ground-based and orbiting observatories are changing our understanding of the Universe. Profound questions about the origins of the chemical elements, about stellar evolution, and about the origins and fate of the Universe are being addressed today. Atomic spectroscopy has a central role in many of these astrophysical explorations. Atomic spectroscopy of laboratory plasmas continues to be important in plasma R&D efforts to meet urgent needs of our society and all of humanity. This is particularly true of plasma R&D in lighting science and in the area of thermonuclear fusion research. The energy and environmental problems that we are now discussing will be much more serious in a very few decades. The impact of atomic spectroscopy in energy conservation is illustrated by work on Metal Halide High Intensity Discharge (MH-HID) lamps as discussed in these proceedings. MH-HID lamps have the potential to reduce energy consumption for roadway and other outdoor lighting by a factor of 2 to 3 using current technology. It is now widely realized that the extra "red" lumens provided by High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lamps over old fashioned "blue" mercury HID lamps are not useful in reducing the reaction time of drivers with dark adapted eyes. Indeed, we could replace existing HPS lighting in North America with half as many Watts of MH-HID lighting and achieve the same safety levels for drivers. The improved color rendering provided by MH-HID lamps has additional security advantages in many applications. Atomic spectroscopy continues to play a key role in diagnosing fusion research plasmas as described in these proceedings. A few decades ago heavy refractory elements, especially tungsten, were leading candidates for use in fusion research devices. Tungsten and other heavy elements fell out of favor because line radiation from partially stripped tungsten ions represented a serious power loss from the plasma core. New reactor design concepts involving limiters and divertors have renewed interest in the use of tungsten in fusion machines, and have restored interest in heavy element spectroscopy from the fusion community. The ASOS 8 meeting had 63 registered participants. The relatively small size of the conference provided enhanced opportunities for interactions and discussions, but eventually the small number of students entering our field will adversely impact astronomy and other fields. The talks and poster sessions were held at the Pyle Center on the shore of Lake Mendota in the heart of the UW campus. A special session was held to honor Professor Charles R (Chuck) Cowley of the University of Michigan and to recognize his many contributions to stellar spectroscopy. The conference excursion included a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural school, Taliesin, followed by dinner at a historic restaurant and a Shakespeare play at the American Players (outdoor) Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. We thank: Dr Elizabeth A (Betsy) Den Hartog for her outstanding efforts on local arrangements, the staff of the Pyle (conference) Center for their excellent service, the International Organizing Committee for suggesting invited speakers, NASA for providing travel support to encourage the participation in ASOS 8 of international and domestic graduate students, and the US Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, for providing partial support for the publication of these proceedings.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Rafael Raffaelli

2004-01-01

Full Text Available In this second issue of the Interthesis Interdisciplinary Journal, we bring you unpublished articles, reviews and even one translation. The article by Gilberto Montibeller leads to a reflection on how the international commercial relationships can generate an ecologically unsustainable situation concerning an environmental social space, presenting the coal region of the state of Santa Catarina as an example. Javier Echeverría discusses critically the progress and the economic development issues, emphasizing the importance of ethics in the analysis of the social and human cost in economy. The contribution of Paulo Krischke raises questions on the current political culture of the Brazilian youth and its likely future changes, based on the data examination of a nationwide research performed by "survey". Daniel Widlöcher makes a cognitive verification of the psychoanalytical silence, taking into account the neuropsychology of the aphasia and the communication ways present in the clinical work of Psychoanalysis, employing for that the theoretical frames of the communication pragmatics. The article by Rodrigo Duarte has, as its starting point, the discovery of an incongruity in the date of construction of a chapel in the state of Minas Gerais, and reflects upon the influence of the culture industry over the countryside Brazilian architecture, characterized by the "kitsch" element. In addition to the articles described above, we still count on five reviews of recently published books, written up by Leandro Oltramari, Carlos Serbena, Cláudia Silveira, Silmara Cimbalista and Clóvis Dorigon. Finally, we present a translation into Portuguese by Selvino Assmann, from an Italian text by Umberto Galimberti, still unpublished in Brazil. We would like to let you know that, from now on, we will be publishing articles only in Portuguese, Spanish and English. We have a great expectancy that the themes presented in the material published here generate reflection and disseminate knowledge. Thank you very much for your interest in our publications and we do hope you can profit from reading them, and can have a good time as well. We will be back in August, 2005! Rafael Raffaelli Editor

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Nina GOLOB

2016-06-01

Finally, Pankaj DWIVEDI and Somdev KAR contributed a survey article on a Hindi dialect called Kanauji. The article exposes problems researchers have to deal with on the field when monitoring and documenting spoken language of a certain area, and fitting the findings into concepts such as a language and a dialect. 

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2001-01-01

Full text: Institutes, which are not intimately coupled to higher education, can crudely be divided into two groups: those which concentrate on the fundamental research in a particular discipline of science and those involved in the R and D phase, associated with a particular field of application. A balanced mix of the two is rare, so rare in fact, that if such an unorthodox organization is set, it has hard time in adapting to the rules of financing. The same difficulty applies to cross-disciplinary hybrids. And all that in spite of the lip service of various decision-taking bodies that it is the cross-disciplinary harmonious transfer of ideas-to-research-to-development-to production which is the ultimate objective of their policies. Our institute has the mixed fortune of being such a mix of basic research, of multidisciplinary research and development and even of production of some end products. We take pride in doing so in a relatively harmonious way on a satisfactory level. But we also take heavy beating because we do not fit to the schematic rules of financing. Yet we are convinced that this way of doing research in non-educational scientific institutions is right, that in the long run it is the most efficient one and that if the rules limit this efficiency, it is the rules which ought to be changed. However up-hill struggle that is !. The Readers of this Report are invited to take a look at this mixture of ours. They can begin with e.g. the account of the work concerning testing the Standard Model, searching for the Higgs boson or for the supersymmetric particles - the front line in the elementary particle physics of the day. Or with the preparations for the presumable front line of to-morrow the new projects at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The technology pull that these projects exert is difficult to measure and likewise difficult to overestimate. Leaving the accelerator-produced particles and going to still higher energies, we learn about the cosmic rays in the ''knee region'' (10 15 - 10 17 ) eV from the cosmic showers (the KASCADE collaboration) or inquire the Nature about the possible correlation of some cosmic radiation with the solar activity. One front-line in the low energy nuclear physics nowadays is the quest for the heaviest nuclear species - one of the specialities of our theory group. This group is known for its close contacts with experimentalists around the world. Recently, they highlighted these contacts by suggesting a new method to improve the mass determination for heavy nuclides from the Schottky noise signals in a storage ring. We move on to the plasma physics. The physics of the fourth state of matter, dominating in the Universe, the physics of non-linear phenomena, the physics of the XXI century. The physics closely linked to nuclear sciences and yet distinctly different. The physics which has numerous technological spin-offs, be it because of the experimental techniques it develops or of the phenomena it discovers. It is good to see that we are strongly entrenched in this field and have justified appetites for more. We focus now on the materials science done with nuclear techniques. We are pleased to note that our implantation techniques develop well and are now applied to e.g. hardening the steel edges. And we brag a bit about our latest work on the new crystallographic forms of uranium compounds after having done experiments we now propose explanations. The experimental physicist needs detectors. Ever better, bigger, more sophisticated. We have a strong group pursuing this improvement task, especially with respect to the scintillators. It was rewarding to learn that the international community has appreciated this effort. The appreciation came from the IEEE/Nuclear and Plasma Science Society with the award of their prestigious prize ''to Marek Moszynski for outstanding contributions to the modern scintillation detector and its application in physics experiment, nuclear medicine and other fields of use''. Almost any development in experimental techniques of nuclear physics results very quickly in new techniques in medicine, in the diagnostics as well as in therapy. Our miniature X-ray tube for brachytherapy, nick-named ''the photon needle'', gained a nomination for the prestigious ''Polish product of the future'' award. We hope that it will soon become a useful tool in the hands of physicians. The traditional line of our medical applications is the development and production of linear electron accelerators for tumor therapy. Our 10 MeV ''Neptun'' accelerator has got a significant face-lifting this year and the construction of a new 6-to-15 MeV machine is well advanced. We hope this will meet the needs of our customers in Poland and abroad. Last but not least I'd like to mention the quickly increasing flow of people passing the premises of our Training Department. The number of school students visiting us last year reached unprecedented level of 2500, there were also courses and trainings for various professionals. We consider this activity as an additional but important way of paying back ''the tax-payer'' for the support we are getting and also as our contribution to fight ''the anti-nuclear fobia''. (author)

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Zhuk, A. I.; Ryabov, M. I.

This issue includes articles based on some plenary reports made during the 5th International Gamow Conference and the 15th Gamow conference-school. The Conference was devoted to a number of remarkable events:the 111 year Jubilee of George Gamow, one of the great physicists and cosmologists of the 20th century; the 150th anniversary of the Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University and the Department of Astronomy; the 100th and 110th anniversaries of the Einstein's general and special relativity; the 50th anniversary of the discovery of cosmic microwave background (CMB) predicted by Gamow. The number 111 (three units!) represents the three major fundamental Gamow's achievements: alpha decay, the hot model of the universe and the prediction of CMB and deciphering of the genetic code. With 120 experts from 13 countries (Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, France, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Belarus, USA) delivering 20 plenary talks, 113 contributed talks and 21 posters, both the Conference and the School were very successful. The main topics of the Conference were astrophysics, cosmology, gravity, high energy physics, radioastronomy, solar activity, solar system and astrobiology. Organizing Institutions: Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (Astronomical Observatory and Astronomy Department), Radio-Astronomical Institute of the NAS of Ukraine, Odessa Astronomical Society. The conference was held with the support of Ukrainian Astronomical Association, Euroasian Astronomical Society, Department of Physics and Astronomy of the NAS of Ukraine, South Scientific Center of the NAS of Ukraine.

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wrochna, G.

2008-01-01

Full text: The year 2007 brought a further increase in our scientific output. The number of publications has grown by 10%, exceeding 300. This expands the systematic growth observed over the last 7 years. It is worth noting that this increase was obtained with a constant number of 140 scientists. Among those who contributed not only to the number but also to the value of the papers were two researchers who deserved a prize of '' IPJ achievement of 2007 ''. Prof. Wilczynski published several articles explaining the mechanisms of nuclear collisions at low and medium energies [Contrib. 2.3, 2.4]. Dr. Spalinski wrote a series of papers developing theories of cosmic inflation as a consequence of D-brane dynamics of string theory [p. 155]. Apart from these theories, the group led by Dr. Barlak found an important practical application of plasma discharges [Contrib. 9.2]. They developed a technique to prepare the surface of carbon and silicone carbide for firm adhesion to copper. On the experimental side, 2007 was the last but one year of preparation for the startup of the LHC accelerator. The Department of High Energy Physics created a GRID-based infrastructure for analysis of data from LHC experiments [Contrib. 6.6]. Last year also brought new achievements in education and outreach. We organized courses for teachers introducing nuclear energy and particle physics. Lecturers from the International Atomic Energy Agency and CERN, as well as visits of teachers to CERN made those courses especially attractive. The '' Scientific Picnic '' in Warsaw and science festivals in other cities gave occasion to explain advanced science with simple words and demonstrations. The '' Physics Playground '' for children organised by Drs Pawlowski and Rozynek was invited to South Korea [p. 22]. All these activities were appreciated by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and honored by the award of '' Science popularizer of the year ''. Effort was invested in the preparation of new initiatives. We have been involved in several scientific networks and consortia, some of them even initiated and led by us [p. 19]. An important example is the Polish Nuclear Technology Platform grouping science and industry. Practical applications of nuclear technologies are the goal of the IPJ project '' Development of accelerator and detector systems for medicine and security '' which was accepted as one of the key projects in the '' Innovative Economy '' European program. The most ambitious idea developed by IPJ in 2007 is the plan to build a Polish version of the Free-Electron Laser (POLFEL) at Swierk. The project is already affiliated to the '' IRUVX FEL Network '' - pan-European distributed infrastructure recommended by the European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). POLFEFL - a 400 m long device - may become the largest and the most modern scientific facility in our region. A decision on funding from European structural funds is expected in 2008. POLFEL, together with other research facilities in Swierk, may attract high-tech industry to collaborate with scientists on developing novel technologies. In order to facilitate technology transfer a Science and Technology Park is planned at Swierk. This idea is supported by the local authorities and we hope it will realized with structural funds of the Mazovia region. 2007 was a year of developing new ambitious projects. Next year will show us if these plans will be realized. (author)

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

understanding, analysis, modelling, design, fabrication, manipulation, optimization ... problems of energy, water, environment, health, ... focusing on protein and nucleic acid diagnostics. Easy to use ... rials, designer materials, meta-materials, advanced materials ... there are 'low-hanging fruits', in general this prob- lem class ...

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wrochna, G.

2007-01-01

Last year was a year of solid good work. The number of publications has grown again, as shown in the graph below. With 276 papers in 2006 produced by 134 scientists, we crossed the point of 2 papers per scientist. This might be easy to achieve in a small, exclusive institute, but in the case of a large national laboratory it requires maintaining a high level in all its departments. Our scientific achievement over the last few years was appreciated by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education awarding IPJ the first category among physics institutes. This report briefly describes all scientific activities of IPJ in 2006. One of the most interesting results is the first observation of spectral lines in a pure tungsten plasma using a RPI-IBIS device at Swierk contrib. 5.8. Another important achievement is solving the puzzle of U 4 O 9 crystal structure contrib. 1.11. Most work, however, concentrated on long term projects which are expected to bring important results in the future. The first to come will be the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Our Institute participates in three experiments: CMS, LHCb and ALICE. Almost 18 years designing, prototyping and constructing of the muon trigger for the CMS in collaboration with Warsaw University and Warsaw University of Technology began to pay off. A cosmic ray test of the full chain of the apparatus has proved that the device can work correctly and will soon be ready to trigger the first interesting events in the LHC. In 2006 we joined T2K - the world-largest neutrino experiment, to be built in Japan. Nuclear physics in the next decade will concentrate on a number of experiments to be built at the FAIR facility at GSI in Darmstadt. Another great international lab - DESY in Hamburg - plans an X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). The Institute coordinates an XFEL-Poland consortium and will contribute to the construction of the XFEL accelerator. Research in plasma physics has the goal of building a thermonuclear reactor, ITER in Cadarache (France). One step on this way is the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, under construction in Greifswald. Our Institute will contribute to the construction of the Neutral Beam Injection plasma heating system. Structural funds of EU for Poland in 2007-2013 also offer an opportunity to build large infrastructures for science and its applications in our country. We actively participate in three large consortia: '' National Center for Hadron Therapy '', '' High Temperature Reactor in Poland '' and '' Sieroszowice Underground Laboratory SUNlab ''. Our institute also leads several national scientific networks: '' Polish Astroparticle Physics Network '', '' Polish Neutrino Physics Network '' and others. New challenges require larger '' critical mass '' and close collaboration of several institutes. For this reason the '' Atomic Center CeAt '' has been created - a consortium of IPJ, Institute of Atomic Energy, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microsynthesis, led by our Institute. The plans mentioned above are often addressed to the next generation of physicists. Today, they are still in school and we perform many activities to attract them to physics and science in general. This effort has been appreciated by nominating us to the '' Educator of the year '' award. Last year also marks a beginning of reforms in Polish science. In this context we are often asked if IPJ is a '' pure science '' or '' applied science '' institute. In my opinion such a division would be somewhat artificial. '' There can be no applied science unless there is science to apply '' . On the other hand, any '' pure science '' research will sooner or later pay off in everyday live. A good example is furnished by medical accelerators produced by our Department of Nuclear Equipment. Experience in scientific experiments made our Institute one of the five producers of such apparatus in the world. In 2006 we obtained a CE certificate for Coline accelerators for cancer therapy. A dark shadow upon our successes in 2006 was the death of our Director, Professor Ziemowid Sujkowski. We lost a distinguished scientist, solicitous preceptor of students, our colleague and friend. He led the institute over a very difficult period. In spite of severe budget cuts and required personnel reduction, he managed to save the Institute without serious damage with a still growing scientific output measured e.g. in the number of publications. Now, it seems that science in Poland has new, bright perspectives. I am sure that we will catch the wind in our sails and we will be facing a wonderful time of exciting scientific adventures. (author)

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Rafael Raffaelli

2004-01-01

Full Text Available It is with immense satisfaction that we introduce the opening issue of the INTERthesis Interdisciplinary International Journal, created with the aim of encouraging and contributing to the interdisciplinary discussion. In this first issue, we have included five articles which have an extremely wide-ranging subject matter .The article by Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves argues the geopolitical question implied in the purported dichotomy between hunger and environment, analyzing the environmental - social consequences of the use of an agrarian and agricultural pattern incompatible with the populations' needs throughout several regions of the world, thus generating a contradiction between the increase of food production and the concomitant increase of hunger. Javier Bustamante Donas analyzes the educational parameters, which are essential for the conversion of the society of information into a society of knowledge, pondering that the lack of reflection upon the human dimensions of technology causes disarray that threatens its purposes of greatest reach. Marika Moisseeff examines the conjugal relationship and the autonomy, focusing the couple as an initiative experience, which is settled by the development of intimacy along their connubial life, taking into account the differentiation between the spouses and the learning of respect for each one's space. Paulo Henrique Battaglin Machado evaluates the impact of public policies on the society, by means of a methodology of life quality rates assessment, considering intraurban differentials, and analyzes the inequalities and inequities among regions in Curitiba, confronting the urban model and the city image. Finally, Salvador Giner highlights the importance of sociology in the study of the human condition, emphasizing its multidimensional characteristic and the need of a moral competence that searches the union between the rational intention and the human freedom evinced in the utopia. We hope these articles can expand the discussion of these relevant subject matters and that their reading can be very profitable for researchers of the several areas of knowledge. See you in our next edition, in December of the current year! Rafael Raffaelli - Editor

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Wrochna, G.

2009-01-01

Full text: In 2008 IPJ strengthened its position in basic research and opened a new chapter in applied studies. Scientific output exceeded 250 publications, including 232 in reviewed international journals from the ISI Master Journal List. The Hirsch index, taking into account the number of citations in the years 2000-2008, reached about 40, which gives us the seventh place among Polish research units, after two institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Institute of Nuclear Physics and Institute of Physics, Faculties of Physics and Chemistry of Warsaw and Jagiellonian Universities and Warsaw Medical University. The H-index cannot be used as the only measure of the quality of scientific output, as it depends on the size of the institute. However, it gives a good feeling of the '' scientific strength ''. This output has been created by a staff of 405 people, including 130 researchers. Our most spectacular achievement in 2008 was the early optical observation of a gamma-ray burst GRB080319B. The detector '' Pi of the Sky '' built in collaboration with several other institutes from Warsaw recorded a '' movie '' of the phenomenon which probably leads to the creation of a black hole. It was the most powerful cosmic explosion ever registered, as it occurred 7 bln light years from the Earth and could be seen by the naked eye. Combining the data with gamma ray measurements by the '' Swift '' satellite gave a new insight into the mechanism of GRBs, as presented in a paper published in '' Nature ''. Two other important results were obtained in nuclear physics. In both cases our theorists explained phenomena observed by experimental groups with IPJ participation. A group in GSI Darmstadt measured electron capture dependence on ionization. Prof. Zygmunt Patyk noticed that the results can be explained by invoking angular momentum conservation. A group in GANIL Caen studied neutron halo structure in 6 He by neutron transfer reactions in the 6 He + 65 Cu system. Dr. Nicholas Keeley provided an interpretation of the data. IPJ also participated in the most important scientific event of 2008, the startup of the LHC accelerator at CERN. Unfortunately, the breakdown of the machine ruled out the possibility of obtaining interesting results. However, the event as such attracted a lot of attention and gave us a chance to present the beauty and importance of elementary particle physics to a wide audience. Active participation in the top-tech endeavor of the LHC remains in high contrast with the day-today problems caused by the old technical infrastructure of the nuclear center in Swierk. The lack of adequate funding makes an upgrade impossible. Power and water supply suffer from frequent breakdowns and only the strong motivation and high qualifications of the technical staff keeps the center in regular operation. Hope for change comes with EU funds available for Poland in 2007-2013. Indeed, we have already obtained the first success. The project '' Development of accelerator and detector systems for medicine and security '' has 79 mln PLN (∼18 mln EUR) for 5 years which doubles the budget of the institute. It brings a breakthrough in the applied studies conducted by IPJ, but also in the way the institute is managed. Introducing project-driven management is the challenge for 2009. It should result in a boost towards modern and dynamic ways of doing science. This should be followed by new projects funded from EU programs, including the most ambitious one, which is the free electron laser POLFEL. As a part of a distributed infrastructure EuroFEL it stands for the key element of the European scientific roadmap recommended by the ESFRI committee. In the case of positive decision on funding, the 400 m long accelerator producing 0.2 GW pulses of UV light will be the largest and the most modern research infrastructure in the new Europe. A powerful tool for physicists, chemists, biologists, medical researchers and materials engineers, it should bring scientific research in Poland to a new level. The year 2009 will tell us if this opportunity will be won or wasted. (author)

Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sujkowski, Z.

2000-01-01

Full text: There is a very strong emphasis placed recently by our funding Agency, the State Committee for Scientific Research, KBN, on the number of publications each scientific institution produces. It really becomes ''publish or perish''. Sometimes the quality of publications goes down the drain as a result of this race, but on the whole the effort to quantify the scientific output and to relate the funding with the result of this quantification is laudable. It is our task then to adapt. Adapt to these rules or perish. The KBN quantification results in a number of points roughly proportional to the number of publications in high quality international journals. Compared with the year 1998, the last year has brought us an increase of this number from about 1500 to about 2000. This year will show whether this was a fluctuation or a trend, as I'd like to believe. Going from the quantities to qualities here are some highlights to mention: Our theory group has continued their work on the properties of the heaviest nuclei. This year the limelight of international recognition has focused on the phenomenological model of synthesis of the heaviest elements proposed by Robert Smolanczuk. Smolanczuk was able to predict, among other things, the particular reactions leading with high cross-sections to such exotic species as the element 118. The experimentalists in Berkeley followed the lead and, lo and behold, they identified the α-decay chains involving isotopes of two new elements: 116 and 118. Our particle physicists have entered the harvest years of two major CERN collaborations: DELPHI and SMC. One result to mention is the quantification of the relative contributions of the spins of quarks and gluons to the total spin of the nucleon (the SMC collaboration). The various collaborations in and outside Poland which our plasma group has established in the recent years begin to bring rewarding results. This is shown, among other things, by the experiments with liners done with the PF-1000 device or by the theoretical analysis of the polarisation phenomena for X-rays and electrons from the hot spots in plasma discharges (the effect found earlier by our group) as well as by the quick increase of the number of publications in this field. Our atomic physics groups give justice to the term ''High Energy Atomic Physics'' with their work on the electron capture processes for relativistic projectiles, on the properties of the deeply bound hole state atoms and on the inner shell processes occurring to a projectile traversing solids. The Institute was awarded a KBN contract to design and build a new, higher energy electron linac for cancer therapy. This is an ambitious task for our accelerator physics group as well as for the production unit ZdAJ. The internationally recognized quality mark, ISO, gained by the ZdAJ for their products is also worth mentioning. Our contacts with nuclear medicine are not limited to the therapeutical accelerators. A minuscule X-ray device for brachytherapy with a needle-like anode is another example. The device was designed and built thanks to the KBN grant. We hope it will soon find applications in therapy as well as in medical research. The study of small ion clusters (on the scale of the DNA structure) produced by ionizing radiation is more remote from immediate applications but has a potential relevance for the field. So does a study of new scintillating materials for the use of medicine. Several international events were organized or co-organized by our Institute, like the International Symposium Plasma'99 ''Research and Applications of Plasma'' (Warsaw, July 7-9) together with Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, the NATO Advanced Research Workshop devoted to the ''Techniques and Selected Applications of Nuclear Physics'' (Krzyze, Mazurian Lakes District, September 2-4,1999) and, of course, the 26 Mazurian Lakes School of Physics, Krzyze, September 4-11, 1999, the bi-annual event of the international nuclear physics community. We have also played host to a gathering of physicists engaged in the nuclear medicine together with the elite of the Polish cancer therapy experts. They met in Swierk on June 8 th in a one day symposium on the ''Nuclear Physics in service of medicine: the therapeutical accelerators and medical diagnostics''. The meeting was honoured by the very active presence of the President of the Polish Republic, Aleksander Kwasniewski, who took part in the panel discussion and gave a summary of the symposium. The presence of the Minister of Health and of other top decision makers raised hopes for, among other things, a green light for our ambitions to set up a therapeutical and diagnostic centre at our Institute. A consequential cost-cutting reorganization of our service unit, ZOiT, took place last year. We hope that all our customers in Swierk, to whom we provide heat, water, electricity and transportation, find the changes for the better. The ''publish or perish'' syndrome is supplemented in Poland nowadays by the ''join the EU's Fifth Framework Programme or perish''. This programme is tailored for various applications of science rather than for pursuing science for its own merits. As such it is poorly suited for the Polish scientific community with its well developed network of international collaborations in basic natural sciences and the underdeveloped applied research. We do hope that we'll manage to beat the odds and to score also in the Fifth Framework Programme. Time will show whether these hopes are realistic. (author)

Foreword

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Prakash

Darwin but also the birth of an idea that has changed the way we look at life, ... on when lineages diverged but also provides insight into rates of processes, ... extinctions result in biotic reorganization tuned to the new world around them.

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Cirne, José

2006-08-01

As engineering continues to cross boundaries of known practices, materials and manufacturing techniques and into the frontiers of new materials, environments and applications, the opportunities for research in general will inevitably increase. The necessity understand the behaviour of these new materials and how to engineer ever increasingly sophisticated structures, requires that industry must be able to develop and apply analytical and experimental tools to evaluate their potential behaviour for damage or failure. Dynamic analysis performs an important role in this complex, but at the same time fascinating frontier between the world of the known and the unknown world of materials, and their hypothetic applications, that human curiosity and necessity is always exploring and discovering. In all this effort, research and communication of progress takes a fundamental role. The main objective of the DYMAT Conferences is to contribute in this effort giving an opportunity to researchers, engineers, academics and people from industry worldwide to improve their knowledge about the recent developments in the field of dynamic behaviour of materials and their new applications. During the twenty three years of its life, the DYMAT Association has developed efforts to promote these contacts through either the triennial International Conferences or the annual and thematic technical meetings. I am convinced that the number of communications and presences in all of these events is the best demonstration that the Association is of value, just because it was able to begin a series of actions with a prestige recognized by the international community. With the same spirit, the Governing Board of DYMAT is encouraging the appearance of sub-groups with the objective to stimulate discussion in some specific subjects covered by the objectives of the DYMAT Association in the field of mechanical behaviour of materials at high rates of strain. We believe that these sub-groups are able to increase the contacts between university and college researchers and people from industry in particular themes of joint interest. At the moment there are two sub-groups, the Light-Weight Armour Group (LWAG) and the Group of Transport Security (CRASH), developing their activities and organizing regular workshops. But DYMAT is keen on seeing others. I cannot finish this small text without thanking most sincerely the CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique) at Valduc, and their collaborators, for having accepted the task of organising the Conference. A particular and very special thank you to Richard Dormeval, not only for the excellent and arduous work that, as chairman of the Conference, developed during the long period of its preparation, but also for his continuous assistance as Vice-President of the DYMAT Association over the last three years. I would equally like to thank the friendly and engaged team of the Administrative Council of the Association for all their work in reading, selecting and re-reading manuscripts, thus assuring our Conference is of a high academic level. Together with my colleagues at the DYMAT Bureau, I hope that this Conference can contribute on the development of the knowledge in the field of the dynamic behaviour of materials. Especially I hope that the participants can profit from these days exchange their experiences and develop contacts and projects. Please, enjoy these days in Dijon. Coimbra, the 11th of May 2006 José Cirne President of Dymat Association

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Andrej BEKEŠ

2013-12-01

The last paper, by Azadeh Sharifi MOGHADDAM and Farimah Farrahi MOGHADDAM also deals with Persian. While pointing out the lively cultural contacts between Iran and France since the 17 c. the authors are examining the semantic change undergone by French loanwords in Persian during the last 150 or so years. To explain and categorize the changes the authors propose an elaborate synchronic model of semantic change, able to encompass all of the observed changes.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

GOLOB Nina

2015-06-01

Finally, in the context of describing under-documented languages, the influence of the existing language policy is also noticed by Erwin Soriano FERNANDEZ and his book review on Pangasinan, entitled Panuntunán na Ortograpiya éd salitan PANGASINAN 2012. Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Manuela Epure

2016-12-01

Full Text Available More and more, the today’s economic debates gravitate around the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the global transformation characterized by the digital, physical and biological technologies that interfere and change the world around us and our perception of the humankind progress.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Manuela Epure

2017-06-01

Full Text Available We are living in a globalized world, hence the need to reconsider the way in which we are interacting and working bothlocally and internationally.  The Fourth Industrial Revolution not onlybrings us new technologies, but requires a new leadership approach. It is about responsive and responsible leadership that could allow us to keep up with the major changes likelyto occur due to new technologies in place.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Manuela Epure

2017-03-01

Full Text Available Recently, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting took place from 17-20 January 2017 at Davos-Klosters, Switzerland and then key topic was Global Governance and the related issues such as: Fourth Industrial Revolution, responsive and responsible leadership, restoring economic growth and global collaboration.[1] Important changes are expected regarding size, speed and scope of these transformations that Fourth Industrial Revolution generated.  The transformations consist mainly of new systems built on the infrastructure of the digital revolution. Also, this will fundamentally change the way in which we produce, consume, move, communicate and interact with one another.  Nanotechnologies and given new powers of genetic engineering will impact dramatically who we are and how we think and behave[2] .

Foreword

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Nijholt, Antinus; Hassanieu, Aboul Ella; Azar, Ahmad Taher

2015-01-01

Interest in Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) is growing. This can be concluded from the number of BCI papers appearing in neuro-engineering and neuroscience journals and that are being presented at BCI conferences and workshops. More importantly, it can also be concluded from the growing number of

FOREWORD

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Michael SOFER

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The analysis of urban and regional development affairs is a complex task, and one that has many competing and worthwhile perspectives, on a huge array of issues whose importance and approaches to analysis often varies between countries. In many ways, this volume testifies amply to such themes and illustrates the rich tapestry of problems, and their analysis and remedies in both developed and developing economies. And of course systems of governance also vary significantly between countries, so that ideas and analysis generated in one jurisdiction may not apply readily to others. This said, much can be gained from reading about issues, their form, resulting problems, and potential solutions in other countries, whether involving governments, the market sector or both together. As we, the guest editors see it, the articles in this issue of Jura could well spark new ideas among readers about the definition and analysis of spatial problems, whether urban or rural, and the success or otherwise of attempts to manage them. The contributions also cover such diverse issues as infrastructure, job opportunities, income, levels of welfare, housing, cultural issues, traditions, and the respective roles of government and the market sector. Indeed, the swirl of perspectives and ideas on all these issues will become ever more important in our current age which is dominated by a huge array of transformative technologies. So there is much to learn from how different countries or regional administrations manage their urban, regional and rural affairs in our complex and uncertain world. In assembling this collection of papers the editorial team also saw it as their duty to help contributors whose first language was not English to assist them in improving their expression and delivery of ideas.

Foreword

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Birch-Thomsen, Torben

2005-01-01

Ressources management, enviromental degradation, natural resources, conflicts, boundaries, Africa......Ressources management, enviromental degradation, natural resources, conflicts, boundaries, Africa...

Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Giard, M.; Ristorcelli, I.

Guy Serra died prematurely on August 15th 2000 aged 52. He was one of the most active pioneers in the field of infrared and submillimeter space astronomy. After completing a PhD thesis on gamma ray astrophysics in 1973, he was among the first to measure the far-infrared dust emission from our Galaxy with the AGLAE balloon-borne experiment. He then devoted his whole career to contribute in a decisive manner to the emergence and achievement of the infrared and submillimeter space program at the French and European levels with the AROME and PRONAOS balloon borne experiments, and with the satellite missions ISO, ODIN, Planck, and FIRST (which became Herschel). This three day conference dedicated to Guy Serra was held in Toulouse on June 11-13 2001. We took time both to remember the legacy of Guy Serra, and to discuss current advances and prospects in the field of infrared and submillimeter space astronomy. It was clear to all of us that in this first year of the XXIst century, with the construction of the SIRTF, Planck and Herschel satellites, we were close to enter in the golden age of infrared astronomy which would bring us fabulous new insights on our Origins. A Great Humanist Guy Serra was passionately interested in science and physics. He had such generosity and enthusiasm to share with others his very wide-ranging knowledge, his intellectual refinement, and his perceptive views of things, that it was a real joy to work with him. His creativity and capacity for hard work were stunning, and extremely motivating. But first of all, we deeply appreciated his exceptional human qualities. He showed a deep respect for the views of others and had a great capacity for listening. In particular, he was very concerned with the training of PhD students for, and through, research, and with their future after the defense of their thesis. Guy was also exceptional in his will to communicate with the general public, including very young pupils in primary schools. Beyond his own scientific work, and because he had always considered the collective interest as a priority, he was someone who thought deeply about astronomy as a science and about its evolution in France. He devoted a lot of energy to such reflections and played an active role in local and national committees. Among the ideas he defended was that the standing of astronomy as a science depends on a unity between modelling and observation. He particularly liked to point out that similar advanced physics is needed both in the field of instrumentation and in the astrophysical modelling. He considered instrumentation as an essential component in astronomy, that had to be continuously developed, and to remain a part of the astronomers activity. He also liked to emphasize the importance of the collective aspect in the success of a project, which directly depend on researchers and engineers working together as a team. He was also extremely active in developing interfaces and cooperation with others communities: physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists. He considered that this was the best way to trigger great leap forward for astronomy. Guy Serra was a real pillar for many of us who worked with him. He was a dazzingly talented friend, passionate not only to astrophysics, but also for history, philosophy, music. Guy was a lover of nature and of life, remarquably altruist, and always concerned with the collective interest. His sudden departure has left a tremendous empty space. The memory of Guy , smiling warmly, with his sparkling eyes full of intelligence and sensitivity shall always remain in our hearts. M. Giard I. Ristorcelli

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Mmaphaka Tau

2009-04-01

Full Text Available The conditions prevailing in the world, where fast growing populations are coupled with rapidly expanding urbanization and a general increase in poverty levels, are greatly aggravating the disaster risks and vulnerabilities of a large part of the world’s populations.

Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Jean-Pierre Cometti

2013-05-01

Full Text Available The essays collected in this issue all stem from talks delivered at the International Conference, Aesthetic preferences, language games and forms of life: from Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was held on 23-25 January 2013 in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Education at the University of Florence. Contributions are here published in the same order they were presented at the Conference. With fruitful variety of approach, the entire thematic spectrum of the relationship between Wittgenstein and aesthetics is covered: 1 the question of the presence of specific aesthetic issues in Wittgenstein’s works: from aesthetic judgment to the concept of the beautiful (J.-P. Cometti, G. Tomasi, G. Matteucci; 2 the question of the aesthetic paradigm as the key to understanding Wittgenstein’s philosophical research as a whole as well as the philosopher’s unmistakable style (F. Desideri, S. Säätelä, S. Borutti, F. Valagussa; 3 the issue concerning the crucial difference between showing and saying and the thin boundaries between sense and nonsense (V. Sanfélix, L. Distaso, M. De Iaco; 4 the peculiar, but extremely relevant, question concerning the relationship between music and language (J. Schulte, A. Arbo; 5 the question of the expressive character of the work of art and of the linguistic nature of poetry, considered as a vantage point for the pursuit of the analysis of linguistic facts, as well as the issue of the literary form of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, with its deeply romantic character (M.W. Rowe, G. Di Giacomo; 6 the controversial issue of "seeing-as" and of its role within theories of depiction and pictoriality (K. Stock, A. Voltolini, E. Caldarola, E. Terrone.

DJ Prinsloo and BP Sathekge (compil- ers — revised edition).

African Journals Online (AJOL)

The compilers of this new edition have successfully highlighted the important additions to the last edition of the dictionary. It is important to inform pro- spective users about new information. It is also a marketing strategy to announce the contents of a new product in both the preface and at the back of the cover page, as is the ...

Psychological Fitness and Resilience: A Review of Relevant Constructs, Measures, and Links to Well-Being

Science.gov (United States)

2014-01-01

and Doctrine. Additional information about PAF is available on our website: http://www.rand.org/paf/ v Contents Preface...through seeking help, rumination , problem solving, denial, or cognitive restructuring” (Skinner et al. , 2003, p. 216). A vast literature has been...reflection, which involves “self-attentiveness motivated by curiosity . . . in the self” and (2) rumination , which involves “self-attentiveness

T.J. Kriel (original compiler), D.J. Prinsloo and B.P. Sathekge (compilers revised edition). Popular Northern Sotho Dictionary

OpenAIRE

Kwena J. Mashamaite

2011-01-01

The compilers of this new edition have successfully highlighted the important additions to the last edition of the dictionary. It is important to inform prospective users about new information. It is also a marketing strategy to announce the contents of a new product in both the preface and at the back of the cover page, as is the case with this dictionary.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Biefeld, Robert M.

2017-04-01

create an especially successful conference in terms of both technical content with formal talks and informal communications as well as the social elements that enable the atmosphere necessary for a productive and enjoyable conference.

Foreword. The Knowledge Economy: The Present Future

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Constantin Bratianu

2017-12-01

Full Text Available All the statistics and evaluations show that the Knowledge Economy is our future. However, a close look at the developed economies demonstrates that the Knowledge Economy is already here, shaping our present time. Although there are many definitions of this new economic framework, their core content stresses the importance of data, information, and knowledge in the production of goods and delivering services in creating value for society. For instance, Powell and Snellman (2004, p.1999 define the knowledge economy as “production and services based on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to an accelerated pace of technical and scientific advance, as well as a rapid obsolescence. The key component of the knowledge economy is a greater reliance on intellectual capabilities than on physical inputs or natural resources”. In the knowledge economy, knowledge becomes a strategic resource (Davenport & Prusak, 2000; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995 and knowledge strategies contribute directly to the competitive advantage (Bratianu & Bolisani, 2015. In this new economy, data, information, and knowledge are the driving forces of development and the knowledge economy is the engine of the global economy growth...

T.J. Kriel (original compiler, D.J. Prinsloo and B.P. Sathekge (compilers revised edition. Popular Northern Sotho Dictionary

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Kwena J. Mashamaite

2011-10-01

Full Text Available The compilers of this new edition have successfully highlighted the important additions to the last edition of the dictionary. It is important to inform prospective users about new information. It is also a marketing strategy to announce the contents of a new product in both the preface and at the back of the cover page, as is the case with this dictionary.

The world made by Noble prize : chemistry volume II

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

2007-06-01

This book has two parts of items related chemistry. The contents of the first part are Preface, Alfred Bemhard Nobel, Pioneers without Nobel Prize, Garbage Bag, Non-sticky Frying Pan, Nylon Stockings, Plastic Electricity, Synthetic Dyestuff, Gin and Tonic, Soccer Ball, Fertilizer, DDT, Dentifrice, Kimchi, Makgeolli, Ice cream, Anodyne, and firefly. The contents of the second part are PET-MRI, Color photo, Holography, Art diamond, an incandescent lamp and Neon Sign, Imitation works, Alchemy, Nuclear Power plant, Synthetic Oil and Sugar, Propane gas, Water Car, Estate agency Mars, and reference.

The world made by Noble prize : chemistry volume II

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

NONE

2007-06-15

This book has two parts of items related chemistry. The contents of the first part are Preface, Alfred Bemhard Nobel, Pioneers without Nobel Prize, Garbage Bag, Non-sticky Frying Pan, Nylon Stockings, Plastic Electricity, Synthetic Dyestuff, Gin and Tonic, Soccer Ball, Fertilizer, DDT, Dentifrice, Kimchi, Makgeolli, Ice cream, Anodyne, and firefly. The contents of the second part are PET-MRI, Color photo, Holography, Art diamond, an incandescent lamp and Neon Sign, Imitation works, Alchemy, Nuclear Power plant, Synthetic Oil and Sugar, Propane gas, Water Car, Estate agency Mars, and reference.

Finding the music: An Interview with Jerome Charyn on The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Sophie VALLAS

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Foreword by Sophie Vallas: Borrowing Lives, Stealing VoicesJerome Charyn’s books have always been happily welcomed in France, ever since the French met Isaac Sidel in the mid-1970s. The legend has it that Blue Eyes, Great Isaac and Marilyn the Wild jauntily entered the Série Noire as Marcel Duhamel’s last enthusiastic discovery. But in the following years, Jerome Charyn did not content himself with developing Isaac’s dark saga in a New York gone crazy. While the bandes dessinées he co-wrote w...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Dascalu, Dan; Muller, Alexandru

2003-07-01

in MEMS topics. This year special attention was devoted to the emerging RF MEMS technology. In addition, a presentation of `Microsystems in FP6' was held as a special invited talk at the end of the conference. The selection of papers for inclusion in this issue was difficult, due to the high quality of the papers of the workshop. The final content is a result of the collaboration of the programme committee and Institute of Physics Publishing staff. We wish to thank our colleagues from the MME'02 programme committee: A G R Evans (Southampton University), M Hill (Cork Institute of Technology) and R Wolffenbuttel (Delft University of Technology). We are grateful to all participants for making the workshop a very stimulating meeting place for the MEMS community in Europe.

The Relationship between Physical Activity and Productivity

Science.gov (United States)

1984-04-01

had heart disease when they began running, and some denied the warning symptoms . Two Seattle studies also show that "vigorous exercise protects...MBA degree from Samford University completed in 1981. He has a wife, Celia , and a daughter Stephanie, age 10. v TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface...occupational setting. The literature also strongly indicates that physical activity reduces the risk of heart disease and illness and injury. These

A Joyous Romp Through Basic Physics

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Some years ago, this reviewer began an addi- tional preface to the Indian edition of the. Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP) with the words, “The Feynman Lectures on Physics rank among the classics of our times, and it borders on impertinence to attempt to write a preface to them”. If a preface is impertinence, a review ...

Pramana – Journal of Physics | Indian Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Foreword · A K Sood K N Ganesh C S Sundar A K Raychaudhuri · More Details Fulltext PDF. Volume 65 Issue 5 November 2005 pp 768a-768b. Foreword · A K Sood K N Ganesh C S Sundar A K Raychaudhuri · More Details Fulltext PDF. Volume 69 Issue 1 July 2007 pp 3-5. A little reminiscence · A K Raychaudhuri.

Frontiers of quantum Monte Carlo workshop: preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Gubernatis, J.E.

1985-01-01

The introductory remarks, table of contents, and list of attendees are presented from the proceedings of the conference, Frontiers of Quantum Monte Carlo, which appeared in the Journal of Statistical Physics

Teaching and Learning Astronomy

Science.gov (United States)

Pasachoff, Jay; Percy, John

2009-07-01

Preface; Part I. Astronomy in the Curriculum Around the World: Preface; 1. Why astronomy is useful and should be included in the school curriculum John R. Percy; 2. Astronomy and mathematics education Rosa M. Ros; 3. Astronomy in the curriculum around the world; 4. Engaging gifted science students through astronomy Robert Hollow; 5. Poster highlights: astronomy in the curriculum around the world; Part II. Astronomy Education Research: Preface; 6. Astronomy education research down under John M. Broadfoot and Ian S. Ginns; 7. A contemporary review of K-16 astronomy education research Janelle M. Bailey and Timothy F. Slater; 8. Implementing astronomy education research Leonarda Fucili; 9. The Astronomy Education Review: report on a new journal Sidney C. Wolff and Andrew Fraknoi; 10. Poster highlights: astronomy education research; Part III. Educating Students: Preface; 11. Textbooks for K-12 astronomy Jay M. Pasachoff; 12. Distance/internet astronomy education David H. McKinnon; 13. Educating students with robotic telescopes - open discussion; 14. Poster highlights - educating students; Part IV. Educating teachers: Preface; 15. Pre-service astronomy education of teachers Mary Kay Hemenway; 16. In-service education of teachers Michèle Gerbaldi; 17. Poster highlights: educating teachers; Part V. Astronomy and Pseudoscience: Preface; 18. Astronomy, pseudoscience and rational thinking Jayant V. Narlikar; 19. Astronomical pseudosciences in North America John R. Percy and Jay M. Pasachoff; Part VI. Astronomy and Culture: Preface; 20. Teaching astronomy in other cultures: archeoastronomy Julieta Fierro; 21. Poster highlights: astronomy and culture; Part VII. Astronomy in Developing Countries: Preface; 22. Astronomy Curriculum for developing countries Case Rijsdijk; 23. Science education resources for the developing countries James C. White II; Part VIII. Public Outreach in Astronomy: Preface; 24. What makes informal education programs successful? Nahide Craig and Isabel

Public infrastructure investment: A bridge to productivity growth?

OpenAIRE

Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

1993-01-01

Table of Contents: Preface, by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou; Public Capital and Economic Growth, by David Alan Aschauer; New Federal Spending for Infrastructure: Should We Let This Genie Out of the Bottle?, by Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Abstract: This brief presents contrasting views on the effects of public infrastructure investment on private sector productivity. David Alan Aschauer states that the slower rate of productivity growth since the early 1970s-coupled with an aging population, the declinin...

Identification of TNT Transformation Products in Soil

Science.gov (United States)

1992-06-01

Unannounced 0 Just i•icatio BYDlstrtbton, --.- Availabilit ? CodoeS Dist Special moI QUA=~lI3E1 3 ii CONTENTS Preface...extracted. Soil-to-solvent ratios varied from 1:2 to (Jenkins et al. 1989) and water (Jenkins et al. 1986, 1:5 (mass [g]:volume [mL]); the smallest...cultures, composting systems and MassSelectiveDetector (MSD) throughaHewlett- water , little research has been conducted to define Packard 5890 Series

Cognitive radio networks efficient resource allocation in cooperative sensing, cellular communications, high-speed vehicles, and smart grid

CERN Document Server

Jiang, Tao; Cao, Yang

2015-01-01

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsIntroductionCognitive Radio-Based NetworksOpportunistic Spectrum Access NetworksCognitive Radio Networks with Cooperative SensingCognitive Radio Networks for Cellular CommunicationsCognitive Radio Networks for High-Speed VehiclesCognitive Radio Networks for a Smart GridContent and OrganizationTransmission Slot Allocation in an Opportunistic Spectrum Access NetworkSingle-User Single-Channel System ModelProbabilistic Slot Allocation SchemeOptimal Probabilistic Slot AllocationBaseline PerformanceExponential DistributionHyper-Erlang DistributionPerformance An

Nursing leadership: a concise encyclopedia

National Research Council Canada - National Science Library

Feldman, Harriet R

2008-01-01

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv...

1. Foreword

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Khakimov, N.; Nazarov, Kh.M.; Mirsaidov, I.U.

2012-01-01

During recent years, the attention of many researchers has turned to decontamination of the territories where radioactive substance extraction took place in the past. As of today, radioactive waste has not been utilized, but now they can be secondarily reprocessed, for the purpose of uranium extraction and waste utilization, since uranium prices are increasing. There is a lack of data in the literature on secondary reprocessing technologies of uranium industry wastes in Tajikistan. Each uranium tailing pile requires an individual secondary reprocessing waste technology, since they were formed as a result of different reprocessing methods (acid, soda leaching) and from different ore compositions. Their ph medium and storage conditions are different. This fact led the authors to publish the present edition of this book. The basic direction of the book is in developing manufacturing fundamentals of uranium industry waste reprocessing in Tajikistan, with specific attention on practical applications of technological investigation results. (author)

EDITORIAL, FOREWORD

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Editorial Foreword

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Biomaterials and SurfacesSeptember 20th-23th, 2016Herbertov, Czech RepublicOrganized by:Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueInstitute of Rock Structure and Mechanics AS CRSociety for composite and carbon materialsGuest editor: Ing. Zdeněk ToldeThe colloquium "Biomaterials and surfaces" focuses on methods for biocompatibility testing and methods for characterization and modification of biomaterials and their surfaces. The goal of this seminar is to inform the participants about fundamental problematic of biomaterials and the recent state of research and development of prostheses or artificial replacements in Czech Republic. At the seminar, participants and students are meeting with the scientific capacities in the field of biomaterials and surfaces (materials engineering, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology and with the experts from practice (doctors, representatives of leading Czech companies in the industry.Scientific comitee:Doc. RNDr. Vladimír Starý CSc. (Faculty of Mechanical EngineeringIng. Karel Balík, CSc. (Society for composite and carbon materialsIng. Tomáš Suchý Ph.D. (Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics AS CR Ing. Radek Sedláček Ph.D. (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Ing. Zdeněk Tolde (Faculty of Mechanical EngineeringGuarantors of peer review process: Prof. RNDr. Petr Špatenka CSc. (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Doc. RNDr. Vladimír Starý CSc. (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Ing. Tomáš Suchý Ph.D. (Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics AS CR Doc. RNDr. Václav Nehasil, Dr. (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics RNDr. Marta Vandrovcová, Ph.D. (Institute of Physiology CAS Guarantor of language editing:Ing. Stanislav Krum PhD.Organizing comitee: Ing. Karel Balík, CSc. RNDr. Martin Braun, Ph.D. Ing. Ladislav Cvrček Ph.D. Ing. Zdeňka Jeníková Ph.D. Ing. Radek Sedláček Ph.D. Doc. RNDr. Vladimír Starý CSc. Ing. Tomáš Suchý Ph.D. Ing. Zdeněk Tolde Ing. Petr Vlčák Ph.D. Vlasta Voňková

Foreword1

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Hans den Besten (1948-2010) was one of those rare phenomena in modern Linguistics: someone who not only made seminal contributions to more than one sub-field within the discipline, but who also made them in areas that are very often assumed to require very different. – not to say entirely incompatible! – ways of ...

Surface enhanced raman spectroscopy analytical, biophysical and life science applications

CERN Document Server

Schlücker, Sebastian

2013-01-01

Covering everything from the basic theoretical and practical knowledge to new exciting developments in the field with a focus on analytical and life science applications, this monograph shows how to apply surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for solving real world problems. From the contents: * Theory and practice of SERS * Analytical applications * SERS combined with other analytical techniques * Biophysical applications * Life science applications including various microscopies Aimed at analytical, surface and medicinal chemists, spectroscopists, biophysicists and materials scientists. Includes a Foreword by the renowned Raman spectroscopist Professor Wolfgang Kiefer, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.

Book Abstract: How to Write an Emergency Plan by David Alexander; Reproduced by Permission

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

David Alexander

2016-07-01

Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction. Scope and objectives of this book; 2. What are emergencies? 3. What is an emergency plan? 4. The emergency planning process; 5. First step: background research; 6. Second step: scenario building; 7. Third Step: from scenarios to actions; 8. A note on the structure of the plan; 9. Fourth step: using the plan; 10. Planning to maintain the continuity of normal activities; 11. Specialized emergency planning; 12. Conclusion: the future of emergency planning. Afterword. Appendix 1: Glossary of working definitions by key terms. Appendix 2: Bibliography of selected references. Index.

PREFACE Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Takahashi, Migaku; Saito, Hitoshi; Yoshimura, Satoru; Takanashi, Koki; Sahashi, Masashi; Tsunoda, Masakiyo

2011-01-01

The 2nd International Symposium on Advanced Magnetic Materials and Applications 2010 (ISAMMA 2010) was held in Sendai, Japan, from 12-16, July 2010. ISAMMA is the first consolidated symposium of three independent symposia held in the Asian region: ISPMM (International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials) of Japan which was first held in 1987 in Sendai, and was subsequently held five times, Beijing (1992), Seoul (1995), Sendai (1998), Taipei (2001), and Singapore (2005); ISAMT (International Symposium of Advanced Magnetic Technology) of Taiwan, and SOMMA (International Symposium on Magnetic Materials and Applications) of Korea, both of which were started in 1999, and were held five times up to 2005. ISAMMA was established as a new international symposium which will be held every 3 years in Asia. The concept of this unified international symposium was mainly developed by Prof. M. Takahashi, Conference Chair of this conference, ISAMMA 2010. The first memorial symposium, ISAMMA 2007, was held on Jeju Island, Korea, from 28 May to 1 June 2007. The main purpose and scope of the ISAMMA conferences are to provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers from all over the world to meet in Asia to discuss recent advances in the study of magnetic materials and their physics, and spin related phenomena and materials. Conference photograph The categories of ISAMMA 2010 were: Fundamental Properties of Magnetic Materials; Hard/Soft Magnetic Materials and Applications; Spintronics Materials and Devices; Structured Materials; Multi Functional Magnetic Materials; Spin Dynamics and Micromagnetics; Magnetic Storage; Materials for Applications (Sensors, High Frequency, Power, and Bio/Medical devices); Magnetic Imaging and Characterization. The scientific program commenced on Tuesday 13 July 2010 with opening remarks by the Symposium Chairman and the plenary talks were presented by T Rasing, P Fischer, H Yoda and S Sugimoto. The conference was attended by 511 participants from 23 countries, with about 40 percent of participants attending from overseas (see figure). The program involved 4 plenary talks (45 minutes each), 37 invited talks (30 minutes), 85 contributed talks (15 minutes), and 352 posters. Pie chart Organizing Committee of ISAMMA 2010 M TakahashiTohoku Univ., Japan, Chairman K TakanashiTohoku Univ., Japan, Chair of the Program Committee H SaitoAkita Univ., Japan, Chair of the Publication Committee M SahashiTohoku Univ., Japan, Chair of the Treasury Committee M TsunodaTohoku Univ., Japan, General Secretary H AkinagaAIST, Japan H FukunagaNagasaki Univ., Japan K HonoNIMS, Japan S IshioAkita Univ., Japan S IwataNagoya Univ., Japan K NakagawaNihon Univ., Japan S NakagawaTokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan T OnoKyoto Univ., Japan Y SuzukiOsaka Univ., Japan M TanakaEhime Univ., Japan T Tanaka Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Program Committee of ISAMMA 2010 K TakanashiTohoku Univ., Japan, ChairS MizukamiTohoku Univ., Japan M MizuguchiTohoku Univ., Japan, Vice-chairH NaganumaTohoku Univ., Japan M DoiTohoku Univ., JapanS NakagawaTokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan A FujitaTohoku Univ., JapanK NakamuraTohoku Univ., Japan K IshiyamaTohoku Univ., JapanK OnoKEK, Japan T KatoNagoya Univ., JapanT OnoKyoto Univ., Japan T KawagoeOsaka Pref. Univ.of Edu., JapanF SatoTohoku Univ., Japan O KitakamiTohoku Univ., JapanM ShiraiTohoku Univ., Japan Y KitamotoTokyo Inst. of Tech., JapanS SugimotoTohoku Univ., Japan F MatsukuraTohoku Univ., JapanM YamaguchiTohoku Univ., Japan C MitsumataHitachi Metals, Japan Publication Committee of ISAMMA 2010 H SaitoAkita Univ., Japan, ChairS MitaniNIMS, Japan S YoshimuraAkita Univ., Japan, Vice-chairH MuraokaTohoku, Japan Y AndoTohoku Univ., JapanM NakanoNagasaki Univ., Japan J AriakeAIT, JapanR NakataniOsaka Univ., Japan H AsanoNagoya Univ., JapanK O'GradyUniv. of York, UK M FutamotoChuo Univ., JapanA SakumaTohoku Univ., Japan J HayakawaHitachi, ARL, JapanT SatoKeio Univ., Japan T HondaKyushu Inst. of Tech., JapanT SatoShinshu Univ., Japan M IgarashiHitachi, CRL, JapanK TajimaAkita Univ., Japan H ItoKansai Univ., JapanM TakedaJAEA, Japan H IwasakiToshiba, JapanY TakemuraYokohama Nat'l Univ., Japan H KatoYamagata Univ., JapanM TanakaUniv. of Tokyo, Japan M KonotoAIST, JapanA TsukamotoNihon Univ., Japan H KubotaAIST, JapanS YabukamiTohoku Gakuin Univ., Japan Treasury Committee of ISAMMA 2010 M SahashiTohoku Univ., Japan, ChairS SaitoTohoku Univ., Japan K IshiyamaTohoku Univ., JapanT TanakaEhime Univ., Japan K NakagawaNihon Univ., JapanN TezukaTohoku Univ., Japan T OgawaTohoku Univ., Japan Executive Committee of ISAMMA 2010 M TakahashiTohoku Univ., Japan, ChairS SaitoTohoku Univ., Japan K TakanashiTohoku Univ., Japan, Vice-chairY SakurabaTohoku Univ., Japan K MiyakeTohoku Univ., JapanT ShimaTohoku Gakuin Univ., Japan T OgawaTohoku Univ., JapanN TezukaTohoku Univ., Japan S OkamotoTohoku Univ., JapanM TsunodaTohoku Univ., Japan M OoganeTohoku Univ., Japan We are grateful to all the participants for their valuable contributions and active discussions. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from 17 Japanese companies (ASAKA RIKEN CO., LTD, Fujikin Incorporated, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd, Hitachi Metals, Ltd, IZUMI-TEC CO., LTD, Miwa Electric Industrial CO., LTD, MIWA MFG CO., LTD, NEOARK Corporation, Optima Corporation, PRESTO CO., LTD, SHOWA DENKO K.K., TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD, TDK Corporation, TEIJIN LIMITED, Ube Material Industries, Ltd, ULVAC, Inc, and V TEX Corporation) and 7 foundations (SENDAI TOURISM & CONVENTION BUREAU, The Iwatani Naoji Foundation, Tohoku University Electro-Related Departments Global COE Program 'Center of Education and Research for Information Electronics Systems', The Murata Science Foundation, Research Foundation for Materials Science, Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation for Materials Science and Engineering, and Aoba Foundation for The Promotion of Engineering).

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

2011-10-01

The bi-annual Meeting of the Spanish Neutron Scattering Association, V RSETN, took place in Gijón (Asturias), Spain, from 28-30 June 2010, at the Hotel Silken 'Ciudad Gijón', close to the beautiful Cantabric seashore. It was the fifth in a series of successful scientific meetings, beginning in 2002 (Donostia - San Sebastián), and followed by conferences in: Puerto de la Cruz (Canary Islands, 2004), Jaca (Pyrenees, 2006) and Sant Feliú de Guixols (Costa Brava, 2008). Vicente Gotor, Rector of the University of Oviedo and Paz Fernández Felgueroso, Mayor of the city of Gijón chaired the opening ceremony. The conference covered a broad range of topics related to the use of neutron scattering techniques, from soft matter and biosciences to magnetism, condensed matter and materials applications. In addition to those topics, Spanish scientists working at neutron facilities talked about the recent upgrades of the neutron instruments. Colin Carlile (ESS, Lund), F J Bermejo (ESS, Bilbao) and Michael Steiner (Chairman of the European Neutron Scattering Association, ENSA) gave their personal views concerning the present and future perspectives of neutron scattering in Europe. They reviewed the situation of the running and new neutron facilities (European Spalation Source, ESS), the increase in the number of users and the spread of the scientific topics in which neutron scattering is used or where the impact of ESS will be most significant. Wonderful Plenary talks by Albert Furrer, Juan Manuel Pérez-Mato and José Antonio Alonso opened the scientific sessions of this three-day meeting. The V RSETN was organized by the Department of Physics of The University of Oviedo in cooperation with the Spanish Society for Neutron Techniques (SETN, 'Sociedad Española de Técnicas Neutrónicas'). The meeting attracted around 80 participants, including 13 invited talks, 23 oral presentations and more than 30 posters, both domestic and from abroad. The three best oral presentations by young Spanish scientists (Imanol de Pedro, Gerardo Garcés and Clara Rodriguez) were awarded with a copy of the book 'Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter Physics' by A Furrer, J Mesot and Th Strassle, provided by Albert Furrer. The success of the V RSETN was due to the efforts of many colleagues involved at all stages of the meeting. We take the opportunity to thank the Scientific Committee, the local organizing committee, the chairs of the conference sessions as well as all the reviewers who agreed generously to spend much time for our community. We would like also to emphasize the excellent scientific quality of all the presentations, and we would like to thank the support received from the sponsors (Gijon City Council, University of Oviedo, Tekniker, Cajastur, FICYT, MICINN), which was really important for the successful organization of the conference. Finally, we are convinced that the readers will enjoy these 26 scientific contributions published in the present volume, which give an overview of the science currently done by Spanish scientist using neutron scattering techniques. It is worth noting that the Spanish Neutron Scattering Community has experienced major growth during the last two decades, and now more than 200 active researchers belong to it. Pedro Gorria Jesús A Blanco Conference Chairs Conference photograph Chairpersons Pedro Gorria and Jesús A Blanco (Department of Physics, University of Oviedo, Spain) Scientific Committee Arantxa Arbe (San Sebastián), Javier Campo (Zaragoza), Gabriel Cuello (ILL, France), Luis Fernández Barquín (Santander), José Luis García Muñoz (Barcelona), Victoria García-Sakai (ISIS, UK), Pedro Gorria (Oviedo), Jon Gutiérrez (Bilbao) Editors of the Proceedings Pedro Gorria and Jesús A Blanco Plenary speakers Albert Furrer (Wien) J M Pérez-Mato (Bilbao) José Antonio Alonso (Madrid) Invited speakers A Fernández-Martínez (Berkeley) V Recarte (Pamplona) V Carlile (ESS, Lund) M A González (ILL, Grenoble) V García-Sakai (ISIS, UK) L C Pardo (Barcelona) M Steiner (Chair of ENSA) M Rotter (Wien) F J Bermejo (ESS, Bilbao) E López-Cabarcos (Madrid) R Lund (San Sebastián) R Granada (Bariloche) A Sanz (Madrid)

PREFACE Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Houée-Levin, Chantal; Gauduel, Yann A.

2011-01-01

The purpose of the four day COST CM0603-MELUSYN Joint Meeting 'Damages induced in Biomolecules by Low and High Energy Radiations', held in March 2010 in Paris, France, was to create a timely forum for multi-disciplinary discussions related to the recent developments on biomolecular damage triggered by low or high energy ionising radiations (photons, relativistic particles and accelerated ions). Created in September 2007, the European network COST CM0603 'Free radicals in Chemical Biology' (http://www.chembiorad.inct.pl/index.php) gathers specialists of free radical chemistry, biochemistry and biology. It aims to promote a chemical biology approach for the investigation of free radical pathways of biological interest and the improvement of communication and exchange among neighbouring scientific fields, such as chemistry with several domains of life sciences, specifically addressing the real barriers of specialist language and tools. The MELUSYN network was born in January 2006. This French think-tank and task force involves about one hundred scientists and clinicians who contribute to the emerging interdisciplinary domain of advanced spatio-temporal radiation biomedicine. One important mission of the MELUSYN network is to explore and identify new medical fields to which the specificity of 3rd generation synchrotron sources could be applied, either by themselves or in synergy with other advanced radiation sources. The network also contributes to the organization of international multidisciplinary conferences. In the framework of experimental and theoretical approaches, the conference gathered together 50 scientists from both communities and addressed a number of highly relevant aspects of bioradical chemistry and radiation biology, considering classical and more advanced radiation sources (synchrotron, ultra-short particle bunches based on high power laser technologies, microbeams) operating in the broad energy range eV-MeV, classical or semi-quantum simulations of molecular radiation processes. Considering some physical, chemical and biological aspects of radical mechanisms, including their consequences in medicine (radiotherapy for instance), the selected contributions of this Special Issue provide guidance for future interdisciplinary developments. In this way, the multi-scale aspects of radiation based bioradical chemistry and radiation biology should be considered. We would like to express our thanks to all the authors for their time and genuine efforts, and to the reviewers for their fruitful comments during the preparation of this volume. Editors Chantal Houée-LevinUniversity of Paris Sud, Orsay, France COST logo Yann A GauduelEcole Polytechnique - ENS Techniques Avancées Palaiseau, France MELUSYN logo

PREFACE Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Ivanyi, Amalia; Iványi, Péter; Rachinskii, Dmitrii; Sobolev, Vladimir A.

2011-02-01

The International Workshop on Multi-Rate Processes and Hysteresis conference series focuses on singular perturbation problems and hysteresis as common strongly nonlinear phenomena occurring in mathematical, physical, economical, engineering and information systems. The term 'strongly nonlinear' means, in particular, that linearization will not encapsulate the observed phenomena. Singular perturbation problems and hysteresis can be manifested at different stages of the same or similar processes. Furthermore, a number of fundamental hysteresis models can be considered as a limit of time relaxation processes, or admit an approximation by a differential equation, which is singular with respect to a particular parameter. However, interaction between researchers in the areas of systems with time relaxation and systems with hysteresis (and between the 'multi-rate' and 'hysteresis' research communities) has so far been limited, and there is little cross-fertilization of ideas. It is the aim of the conference series to fill this gap. The 5th International Workshop on Multi-Rate Processes and Hysteresis (MURPHYS 2010) was hosted by the Pollack Mihály Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs, Hungary, from 31 May to 3 June 2010, on the occasion of Pécs being the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010. The workshop was organized in cooperation with University College Cork, Ireland, which hosted all of the previous Workshops: International Workshop on Multi-rate Processes and Hysteresis (University College, Cork, Ireland, 31 March-5 April 2008). Proceedings are published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series volume 138. See http://euclid.ucc.ie/appliedmath/murphys2008/murphys2008.htm; International Workshop on Multi-rate Processes and Hysteresis (University College, Cork, Ireland, 3-8 April 2006). Proceedings are published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series volume 55. Further information is available at http://Euclid.ucc.ie/murphys2006.htm; International Workshop on Hysteresis and Multi-scale Asymptotic (University College, Cork, Ireland, 17-21 March 2004). Proceedings are published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series volume 22. Further details are available at http://Euclid.ucc.ie/hamsa2004.htm; International Workshop on Relaxation Oscillations and Hysteresis (University College, Cork, Ireland, 1-6 April 2002). The related collection of invited lectures was published as a volume Singular Perturbations and Hysteresis, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005. International Workshop on Geometrical Methods of Nonlinear Analysis and Semiconductor Laser Dynamics (University College Cork, Ireland, 5-6 April 2001). A collection of invited papers has been published as a special issue of Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences: Nonlinear dynamics of laser and reacting system, available at http://euclid.ucc.ie/appliedmath/gmna2001/ProcGMNA2001p1.pdf. Among the aims of this and previous workshops were: to bring together the leading experts in singular perturbation and hysteresis phenomena in applied problems; to discuss important problems in the areas of reacting systems, semiconductor lasers, shock phenomena, economic modelling, fluid mechanics, electrical engineering and modelling biological systems with emphasises on hysteresis and singular perturbations; to learn and share modern techniques in areas of common interest. The International Workshop on Multi-rate Processes and Hysteresis (Pollack Mihály Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs, Hungary, 31 May-3 June 2010) brought together about 50 scientists who are actively researching the areas of dynamical systems with hysteresis and singular perturbations with applications to physical, engineering and economic systems. The countries represented at the Workshop included the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, the United Kingdom and USA. Workshop photo Workshop photo 31 May 2010 Sponsorship of the Workshop by the Pollack Mihály Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs (Hungary), University College Cork (Ireland), University of Pécs (Hungary), The University of Texas at Dallas (USA), and the Cultural Capital of Europe 2010, Pécs (Hungary), is gratefully acknowledged. The Editors and Organizers of the Workshop are sincerely grateful to Dr Géza Várady, Ms Andrea Zseni and Mr Ádám Schiffer of the Pollack Mihály Faculty of Engineering, University of Pécs, and Dr Alexander Pimenov of University College Cork for managing the organization of the conference and for the assistance in formatting of all the manuscripts. More information about the workshop can be found at http://murphys5.pmmk.pte.hu/ Amalia Ivanyi, Péter Iványi, Dmitrii Rachinskii and Vladimir A SobolevEditors MURPHYS 2010, PMMK PTE, 31 May - 3 June 2010 Sponsored by Pollack Mihály logo POLLACK MIHÁLY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS UCC logo PÉCSI TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM logo PÉCSI TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS UTD logo Cultural capital logo Cultural Capital of Europe 2010, Pécs, Hungary International Steering Committee Z I BalanovIsrael M BrokateGermany R CrossUK K DahmenUSA M DimianRomania G FriedmanUSA A Ivanyi (Co-Chairman)Hungary P Iványi (Co-Chairman)Hungary L KalachevUSA P KrejčíCzech Republic R O'Malley (Co-Chairman)USA A Pokrovskii (Co-Chairman)Ireland N PopovicUK D Rachinskii (Co-Chairman)Ireland S S SazhinUK V Sobolev (Co-Chairman)Russia S SzabóHungary C VisoneItaly International Program Committee G AlmásiHungary Z BalanovIsrael M BrokateGermany R CrossUK K DahmenUSA M DimianRomania G FriedmanUSA A Ivanyi (Co-Chairman)Hungary P Iványi (Co-Chairman)Hungary S JeneiHungary G KádárHungary L KalachevUSA R KersnerHungary G KovácsHungary P KrejčíCzech Republic P M KuczmannHungary P P O'KaneIreland R O'Malley (Co-Chairman)USA A Pokrovskii (Co-Chairman)Ireland N PopovicUK D Rachinskii (Co-Chairman)Ireland B V H ToppingUK V C VisoneItaly

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Moffatt, Keith; Kephart, Thomas

2014-10-01

This online volume contains a selection of papers arising from two workshops organised within the six-month programme Topological Dynamics in the Physical and Biological Sciences held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, from July to December 2012. The first of these was a 'satellite workshop' held at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh, 15-19 October 2012, under the title Tangled Magnetic Fields in Astro- and Plasma Physics, and with Scientific Organising Committee: Konrad Bajer (Warsaw), Mitchell Berger (Exeter), Steve Cowley (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy), Andrew Gilbert (Exeter), Gunnar Hornig (Dundee), and Clare Parnell (St Andrews). The second was the workshop Quantised Flux in Tightly Knotted and Linked Systems held at the Newton Institute, 3- 7 December 2012, with Scientific Organising Committee: Natalia Berloff (DAMTP, Cambridge), Anne-Christine Davis (DAMTP, Cambridge), Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia), Thomas Kephart (Vanderbilt University), Paul Sutcliffe (Durham University), and Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University). Videos of the lectures given at this second workshop can be viewed at http://www.newton.ac.uk/webseminars. The papers published here follow a natural progression through the following topics: helicity and related invariants of magnetic fields in ideal MHD; relaxation under topological constraints; lower bounds on magnetic energy; current and vortex filaments; applications in the solar corona, tokamak plasmas, and cyclone dynamics; higher-order invariants; topology of curves and surfaces, and energy measures; tight knots; applications to Bose-Einstein condensates, QCD, and cosmic superstring theory. Some of the papers span more than one of these areas. We owe a great debt of gratitude to Konrad Bajer, who was one of the guiding spirits behind the whole Newton Institute program, and who took particular responsibility for the Satellite Workshop at ICMS, Edinburgh. Konrad fell seriously ill in June 2014, having completed much of the editorial work for these Proceedings. Following an operation at the end of July, he remained optimistic of a complete recovery, but sadly this was not to be, and he died from a particularly malignant form of cancer on 29th August. The funeral was held in Warsaw on 5th September. Konrad's warmth of personality and generosity of spirit will be remembered by all who participated in these workshops and in the wider Newton Institute program. The Isaac Newton Institute provided an ideal environment for informal interactions before and after both these workshops. We wish to express our thanks to the Director and staff of the Institute for their tireless efforts to ensure the success of the whole program; also to the staff of ICMS, Edinburgh, for their expert hosting of the satellite workshop.

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Takahashi, Masahiko; Ueda, Kiyoshi

2011-03-01

The 17th edition of the International Conference on Many Particle Spectroscopy of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters, and Surfaces (MPS) was held in Sendai, Japan, from September 4-7, 2010. It was the first time that a meeting of this series of biennial conferences was hosted in a non-European country. The conference was attended by 110 researchers (90 regular participants and 20 students) from 15 different countries around the world. The themes that the conference covered can be divided into three broad areas: lepton impact, photon impact and heavy-particle impact. A total of 43 oral presentations - including 2 plenary talks, 29 progress reports and 12 hot topics - and 87 poster presentations were held during the course of the program. Rapid progress both in experimental and theoretical techniques has led to discussions across a broad range of currently hot topics, such as many-body dynamics and electron correlation effects in excitation processes, as well as in single and multiple ionization processes for various kinds of targets including atoms, molecules, clusters, solid state and even biological systems. A snapshot of the present status of many particle spectroscopy is given in this proceedings. The chairs of the conference gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Morino Foundation for Molecular Science, Iwatani Naoji Foundation, Sendai Tourism and Convention Bureau, and Intelligent Cosmos Academic Foundation. They are indebted to the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, for co-hosting the conference, as well as to the international advisory board members for their extremely helpful suggestions to make the program attractive. The united effort of the local organizing committee, involving N Watanabe (Secretary), M Okunishi (Treasurer), H Fukuzawa, M Yamazaki, Y Kino, and N Kishimoto, is also gratefully acknowledged. Without the help of these institutions and individuals it would have been impossible to organize the conference. Finally, the chairs would like to express their thanks to all the participants for contributing to lively and fruitful discussions throughout the conference. Masahiko Takahashi and Kiyoshi Ueda International Advisory Board Lorenzo Avaldi (Italy)Klaus Bartschat (USA) Azzedine Lahmam-Bennani (France)Jamal Berakdar (Germany) Nora Berrah (USA)Igor Bray (Australia) XiangJun Chen (China)Claude Dal Cappello (France) Reinhard Dörner (Germany)Alexander Dorn (Germany) Danielle Dowek (France)Alexey Grum-Grzhimailo (Russia) Noriyuki Kouchi (Japan)Birgit Lohmann (Australia) Don Madison (USA)Fernando Martin (Spain) Andrew Murray (England)Bernard Piraux (Belgium) Roberto Rivarola (Argentina)Emma Sokell (Ireland) Giovanni Stefani (Italy) Conference photograph

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Luo, Qingming; Wang, Lihong V.; Tuchin, Valery V.

2011-02-01

The 9th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2010), combined with the 3rd Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM 2010), was held from November 2-5, 2010, at Wuhan Science & Technology Convention & Exhibition Center, Wuhan, PR China. The present volume contains papers from a selection from the invited, oral, and poster presentations. PIBM is the largest international biomedical photonics conference series in Asia. It was initially held at HUST bi-yearly from 1999. After being held three times in Wuhan (1999, 2001 and 2003), it was hosted once in Tianjin (2005), before returning to Wuhan every year since 2006. PIBM is designed to bring together scientists, engineers and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines engaged in applying optical science, photonics and imaging technologies to problems in biology and medicine. The scope of this conference ranges from basic research to instrumentation engineering, and biological and clinical studies. It is recognized as one of the largest and most comprehensive international conferences in China, and represents the highest level of worldwide research in this field. In the past ten years, 7 volumes of proceedings with a total of 672 papers were published by SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering), and a volume with 75 papers was published by World Scientific Publishing Co. in 2007. Proceedings of PIBM 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 were indexed by EI Compendex, while proceedings of PIBM 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 were indexed by SCI. Some excellent papers were recommended for publication in the peer-reviewed Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS). An increasing number of young researchers present and exchange their innovative ideas on this friendly and professional platform, which has made PIBM an unforgettable annual meeting in Wuhan. This year PIBM attracted distinguished scholars in the field of biomedical photonics and imaging from all over the world, including the United States, Russia, Australia, Canada, Israel, France, Ireland, Japan, Korea and China. The major topics covered at the conference and presented in this volume include: Photonic Therapeutics, Diagnostics and Instrumentations; Tissue Optics and Laser Tissue Interaction; Biomedical Spectroscopy and Microscopy; Multimodal and Hybrid Biomedical Imaging; and Optical Molecular Imaging. The conference voted for the three best student papers; awards were presented to the participant students whose posters were recognized as excellent and who took part in the oral presentation competition. The conference received 133 submitted abstracts, and this volume of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series includes a selection of 53 excellent submissions. The Conference Secretariat and Local Organizing Committee deserve recognition for planning a smoothly run and productive conference with comprehensive, instructive lectures and innovative work displayed in poster presentations. The faculties and students from Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics were dedicated to their work in reception and service during the conference. It is a pleasure to thank all of them for their efficient and hard work. We are also grateful for the financial support from 111 Project (B07038), and the assistance in organization and coordination from Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Finally, we would like to thank all the authors for their contributions to PIBM 2010 and all the members of the Committees for their cooperation and time spent reviewing submissions. Special thanks are due to the Advisory Committee members Shu Chien, Aaron Ciechanover, Steve Dahms, Da Hsuan Feng, Steven R Goodman, Brian Salzberg, Fujia Yang, Jianquan Yao, Baoyong Zheng and Olivia Ho Cheng for their participation on-site, and their significant contributions to the conference. Wuhan, PR ChinaDecember, 2010 Qingming LuoLihong V WangValery V TuchinConference Chairs 9th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2010)2-5 November 2010Wuhan, China EditorsQingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Lihong V Wang , Washington University in St. Louis (USA)Valery V Tuchin, Saratov State University (Russia) Sponsored and Organized byHuazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (China)Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics (China) Technical Co-sponsored byIBOS-International Biomedical Optics SocietyThe Chinese Optical SocietyThe Biophysical Society of China Co-organized byKey Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics, Ministry of Education (China)Virtual Research Center of Biomedical Photonics, Ministry of Education (China)Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory (China) CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Honorary ChairsBritton Chance, University of Pennsylvania (USA)Bingkun Zhou, Tsinghua University (China) Conference ChairsQingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Lihong V Wang , Washington University in St. Louis (USA)Valery V Tuchin, Saratov State University (Russia) Advisory CommitteeSydney Brenner, The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California (USA)Howard Chen, K&L Gates (USA)Jing Cheng, Tsinghua University (China)Shu Chien, University of California, San Diego (USA)Paul Ching-Wu Chu, University of Houston (USA)Aaron Ciechanover, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)A Stephen Dahms, Alfred E Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering (USA)Da Hsuan Feng, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, China)Steven R Goodman, SUNY Upstate Medical University (USA)Barry Halliwell, National University of Singapore (Singapore)John Hart, The University of Texas at Dallas (USA)George Radda, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore)Zihe Rao, Nankai University (China)Brian M Salzberg, University of Pennsylvania (USA)Ruey-Jen Sung, Stanford University (USA)A Dean Sherry, The University of Texas at Dallas (USA)Bruce Tromberg, University of California/Irvine (USA)Fujia Yang, Nottingham University (UK)Jianquan Yao, Tianjin University (China)Yixin Zeng, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (China)Baoyong Zheng, Hua Wei Technologies Corporation, Inc (China) Program CommitteeWei R Chen, University of Central Oklahoma (USA)Zhongping Chen, University of California/Irvine (USA)Arthur Chiou, National Yang-Ming University (Taiwan, China)Frank Y S Chuang, University of California, Davis (USA)Zhihua Ding, Zhejiang University (China)Congwu Du, Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA)Stefan Haacke, Strasbourg University - IPCMS-DON (France)Weiping Han, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore)Zheng Huang, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (USA)Zhiwei Huang, National University of Singapore (Singapore)Steven L Jacques, Oregon Health & Science University (USA)Fu-Jen Kao, National Yang-Ming University (Taiwan, China)Hideaki Koizumi, Hitachi, Ltd (Japan)Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University (USA)Yong-qing Li, East Carolina University (USA)Chengyi Liu, South China Normal University (China)Hong Liu, University of Oklahoma (USA)Zuhong Lu, Southeast University (China)Dennis L Matthews, University of California/Davis (USA)Avraham Mayevsky, Bar Ilan University (Israel)Stephen P Morgan, University of Nottingham (UK)Shoko Nioka, University of Pennsylvania (USA)Yingtian Pan, State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA)Alexander V Priezzhev, MV Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)Jianan Y Qu, The Hongkong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China)Colin J R Sheppard, National University of Singapore (Singapore)Mamoru Tamura, Tsinghua University (China)Sergey Ulyanov, Saratov State University (Russia)Ruikang K Wang, Oregon Health & Science University (USA)Xunbin Wei, Fudan University (China)Da Xing, South China Normal University (China)Haishan Zeng, BC Cancer Research Centre (Canada)Gang Zheng, University of Toronto (Canada)Dongping Zhong, The Ohio State University (USA) Organizing CommitteeLing Fu (Chair), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Yuandi Zhao (Chair), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Hui Gong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Pengcheng Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Bifeng Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Qian Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Shaoqun Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Zhihong Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)Dan Zhu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) Local SecretariatHua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

2014-11-01

The National Seminar on Medical Physics (NSMP) is a scientific conference organised every two years by the Malaysian Association of Medical Physics (MAMP). Its purpose is to provide a platform for researchers, medical physicists and clinicians from Malaysia and surrounding nations to discuss recent advances of research and development in medical imaging and radiotherapy. NSMP 2014, the 9th national medical physics conference was held in Marriott Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia on 5 April 2014. The conference was organised in parallel to the College of Radiology (COR) Malaysia Scientific Meeting. The theme for the 9th NSMP is "Advances in Multidisciplinary Research and Clinical Practice". About 65 participants from universities and hospitals participated in the conference. 17 oral contributions and 12 posters were presented at the conference. We had three invited lectures at the conference; two of the lectures were presented by international experts on state-of-the-art medical imaging and radiotherapy. The lectures were: bold dot "Hybrid imaging: research and clinical practice" by Prof David Townsend, A*STAR-National University Singapore Clinical Imaging Research Centre bold dot "Outline of treatment planning for carbon-ion radiotherapy" by Dr Nobuyuki Kanematsu, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan bold dot "Implementing medical physics clinical training programme in Malaysia: challenges and experiences" by Dr Noriah Jamal, Malaysian Nuclear Agency Many thanks to all invited speakers for their participation and to the Organising Committee members for all their hard work in making the conference happen. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract and making this a successful conference. The Scientific Committee members and reviewers are also thanked for reviewing the submitted manuscripts and improve the scientific quality of this proceedings. Finally, thanks to all who attended the conference and the sponsors for their financial support. The proceedings consists of 22 manuscripts, organised into five different topics; medical imaging, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, radiation protection and dosimetry, and biomedical engineering. All papers published in this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the proceedings Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. We would like to thank all authors and reviewers for their contribution to this proceedings. We look forward to seeing everyone in 2016 for the 10th anniversary. Hafiz M Zin, Ahmad Taufek Abdul Rahman, Nahzirul Adib and Rafidah Zainon Editors, Proceedings of NSMP 2014

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Hotta, Takashi

2016-02-01

This volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series contains both invited and contributed papers presented at the International Symposium on "New Quantum Phases Emerging from Novel Crystal Structure", which was held from 24-25 September 2015 at the Minami-Osawa Campus of Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU). The Graduate School of Science and Engineering of TMU is now promoting a research project on "New Quantum Phases Emerging from Novel Crystal Structure" with the support of the university. This is the cooperative project involving the electrical and electronic engineering and physics departments to discover new quantum phases in strongly correlated electron systems on novel crystal structures, with geometrically characteristic properties such as cage, layered, and geometrical frustrated structures. In this international symposium, we have mainly picked up BiS2-based layered superconductors, cage-structure materials such as 1-2-20 and filled skutterudites, geometrically frustrated systems such as pyrochlore compounds, and noncentrosymmetric materials. Topics on other materials with exotic crystal structure have been also discussed. I believe that this symposium provides a good opportunity to present recent research results on magnetism and superconductivity in such materials, and to discuss future directions of research on strongly correlated electron systems with novel crystal structure. I would like to give thanks, on behalf of the organizing committee, to all participants of the TMU International Symposium and all members of the Advisory Committee, who have contributed to the success of this symposium. I further thank the TMU Research Organization for the financial support of this symposium.

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

De Zela, Francisco

2011-01-01

RIAO-OPTILAS, one of the most important Iberoamerican conferences for optics, was held on 20-24 September, at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) in Lima. The conference, which is held every three years, gathered around 400 attendees from different countries, some of them coming from beyond the Iberoamerican region. The conference traditionally covers topics which range from optical design to optoelectronics and technological applications, including fundamental as well as applied areas of the optical sciences. A remarkable feature of the present conference was the increased attendance of people working in quantum optics. This area had not been strongly represented in former meetings of RIAO-OPTILAS, something that appears to have now changed, according to the comments of people in the field. Indeed, they realized the advantages of participating in a conference that offers the opportunity to meet researchers from several different areas. Merging expertise with open questions, and delineating new trends and goals; all this becomes possible when direct contact happens, and this has been always the main goal of RIAO-OPTILAS. The first plenary session began with a presentation by Duncan Moore (Rochester) about gradient-index materials, followed by Aristide Dogariu (Central Florida) who talked about variable coherence sensing. The plenary sessions of the following days included James C Wyant (Arizona) who presented precision interferometric measurements in non-ideal environments, and Daniel Malacara (CIO, Mexico) who discussed the design of optical systems with off-axis spherical mirrors. Wolfgang Dultz (Frankfurt, Germany) talked about the transfer of spin angular momentum from photons to birefringent particles, while Ulrik Lund Andersen (Technical University of Denmark) showed how to manipulate continuous variables of light. Halina Rubinzstein (Queensland, Australia) approached the subject of angular momentum of light from the viewpoint of optical tweezers, and Pierre Meystre (Tucson, Arizona) addressed the exciting field of cavity optomechanics. Celebrating 50 years of the laser, Mario Bertolloti (La Sapienza, Rome) revealed the hidden history of the laser and Sune Svanberg (Lund, Sweden) paid homage to the laser from the perspective of its applications in environmental and medical research. Focusing more tightly on cancer diagnosis and therapy, Katarina Svanberg (Lund, Sweden) discussed the application of optical tools in her work as an oncologist. Applications in technology was the chosen subject of Mitsuteru Inoue (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan), who addressed magneto and multiferroic photonics as applied to spatial light modulators. In a closing plenary session, Luis Jaime Castillo (PUCP, Peru) presented his archeological findings related to ancient Peruvian cultures, something that was not directly related to optics but provided the attendees with the background to better appreciate what they could see during their tourist excursions. Besides the plenary talks, there were also oral and poster sessions that covered a wide range of topics in optics and photonics. Prompted by the fact that several attendees were prestigious authors of books in the optical sciences, a book exhibition was organized giving readers - especially students - the opportunity to meet the authors. In the weeks following the conference and in response to a call for papers, around 170 contributions were submitted for publication in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. RIAO-OPTILAS was partially sponsored by several agencies and organizations: OSA, SPIE, ICO, JPCS, Quantel, and CIO. At the end of the conference four cash awards were granted to students for the best poster presentations. Three awards were sponsored by SPIE. Recipients were Pablo Solano, from Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Dulce-María González-Utrera, from Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico, and Job Mendoza, from Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. The OSA award went to Facundo Orte, from ANPCyT and Ceilap (Citefa-Conicet), Argentina. For the first time, RIAO-OPTILAS was preceded by the Andean School for Optics: OPTOANDINA. The School was organized with the aim of boosting the development of optics and photonics in the Andean countries, which are among the less developed ones in the Iberoamerican region. A welcome sign for the effectiveness of such an initiative was given by the increased participation of Bolivia in the present edition of RIAO-OPTILAS. Over one hundred participants attended OPTOANDINA, of which 65 were students and 30 were lecturers, while 6 facilitators were ready to help during the hands-on sessions. RIAO-OPTILAS has traditionally been organized by the host institution. Though this will remain the case for future gatherings of the conference, its increased importance and growing magnitude - in both number of participants and represented areas - has made it necessary to provide the conference with a permanent organizational umbrella. With such an aim, a network called RIAO (Red Iberoamericana de Óptica) - was officially established during RIAO-OPTILAS. One of its main tasks will be to delineate a general framework and guidelines for future sessions of RIAO-OPTILAS. The two next hosts have already been chosen: Portugal in 2013, and Chile in 2016. The contributions contained in the present issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series cover a wide range of subjects in the optical sciences. They reflect the growing scientific production from the Iberoamerican region and provide the reader - or so we hope - with valuable information on what is being developed by several representative research groups of that region. Finally, I would like to gratefully acknowledge the valuable contribution of the Editorial Committee: Guillermo Baldwin (Chairman of RIAO-OPTILAS 2010)Departamento de Ciencias, Sección Física,Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Enrique J GalvezDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University Miguel LevyMichigan Technological University José Benito VázquezDepartamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidade de Vigo Román CastañedaPhysics School, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellin Miguel AsmadDepartamento de Ciencias, Sección FísicaPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Miguel V AndrésDepartamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Valencia Francisco De Zela

PREFACE Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Bachor, Hans; Drummond, Peter; Hannaford, Peter

2011-01-01

The 22nd International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2010) was held from 25 to 30 July, 2010 in Cairns, Tropical North Queensland, Australia. This conference followed on from the series of highly successful biennial ICAP conferences held in Storrs, Innsbruck, Rio, Cambridge MA, Florence, Windsor, Amsterdam, Boulder, Munich, Ann Arbor, Paris, Tokyo, Seattle, Göteborg, Cambridge MA, Riga, Berkeley, Heidelberg, Boulder, Oxford and New York. ICAP 2010 was attended by 630 participants from 37 countries. The conference presented an outstanding program of papers covering the most recent advances in atomic physics, including atomic tests of fundamental physics and basic symmetries; precision measurements, including atomic clocks, atom interferometers and fundamental constants; ultracold gases and Bose-Einstein condensates; ultracold Fermi gases; ultracold molecules; quantum simulators with atoms and ions; few-body systems; ultrafast phenomena and free electron lasers; quantum information with atoms and ions; quantum optics and cavity QED with atoms; and hybrid and optomechanical systems. The papers in this Proceedings represent a collection of the invited talks. The conference program consisted of 48 invited talks presented in plenary sessions, including 10 'hot topic' talks highlighting the most recent advances in the field, and about 490 poster papers presented in three afternoon sessions. The program included talks by Nobel Laureates Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Wolfgang Ketterle and Bill Phillips, a memorium talk commemorating the scientific life of Vladilen Letokhov, and an evening lecture by Alain Aspect on 'Wave particle duality for a single photon: quantum weirdness brought to light'. The conference was preceded by a two-day workshop in Cairns on Variation of Fundamental Constants and Violation of Fundamental Symmetries P, T(EDM), CPT, Lorentz Invariance, organised by the University of New South Wales; and three-day Student Workshop at Cape Tribulation, organized by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO). A website with full details of the conference program, abstracts and other information can be found at: http://www.swin.edu.au/icap2010. We would like to thank the participants, especially those who contributed talks, posters and manuscripts, for making ICAP2010 such an exciting and memorable conference. We thank the Program Committee for putting together an outstanding program and the ICAP International Advisory Committee for their expert advice and suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our sponsors: the Australian National University, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Griffith University, the Ian Potter Foundation, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, and contributors to the trade exhibition: Coherent, Coherent Scientific, the Institute of Physics Publishing, Lastek, NewSpec, Nufern, Oxford University Press, Spectra-Physics, Springer, Toptica Photonics and Warsash Scientific. Finally, we thank our Conference Secretariat, Maria Lamari, and the Local Organising Committee for their tireless and expert efforts in the organisation of ICAP2010, and the staff of the Cairns Convention Centre, whose friendly and efficient service contributed much to the success of the conference. The next ICAP conference is planned to be held in Palaiseau, France from 23 to 27 July 2012 (http://www.ifraf.org/icap2012). Hans BachorPeter DrummondPeter HannafordEditors

PREFACE: Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Audoin, Bertrand; Dehoux, Thomas; Guillet, Yannick

2011-02-01

Conference logo In the year 2010 we celebrated the 50th birthday of the laser, and laser-ultrasonics is only slightly younger. For the last few decades, laser-ultrasonics has attracted the attention of an increasing number of academics and engineers. It has motivated research in many directions, often in pluridisciplinary fields; and in parallel, having gained maturity, it has attracted more and more interest from industry. Over the years laser-ultrasonics has been the topic of several sessions in different conferences dedicated to ultrasonics, optics, photo-acoustics, phonon scattering, material characterization, and non-destructive evaluation and control. With the aim of creating a fruitful forum for the exchange of ideas, national periodic meetings dedicated to laser-ultrasonics have been organized in Asia, North America and in Europe. For example, from 1999, we began holding convivial meetings in France, in which contributions by PhD students are strongly encouraged. Discussions at an international level were initated a few years ago, examining the opportunity for creating a dedicated international conference assembling researchers and end-users with an interest in the field. Under Jean-Pierre Monchalin's instigation, the first International Symposium on Laser-Ultrasonics took place in Montreal in July 2008, and was a great success. We were very honoured to be in charge of the organization of the second meeting of the conference in Bordeaux in July 2010. The second symposium assembled about 150 attendees from 30 countries. The program included 90 oral contributions, with 17 invited and plenary talks, and 40 contributions with posters. Despite extending the conference from three to four days, the organization of two parallel sessions was necessary. Thanks to the contributions of the participants, the scientific and organizing committees could construct an intensive and attractive scientific program. The conference tour was a sunny visit to Saint-Emilion vineyard and the gala dinner took place in a wine chateau in the medieval village. We hope this experience will remain in the attendees' memories as a pleasant and convivial time. We would like to express our thanks to the members of the organizing committee, the scientific committee, and all our generous sponsors, either institutions or companies, for their help in making this event possible. We would also like to thank the scientists involved for their confidence in our organization, and for their contributions. As unanimously decided by the attendees, the next symposium will be held in Japan, most likely in 2012. The papers published in this volume of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series provide a collection of state-of-the-art and recent advances in research and applications of laser ultrasonics as presented at this second Symposium. Bertrand Audoin - Conference ChairThomas Dehoux - Conference proceedings co-editorYannick Guillet - Conference proceedings co-editor Conference photograph Scientific committee Bertrand AudoinUniversité Bordeaux 1, France Alain BlouinNRC, Canada Christ GlorieuxKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Vitalyi GusevUniversité du Maine, France Peter HessUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany Alexander A KarabutovMoscow State University, Russia Sridhar KrishnaswamyNorthwestern University, USA Humphrey MarisBrown University, USA Jean-Pierre MonchalinNRC, Canada Todd MurrayBoston University, USA Makoto OchiaiToshiba Corp, Japan Menglu QianTongji University, China Daniel RoyerEcole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie, France Hervé TrétoutDassault Aviation, France Hubert VoillaumeEADS, France Oliver B WrightHokkaido University, Japan Shu-yi ZhangNanjing University, China Organizing committee Bertrand AudoinChair Sandrine GuitLocal administrator Christophe Aristégui Thomas Dehoux Evelyne Dewayse Yannick Guillet Armelle Guilloux

THE HANDBOOK OF BLENDED LEARNING:Global Perspectives, Local Designs

OpenAIRE

Reviewed by Alev ATES

2009-01-01

THE HANDBOOK OF BLENDED LEARNING:Global Perspectives, Local Designs Curtis J. Bonk (ed.) and Charles R. Graham (ed.), Jay Cross (Foreword),Micheal G. Moore Foreword) ISBN: 978-0-7879-7758-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pfeiffer Pages: 624 March 2006.Reviewed by Alev ATESPhD Student at Curriculum and Instruction,Lecturer at Computer Education and Instructional Technologies,Faculty of Education, Ege University, Izmir, TURKEYBlended learning or blended e-learning sounds like aconfusing ter...

E-learning a jeho používání z pohledu výuky společenských věd.

OpenAIRE

Růžanská, Hana

2015-01-01

This doctoral thesis provides a comprehensive treatise of contemporary modern methods of education including e-learning. In its preface the author presents its content, purpose, basis and objectives and sets the main goal of the thesis, namely an intention to analyse and evaluate the latest trends in e-learning, modern forms of education and use of information technology in organisation of studies. Sub-objectives of this dissertation relate to the structure of its prime objective and correspo...

Travel, infection and immunity

OpenAIRE

Soonawala, Darius

2016-01-01

Preface: The content of this thesis is based on research that was conducted at the travel and vaccination clinic at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). This clinic provides pre-travel care to the general population, and to special groups of travellers, such as patients who use immunosuppressants or who have chronic diseases. The clinic is closely connected to the department of Infectious Diseases at LUMC. The setting of a travel clinic within an academic medical hospital, provides unique...

Standards-based Content Resources: A Prerequisite for Content Integration and Content Interoperability

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Christian Galinski

2010-05-01

Full Text Available Objective: to show how standards-based approaches for content standardization, content management, content related services and tools as well as the respective certification systems not only guarantee reliable content integration and content interoperability, but also are of particular benefit to people with special needs in eAccessibility/eInclusion. Method: document MoU/MG/05 N0221 ''Semantic Interoperability and the need for a coherent policy for a framework of distributed, possibly federated repositories for all kinds of content items on a world-wide scale''2, which was adopted in 2005, was a first step towards the formulation of global interoperability requirements for structured content. These requirements -based on advanced terminological principles- were taken up in EU-projects such as IN-SAFETY (INfrastructure and SAFETY and OASIS (Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization. Results: Content integration and content interoperability are key concepts in connection with the emergence of state-of-the-art distributed and federated databases/repositories of structured content. Given the fact that linguistic content items are increasingly combined with or embedded in non-linguistic content items (and vice versa, a systemic and generic approach to data modelling and content management has become the order of the day. Fulfilling the requirements of capability for multilinguality and multimodality, based on open standards makes software and database design fit for eAccessibility/eInclusion from the outset. It also makes structured content capable for global content integration and content interoperability, because it enhances its potential for being re-used and re-purposed in totally different eApplications. Such content as well as the methods, tools and services applied can be subject to new kinds of certification schemes which also should be based on standards. Conclusions: Content must be totally reliable in some

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Danielsson, Ulf; Goobar, Ariel; Nilsson, Bengt E. W.

2005-01-01

The idea of organizing a Nobel Symposium focusing on the recent exciting developments in the overlap between string theory and cosmology was born about two years prior to the meeting. The progress, both observational and theoretical, was sparked off by the spectacular new measurements of the geometry and content of the universe. These included ever more accurate observations of the cosmological background radiation testing our ideas of the very early universe, as well as observations of distant supernovae indicating that the universe is in a phase of accelerated expansion. This development was a fertile ground for cosmologists as well as for the string community where people were looking for contacts with observations by applying string theory at the cosmological scale. We are now witnessing the impact of improved observational data coming in regularly, and on the theory side, the appearence of large amounts of collaborative work between cosmologists and string theorists. In view of these facts, we believe that the timing of the Symposium was close to optimal. As organizers, we felt very pleased with the Symposium, and were very happy to see so many prominent scientists being enthusiastic about the meeting. We direct our most profound thanks for the success of the Symposium to all the participants. A special thanks goes to the speakers and chairmen. With half of the time allocated for discussions in the sessions, each one devoted to a particular issue, it was of paramount importance that the chairmen could get both cosmologists and string theorists to contribute with their views and expertice to penetrate the questions to the limit. The resulting debates in several sessions will linger in the memories of those present for many years to come. The Symposium ended with a question and answer session with the whole audience acting as panel. The participants had been asked to formulate what they thought were the key questions in the field. Although consensus was not

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

L'Hostis, Valérie; Foct, François; Féron, Damien

2006-11-01

programmes. The sessions of the workshop covered the following areas, from fundamental aspects to technically relevant industrial applications: - Present and Future Expectations on regulations, design codes and R& D programmes; - Experimental Studies mainly focused on corrosion of embedded steels and its mechanical consequences, reactive agents transport and chemical degradation of concrete; - Phenomenological Modelling of the different mechanisms involved in reinforced concrete degradation (corrosion, transport, mechanics, etc.); - Service Life Models focused on the assessment of reinforced concrete structures and life cycle analysis; - Feedback Experience use of field experiences and archaeological artefacts for the phenomenological understanding and modelling; - Monitoring and Repair on-site corrosion evaluation, repairing techniques performance... The organisation and the success of this Workshop have been made possible thanks to CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique) and EDF (Électricité de France) which co-organised this event. It was co-sponsored by EFC/WP4 (European Federation of Corrosion, Nuclear corrosion working party) and OECD/NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency) which the editors want to warmly thank for their active scientific and practical contributions. The editors would also like to thank the authors who presented papers of outstanding scientific content and who responded enthusiastically to the discussions and questions raised during the Workshop, the programme committee, who had to make the tricky selection of the presented papers, and finally the reviewers of the papers presented in this special issue. This Workshop was a forum to exchange state-of-the-art knowledge on corrosion and long-term performance of concrete in nuclear power plants and waste facilities. The editors hope that the scientific results gathered in these proceedings will be useful to scientists and engineers in the field of reinforced concrete materials for nuclear applications. Valérie L

Improving statistical reasoning: theoretical models and practical implications

National Research Council Canada - National Science Library

Sedlmeier, Peter

1999-01-01

... in Psychology? 206 References 216 Author Index 230 Subject Index 235 v PrefacePreface Statistical literacy, the art of drawing reasonable inferences from an abundance of numbers provided daily by...

International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces (ICSFS 2014)

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Achete, C A; Almeida, C M; Cremona, M; Rocca, M; Stavale, F

2015-01-01

Foreword The 17th ICSFS took place at the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the 8th to the 11th of September, 2014. The conference focused on recent advances in controlling and characterizing the physical and chemical properties of films and surfaces, with a particular emphasis on materials for electronic, photonic and spintronic applications. In addition, themes of bio-functionalized structures and devices were strongly discussed in the ICSFS, covering interdisciplinary nano and nano-bio science and technology. The conference has promoted, in various sub-fields of materials surfaces and thin films, an excellent forum for exchange of ideas, presentation of technical achievements and discussion of future directions in the field. In this volume of the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering we are glad to present 11 peer-reviewed ICSFS contributing papers. The cross-disciplinary nature of conference topics is clearly reflected in these Proceedings' contents. The themes discussed ranged from those close to more traditional condensed matter physics, such as semiconductor surfaces to physical chemistry related issues. The Proceedings were organized in accordance with contributions presented at the Conference. We were glad with the presence of over 160 participants, including 24 invited and plenary talks and over 50 oral contributions. We strongly believe that these Proceedings will be useful for a wide audience of those interested in basic and applied surfaces and thin solid interfaces. Acknowledgment We would like to acknowledge the hard work, professional skills and efficiency of the team which oversaw the general organization, particularly of Dicom (Social Communication Division) from the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology, Inmetro (Brazil). We also would like to thank all the invited speakers and session chairs for making the meeting such a great success. The Conference was supported and sponsored by Academia

Záměr Wittgensteinova Traktátu (1). Předmluva a motto

OpenAIRE

Glombíček, P. (Petr)

2014-01-01

The article presents a first part of an interpretation of the intention of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. The intention itself used to be considered a rather marginal topic until so called new-Wittgensteinian interpretations. The present article considers main sources to show what kind of content we can ascribe to the book. Its aim is to prove that Tractatus is not purely practical exercise, however without stripping the book of its therapeutic side. The first part considers the preface and the mo...

Interacting binaries

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Eggleton, P.P.; Pringle, J.E.

1985-01-01

This volume contains 15 review articles in the field of binary stars. The subjects reviewed span considerably, from the shortest period of interacting binaries to the longest, symbiotic stars. Also included are articles on Algols, X-ray binaries and Wolf-Rayet stars (single and binary). Contents: Preface. List of Participants. Activity of Contact Binary Systems. Wolf-Rayet Stars and Binarity. Symbiotic Stars. Massive X-ray Binaries. Stars that go Hump in the Night: The SU UMa Stars. Interacting Binaries - Summing Up

Nuclear Stability Rules

Science.gov (United States)

Feather, N.

2016-03-01

General preface; Author's preface; 1. The systematics of stable nuclei; 2. Regularities in x-disintegration; 3. Regularities in β-disintegration; 4. Spontaneous fission and the number of the elements; References and author index; Subject index.

PREFACE: 13th International Conference on Electrostatics

Science.gov (United States)

Taylor, D. Martin

2011-06-01

Electrostatics 2011 was held in the city of Bangor which is located in North West Wales in an area of outstanding natural beauty close to the Snowdonia mountain range and bordering the Irish Sea. The history of the area goes back into the mists of times, but a continuous technological thread can be traced from the stone- and bronze-age craftsmen, who inhabited the area several thousand years ago, via the civil engineering and fortifications of the Romans and Edward I of England, through Marconi's long-wave trans-Atlantic transmitter near Caernarfon to the conference host. The School of Electronic Engineering at Bangor University has contributed much to the discipline of Electrostatics not only in teaching and research but also in supporting industry. It was a great pleasure for me, therefore, to have the pleasure of welcoming the world's experts in Electrostatics to Bangor in April 2011. In my preface to the Proceedings of Electrostatics 1999, I reported that almost 90 papers were presented. Interestingly, a similar number were presented in 2011 testifying to the importance and endurance of the subject. The all-embracing nature of electrostatics is captured in the pictorial depiction used for the conference logo: a hand-held plasma ball with its close link to gaseous discharges and the superimposed Antarctic aurora highlighting the featured conference themes of atmospheric, planetary and environmental electrostatics. Leading these themes were three invited contributions, the first by Giles Harrison who delivered the Bill Bright Memorial Lecture 'Fair weather atmospheric electricity', Carlos Calle on 'The electrostatic environments of Mars and the Moon' and Istvan Berta on 'Lightning protection - challenges, solutions and questionable steps in the 21st century'. Leading other key sessions were invited papers by Atsushi Ohsawa on 'Statistical analysis of fires and explosions attributed to static electricity over the last 50 years in Japanese industry' and Antonio

Content

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Keiding, Tina Bering

secondary levels. In subject matter didactics, the question of content is more developed, but it is still mostly confined to teaching on lower levels. As for higher education didactics, discussions on selection of content are almost non-existent on the programmatic level. Nevertheless, teachers are forced...... curriculum, in higher education, and to generate analytical categories and criteria for selection of content, which can be used for systematic didactical reflection. The larger project also concerns reflection on and clarification of the concept of content, including the relation between content at the level......Aim, content and methods are fundamental categories of both theoretical and practical general didactics. A quick glance in recent pedagogical literature on higher education, however, reveals a strong preoccupation with methods, i.e. how teaching should be organized socially (Biggs & Tang, 2007...

Implementing Environmental Management Accounting: Status and Challenges

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Cost Accounting - and its Interaction with Eco-Efficiency Performance Measurement and Indicators; Stefan Schaltegger and Marcus Wagner. 4. Environmental Accounting Dimensions: Pros and Cons of Trajectory Convergence and Increased Efficiency; Pontus Cerin and Staffan Laestadius. 5. Process and Content......Table of contents Preface. 1. Environmental Management Accounting: Innovation or Managerial Fad?; Pall Rikhardsson, Martin Bennett, Jan Jaap Bouma and Stefan Schaltegger. Section 1 Progress. 2. Challenges for Environmental Management Accounting; Roger L. Burritt 3. Current Trends in Environmental......: Visualizing the Policy Challenges of Environmental Management Accounting; Dick Osborn. Section 2 Exploring EMA implementation issues. 6. Environmental Performance and the Quality of Corporate Environmental Reports: The Role of Environmental Management Accounting; Marcus Wagner. 7. Environmental Risk...

La parole manifestaire : lecture de la préface des orientales de Victor Hugo

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Larissa Drigo Agostinho

2009-01-01

Full Text Available We intend here to read the preface of Victor Hugo’s Orientales after the contemporary criticism that establish the manifesto (and similar texts such as the preface as a literary genre, with particular language and other characteristics.

Human Resource Management in Virtual Organizations. Research in Human Resource Management Series.

Science.gov (United States)

Heneman, Robert L., Ed.; Greenberger, David B., Ed.

This document contains 14 papers on human resources (HR) and human resource management (HRM) in virtual organizations. The following papers are included: "Series Preface" (Rodger Griffeth); "Volume Preface" (Robert L. Heneman, David B. Greenberger); "The Virtual Organization: Definition, Description, and…

Two books on dementia care: Risk Assessment and management for living well with dementia, and Key issues in evolving dementia care

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Gillian Manthorpe

2013-05-01

Full Text Available Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia. Charlotte L. Clarke, Heather Wilkinson, John Keady and Catherine E. Gibb. Foreword by Murna Downs. Part of the Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides series. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011, pp. 128, ISBN: 978-1-84905-005-0Key Issues in Evolving Dementia Care. International Theory-based Policy and Practice. Edited by Anthea Innes, Fiona Kelly and Louise McCabe. Foreword by Professor June Andrews. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012, pp. 264, ISBN: 978-1-84905-242-9

Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection

Science.gov (United States)

Sagan, Carl; Agel, Jerome

2000-08-01

Foreword Freeman Dyson; Personal reflections Ann Druyan; Preface; Part I. Cosmic Perspective: 1. A transitional animal; 2. The Unicorn of Cetus; 3. A message from earth; 4. A message to earth; 5. Experiments in utopias; 6. Chauvinism; 7. Space exploration as a human enterprise I. The scientific interest; 8. Space exploration as a human enterprise II. The public interest; 9. Space exploration as a human enterprise III. The historical interest; Part II. The Solar System: 10. On teaching the first grade; 11. 'The ancient and legendary Gods of old'; 12. The Venus detective story; 13. Venus is hell; 14. Science and 'intelligence'; 15. The moons of Barsoom; 16. The mountains of Mars I. Observations from earth; 17. The mountains of Mars II. Observations from space; 18. The canals of Mars; 19. The lost pictures of Mars; 20. The Ice Age and the cauldron; 21. Beginnings and ends of the Earth; 22. Terraforming the plants; 23. The exploration and utlization of the solar system; Part III. Beyond the Solar System: 24. Some of my best friends are dolphins; 25. 'Hello, central casting? Send me twenty extraterrestrials'; 26. The cosmic connection; 27. Extraterrestrial life: an idea whose time has come; 28. Has the Earth been visited?; 29. A search strategy for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence; 30. If we succeed 31. Cables, drums, and seashells; 32. The night freight to the stars; 33. Astroengineering; 34. Twenty questions: a classification of cosmic civilisations; 35. Galactic cultural exchanges; 36. A passage to elsewhere; 37. Starfolk I. A Fable; 38. Starfolk II. A future; 39. Starfolk III. The cosmic Cheshire cats; Epilog David Morrison; Index.

Multimedia content classification metrics for content adaptation

OpenAIRE

Fernandes, Rui; Andrade, M.T.

2015-01-01

Multimedia content consumption is very popular nowadays. However, not every content can be consumed in its original format: the combination of content, transport and access networks, consumption device and usage environment characteristics may all pose restrictions to that purpose. One way to provide the best possible quality to the user is to adapt the content according to these restrictions as well as user preferences. This adaptation stage can be best executed if knowledge about the conten...

Multimedia content classification metrics for content adaptation

OpenAIRE

Fernandes, Rui; Andrade, M.T.

2016-01-01

Multimedia content consumption is very popular nowadays. However, not every content can be consumed in its original format: the combination of content, transport and access networks, consumption device and usage environment characteristics may all pose restrictions to that purpose. One way to provide the best possible quality to the user is to adapt the content according to these restrictions as well as user preferences. This adaptation stage can be best executed if knowledge about the conten...

冯梦龙的小说理论%Feng Menglong' s Novel Theory

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (English)

傅承洲

2012-01-01

Feng Menglong composed three prefaces for his own novels San Yah. Though each preface focused on one question, they connected closely with and complemented each other, forming Feng's own novel theoretical system. The Prefaces of Ancient and Contemporary Novels first proposed the Popular Romance was originated in the art of speaking, compared to the Tang Dynasty folktales, the Popular Romance language to content are easy for or- dinary people to understand, and to accept and appreciate, playing a greater role in the society. The Preface of Jingshitongyaa explores the relationship between real life and artistic fiction, Feng used the fictional method that the figure does not have to experience such events, and such events do not have to happen to the figure. " Fiction should be composed to the rule that when event is real, the reason should not be pseudo; while the event is pseudo, the reason should also be. true. The story of the novel may be fictional, but historical novel should be based on strict historical facts. The "Preface of Xingshihengyan put forward the "theory of awakening the world," Feng Menglong bitterly felt the turbid and chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, he wanted to use the Popular Romance to alert the world to turn things around. To achieve the purpose of awakening the world, the popular fiction should be created with a good content, but also have to follow the laws of the novel.%冯梦龙为“三言”所作的三篇序，每篇重点论述一个问题，各篇又相互勾连补充，形成了自己的小说理论体系。《古今小说叙》首次提出通俗演义起源于说话艺术，与唐人传奇相比，通俗演义从语言到内容都通俗易懂，可以为普通百姓所接受和欣赏，发挥更大的社会作用。《警世通言叙》探讨了小说创作中生活真实与艺术虚构的关系问题，提出了“入不必有其事，事不必丽其人”�

Demand side management project for Tenaga Nasional Berhad: Energy efficiency study: Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) complex. Final report. Export trade information

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

NONE

1995-03-01

This study, conducted by the California Energy Commission, was funded by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. The report focuses on energy efficiency and conservation measures at the Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) Complex in Malaysia for Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). The study is divided into the following contents: Preface; (1.0) Executive Summary; (2.0) Facility Background and Site Information; (3.0) Site Energy Use; (4.0) Energy Using Systems; (5.0) On-Site Electricity and Energy Generation; (6.0) Technical Project Summary; Figures, Tables, and Appendices.

Vice Presidents' Foreword

Science.gov (United States)

Dear Reader, In the early sixties, the eminent American hydrologist, Walter Langbein, founded Water Resources Research on behalf of the Section of Hydrology of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Today, Water Resources Research is undisputed as the leading international journal in its field, and the key factors in its success are: * sustained emphasis on high quality papers; * the reviewing, editing, and management processes are all controlled by the scientists; * the allegiance of the AGU community to WRR; * a verv reasonable cost both to institutions and members; * financial benefits from the sales of the journal are fed back to the AGU, to the benefit of the members. In Europe, we now have a well established community of hydrologists in EGS, and the need for a high quality journal was addressed initially by adopting the already well established Elsevier journal of Hydrology as the official journal of the Hydrological Sciences Section. However, it became apparent that several of the factors associated with WRR's success were not working in the Society's favour, and so it has been decided to establish a new journal which, we hope, can emulate the success of WRR in the fullness of time. Much has been written over the past decade about the need to establish a strong identity for hydrology as a distinct geoscience alongside the atmospheric, ocean and solid earth sciences. The aims and scope of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) have been designed to give full expression to this goal, and have been strongly influenced by 'Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences' (National Academy Press,1991). The functioning of the hydrological cycle within an earth system undergoing global change is currently the focus of research by many leading scientists and it is hoped that HESS will become a major forum for the publication and discussion of such research, as well as all new findings which enhance the position of hydrology as a geoscience. The success of a new journal is dependent not only on attracting high quality papers, but on the preservation of high standards in the overall editorial process. This requires, inter alia, a sympathetic managing editor to assist non-native English speakers in Europe and beyond to communicate their research findings with good clarity. We are highly fortunate that Dr j S G (Jim) McCulloch, who has had such a major impact on the success of the Journal of Hydrology, has agreed to take on the onerous task of launching and managing HESS. He will be supported by a panel of Scientific Editors and by an Editorial Board, who will advise him. We are indebted to Dr McCulloch and his editorial office team for their dedicated efforts in bringing this first issue to fruition. We also thank the authors, who have entrusted their papers to HESS, the reviewers who have responded so promptly and Arne Richter, the Secretary-General of EGS, for his continual support and enthusiasm for this venture. Finally, and most important of all, we appeal to you, and all members of the scientific community, to support HESS by * taking out a personal subscription; * arranging for an institutional subscription; * contributing your best papers; * helping with the peer review process. By rallying around HESS and giving it the priority which will ensure that high quality is achieved from the outset, we can, as a community, eventually match the achievements of WRR. You and future generations of European hydrologists will be the beneficiaries. Philip O'Kane Enda O'Connell EGS Vice-President Past-EGS Vice-President (Hydrological Sciences) (Hydrological Sciences)

Vice Presidents' Foreword

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

1997-01-01

Full Text Available Dear Reader, In the early sixties, the eminent American hydrologist, Walter Langbein, founded Water Resources Research on behalf of the Section of Hydrology of the American Geophysical Union (AGU. Today, Water Resources Research is undisputed as the leading international journal in its field, and the key factors in its success are: * sustained emphasis on high quality papers; * the reviewing, editing, and management processes are all controlled by the scientists; * the allegiance of the AGU community to WRR; * a verv reasonable cost both to institutions and members; * financial benefits from the sales of the journal are fed back to the AGU, to the benefit of the members. In Europe, we now have a well established community of hydrologists in EGS, and the need for a high quality journal was addressed initially by adopting the already well established Elsevier journal of Hydrology as the official journal of the Hydrological Sciences Section. However, it became apparent that several of the factors associated with WRR's success were not working in the Society's favour, and so it has been decided to establish a new journal which, we hope, can emulate the success of WRR in the fullness of time. Much has been written over the past decade about the need to establish a strong identity for hydrology as a distinct geoscience alongside the atmospheric, ocean and solid earth sciences. The aims and scope of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS have been designed to give full expression to this goal, and have been strongly influenced by 'Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences' (National Academy Press,1991. The functioning of the hydrological cycle within an earth system undergoing global change is currently the focus of research by many leading scientists and it is hoped that HESS will become a major forum for the publication and discussion of such research, as well as all new findings which enhance the position of hydrology as a geoscience. The success of a new journal is dependent not only on attracting high quality papers, but on the preservation of high standards in the overall editorial process. This requires, inter alia, a sympathetic managing editor to assist non-native English speakers in Europe and beyond to communicate their research findings with good clarity. We are highly fortunate that Dr j S G (Jim McCulloch, who has had such a major impact on the success of the Journal of Hydrology, has agreed to take on the onerous task of launching and managing HESS. He will be supported by a panel of Scientific Editors and by an Editorial Board, who will advise him. We are indebted to Dr McCulloch and his editorial office team for their dedicated efforts in bringing this first issue to fruition. We also thank the authors, who have entrusted their papers to HESS, the reviewers who have responded so promptly and Arne Richter, the Secretary-General of  EGS, for his continual support and enthusiasm for this venture. Finally, and most important of all, we appeal to you, and all members of the scientific community, to support HESS by * taking out a personal subscription; * arranging for an institutional subscription; * contributing your best papers; * helping with the peer review process. By rallying around HESS and giving it the priority which will ensure that high quality is achieved from the outset, we can, as a community, eventually match the achievements of WRR. You and future generations of European hydrologists will be the beneficiaries. Philip O'Kane                                                                  Enda O'Connell EGS Vice-President                                                       Past-EGS Vice-President (Hydrological Sciences                                                (Hydrological Sciences

Foreword ACII 2013

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Pun, T.; Pelachaud, C.; Sebe, N.; D' Mello, S.; Nijholt, Antinus; D' Mello, S.; Pantic, Maja

2013-01-01

Welcome to Geneva and to ACII 2013, “the‿ conference in Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. After Beijing in 2005, Lisboa in 2007, Amsterdam in 2009, and Memphis in 2011, researchers from all over the world will converge to Geneva on 2-5 September 2013 for the 5th biannual ACII

foreword 1237..1237

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

the decades. It is accurate, swift and inexpensive, accounting for its great popularity. Initially, chemists were interested in determining the structure and stereochemistry of isolated molecules. Later, attention shifted to examining patterns of molecules, held together by intermolecular interactions, the most important of which is.

Machine Intelligence, a Foreword: The Brain as Electronic Circuitry; Electronic Circuitry as a Brain

Science.gov (United States)

1992-06-01

Precribed byv ANSi Sto Z39-!8 296-.102 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE BOTTO M LINE ............................................................. I BACKG RO UN D...DIRECTOR US ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY ATTN: SLCBR-IB-M (DR. BRUCE BURNS ) 1 ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD 21005-5066 NOTE: PLEASE NOTIFY COMMANDER

Developing the Clarity and Openness in Reporting: E3-based (CORE) Reference user manual for creation of clinical study reports in the era of clinical trial transparency.

Science.gov (United States)

Hamilton, Samina; Bernstein, Aaron B; Blakey, Graham; Fagan, Vivien; Farrow, Tracy; Jordan, Debbie; Seiler, Walther; Shannon, Anna; Gertel, Art

2016-01-01

Interventional clinical studies conducted in the regulated drug research environment are reported using International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) regulatory guidance documents: ICH E3 on the structure and content of clinical study reports (CSRs) published in 1995 and ICH E3 supplementary Questions & Answers (Q & A) published in 2012.Since the ICH guidance documents were published, there has been heightened awareness of the importance of disclosure of clinical study results. The use of the CSR as a key source document to fulfil emerging obligations has resulted in a re-examination of how ICH guidelines are applied in CSR preparation. The dynamic regulatory and modern drug development environments create emerging reporting challenges. Regulatory medical writing and statistical professionals developed Clarity and Openness in Reporting: E3-based (CORE) Reference over a 2-year period. Stakeholders contributing expertise included a global industry association, regulatory agency, patient advocate, academic and Principal Investigator representatives. CORE Reference should help authors navigate relevant guidelines as they create CSR content relevant for today's studies. It offers practical suggestions for developing CSRs that will require minimum redaction and modification prior to public disclosure.CORE Reference comprises a Preface, followed by the actual resource. The Preface clarifies intended use and underlying principles that inform resource utility. The Preface lists references contributing to development of the resource, which broadly fall into 'regulatory' and 'public disclosure' categories. The resource includes ICH E3 guidance text, ICH E3 Q & A 2012-derived guidance text and CORE Reference text, distinguished from one another through the use of shading. Rationale comments are used throughout for clarification purposes.A separate mapping tool comparing ICH E3 sectional structure and CORE Reference sectional structure is also provided.Together, CORE Reference

The role of content marketing in social media content communities

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Charmaine du Plessis

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Background: Content marketing has become a leading marketing technique in digital marketing communication and uses the point of view of consumers to build relationships by creating and sharing engaging content in social media that enhance their daily lives. Existing research on social media communities has focused mainly on social media marketing and virtual brand community perspectives while content marketing’s valuable and unobtrusive role in social media content communities has largely been overlooked. Objective: The purpose of this article was to investigate content marketing’s role in social media content communities to engage with the target audience in an innate manner. Method: This study made use of a directed, inductive content analysis of 51 practitioner documents relating to business-to-consumer content marketing practices to add another perspective to existing research on communities in social media. The content analysis was facilitated by using QDA Miner, a widely adopted and reliable qualitative data analysis software programme. Results: Three categories emerged from the data namely building content communities, platform-specific content and understanding channels. These categories provide sufficient evidence of how brands make use of social media content communities to connect with the target audience in an unobtrusive manner, in addition to being present in virtual brand communities. Conclusion: The findings make several contributions to the existing literature. Firstly, it provides a clearer distinction between brand and social media content communities. Secondly, it extends conceptions about social media communities to include content communities and, thirdly, it provides sufficient evidence of how content marketing could benefit a brand by naturally becoming part of social media conversations.

The medicalization of society: on the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders

National Research Council Canada - National Science Library

Conrad, Peter

2007-01-01

... 197This page intentionally left blank PrefacePreface I have been interested in the medicalization of society for a long time. My Ph.D. dissertation was a participant observation study of the medicalization of hyperactivity in children (Conrad, 1976). This was followed by a more historical account of the medicalization of deviance, coau...

PREFACE: EDS2010 Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Heggie, Malcolm I.

2011-03-01

The biennial international conference on Extended Defects in Semiconductors started in 1978 with a meeting in Hünfeld, Germany. Subsequent meetings rotated between Poland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Russia and Italy, culminating in EDS2004 in Chernogolovka, EDS2006 in Halle and EDS2008 in Poitiers. EDS2010 was held at the University of Sussex at Brighton, UK from September 19th to 24th. An extension of the tabulation of this history, which first appeared on the EDS2006 website, is given in the attached PDF. It is with sadness that we note one of the founders of the series, Prof. Dr Helmut Alexander, passed away on 3 December 2009 and we were proud to dedicate EDS2010 to his memory. It has become a tradition to make an award in his name, and this year it was made to Ivan Isacov for his poster "Electrical levels of dislocation networks in p- and n-type silicon". A short and warm celebration of Prof. Dr Alexander's life by his friends and colleagues, Prof. Drs Helmut Gottschalk, Eicke Weber and Wolfgang Schröter, is included in this volume. The conference was a forum for the state-of-the-art of investigation and modelling of extended defects in semiconductors. Scientists from universities, research institutes and industry made contributions to a deeper understanding of extended defects, their interaction with point defects and their role in the development of semiconductor technology. The remit of the conference included extended defects, nanostructures, nanoparticles, quantum dots and interfaces within semiconducting materials ranging from narrow to wide band gaps, including graphene-derived materials and diamond. Scientific interests range from defect geometry, electronic structure, dynamics, spectroscopy, microscopy, reactions and chemistry to introduction mechanisms, such as implantation and strained layers and the operation of devices such as integrated circuits, heterostructures, and solar cells. The organisers were confronted with a long period between the afternoon outing to Arundel Castle and dinner in the evening at Wiston House, a mansion of Tudor origin near Steyning, West Sussex. So a short audience-participation seminar was held in the conference room of the manor, covering the history of dislocations and the history of the conference series. We were also able to extend the appreciation of the life of Prof. Yuri Ossipyan (15 Feb 1931 - 10 Sep 2008) briefly given at EDS2008. EDS2010 continued the drive into graphene-based materials with a session devoted to them, and it gave immense pleasure to many of us who were his former students to dedicate a session to the work of Professor R Jones. We are grateful to his present and former co-workers who came and presented an impressive perspective on their work with him and a vision of a vigorous future for him in his retirement and for AIMPRO, the current Density Functional Theory code that derives from the one he established with his former student, Dr Patrick Briddon. For EDS2010 we made two minor modifications to the appearance of the conference: a central webpage www.eds-conferences.org, ably managed by our webmaster, Dr Gemma Haffenden, and a Facebook page, "EDS conference series", which Dr Amy Gandy runs enthusiastically. Amongst other things the conference photographs appear here. "I like this". In fact, currently 22 FB-ers "like this" and I am sure it will grow. Finally, it is a pleasure to acknowledge the significant contributions of Co-Chair, Prof. Marek Skowronski, Conference Manager, Dr Christopher Latham, and the editors of this volume, Drs Jon Goss and Chris Ewels, who in turn wish to thank Dr Alexis Vlandas for his help proof reading the articles. We all wish the best of luck to Prof. Philomela Khomninou and her team in the organisation of EDS2012.

Preface to QoIS 2009

Science.gov (United States)

Comyn-Wattiau, Isabelle; Thalheim, Bernhard

Quality assurance is a growing research domain within the Information Systems (IS) and Conceptual Modeling (CM) disciplines. Ongoing research on quality in IS and CM is highly diverse and encompasses theoretical aspects including quality definition and quality models, and practical/empirical aspects such as the development of methods, approaches and tools for quality measurement and improvement. Current research on quality also includes quality characteristics definitions, validation instruments, methodological and development approaches to quality assurance during software and information systems development, quality monitors, quality assurance during information systems development processes and practices, quality assurance both for data and (meta)schemata, quality support for information systems data import and export, quality of query answering, and cost/benefit analysis of quality assurance processes. Quality assurance is also depending on the application area and the specific requirements in applications such as health sector, logistics, public sector, financial sector, manufacturing, services, e-commerce, software, etc. Furthermore, quality assurance must also be supported for data aggregation, ETL processes, web content management and other multi-layered applications. Quality assurance is typically requiring resources and has therefore beside its benefits a computational and economical trade-off. It is therefore also based on compromising between the value of quality data and the cost for quality assurance.

FOREWORD: Jefferson Lab: A Long Decade of Physics

Science.gov (United States)

Montgomery, Hugh

2011-04-01

Jefferson Lab Jefferson Lab was created in 1984 and started operating in about 1996. 2011 is an appropriate time to try to take a look at the results that have appeared, what has been learned, and what has been exciting for our scientific community. Rather than attempt to construct a coherent view with a single author or at least a small number, we have, instead, invited small groups of people who have been intimately involved in the work itself to make contributions. These people are accelerator experts, experimentalists and theorists, staff and users. We have, in the main, sought reviews of the actual sub-fields. The primary exception is the first paper, which sets the scene as it was, in one person's view, at the beginning of Jefferson Lab. In reviewing the material as it appeared, I was impressed by the breadth of the material. Major advances are documented from form factors to structure functions, from spectroscopy to physics beyond the standard model of nuclear and particle physics. Recognition of the part played by spin, the helicities of the beams, the polarizations of the targets, and the polarizations of final state particles, is inescapable. Access to the weak interaction amplitudes through measurements of the parity violating asymmetries has led to quantification of the strange content of the nucleon and the neutron radius of lead, and to measurements of the electroweak mixing angle. Lattice QCD calculations flourished and are setting the platform for understanding of the spectroscopy of baryons and mesons. But the star of the game was the accelerator. Its performance enabled the physics and also the use of the technology to generate a powerful free electron laser. These important pieces of Jefferson Lab physics are given their place. As the third Director of Jefferson Lab, and on behalf of the other physicists and others presently associated with the lab, I would like to express my admiration and gratitude for the efforts of the directors, chief

Trends '91: A compendium of data on global change---highlights

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Boden, T.A.; Sepanski, R.J.; Stoss, F.W.

1992-03-01

The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been prompted to produce the series Trends, a concise inventory of data in response to heightened concern about global environmental issues, in particular climate changes induced by the greenhouse effect. This report contains extracts from Trends '91 to illustrate the content, style, and presentation of data contained in the full 700-page report. This report includes a listing of the investigators contributing data for Trends '91. In addition, it contains the abstract, foreword, and acknowledgments, as well as the introduction and a sample data record from each of the reports's five chapters. The chapters are ''Atmospheric CO 2 ,'' ''Atmospheric CH 4 ,'' ''Other Trace Gases,'' ''CO 2 Emissions,'' and ''Temperature.'' Appendix A provides information about CDIAC and its activities related to global environmental issues. Appendix B lists the contents of the full report. An order form for obtaining a free copy of Trends '91 is found in Appendix C

Content Maps: A Teaching and Assessment Tool for Content Knowledge

Science.gov (United States)

Ward, Phillip; Lehwald, Harry; Lee, Yun Soo

2015-01-01

Developing content knowledge in teachers presents a constant challenge for teacher educators. This article introduces a teaching and assessment tool called a "content map," which allows teacher educators, teachers, and coaches to conceptualize the scope, sequence, and relational characteristics of the content being taught. Content maps…

In conversation with: Professor Richard James

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

John Clarke

2014-03-01

Full Text Available In 2011, Richard James wrote in the Foreword to Nelson, Clarke, Kift, and Creagh’s (2012 monograph on Australasian literature on the First Year Experience that:The trend towards universal participation will usher in dramatic changes in the character of the first year in higher education. … (p. iiiIn an interview at the University of Melbourne, Australia in July 2013 between Richard James and John Clarke, Co-editor of the International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, these and related issues were explored.  The interview picks up where the Foreword left off:  focussing on universal participation.

[Foucault, Derrida, and the history of madness: notes on a controversy].

Science.gov (United States)

Pereira Neto, A F

1998-01-01

The publication of the book Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la Folie à l'Age Classique (1961), by Michel Foucault, sparked a debate between the author and philosopher Jacques Derrida during the 1960s and 70s. Derrida criticized the methodological proposal and organization of the History of Madness presented by Foucault in the foreword to the first edition. The controversy appears to have motivated the author to withdraw this same foreword from the second edition. The purpose of this article is to analyze some current points in this controversy. It also presents a research agenda for an understanding of the reasons leading Foucault to take this stance.

An intelligent content discovery technique for health portal content management.

Science.gov (United States)

De Silva, Daswin; Burstein, Frada

2014-04-23

Continuous content management of health information portals is a feature vital for its sustainability and widespread acceptance. Knowledge and experience of a domain expert is essential for content management in the health domain. The rate of generation of online health resources is exponential and thereby manual examination for relevance to a specific topic and audience is a formidable challenge for domain experts. Intelligent content discovery for effective content management is a less researched topic. An existing expert-endorsed content repository can provide the necessary leverage to automatically identify relevant resources and evaluate qualitative metrics. This paper reports on the design research towards an intelligent technique for automated content discovery and ranking for health information portals. The proposed technique aims to improve efficiency of the current mostly manual process of portal content management by utilising an existing expert-endorsed content repository as a supporting base and a benchmark to evaluate the suitability of new content A model for content management was established based on a field study of potential users. The proposed technique is integral to this content management model and executes in several phases (ie, query construction, content search, text analytics and fuzzy multi-criteria ranking). The construction of multi-dimensional search queries with input from Wordnet, the use of multi-word and single-word terms as representative semantics for text analytics and the use of fuzzy multi-criteria ranking for subjective evaluation of quality metrics are original contributions reported in this paper. The feasibility of the proposed technique was examined with experiments conducted on an actual health information portal, the BCKOnline portal. Both intermediary and final results generated by the technique are presented in the paper and these help to establish benefits of the technique and its contribution towards effective

Mechanical action of light of atoms

National Research Council Canada - National Science Library

Kazan︠t︡sev, A. P; Surdutovich, G. I; I︡Akovlev, V. P

1990-01-01

... should be useful to both experts and beginners in laser physics and q u a n t u m optics.This page is intentionally left blankCONTENTS Preface v Introduction 1 C h a p t e r 1. C o h e r e n t I n t e r a c t i o n b e t w e e n A t o m s a n d F i e l d . 9 1. The Hamiltonian of Atom-Field Interaction 2. Light Pressure Force 2.1. Adiabatic states. Nonresonant pot...

Visions of Discovery

Science.gov (United States)

Chiao, Raymond Y.; Cohen, Marvin L.; Leggett, Anthony J.; Phillips, William D.; Harper, Charles L., Jr.

2010-10-01

List of contributors; Foreword Charles H. Townes; Editors' preface; Preface Freeman J. Dyson; Laureates' preface: reflections from four physics Nobelists Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodore W. Hänsch and Wolfgang Ketterle; Acknowledgments; Part I. Illumination: The History and Future of Physical Science and Technology: 1. A short history of light in the Western world John L. Heilbron; 2. Tools and innovation Peter L. Galison; 3. The future of science Freeman J. Dyson; 4. The end of everything: will AI replace humans? Will everything die when the universe freezes over? Michio Kaku; Part II. Fundamental Physics and Quantum Mechanics: 5. Fundamental constants Frank Wilczek; 6. New insights on time symmetry in quantum mechanics Yakir Aharonov and Jeffrey Tollaksen; 7. The major unknowns in particle physics and cosmology David J. Gross; 8. The major unknown in quantum mechanics: Is it the whole truth? Anthony J. Leggett; 9. Precision cosmology and the landscape Raphael Bousso; 10. Hairy black holes, phase transitions, and AdS/CFT Steven S. Gubser; Part III. Astrophysics and Astronomy: 11. The microwave background: a cosmic time machine Adrian T. Lee; 12. Dark matter and dark energy Marc Kamionkowski; 13. New directions and intersections for observational cosmology: the case of dark energy Saul Perlmutter; 14. Inward bound: high-resolution astronomy and the quest for black holes and extrasolar planets Reinhard Genzel; 15. Searching for signatures of life beyond the solar system: astrophysical interferometry and the 150 km Exo-Earth Imager Antoine Labeyrie; 16. New directions for gravitational wave physics via 'Millikan oil drops' Raymond Y. Chiao; 17. An 'ultrasonic' image of the embryonic universe: CMB polarization tests of the inflationary paradigm Brian G. Keating; Part IV. New Approaches in Technology and Science: 18. Visualizing complexity: development of 4D microscopy and diffraction for imaging in space and time Ahmed H. Zewail; 19. Is life based on laws of

FOREWORD: Special section on electromagnetic characterization of buried obstacles

Science.gov (United States)

Lesselier, Dominique; Chew, Weng Cho

2004-12-01

), and was co-ordinated by the Guest Editors, D Lesselier and T Habashy, and comprised 14 invited papers; and `Electromagnetic and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation', which was published in December 2002 (volume 18, issue 6), was organized by the Guest Editors, D Lesselier and J Bowler, and comprised 12 invited papers. In particular in the latter special section, it was noted in the foreword that: `Much of the research effort in NDE (nondestructive evaluation) is aligned with the interests of the broader community of scientists and engineers who study inverse problems and their applications in areas such as geophysics, medical imaging, remote sensing or underwater acoustics, to mention but a few. Indeed, many of the basic methods adopted for NDE including tomography, synthetic aperture techniques and iterative inversions, under many guises, are widely used in these other areas'. In a similar fashion, the foreword of the former special section noted that: `Many developments have been driven by several new applications and some old ones, such as mathematical physics, atmospheric sciences, geophysical prospecting, quantum mechanics, remote sensing, underwater acoustics, nondestructive testing and evaluation, medical imaging, to mention only a few'. One was confronted in these two previous special sections, as one is confronted today, with the same difficult endeavour: a signal resulting from the interrogation of an object embedded in some complicated medium by a probing radiation contains arcane, encoded information about this object. Inversion is the procedure by which this signal is transformed into some intelligible, decoded form in order to provide the user with some of this information. This could be estimates of locations, volumes, boundaries, shapes, values, and distributions of electromagnetic (elastic) constitutive parameters. This endeavour forces us to go from mathematical theory to numerical solution methods, to validation from laboratory-controlled data, to

Preface: Irgac 2006

Science.gov (United States)

Solà Joan

2007-06-01

, Joan Camps, Noela Fariña, Javier Grande, Laia Jornet, David López Val, Guillem Pérez and Hrvoje Štefančić. I cannot finish without mentioning Dolors (my wife) and Clara (my daughter) who suffered during the many months I had to devote to the detailed organization of this event, a task that I had to combine of course with the research work and the ordinary duties of any university professor. In fact, although the conference took place during just those five (sunny) days of July 2006 mentioned above, the first preliminary searches for speakers had begun in mid-2004, and now I still find myself writing this preface in May 2007—roughly three years' intermittent work for just a one-week event! No complaints whatsoever, of course. I just feel immensely gratified knowing in my heart that most of the participants, if not all of them, truly enjoyed IRGAC 2006 in Barcelona. The challenge was worth it!

A study of real-time content marketing : formulating real-time content marketing based on content, search and social media

OpenAIRE

Nguyen, Thi Kim Duyen

2015-01-01

The primary objective of this research is to understand profoundly the new concept of content marketing – real-time content marketing on the aspect of the digital marketing experts. Particularly, the research will focus on the real-time content marketing theories and how to build real-time content marketing strategy based on content, search and social media. It also finds out how marketers measure and keep track of conversion rates of their real-time content marketing plan. Practically, th...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Benage, J. F.; Dufty, J. W.; Murillo, M. S.

2003-06-01

conference, including 34 invited speakers. Unfortunately, some international speakers could not attend due to problems with obtaining visas, and we deeply regret the difficulties and lost opportunities. These individuals and all others giving presentations at the conference, including invited plenary and topical talks and posters, were asked to contribute to this special issue and most have done so. We trust that this special issue will accurately record the contents of the conference, and provide a valuable resource for researchers in this rapidly evolving field. We would like to thank all members of the International Advisory Board for their contributions to the conference. In particular, we thank Chairman Jean-Pierre Hansen for his diligent work at coordinating the International Advisory Board, the Programme Committee and the Local Organizing Committee. Of course, nothing would have been possible without the dedicated efforts of the Local Organizing Committee. We wish to thank the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Theoretical, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science and Technology divisions) and Sandia National Laboratory (Pulsed Power Sciences) for sponsoring this conference. We also gratefully acknowledge the administrative support we received from Marianna Martinez, Marion Hutton and Ellie Vigil of Los Alamos National Laboratory, all of whom were major contributors to the success of the conference. John F Benage, James W Dufty and Michael S Murillo Guest Editors Please see PDF for photograph of conference participants. Local Organizing Committee J F Benage Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA M Desjarlais Sandia National Laboratory, USA G J Kalman Boston College, USA J Kress Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA M S Murillo Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA G Ortiz Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA J Weisheit Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA SCCS International Advisory Board A Alastuey Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France D Andelman Tel Aviv University

Naturalising Representational Content

Science.gov (United States)

Shea, Nicholas

2014-01-01

This paper sets out a view about the explanatory role of representational content and advocates one approach to naturalising content – to giving a naturalistic account of what makes an entity a representation and in virtue of what it has the content it does. It argues for pluralism about the metaphysics of content and suggests that a good strategy is to ask the content question with respect to a variety of predictively successful information processing models in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience; and hence that data from psychology and cognitive neuroscience should play a greater role in theorising about the nature of content. Finally, the contours of the view are illustrated by drawing out and defending a surprising consequence: that individuation of vehicles of content is partly externalist. PMID:24563661

Digital Content Strategies

OpenAIRE

Halbheer, Daniel; Stahl, Florian; Koenigsberg, Oded; Lehmann, Donald R

2013-01-01

This paper studies content strategies for online publishers of digital information goods. It examines sampling strategies and compares their performance to paid content and free content strategies. A sampling strategy, where some of the content is offered for free and consumers are charged for access to the rest, is known as a "metered model" in the newspaper industry. We analyze optimal decisions concerning the size of the sample and the price of the paid content when sampling serves the dua...

The role of content marketing in social media content communities

OpenAIRE

Charmaine du Plessis

2017-01-01

Background: Content marketing has become a leading marketing technique in digital marketing communication and uses the point of view of consumers to build relationships by creating and sharing engaging content in social media that enhance their daily lives. Existing research on social media communities has focused mainly on social media marketing and virtual brand community perspectives while content marketing’s valuable and unobtrusive role in social media content communities has largely bee...

PREFACE International Symposium on Spintronic Devices and Commercialization 2010

Science.gov (United States)

Du, You-wei; Judy, Jack; Qian, Zhenghong; Wang, Jianping

2011-01-01

SSDC logo Preface The International Symposium on Spintronic Devices and Commercialization (ISSDC' 2010) was held in Beijing, China, from 21 to 24 October 2010. The aim of the symposium was to provide an opportunity for international experts, academics, researchers, practitioners and students working in the areas of spintronic theories, spintronic materials, and spintronic devices to exchange information on the R&D and commercialization of spintronic materials and devices. New developments, concepts, future research trends and potential commercialization areas were also discussed. The topics covered by ISSDC' 2010 were: Fundmental Spintronic Theories/Experiments Spin polarization, spin-dependent scattering, spin relaxation, spin manipulation and optimization, as well as other related characterizations and applications, etc. Spintronic Materials Giant magnetoresistance materials, magnetic tunnel junction materials, magnetic semiconductor materials, molecular spintronic materials. Spintronic Devices Sensors, isolators, spin logic devices and magnetic random access memories (MRAMs), microwave devices, spin diodes, spin transistor, spin filters and detectors, spin optoelectronic devices, spin quantum devices, single chip computer, spin molecule and single electron devices. Other Magnetic Materials Soft magnetic materials, hard magnetic materials, magneto-optical materials, magnetostriction materials. Applications of Spintronic Devices Magnetic position/angle/velocity/rotation velocity sensors, magnetic encoders, magnetic compasses, bio-medical magnetic devices and other applications. Future Research Trends and the Commercialization of Spintronic Devices Approximately 85 scientists from almost 10 countries participated in the conference. The conference featured 6 keynote lectures, 8 invited lectures, 12 contributed lectures and about 30 posters. We would like to express our gratitude to all participants for their presentations and discussions, which made the conference

Technical note - the incorporation of ash content into gas content

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Creech, M.; Mahoney, M. [Powercoal Pty. Ltd., Budgewoi, NSW (Australia)

1995-12-31

For gas content analysis in recent years, it has been standard procedure to report results on a `dry ash free` (daf) basis, under the assumption that gas only adsorbs onto coaly material. In order to test the relationship between ash and gas content, samples of various rock types were taken from two drillholes in the Newcastle Coalfield. The results of this study confirmed the correlation between gas content and ash, providing an accurate means of relating gas contents for all carbonaceous rock types. 4 refs., 5 figs., 1 tab.

[Relativity among starch quantity, polysaccharides content and total alkaloid content of Dendrobium loddigesii].

Science.gov (United States)

Zhu, Hua; Teng, Jianbei; Cai, Yi; Liang, Jie; Zhu, Yilin; Wei, Tao

2011-12-01

To find out the relativity among starch quantity, polysaccharides content and total alkaloid content of Dendrobium loddigesii. Microscopy-counting process was applied to starch quantity statistics, sulfuric acid-anthrone colorimetry was used to assay polysaccharides content and bromocresol green colorimetry was used to assay alkaloid content. Pearson product moment correlation analysis, Kendall's rank correlation analysis and Spearman's concordance coefficient analysis were applied to study their relativity. Extremely significant positive correlation was found between starch quantity and polysaccharides content, and significant negative correlation between alkaloid content and starch quantity was discovered, as well was between alkaloid content and polysaccharides content.

Adolescent judgment of sexual content on television: implications for future content analysis research.

Science.gov (United States)

Manganello, Jennifer A; Henderson, Vani R; Jordan, Amy; Trentacoste, Nicole; Martin, Suzanne; Hennessy, Michael; Fishbein, Martin

2010-07-01

Many studies of sexual messages in media utilize content analysis methods. At times, this research assumes that researchers and trained coders using content analysis methods and the intended audience view and interpret media content similarly. This article compares adolescents' perceptions of the presence or absence of sexual content on television to those of researchers using three different coding schemes. Results from this formative research study suggest that participants and researchers are most likely to agree with content categories assessing manifest content, and that differences exist among adolescents who view sexual messages on television. Researchers using content analysis methods to examine sexual content in media and media effects on sexual behavior should consider identifying how audience characteristics may affect interpretation of content and account for audience perspectives in content analysis study protocols when appropriate for study goals.

What is Liquid? Foreword

Czech Academy of Sciences Publication Activity Database

Henderson, D.; Holovko, M.; Nezbeda, Ivo; Trokhymchuk, A.

2015-01-01

Roč. 18, č. 1 (2015), 10101-1-10101-4 ISSN 1607-324X Institutional support: RVO:67985858 Keywords : fluid * liquid * physics modelling Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 0.621, year: 2015

Foreword: Mervyn Silas Paterson

Science.gov (United States)

Boland, J. N.

Born on March 7, 1925 at Booleroo, South Australia, Mervyn Paterson's childhood revolved around life on the family farm. His father was a methodist lay preacher and the local church with its practices was part of his early experiences—it is rare nowadays for people to attend church services four times on Sunday! His early life contrasted markedly with Maginnis Magee of Australian bush fame, whom the namesake poet A. B. Paterson described so colorfully in A Bush Christening: "On the outer Barcoo where the churches are a few, And men of religion are scanty". Mervyn's early sharing of the beauties of nature developed, no doubt, during those peaceful moments as he rode his horse to the local bush school. Such interests continue to this day with his frequent treks from his home in the suburb of Aranda to the lab through the picturesque, relatively unspoilt forest that adorns Black Mountain in Canberra. Mervyn grew up with a respect for nature tempered by an experiential awareness of its hazards as in 1939 he drove with his father through one of those horrendous, nightmarish bushfires that periodically sweep through the Australia bushland, as they transferred the family possessions from one farm to another.

FOREWORD: V S Letokhov

Science.gov (United States)

Stroke, H. Henry; Linnartz, Harold

2012-04-01

Comments on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (CAMOP) endeavors periodically to devote an issue to the life and accomplishments of physicists who have made significant contributions to the fields represented in this journal. Vladilen Letokhov is certainly one of them. For a number of years he was also a CAMOP Correspondent. We are grateful to Professor Victor Balykin for having organized this CAMOP special section. It is particularly significant to one of us (HHS) to remember a person who has made seminal advances in so many areas which to this day are at the forefront of studies by a number of physicists. But over the years this acquaintance developed into friendship and gave the wife of one of us, Norma, and HHS the opportunity to host Tina and Vladik in their home, and get to know both a bit better. There was also the seminal International School on Laser Applications in Physics in Vilnius organized by Letokhov, and then a visit to Troitsk and his group at the Institute of Spectroscopy (and even the organization of a couple of piano recitals by one of our daughters, Marija, who accompanied her parents in the then USSR). Our interests crossed in a couple of fields: laser interactions with atoms and sensitive spectroscopy of radioactive atoms. Letokhov was a participant in the early organization of laser spectroscopy at CERN and was instrumental in providing copper vapour lasers to the isotope separator facility, ISOLDE. To this day laser ion sources are under the aegis of Valentin Fedoseyev who came to CERN from Troitsk. The interaction of lasers with atoms, in particular the process of slowing atoms, is discussed by Balykin. It was Christmas time when a card arrived from Oleg Tumanov of the Institute of Spectroscopy: it included a graph of temperature achieved by laser cooling as a function of calendar date. The results of Letokhov's group were the earliest (see figure 1), even though lower temperatures achieved subsequently by others extended our knowledge. To many, the lack of formal recognition was a bit puzzling, and this will have to await the usual number of decades before relevant discussions become publicSee, for example, Friedman R M 2001 The Politics of Excellence (New York: Henry Holt).. But, as can be attested by the most prolific, diverse and creative contributions presented in the bibliography, Letokhov's work will leave a long-lasting legacy. Progress in laser cooling Figure 1. Progress in laser cooling.

Foreword/Prólogo

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Tufte, Thomas

2012-01-01

"Bringing together 32 scholars contributing 27 chapters, this book, entitled 'Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities' delivers a fascinating cross-disciplinary insight into some of the current social and mediatized dynamics that inform identitary processes in...

Foreword: Biology/embodiment/desire.

Science.gov (United States)

Terry, Jennifer; Willey, Angela

2018-04-03

The sexological roots of "lesbian" and the "queer" turn from biologized categories of sexual difference pose an exciting set of questions and tensions for thinking about queer feminism and biological meanings. This issue seeks to open space to explore how we might reconcile assumptions about "female same-sex sexuality" that often accompany "lesbian" with queer and trans-feminist treatments of science, embodiment, and desiring, while at the same time insisting on the importance of an undertheorized dyke legacy for thinking the at-once material and political nature of sexuality.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Gorse, D.; Boutard, J.-L.

2002-09-01

, limitations of existing sensors and proposed new developments allowing to interpret e.m.f measurements at temperatures well below 450 °C. Intercomparisons between oxygen sensors, using various static facilities (BIP, JACOMEX and COLIMESTA) were carried out by J.-L. Courouau et al. This study is now going on including our EU partners in the closely related TECLA program granted by the 5th framework program. C. Lesueur et al. developed original methods for measuring wettability, permitting to determine the stability of native oxides (on Al, Fe, Ni and also T91 steel) in contact with molten lead. A. Maitre et al. presented a preliminary thermodynamic study of the quinary Bi-Fe-Hg-O-Pb system, beginning with the Bi-Hg-Pb system. No solid ternary phase was found in Pb-Bi eutectic in the temperature range expected for the spallation target. Then the authors focused on the possible formation of oxygenated compounds of low melting point either at the T91 steel/Pb or at the T91 steel/Pb-Bi eutectic interface. Section 4 concerns the resistance to LMC and LME of structural materials pre-selected for the spallation target of ADS, with special emphasis on the liquid Pb-Bi eutectic target concept. The compatibility of 9% Cr martensitic steels (like EM10 or T91...) with liquid Pb and Pb-Bi eutectic was examined. Qualification of the T91 steel/LBE system is required to build the liquid Pb-Bi target in PSI in 2005 and for further applications. A comparative study of the long-term corrosion behaviour of various martensitic and austenitic steels in forced circulation loop was carried out by F. Balbaud-Celerier et al. allowing to vary the temperature and oxygen content in LBE covering the range 10-8wt% -10-6wt.% . This work results from a fruitful collaboration with IPPE (Obninsk, Russia). The two following papers of Section 4 deal with the tensile behaviour of T91 steel in contact with lead and its alloys. The most severe metallurgical (J.-B. Vogt et al.) and environmental (J.-L. Pastol et al

Introduction to the theory of relativity

CERN Document Server

Bergmann, Peter Gabriel

1976-01-01

Comprehensive coverage of special theory (frames of reference, Lorentz transformation, more), general theory (principle of equivalence, more) and unified theory (Weyl's gauge-invariant geometry, more.) Foreword by Albert Einstein.

Developmental effects of irradiation on the brain of the embryo and fetus

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Anon.

1987-01-01

This publication represents an evaluation of the data relating to radiation-induced effects on the central nervous system, especially radiation-induced mental retardation;assesses the gestational age at risk and the quantitative risk at low doses;analyses these effects in the light of what is known about cell survival, proliferation, repopulation and differentiation in the development of the fetal rain;and identifies the needs for future research. Contents: Preface;Introduction;Prenatal development of the primate brain and cerebral adnexa;Developmental disorders of the central nervous system;Ionizing radiation as a central nervous system teratogen;Periods of maximum sensitivity;Risk estimates in humans;Research needs;References

Solar energy after Fukushima: the new deal

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Boisgibault, Louis

2011-01-01

This document contains a brief presentation, the preface, and the table of contents of a book which addresses the major technological, regulatory and geostrategic challenges for solar energy in the current energy context. The author outlines the strong emergence of China in this sector, but also that of new opportunities in Africa, and the need for France to strengthen European-Mediterranean collaborations in order not to definitely loose a leadership position. While referring to the environmental context, to practical examples and installations, the author explains the difficult taking off of solar energy before March 2011, why the Fukushima is a turning point for solar energy, and why solar energy will prevail

Local Content

CSIR Research Space (South Africa)

Gibberd, Jeremy

2016-10-01

Full Text Available Local content refers to materials and products made in a country as opposed those that are imported. There is an increasing interest in the concept of local content as a means of supporting local economies and providing jobs (Belderbos & Sleuwaegen...

Review of 'Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives' by Harvey Irwin

OpenAIRE

Roe, Chris A

2014-01-01

Book review of Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives by Harvey Irwin. Foreword by Nancy\\ud Zingrone. Gladesville, NSW, Australia: AIPR Mongraphs, 2013. Pp xv + 106. (paperback). ISBN 9780987077219.

What's More Important--Literacy or Content? Confronting the Literacy-Content Dualism

Science.gov (United States)

Draper, Roni Jo; Smith, Leigh K.; Hall, Kendra M.; Siebert, Daniel

2005-01-01

The literacy-content dualism, which suggests that teachers must decide whether to provide literacy or content instruction, is a false dualism and adherence to it is detrimental to student participation in content-area reasoning, learning, and communicating. This article describes the experiences that prompted the teacher educators who authored…

21 CFR 101.60 - Nutrient content claims for the calorie content of foods.

Science.gov (United States)

2010-04-01

... 21 Food and Drugs 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Nutrient content claims for the calorie content of... Claims § 101.60 Nutrient content claims for the calorie content of foods. (a) General requirements. A claim about the calorie or sugar content of a food may only be made on the label or in the labeling of a...

A Special Issue on Learning in the Workplace.

Science.gov (United States)

Handy, Charles; And Others

1994-01-01

"Foreword" (Handy); "Creda's Vocational Training Scheme" (Bradley); "IBM: Learning for Life" (Stevenson); "Personal Development at Sainsbury's" (Deaves); "Ford Employee Development and Assistance Programmes" (Moore); "Hotpoint North Wales" (Jones); "Derbyshire Employee Development…

Preface: LEHTSC2007

Science.gov (United States)

Oyanagi, Hiroyuki

2008-03-01

discussions. Starting from well-organized reviews of HTSC, the conference developed into detailed lectures. The atmosphere of the conference was open and casual so that everyone, including young scientists who will take on future responsibility, could have the opportunity to participate in constructive discussions. An interactive-mode voluntarymeeting was held before closing the last session which focused on important issues left for future discussions. The conference made us confident that our voyage will certainly continue in the future. In this conference, we took the open access policy. We recorded all talks in the conference as a multimedia, which will be open at the conference web site. The electronic proceeding (Journal of Physics: Conference Series) is an open access journal. By linking multimedia talks and electronic proceeding, scientific contents of LEHTSC2007 are accessible to all researchers around the world. We are optimistic that following conferences will be equally successful and contribute to shortening the time for the discovery of HTSC mechanism. Lastly, I would like to introduce some words from a philosopher that explains the process of finding the truth in the HTSC research. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. —Arthur Schopenhauer Acknowledgements We would like to express our greatest thanks to Kazunobu Tanaka in providing financial support for this conference. The efforts of the local organizing committee are appreciated which persisted for almost a year. Particular thanks are due to Misako Tsutsui for her outstanding work in website design and technical editing of the proceedings. AIST is thanked for the use of the conference rooms and related facilities. We appreciate backup support by The Physical Society of Japan and The Japan Society of Applied Physics. For multimedia recording, we wish to thank Media Site KK for their support and cooperation. We

Plasmaspheric electron content

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Hartmann, G.K.

1978-01-01

Measurements of the plasmaspheric electron content are reviewed with particular reference to the ATS-6 radio beacon experiment. From the review, it appears likely that measurement of the plasmaspheric electron content is the only one capable of monitoring electron fluxes continuously between L 1 and L 2. Some recent important results deduced from plasmaspheric electron content measurements are discussed

Pi a sourcebook on the recent history of Pi and its computation

CERN Document Server

Bailey, David H

2016-01-01

This book contains a compendium of 25 papers published since the 1970s dealing with pi and associated topics of mathematics and computer science. The collection begins with a Foreword by Bruce Berndt. Each contribution is preceded by a brief summary of its content as well as a short key word list indicating how the content relates to others in the collection. The volume includes articles on actual computations of pi, articles on mathematical questions related to pi (e.g., “Is pi normal?”), articles presenting new and often amazing techniques for computing digits of pi (e.g., the “BBP” algorithm for pi, which permits one to compute an arbitrary binary digit of pi without needing to compute any of the digits that came before), papers presenting important fundamental mathematical results relating to pi, and papers presenting new, high-tech techniques for analyzing pi (i.e., new graphical techniques that permit one to visually see if pi and other numbers are “normal”). his volume="" is="" a="" compani...

CHAIRMEN'S PREFACE AND EDITORS' NOTE: Unification of Fundamental Interactions

Science.gov (United States)

Brink, Lars; Nilsson, Jan S.; Salomonson, Per; Skagerstam, Bo-Sture

1987-01-01

Chairmen's PrefaceIn 1984 we obtained a grant from the Nobel Foundation to organize a Nobel Symposium on "Unification of the Fundamental Interactions". In our proposal which we submitted in the fall of 1983 we stated that we wanted to cover the various attempts to unification such as GUT'S, supergravity, Kaluza-Klein theories and superstrings. What has happened in particle physics since then is already history. With the realization that certain superstring theories could be anomaly free, it became clear that these models could encompass earlier attempts to unification as well as solving the fundamental problem of quantum gravity. The excitement that some of us had felt for some time now spread through most of the particle physics community and this excitement certainly was evident during the Symposium. With the international advisory committee we originally chose a list of around 30 invitees which could best represent the various subjects listed above. When it came to the final planning of the programme essentially all talks dealt with superstrings! We were very fortunate that almost all of the invitees managed to come to the Symposium. From the western world only three were unable to participate, André Neveu, Steven Weinberg and Bruno Zumino. We certainly missed them during the meeting. We were particularly happy that Stephen Hawking managed to take part actively. Our real problem was to get participants from the Soviet Union. Out of eight invitations only one came through. We were very happy to have Renata Kallosh, who really did her utmost to enlighten us about not only her own work but also about recent progress in the USSR, However, we were very sorry that in spite of all our letters, telegrammes and endless attempts to get telephone calls through and despite the good relations between the Swedish and Soviet Academies of Sciences we had to miss Ludwig Faddeev, Valodja Gribov, Andrej Linde, Victor Ogievetsky, Sasha Polyakov, Misha Shifman and Arkadij

FOREWORD: Dr Trevor J Hicks Dr Trevor J Hicks

Science.gov (United States)

Goossens, Darren

2009-03-01

This issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter has been assembled to recognize the valuable contribution of Dr Trevor J Hicks to the field of neutron scattering and magnetism. Trevor began his study of magnetism as a PhD student at Monash University in Melbourne in the early 1960s, working with Professor Jack Smith. From the very beginning magnetism in alloys, and disordered systems in general, became a key aspect of his career. After a postdoctoral position at Harwell working with Dr Graeme Low Trevor returned to Australia and took up a position with Monash. He soon became a key figure in developing the capability for neutron scattering using the HIFAR reactor at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, now the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, ANSTO. The instrumentation was always developed to further his studies of magnetism. The development of polarization analysis measurements of diffuse magnetic scattering, first using iron filters and then his own design of supermirror benders for beam polarization, took place through the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s. Throughout this time, Trevor mentored a series of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have contributed to this issue (and, indeed, guest edited it). As befits a scientist and university academic for whom teaching has always been important, Trevor has not only created a strong body of significant research, he has also made a major contribution to preparing several generations of neutron scattering scientists, and this issue reflects that. When I approached Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter with a proposal for an issue in honour of Trevor, the response was immediate and positive. It is with great pleasure that I present the result of that proposal. The great diversity of the content, all centred on neutron scattering and magnetism, reflects the breadth of Trevor's own career and of the scientists with whom he has interacted. Finally, I would like to make some

Sharing of Alcohol-Related Content on Social Networking Sites: Frequency, Content, and Correlates.

Science.gov (United States)

Erevik, Eilin K; Torsheim, Torbjørn; Vedaa, Øystein; Andreassen, Cecilie S; Pallesen, Ståle

2017-05-01

The present study aimed to explore students' reports of their sharing of alcohol-related content on different social networking sites (i.e., frequency of sharing and connotations of alcohol-related posts), and to identify indicators of such posting. Students at the four largest institutions for higher education in Bergen, Norway, were invited to participate in an Internet-based survey. The sample size was 11,236 (a 39.4% response rate). The survey included questions about disclosure of alcohol-related content on social networking sites, alcohol use (using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test), personality factors (using the Mini-IPIP), and demographic characteristics. Binary logistic regressions were used to analyze indicators of frequent sharing of alcohol-related content depicting positive and negative aspects of alcohol use. A majority of the students had posted alcohol-related content (71.0%), although few reported having done so frequently. Positive aspects of alcohol use (e.g., enjoyment or social community) were most frequently shared. Young, single, and extroverted students with high alcohol consumption were more likely to report frequent sharing of alcohol-related content. Positive attitudes toward posting alcohol-related content and reports of exposure to such content particularly increased the likelihood of one's own posting of alcohol-related content. Positive aspects of alcohol use seem to be emphasized on social networking sites. Sharing of alcohol-related content is associated with heightened alcohol use, which implies that such sites can be relevant for prevention agents. Social influence from social networking sites, such as exposure to others' alcohol-related content, is associated with one's own sharing of similar content.

Qualitative Content Analysis

OpenAIRE

Philipp Mayring

2000-01-01

The article describes an approach of systematic, rule guided qualitative text analysis, which tries to preserve some methodological strengths of quantitative content analysis and widen them to a concept of qualitative procedure. First the development of content analysis is delineated and the basic principles are explained (units of analysis, step models, working with categories, validity and reliability). Then the central procedures of qualitative content analysis, inductive development of ca...

Qualitative Content Analysis

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Satu Elo

2014-02-01

Full Text Available Qualitative content analysis is commonly used for analyzing qualitative data. However, few articles have examined the trustworthiness of its use in nursing science studies. The trustworthiness of qualitative content analysis is often presented by using terms such as credibility, dependability, conformability, transferability, and authenticity. This article focuses on trustworthiness based on a review of previous studies, our own experiences, and methodological textbooks. Trustworthiness was described for the main qualitative content analysis phases from data collection to reporting of the results. We concluded that it is important to scrutinize the trustworthiness of every phase of the analysis process, including the preparation, organization, and reporting of results. Together, these phases should give a reader a clear indication of the overall trustworthiness of the study. Based on our findings, we compiled a checklist for researchers attempting to improve the trustworthiness of a content analysis study. The discussion in this article helps to clarify how content analysis should be reported in a valid and understandable manner, which would be of particular benefit to reviewers of scientific articles. Furthermore, we discuss that it is often difficult to evaluate the trustworthiness of qualitative content analysis studies because of defective data collection method description and/or analysis description.

Thresholds and Q values of nuclear reactions induced by neutrons, protons, deuterons, tritons, 3He ions, alpha particles, and photons. UCRL-50400, Vol. 24

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Howerton, R.J.

1981-01-01

The document contains a Foreword, an Abstract, an Introduction and References to be included in the volume 24 of the UCRL-50400 series (An Integrated System for Production of Neutronics and Photonics Calculational Constants)

Imaging gaseous detectors and their applications

CERN Document Server

Nappi, Eugenio

2013-01-01

Covers the detector and imaging technology and their numerous applications in nuclear and high energy physics, astrophysics, medicine and radiation measurements Foreword from G. Charpak, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention.

State of the Environment Report of the Slovak Republic 2009

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Klinda, J.; Lieskovska, Z.

2010-01-01

The State of the Environment Report in its content, targeting and evaluation of large amounts of data and information aims to promote environmental awareness of society and concern for the environment, environmental responsibility steadily increase the population of the Slovak Republic, as well as promoting public participation in decision-making concerning the environment. Therefore, the report in question has a unique place well in meeting other priorities resulting from the Manifesto of the Government - to promote environmental education in school and out-sphere. The following sections of the report are included: Foreword; Complex environmental monitoring and information system; Components of the environment and their protection; Nature and landscape protection; Cities and a rural environment; Regional classification; Environmental classification; Major cumulative environmental problems; State of the environment - causes and consequences; Environmental risk factors; Environmental care; International co-operation; Abbreviations and texts to figures.

ティリッヒの弁証学的神学の理念をめぐって

OpenAIRE

菊地, 順

1996-01-01

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) described the basic purpose and structure of his theology in the preface to his Systematic Theology, vol.1 (1951). According to this preface, his theology is an “apologetic theology.” He sometimes uses a substitute for the traditional term “apologetic”, calling his theology an “answering” theology. By this he means a theology that seeks to respond to problems in the contemporary situation by means of Christian conceptions. This idea of “apology” constitutes the basis ...

New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Wintec

New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials. Foreword. 'Materials' has ... Solution phase chemistry is a central aspect of materials as demonstrated by. Panchakarla and ... Changes at the atomic scale affect bulk properties such as ...

Experimental researches in chemistry and physics

CERN Document Server

Faraday, Michael

2003-01-01

A classic text from Michael Faraday with a new foreword by J. M. Thomas. This essential read for all physicists will give an insight into the mind of one of the greatest scientists of recent centuries.

Content provision and multi-homing

OpenAIRE

Pires, Armando J. Garcia

2015-01-01

We analyze the effects of multi-homing consumers on content provision by media firms. We develop a model where media firms compete on content provision and advertising revenues, and consumers enjoy network effects from consuming content that other consumers also consume. Media firms have to choose if they are single-content or multi-content, and in the latter case how much content to offer. Competition for advertising revenues gives a two-sided market nature to our model, since advertisers pr...

Sadhana | Indian Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Statistical Techniques in Electrical and Computer Engineering. pp 79-79. Foreword · P S Sastry ... Linear filtering with Ornstein–Ulhenbeck process as noise · Abhay G Bhatt ... Complexity control in statistical learning · Sameer M Jalnapurkar.

Raamat eesti naiste saatustest / Ülo Ignats

Index Scriptorium Estoniae

Ignats, Ülo, 1951-2011

2006-01-01

rets. rmt.: Carrying Linda´s stones: an anthology of Estonian women´s life stories/ editors Suzanne Stiver Lie ...[ et al.]; foreword by H. E. Aldona Wos. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2006. 600 lk. : ill, kaart

Content validity and its estimation

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Yaghmale F

2003-04-01

Full Text Available Background: Measuring content validity of instruments are important. This type of validity can help to ensure construct validity and give confidence to the readers and researchers about instruments. content validity refers to the degree that the instrument covers the content that it is supposed to measure. For content validity two judgments are necessary: the measurable extent of each item for defining the traits and the set of items that represents all aspects of the traits. Purpose: To develop a content valid scale for assessing experience with computer usage. Methods: First a review of 2 volumes of International Journal of Nursing Studies, was conducted with onlyI article out of 13 which documented content validity did so by a 4-point content validity index (CV! and the judgment of 3 experts. Then a scale with 38 items was developed. The experts were asked to rate each item based on relevance, clarity, simplicity and ambiguity on the four-point scale. Content Validity Index (CVI for each item was determined. Result: Of 38 items, those with CVIover 0.75 remained and the rest were discarded reSulting to 25-item scale. Conclusion: Although documenting content validity of an instrument may seem expensive in terms of time and human resources, its importance warrants greater attention when a valid assessment instrument is to be developed. Keywords: Content Validity, Measuring Content Validity

Content-based intermedia synchronization

Science.gov (United States)

Oh, Dong-Young; Sampath-Kumar, Srihari; Rangan, P. Venkat

1995-03-01

Inter-media synchronization methods developed until now have been based on syntactic timestamping of video frames and audio samples. These methods are not fully appropriate for the synchronization of multimedia objects which may have to be accessed individually by their contents, e.g. content-base data retrieval. We propose a content-based multimedia synchronization scheme in which a media stream is viewed as hierarchial composition of smaller objects which are logically structured based on the contents, and the synchronization is achieved by deriving temporal relations among logical units of media object. content-based synchronization offers several advantages such as, elimination of the need for time stamping, freedom from limitations of jitter, synchronization of independently captured media objects in video editing, and compensation for inherent asynchronies in capture times of video and audio.

Content Marketing Practices in Finland

OpenAIRE

Suuronen, Toni

2016-01-01

The purpose of this study is to draw attention to increasingly important business phenomenon of content marketing. This paper defines content marketing, identifies its key elements and phases, and explores content marketing practices. The theorethical part is based on Pam Didner's 4P model that describes the stages of content marketing cycle: plan, produce, promote and perfect. The empirical part of the study is based on semi-structured interviews of seasoned content marketing professionals t...

mathematical model for scheduling irrigation for swamp rice in port

African Journals Online (AJOL)

2017-03-24

Mar 24, 2017 ... The thirst for increased food production and management of our natural resources (water) .... 16th, 2009. .... formula, Karl Pearson, (1980), was adopted in ..... Hawksworth, D. L., 1985. Foreword. In S.H. Ou, ed. Rice diseases.

A Comparison of Selected Supervisory Skills of Content Specialist and Non-Content Specialist University Supervisors

Science.gov (United States)

Hunt, Kevin; Mitchell, Murray; Maina, Michael; Griffin, Lisa

2015-01-01

The purpose of this study was to describe and contrast selected approaches to the supervision of student teachers between Content Specialist and Non-Content Specialist university supervisors. Content Specialist supervisors were identified as trained university supervisors with a background in physical education. Non-Content Specialist supervisors…

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Brand, van den M.G.J.; Gasevic, D.; Gray, J.; Brand, van den M.G.J.; Gasevic, D.; Gray, J.

2010-01-01

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2009). The conference was held in Denver, Colorado (USA) during October 5–6, 2009 and was co-located with the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

2009-08-01

Full Text Available   The First National Conference on Advances in Superconductivity was the first of a series of conferences in the field of superconductivity planned to be held biannually in one of the universities or scientific research centers in the country. The goal of these meetings is to bring together groups of researchers in the field of experimental and theoretical superconductivity, to discuss their latest research results. Also, to educate and exert the superconductivity phenomenon among the researchers, scholars, and graduate students in the country as well as to introduce the vast applications of superconductivity in the country’s different industries. We hope that these conferences would lead to more collaboration and convergence among the country’s researchers in solving the important challenges remained in the field of superconductivity, and in particular, high temperature superconductivity. It is only through these sharing of experiences that we can fully benefit from our human resources and facilities, and expect a breakthrough in the superconductivity research and its application in the country.   This conference was organized by the National Centre of Excellence in Complex Systems and Condensed Matter, Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology in collaboration with the Iran Physics Society, and took place in the Department of Physics of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran during June 30-31, 2008. Besides many sessions for scientific presentations, the poster section attracted the attention of many. At the end of the conference, a panel discussion was organized by the members of the Scientific Committee and Dr. E. Arzi, Head of the Physics Society of Iran, and the importance of the following points was emphasized:   1- Supporting interdisciplinary research.   2- Proposing group research and joint projects in superconductivity.   3- Proposing application oriented projects in superconductivity.   4- Requesting the authorities to support and equip the superconductivity research laboratories.   5- Requesting authorities of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology to place the field of superconductivity among the country’s scientific research priorities.   6- Considering the research in the interdisciplinary field of nano-superconductivity.   7- Organizing a superconductivity committee formed in the Iran Physics Society.   8- Organizing group scientific activities such as schools and workshops in superconductivity, and inviting eminent international scientists and Nobel laureates in this field.   9- Presenting undergraduate superconductivity course including the standard BCS theory on a yearly basis.   10- Giving special consideration to research in the field of unconventional superconductivity, with proper investment allocation.   One important event in the conference was the recognition given to young scientists (under 40 years and the poster presentation. The Scientific Committee gave the Young Researcher Award and Prize in superconductivity to Dr. A. Jafari from Isfahan University of Technology and Dr. M.R. Mohammadizadeh from University of Tehran for their extended scientific activities in the country and research achievement with the international standards. Also, the best poster award was given to Dr. V. Daadmehr, S. Falahati, and S. Saeb from Alzahra University.   The Science Book Exhibition, especially in the field of superconductivity, was another activity of the conference. The Sharif University of Technology Publishing, Iran Atomic Agency Publishing, Sharif Extended Electronic Teaching, Jahan Adib, Kokab Gheshm, Ammeh International, and University Publishing Centre Companies had extensive participation in the exhibition. This exhibition was well received by the conference participants.   The response of the condensed matter physics community to this conference has been excellent. 74 researchers from various universities and research centers presented their contributions as the following: University of Isfahan (10, Sharif University of Technology (6, Alzahra University (6, Islamic Azad University (5, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz (4, Basic Sciences Research Institution (3, University of Isfahan (3, University of Urmia (2, Institution for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (2, and Kashan University (2 shared contributions, and Ardebili University, Payam Noor University, University of Tabriz, Sabzevar Tarbiat Moallem University, University of Tehran, Khajeh Nasireddin Toosi University of Technology, Ferdousi University, University of Kordestan, University of Kentuky (USA, Communication Research Centre, University of Australia, and University of Yazd, each shared in one contribution. Overall, 24 papers were accepted for the oral and 14 papers for the poster presentations. Finally, in accordance with the standard of the Iranian Physics Research Journal, 25 full papers, of which, 14 in the experiment and 11 in the theory of superconductivity were accepted for publication in the Proceedings. In order to choose each paper, at least two favorable reports were received from the referees.   The organization of this conference was made possible through the financial support of the National Centre of Excellence in Complex Systems and Condensed Matter (Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Magnet Research Laboratory (MRL (Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Alzahra University, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, University of Kordestan, Abasic Industrial Group, and Payvand Adab Cultural and Educational Institution. Also, its success should be credited to the tireless efforts extended by the Organizing Committee, active students staff, and specially, Dr. M. Bahmanabadi. Here, it is necessary to extend our special thanks to each of them.   The successful organization of this conference can be attributed to the active participation of the researchers, scholars, students, and cooperation and support of many colleagues. This has brought about closer understanding and collaboration among the scientists and also between the active laboratories in this field. We hope that the participants carried with them good experience and memories of their presence in the conference. Many will find themselves in the conference photographs taken during the conference, which are shown in the Proceedings. Surely, this successful experience will be carried out to the future conferences, and we will witness successful organization of the future conferences. The Second National Conference on Advances in Superconductivity (NCAS2 will be organized by Dr. M. Zargar Shoushtari and his colleagues in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz during 3-4 Feb., 2010 with the website addresses: www.psi.ir/?ncas2 and www.ncas2.com or email addresses: ncas2@scu.ac.ir and ncas2@psi.ir. We look forward to seeing you all in Ahvaz.       M. Akhavan   N. Nafari   H. Salamati   M. A. Shahzamanian   M. Zargar Shoushtari     Fall 2008

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Franks, Stewart; Boegh, Eva; Blyth, Eleanor

2011-01-01

The hydro-climatological approach of this volume illustrates the scientific and practical value of considering hydrological phenomena and processes in a climate context to improve understanding of controls, process interaction, and past and future variability/change. Contributions deal with under......The hydro-climatological approach of this volume illustrates the scientific and practical value of considering hydrological phenomena and processes in a climate context to improve understanding of controls, process interaction, and past and future variability/change. Contributions deal...... considered. The interdisciplinary approach reveals information and perspective that go beyond the study of cli ate and hydro gy alone...

Preface

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Droste, Ch. [Warsaw Univ., Inst. of Experimental Physics, Nuclear Physics Division, Warsaw (Poland)

1997-12-31

The scientific reports are grouped in two sections: 1. Reaction mechanisms and nuclear structure; 2. Experimental methods and instrumentation. In the first section we present the newly developed technique of identification of hydrogen isotopes in the electromagnetic calorimeter TAPS. It allowed for an exclusive study that evidenced the decay {Delta}{sup +}{yields}p{pi}{sup 0} in nuclear matter at pion subthreshold beam energy. Our program of studying nuclear dissipation has been continued and extended to include the analysis of pre-scission neutron multiplicities in fusion-fission reactions in term of the Kramers-Grange-Weidenmueller formalism. I would like to emphasize also one of the first scientific results obtained using the Warsaw Cyclotron, where high-energy {gamma}-ray spectra from the {sup 12}C + {sup 58}Ni reaction at 47.5 MeV were measured and the giant dipole resonance parameters of the {sup 70}Se were extracted. In the mass A{approx}100 region ({sup 98}Cd, {sup 102}Sn) new isomeric states were identified. For nuclei around {sup 208}Pb many excited states were found which can be interpreted as octupole vibrations coupled to the high spin one-particle one-hole orbitals. The structure of the {sup 125,127}La and {sup 127}Pr nuclei was investigated. The interesting questions whether the shape transition between highly deformed and superdeformed nuclei is sharp or whether a coexistence of the both shapes occurs have been studied in the {sup 143}Gd nucleus. Reports on experimental methods and instrumentation are presented in the second section. Here, I would like to mention that after two years of preparation, the experimental setup for high energy {gamma}-ray studies (JANOSIK) installed at the Warsaw Cyclotron was accomplished during 1996. The report gives the present status of this apparatus that began to bring first scientific results (see contribution in the Report). During 1996 a remarkable progress was achieved in installation of the isotope separator on line of the Warsaw Cyclotron. The first ion beam (off line) was extracted for Xe isotopes and the resolving power of about 560 was obtained.

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Sadowski, M.

2001-01-01

Full text: The PLASMA-2001- International Symposium on Research and Applications of Plasmas - was held in Warsaw, Poland on September 19-22, 2001. It was the fifth general symposium organized (every two years since 1993) under auspices of the Plasma Physics Section, Committee of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. The scientific program of PLASMA-2001 was relatively wide in order to cover all the directions of plasma studies carried out in Poland. All the invited and contributed papers were divided into 9 topical groups: 1. Elementary processes and general theory of plasma phenomena. 2. Plasmas in tokamaks and stellarators, including related experiments. 3. Plasmas produced by Z-Pinch and Plasma-Focus discharges. 4. Plasmas generated by intense laser beams. 5. Plasmas of microwave and glow discharges. 6. Plasmas produced by spark- and arc-discharges. 7. Plasmas in space (ionospheric, interplanetary, and heliospheric). 8. Diagnostic methods and experimental facilities for plasma studies. 9. Applications of quasi-stationary and pulsed plasmas. The responsibility for the selection of contributed papers and appointments of invited speakers was taken by an International Scientific Program Committee (ISPC) chaired by Prof. M. Sadowski from the Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Swierk by Warsaw, Poland. The organization activities were coordinated by a Local Organizing Committee (LOC), acting at the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Poland, and chaired by Dr. Z. Skladanowski. There were 141 registered participants (including 14 invited speakers), who represented 22 different countries. Honorary guests represented the Polish Committee for UNESCO, Polish Atomic Agency, and scientific councils of several Polish research centers. About half of the participants constituted plasma researchers from Polish institutes and universities. Also represented were different foreign research centers and universities, and particularly those involved in the scientific collaboration with the Polish research teams. The most numerous groups of the foreign participants arrived from the Czech Republic (18 persons), Germany (14 persons), Russia (14 persons), and Ukraine (5 persons). Other countries (some very distant from Poland, as Argentina, Japan, USA, etc.) were represented by individuals. During three working days of the Symposium there were run 8 plenary sessions, at which the participants listened and discussed 14 invited talks and 20 selected oral presentations. About 170 contributed papers, which were accepted by the ISPC, were presented during 3 poster sessions. The most important scientific results of the Symposium can be summarized as follows: In the field of theory - there were presented new results on numerical modeling of plasmas in tokamaks, analysis of behavior of dusty plasmas, the description of collisional absorption within dense laser-produced plasma, and theoretical interpretations of various plasma experiments. In the field of experiments - there were reported results of recent studies with stellarators Wendelstein-7AS and Uragan-3M as well as research with tokamak TEXTOR-94, the development of diagnostic methods adopted for magnetic confinement experiments as well as for inertial confinement of laser- and pinch-produced plasmas. Also reported were some new results of wave measurements in ionosphere, and results of the recent Plasma-Focus (PF) experiments (including those obtained with the PF-1000 facility operated at a 1-MJ level). In the field of applications - there were presented characteristics of high-Z heavy ions produced by means of laser pulses, and applications of X-ray pulses from PF discharges for material studies. Also reported were the uses of pulsed plasma-ion streams for the modification of different materials, and the applications of plasma discharges for the neutralization of injurious chemical compounds. Abstracts of all the invited and accepted papers were collected in the Book of Abstracts, which was distributed among the guests and participants of the Symposium. The full versions of the invited and contributed papers, which were delivered to the LOC in proper time and form, have been presented in Internet (http://www.ifpilm.waw.pl) and in this compact disk. The most interesting papers have also been submitted by their authors to different scientific journals (e.g. Nukleonika, Acta Phys. Polon., J. Tech. Phys., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., etc.). Since the editorial activity was very limited, the presented papers represent opinions of the authors, and their publication means neither an endorsement by ISPC nor opinions of editors. Taking into consideration that the invited and contributed papers covered a wide scope of plasma research and applications, these proceedings may be of interest not only for the participants of PLASMA-2001, but also for many physicists and engineers. Persons interested in some scientific problems or details of the presentations are kindly asked to contact responsible authors directly. This compact disk is delivered to all the registered participants free of charge, but some additional copies are available from the LOC upon a special order. (author)

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Miorandi, Daniele; Maltese, Vincenzo; Rovatsos, Michael; Stewart, James; Miorandi, Daniele; Maltese, Vincenzo; Rovatsos, Michael; Nijholt, Antinus; Stewart, James

2014-01-01

Social collective intelligence is an emerging area at the intersection of collective intelligence and social informatics, where social processes between humans are being leveraged and enhanced, by means of advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to solve challenging problems using

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Craciun, V.; Iacomi, F.; Dubourdieu, C.; Sánchez Barrera, F.; Kompitsas, M.

2015-10-01

The present issue contains a collection of representative papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, ICPAM-10 (https://www.icpam.ro/), held in Iasi, Romania, September 22-28, 2014. ICPAM-10 was organized under the auspices of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research and had as co-organizers 22 prestigious institutions from Romania, France, U.K, Russia, Japan, Portugal, Ukraine, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Turkey, Greece and USA and benefited of the support of 20 sponsors and exhibitors. The financial support offered by NanoAndMore, ExpressCredit, American Elements, ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Iasi, Agilrom Scientific, Schaefer SouthEast Europe, Iasi City Hall, PIM Copy, Histeresis, ApelLaser, Nitech, Technosteel LBR, THORLABS GmbH, MaTecK, Sartorom, Antalis, EMFUTUR and Romanian Physical Society helped to support the attendance of many young researchers and PhD students, as well as several prizes that were awarded.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Pavlov, D.

Sixteen years ago, the first international conference on lead-acid batteries LABAT'89 laid the foundations of a world community of scientists, technologists and experts working in the field of lead-acid batteries, who gather together every 3 years to discuss the latest achievements, problems and challenges facing the development of this most widely used electrochemical power source. These conferences of ours have become traditional and have withstood the fierce competition of numerous other meetings on power sources, which abound in the calendar of events lately. This year, the lack of international coordination resulted in a clash of three international conferences on electrochemical power sources held within the same week. The Organizing Committee of LABAT'2005 announces with great satisfaction that this year's conference was attended by nearly 200 battery experts from 30 countries. Sixty-two papers were submitted for presentation at the conference by speakers from all six continents. Twenty-one companies chose to exhibit their products and services at LABAT'2005.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Batail, Patrick

2004-04-01

ISCOM'2003, the fifth venue of a series of successful Symposia, was mainly supported by the Région des Pays de la Loire; with complementary funding from the Chemistry and the Physics Departments of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Délégation Générale à l'Armement, the Ministère Délégué a la Recherche et aux Nouvelles Technologies and the University of Angers. We are very grateful to these funding agencies, especially as the sponsorship has allowed for many young researchers (below 35) to attend the Conference. The Symposium brought together chemists and physicists concerned with the latest developments in the synthesis, crystal growth, molecular crystal structure and electronic structure, phase transitions and electronic properties of low dimensional crystalline molecular materials, molecular metals and superconductors, and the theoretical aspects of these systems of strongly correlated electrons for advanced technologies. 240 participants from Japan (86), France (35), USA (18), Russia (17), UK (14), Spain (14), Germany (12), Canada (7), Italy (7), Portugal (7), Croatia (4), Danemark (4), Switzerland (4), Australia (3), Korea (3), Poland (3), The Netherlands (2), China (1), Finland (1), and Greece (1) - the two youngest of whom were a Japanese and an Australian PhD students - stay in residence from the evening of Sunday 21st September to Friday 26th September 2003 at the hotel "Les Jardins de l'Atlantique", in Talmont-Saint Hilaire (Vendée, France). It should be noted that 50% of the participants were younger than 35 - of whom 51 were PhD students (that is, 20% of the total number of participants). These rather impressive. figures are seen as significant of the spirit or a multidisciplinary domain whose biannual high level international Symposium, also serves as an exceptional venue for the training of young researchers in the field. Given - and despite this overwhelming response and the eagerness of the participants to contribute oral presentations - we have decided to keep with as many 20 minutes talks as possible and had to resolve - rather reluctantly to run parallel sessions on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Yet, in the end, there has been a significant number of solicitations for oral contributions of great interest which were simply impossible to fit in the schedule. We thank all the colleagues who have submitted their exciting work and who have presented their oral and posters contributions during the 23 sessions of the Symposium. Seven sessions were devoted to materials chemistry, of which two sessions dealt more specifically with organic synthesis and two sessions with molecular magnetic materials. The experimental aspects of one- and two-dimensional physics were discussed in two and four sessions, respectively. Aside several theoretical talks interspersed within the former experimental sessions, two sessions were dedicated to theoretical aspects of strongly correlated electron systems in low dimension. One session focused on high magnetic field phenomena and two sessions covered charge ordering phenomena. Finally, upcoming issues related to surface and interface phenomena in molecular conductors were addressed in one session. The current research in chemistry of molecular precursor is dominated by the concepts of multifunctional π systems constructed on tetrathiafulvalene-based redox cores equipped with hydrogen-bond donor-acceptor functionalities or tetrathiafulvalene-based ligands capable of coordinating a metal center. Likewise, in the same spirit, the introduction of chiral functionalities is reported in several contributions. Aside those in the chemistry of stabilized polyacenes and the chemistry of molecular inorganic macrospins species: most of the creative developments continue to involve the TTF platform. In that context, crystal engineering concepts associated with the manipulation of hydrogen bonds and complementary weak intermolecular interactions in competition with p _π-p_π overlap interactions between frontier orbitals of the precursors is today a very active field of research reaching out in field of molecular magnetic materials. Also, the materials chemistry of single component molecular metals and the development of strategies for the chemical control of band filling in molecular metals are areas of intense research. Considerable progress reported in first principle-based electronic structure calculations for large complex systems and band structure calculations of molecular metals should diffuse promptly in the molecular materials community. On the physics side, recent advances in understanding the localization-delocalization-charge ordering competition in low dimensional systems of strongly correlated electrons, and their formulation at ISCOM'03 in a language and format accessible to experimentalists and materials scientists, carries a great many promises for significant developments in the conception of novel molecular superconductors. The physics of one- and two-dimensional molecular metals and superconductors was a strong component of ISCOM'03 with very diverse complementary experimental approaches including transport, uniaxial and isotropie high pressures and high magnetic fields studies, thermal conductivity, STM. Two dimensional conductors have proved to be prototype materials for the study of interacting electron gases through the phenomenon of Mott localization exhibited in some BEDT-TTF salts. Applications of angle-resolved photo-emission investigations have been reported and emerge as a very promising area for future developments. Coupled to quantum chemistry calculations the latter carry along an enormous potential, as exemplified by the wealth of information delivered on the nature of the chemical bonding and electronic structure of molecular solids. The reports of superconductivity induced by a large magnetic field in RETS salts containing magnetic anions have shown how organic materials have brought the experimental proof for a theory which was proposed several decades ago. For the past two decades, the field of low dimensional molecular materials has developed a rather singular, integrated culture where organic and inorganic chemists, materials scientists, quantum chemists, joined forces with condensed matter physicists: experimentalists and theoreticians a like, shared concepts and cut across disciplinary barriers in a symbiosis which was there plain to see at ISCOM'03. The international committee has decided that ISCOM'2005 will be organized by Jim Brooks (Tallahassee, Florida, USA) who will lead a joint effort of the High Magnetic Fields Laboratories and the American community in the field. Patrick Batail Chairman, ISCOM'2003 E. Canadell, N. Dupuis, M. Fourmigué, D. Jérome and J.-P. Pouget Co-chairmen and editors of the ISCOM'2003 proceedings

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Mindaugas Briedis

2011-04-01

Full Text Available Šis Santalkos numeris yra skirtas religijos ir etikos sambūviui apmąstyti. Iškeltas tikslas nėra naujas ir pratęsia ilgaamžę istorinę ir teorinę šių žmoniškosios būties sričių koegzistavimą (kartais įgydavusį simbiozės, o kartais ir griežtos opozicijos pavidalą refleksijos tradiciją. Nuo garsiosios Eutifrono dilemos iki šių laikų taikomosios etikos problemos skleidžiasi sudėtingas etikos ir religijos sąveikų bei kontroversijų laukas. Nepaisant to, kad gyvename sekuliarioje ir vartotojiškoje epochoje, religiniai ir etiniai klausimai tebėra aktualūs. Kita vertus, į juos nebus atsakyta, kol tyrinėjimus kreips ir „karūnuos“ ištisomis tradicijomis tapę diskursyvūs modeliai. Todėl reikalinga nuolatinė fundamentalių religinių ir etinių sąvokų revizija bei konstruktyvi reinterpretacija, atsižvelgiant į intelektualinius ir kultūrinius šiandienos pokyčius. Toks hermeneutinės prieigos reikalaujantis požiūris, be kita ko, rodo tradicinius autoritetus naujoje šviesoje.

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Nijholt, Anton; Romão, Teresa; Reidsma, Dennis; Nijholt, Antinus; Romão, Teresa; Reidsma, Dennis

2012-01-01

These are the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment ACE 2012). ACE has become the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing. Interactive entertainment is one of the most vibrant

Preface

OpenAIRE

Mjølsnes, Stig Frode

2015-01-01

Hackers, in the wide positive sense, are often enthusiastic presenters of their practical experience and exploits, but quite indifferent to writing papers. By contrast, scientists are good at writing papers, but often oblivious to the actual details of practice. At times, this difference in approach incites antagonistic attitudes between these communities. We wanted to mingle the two, shall we say, the explorers and the explanators, for mutual inspiration and communication to the benefit of t...

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Ystad, S.; Kronland-Martinet, R.; Jensen, K.

2009-01-01

. The field of computer music embraces a large number of research areas that span from information retrieval, programming, artificial intelligence to acous- tics, signal processing and sound modeling. In the last CMMR gatherings an increased emphasis was placed on the role of human interaction at all levels...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Jakovics, A.

2007-06-01

The International Scientific Colloquium "Modelling for Material Processing" took place last year on June 8-9. It was the fourth time the colloquium was organized. The first colloquium took place in 1999. All colloquia were organized by the University of Latvia together with Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany) that signifies a long-term tradition (since 1988) of scientific cooperation between researchers of these two universities in the field of electrothermal process modelling. During the last colloquium scientific reports in the field of mathematical modelling in industrial electromagnetic applications for different materials (liquid metals, semiconductor technology, porous materials, melting of oxides and inductive heating) were presented. 70 researchers from 10 countries attended the colloquium. The contributions included about 30 oral presentations and 12 posters. The most illustrative presentations (oral and poster) in the field of MHD were selected for publication in a special issue of the international journal "Magnetohydrodynamics". Traditionally, many reports of the colloquium discuss the problems of MHD methods and devices applied to the metallurgical technologies and processes of semiconductor crystal growth. The new results illustrate the influence of combined electromagnetic fields on the hydrodynamics and heat/mass transfer in melts. The presented reports demonstrate that the models for simulation of turbulent liquid metal flows in melting furnaces, crystallization of alloys and single crystal growth in electromagnetic fields have become much more complex. The adequate description of occurring physical phenomena and the use of high performance computer and clusters allow to reduce the number of experiments in industrial facilities. The use of software and computers for modelling technological and environmental processes has a very long history at the University of Latvia. The first modelling activities in the field of industrial MHD applications had led to the establishment of the chair of Electrodynamics and Continuum Mechanics in 1970, the first head of which was professor Juris Mikelsons. In the early 90's, when all research institutions in our country underwent dramatic changes, not all research directions and institutions managed to adapt successfully to the new conditions. Fortunately, the people who were involved in computer modelling of physical processes were among the most successful. First, the existing and newly established contacts in Western Europe were used actively to reorient the applied researches in the directions actively studied at the universities and companies, which were the partners of the University of Latvia. As a result, research groups involved in these activities successfully joined the international effort related to the application of computer models to industrial processes, and the scientific laboratory for Mathematical Modelling of Environmental and Technological Processes was founded in 1994. The second direction of modelling development was related to the application of computer-based models for the environmental and technological processes (e.g., sediment transport in harbours, heat transfer in building constructions) that were important for the companies and state institutions in Latvia. Currently, the field of engineering physics, the core of which is the computer modelling of technological and environmental processes, is one of the largest and most successfully developing parts of researches and educational programs at the Department of Physics of the University of Latvia with very good perspectives in the future for the development of new technologies and knowledge transfer.

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Pena Rodriguez, V.A.; Bravo Cebrejos, Jorge

1997-01-01

The Fifth Latin American Conference on Applications of the Moessbauer Effect, LACAME '96, held in Cusco, Peru, September 9-14, 1996,was co-hosted by the Physics Sciences Faculty of the San Marcos Major University of Lima and the San Antonio Abad National University of Cusco. Contributions related to the traditional scientific subjects connected with applications of the Moessbauer Effect were presented in sixteen plenary talks, twenty-one selected contributions for oral presentation, and eighty-eight posters. The conference was attended by some eighty-five scientists from fourteen countries.The Proceedings of LACAME '96 consist of two parts. The first includes invited papers and selected contributed papers for oral presentations, which are published in a special issue of the journal Hyperfine Interactions. The second includes forty-eight selected papers for poster presentation, which are published in a special volume of Hyperfine Interactions C (Conferences).The Editor is grateful to the authors and to the referees for their joint effort, contributing to the scientific quality of both these proceedings.We remember that, since 1988, several Latin American research groups which work with Moessbauer spectroscopy have met at Latin American Conferences in Rio de Janeiro (1988), Havana (1990),Buenos Aires (1992), and Santiago de Chile (1994). LACAME '96 was the fifth of its kind in this series. The attendance at these meetings has been about one hundred physicists from Europe and North America. Presently, in the Latin American scientific community there are about twenty groups working with Moessbauer spectroscopy. In the last six years, the interactions among these different groups have increased due to these meetings. They have allowed the integration of this scientific community. However, we expect to strengthen these relations even more through future new collaborations.The Latin American scientists attending the Cusco meeting agreed that these conferences are extremely useful in the area and are committed to organizing the sixth LACAME '98 Conference in Columbia

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Baldev Arora

2009-06-01

Full Text Available Earth is a complex dynamic system and study of the geomagnetic field can provide
insight to the dynamic processes operative in the outer core where the main field is
produced by a geo-dynamo mechanism. By contrast the study of transient geomagnetic
variations is an important tool for studying the complex solar wind-magnetosphere-
ionosphere coupling. In addition the currents induced by the time varying external
current system allow us to image the crust and the upper mantle in terms of
electric conductivity. Lack of measurements and collection of geomagnetic data from
certain strategic locations restricts the development of high quality models of main
geomagnetic field as well as the current systems responsible for transient geomagnetic
variations. Division V of the International Association of Geomagnetic Aeronomy
(IAGA jointly with the Interdivisional Commission for Developing Countries organized
a special symposium «Geomagnetic Measurements in Remote Regions» at General
Assembly of IUGG held at Perugia (Italy during July 2-12, 2007. Papers were
presented on data base numerical simulations identifying strategic gaps in the existing
observatory network where new measurements of geomagnetic field could improve
upon existing geomagnetic reference models. Special focus was on describing the
novel design of equipment, modes of data collection and dissemination from remote
regions. During the symposium, 21 presentations were presented and this issue of
Annals of Geophysics compiles a selection of papers.
It is significant that each paper in this special issue is multi-authored by several
institutions and countries. This emphasizes the importance of worldwide collaboration
when obtaining and analyzing data from geophysical observations in remote regions.
With current technology magnetic observatories still require people to take measurements
at least once per week to enable baselines to be established and must be
away from power sources and transmission lines. This restricts the location of magnetic
observatories used for deep Earth investigations. However, presented here are
papers describing ways to overcome harsh conditions and obtain magnetic data in
remote locations. The need for long term ground based geomagnetic observatories
for reference models is well established and discussed. Also discussed, is the study
of magnetic field variations for determining transient phenomena. The measuring
stations can exist unmanned as highlighted during the session by the Japanese group (not included in this volume and Chambodut et al.
Five papers (Cafarella et al., Chambodut et al., De Lauretis et al., Maksymchuk
et al., and Torta et al. describe magnetic observations in Antarctica. Most of this
continent is covered by ice so it is almost impossible to sample the continental surface
directly: magnetic exploration allows us to overcome much of this problem, providing
important information on the geological and tectonic settings of this continent.
Antarctica is also an interesting magnetic region because it is in darkness for
half of the year, so production of the ionospheric plasma that creates the daily Solar
quiet variation is reduced for this period in this region (Chambodut et al.. In addition,
it contains the southern polar cap current system – a window to the solar wind
and the magnetospheric-ionospheric energy transfer processes (De Lauretis et al..
Torta et al. and Chambodut et al. describe the exceptional means necessary for a
magnetic observatory in Antarctica attempting to attain INTERMAGNET status. Torta et
al. use Livingston Island (LIV, in the South Shetland Islands archipelago (in operation
for ten years, and Chambodut et al. describe Concordia Base (in operation for
just over 3 years. Both have not yet achieved INTERMAGNET status.
De Lauretis et al. use two stations Concordia at Dome C and Mario Zucchelli at
Terra Nova Bay to show that the geomagnetic signals, measured by the two stations,
have very different signatures that depend upon the position of the stations with respect
to the sources.
The paper by Cafarella et al., describes long-term trends in geomagnetic measurements
which have non-absolute baselines for six months of the year at Mario
Zucchelli station (TNB. These authors compare TNB data with the models from
satellite measurements and find them to be in good agreement. They exhibit the different
long-term trend in source currents for example, daily variation, pulsations
and internal Earth sources such as jerks.
Maksymchuk et al. also describe the results of long-term (1998-2005 yrs. magnetic
investigations but use tectonomagnetic techniques in the Western Antarctic
near the location of Ukrainian Antarctic Station «Academic Vernadsky». This new
type of research is described.
A novel approach to remote data acquisition is given in Torta et al. They describe
the development of data transmission facilities for real time access between Antarctica
and Spain using METEOSAT and GOES satellites and recently the move to a
high frequency (HF digital radio-link, using ionospheric propagation.
Geomagnetic measurements from the deep sea are discussed in Vitale et al. From
2000 to 2005 two exploring geophysical missions were undertaken in the Tyrrhenian
deep seafloor at depths between around -2000 and -3000 m in the framework of the European-funded GEOSTAR Projects. During the two GEOSTAR deep seafloor
missions, scalar and vector magnetometer measurements were used to improve
global and regional geomagnetic reference models and to infer specific geoelectric
information about the two sites.
Three papers (Korte et al., Macmillan et al., Matzka et al. describe magnetic observations
in the region of the South Atlantic anomaly. This is the region between
Africa and South America where Earth’s main magnetic field is depressed causing
localized space weather hazards (some described in Macmillan et al., especially
satellite outages. Korte et al. describes the installation of new magnetic observatories
in Bolivia, Namibia and St Helena, and Macmillan et al. describe two older
magnetic observatories located on Ascension Island and Port Stanely.
Repeat station surveys are a way of measuring the secular variation of main field.
Matzka et al. contains a detailed report of a repeat station survey in this region at
Tristan da Cunha Island. They also describe the drawbacks of repeat station surveys
and prefer a magnetic observatory in the region which will be established for the
SWARM satellite mission. However, Korte et al. show that when nothing else exists
repeat stations are still a good way of obtaining secular variation data. They describe
the addition of several repeat stations in the South Atlantic anomaly area in
Africa.
Torta et al. and Korte et al. also describe efforts being made to create an unmanned
magnetic observatory, which would have INTERMAGNET standards.
The Guest Editors wish to thank Enkelejda Qamili for her assistance during the
session in Perugia, the numerous referees who reviewed the papers and the Editorial
office of Annals of Geophysics for their continued support and encouragement in
bring out this special issue of the Journal.

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

1998-01-01

This annual report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in the year 1997. The reports consist of two sections: ''Reaction Mechanisms and Nuclear Structure'' and ''Experimental Methods and Instrumentation''. The research program includes investigations of the giant dipole resonance, studies of nuclear dissipation, Coulomb excitations and spectroscopy of nuclei around A=130. The study of the GDR decay of 76 Se * has been completed using the beam from the Warsaw Cyclotron. The deformation of this nucleus at E x =45 MeV has been found. These studies were extended to higher excitation energies at the University of Washington Superconducting Linear Accelerator. We continued our participation in the FOPI, TAPS and WASA-PROMISE collaborations. The FOPI group carried out its experiment on strangeness production in HI collisions, using the SIS accelerator at GSI Darmstadt where evidence of the formation of Δ(1232 MeV) resonance at a beam energy per nucleon below the pion production threshold has been found. The nuclear spectroscopy group continues its interest in the properties of nuclei in the vicinity of doubly closed shells. High spin states in nuclei near 208 Pb were populated in strongly damped HI collisions. New states were found in 209,210 Pb and 207 Tl. Spins and parities were assigned based on the shell-model. In the region of A≅100, new data on the of high spin states in 104 Sn have been reported. Lifetimes of these states were measured. In studies of nuclear superdeformation the search for transitions linking the yrast superdeformed bands in 144 Gd and 143 Eu to normal deformed states has been carried out. The candidate for such linking transition (E=3361 keV) in 143 Eu has been confirmed. Motivated by nuclear structure and astrophysical considerations studies on 180 Ta have been continued to find its intermediate states connecting the isomer to its ground state. Referring to the section on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, one should to mention the PPCO method. It can be used to assign spin, parity and multipolarity of oriented nuclei

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

1999-01-01

This Annual Report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in the year 1998. The scientific reports are grouped in two sections: Reaction Mechanisms and Nuclear Structure; Experimental Methods and Instrumentation. The current research program of our Division includes activities using the beams from the Warsaw cyclotron of the Heavy Ion Laboratory as well as involvement in research at large accelerator facilities around the world. Most of the work described throughout this report was carried out as joint efforts of various international collaborations. During the last year substantial progress has been made in completing the ISOL/IGISOL isotope separator which was connected to the heavy ion beam line, the ion source chamber was mounted and equipped with the target and the ion guide chambers. To study, control and improve the ion optics system, a special corona ion source was designed, mounted and installed in the ion guide chamber. We continued our study of high-energy γ-ray emission in heavy-ion collisions in the projectile energy range of 4-11 MeV/u. The analysis of experimental data obtained in collaboration with the NPL in Seattle shows the importance of the bremsstrahlung emission in the γ-ray spectra at photon energies above 20 MeV. An improved theoretical description, including complete and incomplete fusion, preequilibrium emission and bremsstrahlung process, indicates that the bremsstrahlung cross-section at high γ-ray energies is smaller than predicted by the simple model using exponential formula. The extracted GDR parameters and their dependence on average temperature and spin are strongly influenced by the inclusion of incomplete fusion and preequilibrium processes. We continued our participation and active involvement in the FOPI, TAPS and WASA-PROMISE international collaborations. Data from experiments of the FOPI collaboration were analysed in terms of event-by-event fluctuations. A novel method of studying equilibration processes in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions was applied to the data from the Ru + Ru reaction at 1.69 A·GeV. By an appropriate choice of the fluctuating variables, chemical and thermal equilibration could be studied independently. Preliminary results show that equilibration of the system changes with centrality of the collision. The data from Au + Au collisions at 0.8 A·GeV were analysed for the presence of the intermittency signal. Our participation in the TAPS collaboration included studies of particle production in reactions induced by 190 MeV protons on nuclei. Analysis of particles which are in coincidence with neutral pions (produced below the NN threshold) revealed existence of two distinct production mechanisms: the first one being the emission from a hot equilibrated compound nucleus and the second one the quasi-direct, forward-directed process with the single proton carrying most of the energy remaining after pion production. The nuclear spectroscopy group concentrated their interest on studying properties the nuclei in the region of Z>50 and N 119 In were determined from lifetime measurements of 31 negative parity states. This unique experimental information about four negative parity bands in 119 I made it possible to determine the shape of this nucleus as being quadrupole close to maximal nonaxiality. The description of these negative parity bands by a γ-soft core is better than by a γ-rigid core. Our spectroscopy group also continued their involvement in studies of nuclear superdeformation. High spin states in neutron-deficient nuclei around A∼140 were studied with the γ detector array EUROBALL 3. Dipole bands representing the rotation of a magnetic dipole were found in the 142 Gd nucleus

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1997-01-01

The main goal of the joint Slovak-Hungarian monitoring is to mutually record and evaluate the impacts of the water supply by the underwater weir. The evaluation includes the changes in the hydrological regimes of the surface and ground water, the changes in the surface and ground water quality, the changes in soil moisture and changes in forestry and biota. The goal of the mutual data exchange is to provide information on monitoring results characterising the environmental changes on the influenced area of the respective Parties. The basic condition of data exchange is use of equal or compatible methods of measurements and analysis and the application of agreed interpretation methods. The final goal of the Joint Annual Report is to submit the joint evaluation of the monitoring results and the joint recommendations for monitoring improvement and environment protection activities to the respective governments

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

2003-10-01

Light is absorbed by promoting electrons between quantum states. Our control of this key optoelectronic interaction has improved radically in recent years as we become smarter about finding ways to affect this fundamental process. For decades, researchers concentrated on improving optical properties through changing the properties of the electronic states, by choosing appropriate atoms, molecules or solids, and by growing crystals of a perfection not found in nature. Huge developments in material science saw the introduction of many optically special materials, such as compound semiconductors and their nanostructures. Recently we have found new ways to manipulate the light-matter interaction by modifying the photonic components, for instance by enhancing the optical field with feedback in cavities. This second `knob' on the light-matter interaction manipulates the optical density of states. Besides simply enhancing the interaction by locally amplifying the electromagnetic fields, the modified optical density of states produced by photonic structuring allows emission and absorption rates to be enhanced or suppressed, now known as the Purcell effect. Atom-filled optical cavities exhibit many of these interesting phenomena. But it was not until the advent of high-quality semiconductor epitaxy that transitions with sufficient oscillator strength and a narrow-enough linewidth could be produced to uncover a third approach to modifying the light-matter interaction. A simple offshoot of the technology development of vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers, the combination of high-reflectivity semiconductor mirrors and narrow strong absorption lines of semiconductor quantum wells, opens a new regime. This `strong-coupling' regime emerges when the time it takes a photon to be emitted and pass once around the cavity to be then reabsorbed (known as the inverse `Rabi' frequency) becomes less than the time for the photon to leak out of the cavity or for the electronic transition to lose its phase coherence. In 1991 the first such semiconductor structure showed the resulting Rabi splitting, with electron and photon states being mixed together by the optical interaction into polaritons (Weisbuch et al 1992 Phys. Rev. Lett. 69 3314). Why do polaritons in semiconductors give us so many new properties, many of which are explored in this special issue? They are the third knob to tweak on the light-matter box because the mixing revises the underlying quantum states; polaritons then have different properties to electron-hole pairs. Instead of merely working on reshaping the wavefunctions of the electrons, we use the electric-dipole coupling to mix in some photon component and alter the way that optical energy couples in and out of the material. Polaritons have one of the biggest spatial wavefunctions that we know how to make, they possess boson symmetry, and weigh very little compared to electrons. But it is not really their individual properties that make them of such importance, it is their interactions. It took another decade after the first polaritons were seen in semiconductor microcavities before it was found that the interaction between polaritons was orders of magnitude stronger than between electron-hole pairs (Baumberg 2001 Physics World 15 (3) 37 and Savvidis et al 2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 1547). The key revelation in understanding polaritons has been their dispersion relation, which is completely distorted compared to that of the electron-hole pairs (Houdre et al 1994 Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 2043). Of course polaritons exist in bulk materials (Hopfield 1958 Phys. Rev. 112 155) but the shape of the dispersion there is again different and not favourable for many of the polariton interactions that are reported throughout this issue. In semiconductor microcavities, the new dispersion relations take the form of an energy `trap' in momentum space. As in golf, polaritons tend to collect either at the bottom of the trap or around its edges. Through an intense concentration of research, both theoretical and experimental, over the past three years much has become clearer about how polaritons behave, including suggestions about how they can be made to work for us in producing hitherto inaccessible physical phenomena of technological interest. Thus, it is timely to collect many of the excellent contributions together into a special issue in which much of this science can be treated in the depth it deserves. We can divide the contributions into those that promise new sorts of strongly-coupled microcavity devices; those which explore how polaritons are formed, how they scatter, and how they decay; and those which identify more of the unusual polariton particularly at the bottom of the dispersion relation). This latter topic reopens the question of whether Bose-Einstein (or in this case, polariton) condensation is possible or has been seen in these unusual structures. This field then crosses a number of important research areas including micro-lasers, lasing without inversion, condensation and superfluidity, new spin properties, ultrafast optical nonlinearities and quantum optics. We have included a review article by Quatropanni and co-workers, which discusses theoretical aspects of the nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor microcavities in the strong exciton-photon coupling regime, which was planned to appear as a separate paper in Semiconductor Science and Technology, but which was considered more appropriate to be incorporated in this issue. A theoretical description of coherent nonlinearities in semiconductor microcavities is given by Savasta et al, who show that the strong energy dependence of the two exciton states damping is crucial to explain the dependence of the experimentally reported results on Rabi splitting and detuning. Stimulated polariton scattering, arising from the bosonic character of polaritons, is described by Skolnick's group, who also emphasize the role of the unusual dispersion of the lower polariton branch to allow much of the new physics in semiconductor microcavities. Non-linear effects in semiconductor microcavities, which include stimulated polariton scattering, parametric oscillation, spin dynamics, and the possibilities of a polariton condensate, are discussed by Baumberg et al. The suppression of the relaxation bottleneck on the lower polariton branch and the stimulation of the emission in II-VI based microcavities is demonstrated by Dang and collaborators, who also probe the coherent dynamics along the lower polariton branch by means of angle-resolved four wave mixing experiments. The possibility to observe parametric polariton amplification at room temperature is discussed by Deveaud's team, who demonstrate that this could be achieved in cavities, in which quantum wells with a large exciton binding energy are embedded, such as in GaN-based cavities. The effects induced by a two-dimensional electron gas on the interaction between the electromagnetic field and the excitons in a semiconductor microcavity are discussed by Cohen et al, who show that the presence of the electron gas is responsible for an efficient interaction between electrons and polaritons. The modification of the optical mode spectrum in microcavities, by introducing lateral photon confinement, is demonstrated by Bayer and collaborators, who show the possibility of tailoring elastic polariton pair-scattering and a suppression of the spontaneous emission for quantum dots embedded in such cavities. The optical properties of biexcitons in microcavities are reviewed by Langbein et al, who perform a detailed investigation of the polariton-biexciton transition and study the biexciton binding energy and dephasing in a microcavity at low temperature. A detailed experimental study of linear and circular polarization dynamics in secondary emission of microcavities in the strong coupling regime is presented by Amand's group, who show that it is possible to manipulate the polariton spin and alignment within the optical dephasing time. The spin dynamics under non-resonant excitation is presented by Viña's co-workers, who demonstrate that the polarization of the emission is controlled by the detuning of the cavity and the exciton modes, leading to crossed-polarized emission after circularly-polarized excitation at negative detunings. The enhancement of the resonant Raman scattering using semiconductor planar microcavities is described by Fainstein and Jusserand, who also propose a novel phonon microcavity structure and demonstrate the existence of acoustical phonon confined modes in these structures. Exciton-polariton lasing and its relation with the formation of a macroscopic coherence, associated with a Bose-Einstein phase transition, is reviewed by Yamamoto et al. A calculation of the phase diagram of a weakly interacting polariton gas in a microcavity is given by Kavokin and collaborators, who also describe the possible condensation of polaritons using a quantum kinetic formalism. The quantum mechanical nature of the light field in semiconductor microcavities is revealed by the teams of Gibbs and Koch, who describe entanglement effects in the probe reflectivity of a microcavity system and squeezing in the incoherent emission. Normal-mode coupling in photonic crystals is demonstrated by Ishihara's group, who present experimental evidence of the strong coupling regime, detuning schemes, and anticrossing behaviour in absorption and photoluminescence investigations. Characteristic features of organic semiconductor microcavities, the similarities and differences between inorganic and organic cavities operating within the strong coupling regime and the identification of novel features of the organic systems that can be exploited in new structures are discussed by Bradley et al, who also present prospects for inorganic/organic hybrid materials that may form the seed of a new paradigm in optoelectronic devices. A theoretical analysis of resonant acousto-optic Stark effects for microcavity polaritons is presented by Ivanov and Littlewood, who also discuss possible applications of this effect for optical modulation and switching. Hopefully, as well as providing a new resource, this issue will stimulate imaginative exploitation of this emerging field. Guest Editors J J Baumberg Departments of Physics & Astronomy, Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK L Viña Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049, Madrid, Spain

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

2016-09-13

lems arising, for example, after discretization of optimal control problems. Lucien developed a general framework for quantifying near-optimality...Polak, E., Da Cunha, N.O.: Constrainedminimization under vector valued-criteria in finite dimensional spaces. J. Math . Anal. Appl. 19(1), 103–124...1969) 12. Pironneau, O., Polak, E.: On the rate of convergence of certain methods of centers. Math . Program. 2(2), 230–258 (1972) 13. Polak, E., Sargent

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Daza, L.; Chaparro, A. M.

The CONAPPICE congress series is dedicated to forstering fuel cell technology activities and related processes, like the hydrogen production, storage and use. Latest advances are shown by groups from universities, research centres, technology centres, companies and administration. CONAPPICE is organised every two years by the Spanish Fuel Cells Association (APPICE) as one of the main activities within its education and dissemination program. The third edition, CONAPPICE 2008, took place in the Spanish city of Zaragoza, from 24 to 26 September. Zaragoza was, during 2008, a reference for renewable energies, sustainable development and environment protection, and hosted an international exposition dedicated to these concepts. Fuel cells, with their demonstrated clean and secure behaviour, are one of the central concepts to bring the desired energy paradigm based on hydrogen conversion, so the presence of CONAPPICE 2008 in Zaragoza this year was more than justified.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Christiansen, Henning

2014-01-01

This book is addressed to scholars and students of linguistics and compu- tational linguistics as well as others. Constraints are fundamental notions in the characterisation and processing of language. A model of language may consist of a generative and a constraining part, independently of wheth...... not claim to provide a unified view of constraints, but aims at creating a mutual inspiration and transfer of results between the different fields and directions covered in this book. . . ....

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

and sinks, the meso-scale and synoptic scale dynamics of the atmosphere, and long-range 'trans- boundary' transport at different altitude levels, with specific focus on the Indian mainland and the surrounding oceans is of great importance in assessing the radiative impacts and the conse- quent regional climate implications.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

DeCrescenzi, Maurizio; Bellucci, Stefano

2003-09-01

This special issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter contains some of the invited papers presented at the School and Workshop on Nanotubes and Nanostructureswhich was held in Frascati, Italy in October 2001 (http://wwwsis.lnf.infn.it/conference/nn2001/). The motivation and aim of this initiative was to promote the growth and development of science at the interface between different fields, where methods in one field are used to solve problems in others, bearing in mind the need to strengthen areas of research which are between fields. The School and Workshop covered an area - that of nanotubes and nanostructures - of overlap between field theory and statistical mechanics. This area has important consequences for the study of condensed matter physics and chemistry and also has impressive potential for applications in many fields. We focussed on nanotubes because they appeared to be ideal model systems for studying the physics in one-dimensional solids and have significant potential as building blocks for various practical nanoscale devices. Nanotubes, in fact, have proved to be useful for miniaturized electronic, mechanical, electrochemical and chemical devices. Similar efforts have been devoted to growing artificially nanostructured magnetic materials. The new structural and magnetic properties of these materials are discussed with an emphasis on the correlation between structure and magnetism, which also serves as guidance for improving their magnetic properties.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Agnieška Juzefovič

2011-04-01

Full Text Available This issue is dedicated to phenomenon of creativity which becomes particularly popular among the humanities and social sciences. Essays are divided into two problematic parts - in the first part the topic of creativity is connected with theoretical-philosophical approach and the field of aesthetics, while in the second one it is connected precisely with the social and economic area.

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Unknown, [Unknown; Nijholt, Antinus; Pantic, Maja; Poel, Mannes; Hondorp, Hendri; Hondorp, G.H.W.

2008-01-01

This book contains the proceedings of the 20th edition of the Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The conference was organized by the Human Media Interaction group of the University of Twente. As usual, the conference was under the auspices of the Belgian-Dutch Association for

Preface

OpenAIRE

Itioka, Takao; Pungga, Runi Anak Sylvester; Meleng, Paulus; Sakai, Shoko

2016-01-01

This proceeding is a compilation of findings and progress activities of research collaboration between the Forest Department Sarawak (FDS) and the Japan Research Consortium for Tropical Forests in Sarawak (JRCTS). To highlight the research findings, An International Symposium entitled "Frontier in Tropical Forest Research: Progress in Joint Projects between the Forest Department Sarawak and the Japan Research Consortium for Tropical Forests in Sarawak" was ii held in Kuching, Sarawak on 21-22...

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Mirsaidov, U.; Mamatov, E.D.; Safiev, Kh.S.

2013-01-01

This book presents the results of research works conducted in V.I. Nikitin Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan and Nuclear and Radiation Safety Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. Present book describes the specifics of chloric decomposition process of boron-silicate and aluminium containing ores of the Republic of Tajikistan. One of the main purpose of research is elaboration of methods of boron- and aluminium containing compounds obtaining from ores by chloric methods.

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Binsbergen, van W.M.J.; Geschiere, P.L.; Binsbergen, van W.M.J.; Geschiere, P.L.

1985-01-01

Revised version of a book first published in 1982 in Dutch entitled "Oude produktiewijzen en binnendringend kapitalisme" by the Free University, Amsterdam, in association with the African Studies Centre, Leiden. The modern history of Africa can be seen in Marxist terms as a process by which the

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Siirola, Jeffrey; Gani, Rafiqul

2017-01-01

include economics (raw material consumption, energy requirement, labor requirement, other operating costs, equipment capital, working capital, etc.), environmental impacts, physical plant size, employment, flexibility, controllability, robustness, reliability, safety, etc. Topics covering synthesis issues...... Engineering has collected papers from invited authors covering a wide range of topics within PI. We include the idea of any process design feature that retains the primary process objectives (production rate and fitness-for-use criteria) while also improving one or more performance parameters which could...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Nel, Jackie M., , Dr; Swart, Hendrik C., , Prof; Reinhardt Botha, J., , Prof

2016-01-01

The 6th South African Conference on Photonic Materials took place at Mabula Game Lodge, South Africa, from 4 to 8 May 2015. The conference venue, Mabula Game Lodge, is located in the Waterberg Mountains outside Bela-Bela in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. This part of our beautiful country is home to some of the most impressive bushveld and is particularly renowned for its exceptional private game lodges, Mabula Game Lodge being no exception. It is located a mere two hours' drive from O.R. Tambo International Airport in Gauteng and offers an unforgettable "Big Five" game experience on the malaria free reserve.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Kowalska, Magdalena; Błaszczak, Zdzislaw

2017-11-01

It is with great pleasure that we are presenting the subsequent volume of the International Poznan Workshop proceedings. The conferences of this cycle have been since the beginning devoted to laser light interaction with atomic nuclei and since more recently also to the applications of ion-storage devices. The first edition entitled "Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic Nuclei" took place in Dubna in December 1990, and since then the subsequent conferences have been held every two to three years in Poznan, where they have been jointly organized by the Faculty of Physics at the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan) and the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna). The conferences have enjoyed increasing popularity and have attracted increasing numbers of specialists from a number of research institutions engaged in laser spectroscopy of radioactive and other exotic (e.g. anti-) atomic nuclei and related instruments. Over the years the workshops have gained a reputation of presenting research of a high scientific level and having impact on the directions of future studies. The 2016 workshop on the Application of Lasers and Storage Devices in Atomic Nuclei Research has been already the 10th edition and it was a pleasure to see that the event was thriving and the participants were enjoying it in all fronts. Around 100 scientists met on May 16 -19 in Poznan for the 4-day event. They were even more international than in the previous edition, representing institutes in Europe, North America, Japan, and even Australia. Many have returned to Poznan, but there were also new faces, especially among the younger participants. It was great to see the leaders in their topics discussing physics, but not only, with PhD students and starting post-docs. More than sixty talks were delivered, reflecting well the state-of-the art in the covered fields which were all related to the techniques, experimental results and theory connected to lasers and storage devices applied to exotic nuclei. The presentations were supplemented with many posters covering even more results. We hope that the participants also enjoyed the concert of renaissance music. In this warm atmosphere (much warmer than the temperatures outside the lecture hall), we are looking forward to the 11 th edition, which has been already announced to take place again in Poznan. In the next 3 years many new results will be certainly collected, so that without doubt we will participate in another interesting workshop.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Sophie Bonin

2009-10-01

Full Text Available « Avec ténacité, ce qu’il veut (l’homme, c’est arracher aux Alpes la seule richesse qu’elles recèlent, asservir la force de leurs eaux. » (Documentaire du 17 octobre 1960, La Grande Dixence, 3’50’’, TSR, http://www.ideesuisse.ch/250.0.html?&L=1, consulté le 15 décembre 2007 Hydroelectricity has been officially classified as a renewable resource by the Beijing Declaration on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development – obviously, it was not by chance that this declaration was made in China...

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

scientists and engineers, astronomers, business people and ... Earth/Moon system and its current environment, but also ... the space environment, together with the products ... Ivashkin, V V, M V Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russia.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Taran, Yuri; Tassi, Franco; Varekamp, Johan; Inguaggiato, Salvatore; Kalacheva, Elena

2017-10-01

Many volcanoes at any tectonic settings host hydrothermal systems. Volcano-hydrothermal systems (VHS) are result of interaction of the upper part of plumbing systems of active volcanoes with crust, hydrosphere and atmosphere. They are heated by magma, fed by magmatic fluids and meteoric (sea) water, transport and re-distribute magmatic and crustal material. VHS are sensitive to the activity of a host volcano. VHS may have specific features depending on the regional and local tectonic, geologic and geographic settings. The studies reported in this volume help to illustrate the diversity of the approaches and investigations that are being conducting at different volcano-hydrothermal systems over the world and the results of which will be of important value in furthering our understanding of the complex array of the processes accompanying hydrothermal activity of volcanoes. About 60 papers were submitted to a special session of "Volcano-Hydrothermal Systems" at the 2015 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research were originally presented at that session.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Kopcansky, P.; Timko, M.; Vaclavikova, M.

2007-12-01

The 11th International Conference on Magnetic Fluids (ICMF 11) was held on July 23-27, 2007 in Kosice, Slovakia. The attendance was high and motivated, in line with previous ten conferences within the ICMF series organized in Udine, Orlando, Bangor, Sendai-Tokyo, Riga, Paris, Bhavnagar, Timisoara, Bremen and Guaruja. The conference in Slovakia reflected the enthusiasm of the scientific community from all around the world, with 256 participants from 30 countries. The main objective of ICMF 11 was to promote the progress and the knowledge in the field of magnetic fluids regarding their chemistry, physical and magnetic properties, heat and mass transfer, surface phenomena, as well as their technological and biomedical applications. As the research on magnetic fluids is essentially interdisciplinary, experts from related areas were invited to present their contributions with a view to extend the frontiers of knowledge in the field and to present the new trends. Submitted communications were refereed by the members of the Scientific Organizing Committee and abstracts were assembled in the Book of Abstracts. Participants presented 180 posters in 2 poster sessions and 56 oral presentations. All presentations helped to expand the frontiers of the area and to establish new bridges between physics, chemistry, technology, biology and medical sciences. Outcomes of this conference are presented by 115 scientific papers, which are published partly in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (JoPCM) and partly in Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The organization of the conference was made possible by generous support from the Institute of Experimental Physics and Institute of Geotechnics of Slovak Academy of Sciences, the University of P.J. Safarik and Slovak Physical Society. Financial support from the Ferrotec, Cryosoft, Mikrochem, Liquids research, Askony, U.S. Steel Kosice, is also gratefully acknowledged.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

De Hosson, Jeff Th. M.; Ali, Nasar; Fierro, Giuseppe; Aliofkhazraei, Mahmood; Chipara, Mircea

2017-11-01

The ;International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nano-Structured Materials; (NANOSMAT) has rapidly emerged as the premier conference in the field of materials science, engineering, technology and all aspects of ;nano;. Since 2005, it has been very successfully organised in several European countries, including Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, United Kingdom and also in USA, and in Asia, including Turkey and China.

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Unknown, [Unknown; Boucherie, Richardus J.; van Dijk, Nico; van Dijk, Nico M.

2011-01-01

The origin of queueing theory and its application traces back to Erlang’s historical work for telephony networks as recently celebrated by the Erlang Centennial, 100 Years of Queueing, Copenhagen, recalling his first paper in 1909. Ever since, the simplicity and fundamental flavour of Erlang’s

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

2001-01-01

Full text: This Annual Report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in the year 2001. The scientific reports are grouped in two sections: - Reaction Mechanisms and Nuclear Structure; - Experimental Methods and Instrumentation. The current research program of our Division includes ''in-house'' activities using the beams from the Warsaw Cyclotron of the Heavy Ion Laboratory as well as involvement in research at large accelerator facilities around the world. Most of the work described throughout this report was carried out as joint efforts of various international collaborations. During the last year we continue our participation in the FOPI, TAPS and WASA-PROMICE international collaborations. We are strongly involved in the FOPI upgrade project, especially in the construction of the modified TOF detector. The upgrade of scintillation sub-detector BARREL has been completed and TOF resolution of 110-140 ps for minimum ionizing particles was achieved. The analysis of ''event-by-event'' fluctuations in nuclear collisions has been the subject of interest for quite some time. Some new results concerning the possible effect of unphysical fluctuations generated by the response function of the FOPI detector as well as by mixing of events of different centrality are presented in this report. A new approach in studying of chemical equilibrium in dense, hot nuclear matter was tested. For this purpose, fluctuations of rare particles (K + , K - ) produced in 58 Ni + 58 Ni and 96 Ru + 96 Ru nuclear collisions were used. Unfortunately, the number of double-kaon events from these experiments was too small to obtain conclusive results. The question of mass dependence of sub-threshold neutral pion production in heavy-ion collisions was studied with the TAPS spectrometer. The analysis of experimental data obtained with the Ar beam at 95 AMeV on several targets was completed and neutral pions have been identified through invariant mass analysis. A new approach to the analysis of fusion excitation functions and fusion-barrier distributions was proposed. About 50 precisely measured fusion excitation functions were perfectly reproduced within the phenomenological model and the systematics of the parameters were obtained allowing to predict not yet measured fusion- or capture excitation functions. This result is important for better planning of future experiments on synthesis of superheavy elements. During the last year, we continued our study of high-energy γ-ray emission in heavy-ion reactions in an energy range of 5-11 MeV/u. The purpose of this work is to investigate the properties of hot, fast rotating compound nuclei and to extract information on GDR built on excited states - as a function of the nuclear temperature. In our resent experiments with the modified JANOSIK set-up, measurement of high energy γ-rays have been combined with detection of light charged particles. In such a way a more accurate information on the excitation energy and the mass and charge of the decaying nucleus could be obtained. Using the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron and the OSIRIS experimental set-up, lifetimes of high spin rotational levels in 131 La were measured. The mean lifetimes were extracted with DSA method and were obtained for six high-spin rotational levels of the yrast band built on the h 11/2 proton orbital. The extracted values range from 0.3 ps for the 43/2 - state to 1.3 ps for 23/2 - state. Some interesting results have been obtained for nuclei in the atomic mass region around A∼170. For example , 174 Yb was produced in the 170 Eu( 7 Li, pxn) reaction and identified with the GASP spectrometer and the charge particle-telescope system ISIS. A set of four identical γ bands originating from orbitals of different shells was found. Among contributions concerning experimental methods and instrumentation, I would like to mention the interesting proposal of using EUROBALL CLUSTER sub-detectors as in-beam polarimeters. Properties of CLUSTER detectors have been studied and compared with the results obtained for CLOVER detectors. As was already mentioned, most of the work presented in this Annual Report results from close collaboration with our colleagues from many foreign as well as Polish institutes an universities. In this place, I would like to express our deep gratitude to all our friends and collaborators around the world. I would also like to acknowledge the financial support of the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN). (author)

Preface

OpenAIRE

Dorożyński, Tomasz; Kuna-Marszałek, Anetta

2016-01-01

Considering environmental protection requirements in business operations may, in the long run, determine if a lasting comparative advantage can be achieved. That is why our textbook, rich in case studies, identifies not only the threats a business may pose to the environment but stresses the ways of reducing its negative impact. It discusses, among other things, the concept of corporate social responsibility, environmental management systems, methods and the importance of eco-labelling goods ...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Stręk, Wiesław; Zych, Eugeniusz; Hreniak, Dariusz

2017-12-01

We are pleased and proud to present this Special Issue of the Optical Materials with papers presented at the Sixth Excited States of Transition Elements Conference - ESTE2016 organized by Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry University of Wrocław, and Intech Transfer Technology Centre. The conference was held under the honorary auspices of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Republic of Poland, dr. Jarosław Gowin. The event had also patronage of Polish Academy of Sciences and Patent Office of Republic of Poland. ESTE2016 was held in Hotel Polanica Resort & Spa in Polanica - Zdrój, Poland in August 21-26, 2016. About 130 scientists from Europe, Asia and both Americas participated in the conference. As usually, in ESTE both experienced, world-wide recognized scientists and young researchers presented their new groundbreaking research achievements which were discussed during the lectures, poster sessions and evening informal discussions. A part of the ESTE2016 conference was devoted to presentations of the participants of LUMINET project - European Network on Luminescent Materials supported by Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks. The scientific level of these presentations proved that through a rigorous, well-executed trainings, and a multidisciplinary research programme, LUMINET strategically positioned the EU with respect to new and improved possibilities and young scientists educated for that purpose.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Andersen, Lars Døvling; Rodger, C.

2009-01-01

This issue is a collection of papers dedicated to Anthony Hilton on the occasion of his retirement. The variety of topics bears testimony to the broad scope of Anthony's research, and the quality of the contributions witnesses to the impact his work has had on high class mathematicians in many...

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Aleksandras Velička

2011-04-01

Full Text Available The authors’ publications are a valuable contribution to linguistics and methodical science of foreign language teaching. They will help to improve language teaching methods in higher schools, and the obtained results of linguistic researches will motivate language teaching methods more theoretically.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Farmanyan, S. V.; Suvaryan, Yu. M.; Mickaelian, A. M.

2016-12-01

Cultural Astronomy is the reflection of sky events in various fields of nations' culture. In foreign literature, this field is also called "Astronomy in Culture" or "Astronomy and Culture". Cultural astronomy is the set of interdisciplinary fields studying the astronomical systems of current or ancient societies and cultures. It is manifested in Religion, Mythology, Folklore, Poetry, Art, Linguistics and other fields. During the past few decades interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary sciences have become the main incentive for the development of science. While studying astronomical topics in various areas of culture interesting discoveries have been occurred; such topics are widely used in folklore and other genres of literature, painting, architecture and music. Ancient astronomy, chronologies and calendars created on the basis of astronomical knowledge, Astrolinguistics and other fields play an important role in culture and national heritage. There are a number of organizations related to "Astronomy in Culture", appropriate specialists are being prepared, in this area conferences are being organized and papers are being published in professional and scientific-popular journals. Astronomy has also a leading role in scientific tourism, scientific journalism and in general science pularization and popular science dissemination, as well as social awareness and world perception. All these led to the idea of holding a Young Researchers conference with the subject on "Cultural Astronomy in Armenian Highland". Conference was held on June 20-23, 2016 in Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Among the participants there were astronomers, philosophers, historians, archeologists, specialists of literature, linguists, culturologists, experts in tourism and other fields. The opening session of the conference was attended by the president of NAS RA acad. Radik Martirosyan, NAS RA Academician-secretary of the Department of Armenology and Social Sciences acad. Yuri Suvaryan, ambassadors of foreign countries in Armenia, Presidents of RA Creative Unions, scientists, young researchers and journalists. The last sessions of the conference were held in the "Metsamor" Historical-Archeological Museum-Reserve, Art academy of Byurakan and Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory. The meeting is focused on Armenian archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy, including many creations related to astronomical knowledge; calendars, rock art, mythology, etc. On the other hand, this subject is rather poorly developed in Armenia; there are only individual studies on various related issues (especially many studies related to Anania Shirakatsi) but not coordinated actions to manage this important field of investigation. The meeting is aimed at the development of problems of interdisciplinary sciences in Armenia and preparation of a basis for further possible collaborations by means of presentations of available modern knowledge in various areas of culture by experts from different professions and by joint discussions. A number of thematic sessions were held: Cultural Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy, Scientific Tourism & Scientific Journalism, Astronomical Education & Amauter Astronomy, Invited and contributed talks were presented by reknown and young researchers. The present Proceedings includes most of the talks. We hope that the Proceedings will be an interesting and valuable resource for many professionals and broad mass of readers.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Jensen, Rune Møller; Pacino, Dario; Voß, Stefan

2013-01-01

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2013, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2013. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They are organized in to...... in topical sections named: maritime shipping, road transport, vehicle routing problems, aviation applications, and logistics and supply chain management....

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Unknown, [Unknown; Nijholt, Antinus; Nijholt, A.

2015-01-01

This book covers the latest advances in playful user interfaces – interfaces that invite social and physical interaction. These new developments include the use of audio, visual, tactile and physiological sensors to monitor, provide feedback and anticipate the behavior of human users. The decreasing

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Mirsaidov, U.M.

2002-01-01

In this part of book author give the explanation and purposes of necessity of new elaborations inculcation to industry, in particular to the process of wastes complex reprocessing of aluminium plant in Tajikistan

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Lindgård, Per-Anker

2003-05-01

This special issue presents a series of papers on biological physics. It emphasizes the fact that Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter welcomes papers in this area and foresees a fruitful cross-fertilization between this and other more conventional condensed matter fields. The work was presented at the conference ÂNanophysics in Life SciencesÂ' held in Copenhagen on 21-22 June 2002. The meeting was arranged by, and marked the start of, the new Division of Physics in Life Sciences (DPL) within the European Physical Society (EPS). It also celebrated the opening of a new Danish research centre on quantum protein physics (QUP), which was co-organizer and co-sponsor. The meeting was organized at short notice and yet attracted some 80 participants from a number of countries (despite the fact that the chosen weekend included the `midsummer night', a feast nobody in the Northern Scandinavian countries would wish to miss - even when offered an event in the beautiful venue of the Carlsberg estate). The audience included many young people and students, demonstrating the great interest in the field of biological physics and in the topics chosen within that field. The selection represented, furthermore, the present scope of the new DPL division. All but one of the board members of DPL were able to attend and present their work, among others. They have subsequently delivered valuable contributions to this special issue. The subjects cover a large area (the full programme can be found on the division's web-page: DPL.risoe.dk). To mention a few: the dynamical and optical properties of biomolecules (proteins), experimental studies of single biomolecules, various theoretical approaches to the protein folding problem and DNA motion, biomolecular motor and transport functions, quantum chemical calculations. Many of these problems are closely related to those studied in conventional condensed matter. To emphasize one topic we have written the Viewpoint article (pages V5-V9) which ties together the concepts of solitons, self-trapping, polarons and pump-probe experiments used in both realms. The scope of biological physics is of course still wider. All biological processes occur in water, hence an important topic is how proteins and biomolecules behave and interact in liquids. There is in this case a strong overlap between subjects generally published in the Liquids, Soft Matter and Biophysics section of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, but not covered in this issue. Another branch not covered is the more mathematical, generally non-linear models of physiological processes. It is hoped that this issue will serve as a valuable current state-of-the-art overview of interesting and important problems in biological physics, which will stimulate the interest of the general readership of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and inspire the application of the knowledge and expertise accumulated in condensed matter physics. I wish to thank the participants for their contributions to the meeting and to this special issue, Institute of Physics Publishing editorial staff for the efficient and smooth handling of the refereeing of the articles, and finally the QUP Center, The Danish Graduate School of Biophysics, EPS and The Carlsberg Academy for financial and other support.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Mindaugas Briedis

2011-02-01

Full Text Available The present issue of Santalka is named Intersubjectivity: Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Perspectives continues and broadens the topics of the previous issue named Phenomenological ethics (Santalka (Coactivity vol. 17, no 3. It is dedicated to phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches to subjectivity and intersubjectivity. The following questions still constitute the core of phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics, though for the time being they are also actively discussed in analytic tradition. On the other hand, the problem of intersubjectivity enables to link together philosophy and ethics, psychology, psychotherapy, sociology, philosophy of religion and other humanitarian and social disciplines.

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

A young research scientist who had only joined the staff at Texas a year before I ... wide range of close collaboration with the rest of the Indian institutions as ... to have continuous coverage of the observations without gaps because of the day–.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Jackman, R. B.

2003-03-01

It is not an exaggeration to say that over the past forty years solid-state electronic devices have revolutionized working practices and the way leisure time is spent. The semiconductor at the heart of the vast majority of these electronic devices is silicon. Predictions that new semiconductors will be required to enable the pace of the electronics revolution to be kept at its present level are regularly made, but silicon device engineers just keep coming up with ways to make silicon devices better and better. It is the year 1990, and reliable chemical vapour deposition (CVD) techniques for the formation of large area films of diamond have been demonstrated in a number of research laboratories around the world. The first major international conferences on the growth, properties and potential applications for diamond, now available in a form useful to device engineers for the first time, have taken place. A survey of the basic properties of diamond suggests that it is an ideal material for electronics. It has a wide bandgap (5.5 eV, indirect), high saturated carrier velocities and carrier mobilities (and electrons and holes have similar values), a high electric field breakdown strength, low dielectric constant, high thermal conductivity and high visible-infrared radiation transparency. Many potential applications can, and have been proposed, including high power and high frequency electronic devices. When the resilience of diamond to high levels of radiation or heat, and the prospect of a negative electron affinity surface are also considered, many more applications come to mind such as high temperature or radiation hard electronics, radiation detectors, optoelectronic devices and cold cathodes. At this time, diamond films grown on non-diamond substrates are polycrystalline, and highly defective, but high purity single crystal material is considered `just around the corner'. There is even a naturally occurring dopant, boron, to enable p-type diamond to be produced and surely it is only a matter of months before n-type material is realized. Researchers can be found talking to the media about future computers that will have within them semiconducting chips made of diamond early in the new century. Let us now move to the present, the year 2003. Diamond films grown on non-diamond substrates are still polycrystalline, although far less defective. Single crystal material is available, but not in large areas since it is produced through the homoepitaxial growth of a high purity layer on a (relatively) cheap, but small, substrate. The only dopant that all laboratories can master is still boron, but at least three labs have reliably generated n-type conductivity through the incorporation of phosphorus, although the donor level formed is deep at around 0.6 eV (nor is boron shallow, forming an acceptor level at 0.37 eV). There are no mass market active diamond electronic devices for sale, and certainly no computers with diamond-based chips at their heart. Why? Well perhaps the early predictions were simply too ambitious. Ten or so years is not a long time in terms of the development of a new semiconductor. Also the predictors were far too ready to dismiss silicon. This article is being written on a Macintosh laptop computer, whose base can get too hot for the lap after prolonged use! Silicon for high temperature electronics? Well yes, if you introduce silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology as Motorola have done. The level of investment required for even the most basic semiconductor fabrication facility is measured in billions of US dollars. New semiconductors will not be used within mass production environments unless they offer not just incremental improvements, but major steps forward, and do so reliably. It can be argued that it was the need for microwave devices that emerged with modern communications that gave III-V semiconductors their breakthrough, not the prospect of an improved computer. In this new century those working in the field of diamond electronics have become more realistic in their ambitions, and with this realism have come many successes, even though they are on a smaller scale than originally predicted. You can buy active electronic devices based upon CVD diamond, but they are aimed at niche markets. For this reason, many of the multi-national companies no longer support programmes in diamond electronics, but in their place are plenty of medium and small enterprises for whom niche markets are just fine. Optoelectronic devices and radiation detectors, in particular, have been produced with performance levels that are commercially useful. For example, aspects of my own work at UCL have led to the commercial introduction of deep UV diamond-based photodetectors, and CEA in Paris have introduced a range of radiation detectors that are being purchased for use within the nuclear industry. This is not to say that mass market applications for diamond will not emerge, it is simply that if they do they are likely to be where diamond enables a new technology, not an incremental improvement to an existing one. Perhaps the exciting new topic of quantum computing could be just such a technology in 10-20 years time. Equally exciting is the integration of electronics with biological materials, and nano-biotechnology could perhaps be a major application area for diamond-based devices in the future. All future developments of diamond electronics will be underpinned by fundamental insight into the way that the diamond grows, its properties and the physics controlling the operation of device structures. Whilst many CVD methods have been used to grow diamond, micowave plasma enhanced CVD has proved to be the most effective for the growth of high purity material. Until recently growth rates were limited to around 1 µm h-1, making the material fairly costly to produce. This can now be increased to beyond 50 µm h-1 making even the highest quality diamond substrates commercially accessible for many applications. The electronic properties of the material have also been improving dramatically over the last few months, such that it is possible to produce CVD material with carrier mobilities that surpass the best natural diamonds (see for example, Science (2002) 297 1670). This special issue of Semiconductor Science and Technology is dedicated to surveying recent developments in diamond electronics that are being enabled by these improvements in growth. Most of this special issue addresses crystalline diamond. However, two articles have been included on diamond-like carbon (DLC), to give the reader some insight into the properties and applications of this related, but different, material. In fact DLC is not a single material, but is a fully constrained network of sp2 and sp3 carbon (sometimes with hydrogen), where the sp2 and sp3 ratio, and hence the materials properties, can be varied. The issue begins with an article on the electronic properties of diamond; doping diamond is then considered. The fascinating observation that hydrogen terminated diamond surfaces display p-type conductivity is then discussed, followed by some diamond processing issues and electronic device fabrication. Papers on properties and applications follow. At the end of the issue are two largely theoretical papers submitted by Johann Prins. These papers are thought provoking, but make some very controversial claims. They are included here so that the reader can consider the approach developed within these two associated papers, perhaps thinking how this impacts upon their own work, even if the end conclusions remain open to debate. Indeed, it is hoped that this debate will be opened up through their publication, enabling this area of thought to be more widely explored and critically examined. Optical picture of a homoepitaxial film Figure 1. Optical picture of a homoepitaxial film grown at a rate of more than 50 µm h-1. Figure 1 is an optical picture of a homoepitaxial film grown in my laboratories at UCL at a rate of more than 50 µm h-1. It is included for no scientific or technical reason, nor is it our best layer. It is simply included as a beautiful picture, and to remind us that not all good things have to be for a commercial application! It has been a pleasure working with the authors and IOPP in bringing together this special issue. I hope you, the reader, find it useful.

Preface

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (English)

WANG Huijun

2009-01-01

@@ Climate change is one of the most challenging issues faced by human beings.Although many remarkable achievements have been made in climate change research,there is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the field.Comprehensive and rational understanding of climate change processes and mechanisms,assessment of future climate change,and formulating proper mitigation policy are all still a long way from realization.These uncertainties make the climate change problem extremely complicated,requiring interdisciplinary exploration.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Schwerdtner Máñez, Kathleen; Poulsen, Bo

2016-01-01

as long term catch rates has been investigated through the use of past paper documents, including photographs. Equally important, and more frequently, historians are answering anthropogenic questions evolving around individual fishermen, fishing fleets, consumers, managers and marine scientists. Listing......This chapter shows how historians’ methodologies and approaches are being used to reconstruct marine ecological phenomena of the past. In terms of the use of history in historical marine ecology, a number of examples are presented of how past species abundance and spatial aggregation as well...... all relevant historical scholarship, which can be termed marine environmental history are beyond the scope of this chapter. What is mainly in focus here, is historical research, where the methodologies have been used to infer knowledge on past marine resource use. The final parts of this chapter...

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

2015-09-28

Sep 28, 2015 ... Computational methods are essential for analysing biological data because ... Many problems in the above areas are closely related to different tasks .... roles in the maintenance of cell's functional responses by regulating the.

Preface

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (English)

Yuan; Ding; Hervé; Stolowy

2013-01-01

<正>Since the seminal JFE paper published by Jensen and Meckling in 1976(Jensen and Meckling,1976)the agency theory has been widely applied in numerous studies in the fields of corporate finance and accounting.Meanwhile,many researchers also notice that the conflicts between the principal(shareholder)and the agent(manager)may not be the predominant issue in most of the firms around the world,since the dispersed shareholding and separation between ownership and management are relatively uncommon phenomenon,limited to certain type of firms(listed firms)and to certain countries(like the USA).

Preface

OpenAIRE

ل Rahighi

2017-01-01

Particle accelerators are engines of discovery and innovation. Design, construction and use of particle accelerators have made numerous scientific and technological achievements in recent decades, having an undeniable influence on society. In medicine and pharmacy, particle accelerators provide in more efficient treatment with fewer side effects. Disease diagnostics are how much straightforward with the help of radio isotopes, accelerators have made it possible to develop new antibiotics with...

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Karl Robert Villehad Wikman

1970-01-01

Full Text Available According to Plutarch Lachesis was the third of the Sisters of Fate. She joined Generation and Destruction in the sublunar world. Nemesis, on the contrary, was a daughter of Tyche. Mythical thought in late Hellenic times saw in these goddesses an expression of Natural and Divine necessity dominating human life. Carl Linnæus conceives Lachesis and Nemesis as symbols behind realities included in his views about human life and conduct. How he regarded Lachesis naturalis and Nemesis Divina is the subject of the present study.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

ل Rahighi

2017-08-01

The availability of educated individuals at the present scale in Iran is indeed exceptional. This is a unique opportunity which should not be missed by science policy makers at the political levels.  

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

A. Duvenhage

2007-07-01

Full Text Available In this trans-disciplinary special issue, diverse themes are dealt with that can be reduced to sustainable development (and that which is related to it in a distinctive manner. Matters which are discussed include: the conceptualisation of power, political transformation as an ideology, ethical political communication, white-collar crime; ministry in a post-literary communication context; development cooperation in Africa; and the problem of liaison between academics, students and practitioners regarding public management in the North West Province.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Nasrollahi, Kamal; Distante, Cosimo; Hua, Gang

2017-01-01

World Videos. The workshops were run on December 4, 2016, in Cancun in Mexico. The two workshops together received 13 papers. Each paper was then reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in the field. In all, 11 papers were accepted to be presented at the workshops. The topics covered in the papers....... The organizers of the two workshops would like to express their sincere thanks to the authors of the contributed papers, the reviewers who made sure of the good quality of the papers, and the attendees of the workshops....

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Hans-Jürgen Grabbe

2016-10-01

Full Text Available On September 30, 2015, the American Studies Journal published its Occasional Paper No. 10, entitled “Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment: Social Media and the Valorization of Lack of Consent.” The author, Kelly Oliver, is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Drawing attention to recent cases of rape on American college campuses, she shows how cell phones and social media have been used to prolong the humiliation of the victims, giving rise to a culture of voyeurism that no longer hides its contempt for women.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Ritter, Eva

2011-01-01

The aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by human activity and that in turn have a profound effect on our understanding of and identification with a place. The book...

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Hugues François

2012-02-01

Full Text Available Even as we venture into this new millennium, climate change has become emblematic of the “mal du siècle” foreboding a veritable cataclysm for human societies and their organisation by the year 2100. However, beyond the overtones of catastrophism, the upheavals that climate change can bring about in our land management practices are a reality. Rather than giving in to the allures of an alarmist discourse, it becomes imperative to better understand the mechanisms of these changes and to assess ...

Preface

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Geiger, M.; Kals, H.J.J.; Shirvani, B; Singh, U.P.

2001-01-01

The multiple facets of modern sheet metal manufacturing techniques are applied throughout a wide spectrum of economy, ranging from the automotive industry and machine manufacturing to electrical engineering and electronics. This wide range of applications means that sheet metal manufacturers produce

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Aspect, Alain

2002-06-01

COLOQ est une conférence regroupant, tous les deux ans, la communauté scientifique et industrielle nationale travaillant dans les domaines des lasers, de l'optique non-linéaire et de l'optique quantique. Elle s'est tenue pour sa septième édition à Rennes, du 5 au 7 septembre 2001, sur le campus de Beaulieu de l'Université de Rennes I. Cette réunion a pour but de favoriser les rencontres entre les membres des différents laboratoires nationaux publics ou privés travaillant sur ces sujets. C'est donc un moyen privilégié de resserrer les liens de cette communauté et d'y intégrer les jeunes chercheurs. Une dimension importante de COLOQ est de permettre aux jeunes chercheurs de se connaître, de se faire connaître, de découvrir la communauté à laquelle ils appartiennent et d'élargir leurs connaissances des thèmes qui la structurent. La participation de 200 chercheurs et de 18 exposants de matériels spécialisés dans les lasers et l'optoélectronique témoigne de la vitalité de COLOQ. Le programme de COLOQ 7 a comporté des conférences générales données par des chercheurs de renom international et des séances de communications par voie d'affiches. Les exposés ont porté sur des sujets d'optique particulièrement actifs au niveau national et international : les télécoms, thème cher à la région Bretagne en particulier, les phénomènes fondamentaux, les nouvelles percées de l'optique en métrologie et mesures ultra-sensibles, sujets privilégiés du laboratoire organisateur, les sources de l'extrême (incluant X et V-UV). Parallèlement à 20 conférences invitées, 130 communications par affiches ont présenté, tout au long du colloque, les plus récents résultats concernant les atomes froids et la métrologie, les télécoms optiques, l'optique non-linéaire et les nouveaux matériaux, les nanostructures et l'optique de champ proche, la physique des lasers, etc. Ce volume spécial du Journal de Physique IV regroupe la presque totalité des conférences invitées et des communications par affiches. Pour la première fois, un forum pour l'emploi a été mis en place afin de permettre aux doctorants et post-doctorants de nouer des premiers contacts avec leurs futurs employeurs. Enfin, COLOQ 7 a été clôturé par une conférence de Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, ouverte au public, qui a enthousiasmé non seulement les participants du colloque, mais aussi les étudiants et les lycéens de Rennes, qui avaient été conviés avec leurs enseignants. La réussite de cette manifestation est due, avant tout, à la qualité scientifique des présentations, mais elle repose aussi sur l'action conjuguée des comités d'organisation national et local, au généreux soutien des diverses instances publiques nationales, régionales, locales, et à la forte participation des sociétés industrielles du secteur optoélectronique et laser qui nous ont permis de maintenir les frais d'inscription à un niveau particulièrement raisonnable ; en particulier pour les jeunes. Que tous soient ici remerciés, en particulier le comité local qui a su, au delà d'une organisation impeccable, nous faire apprécier la chaleur de l'accueil breton !

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Friend, M.

2002-01-01

This issue of Hydrobiologia brings together a series of papers resulting from an intensified effort to describe the current status of the physical and biological conditions present at California's Salton Sea. Most of the studies were contract investigations that were part of a project initiated in January 1998 to pursue the improvement of environmental conditions at the Salton Sea. The remainder are independent investigations resulting in information of importance for the Salton Sea Restoration Project. The information provided by those investigations resulting in information of importance for the Salton Sea Restoration Project. The information provided by those investigations is the most holistic assembly of scientific knowledge about the Salton Sea ever brought together in a single publication. The resulting findings provide an important foundation of knowledge for what has been stated to be '. . . one of the worlds' most dynamic salt lakes . . .' (Hart et al., 1998). We hope this publication will serve as a catalyst to stimulate additional scientific investigations that will further enhance understanding of the dynamics of this unique ecosystem. The purpose for these introductory comments is to place the scientific investigations reported on and the Salton Sea Restoration Project in context and entities, and to one another.

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

2000-01-01

Full text: This Annual Report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in the year 1999. The scientific reports are grouped in two sections: Reaction Mechanisms and Nuclear Structure; Experimental Methods and Instrumentation. The current research program of our Division includes ''in house'' activities using the beams from the Warsaw cyclotron of the Heavy Ion Laboratory as well as involvement in research at large accelerator facilities around the world. Most of the work described throughout this report was carried out as joint efforts of various international collaborations. During the last year, the first on-line test experiments with the IGISOL separator were performed. The first radioactivity measurements of short lived isotopes were made with the helium chamber. This work is being carried out in close collaboration with the Nuclear Spectroscopy Division and the Heavy Ion Laboratory. We continued our study of high-energy γ-ray emission in heavy-ion reactions in an energy range of 4-11 MeV/u. The measured γ-ray spectra and angular distributions from 12 C+ 58,64 Ni reactions have been consistently analyzed by taking into account complete and incomplete fusion processes as well as Bremsstrahlung emission. It has been shown that the contribution of incomplete fusion and processes increases with increasing relative energy and strongly distorts the derived GDR parameters. We also continued our participation and active involvement in the FOPI, TAPS and WASA-PROMISE international collaborations. We are strongly involved in the FOPI upgrade project especially in the construction of the modified TOF scintillation subdetector BARREL. The problem of the mass dependence of subthreshold pion production in heavy ion collisions was studied with the TAPS spectrometer. The analysis of the experimental data obtained with the Ar-beam on several targets, from carbon to gold, is in progress. A new method of reconstructing neutral pion momenta from measurements of two decay photons has been developed. Careful analysis of the measurements errors revealed that the γγ invariant mass window for events selected for the reconstruction should be much narrowed than commonly used. The nuclear spectroscopy group continued their study of the properties nuclei in the region of Z>50 and N 119 I were identified. Altogether, lifetimes for 60 levels in 9 bands were measured. This allowed the group to determine about 100 B(E2) and B(M1) transition probabilities. Mean lifetimes have also been measured for superdeformed bands of the 145 Gd nucleus with the Doppler-shift attenuation method. The extracted quadrupole moments made it possible to make a more conclusive assesment of which orbitals are active in the configurations od SD bands. In another study, the nuclear structure of 142 Gd was investigated with the EUROBALL spectrometer. The identified rotational bands with strong magnetic dipole transitions show characteristic features of magnetic rotation. The expected M1 multipolarity of the in-band transitions has been confirmed by an analysis of the linear polarization. The results are well reproduced within the framework of the tilted axis cranking model. As was already mentioned, most of the work presented in this Annual Report results from close collaboration with our colleagues from many foreign and Polish institutes and universities. In this place I would like to express our deep gratitude to all our friends and collaborators around the world. I would also like to acknowledge the financial support of the Polish Committee for Scientific Research (KBN). (author)

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

2004-01-01

Full text: This Annual Report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in years 2002 and 2003. As in previous years the scientific reports are grouped in two sections: - Reaction Mechanism and Nuclear Structure; - Experimental Methods and Instrumentation. The present research program of our Division includes ''in-house'' activities concentrated on experiments with beams from the Warsaw Cyclotron of the Heavy Ion Laboratory as well as involvement in research at large accelerator facilities around the world. Most of the work described throughout this report was carried out as joint efforts of various international collaborations. During the last two years we continued our participation in the FOPI, TAPS and WASA-PROMICE international collaborations. We are strongly involved in the FOPI project. The analysis of ''event-by-event'' fluctuations in nuclear collisions has been the subject of our interest for quite some time. Recently results of an analysis of Au + Au collisions were compared with predictions of the IQMD model. The dependence of the model simulation on various values of the nucleon-nucleon interaction cross sections is presented in this report. Two-photon interferometry experiment for the Ta + Au system at 40 A MeV was repeated by the Taps collaboration with the aim to significantly improve the statistics. The obtained two-photon correlation function shows no evidence of any fluctuating structure, suggested by results of the previous experiment. This result rules out the possibility of a simple double-source scenario of photon emission. The neutral pion angular distribution in 95 A MeV Ar induced reactions on several targets were reanalyzed. Namely, it was found that the presence of mixed electromagnetic and hadronic clusters has to be properly taken into account in order to obtain final angular distributions of subthreshold neutral pions. A new type of an analysis of fusion excitation functions and fusion-barrier distributions was proposed. About 50 precisely measured fusion excitation functions were perfectly reproduced within a phenomenological model, and systematics of the model parameters were obtained allowing to predict not yet measured fusion- or capture excitation functions. This result is important for better planning future experiments on synthesis of superheavy elements. During the last year, we continued our study of high-energy γ-ray emission in heavy-ion reactions in the energy range of 5-11 MeV/u. The purpose of this work was to investigate properties of hot, fast rotating compound nuclei. In our resent experiments using the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron and the modified JANOSIK set-up, isospin mixing in 32 S at high excitation energies was studied. The degree of the isospin mixing was extracted from the statistical decay of the giant dipole resonance. It was shown that at 58.3 MeV excitation energy, the isospin mixing is small, in agreement with previously published data. Recent theoretical and experimental works have attracted attention to the problem of chirality in atomic nuclei with odd number of protons and neutrons. These investigations are in a very preliminary stage and up to now there was no information concerning the lifetimes in chiral bands. Using the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron and the OSIRIS experimental set-up, lifetimes of supposedly chiral bands in 132 La were measured for the first time. These interesting results, compared with theoretical calculations, are presented in this Report. High spin states in deformed nuclei in the region of atomic mass number around A ≅ 170 have also been studied.The band crossing related to the alignment of the pair of neutrons in the i 13/2 orbital has been observed in the yrast band of 173 Yb. Among contributions concerning experimental methods and instrumentation, I would like to call attention to an interesting proposal to use the beam of of the Warsaw Cyclotron for radiobiological studies. As was already mentioned, most of the work presented in this Annual Report results from close collaboration with our colleagues from many foreign as well as Polish research institutes and universities. In this place, I would like to express our deep gratitude to all our friends and collaborators around the world. I would also like to acknowledge the financial support of the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research. (author)

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

2001-01-01

Full text: This Annual Report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in the year 2000. The scientific reports are grouped in two sections: - Reaction Mechanisms and Nuclear Structure; - Experimental Methods and Instrumentation. The current research program of our Division includes ''in-house'' activities using the beams from the Warsaw Cyclotron of the Heavy Ion Laboratory as well as involvement in research at large accelerator facilities around the world. Most of the work described throughout this report was carried out as joint efforts of various international collaborations. During the last year, the first on-line test experiments with the IGISOL separator were performed, which allowed to estimate the overall efficiency of the device as well as the evacuation time of the radioactive ions from the ion guide source. The first radioactivity measurements of short lived isotopes were made with the helium chamber. This work is being carried out in close collaboration with the Nuclear Spectroscopy Division and the Heavy Ion Laboratory. We continued our study of high-energy γ-ray emission in heavy-ion reactions in an energy range of 4-11 MeV/u. The measured gamma-ray spectra and angular distributions have been consistently analyzed by taking into account complete and incomplete fusion processes as well as Bremsstrahlung emission. It has been shown that the role of incomplete fusion and Bremsstrahlung processes increases with increasing relative energy and strongly influences the derived GDR parameters. Existing data on precisely measured fusion excitation functions were used to investigate dynamical properties of very heavy nuclear systems, in particular the fusion energy thresholds. This information is important for predictions of close-contact energy thresholds in reactions considered for future experiments on synthesis of superheavy elements. We also continued our participation in the FOPI, TAPS and WASA-PROMISE international collaborations. We are strongly involved in the FOPI upgrade project, especially in the construction of the modified TOF scintillation sub-detector BARREL that has been recently completed. TOF resolution of 110-140 ps for minimum ionising particles has been achieved. The analysis of ''event-by-event'' fluctuations in nuclear collisions has been a subject of our interest for quite some time. Some new results concerning the possible effect of unphysical fluctuations generated by the response function of the FOPI detector as well as by mixing of events with different centrality are presented in this report. The question of mass dependence of subthreshold pion production in heavy-ion collisions was studied with the TAPS spectrometer. The analysis of experimental data obtained with the Ar-beam on several targets, was used to study the effect of pion absorption in nuclear matter. The experimental data are well described within a geometrical model, where pion absorption takes into account the momentum dependence of pion absorption length. The nuclear spectroscopy group continued their study of the properties of nuclei in the region of Z>50 and N 132m Ce, 134m Nd) were investigated using the beam from the Warsaw Cyclotron. New results concerning the decay paths and hindrance factors have been obtained. For this interesting region of soft gamma deformation, the experimental results were compared with predictions of a recent theoretical model based on the band mixing mechanism. Mean lifetimes in the range of picoseconds have been determined for 10 levels of the 118 Te nuclei. This gives the unique opportunity to study transition probabilities in the ground state band above the band crossing. To explain the experimental data, an extended version of the IBFM has been proposed. A new type of rotation, interpreted as the rotation of a large magnetic dipole around the nuclear spin was recently identified in nuclei in the mass region A∼140. In this report the structure of 141 Eu was investigated with the EUROBALL III spectrometer, rotational bands with strong magnetic dipole transitions showing characteristic features of magnetic rotation were observed. As was already mentioned, most of the work presented in this Annual Report results from close collaboration with our colleagues from many foreign and Polish institutes and universities. In this place, I would like to express our deep gratitude to all our friends and collaborators around the world. I would also like to acknowledge the financial support of the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN). (author)

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Siwek-Wilczynska, K.

2006-01-01

This is the first time that our Annual Report is distributed in electronic version. You can also find it on our web page: http://zfjavs.fuw.edu.pl/npd/raporta/. We hope that you will appreciate this change. This Annual Report summarizes the research activities of the Nuclear Physics Division in the year 2005. Contributions are grouped in two sections: - Reaction Mechanism and Nuclear Structure; - Experimental Methods and Instrumentation. As in previous years the research program of our Division combines ''in-house'' activities including experiments with beams from the Warsaw Cyclotron of the Heavy Ion Laboratory as well as participation in the research at large accelerator facilities around the world. Most of the work described throughout this Report was carried out as joint efforts of various international collaborations. During the last year we continued our participation in the FOPI and CBM international collaborations. In this Report we present preliminary results of an analysis of K 0 meson production in pion induced reactions at 1.15 GeV/c momentum. Products of these reactions were registered using the FOPI detector setup. The aim of these experiments is to study the influence of the dense nuclear matter on the elementary production cross sections of strange mesons and baryons. Recently, essential changes of the pion-induced processes, such as π - p → K 0 , were suggested as a result of the in-medium modifications of hadron properties. Results of the measurements of the neutral pion angular distributions for argon induced reactions on four targets at 95 A MeV are presented. To describe the observed asymmetry in these angular distributions, and also other data available in the literature, a simple phenomenological model is proposed. It is assumed in this model that mesons produced in elementary nucleon-nucleon collisions are absorbed in the surrounding nuclear matter. Results are in good agreement with experimental data. In this Report we give first results of an analysis of the experiment carried out at LNS INFN in Catania, aimed to study the basic features of the mechanism of energy dissipation in nucleus-nucleus collisions. A very heavy system, 197 Au + 197 Au, was studied at a bombarding energy of 15 MeV/nucleon by using the CHIMERA multidetector array. Preliminary results indicate that the observed processes already at such relatively low energy show presence of the two-body dissipation mechanism. In order to verify methods of calculating the fusion-evaporation cross sections in reactions leading to the production of new super-heavy elements in '' cold '' and '' hot '' fusion reactions, we analyzed experimental data on the evaporation residue cross sections for two systems 12 C+ 236 U and 16 O + 208 Pb. The agreement between data and results of calculations verifies the proposed method of calculating the '' survival probability ''. This method can be then applied for heavier systems and help to plan future experiments aimed at the synthesis of new superheavy elements. New experiments with the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron and the modified JANOSIK set-up were carried out recently. Information on the isospin mixing at an excitation energy of 49 MeV in 36 Ar, 44 Ti and 60 Zn was obtained from the analysis of statistical decay of the Giant Dipole Resonance. Comparisons with values of the isospin mixing coefficient obtained for lighter nuclei ( 28 Si, 32 S) at the same excitation energy suggest that the isospin mixing increases with the increasing mass and charge of the nucleus. Some recent theoretical and experimental works have drawn attention to the question of the chirality in atomic nuclei with odd numbers of protons and neutrons. These studies are still in a very preliminary stage and the information on the lifetimes in chiral bands is rather scarce. Using the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron and the OSIRIS experimental set-up, lifetimes of the supposedly chiral bands in 128 Cs were measured. For precise determination of the lifetimes in 128 Cs, the dE/dx values for the Cs recoils moving in the target material (Sn) were measured. A substantial difference between the electronic stopping power obtained in our experiment and that in Ziegler's predictions was found. Some new data on the half-life of the isomeric states in neutron reach nuclei( 97 Sr, 97 Y and 131 Sb) are presented. Neutron reach nuclei were produced by thermal-neutron induced fission of the actinium elements at the high-flux reactor at the ILL (Grenoble). Among contributions concerning experimental methods and instrumentation, I would like to mention the report on a new radiobiological facility operating at the Heavy Ion Laboratory in Warsaw. The facility allows to vary the energy from 2 MeV/nucleon to 10 MeV/nucleon. As already mentioned, most of the work presented in this Annual Report results from close collaboration with our colleagues from many foreign as well as Polish institutes and universities. In this place, I would like to express our deep gratitude to all our friends and collaborators around the world. I would also like to acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science (MEiN). (author)

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Jung, Young Mee; Baranska, Malgorzata

2018-05-01

This special issue of the Spectrochimica Acta A is dedicated to the retirement of Professor Yukihiro Ozaki of Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan as an internationally well recognized scientist in molecular spectroscopy studies including vibrational and electronic spectroscopy.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

2003-09-01

MEM03: The Second International Workshop on Mechano-Electromagnetic Properties of Composite Superconductors (Kyoto, Japan, 3–5 March 2003) Superconductivity is on course to be widely applied in various advanced technologies including: (1) magnetically levitated vehicles (MAGLEV), international thermonuclear experimental reactors (ITER), electric generators, high energy accelerator and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using metallic composite superconductors; (2) cable, fault-current-limiters (FCL), transformers, flywheels and motors by using oxide composite superconductors; (3) high field NMR and other sophisticated devices by combining both metallic and oxide superconductors. In order to create a real market for these advanced technologies using superconductivity, it is absolutely essential to develop superconducting wires/tapes with better performance. The development of accompanying assessment technologies is therefore indispensable for their R&D. Some important properties are related to the mechanical properties of the conductors. It is well known that degraded superconducting and mechanical properties (during fabrication as well as under operation) can cause serious problems, because the critical current depends sensitively on bending and tensile stresses, electromagnetic force, and mechanical and thermal cycling. Therefore he assessment of mechanical properties and the effect of strain on transport properties is crucial for improving and developing high performance superconducting devices. It is now very timely to have a meeting in order to discuss common scientific problems systematically and comprehensively. The Second International Workshop on Mechano-Electromagnetic Properties of Composite Superconductors, MEM03, was held in Kyoto, Japan, 3–5 March 2003, mainly to discuss the fundamentals of the following topics. • Electromagnetic properties: change of critical current, RRR and ac loss due to external forces like bending, compressive and tensile stresses, electromagnetic force, and mechanical and thermal cycling. • Mechanical properties: tensile and compressive properties, fatigue characteristics and fracture behaviour. • Thermal properties: thermal conductivity, thermal dilatation and thermal strain. • Modelling: prediction of critical current and mechanical properties of composite superconductors through statistical analysis, finite element analysis, etc. • Test methods: international cooperative research work to establish test methods for assessing mechano-electromagnetic properties based on the activity of VAMAS/TWA-16. This discussion took place with respect to three types of composites: • MFC (multifilamentary composite): BSCCO, MgB2, Nb-Ti, Nb3Sn and Nb3Al. • CCC (coated conductor composite): YBCO and ReBCO. • BCC (bulk crystal composite): YBCO and ReBCO. More than 55 researchers attended the MEM03 workshop, coming from eight different countries. A total of 42 papers were presented. In this special issue of Superconductor Science and Technology selected papers have been included that are concerned with the comprehensive scientific research subjects mentioned above. The aim of this issue is to provide a snapshot of some of the current state-of-the-art research and to promote further research into the mechano-electromagnetic properties of composite superconductors. The workshop was organized under the activities of NEDO technology quest and VAMAS/TWA-16. We wish to thank the following for their contribution to the success of the workshop: NEDO Super-ACE project, AFOSR, AOARD and IEC/TC90-JNC. Guest Editors: Kozo Osamura Hitoshi Wada Arman Nyilas Damian Hampshire

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Rodionova, Valeria V.; Kurlyandskaya, Galina V.

2016-10-01

This special issue of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials contains selected peer-reviewed papers from the International Baltic Conference on Magnetism: focus on biomedical aspects (IBCM-2015) held in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region, Russia on the base of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU, Kaliningrad, Russia) during August 30-September 03, 2015. Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU, Yekaterinburg, Russia) acted as a co-organizer of the IBCM-2015. IKBFU and UrFU vice-rectors for science - Prof. Artyom V. Yurov and Prof. Vladimir V. Kruzhaev - took a special care for the IBCM-2015.

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Droste, Ch.

1995-01-01

The scientific contributions are classified into three sections: 1) Reaction Mechanism and Nuclear Structure, 2) Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, 3) Other Research. In the section 1 the information about an experimental setup for studing high energy gamma rays produced in heavy ion collisions is given. Other research described in this section is the study of the mechanism of fusion-fission reactions where complete set of data on precission neutron multiplicities was analysed. The very long fusion-fission time scale is reported that may suggest some unexpected properties of hot nuclear matter. Our permanent interest in gamma rays accompanying heavy ion reactions is represented by a contribution in which extremely energetic photons, above the kinematics limit set by the beam and Fermi motion velocities, has been observed. Reactions at higher energies are represented by two works, an experimental one in which η meson production cross section were measured and a theoretical one that deals with the properties of hot nuclear matter produced in 200 AGeV nucleus-nucleus collision. The nucler spectroscopy group reports some new information concerning shell structure of the spherical nuclei. The decay of the I = 8 + isomer in strongly neutron deficient 100,102 Cd was studied and the results were analysed in the framework of a shell model. The wave functions for many excited states in 208 Pb were derived from the large set of experimental data and interesting information about residual interactions was obtained. The electromagnetic properties of some deformed nuclei were investigated. The 125,127 La nuclei were studied using RDM lifetime measurements and 129 Xe and 156 Gd - using Coulomb excitation. The superdeformed states were studied in 145 Gd where the SD bands have been discovered. One of them shows two band crossing. In the second section a new experimental method for determination of gamma ray polarization is proposed and in the last one the results of experimental test of Bell's inequalities are presented

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Auret, Danie; Swart, Hendrik; Venter, André

2014-04-01

The 5th South African Conference on Photonic Materials (SACPM) was again hosted very successfully at the beautiful Kariega private game reserve situated in the Eastern Cape, the second largest of South Africa's nine provinces. It is the traditional home of the Xhosa people and the birth place of many prominent South Africans including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. This movingly beautiful region is a remarkably diverse biosphere - ranging from lush evergreen forests to rugged mountains - incorporating the sunshine coast, with miles of sun-drenched coastline, pristine beaches and the warm sparkling Indian Ocean dotted with rivers, lagoons and coastal villages.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Mindaugas Briedis

2011-03-01

Full Text Available The contributors to this volume, who practice phenomenology in six countries in Europe and North America, all agree that these questions are to be answered with a clear and resounding No. The readers of this volume are bound to find out that this common critique of phenomenology is more of a caricature than its accurate description.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

A. Korhola

2000-09-01

Full Text Available There is a general increase in the awareness of political, business and financial institutions for the necessity of concrete action to allow sustainable development in mountain regions. This increased interest in mountain regions is documented by the resolution of the UN General Assembly that declared 2002 the International Year of Mountains. The world’s mountains clearly do not lend themselves to a simple definition because of their complexity. For each region, specific characterisation is necessary. The Arctic and Alpine regions of Europe often represent the most remote and least disturbed natural environments; yet they are threatened by acid deposition, toxic air pollutants and by climate change. These environments are fragile, being subject to adverse and harsh climatic conditions (high levels of precipitation, low temperatures, aridity, high solar radiation, natural disasters (avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and poor, shallow soils prone to erosion because of steep slopes. However, the fragility of mountain ecosystems means that they are not only vulnerable to environmental change, but that they are also excellent sensors of change. Their sensitivity and the presence of high quality environmental records preserved in lake sediments can be used to infer the speed, direction and biological impact of changing air quality and climate.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Mallamace, Francesco; Quintana, Jacqueline

2002-03-01

Complex systems represent one of the richest and more fascinating fields of current scientific research. The reason behind this is the important role that the properties of complex systems and materials play in a variety of different but overlapping areas in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and social sciences, like medicine and economy. Such unusually broad research field is, therefore, of primary interest nowadays in pure science and technology. The role of statistical physics in this new field of complex systems has been present since its onset and it has been accelerating recently. Methods developed for studying ordering phenomena in simple systems have been generalized for application to more complex forms of matter (polymers, biological macromolecules, glasses, etc) and complex processes (e.g. chaos, turbulence, economy, jamming, biological processes). In particular, many different phenomena (considered in the past to belong to separate research fields) have now a common description. Pillars of such a description are the concepts of scaling and universality. The International Conference on `Scaling Concepts and Complex Systems' (a satellite meeting of STATPHYS21) was devoted to give an overview on recent developments around these two concepts. The Conference took place in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, in July 9-14 2001. The meeting was held in the Gordon Conference style and was attended by about 100 scientists, it covered a large variety of theoretical and experimental research topics of current interest in complex systems and materials. The meeting consisted of a total number of about 40 invited and contributed talks and a poster session. The topics covered included: scaling behaviour, supra-molecular systems, aggregation, aggregation kinetics, growth mechanisms, disordered systems, soft condensed matter (polymers, biological polymers, bio-colloids, gels, colloids, membranes and interfacial phenomena), granular matter, phase separation and out-of-equilibrium dynamics, non-linear dynamics, chaos, turbulence and chaotic dynamics. The present issue contains a substantial number of the invited and contributed talks presented at the meeting. We made an effort to arrange these papers with an order similar to that of presentation during the meeting. It is our pleasure to thank the scientific committee, all the speakers, the session chairs and all participants who contributed to the success of the conference. We are grateful to the Bonino-Pulejo Foundation (Messina-Italy), and to the President On. Nino Calarco, for the Patronage and the enthusiastic support. Our thanks goes also for the Messina University, the INFM (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Italy), the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT, Mexico) and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). The Conference was sponsored by the INFM-Sec.C, CONACyT, UNAM, the Bonino-Pulejo Foundation which contributed financial support to participants and to the publication of the present issue. We are grateful to them for the support. Last, but not the least, we express our warmest gratitude to all the members of the local organizing committee for their assistance and for the work spent in organizing this meeting and especially to Professor~Alberto Robledo for his valuable advice.

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Unknown

rate has not shown any notable decline, but there has been a decline in the ... attempted to provide 'state of the art' information on fertility control methods and a ... the world and provide glimpses of how these populations may have evolved.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Zhuge, Qunbi; Chen, Xi

2018-02-01

Global IP traffic is predicted to increase nearly threefold over the next 5 years, driven by emerging high-bandwidth-demanding applications, such as cloud computing, 5G wireless, high-definition video streaming, and virtual reality. This results in a continuously increasing demand on the capacity of backbone optical networks. During the past decade, advanced digital signal processing (DSP), modulation formats, and forward error correction (FEC) were commercially realized to exploit the capacity potential of long-haul fiber channels, and have increased per channel data rate from 10 Gb/s to 400 Gb/s. DSP has played a crucial role in coherent transceivers to accommodate channel impairments including chromatic dispersion (CD), polarization mode dispersion (PMD), laser phase noise, fiber nonlinearities, clock jitter, and so forth. The advance of DSP has also enabled innovations in modulation formats to increase spectral efficiency, improve linear/nonlinear noise tolerance, and realize flexible bandwidth. Moving forward to next generation 1 Tb/s systems on conventional single mode fiber (SMF) platform, more innovations in DSP techniques are needed to further reduce cost per bit, increase network efficiency, and close the gap to the Shannon limit. To further increase capacity per fiber, spatial-division multiplexing (SDM) systems can be used. DSP techniques such as advanced channel equalization methods and distortion compensation can help SDM systems to achieve higher system capacity. In the area of short-reach transmission, the rapid increase of data center network traffic has driven the development of optical technologies for both intra- and inter-data center interconnects (DCI). In particular, DSP has been exploited in intensity-modulation direct detection (IM/DD) systems to realize 400 Gb/s pluggable optical transceivers. In addition, multi-dimensional direct detection modulation schemes are being investigated to increase the data rate per wavelength targeting 1 Tb/s interface.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Hart, Stan; Basu, Asish

Publication of this monograph will coincide, to a precision of a few per mil, with the centenary of Henri Becquerel's discovery of "radiations actives" (C. R. Acad. Sci., Feb. 24, 1896). In 1896 the Earth was only 40 million years old according to Lord Kelvin. Eleven years later, Boltwood had pushed the Earth's age past 2000 million years, based on the first U/Pb chemical dating results. In exciting progression came discovery of isotopes by J. J. Thomson in 1912, invention of the mass spectrometer by Dempster (1918) and Aston (1919), the first measurement of the isotopic composition of Pb (Aston, 1927) and the final approach, using Pb-Pb isotopic dating, to the correct age of the Earth: close—2.9 Ga (Gerling, 1942), closer—3.0 Ga (Holmes, 1949) and closest—4.50 Ga (Patterson, Tilton and Inghram, 1953).

Preface

Czech Academy of Sciences Publication Activity Database

Axelsson, Owe (ed.); Kincaid, D. R. (ed.)

2010-01-01

Roč. 17, č. 5 (2010), s. 141-142 ISSN 1070-5325 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z30860518 Keywords : David M. Young * iterative methods * partial differential equations of elliptic type Subject RIV: BA - General Mathematics Impact factor: 1.163, year: 2010 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nla.752/pdf

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Kroon, Robin E.; Nel, Jackie M.; Botha, J. Reinhardt

2018-04-01

The 7th South African Conference on Photonic Materials took place at the secluded Amanzi Game Reserve, South Africa, from 27 to 31 March 2017. The conference venue is about 70 km north of Bloemfontein in beautiful 'Bushveld' surroundings, as well as being located in the Free State's Maize Triangle which forms an integral part of South Africa's staple crop production. It is about 200 km east of Kimberley, where the discovery of diamonds around 1870 sparked a mining rush - and about a decade later brought the first electric street lights to Africa and the Southern Hemisphere.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Francesca Bianco

2013-11-01

Full Text Available Mt. Vesuvius is one of the most hazardous volcanoes in the world, due to the highly populated surrounding area, where more than 800,000 people live. It experienced various regimes of eruptive activity, from effusive to Plinian. Its last eruption, a mild effusive event, occurred on March 1944. After that the volcano started a period of quiescence, characterized by low seismicity, low deformation pattern, widespread fumaroles emissions accompanied by diffuse CO2 degassing in the crater area and CO2-rich groundwater along the southern flank and in the adjacent plain. Despite the low level of activity, Vesuvius is one of the best-monitored volcanoes in the world. During the last decades many researchers have been involved in the volcano monitoring, covering a wide range of topics, in order to discover any signals that could contribute to understand the volcano dynamics. However, in spite of so much effort, an exhaustive comprehension of the volcano system, aimed at a reliable prediction of the future activity, is far from having been reached. On the other hand, the fast technological evolution makes new instruments and methodologies available for a more sensitive monitoring in the future. [...

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Zlocha, J.

1996-01-01

Ministry of the environment of the Slovak Republic looks back about United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 where the document Agenda for 21 century, famous as AGENDA 21 (Declaration from Rio de Janeiro about environment and development) was accepted. From 132 indicators of sustainable development (which were proposed on Forty sitting of the Commission of the United Nations for Sustainable Development (CSD) 18 April - 3 May 1996 in New York) 76 indicators on the social, economic and institutional questions, and only 56 indicators on the environmental problematic are aimed. In the next part minister deals with the environmental politic after UNCED in the Slovak republic up to 1996. After UNCED the Slovak Republic as first state the document Strategy, principles and priority of state environmental politic has developed in 1993. The National environmental action program approved in 1996. Other activities and documents which were approved in the Slovak Republic are described

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Ma, Xinwen; Xiao, Guoqing; Wang, Zhiguang; Gao, Xing

2017-09-01

This issue of Nuclear Instruments and Methods B contains selected papers presented at the 27th International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS-27) that was held from 24 to 29 July 2016 at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Lanzhou, China. ICACS is a series of biannual conferences, those most recently ones were held in Debrecen, Hungary (2014), Kyoto, Japan (2012), Kraków, Poland (2010), Phalaborwa, South Africa (2008), Berlin, Germany (2006) and Genova, Italy (2004).

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Bowell, Robert J.; Alpers, Charles N.; Jamieson, Heather E.; Nordstrom, D. Kirk; Majzlan, Juraj

2014-01-01

Arsenic is perhaps history’s favorite poison, often termed the “King of Poisons” and the “Poison of Kings” and thought to be the demise of fiction’s most famous ill-fated lovers. The toxic nature of arsenic has been known for millennia with the mineral realgar (AsS), originally named “arsenikon” by Theophrastus in 300 B.C.E. meaning literally “potent.” For centuries it has been used as rat poison and as an important component of bactericides and wood preservatives. Arsenic is believed to be the cause of death to Napoleon Bonaparte who was exposed to wallpaper colored green from aceto-arsenite of copper (Aldersey-Williams 2011). The use of arsenic as a poison has been featured widely in literature, film, theatre, and television. Its use as a pesticide made it well known in the nineteenth century and it was exploited by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes novel The Golden Pince-Nez (Conan-Doyle 1903). The dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace is a prime example of arsenic in popular culture, being first a play but becoming famous as a movie.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Woodworth, P. L.; Pugh, D. T.; De Ronde, J. G.; Warrick, R. G.; Hannah, J.

The measurement of sea level is of fundamental importance to a wide range of research in climatology, oceanography, geology and geodesy. This volume attempts to cover many aspects of the field. The volume opens with a description by Bolduc and Murty of one of the products stemming from the development of tide gauge networks in the northern and tropical Atlantic. This work is relevant to the growth of the Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS), the main goal of which is to provide the world with an efficient, coherent sea level monitoring system for oceanographic and climatological research. The subsequent four papers present results from the analysis of existing tide gauge data, including those datasets available from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level and the TOGA Sea Level Center. Two of the four, by Wróblewski and by Pasarić and Orlić, are concerned with European sea level changes, while Yu Jiye et al. discuss inter-annual changes in the Pacific, and Wang Baocan et al. describe variability in the Changjiang estuary in China. The papers by El-Abd and A wad, on Red Sea levels, are the only contributions to the volume from the large research community of geologists concerned with sea level changes.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Haugan Are

2013-05-01

Full Text Available The 6th International Conference on Tracers and Tracing Methods (TRACER 6 was arranged in Oslo, 6–8 June 2011. The conference was organized by Institute for Energy Technology (IFE, located at Kjeller in Norway. The internet sites for TRACER 6 and IFE can be found at www.tracer6.com and www.ife.no, respectively.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Changjun Zheng

2017-03-01

Full Text Available The 1 st and 2 nd International Conferences on Modern Economic Technology and Management have been successfully held in 2014 and 2015 and the contributions have aroused more attention from the academic researching field. Since the success of the previous conferences, the 3 rd International Conference on Modern Economic Technology and Management (ICMETM 2016 will be held as scheduled on April 28-29, 2016 in Kyoto, Japan so as to further search the new problems and underlying reasons existing in economic technology and management under globalization and marketization. The proceedings in the conference mainly focus on the topics including analysis of economic policy, international finance and trade, theory of consumer behavior, evaluation and management of public project, economic development strategy and planning of new region, administrative management, business management and management of public affairs and policy and so on.

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

R. Narasimhan (Krishtel eMaging) 1461 1996 Oct 15 13:05:22

earthquake of 26 January 2001, held at New Delhi during October 3–5, ... the stresses and modes of failure of this mid-plate region. ... effects of flexure in imposing a stress system ... masonry structures to intense ground shaking of the area ...

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Trevor Harris

2011-09-01

Full Text Available The papers in this volume explore the history and the enigmatic, elusive identity of Britain’s Liberal Party. Clearly, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition formed in May 2010 provides an excellent opportunity and context in which to do so.It is a question which has, in various ways and at various times, risen to the agitated surface of British political life, to remind us that beneath the near century-old Conservative-Labour hegemony there still lurks, in the quieter depths below, what...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Mary Beth Adams; Dale W. Cole; Charles B. Davey; Scott H. Chang

2009-01-01

This volume represents the proceedings from the 11th North American Forest Soils Conference, held June 22?26, 2008 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. The theme for the conference "Forest Soil Science: Celebrating 50 Years of Research on Properties, Processes and Management of Forest Soils" captures the celebratory, but thoughtful, nature of the conference. Forest...

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Ovchinnikov, Sergei; Balaev, Dmitrii; Val'kov, Valery

2017-10-01

This special issue of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (JMMM) is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference Euro-Asian Symposium ;Trends in Magnetism; (EASTMAG-2016), held at the Siberian Federal University and Kirensky Institute of Physics, Federal Research Center, Krasnoyarsk Science Center of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, during August 15-19,2016. The papers were selected for publication after an intensive peer review, with a minimum of two reviewers for every paper. The editors would like to place on record the unstinted support received from over 130 reviewers which culminated in the selection of 61 manuscripts for publication. We take this opportunity to thank every one for participating in the EASTMAG-2016. As it happened in the previous EASTMAG-conferences of this once in three years scientific event, the EASTMAG-2016 covered a large spectrum of subjects that attract the interest of a wider community devoted to magnetic materials and their applications. The five days conference comprised special sessions for Section 1. Fundamental magnetic properties, 2. Magnetism and Superconductivity, 3. Magnetism of strongly correlated electronic systems, 4. Transport phenomena and spin electronics, 5. Dynamics of spin systems and magnetic resonances, 6 Magnetooptics and X-ray magnetooptics, 7. Ultrafast magnetism, 8. Magnonics, 9. Magnetic nanoparticles and granular systems, 10. Low dimensional magnetism and nanostructured materials, 11. Magnetic memories. With more than 430 registered participants from 19 countries comprising researchers from universities, academia, scientists and engineers from R&D institutions and industry, EASTMAG-2016 provided a perfect platform for an excellent interaction among all participants. Overall, the conference was well received with a keynote, seven plenary, eighty eight invited, one hundred oral and more than two hundred poster presentations. We would like to place on record with thanks the constant encouragement and support received from the Rector and the staff of Siberian Federal University for hosting this conference. The success of hosting the EASTMAG-2016 is largely due to the sponsorship extended by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, NPP ;Radiosviaz;Krasnoyarsk, Center of Technical support ;NAUKA; Moscow, Cryotrade Engineering Company Moscow. We thank every one of them. It is the pleasant duty of the organizers to record and thank the excellent support received from the Editorial and Publishing team of JMMM. We hope that the readers will find this special issue of EASTMAG-2016 exciting as well as useful for stimulating further research activities and conjecturing future trends.

Preface

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Münster-Swendsen, Mia; Vogt, Helle

2006-01-01

and legal schooling that the 'creators' of the laws received at major centres of learning throughout Europe. Moreover the authors address a number of important questions concerning the creation and development of legal professions and the dynamics between legal practice and theoretical, learned approaches...

PREFACE

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Aleksandras Velička

2011-04-01

Full Text Available The edition of scientific articles that you are holding in your hands is both new and old. Its history dates back to 1993, when research workers of the Department of Foreign Languages and Department of the Lithuanian Language of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University put in a great deal of effort on the initial publication of “Filologija”, an annual collection of scientific works. 13 volumes of this collection have been published.

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Budzanowski, A.

2000-01-01

The research activities of the H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) results in publication of 600 scientific papers, reports and conference contributions. Among the most important results one can consider: In the elementary particle physics, the DELPHI Collaboration in which INP participate, determined the mass and width of the W boson with an accuracy comparable to that obtained by D0 Collaboration at the Tevatron. New results on the parton structure of the photon were obtained by the H1 detector and the properties of the hadronic final state were further studied by the ZEUS Collaboration. Studies of the electron pairs in cosmic ray cascades by the JACEE experiment indicate the possibility of the existence of a new neutral particle with mass around 9 MeV/c 2 decaying into an electron-positron pair. A new technique of coherent inclusive exponentiation was used in the analysis of the LEP data. It allowed an analysis of the quantum interference between the incoming and outgoing photons as well as art evaluation of the higher order QED corrections to the of Z + γ process. The COSY 11 Collaboration found that the cross section for the p+p→K + Λ 0 +p reaction is 28 times higher than that for the p+p→K + Σ 0 +p reaction. It was suggested that the final state interaction was responsible for this phenomenon. Studies of the nonpartonic components in the nucleon structure function led to a better understanding of the higher order twist effects. A review paper summarizing the results on the role of leading baryons in high energy reactions appeared in Progress on Nuclear and Particle Physics. A theory of the interaction of very high energy neutrinos with nucleons was developed and applied to calculate the change in flux of the neutrinos traversing the Earth. Multichannel analysis of the properties of the scalar mesons f 0 (500), f 0 (980) and f 0 (1400) was completed. New results on the condensation of kaons inside the neutron star matter were obtained. In the nuclear spectroscopy studies, a 10 + isomeric state was identified in the 206 Hg nucleus. For the nuclei around A = 150, e.g. 149 Gd, discrete transitions joining SD bands with normal deformed states were unambiguously observed. Owing to the use of the Recoil Filter Detector with EUROBALL, and consequently significant reduction of the Doppler line broadening, new data on 45 Sc and nuclei near-by were obtained. The muon catalysed fusion studies led to a remarkable success in explanation of the resonance formation of the ddμ molecule in solid deuterium. A series of experiments on the elasticity and adhesion properties of the biological cell measured in vivo were completed with the atomic force microscope. Complementary studies of the properties of the isopentylcyanobiphenyl by dielectric relaxation, adiabatic calorimetry, infrared absorption, neutron scattering and polarization microscopy methods Ied to the conclusion of the existence of an universal character of the relaxation process in a broad range of temperatures and thermodynamic phases. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectra, both static and Magic Angle Spinning, of 51 V nuclei deposited on various substrates were measured. It was then possible to determine coordination, local symmetry and association of vanadium complexes. New effects like the tunneling of NH 2 D 2 and confirmation of the existence of the dipole moment of the NH 3 D ions were found. Many ab inito studies of lattice dynamics of various crystal, some of them for the first time (TiC, CuInSe 2 ), were performed. In the applied physics, we should mention the extreme sensitivity in measurements of the concentration of SF 6 at the level 10 -19 mol/cm 3 in water. The method of artificial intelligence was elaborated to find differences between two methods of measurements of neutron total absorption cross section on separated data samples. In the NMR imaging the water diffusion tensor components in vivo and in vitro both for spinal cord tissues were obtained and the influence of formaline fixture on its absolute value was found. Conditions were determined for selective separation of Hf and Nb in the solutions of sulphuric and muriatic acids using inorganic sorbents, such as hexacyanoferrate(II) of nickel and cobalt. Ratios of 137 Cs components from resuspension and stratosphere in both the average global fall-out and the Chernobyl fall-out were determined. The INP participated also in the first experiments to apply radioactive 32 P to intra-arterial brachytherapy. Results of comparative studies showed that SCGE method when applied for measuring DNA damage induced by a challenging dose of X-rays and an efficiency of cellular repair capacity, can be used in clinical studies as a predictive assay. Results suggest also that this method can be used in environmental studies for testing an individual susceptibility to the induction of the DNA damage. One can noted also some success in the development of new experimental equipment. The upgraded design of the luminosity monitor for the ZEUS detector was constructed and commissioned. A new mechanical structure and cooling system for the PHOBOS detector at the BNL were completed. The Institute was involved in the preparation of the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the future LHC collider at CERN. The conversion of the heating plant from coal to gas have been completed which radically reduced the pollution level in the area of our Institute and Krakow in winter. The Institute hosted 10 conferences and collaboration meetings and also participates in the EU Socrates-Erasmus educational programme

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Matveev, Vladimir S.; Miranda, Eva; Rubtsov, Vladimir; Przybylska, Maria; Tabachnikov, Sergei

2017-05-01

This Special Issue of Journal of Geometry and Physics gathers several contributions to the conference FDIS 2015 3-rd Conference on Finite Dimensional Integrable Systems in Geometry and Mathematical Physics which took place in Będlewo in July 12 to 17, 2015. It also contains other contributions by specialists in the field of integrable systems and related subjects. This is the second special issue which corresponds to the third installment of a series of Workshops called FDIS, which take place every other year.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Sundquist, Eric T.; Broecker, Wallace S.

Readers of this book will generally fit into two groups. One group is geologists and geochemists, who have studied the global carbon cycle for many decades. These readers will find that the papers in this book present a new view of familiar themes. Whereas much previous work on the carbon cycle, and other geochemical cycles, has emphasized the nature of the steady state maintained by complex networks of feedbacks, recent attention has shifted to the changes implied by the way these feedbacks respond to perturbations. The other group of readers is the community of scientists who are concerned with anticipating the effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Like the geologists and geochemists, these readers have a long tradition of carbon cycle research within their own disciplines. They, also, have raised subtle but profound questions about the role of the steady state assumption in their studies. As the evidence for preanthropogenic CO2 variations grows, they are no longer satisfied with predictive models that assume ipso facto that the carbon cycle was at a steady state before man's intervention. And as they discover more about the complexities of carbon cycle processes, they seek to know how these processes have behaved in the geologic past.

Preface

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Istadi Istadi

2012-12-01

Full Text Available BULLETIN OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING & CATALYSIS (ISSN 1978-2993, Volume 7, Number 2, Year 2012 is an electronic international journal. The journal is a media for communicating all research activities in chemical reaction engineering and catalysis fields, and disseminating the novel technology and news related to chemical reaction engineering, catalyst engineering and science, bioreactor engineering, membrane reactor, and catalytic reactor engineering.In this issue, effect of calcination temperature on the physic-chemical properties was presented with respect to some characterizations of the catalyst. In addition, synthesis and characterization as well as their relationship was studied. Effect of some preparation methods of catalyst and their relationship with catalyst performance and characterization was reported. The review on biodiesel-based heterogeneous catalyst for biodiesel production using homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis was highlighted. In addition, the synthesized zinc oxide based acid catalyst was explored to be used in the heterogeneous biodiesel production by using the vegetable oils and methanol. Original research articles focusing on enzymatic hydrolysis was also highlighted targeted for production of glucose from cellulosic material. Beside that, development of an alternative process to obtain the industrially important benzyl aromatics by benzylation of aromatics using benzyl chloride was focused which catalysed by mesoporous solid acid catalysts including their characterization and analysis. Finally, the study on cationic copolymerization in one step takes place between carbon–carbon double-bond monomer styrene with cyclic monomer tetrahydrofuran. The reaction was initiated with maghnite-H+ an acid exchanged montmorillonite as acid solid eco-catalyst. The oxonium ion of tetrahydrofuran and carbonium ion of styrene propagated the reaction of copolymerization.Currently, the BCREC journal is an open access electronic international journal. Readers can read and download any full-text articles for free of charge. However, Authors may pay some processing fees once their articles has been accepted, i.e. for subscription of Original Reprint Articles. Authors may also pay some fees for Original Reprint Articles with some eligible rates. The research articles submitted to the BCREC journal will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted research articles will be available online following the journal peer-reviewing process as well as assigned to DOI number from CrossRef. Official language used in this journal is English.Official website address of BCREC journal is: http://bcrec.undip.ac.id.Editor would like to appreciate all researchers, academicians, industrial practitioners focused on chemical reaction engineering and catalysis to contribute to this online journal.---------------------------------------------Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Istadi (Editor-in-Chief Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Diponegoro University E-mail: bcrec@undip.ac.id http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.7.2.4368.iv 

Preface

OpenAIRE

Młodawska-Bronowska, Jolanta

2015-01-01

This monograph covers the output of the conference titled “2014 − New Opportunities for Japan and V-4 Cooperation” and contains Japanese and Polish contributions. It offers reflections on the statu nascendi of economic and cultural relations between the two nations. Viewpoints and research results mirror the various interests and arguments of the scholars (mainly economists, sociologists, and japanlogists), businessmen, and representatives of administrative bodies (central and local governme...

Preface

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Hybler, P.

2004-01-01

Scientific conference deals with problems in environmental sciences and radio-environmental sciences. The conference proceeded in two sections: (A) Environmental engineering; (B) Nuclear technologies. Sixty registered people and fifty guests participated on this conference. Twenty-seven presentations and eleven posters were presented. This number of the journal contains twenty-one papers from which eighteen papers deals with the scope of INIS

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Alemany, A.; Lielausis, O.; Chopart, J.-P.

2003-09-01

PAMIR 2002 was organized in Ramatuelle, France, on September 16-20, 2002. The conference was attended by scientists working in various fields of magnetohydrodynamics and in this view has played an important role in the exchanges of ideas, promoting new scientific collaborations. The conference has managed about 160 oral and poster presentations regrouped in the form of specific topics. The audience of the conference has extended compared with PAMIR 2000 by considering that about 190 scientists, representing 22 countries, attended the Ramatuelle site. All scientific aspects of the liquid MHD were represented including: 1. Fundamental MHD enclosed all aspects of the MHD flows under various conditions of the magnetic Reynolds number. Problems involving steady, alternating or travelling magnetic field as well as the stability problems were considered. The specific problem of strong magnetic fields was also considered in this session. 2. Mettalurgical application of MHD. The communications have analyzed the possibilities offered by the magnetic fields in metallurgy to increase the quality of the product. The problems of interface stabilities, which control various industrial applications, have been also considered in this session as well as the transport of liquid metals by electromagnetic pumps. Some applications in electromagnetic filtration have been also reported. 3. Magnetoelectrolysis (poorly conducting fluids). The possibility to control the mass transfer phenomena in electrochemical systems by using the action of a magnetic field is one of the most promising and new applications of electromagnetism in Europe. The field of magnetoelectrolysis is extremely wide and provides, only for electrodeposition, the possibility to improve the quality, the structure, and to control the homogeneity and the rate of the deposit. Some particular applications for electrodeposition of magnetic materials have been also presented. 4. Magnetic fluids. This topic was announced for the second time in the conference program after its first presentation at PAMIR 2000. All aspects of the topic were presented, including applications for microelectronics and new possibilities in power engineering regarding the thermodynamic machine to produce electricity. 5. Cristal growth. The magnetic fields are used here to stabilize the interfaces between the crystal and the solution allowing to improve the quality of the crystals as well as to grow large-size single crystals. Various configurations with various types of magnetic fields (DC, AC or travelling, etc.) were reported. 6. Dynamo effect. The last day of the conference was devoted to the dynamo effect. This was a very important session, characterizing a very high level of activity in the European countries, especially in the domain of experiment. All the existing experiments in this field, using sodium as a liquid metal, with extremely important results for some of them considering the self-generation of magnetic fields, were examined. The next generation of dynamo experiments was also discussed, involving the papers devoted to the theoretical approach including turbulence. The conference was combined with the management committee of COST (COST P6 Magnetodynamics of Liquids) and with a meeting of the COST P6 working groups. They were devoted to metallurgical applications of MHD (person-in-charge - Prof. B. Nacke from Hannover, Germany), poorly conducting fluid (person-in-charge - Dr. G. Gerbeth from Dresden, Germany) and fundamental MHD (person-in-charge - Dr. J. Leorat from Paris, France). Additionally, a special meeting dedicated the Ampere program was organized to consider the second generation of dynamo experiments in Riga (Latvia), capable to reproduce the main mechanisms of the earth dynamo (reversion of polarity, for example). In this experiment, the Coriolis and Laplace forces will be combined. The proposed facility consists of a spherical container of 2 m in diameter, filled with liquid sodium and mounted on a rotating table. Therefore, Riga has a vocation to become a European center for the MHD studies at high magnetic Reynolds numbers. This project is a part of the construction of a scientific and technologic park in Riga, with the Ampere program being presented as an incubator of the project. A consensus about the program from different European partners interested in experimental dynamo has been achieved. The audience at the conference is extremely important, and new countries have participated for the first time, for example, China and some countries from North Africa. Magnetohydrodynamics moves forward in Europe. The vitality of MHD has been demonstrated from the diversity of the topics reported at PAMIR 2002. A new PAMIR conference will be organized in 2005.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Rudra, Alok

2015-03-01

Facing the French Alps from the northern shore of Lac Léman, the campus of EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - hosted the 17th International Conference on Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (ICMOVPE XVII). As a written memory of this event, this special issue of Journal of Crystal Growth offers an insight into the research presented in Lausanne between July 13 and 18, 2014.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Craciun, Valentin; Iacomi, Felicia; Tetean, Romulus

2017-12-01

The 11th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials, ICPAM-11 (https://www.icpam.ro/) was organized under the auspices of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania in collaboration with Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele, Romania and other 22 prestigious institutions from Romania, France, U.K, Russia, Japan, Portugal, Ukraine, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Turkey, Greece and USA. During September 8-14, 2016, ICPAM 11, together with the other three events, 2nd Autumn School on Physics of Advanced Materials, PAMS-2, 4th International Festival of NanoArt and 2nd Art and Science Photography Exhibition and Workshop, attracted in Cluj-Napoca 290 participants, of which an important number were young researchers, postdocs, artists and PhD and Master students. The financial support offered by important sponsors and exhibitors such as Al Fateh@Sons Traders, Emerson, ArcelorMittal, THORLABS, Histeresis, Specs, Blade Solutions, had a major contribution to provide gratuities and to award many prices to young researchers and PhD students.

Preface

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

A decade back, the word 'wireless' generally meant a 'mobile phone' in which talk when you walk. However, the modern mobile communication systems are shifting their focus from solely voice communication to Internet. ... It's all about data, we need to protect it and thus the term 'secured wireless networks'.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Gourbesville, Philippe; Mujumdar, Pradeep P.; Kojiri, Toshiharu

It is obvious that water resources management has become an important issue in this century under the specified situation of climate change, regional development and population increase. Moreover, the modern life has become vulnerable to water environments affected with climate evolution and with growing urbanisation. New water-related technologies may create the additional water consumption or drastic water saving. Freshwater withdrawals by human activities have increased dramatically over the years. Already, at the beginning of the 21st century, one-sixth of the world's population is without access to clean water supply while two-fifths lacked access to sanitation. Problems of water resources have also become much discussed in the international conferences and multi-national organizations.

Preface

Science.gov (United States)

Winter, Martin; Brodd, Ralph J.; Qiu, Xinping; Yang, Xiao-Qing

The 2007 meeting of the International Battery Material Association (IBA) was held in the Kylin Villa Hotel and Resort in Shenzhen (China) from November 16-20, 2007. The local meeting was organized by Tsinghua University (China). This was the first meeting of the IBA in China and a most successful one with more than 210 attendees. The meeting benefited from prestigious scientific sponsorship by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Gold Peak Batteries (Hong Kong), Amperex Technology Limited (ATL, China), PEC (Belgium), Ametek Inc. (USA), Evonik Degussa (Germany), Suedchemie (Germany), TIMCAL AG (Switzerland), Hong-Sen Materials Company (China), Hydro-Quebec (Canada), Pulead Technology Industry Co. (China), and Neware Technology Limited (China).

Branded content infantil

OpenAIRE

Raúl RODRÍGUEZ-FERRÁNDIZ

2017-01-01

Reseña del libro Bajo la influencia del branded content. Efectos de los contenidos de marca en niños y jóvenes. Review of the book Bajo la influencia del branded content. Efectos de los contenidos de marca en niños y jóvenes.

Capital cost: pressurized water reactor plant. Commerical electric power cost studies

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1977-06-01

The investment cost study for the 1139-MW(e) pressurized water reactor (PWR) central station power plant consists of two volumes. This volume includes in addition to the foreword and summary, the plant description and the detailed cost estimate

Fulltext PDF

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Foreword. Drs M Ramanadham, V C Rakhecha, R Mukhopadhyay, S Basu and V K Aswal. I also thank BRNS for the financial support. V C Sahni. Director, Physics Group, BARC, Mumbai and. Director, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore. 2.

PREFACE 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques

Science.gov (United States)

Buckman, Stephen; Sullivan, James; White, Ronald

2011-01-01

Preface These proceedings arose from the 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques (SLOPOS12), which was held on Magnetic Island, North Queensland, Australia, between 1-6th August 2010. Meetings in the SLOPOS series are held (roughly) every three years and have now been held on (almost) all continents, indicating the truly international nature of the field. SLOPOS12 marked the second time that the Workshop had been held in the southern hemisphere, and the first time in Australia. SLOPOS12 attracted 122 delegates from 16 countries. Most encouraging was the attendance of 28 student delegates, and that about half of the overall delegates were early career researchers - a good sign for the future of our field. We also enjoyed the company of more than a dozen partners and families of delegates. In a slight departure from previous SLOPOS meetings, the International Advisory Committee approved a broader scope of scientific topics for inclusion in the program for the 2010 Workshop. This broader scope was intended to capture the applications of positrons in atomic, molecular and biomedical areas and was encapsulated in the byeline for SLOPOS-12: The 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques for Solids, Surfaces, Atoms and Molecules. The scientific and social program for the meeting ran over 6 days with delegates gathering on Sunday August 1st and departing on August 6th. The scientific program included plenary, invited, contributed and student lectures, the latter being the subject of a student prize. In all there were 53 oral presentations during the week. There were also two poster sessions, with 63 posters exhibited, and a prize was awarded for the best poster by a student delegate. The standard of the student presentations, both oral and posters, was outstanding, so much so that the judging panel recommended an additional number of prizes be awarded. Topics that were the focus of invited presentations and contributed papers at

Graphene energy storage and conversion applications

CERN Document Server

Liu, Zhaoping

2014-01-01

Series PrefacePrefaceAuthorsGraphene Overview; Xufeng Zhou, Wei Wang, and Zhaoping LiuSynthesis of Graphene; Wei Wang, Hailiang Cao, Xufeng Zhou, and Zhaoping LiuApplications of Graphene in Lithium Ion Batteries; Xufeng Zhou and Zhaoping LiuApplications of Graphene in New-Concept Batteries; Xufeng Zhou and Zhaoping LiuApplications of Graphene in Supercapacitors; Chao Zheng, Xufeng Zhou, Hailiang Cao, and Zhaoping LiuApplications of Graphene in Solar Cells; Fuqiang Huang, Dongyun Wan, Hui Bi, and Tianquan LinApplications of Graphene in Fuel Cells; Xuejun Zhou, Jinli Qiao, and Yuyu LiuIndex.

Branded content infantil

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Raúl RODRÍGUEZ-FERRÁNDIZ

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Reseña del libro Bajo la influencia del branded content. Efectos de los contenidos de marca en niños y jóvenes. Review of the book Bajo la influencia del branded content. Efectos de los contenidos de marca en niños y jóvenes.

Digital content licenses, a barrier to digital content?: A South African ...

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Digital content licenses, a barrier to digital content?: A South African survey. C Masango. Abstract. No Abstract. Innovation Vol.34 () 2007: pp. 51-66. Full Text: EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Article Metrics. Metrics Loading ... Metrics powered by PLOS ALM

FOREWORD: Materials metrology Materials metrology

Science.gov (United States)

Bennett, Seton; Valdés, Joaquin

2010-04-01

It seems that so much of modern life is defined by the materials we use. From aircraft to architecture, from cars to communications, from microelectronics to medicine, the development of new materials and the innovative application of existing ones have underpinned the technological advances that have transformed the way we live, work and play. Recognizing the need for a sound technical basis for drafting codes of practice and specifications for advanced materials, the governments of countries of the Economic Summit (G7) and the European Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 1982 to establish the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS). This project supports international trade by enabling scientific collaboration as a precursor to the drafting of standards. The VAMAS participants recognized the importance of agreeing a reliable, universally accepted basis for the traceability of the measurements on which standards depend for their preparation and implementation. Seeing the need to involve the wider metrology community, VAMAS approached the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM). Following discussions with NMI Directors and a workshop at the BIPM in February 2005, the CIPM decided to establish an ad hoc Working Group on the metrology applicable to the measurement of material properties. The Working Group presented its conclusions to the CIPM in October 2007 and published its final report in 2008, leading to the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between VAMAS and the BIPM. This MoU recognizes the work that is already going on in VAMAS as well as in the Consultative Committees of the CIPM and establishes a framework for an ongoing dialogue on issues of materials metrology. The question of what is meant by traceability in the metrology of the properties of materials is particularly vexed when the measurement results depend on a specified procedure. In these cases, confidence in results requires not only traceable calibration of the various instruments and standards used but also the reliable application of an accepted measurement procedure. Nowhere is this more evident than in the use of hardness scales, which are not directly traceable to the SI. This special issue of Metrologia includes a summary of the findings and conclusions of the Working Group and a further 14 papers covering the full range of properties of interest in science, engineering and standards making. It includes papers by authors at eight national measurement institutes and four other research centres. In addition to mechanical properties, there are papers addressing issues associated with the measurement of electromagnetic, acoustic and optical properties as well as those arising from the specific structural features of many new materials. As guest editors, we are extremely grateful to all the authors who have contributed to this special issue on the measurement of the properties of materials. We hope it will contribute to a wider appreciation of many of the associated issues and foster a growing understanding of the importance of ensuring that all such measurements are performed in accordance with accepted standards and procedures, with proper attention to the need to establish the traceability of the results. Only in this way can the performance, safety and fitness for purpose of products be guaranteed.

Foreword by the guest editor

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Ivanka Stričević

2015-03-01

Full Text Available This issue of Libellarium includes papers from the invited speakers who gave lectures at the Summer School in User Studies (SSUS organized by the Department of Information Sciences and held at the University of Zadar, 11. - 14. April, 2012. The SSUS is associated with the Knowledge Society and Information Transfer PhD programme at the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar. This programme is designed for Croatian and international doctoral students in the field of theories and studies of information needs and use, as well as the field of reading and learning concepts and strategies in digital environment. The main goal of the Summer School 2012 was to introduce the participants to the most recent research, the latest developments and the newly emerged concepts in the fields of users’ information behaviour, learning and education in the digital age, information literacy theories and concepts, as well as the reading paradigms. In the recent times the information society changes rapidly which influences processing and the approaches to information while it changes the existing paradigms of learning and education. New literacies emerge and reading, as the key competency necessary to access the information, changes its forms and practices. The SUSS organized the above mentioned issues in three segments: Users’ information behaviour, Literacy and reading in the digital environment, and Learning and education in the digital age. In the Users’ information behaviour segment this issue of Libellarium contains articles from two invited speakers and two doctoral students who discuss the subject from different viewpoints. Paul Sturges starts with the assumption that people are much more dependent than they realise on information and ideas that are acquired and processed by areas of the brain, not always immediately accessible to the conscious mind. Polona Vilar discusses information behaviour of scholars and scholarly practice influenced by increased accessibility of digital resources and tools. Doctoral students Dora Rubinić and Darko Lacović base their literature reviews on the specific context of university students’ information behaviour. The former review deals with information behavior of university students in general, while the latter one deals with university students’ information behaviour in relation to the role of academic libraries. Four invited speakers discuss literacy and reading in the digital environment. Livija Knaflič presents literacy as a complex phenomenon and focuses her work toward psychological aspects of literacy. Sonja Špiranec investigates information literacy in the context of Web 2.0 which transformed information environments into complex and unstructured places so the contexts of information literacy are being re-examined and reshaped respectively. Ivanka Kuić writes about the postmodern theoretical approaches to the reader and the validity of these approaches in the digital environment while emphasizing that existing concepts of the reader and reading adapt to electronic environment, because the electronic text deconstructs the printed one and it changes the way of reading. Vita Mozuraite discusses these rapid changes in the reading paradigm in the age of e-book to which the young readers are especially susceptible considering their frequent use of the internet. The changes in information environment influence learning. This fact demands careful consideration from education experts in order to achieve the maximal degree of the rich media environment contribution to the quality of education. Hence, Milan Matijević writes about the influence the e-environment has on the new curriculum paradigms. These papers are the starting point for the new directions of thought about the changes in the digital environment that reflect on information behaviour, learning and the related practices. The papers were received in 2012/2013 and were peer reviewed in 2013/2014. * Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia e-mail: istricev@unizd.hr

FOREWORD Nanomaterials science Nanomaterials science

Science.gov (United States)

Rohrer, Heinrich

2010-10-01

The nanometer regime covers the transition from condensed matter behavior to atomic and molecular properties and thus is a very rich but also very demanding area in materials science. Close to the condensed matter side, properties and functions might still very well be scalable, whereas close to the atomic and molecular side, the scalability is mostly lost. Properties and functions change qualitatively or quantitatively by orders of magnitude when the dimensions become smaller than a critical size in the nanometer range. Examples are the ballistic regime for electron or spin transport at dimensions below the mean free path, near-field effects in scanning near-field optical microscopy and quantum wells when the dimensions are below an appropriate wavelength, novel electronic, mechanical, and chemical properties when the number of bulk atoms becomes smaller than that of surface atoms, quantum conduction, and Coulomb blockade. Thus, by going below a certain size, an abundance of novel properties and functions are at one's disposal, or, in other words, we can functionalize materials simply by reducing their size to the nanoscale. The key to the future lies in the functions that we give to materials, not just in finding 'novel functional materials'. This catch expression in many materials science programs and initiatives of the past two decades sounds great, but it is not what really counts. All materials are functional in one way or another and, therefore, all new materials are 'novel functional materials'. Certainly, finding new materials is always an important part of progress, but we should also focus on the much larger domain of novel functions that we can give to existing or modified materials. A good example is semiconductors: they are fifty or more years old and their properties are very well known, but they were not of widespread interest and use until the transistor changed their destiny into being the central material in the information technology revolution. Interfaces gave them their functions, and shaping them into ever-smaller functional components made them indispensably omnipresent as transistors—produced in billions per person and per year—and they are no doubt the rulers of today's technical world. The semiconductor and transistor serve as an inspiring example of functionalizing materials. The developments of microelectronics profited very much from scalability, that is, the properties and functions do not change significantly with size. Therefore, every step toward smaller dimensions was a technical and commercial challenge with risks well under control. The transition to the nanoscale, however, is discontinuous. Examples of this transition are the local probe methods that exploit the mechanically controlled proximity to the object under consideration and that have become indispensable as microscopes and as measuring and modifying tools, the size of molecular components that are much smaller than the smallest possibly achievable transistor, the properties and functions of materials below a critical size as mentioned above, the continuum properties versus discrete ones, and novel concepts inspired by living nature. Those novel concepts include growing circuits first and building the active components at the nodes afterwards and measuring weak by weak, small by small, and many by many. It is these discontinuous steps that make the nanoscale different, not just smaller. They pose exciting challenges, open great opportunities and nearly unlimited possibilities, but they also carry serious technical, commercial, environmental, and health risks. The nanoscale is also a great opportunity for materials science in general. Materials science is interdisciplinary per se. A materials scientist should have a reasonable understanding of physics, chemistry, engineering, and more recently, also biology. Certainly one can always team up with representatives from other disciplines and forge collaborations. However, an effective team can only emerge from a common understanding of the respective languages and problems. The lack of such an understanding is the Achilles' heel of so many collaborations. Despite the intrinsic interdisciplinary nature, materials science has split into various segments according to the type of material, for example, metals, organic, inorganic, biological, molecular, and so on. Each of them leads an independent life with little understanding for the others. This segmentation has made materials science lose, to an undesirable extent, its all-embracing mission for science and technology. There are laudable efforts to reunite different branches of materials science into comprehensive institutions; examples are NIMS in Tsukuba and IMR at Tohoku University, but institutions alone do not make the day. The nanoscale provides an excellent opportunity for scientists. The nanoscale was the bifurcation point where disciplines split and developed their own disciplinary views and language. This was the necessary core for the tremendous developments of science. Technology always had to rely on broader views. Now, disciplines merge again at the nanoscale, which will hopefully bring back to materials science much of what was lost over recent decades. It is difficult to delimit the nanodomain using general criteria since everything consists of atoms that are roughly a third of a nanometer in size, as is their distance from each other in condensed matter. In most cases, the individual addressabilities of nanostructures, properties, and processes are important. Atoms emerged from the anonymity as members of an ensemble; they have become our partners as individuals. As upper limits for nano, we might agree on 100-200 nm in object size and 1-10 nm in accuracy for local positioning, measuring, modifying, and controlling processes. The lower limit is open; a hundredth of a nanometer in positioning and measuring is nothing extraordinary. As a reviewer, I would accept a very interesting and daring research proposal, even if it interprets 'nano' somewhat too generously. After all, we want to promote top-class research and not average research just for the sake of 'nano'. Interfaces, material growth at given nano positions, shaping materials to a given nanosize and form, and bistability are key elements for functionalizing materials. InterfacesThe role of interfaces is rapidly increasing in science and technology. The number of interfaces increases with the square of the number of phases of materials. Even if the majority of them are impractical or useless, they are still much more abundant than the materials themselves, and they are the key to new functions. Think of the simple 'mechanical' interface responsible for the lotus effect where wetting is prevented by the rapidly changing surface curvature due to nanoparticles. Think of all the connections of a nanometer-sized area between very different materials, for example, for electron or spin transport. Think of the delicate interfaces that protect nanofunctional units from the environment but allow for communication of various types with other nanocomponents or with the macroscopic world. The solid-liquid interface plays a special role here. For me, it is the interface of the future, both for local growth and removal of nm3 quantities and for working with biological specimens requiring a liquid environment. Interfaces are the 'faces of action' and nanoscale materials science will be, to a great extent, 'interface science'. There is no need to change the name; attentive awareness suffices. Material growth at given nano positionsThis is the second central challenge in nanoscale materials science, but maybe still a futuristic one. We have heard much about the extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes. They do a great job in certain applications, like tips of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes or nanoinjection needles or as bundles for electron emission or electron transport. As single carbon nanotubes of various lengths in complex micro- and nano-electronic circuits, however, they have to be grown at given positions, which is still problematic. Another example concerns the assembly scenario for electronics, components like sensors, actuators, and nano-systems. Macromolecular chemistry is producing highly functional macromolecules, but, eventually, they have to be produced and assembled at given positions. Shaping materials to a given nanosize and formIn the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, shaping semiconductors, many oxides, and selected metals down to 20-100 nm dimensions is standard. In nanomechanics, however, other materials might be more appropriate and better suited for a given task. In other cases, finishing procedures might be impossible or too time-consuming for large numbers of them. Components for counting electrons—more elegant and smaller than today's single-electron transistors—or adjustable holes for counting atoms and molecules will eventually be badly needed because of the 1/√N fluctuations in the properties and measurements at a small N, for example, N dopants in nanosize transistors or N electrons in very short current pulses. Bistable componentsBistable components, which do not require electrical currents, are aimed at reducing local energy dissipation and faster startup of personal computers. Magnetoresistive and ferroelectric random access memory (MRAMS and FRAMS) devices are the first attempts to use them in circuits. I am not aware of reported switching times that are considerably faster than a few nanoseconds, as required in today's storage. This is too slow for memory and much too slow for possible logic devices based on two-terminal bistable components. Bistable molecules, a mechanical switch, might be a valid and sufficiently fast alternative, certainly with all the challenges mentioned above. I have mentioned just a few obvious examples of the involvement of materials science in the new world of nanodimensions. However, for materials scientists, the sky is the limit. The thoughts given above are partly reflected in the lectures that I have recently given in Japan. It is my pleasure to thank my colleagues for the mutual understanding and hospitality that I always experience in Japan.

FOREWORD: Special issue on density

Science.gov (United States)

Fujii, Kenichi

2004-04-01

This special issue on density was undertaken to provide readers with an overview of the present state of the density standards for solids, liquids and gases, as well as the technologies developed for measuring density. This issue also includes topics on the refractive index of gases and on techniques used for calibrating hydrometers so that almost all areas concerned with density standards are covered in four review articles and seven original articles, most of which describe current research being conducted at national metrology institutes (NMIs). A review article was invited from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum to highlight research on the magnetic suspension densimeters. In metrology, the determinations of the volume of a weight and the density of air are of primary importance in establishing a mass standard because the effect of the buoyancy force of air acting on the weight must be known accurately to determine the mass of the weight. A density standard has therefore been developed at many NMIs with a close relation to the mass standard. Hydrostatic weighing is widely used to measure the volume of a solid. The most conventional hydrostatic weighing method uses water as a primary density standard for measuring the volume of a solid. A brief history of the determination of the density of water is therefore given in a review article, as well as a recommended value for the density of water with a specified isotopic abundance. The most modern technique for hydrostatic weighing uses a solid density standard instead of water. For this purpose, optical interferometers for measuring the diameters of silicon spheres have been developed to convert the length standard into the volume standard with a small uncertainty. A review article is therefore dedicated to describing the state-of-the-art optical interferometers developed for silicon spheres. Relative combined standard uncertainties of several parts in 108 have been achieved today for measuring the volume and density of silicon spheres. These technologies are currently being used not only for establishing a solid density standard, but also for determining the Avogadro constant by the x-ray crystal density method, where the density, molar mass and lattice constant of a silicon crystal are measured based on the definition of the SI units. Considering that much of the present research on the Avogadro constant has been undertaken to replace the present definition of the kilogram with a new definition based on a number of atoms, it is satisfying to note that the most accurate density standard may contribute to a new definition of the kilogram. Differential density measurements by hydrostatic weighing and by the pressure of flotation method developed for measuring the density differences between silicon crystals and solids are given in a review article and three original articles, where combined standard uncertainties of a few parts in 108 have been achieved in measuring relative density differences. These technologies are being used not only for the determination of the Avogadro constant, but also for evaluating defects in silicon crystals used in the semiconductor industry. Another important liquid used in the density standard is mercury because the pressured standard determined from mercury column barometers, the molar gas constant determined from an acoustic resonator, and the Josephson constant determined from a mercury voltmeter are all dependent on the density of mercury. A review article is therefore dedicated to an overview of the history, recommended value and recent progress in the measurement of the density of mercury. This special issue also features the technologies developed for measuring the thermodynamic properties of fluids. New instruments with a magnetic suspension balance have substantially improved the uncertainty in measuring the density of fluids at elevated pressures and temperatures. Two review articles and an original article are therefore dedicated to describing the history, principle and recent progress in magnetic suspension densimeters. When the diamagnetic properties of organic liquids are taken into account, an unprecedented uncertainty of a few parts in 106 can be achieved for density measurements at high pressures. The papers collected in this special issue reflect the general trends in research on density standards. I hope that this special issue will stimulate new directions of research in the density standard, and also help to create more accurate, reliable and convenient methods for many applications. Thanks are addressed to all the authors who have contributed to this special issue on density, to the referees who have given their time, and also to the former editor Professor Martin and the present editor Dr~Williams for their support and useful suggestions in collecting the articles.

FOREWORD Applications of Data Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

In this age of BigData, there is increasing interest in analysing data emanating from heterogenous sources. Developing statistical and computational techniques for such data analysis problems is the focus of the emerging ... and Automation,.

A Foreword from the Editor

OpenAIRE

KAKİLLİ ACARAVCI, Songül

2018-01-01

It is my great pleasure to present the inaugural issue of Journal of Politics, Economy, and Management(JOPEM): an interdisciplinarypeer-reviewed academic journal of a new kind publishedbi-annually by the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in MustafaKemal University. The JOPEM providesa platform for academics, practitioners and policymakers to share theirresearch.Adouble-blind peer-review method is used in the acceptance of manuscripts, andcompilations, conceptual discussions, em...

Foreword by the guest editors

African Journals Online (AJOL)

The articles indicate, often tacitly, that a policy framework is the first step to the goal of social cohesion but if policies are not supported by interventions and political will, both at the macro and micro level, social cohesion will be nothing more than a theoretical concept. The pursuit of social cohesion can be seen as the ...

Social video content delivery

CERN Document Server

Wang, Zhi; Zhu, Wenwu

2016-01-01

This brief presents new architecture and strategies for distribution of social video content. A primary framework for socially-aware video delivery and a thorough overview of the possible approaches is provided. The book identifies the unique characteristics of socially-aware video access and social content propagation, revealing the design and integration of individual modules that are aimed at enhancing user experience in the social network context. The change in video content generation, propagation, and consumption for online social networks, has significantly challenged the traditional video delivery paradigm. Given the massive amount of user-generated content shared in online social networks, users are now engaged as active participants in the social ecosystem rather than as passive receivers of media content. This revolution is being driven further by the deep penetration of 3G/4G wireless networks and smart mobile devices that are seamlessly integrated with online social networking and media-sharing s...

Qualitative Content Analysis

OpenAIRE

Satu Elo; Maria Kääriäinen; Outi Kanste; Tarja Pölkki; Kati Utriainen; Helvi Kyngäs

2014-01-01

Qualitative content analysis is commonly used for analyzing qualitative data. However, few articles have examined the trustworthiness of its use in nursing science studies. The trustworthiness of qualitative content analysis is often presented by using terms such as credibility, dependability, conformability, transferability, and authenticity. This article focuses on trustworthiness based on a review of previous studie...

Hollyweird science the next generation : from spaceships to microchips

CERN Document Server

Grazier, Kevin R

2017-01-01

Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in Hollywood productions. Both big and small-screen productions are featured and their science content illuminated—first by the authors and subsequently by a range of experts from science and the film world. Starring roles in this volume are played by, among other things, computers (human and mechanical), artificial intelligences, robots, and spacecraft. Interviews with writers, producers, and directors of acclaimed science-themed films stand side by side with the perspectives of scientists, science fiction authors, and science advisors. The result is a stimulating and informative reading experience for the layperson and professional scientist or engineer alike. The book begins with a foreword by Zack Stentz, who co-wrote X-Men: First Class and Thor, and is currently a writer/producer on CW’s The Flash.

Review report on the dynamical study of the main building of the Paks NPP

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Gatti, F.

1995-01-01

The present report deals with the review of the report 'Dynamical Study of the main building of the Paks NPP', issued by Paks NPP (Hungary) on April, 1993, within the frame of the IAEA benchmark study for the seismic analysis and testing of an existing Nuclear Power Plant (M), and on behalf of ENEL DSR/VDN Rome, in the aims of the nuclear activities of ENEL DSR/VDN (Rome). After a foreword to define the aims of the job (Chapter 1) and the identification of the scope of the work (Chapter 2), a short list of references is given (Chapter 3). In Chapter 4, the criteria followed in the review activity are listed; in Chapter 5, the contents of the Paks NPP report are summarized. In Chapter 6 the results of the review are given, while the main conclusions of the review activities are summarized in the Chapter 7. (author)

E-book about E-learning Online Education and Learning Management Systems-Global E-learning in a Scandinavian Perspective

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Ugur DEMIRAY

2004-01-01

Full Text Available Prior to year 2000 Scandinavian universities offered selected online courses attracting a few pioneering students. Today, even primary schools offer online services to students, teachers and parents. Online education is becoming mainstream education in Scandinavia.A new, comprehensive and innovative book about e-learning is now available in print and online in several electronic formats. The book’s web-site presents tidbits of the content in several electronic formats such as text, audio, speech synthesis and video.Dr. Erwin Wagner, former President of the European Distance Education Network, characterizes the book as interesting, important, innovative, international and impressive. In his foreword, Dr. Wagner states that the “book comprises a rich variety of material,perspectives, insights and assessments. Valid information can be found there for researchers, for students in the field, for teachers, for managers and for politicians who are looking forreliable knowledge”

Description of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and content knowledge on Muhammadiyah Semarang University's preservice teacher

Science.gov (United States)

Astuti, Andari Puji; Wijayatiningsih, Testiana Deni; Azis, Abdul; Sumarti, Sri Susilogati; Barati, Dwi Anggani Linggar

2017-12-01

One of the competencies of teachers to be mastered under the constitution is pedagogic competence. This study aims to provide an overview of the pedagogic competence of Preservice teachers through the mastery of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Content knowledge (CK). The research method used is descriptive qualitative, with data retrieval technique through essay tests, questionnaire and interview. The results showed that of the five PCK indicators, only knowledge of learning strategies to teach chemistry already in high category. For Content Knowledge of preservice teachers are in the middle category for indicators of knowledge of disciplinary content, whereas knowledge that alternative frameworks for thinking about the content exist and the knowledge of the relationship between big ideas and the supporting ideas in a content area is in the fair category.

Learning Content Management Systems

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Tache JURUBESCU

2008-01-01

Full Text Available The paper explains the evolution of e-Learning and related concepts and tools and its connection with other concepts such as Knowledge Management, Human Resources Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Information Technology. The paper also distinguished Learning Content Management Systems from Learning Management Systems and Content Management Systems used for general web-based content. The newest Learning Content Management System, very expensive and yet very little implemented is one of the best tools that helps us to cope with the realities of the 21st Century in what learning concerns. The debates over how beneficial one or another system is for an organization, can be driven by costs involved, efficiency envisaged, and availability of the product on the market.

Digital content licenses, a barrier to digital content?: A South African ...

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Digital content licenses, a barrier to digital content?: A South African survey. C Masango. Abstract. No Abstract. Innovation Vol.34 () 2007: pp. 51-66. Full Text: EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT · http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/innovation.v34i1.26533 · AJOL African Journals ...

ANÁLISE DISCURSIVA DO PREFÁCIO DO DICIONÁRIO DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA, DE EVANILDO BECHARA

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

RODRIGO ALVES SILVA

2016-03-01

Full Text Available This paper aims to examine the preface to a dictionary of the Portuguese language by Evanildo Bechara, according to Discourse Analysis. The main objective is to investigate how the preface makes sense, taking into account the following categories: the subject that speaks, production conditions, the discursive formation and the subject known as the "Other." For this purpose, there was a brief presentation of the basic concepts of Discourse Analysis, based on Courtine (2009, Mussalim (2003, Orlandi (2006 and Pêcheux (2006. Moreover, it was showed up briefly how this dictionary can be taken as the object of speech, based on Nunes (2006. Thus, the dictionary builds its meaning through interaction among speakers. The subject-author produces his speech from a social position regulated by a discursive formation and influenced by production conditions. Preliminary analysis above demonstrates that the discourse in the preface is done by the imagination of a reader audience (high school students and from a discursive training within the context of appreciation of the use of dictionaries in school (proposed by the National Textbook Program- PNDL, among other things.

Eating quality of UK-style sausages varying in price, meat content, fat level and salt content.

Science.gov (United States)

Sheard, P R; Hope, E; Hughes, S I; Baker, A; Nute, G R

2010-05-01

Thirty-six brands of pork sausage were purchased from a total of 10 retailers over a 4 months period and assessed for eating quality. The brands included 5 of the 10 most popular sausages in the UK, 4 basic, 14 standard, 10 premium and 8 healthy eating brands. The average price, meat content, fat content and salt content was 3.31 pounds/kg, 62%, 17% and 1.6%, respectively, but there were wide differences in price (1.08 pound/kg-5.23 pounds/kg), meat content (32-97%), fat content (2.1-29.1%) and salt content (0.5-2.5%). Sausages were assessed by a trained sensory panel using 100mm unstructured line scales and 14 descriptors (skin toughness, firmness, juiciness, pork flavour, fattiness, meatiness, particle size, cohesiveness, saltiness, sweet, acidic, bitter and metallic) including overall liking. The declared meat content was positively correlated with price, skin toughness, firmness, pork flavour, meatiness, particle size and perceived saltiness (r=0.5 or better). The declared fat content was positively correlated with fattiness and sweetness (r=0.42 or better) but not juiciness. There was no significant correlation between declared salt content and perceived saltiness. A principal component analysis showed that the first two principal components accounted for 51% of the variability in the data. Products could be separated into four quadrants according to their price, meat content, fat content and their associated eating quality attributes. Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Convergence or Divergence: Alignment of Standards, Assessment, and Issues of Diversity.

Science.gov (United States)

Carter, Norvella, Ed.

In this report, teacher educators scrutinize the relationships between the standards and assessment movement in education and the United States' increasingly multicultural population. The papers include: "Foreword" (Jacqueline Jordan Irvine); (1) "Diversity and Standards: Defining the Issues" (Norvella P. Carter); (2) "Accountability and…

Papers presented at the “International Conference on Fatigue and ...

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Unknown

Papers presented at the “International Conference on Fatigue and Fracture of Glasses, Ceramics and Composites”, Materials. Research Society of India, Kolkata, September 1999. FOREWORD. The unique properties of glasses, ceramics and composites such as corrosion resistance, high specific strength, transport ...

Fulltext PDF

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

1 In his foreword to Serendipity by R M Roberts, Wiley & Sons, 1989. ... 2006 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the discovery of mauve. ... Perkin's school teacher Thomas Hall is a good example of how an inspiring teacher can shape.

Feminism and the politics of identity in Ingrid de Kok's Familiar Ground

African Journals Online (AJOL)

In her foreword to South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory, and Criticism ... is, to a large extent, based on the fact that the use of the word “sympathetic” carries ..... allow her female identity to be compromised for the sake of male gratification.

PREFACE: Atom-surface scattering Atom-surface scattering

Science.gov (United States)

Miret-Artés, Salvador

2010-08-01

had to decline with regret because they had been retired for a long time, or had changed their research field, or were not able to meet the deadline. In any case, this initiative was really very welcome and supported with great enthusiasm by everybody. From all of the correspondence I have received expressing gratitude and honor for being invited to contribute, I would like to quote some words from G Comsa which reflect all of these feelings: 'Dick deserves, indeed, to be honored for both his scientific accomplishments and certainly no less for his modesty, honesty, friendliness and human warmth, qualities which are rarely honored'. I certainly cannot close this preface without mentioning the praiseworthy and professional work carried out by the Editorial Board, publishing team and Editors; in particular, L Smith and G Wright for their help and enthusiastic disposition. Thank you very much to everybody. 1 A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Collaborative Economy

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

things, de-industrialization processes and post-capitalist forms of production and consumption, postmaterialism, the rise of the third sector and collaborative governance. Addressing that gap, this book explores the character, depth and breadth of these disruptions, the creative opportunities for tourism...... that are emerging from them, and how governments are responding to these new challenges. In doing so, the book provides both theoretical and practical insights into the future of tourism in a world that is, paradoxically, becoming both increasingly collaborative and individualized. Table of Contents Preface 1.The......This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing, dinner hosting, social enterprise...

Heavy Sexual Content Versus Safer Sex Content: A Content Analysis of the Entertainment Education Drama Shuga.

Science.gov (United States)

Booker, Nancy Achieng'; Miller, Ann Neville; Ngure, Peter

2016-12-01

Extremely popular with Kenyan youth, the entertainment-education drama Shuga was designed with specific goals of promoting condom use, single versus multiple sexual partners, and destigmatization of HIV. Almost as soon as it aired, however, it generated controversy due to its extensive sexual themes and relatively explicit portrayal of sexual issues. To determine how safer sex, antistigma messages, and overall sexual content were integrated into Shuga, we conducted a content analysis. Results indicated that condom use and HIV destigmatization messages were frequently and clearly communicated. Negative consequences for risky sexual behavior were communicated over the course of the entire series. Messages about multiple concurrent partnerships were not evident. In addition, in terms of scenes per hour of programming, Shuga had 10.3 times the amount of sexual content overall, 8.2 times the amount of sexual talk, 17.8 times the amount of sexual behavior, and 9.4 times the amount of sexual intercourse as found in previous analysis of U.S. entertainment programming. Research is needed to determine how these factors may interact to influence adolescent viewers of entertainment education dramas.

Flora and Fauna in Roundup Tolerant Fodder Beet Fields

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

Elmegaard, N.; Pedersen, Marianne Bruus

English and Danish summary. Foreword: For demonstration purposes Monsanto, DLF-Trifolium, and Danisco Seed, in collaboration with The Danish Agricultural Advisory Centre, established field plots with glyphosate tolerant fodder beets on a number of farms all over Denmark in 1999 and 2000. The Nati......English and Danish summary. Foreword: For demonstration purposes Monsanto, DLF-Trifolium, and Danisco Seed, in collaboration with The Danish Agricultural Advisory Centre, established field plots with glyphosate tolerant fodder beets on a number of farms all over Denmark in 1999 and 2000...... tilfælde øges ved at reducere doseringen, uden at det går ud over roeudbyttet. Sprøjtning med insekticid forringer imidlertid vilkårene for faunaen og kan derved ophæve de fordele, der kan være ved dyrkning af RR-roer. Udenlandske undersøgelser tyder dog på, at der er mindre behov...

Infusing Mathematics Content into a Methods Course: Impacting Content Knowledge for Teaching

Science.gov (United States)

Burton, Megan; Daane, C. J.; Giesen, Judy

2008-01-01

This study compared content knowledge for teaching mathematics differences between elementary pre-service teachers in a traditional versus an experimental mathematics methods course. The experimental course replaced 20 minutes of traditional methods, each class, with an intervention of elementary mathematics content. The difference between groups…

Plasma catecholamine content using radioenzymatic assay

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

Minami, Masaru; Togashi, Hiroko; Koike, Yuichi; Shimamura, Keiichi; Yamazaki, Noriko

1980-01-01

Catecholamine (CA) contents in blood plasma of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and human blood plasma were measured by radioenzymatic assay (REA) and trihydroxyindol (THI) fluorescent method using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and both measurement methods were compared. The standard curve of REA showed a good linear relationship between total CA contents and separated CA contents. Though there was a danger of exposure to β-ray when REA was performed, this method was useful for measurement of CA contents in blood of small animals and small quantity of blood because CA content of only 50 μg of blood plasma could be measured by this method. Norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) contents in men with normal blood pressure measured by REA was 250 +- 61 pg/ml and 37 +- 22 pg/ml, respectively. NE and E contents in patients with mild hypertension were 460 +- 128 pg/ml and 50 +- 20 pg/ml, respectively. There was not a significant difference between NE and E contents in men with normal blood pressure and those in patients with mild hypertension. Total CA content in blood plasma of SHR killed by decapitation was 5,000 +- 1,131 pg/ml, which was 5 times NE and E contents in blood plasma obtained from femoral vein of anesthetized SHR (816 +- 215 pg/ml and 209 +- 44 pg/ml). Total CA content in the same sample was measured by REA and HPLC. As a result, total CA content measured by REA was higher than that measured by HPLC, but there was a good relationship between total CA content measured by REA and that measured by HPLC. NE content in men with normal blood pressure measured by HPLC was elevated significantly according to an increase in their age, but this tendency was not observed in patients with hypertension. (Tsunoda, M.)

Publishing and Revising Content

Science.gov (United States)

Editors and Webmasters can publish content without going through a workflow. Publishing times and dates can be set, and multiple pages can be published in bulk. Making an edit to published content created a revision.

GENERALIZATION, FORMULATION AND HEAT CONTENTS OF SIMULATED MSW WITH HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

A. JOHARI

2012-12-01

Full Text Available This paper presents a generalization technique for the formulation of simulated municipal solid waste. This technique is used for the elimination of the inconsistency in the municipal solid waste (MSW characteristics due to its heterogeneous nature. The compositions of simulated municipal solid waste were formulated from four major municipal waste streams components in Malaysia namely paper, plastic, food and yard waste. The technique produced four simplified waste generalization categories with composition of paper (19%, plastic (25%, food (27% and green waste (29% respectively. Comparative study was conducted for proximate analysis for the determination of volatile matter, fixed carbon and ash content. Ultimate analysis was performed for carbon and hydrogen content. The heat content for simulated and actual municipal solid waste showed good agreement. The moisture content of the simulated municipal solid waste and actual municipal solid waste were established at 52.34% and 61.71% respectively. Overall results were considered to be representative of the actual compositions of municipal solid waste in Malaysia.

AN INVESTIGATION OF TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS AND CONTENT KNOWLEDGE IN A CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION CONTEXT

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Tengku Nor Rizan Tengku Mohamad Maasum

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Abstract: Advocates of the content-based approach believed that a language can be learnt effectively when it is the medium of instruction rather than just a subject.  Integrating English and content as part of instruction has become one of the cornerstones of second language pedagogy. Researchers claimed that there are many benefits of integrating English and content instruction.  Among the benefits are the increase in students’ interest with content themes, meaningful input and understanding. In 2003, the Malaysian Ministry of Education introduced the teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English for Year One, Form One and Lower Six Form in all government public schools. This paper describes the challenges faced by teachers when they are required to teach content subjects such as science and mathematics in English.  The focus of the paper is on the teachers’ pedagogical skills  and content knowldge which comprises subject matter content, pedagogical approach, classroom management, use of resources, assessment, preparation of teaching materials, managing students, teachers’ compensatory communication strategies, use of first language and teachers’ perspectives of teaching content subjects in English. Data were obtained from a self-report questionnaire administered to 495 secondary school teachers in West Malaysia. Results from the study provide implications for school administrators in making decisions in assignment of  capable teachers to teach the various levels of classes. Suggestions for teacher self-development and life-long learning efforts are also provided.   Key words: Content-based instruction, ESL instruction, second language, first language and second language pedagogy

Moisture content measurement in paddy

Science.gov (United States)

Klomklao, P.; Kuntinugunetanon, S.; Wongkokua, W.

2017-09-01

Moisture content is an important quantity for agriculture product, especially in paddy. In principle, the moisture content can be measured by a gravimetric method which is a direct method. However, the gravimetric method is time-consuming. There are indirect methods such as resistance and capacitance methods. In this work, we developed an indirect method based on a 555 integrated circuit timer. The moisture content sensor was capacitive parallel plates using the dielectric constant property of the moisture. The instrument generated the output frequency that depended on the capacitance of the sensor. We fitted a linear relation between periods and moisture contents. The measurement results have a standard uncertainty of 1.23 % of the moisture content in the range of 14 % to 20 %.

Remote-Handled Transuranic Content Codes

International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

2001-01-01

The Remote-Handled Transuranic (RH-TRU) Content Codes (RH-TRUCON) document represents the development of a uniform content code system for RH-TRU waste to be transported in the 72-Bcask. It will be used to convert existing waste form numbers, content codes, and site-specific identification codes into a system that is uniform across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites.The existing waste codes at the sites can be grouped under uniform content codes without any lossof waste characterization information. The RH-TRUCON document provides an all-encompassing description for each content code and compiles this information for all DOE sites. Compliance with waste generation, processing, and certification procedures at the sites (outlined in this document foreach content code) ensures that prohibited waste forms are not present in the waste. The content code gives an overall description of the RH-TRU waste material in terms of processes and packaging, as well as the generation location. This helps to provide cradle-to-grave traceability of the waste material so that the various actions required to assess its qualification as payload for the 72-B cask can be performed. The content codes also impose restrictions and requirements on the manner in which a payload can be assembled. The RH-TRU Waste Authorized Methods for Payload Control (RH-TRAMPAC), Appendix 1.3.7 of the 72-B Cask Safety Analysis Report (SAR), describes the current governing procedures applicable for the qualification of waste as payload for the 72-B cask. The logic for this classification is presented in the 72-B Cask SAR. Together, these documents (RH-TRUCON, RH-TRAMPAC, and relevant sections of the 72-B Cask SAR) present the foundation and justification for classifying RH-TRU waste into content codes. Only content codes described in thisdocument can be considered for transport in the 72-B cask. Revisions to this document will be madeas additional waste qualifies for transport. Each content code uniquely

OaR VRYE KRITIESE MENINGSWISSELING EN DIE SKETE VAN ...

African Journals Online (AJOL)

Foreword by Albert Einstein. Berkeley and Los. Angeles: University of California Press. "Copernicus, Nicolas", in The encyclopedia of philo- losophy. (Ed. in chief: Paul Edwards). New York and London: Macmillan. Vol. 2:219-222. Hume. London: Macmillan. Conjectures and refutations. The growth of scientific knowledge.

Christina Isajiw. Negotiating Human Rights: In Defence of Dissidents during the Soviet Era. A Memoir.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Barbara Martin

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Christina Isajiw. Negotiating Human Rights: In Defence of Dissidents during the Soviet Era. A Memoir. Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2014. xxx, 407 pp. Foreword by Bohdan Nahaylo. Introduction. Illustrations. Appendices on separate CD-Rom. Index. Paper.

Victoria Law School Ten Years On—A Time to Pause and Reflect

OpenAIRE

Andrew Clarke

2013-01-01

On 4 November 2010, a large and distinguished audience assembled at the Queen Street Campus of Victoria University to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of Victoria Law School. This Foreword records the diverse achievements of Victoria Law School over the past decade.

The power of legality : Practices of international law and their politics

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Rajkovic, Nikolas; Aalberts, Tanja; Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas

• 12 Chapter edited volume, with foreword by Martti Koskenniemi. Produced over 3 years, and involving 3 international workshops (Krakow, Florence and Weimar). Volume was accepted for publication with unanimous endorsement of all 4 CUP reviewers. From an airstrip in Saudi Arabia, the CIA launches

Fulltext PDF

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Catalysis for Sustainable Development. Foreword. This Special Issue contains the contributions of invited speakers and eminent personalities who participated in the 21st National Symposium on Catalysis. (CATSYMP21) held at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad,. India during 11–13 February, 2013.

RF Metamaterials for Foliage Penetration (FOPEN) Application

Science.gov (United States)

2013-02-01

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited FOREWORD The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (LMA) Advanced Development Program (the “ Skunk ...customized adapter plate with matching attachments to the positioner. The C-130 Shadow Harvest sensor pod replica is designed by LMA and fabricated at a

Evolution of broadcast content distribution

CERN Document Server

Beutler, Roland

2017-01-01

This book discusses opportunities for broadcasters that arise with the advent of broadband networks, both fixed and mobile. It discusses how the traditional way of distributing audio-visual content over broadcasting networks has been complemented by the usage of broadband networks. The author shows how this also gives the possibility to offer new types of interactive or so-called nonlinear services. The book illustrates how change in distribution technology is accelerating the need for broadcasters around the world to adapt their content distribution strategy and how it will impact the portfolios of content they offer. Outlines the shift in broadcast content distribution paradigms and related strategic issues Provides an overview of the new broadcasting ecosystem encompassing new types of content, user habits, expectations, and devices Discusses complementary usage of different distribution technologies and platforms.

The quantitative study of marked individuals in ecology, evolution and conservation biology: a foreword to the EURING 2003 Conference

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Senar, J. C.

2004-06-01

Full Text Available Few fields in modern ecology have developed as fast as the analysis of marked individuals in the study of wild animal populations (Seber & Schwarz, 2002. This is the topic of EURING Conferences, which from 1986 have been the premier forum for advances in capture-recapture methodology. In this sense, EURING Conferences still maintain the flavour that originally inspired scientific meetings: to disseminate the very last findings, ideas and results on the field. Traditionally, EURING Conferences have been published in the form of Proceedings, which because of their relevant content, become a required reading to anyone interested in the capture-recapture methodology. EURING 2003 was held in Radolfzell (Germany, hosted by the Max Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, and the Proceedings appear as a special issue of Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. The full title of the 2003 meeting was “The quantitative study of marked individuals in ecology, evolution and conservation biology”, which stands for one of the main aims of the meeting: to establish the capture-recapture approach as one of the standard methodologies in studies within these fields. One of the shared views is that capture-recapture methodologies have reached a considerable maturity, but the need still exists to spread their use as a “standard” methodology. The nice review paper by Lebreton et al. (1993 in Trends in Ecology and Evolution is still applicable, in that general ecologists and evolutionary biologists still resist their general use. The same applies to conservation biology, where the analysis of marked individuals may also be a key tool in its development. We hope, with the spread of 2003 Proceedings, to help to fill this gap. The Proceedings follow the same general structure as the Conference. We organised the EURING meeting in 10 technical sessions, covering what we considered as fastest growing areas in the field. We appointed for each session, two chairs, which

Individual fluctuations of S content in healthy, and smoke-damaged Scots Pine and the relations between S content and contents of other major nutrients

Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

Themlitz, R

1960-01-01

This paper compares the sulfur content of pine needles on trees not subject to smoke damage to the sulfur content of pine needles from trees subject to smoke damage. Four stands of pines located in East and West Germany were studied. The data showed no correlation with the sulfur content, with the age of the trees, nor with the uptake of other nutrients.

AN INVESTIGATION OF TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS AND CONTENT KNOWLEDGE IN A CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION CONTEXT

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Tengku Nor Rizan Tengku Mohamad Maasum

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Advocates of the content-based approach believed that a language can be learnt effectively when it is the medium of instruction rather than just a subject. Integrating English and content as part of instruction has become one of the cornerstones of second language pedagogy. Researchers claimed that there are many benefits of integrating English and content instruction. Among the benefits are the increase in students’ interest with content themes, meaningful input and understanding. In 2003, the Malaysian Ministry of Education introduced the teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English for Year One, Form One and Lower Six Form in all government public schools. This paper describes the challenges faced by teachers when they are required to teach content subjects such as science and mathematics in English. The focus of the paper is on the teachers’ pedagogical skills and content knowldge which comprises subject matter content, pedagogical approach, classroom management, use of resources, assessment, preparation of teaching materials, managing students, teachers’ compensatory communication strategies, use of first language and teachers’ perspectives of teaching content subjects in English. Data were obtained from a self-report questionnaire administered to 495 secondary school teachers in West Malaysia. Results from the study provide implications for school administrators in making decisions in assignment of capable teachers to teach the various levels of classes. Suggestions for teacher self-development and life-long learning efforts are also provided.

Simultaneous measurement of unfrozen water content and ice content in frozen soil using gamma ray attenuation and TDR

Science.gov (United States)

Zhou, Xiaohai; Zhou, Jian; Kinzelbach, Wolfgang; Stauffer, Fritz

2014-12-01

The freezing temperature of water in soil is not constant but varies over a range determined by soil texture. Consequently, the amounts of unfrozen water and ice change with temperature in frozen soil, which in turn affects hydraulic, thermal, and mechanical properties of frozen soil. In this paper, an Am-241 gamma ray source and time-domain reflectometry (TDR) were combined to measure unfrozen water content and ice content in frozen soil simultaneously. The gamma ray attenuation was used to determine total water content. The TDR was used to determine the dielectric constant of the frozen soil. Based on a four-phase mixing model, the amount of unfrozen water content in the frozen soil could be determined. The ice content was inferred by the difference between total water content and unfrozen water content. The gamma ray attenuation and the TDR were both calibrated by a gravimetric method. Water contents measured by gamma ray attenuation and TDR in an unfrozen silt column under infiltration were compared and showed that the two methods have the same accuracy and response to changes of water content. Unidirectional column freezing experiments were performed to apply the combined method of gamma ray attenuation and TDR for measuring unfrozen water content and ice content. The measurement error of the gamma ray attenuation and TDR was around 0.02 and 0.01 m3/m3, respectively. The overestimation of unfrozen water in frozen soil by TDR alone was quantified and found to depend on the amount of ice content. The higher the ice content, the larger the overestimation. The study confirmed that the combined method could accurately determine unfrozen water content and ice content in frozen soil. The results of soil column freezing experiments indicate that total water content distribution is affected by available pore space and the freezing front advance rate. It was found that there is similarity between the soil water characteristic and the soil freezing characteristic of

Determining Total Phenolics, Anthocyanin Content and Ascorbic Acid Content in Some Plum Genotypes Grown in Ardahan Ecological Conditions

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Z. T. ABACI

2014-06-01

Full Text Available In this study, total phenol content, total anthocyanin content, brix, pH, titrable acidity and total ascorbic acid content in the five plum genotypes cultivated in Ardahan City are determined and sustenance of the plums are revealed. Total phenol content was determined with folin-ciocalteu’s method, total anthocyanin content was determined with pH differential method and total ascorbic acid was determined with 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol method.It is detected that the genotype with the highest brix content (%13.9 and lowest acidity (%0.98 is cancur, the genotype with the lowest brix content (%11 and highest acidity (%2.06 is wild plum, the genotype with the highest content of total anthocyanin, total phenolic substance and ascorbic acid is the wild plum and the genotype with the least content of these is the water plum. As a result of the study, it is revealed that the plum fruit has high levels of phenolic substance, anthocyanin and ascorbic acid content, so it has a high sustenance.

Assessing Youth-Appealing Content in Alcohol Advertisements: Application of a Content Appealing to Youth (CAY) Index.

Science.gov (United States)

Padon, Alisa A; Rimal, Rajiv N; DeJong, William; Siegel, Michael; Jernigan, David

2018-02-01

Underage drinking is a serious public health problem in the United States, and youth exposure to alcohol advertising has been indicated as a possible contributing factor. Although a number of studies have identified advertising content features that youth find appealing, a key limitation of this research is the absence of a broader tool to examine those features, especially those used by alcohol brands that are popular with underage drinkers. We created an index of content elements found in the research literature to be appealing to youth, and then used this index in a content analysis to identify the degree to which youth-appealing content appeared in a sample of alcohol ads that aired on television shows popular among youth. Finally, using bivariate analysis, we tested the relationship between alcohol brands' use of this content and the popularity of those brands among youth. We found that many of the ads featured youth-appealing content, and that the ads for the alcohol brands most popular among youth had more youth-appealing content than the less popular brands.

Understanding Content-and-Structure

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Kamps, J.; Marx, M.J.; de Rijke, M.; Sigurbjörnsson, B.; Trotman, A.; Lalmas, M.; Fuhr, N.

2005-01-01

Document-centric XML is a mixture of text and structure. +With the increased availability of document-centric XML content comes a need for query facilities in which both structural constraints and constraints on the content of the documents can be expressed. This has generated considerable interest

Print advertising: vivid content

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Fennis, B.M.; Das, E.; Fransen, M.L.

2012-01-01

The present research examines the effects of vivid ad content in two types of appeal in print ads as a function of individual differences in chronically experienced vividness of visual imagery. For informational ads for a functional product, vivid ad content strongly affected individuals high in

Print advertising : Vivid content

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Fennis, B.M.; Das, E.H.H.J.; Fransen, M.L.

The present research examines the effects of vivid ad content in two types of appeal in print ads as a function of individual differences in chronically experienced vividness of visual imagery. For informational ads for a functional product, vivid ad content strongly affected individuals high in

PREFACE: 6th Workshop on Infrared Spectroscopy and Microscopy with Accelerator-Based Sources (WIRMS11)

Science.gov (United States)

Lupi, Stefano; Perucchi, Andrea

2012-05-01

This volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series is dedicated to a subset of papers related to the work presented at the 6th edition of the international Workshop on Infrared Spectroscopy and Microscopy with Accelerator-Based Sources (WIRMS), held in Trieste, Italy, September 4-8 2011. Previous editions of the conference were held in Porquerolles (France), Lake Tahoe (USA), Rathen (Germany), Awaji (Japan), and Banff (Canada). This edition was organized and chaired by Stefano Lupi (Roma La Sapienza) and co-chaired by Andrea Perucchi (Elettra), with the support of the Italian Synchrotron Light Laboratory ELETTRA, which was honored to host the WIRMS workshop in its tenth anniversary. The 6th WIRMS edition addressed several different topics, ranging from biochemistry to strongly correlated materials, from geology to conservation science, and from forensics to the study of cometary dusts. Representatives from the infrared scientific programs at synchrotron light sources and free-electron-laser facilities. This edition was attended by 88 participants, including representatives from the infrared scientific programs at synchrotron light sources and free-electron-laser facilities, who enjoyed the stimulating scientific presentations, several detailed discussions, and the beautiful weather and scenery of the Trieste gulf. Participants came from 16 different nations and four continents, including many young scientists, six of which were supported by the organizers. There were 45 scientific talks divided in 11 sessions: Facilities, Microspectroscopy (I, II, III), Time-Resolved Spectroscopies, Extreme Conditions, Condensed Matter, Near-Field, Imaging, THz Techniques and High-Resolution Spectroscopy. 37 posters were also presented at two very lively evening poster sessions. We would like to use the opportunity of writing this preface to thank all the participants of the workshop for the very high level of their scientific contribution and for the very friendly atmosphere

Selenium content of mushrooms.

Science.gov (United States)

Stijve, T

1977-07-29

The selenium contents of 83 species of wild mushrooms were determined by oxygen combustion of the sample, followed by conversion of selenite to bromopiazselenol and final estimation by electron capture gas-liquid chromatography. Selenium concentration were found to range from 0.012-20.0 mg/kg dry weight. Selenium content was species-dependent. High concentrations were found in Agaricaceae and in certain Boletaceae of the genus Tubiporus, whereas in Russulaceae, Amanitaceae and Cantharellaceae selenium-rich species were absent or rare. Ascomycetes and all mushrooms growing on wood had a very low selenium content. The highest selenium concentrations (up to 20 ppm) were found in Boletus (Tubiporus) edulis, a most popular edible mushroom. Analyses of various parts of carpophores of B. edulis, Suillus luteus and Amanita muscaria indicate that in all three species the stalk contains less selenium than the fleshy part of the cap. In Boletus and Suillus the highest selenium content was found in the tubes.

Pramana – Journal of Physics | Indian Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma - Part I. pp 575-576. Foreword · Bikash Chandra Sinha Dinesh Kumar Srivastava Yogendra Pathak Viyogi · More Details Fulltext PDF. pp 577-592. Relativistic heavy-ion physics: Experimental overview · Itzhak Tserruya.

Pramana – Journal of Physics | Indian Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences (India)

Proceedings of the Inernaional Symposium on Nuclear Physics - Part II. pp 1-1. Foreword ... The canonical and grand canonical models for nuclear multifragmentation · G Chaudhuri S Das ... Multi-reaction-channel fitting calculations in a coupled-channel model: Photoinduced strangeness production · O Scholten A Usov.

2011 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC): Demo Summaries

NARCIS (Netherlands)

Altintas, O.; Chen, W.; Heijenk, Geert; Dressler, F.; Ekici, E.; Kargl, Frank; Shigeno, H.; Dietzel, Stefan

2011-01-01

Foreword For the first time in its history, IEEE VNC has included this year’s demonstrations in its program. Demonstrations play an important role to expose the research community to practical aspects of research and to foster cross-fertilization among researchers both in academia and in industry.

Victoria Law School Ten Years On—A Time to Pause and Reflect

Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

Andrew Clarke

2013-11-01

Full Text Available On 4 November 2010, a large and distinguished audience assembled at the Queen Street Campus of Victoria University to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of Victoria Law School. This Foreword records the diverse achievements of Victoria Law School over the past decade.

Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's Theory.

Science.gov (United States)

Kamii, Constance Kazuko; DeClark, Georgia

In the foreword to this book, Inhelder states that its essential contribution is that "it transposed to actual reality Piaget's central epistemological thesis according to which mathematical thought is, from its most elementary manifestations, the product of the subject's activity that he characterized by the term 'reflective…

A photographic atlas of selected regions of the Milky Way

National Research Council Canada - National Science Library

Barnard, Edward Emerson; Frost, Edwin Brant; Calvert, Mary R; Dobek, Gerald Orin

2011-01-01

.... It also includes a biography of Barnard and his work, a Foreword and Addendum by Gerald Orin Dobek describing the importance of the Atlas and additions to this volume, and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single panorama"--

Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow

Science.gov (United States)

Jukes, Ian; McCain, Ted; Crockett, Lee

2010-01-01

"Living on the Future Edge" challenges school leaders to rethink longstanding paradigms and transform pedagogy for tomorrow's learners. Apple Computer, Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak's foreword underscores the overwhelming need to adjust traditional instruction to fit today's high-tech world. The book explores this new landscape and…

Ilmus kogumik eesti naiste elulugusid inglise keeles

Index Scriptorium Estoniae

2006-01-01

Carrying Linda's stones : an anthology of Estonian women's life stories / editors: Suzanne Stiver Lie, Lynda Malik, Ilvi Jõe-Cannon, Rutt Hinrikus ; foreword by H.E. Aldona Wos. Tallinn : Tallinn University Press, 2006. Sisaldab Elin Toona jt. elulugusid. Vt. ka SL Õhtuleht, 30. sept., lk. 27

Discriminant content validity: a quantitative methodology for assessing content of theory-based measures, with illustrative applications.

Science.gov (United States)

Johnston, Marie; Dixon, Diane; Hart, Jo; Glidewell, Liz; Schröder, Carin; Pollard, Beth

2014-05-01

In studies involving theoretical constructs, it is important that measures have good content validity and that there is not contamination of measures by content from other constructs. While reliability and construct validity are routinely reported, to date, there has not been a satisfactory, transparent, and systematic method of assessing and reporting content validity. In this paper, we describe a methodology of discriminant content validity (DCV) and illustrate its application in three studies. Discriminant content validity involves six steps: construct definition, item selection, judge identification, judgement format, single-sample test of content validity, and assessment of discriminant items. In three studies, these steps were applied to a measure of illness perceptions (IPQ-R) and control cognitions. The IPQ-R performed well with most items being purely related to their target construct, although timeline and consequences had small problems. By contrast, the study of control cognitions identified problems in measuring constructs independently. In the final study, direct estimation response formats for theory of planned behaviour constructs were found to have as good DCV as Likert format. The DCV method allowed quantitative assessment of each item and can therefore inform the content validity of the measures assessed. The methods can be applied to assess content validity before or after collecting data to select the appropriate items to measure theoretical constructs. Further, the data reported for each item in Appendix S1 can be used in item or measure selection. Statement of contribution What is already known on this subject? There are agreed methods of assessing and reporting construct validity of measures of theoretical constructs, but not their content validity. Content validity is rarely reported in a systematic and transparent manner. What does this study add? The paper proposes discriminant content validity (DCV), a systematic and transparent method