Tamm ja Asi / Karen Jagodin

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Jagodin, Karen, 1982-

2007-01-01

Näitus "Sisearhitektid Väino Tamm & Vello Asi" Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseumis kuni 2. IX. Kuna valminud objektidest ei ole enam ühtegi originaalkujul alles, on eksponeeritud võimalikult suurel hulgal valmimisjärgseid fotosid, millest enamiku on teinud Rein Vainküla

Eramu Suurupis = A House in Suurupi / Tiina Mang

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Mang, Tiina

2002-01-01

2002. a. valminud eramu projekteeris Arhitektibüroo Emil Urbel. Arhitektid Emil Urbel ja Indrek Erm, sisearhitekt Tiina Mang, konstruktor Peep Rosenberg. Projekt 2000-2001. 7 ill.: I korruse plaan, sise- ja välisvaated.Emil Urbel (arhitektibüroo).

Õnn - õnnelik juhus? / Maarja Paugus ; interv. Tiina Siimets

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Paugus, Maarja

2004-01-01

Küsimusele vastavad abikaasad Vanemuise teatri balletitantsija Maarja Paugus ja näitleja Margus Jaanovits ning muusikaõpetaja Tiina ja üldlaulu- ja tantsupeo rahvamuusikapäeva kunstiline juht Aleksander Sünter

Vtoroi plan vremeni / Tiina Abel ; interv. Nikolai Hrustaljov

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Abel, Tiina, 1951-

2007-01-01

Näituse "Metafoor ja müüt. Kirjanduslikud ja ajaloolised motiivid 19. ja 20. sajandi vahetuse Poola kunstis" Kumu kunstimuuseumi kuraatori Tiina Abeliga näituse ettevalmistustööst, poola maalikunstist 19. sajandil, töödest näitusel

Development of a radioimmunoassay for 'Tamm-Horsfall-like' glycoprotein in serum and cerebrospinal fluid

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Hartmann, L.; Bringuier, A.-F.; Schuller, E.

1983-01-01

Affinity chromatography purification was combined with a radioimmunoassay for 'Tamm-Horsfall-like' glycoprotein. This enabled serum comcentrations to be established and to demonstrate its presence in cerebrospinal fluid for the first time. This assay method used in different circumstances suggests a multifocal synthesis. Nevertheless, urinary Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein so far must be distinguished from the serum or cerebrospinal fluid Tamm-Horsfall-like glycoprotein. (Auth.)

Tiina Mang : vanalinna korter muutus visuaalselt suuremaks / Gitte Hint

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Hint, Gitte

2003-01-01

74-ruutmeetrine vanalinna korter, mõeldud kahele inimesele, kellest üks töötab kodus. Enamik mööblist on valmistatud eritellimusel. Sisearhitekt Tiina Mang, tema kommentaarid. Ill.: plaan, 3 värv. vaadet

Henri Tamm : algul küsiti mult kogu aeg autogrammi / Henri Tamm ; interv. Ada Kallam

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Tamm, Henri

2005-01-01

Draamaseriaali "Kodu keset linna" lapsnäitleja. Lisaks kolleegid Henrist : M. Veinmann "Tekst on tal esimesena peas", K. Maibaum "Võrdväärne partner suurtele". Artikkel pealkirjaga "Henri Tamm : nüüd saan veidi puhkust" : Linnaleht nr. 22, 3. juuni 2005, A2-A3

Henriku kroonika pole veel ammendatud / Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi ; intervjueerinud Valle-Sten Maiste

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Tamm, Marek, 1973-

2011-01-01

Intervjuu Marek Tamme ja Linda Kaljundiga nende poolt toimetatud artiklikogumikust: Crusading and chronicle writing on the medieval Baltic frontier : a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia / edited by Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, Carsten Selch Jensen. Farnham ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2011

Highly sensitive reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography assay for the detection of Tamm-Horsfall protein in human urine.

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Akimoto, Masaru; Hokazono, Eisaku; Ota, Eri; Tateishi, Takiko; Kayamori, Yuzo

2016-01-01

Tamm-Horsfall protein (also known as uromodulin) is the most abundant urinary protein in healthy individuals. Since initially characterized by Tamm and Horsfall, the amount of urinary excretion and structural mutations of Tamm-Horsfall protein is associated with kidney diseases. However, currently available assays for Tamm-Horsfall protein, which are mainly enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-based, suffer from poor reproducibility and might give false negative results. We developed a novel, quantitative assay for Tamm-Horsfall protein using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. A precipitation pretreatment avoided urine matrix interference and excessive sample dilution. High-performance liquid chromatography optimization based on polarity allowed excellent separation of Tamm-Horsfall protein from other major urine components. Our method exhibited high precision (based on the relative standard deviations of intraday [≤2.77%] and interday [≤5.35%] repetitions). The Tamm-Horsfall protein recovery rate was 100.0-104.2%. The mean Tamm-Horsfall protein concentration in 25 healthy individuals was 31.6 ± 18.8 mg/g creatinine. There was a strong correlation between data obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (r = 0.906), but enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay values tended to be lower than high-performance liquid chromatography values at low Tamm-Horsfall protein concentrations. The high sensitivity and reproducibility of our Tamm-Horsfall protein assay will reduce the number of false negative results of the sample compared with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Moreover, our method is superior to other high-performance liquid chromatography methods, and a simple protocol will facilitate further research on the physiological role of Tamm-Horsfall protein. © The Author(s) 2015.

Tamm-plasmon polaritons in one-dimensional photonic quasi-crystals.

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Shukla, Mukesh Kumar; Das, Ritwick

2018-02-01

We present an investigation to ascertain the existence of Tamm-plasmon-polariton-like modes in one-dimensional (1D) quasi-periodic photonic systems. Photonic bandgap formation in quasi-crystals is essentially a consequence of long-range periodicity exhibited by multilayers and, thus, it can be explained using the dispersion relation in the Brillouin zone. Defining a "Zak"-like topological phase in 1D quasi-crystals, we propose a recipe to ascertain the existence of Tamm-like photonic surface modes in a metal-terminated quasi-crystal lattice. Additionally, we also explore the conditions of efficient excitation of such surface modes along with their dispersion characteristics.

Tiina Lokk: "PÖFF võiks olla Eestile väga vinge maineprojekt" / Tiina Lokk ; intervjueerinud Anneli Sihvart

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Lokk, Tiina, 1955-

2010-01-01

14. Tallinna Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival toimub 19.11.-5.12.2010. Festivali peakorraldaja Tiina Lokk festivalist, selle sümbolist, PÖFF-i tähendusest maailma filmifestivalide seas, festivalidest Lätis, Leedus ja Venemaal, PÖFF-i rahastamisest, Eesti filmiharidusest. Tutvustatakse mängufilme: Anusha Rizvi "Peepli Live (India, 2010), Jasmila Žbanić'i "Teel" (Bosnia ja Hertsegoviina- Austria- Saksamaa- Horvaatia, 2010), Marianna Kaat'i dokumentaalfilmi "Auk nr 8" (Eesti-Ukraina, 2010)

Aasta e-kursuse konkursil võitis auhinna Tiina Selke

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2007-01-01

13. märtsil lõppenud konverentsil "e-õpe e-riigis: strateegiad ja tehnoloogiad" kuulutati välja eelmise aasta parimad e-kursuste loojad. Humaniora kategoorias anti auhind ja multimeedia kasutamise eripreemia e-kursuse "Kodály metoodika" autorile, TLÜ muusikaõpetuse metoodika lektorile Tiina Selkele. e-kursuse konkurssi korraldab e-Õppe Arenduskeskus

Tiina Tammetalu näitab oma uusi ja vanu maale / Andry Ervald

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Ervald, Andry

2010-01-01

Tiina Tammetalu maalide näitused tantsukooli Noor Ballett galeriis ja Viimsi Püha Jaakobi kirikus. Viimsi Püha Jaakobi kirikus on eksponeeritud religioosne maaliseeria "Exodus" (Vana Testamendi II Moosese raamatu järgi)

Sisearhitektid Väino Tamm ja Vello Asi. Näitusekataloog = Interior architects Väino Tamm and Vello Asi. Exhibition catalogue

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2008-01-01

Näitusekataloogi "Tamm ja Asi" autor ja koostaja Karen Jagodin ning kujundaja Tiit Jürna pälvisid Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu 2007. a. publitsistika preemia. Enamik raamatus publitseeritud fotodest pärineb fotograaf Rein Vainküla kogust. K. Jagodinist ja T. Jürnast, nende fotod

Mis saab ESTERMist? / Tiina Soon, Peeter Päll, Ivi Papstel ; interv. Aili Künstler

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Soon, Tiina

2008-01-01

Eesti Õiguskeskuse loodud andmebaasist ESTERM. Vastavad EKI terminoloogiaosakonna juhataja Tiina Soon, EKI keelekorraldusosakonna vanemteadur Peeter Päll, Justiitsministeeriumi avalike suhete talituse juhataja Ivi Papstel

President istutas Torisse tamme / Eno-Gerrit Link

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Link, Eno-Gerrit

2007-01-01

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves osales Toris Eesti sõjameeste mälestuskirikus traditsioonilisel vabadusvõitluse mälestusele pühendatud jumalateenistusel ja istutas kiriku kõrvale prominentide parki tamme. Varem on sellesse parki tammepuu istutanud president Arnold Rüütel, 20. augusti klubi, endine kaitseväe juhataja Aleksander Einseln ja peapiiskop Andres Põder

Mälu pole ainult meil, vaid ka meie haigustel / Tiina Sarv

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Sarv, Tiina, 1949-

2007-01-01

Pärnus toimunud Eesti arstide Astra Zeneca ABC-konverentsi märksõna oli mälu. Konverentsil esinesid professorid Endel Tulving, Alan Altraja ja Anto Raukas, dotsendid Tiina Ristimäe ja Ursel Soomets, kirjandusteadlane Rutt Hinrikus, zooloog Aleksei Turovski ning arstid Anu Ambos ja Riina Kütner

Nonreciprocal optical tunnelling through evanescently coupled Tamm states in magnetophotonic crystals

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Fang, Yun-Tuan [Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang (China). School of Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering; Han, Ling [The Second Military Medical Univ., Shanghai (China). Dept. of Radiation Medicine; Gao, Yong-Feng [Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang (China). School of Mechanical Engineering

2015-07-01

Evanescently coupled Tamm states are achieved through two magnetophotonic crystals (MPCs) with a pair of coupling prisms. At the wavelengths of coupled Tamm states, a double of nonreciprocal optical tunnelling channels is found through the transmission spectra obtained from a developed transfer matrix method. The nonreciprocal tunnelling wavelength and the interval between two nonreciprocal channels can be adjusted depending on the width of the air gap between two MPCs or the scale invariant of a PC. The nonreciprocal tunnelling is demonstrated through electromagnetic field distribution simulations based on finite element software. Such theoretical results may provide a new method to design tunable optical isolators with a double of channels.

Eesti talendid välismaale / Juko-Mart Kõlar, Tiina Jokinen, Anu Jaanson... [jt.

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2011-01-01

Küsimustele muusikute vahendamisest välismaale vastavad MTÜ Eesti Muusika Ekspordi tegevjuht Juko-Mart Kõlar, Estonian Record Productionsi tegevdirektor Tiina Jokinen, sama firma mänedžer Anu Jaanson ja Pille Lille Muusikute Toetusfondi tegevjuht Leelo Lehtla

Loodusõpetuse õppekomplekt IV klassile : (ilmub 2002.a. sügiseks) / Tiina Elvisto

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Elvisto, Tiina, 1957-

2002-01-01

Kirjastuselt Avita ilmub 2002.a. sügiseks 4. klassi bioloogia õppekomplekt, autoriteks Mart Kuurme, Vahur Laug ja Tiina Elvisto. Samadelt autoritelt, neljas kaasautor Kadri Maaste, ilmub Avitalt 2002.a. "Loodusõpetuse õpik-tööraamat 2. klassile"

Comments on The Art of Collecting / Katarina Meister, Lylian Meister, Tiina Sarapu ...[jt.

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2013-01-01

6. Tallinna rakenduskunsti triennaal "Kogumise kunst" satelliitnäituse kuraator Tiina Sarapu, näitusel osalejad Katarina Meister, Lylian Meister, Marit Ilison, Krista Leesi ja Jaanus Samma ning näituse külastaja, maalikunstnik Kaido Ole näitusest ja kogumise kogemusest

Cannes tõi peo Rumeenia õuele / Merit Kask

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Kask, Merit

2007-01-01

Cannes'i filmifestivalil jagati auhindu.Kuldse Palmioksa sai rumeenlase Christian Mungiu "4 kuud, 3 nädalat ja 2 päeva". Ka programmi "Vaatenurk" peaauhinna sai rumeenlane Christian Nemescu ("California Dreamin'"). Lisatud auhinnatute nimekiri, peagi Eesti kinolevisse jõudvate Cannes'i filmide nimekiri ning Tiina Loki kommentaar

F. Herve operett "Mam'zelle Nitouche" majandusgümnaasiumi laval / Ulvi Tamm

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Tamm, Ulvi

2003-01-01

Lauluõpetaja Ulvi Tamme ja tema õpilaste lavastatud operetist "Mam'zelle Nitouche". Esiettekanne 18. veebr. Pärnu majandusgümnaasiumi aulas ja 14. märtsil Tallinnas Salme Kultuurikeskuses vabariiklikul muusikateatrite festivalil

Au tööle / Andreas Trossek, Margus Tamm

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Trossek, Andreas, 1980-

2009-01-01

Vastuseks Mari Laanemetsa ja Indrek Sirkli artiklike "Elu on läinud paremaks, elu on läinud lõbusamaks ...?" (Sirp, 2009, 31. 07, lk. 18-19) Eesti kunsti ja visuaalkultuuri ajakirja "Kunst.ee" 2009. aasta nr. 1-2 sisu ja kujunduse kohta. Ajakirja uus toimetus: Andreas Trossek - peatoimetaja, Heie Treier, Ave Randviir, kujundaja Margus Tamm

Reports of the working groups / Eino Tamm, Sahlin Michael, Valve Kirsipuu...[jt.

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1999-01-01

Töögruppide "EU enlargement and relevant institutional reforms" (juhatajad Eino Tamm, Michael Sahlin) ja "Maintaining of competitiveness of Estonia and other candidate countries" (juhatajad Valve Kirsipuu, Terry Calbom) tööst. Autor: Reformierakond

Leebe künism ja range tolerants tõid aasta õppejõu auhinna / Tiina Maripuu ; intervjueerinud Merilyn Merisalu

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Maripuu, Tiina

2012-01-01

Peale Pärnu kolledži soome keele lektori Tiina Maripuu nimetati TÜ 2012. a. parimateks õppejõududeks Marju Lepajõe usuteaduskonnast, Ivo Leito loodus- ja tehnoloogiateaduskonnast ning Ruth Kalda arstiteaduskonnast

Kahevahel : Kui hajusad on kultuuriruumi piirid? / Anna Verschik, Tiina Kirss, Mikko Lagerspetz ; intervjueerinud Daniele Monticelli, Merle Karro-Kalberg

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Verschik, Anna, 1968-

2015-01-01

Kultuurist, kultuuriruumist, kultuuris olemisest ja sealt pärinemisest arutlevad TLÜ professori Daniele Monticelli eestvõttel TLÜ professorid Anna Verschik ja Tiina Kirss ning Turu Åbo Akadeemia professor Mikko Lagerspetz

Ajalool on ajaloolaste nägu / Jean-Claude Schmitt ; interv. Marek Tamm

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Schmitt, Jean-Claude

2004-01-01

Intervjuu ajaloolase Jean-Claude Schmittiga. Ilm. ka: Keha, pilt ja unenägu : intervjuu Jean-Claude Scmittiga // Schmitt, Jean-Claude. Püha hurdakoer : Guinefort - lasteravija 13. sajandist. - Tallinn, 2000. - Lk. 296-305 ; Kuidas kirjutatakse ajalugu? // Tamm, Marek. Kuidas kirjutatakse ajalugu? - Tallinn, 2007. - 161-177

Noblessneri Loomemaja = Noblessner Creative house / Rasmus Tamme, Jaanus Saarepera, Eero Jürgenson, Andres Jomp

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2015-01-01

Noblessneri Loomemaja Tallinnas Tööstuse 48/Peetri 11, valminud 2014. Arhitektid Rasmus Tamme, Jaanus Saarepera (ARS Projekt), sisearhitektid Eero Jürgenson, Andres Jomp (ARS Projekt). 2014. aasta Kultuurkapitali Arhitektuuripreemia kandidaat

Optical Tamm states in one-dimensional magnetophotonic structures.

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Goto, T; Dorofeenko, A V; Merzlikin, A M; Baryshev, A V; Vinogradov, A P; Inoue, M; Lisyansky, A A; Granovsky, A B

2008-09-12

We demonstrate the existence of a spectrally narrow localized surface state, the so-called optical Tamm state, at the interface between one-dimensional magnetophotonic and nonmagnetic photonic crystals. The state is spectrally located inside the photonic band gaps of each of the photonic crystals comprising this magnetophotonic structure. This state is associated with a sharp transmission peak through the sample and is responsible for the substantial enhancement of the Faraday rotation for the corresponding wavelength. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions.

Olympic Casino - meelelahutustööstus, kus kehtib sõjaväekord / Tiina Drui ; interv. Taivo Paju

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Drui, Tiina

2003-01-01

Olympic Casino personalijuht Tiina Drui ettevõtte personalipoliitikast, töötajate värbamisest ja koolitamisest. Lisad: Olympic Casino põhimõtted; Küsimused, mille abil mõõta töökoha kvaliteeti. Vt. samas: Olympic Casino - 10 aastat täis

Koolis möödunud festival eelistas lapsi / Merit Kask, Liisi Poll

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Kask, Merit

2003-01-01

Lõppenud Pärnu XVII dokumentaal- ja antropoloogiafilmide festivalist. Lisaks avaldavad oma arvamust rahvusvahelise žürii esimees John Russel Taylor, žürii liige Tiina Lokk ja eesti dokumentaalfilmide žürii esimees Tõnis Kask. Lisatud auhinnasaajate nimekiri

Kultuuri on üha rohkem, mõtestamist aina vähem / Marek Tamm ; intervjueerinud Heili Sibrits

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Tamm, Marek, 1973-

2017-01-01

Intervjuu Marek Tammega kuluurist, kultuuri uurimisest ja kultuuri mõistest. Tallinna Ülikooli kirjastuselt ilmunud kogumikust "Kuidas uurida kultuuri? Kultuuriteaduste metodoloogia", koostajaks kultuuriajaloo professor Marek Tamm

Bound-state problem in the light-front Tamm-Dancoff approximation: Numerical study in 1+1 dimensions

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Harindranath, A.; Perry, R.J.; Shigemitsu, J.

1992-01-01

Numerical solutions to the two-fermion bound-state problem in the (1+1)-dimensional Yukawa model are presented within the lowest-order light-front Tamm-Dancoff approximation (i.e., keeping only two-fermion and two-fermion--one-boson sectors). Our motivation is twofold. First, we want to understand the dynamics of the model from the very-weak-coupling domain, where the system is governed by nonrelativistic dynamics, to moderate and strong-coupling domains where retardation and self-energy effects become important. Second, we want to develop techniques for solving coupled Tamm-Dancoff integral equations, in particular, methods that can be generalized to higher-order Tamm-Dancoff approximations. To achieve the first goal we first simplify the problem considerably (from a numerical point of view) by the explicit elimination of the higher Fock-space sector. The resulting integral equation, whose kernel depends upon the invariant mass of the state, is solved for the coupling constant, for a given set of the invariant mass and fermion and boson mass parameters. To achieve the second goal we solve the coupled set of equations using both basis functions and direct-discretization techniques. Results from these more general techniques are compared with the explicit-elimination method

Tiina Tammetalu : Eesti maastikud, personifitseeritud, dokumenteeritud = Estonian landscapes, personified, documented / Andreas Trossek

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Trossek, Andreas, 1980-

2007-01-01

Maalikunstnik Tiina Tammetalu käsitluses on Eesti maastik dokument, mida ta oma lõuenditel seeriapäraselt rekonstrueerib. 1980-ndate õpiaja maalides kandvaks muutunud kehaesteetika on kunstniku viinud läbi 90-ndate erinevate dokumentaalsete/feministlike näituseprojektide ja kolmemõõtmeliste installatsioonide ideeni, et maastik on kui kunstniku identiteet, on kui keha, on kui mälu. Viimaste aastate töödes aimub kogu seda "eestlaslikku" valulikku ajalootunnetust, need on otsekui retooriliseks vastuseks paljude jaoks korduvale küsimusele - kust oled sa tulnud?

Prof. Tiina Kirsi raamatuesitlus Toronto Ülikoolis : uus ingliskeelne raamat eesti naiste elulugudest / Eda Sepp ; fotod: Eda Sepp

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Sepp, Eda

2004-01-01

20. mail 2004 toimus Toronto Ülikooli Eesti Õppetooli juures Tiina Ann Kirsi toimetatud ja Tartu Ülikooli väljaandena 2004. a. ilmunud raamatu "She who remembers survives : interpreting Estonian women's post-soviet life stories" esitlus, kus toimetaja andis põhjaliku ülevaate teose olemusest ning eesmärkidest

Mille poolest on algav õppeaasta teile eriline? / Valmar Pantšenko, Martin Adamson, Maire Tamm, Eve Reisalu

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2012-01-01

Küsimusele vastavad: Tartu Täiskasvanute Gümnaasiumi abiturient Valmar Pantšenko, Eesti meister motokrossis klassis Quad 100 Martin Adamson, Tamsalu Gümnaasiumi õppealajuhataja Maire Tamm ja Ristiku põhikooli õpetaja-metoodik Eve Reisalu

Säravad ja kirglikud, naised mis naised / Liis Haab, Inga Allik ja Elisabet Tamm ; intervjueerinud Karli Randoja

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Haab, Liis, 1987-

2010-01-01

Eestimaises seriaalis "Pilvede all" mängivad õdesid näitlejannad Liis Haab, Inga Allik ja Elisabet Tamm. Artiklis räägivad nad oma rollidest, koostööst võtteplatsil, endast ja oma riietumisstiilist

Combined determination of serum type IV collagen with urine Tamm-Horsfall protein and albumin for early diagnosis in diabetic retinopathy

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Wang Hong; Zhang Aihua; Ren Yuguo

2003-01-01

Objective: To study the relationship between changes of serum type IV collagen, urine Tamm-horsfall protein, albumin and development of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: Serum CIV, urine THP and Alb were determined with ELISA and RIA respectively in 76 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (NDR26, BDR26, PDR24) and 30 controls. Results: Values of the three markers were significantly different among the three groups of patients (p < 0.01; p < 0.01; p < 0.001 respectively). Conclusion: Serum type IV collagens, urine Tamm-Horsfall protein and albumin were sensitive indicators in predicting diabetic retinopathy

Pagari 1 korterelamu restaureerimine = Restoration of an old town apartment building Pagari 1 / Rasmus Tamme, Jaanus Saarepera, Reio Raudsepp

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Tamme, Rasmus

2015-01-01

Restaureeritud korterelamu Tallinna vanalinnas Pagari tänav 1, valminud 2014. Arhitektid Rasmus Tamme, Jaanus Saarepera, Reio Raudsepp (ARS Projekt), sisearhitekt Reio Raudsepp. 2014. aasta Kultuurkapitali Arhitektuuripreemia kandidaat

The merit of meritocracy.

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Son Hing, Leanne S; Bobocel, D Ramona; Zanna, Mark P; Garcia, Donna M; Gee, Stephanie S; Orazietti, Katie

2011-09-01

We argue that the preference for the merit principle is a separate construct from hierarchy-legitimizing ideologies (i.e., system justification beliefs, prejudice, social dominance orientation), including descriptive beliefs that meritocracy currently exists in society. Moreover, we hypothesized that prescriptive beliefs about merit should have a stronger influence on reactions to the status quo when hierarchy-legitimizing ideologies are weak (vs. strong). In 4 studies, participants' preference for the merit principle and hierarchy-legitimizing ideologies were assessed; later, the participants evaluated organizational selection practices that support or challenge the status quo. Participants' prescriptive and descriptive beliefs about merit were separate constructs; only the latter predicted other hierarchy-legitimizing ideologies. In addition, as hypothesized, among participants who weakly endorsed hierarchy-legitimizing ideologies, the stronger their preference for the merit principle, the more they opposed selection practices that were perceived to be merit violating but the more they supported practices that were perceived to be merit restoring. In contrast, those who strongly endorsed hierarchy-legitimizing ideologies were always motivated to support the status quo, regardless of their preference for the merit principle. PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved.

Tartu Ülikooli 86. aastapäeva tähistamine Torontos : "Põhjamaine järjekindlus ja hiinlase kannatus" / Tiina Ann Kirss ; fotod: V. Sarapuu

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Kirss, Tiina, 1957-

2005-01-01

aktusega Tartu Collegéis 27. novembril 2005. Ülikooli rektor Jaak Aaviksoo analüüsis oma kõnes TÜ arenguvõimalusi ja päevamuresid, Tiina Kirss esitas sissevaate ülikooli ajalukku, muusikalises osas esinesid Kaili ja Riho Maimets

Euroopa Sotsiaalfondi vahendid Eesti noortekeskustes - kasutus, tulemused ja mõju noortekeskustele ning ühiskonnale / Heidi Paabort ; kommenteerinud Kerli Kõiv, Tiina Sinijärv, Aire Pruus

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Paabort, Heidi

2013-01-01

ESFi programmide tulemusel toimunud muutusi noorsootöös kommenteerivad Rõuge vallavalitsuse noorsootöö spetsialist Kerli Kõiv, Keila ANK ja Keila Noortekeskuse juhataja Tiina Sinijärv ja Nursi noorsootöös osaleja Aire Pruus

Uudised : Depeche Mode'i maailmaturnee peaaegu välja müüdud. Easy Listening esitleb : Villu Tamme diskorina

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2001-01-01

Ans. Depeche Mode maailmaturnee "Exciter" Euroopa ja Ameerika kontserdid on peaaegu välja müüdud. 11. mail KuKu klubis toimuval muusikapeol sarjas 'The Easy Listening Sessions' astub diskorina üles V.Tamme

Loode : teoloogiline mõtisklus õigeusu Kiriku pärimuse vaimus / Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kiriku metropoliit,1940- Stefanus ; tõlk. Tiina Niitvägi-Hellamaa

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Stefanus, Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kiriku metropoliit, 1940-

2008-01-01

Õigeusu kiriku seisukohtadest inimloote olemuse ja õiguste küsimuste kohta. Lisatud Ateena peapiiskopi ülipühitsetud Kristoduluse tekst ajakirjast Timitkon aphieroma is ton Mitropolitin Kaissarianis Georgion loc. cit., lk. 167-171, tõlk. Tiina Niitvägi-Hellamaa

Sensitive singular-phase optical detection without phase measurements with Tamm plasmons

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Boriskina, Svetlana V.; Tsurimaki, Yoichiro

2018-06-01

Spectrally-tailored interactions of light with material interfaces offer many exciting applications in sensing, photo-detection, and optical energy conversion. In particular, complete suppression of light reflectance at select frequencies accompanied by sharp phase variations in the reflected signal forms the basis for the development of ultra-sensitive singular-phase optical detection schemes such as Brewster and surface plasmon interferometry. However, both the Brewster effect and surface-plasmon-mediated absorption on planar interfaces are limited to one polarization of the incident light and oblique excitation angles, and may have limited bandwidth dictated by the material dielectric index and plasma frequency. To alleviate these limitations, we design narrow-band super-absorbers composed of plasmonic materials embedded into dielectric photonic nanostructures with topologically-protected interfacial Tamm plasmon states. These structures have planar geometry and do not require nanopatterning to achieve perfect absorption of both polarizations of the incident light in a wide range of incident angles, including the normal incidence. Their absorption lines are tunable across a very broad spectral range via engineering of the photon bandstructure of the dielectric photonic nanostructures to achieve reversal of the geometrical phase across the interface with the plasmonic absorber. We outline the design strategy to achieve perfect absorptance in Tamm structures with dissipative losses via conjugate impedance matching. We further demonstrate via modeling how these structures can be engineered to support sharp asymmetric amplitude resonances, which can be used to improve the sensitivity of optical sensors in the amplitude-only detection scheme that does not require use of bulky and expensive ellipsometry equipment.

Optical Tamm states in one-dimensional superconducting photonic crystal

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El Abouti, O. [LPMR, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed 1, 60000 Oujda (Morocco); El Boudouti, E. H. [LPMR, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed 1, 60000 Oujda (Morocco); IEMN, UMR-CNRS 8520, UFR de Physique, Université de Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d' Ascq (France); El Hassouani, Y. [ESIM, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Moulay Ismail, Boutalamine BP 509, 52000 Errachidia (Morocco); Noual, A. [LPMR, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed 1, 60000 Oujda (Morocco); Ecole Normale Supérieur de Tétouan, Université Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tétouan (Morocco); Djafari-Rouhani, B. [IEMN, UMR-CNRS 8520, UFR de Physique, Université de Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d' Ascq (France)

2016-08-15

In this study, we investigate localized and resonant optical waves associated with a semi-infinite superlattice made out of superconductor-dielectric bilayers and terminated with a cap layer. Both transverse electric and transverse magnetic waves are considered. These surface modes are analogous to the so-called Tamm states associated with electronic states found at the surface of materials. The surface guided modes induced by the cap layer strongly depend on whether the superlattice ends with a superconductor or a dielectric layer, the thickness of the surface layer, the temperature of the superconductor layer as well as on the polarization of the waves. Different kinds of surface modes are found and their properties examined. These structures can be used to realize the highly sensitive photonic crystal sensors.

2017 MERIT exercise

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2016-01-01

Slide from HR public meeting. In 2017, the annual advancement exercise MARS will be replaced by the annual performance evaluation and recognition exercise MERIT. The HR Department has invited staff members to attend two information meetings “2017 MERIT Public Sessions”, the purpose of which is to explain the “general principles of the Merit, Evaluation and Recognition Integrated Toolkit”. The first meeting was held in English on Tuesday, 6 December. The second meeting will be in French on Thursday, 15 December at 10.00, in room 774-R-013 (Prévessin site). The Staff Association appreciates the HR Department’s efforts to inform staff members, especially regarding the changes between the MARS system and the MERIT system. Nevertheless, we find it useful if we inform you, from our side, taking up the issues we find the most pertinent. Benchmark jobs and the new salary scale The HR presentation looks back on the changes that took place in September 20...

President Obama visiidi eduka kommunikatsiooni tagas põhjalik ettevalmistus / Mariann Sudakov, Tiina Ansip, Ainar Ruussaar ...[jt.] ; intervjueerinud Kertu Kärk

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2014-01-01

Eestit 3. septembril 2014 külastanud USA president Barack Obama visiidi kommunikatsioonist ja planeerimisest räägivad välisministeeriumi pressiosakonna nimel pressispetsialist Mariann Sudakov, valitsuse kommunikatsioonibüroo esindaja, valitsuse meedianõunik valitsuskommunikatsiooni direktori ülesannetes Tiina Ansip, ERR-i juhatuse liige ja ajakirjanik Ainar Ruussaar, Vabariigi Presidendi avalike suhete nõunik Toomas Sildam ning USA saatkonna pressi- ja kultuuriatašee Bradley Hurst

Toetuseta jäämine šokeeris mainekat kultuuriajakirja / Ott Raun, Laine Jänes ; interv. Rebekka Lotman ; komment. Marek Tamm

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Raun, Ott, 1940-

2009-01-01

Eesti Kultuurkapitalinõukogu otsusel jääb ajalookultuuri ajakiri "Tuna" alates 2009. aastast püsitoetusest ilma. Sellega seotud küsimustele vastavad "Tuna" peatoimetaja Ott Raun ja Eesti Kultuurkapitali nõukogu esimees Laine Jänes, kommenteerinud ajaloolane Marek Tamm

Merit in Principle, Merit in Practice: An Investigation into Merit-based Human Resources Management Through the Lens of Title 5-exempt Federal Organizations

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Woodard, Colleen A.

2000-01-01

This dissertation research investigates whether merit-based principles and practices are embedded into the HRM systems of 19 Title 5-exempt federal organizations. Title 5-exempt organizations, such as government corporations, serve as a vehicle for exploring the question of what constitutes merit in more loosely regulated public environments. This research fills a void in the discussion about how we can sustain a merit foundation in deregulated and decentralized federal human resources syste...

An improved radioimmunoassay for urinary Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein

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Dawnay, A.B. St. J.; Thornley, C.; Cattell, W.R.

1982-01-01

A rapid specific radioimmunoassay has been used to measure Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (TH glycoprotein) in urine, and the method described. The apparent concentration increased with increasing dilution of urine in water, reaching a plateau at 1 in 20. This increase was greater the higher the osmolality and TH glycoprotein concentration and the lower the pH of the original sample. The apparent concentration of TH glycoprotein in neat or diluted urine was not affected by freezing or by storage at 4 0 C or room temperature for at least 2 days. A physiological range for the urinary excretion rate was established as 22-56 mg/24h, (considerably higher than the amount present in serum) based on samples from 29 individuals with normal renal function, as defined by their creatinine clearance. There was no significant correlation between serum concentrations of TH glycoprotein and its urinary excretion rate, nor between urinary excretion rate and creatinine clearance. (author)

Jüri Tamm: vaid osaledes on võimalik silma vaadata ja mõista oksjoni mõtet / toimetanud Kristi Vahemaa

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Tamm, Jüri, 1937-

2011-01-01

Oksjoni idee autor ja korraldaja Jüri Tamm 4.12.2011 toimuvast 12. heategevuslikust kunstioksjonist, mille tulud lähevad hukkunud sportlaste laste toetuseks. Tänavune väliskülaline on kõrgushüppaja Dick Fosbury. Müügile tulevate taieste nimekiri. Tagasivaade oksjonitele. Koostööd tehakse galeriiga Rios

Value-Added Merit Pay.

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Twomey, Daniel F.

The purpose of merit pay is to reward employees for their accomplishments and motivate them to continue improving. Critics of merit pay say the increased extrinsic motivation that it prompts is more than offset by the decrease in intrinsic motivation. Supporters of performance-based pay claim several benefits of the practice. This study addressed…

Chess players' fame versus their merit.

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Simkin, M V; Roychowdhury, V P

2015-12-12

We investigate a pool of international chess title holders born between 1901 and 1943. Using Elo ratings, we compute for every player his expected score in a game with a randomly selected player from the pool. We use this figure as the player's merit. We measure players' fame as the number of Google hits. The correlation between fame and merit is 0.38. At the same time, the correlation between the logarithm of fame and merit is 0.61. This suggests that fame grows exponentially with merit.

4 CFR 5.3 - Merit pay.

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2010-01-01

... 4 Accounts 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Merit pay. 5.3 Section 5.3 Accounts GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE PERSONNEL SYSTEM COMPENSATION § 5.3 Merit pay. The Comptroller General may promulgate regulations establishing a merit pay system for such employees of the Government Accountability Office as the...

Kuidas ühiskondlikus leppes lubatud hea tuntavaks tehakse? / Jaak Aaviksoo, Jüri Tamm, Kaul Nurm...[jt.

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2003-01-01

Küsimusele "missugune oleks nende panus ja plaan esimese aasta jooksul ühiskondlikus leppes fikseeritud eesmärkide saavutamiseks" vastavad Tartu Ülikooli rektor Jaak Aaviksoo, EOK asepresident Jüri Tamm, Eestimaa Talupidajate Keskliidu peadirektor Kaul Nurm, Eesti Kirikute Nõukogu täitevsekretär Eerik Jõks, Eesti Ühistegelise Liidu juhatuse esimees Urmas Laht, Eesti Väike- ja Keskettevõtjate Assotsiatsiooni juhataja Riina Danilson ning Reformierakonna pressinõunik Peep Lillemägi. Samas ka karikatuur

2017 MERIT Exercise close to completion!

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2017-01-01

The 2017 MERIT Guidelines, approved by the Standing Concertation Committee (SCC), concern various processes and procedures, among which those for the annual exercise (or MERIT interview), promotions, and changes of benchmark job. The processes for “annual exercise” and “promotions” – “changes of benchmark job” have been programmed for two periods: from 1st December 2016 to 15 June 2017: MERIT interviews, evaluation, performance qualification and payment with effect as of the salary of May; from 3 April 2017 to 1st July 2017: promotions and changes of benchmark job. 2017 MERIT Interviews The results of the MERIT interviews have been announced to staff members, most of whom saw their salary increase. Only persons who are not eligible and those with “Insufficient” performance qualification did not receive a raise. Same goes for performance payments – the staff members whose performance was qualified as &ldq...

All-optical bistable logic control based on coupled Tamm plasmons.

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Zhang, Wei Li; Jiang, Yao; Zhu, Ye Yu; Wang, Fen; Rao, Yun Jiang

2013-10-15

A method for realizing low-threshold all-optical bistable logic control is proposed based on Tamm plasmons (TPs), which are formed in an asymmetric dielectric Bragg reflector (DBR)-metal-DBR (ADMD) structure with a layer of Kerr medium embedded. The ADMD structure supports two TPs due to coupling of trapped modes at each metal-DBR interface, generating two dips in the structure's reflection spectrum. Thus, control (i.e., pump) and controlled (i.e., probe) light with wavelengths close to the two dips, respectively, can be imported. It is verified theoretically that, thanks to the enhanced Kerr nonlinearity related to excitation of high-quality TP, bistable switching at very low injection intensity can be initiated by strength or direction variation of the pump. Meanwhile, the probe changes correspondingly with the pump. Thus, all-optical bistable logic operation of the probe can be controlled by the pump.

Figures of merit for surface plasmon waveguides

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Berini, Pierre

2006-12-01

Three figures of merit are proposed as quality measures for surface plasmon waveguides. They are defined as benefit-to-cost ratios where the benefit is confinement and the cost is attenuation. Three different ways of measuring confinement are considered, leading to three figures of merit. One of the figures of merit is connected to the quality factor. The figures of merit were then used to assess and compare the wavelength response of hree popular 1-D surface plasmon waveguides: the single metal-dielectric interface, the metal slab bounded by dielectric and the dielectric slab bounded by metal. Closed form expressions are given for the figures of merit of the single metal-dielectric interface.

Merits and Demerits of Food Additives

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YANG, Xuening; ZHAN, Yong

2014-01-01

Food additive is a double-edged sword. It has merits and demerits. Food additives have such merits as improving sensory properties of foods, preventing deterioration and extending the shelf life, increasing varieties of foods, enhancing convenience of foods, facilitating food processing, and satisfying other demands. However, excessive and illegal use of food additives will exert adverse influence on food security. Therefore, it is required to take proper measures to bring merits of food addi...

Merit exponents and control area diagrams in materials selection

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Zander, Johan; Sandstroem, Rolf

2011-01-01

Highlights: → Merit exponents are introduced to generalise the merit indices commonly used in materials selection. → The merit exponents can rank materials in general design situations. → To allow identification of the active merit exponent(s), control area diagrams are used. → Principles for generating the control area diagrams are presented. -- Abstract: Merit indices play a fundamental role in materials selection, since they enable ranking of materials. However, the conventional formulation of merit indices is associated with severe limitations. They are dependent on the explicit solution of the variables in the equations for the constraints from the design criteria. Furthermore, it is not always easy to determine which the controlling merit index is. To enable the ranking of materials in more general design cases, merit exponents are introduced as generalisations of the merit indices. Procedures are presented for how to compute the merit exponents numerically without having to solve equations algebraically. Merit exponents (and indices) are only valid in a certain range of property values. To simplify the identification of the controlling merit exponent, it is suggested that so called control area diagrams are used. These diagrams consist of a number of domains, each showing the active constraints and the controlling merit exponent. It is shown that the merit exponents play a crucial role when the control area diagram (CAD) is set up. The principles in the paper are developed for mechanically loaded components and are illustrated for engineering beams with two or three geometric variables.

45 CFR 201.11 - Personnel merit system review.

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2010-10-01

... 45 Public Welfare 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Personnel merit system review. 201.11 Section 201... STATES FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Review and Audits § 201.11 Personnel merit system review. A personnel merit system review is carried out by the Office of State Merit Systems of the Office of the...

Merits and Demerits of Food Additives

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Xuening; YANG; Yong; ZHAN

2014-01-01

Food additive is a double-edged sword. It has merits and demerits. Food additives have such merits as improving sensory properties of foods,preventing deterioration and extending the shelf life,increasing varieties of foods,enhancing convenience of foods,facilitating food processing,and satisfying other demands. However,excessive and illegal use of food additives will exert adverse influence on food security.Therefore,it is required to take proper measures to bring merits of food additives into full play,and get rid of their demerits.

[Crusading and chronicle writing on the medieval Baltic frontier : a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. Hrsg. von Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, Carsten Selch Jensen] / Volker Honemann

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Honemann, Volker, 1943-

2013-01-01

Arvustus: Crusading and chronicle writing on the medieval Baltic frontier : a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. Hrsg. von Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, Carsten Selch Jensen. Verlag Ashgate. Farnham, 2011

Merit-Based Scholarships and Student Effort

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Hernandez-Julian, Rey

2010-01-01

Twenty-one states offer merit scholarships that require students to maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA). Using a comprehensive administrative database from Clemson University, this study estimates the relationship between the incentives created by a South Carolina merit scholarship (LIFE) and students' academic performance. I hypothesize…

The acid-base buffer capacity of podzolic soils and its changes under the impact of treatment with the Mehra-Jackson and Tamm reagents

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Maksimova, Yu. G.; Maryakhina, N. N.; Tolpeshta, I. I.; Sokolova, T. A.

2010-10-01

The acid-base buffer capacity before and after the treatment with the Mehra-Jackson and Tamm reagents was assessed by continuous potentiometric titration for the main genetic horizons of two profiles of podzolic soils in the Central Forest State Reserve. The total buffer capacity was calculated in the pH range from the initial titration point (ITP) to 3 for the acid titration and from the ITP to 10 for the base titration, as well as the buffer capacities in the pH intervals of 0.25. It was found that both treatments abruptly decreased the base buffer capacity, which reached 70-90% in the E horizons. The high direct linear correlation of the difference between the total base buffer capacities before and after each treatment with the content of Fe in the Tamm extract was revealed. From the results obtained, a conclusion was drawn that finely dispersed Fe hydroxides were the main solid-phase constituents ensuring the base buffer capacity, and the deprotonation of hydroxyl groups on the surface of Fe hydroxides was the essential buffer reaction during the base titration.

An Accounting Program Merit Pay Survey

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Lindsay, David H.; Campbell, Annhenrie; Tan, Kim B.; Wagner, Andrew

2010-01-01

Basing the compensation of accounting professors on merit pay in order to encourage better teaching, research and service is controversial. Before the effectiveness of merit-based salary plans can be examined empirically, it must be determined which accounting programs use such a system. In this study, the 852 accounting programs in the United…

4 CFR 2.4 - Merit system principles.

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2010-01-01

.... (a) Merit personnel systems are based on the principle that an organization is best served by... embody the following merit system principles: (1) Recruitment should be from qualified individuals from...) Equal pay should be provided for work of substantially equal value, with appropriate consideration of...

Merit Pay Misfires

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Ramirez, Al

2011-01-01

Critics argue that the uniform salary schedule is unfair because it promotes mediocrity by rewarding poor performers while failing to recognize outstanding achievement on the job. Advocates for merit pay systems for preK-12 education also contend that the uniform salary schedule ignores the basic purpose of education--student learning. Although…

Exercice MERIT 2017 en passe de s’achever !

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2017-01-01

Les lignes directrices 2017 du MERIT (https://cds.cern.ch/record/2239422/files/2017_MERIT_Guidelines.pdf?version=1), approuvées par le Comité de Concertation permanent (CCP), concernent divers processus et procédures parmi lesquels, l’exercice annuel (ou entretien MERIT), la promotion, le changement d’emploi repère. Les processus « exercice annuel » et « promotions » - « changement d’emploi repère » ont été programmés sur deux périodes : du 1er décembre 2016 au 15 juin 2017, les entretiens MERIT, l’évaluation, la qualification et la rétribution de la performance, avec effet sur le salaire de mai ; du 3 avril 2017 au 1er juillet 2017, les promotions et les changements d’emploi repère. Entretie...

Young children consider merit when sharing resources with others.

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Kanngiesser, Patricia; Warneken, Felix

2012-01-01

MERIT IS A KEY PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS: rewards should be distributed according to how much someone contributed to a task. Previous research suggests that children have an early ability to take merit into account in third-party situations but that merit-based sharing in first-party contexts does not emerge until school-age. Here we provide evidence that three- and five-year-old children already use merit to share resources with others, even when sharing is costly for the child. In Study 1, a child and a puppet-partner collected coins that were later exchanged for rewards. We varied the work-contribution of both partners by manipulating how many coins each partner collected. Children kept fewer stickers in trials in which they had contributed less than in trials in which they had contributed more than the partner, showing that they took merit into account. Few children, however, gave away more than half of the stickers when the partner had worked more. Study 2 confirmed that children related their own work-contribution to their partner's, rather than simply focusing on their own contribution. Taken together, these studies show that merit-based sharing is apparent in young children; however it remains constrained by a self-serving bias.

Young children consider merit when sharing resources with others.

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Patricia Kanngiesser

Full Text Available MERIT IS A KEY PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS: rewards should be distributed according to how much someone contributed to a task. Previous research suggests that children have an early ability to take merit into account in third-party situations but that merit-based sharing in first-party contexts does not emerge until school-age. Here we provide evidence that three- and five-year-old children already use merit to share resources with others, even when sharing is costly for the child. In Study 1, a child and a puppet-partner collected coins that were later exchanged for rewards. We varied the work-contribution of both partners by manipulating how many coins each partner collected. Children kept fewer stickers in trials in which they had contributed less than in trials in which they had contributed more than the partner, showing that they took merit into account. Few children, however, gave away more than half of the stickers when the partner had worked more. Study 2 confirmed that children related their own work-contribution to their partner's, rather than simply focusing on their own contribution. Taken together, these studies show that merit-based sharing is apparent in young children; however it remains constrained by a self-serving bias.

Reward Merit with Praise.

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Andrews, Hans A.

1987-01-01

Describes the efforts of two educational institutions to reward teaching excellence using positive feedback rather than merit pay incentives. An Arizona district, drawing on Herzberg's motivation theories, offers highly individualized rewards ranging from computers to conference money, while an Illinois community college bestows engraved plaques…

Temperature-mediated transition from Dyakonov-Tamm surface waves to surface-plasmon-polariton waves

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Chiadini, Francesco; Fiumara, Vincenzo; Mackay, Tom G.; Scaglione, Antonio; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh

2017-08-01

The effect of changing the temperature on the propagation of electromagnetic surface waves (ESWs), guided by the planar interface of a homogeneous isotropic temperature-sensitive material (namely, InSb) and a temperature-insensitive structurally chiral material (SCM) was numerically investigated in the terahertz frequency regime. As the temperature rises, InSb transforms from a dissipative dielectric material to a dissipative plasmonic material. Correspondingly, the ESWs transmute from Dyakonov-Tamm surface waves into surface-plasmon-polariton waves. The effects of the temperature change are clearly observed in the phase speeds, propagation distances, angular existence domains, multiplicity, and spatial profiles of energy flow of the ESWs. Remarkably large propagation distances can be achieved; in such instances the energy of an ESW is confined almost entirely within the SCM. For certain propagation directions, simultaneous excitation of two ESWs with (i) the same phase speeds but different propagation distances or (ii) the same propagation distances but different phase speeds are also indicated by our results.

Merit Principles Survey 2016 Data

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Merit Systems Protection Board — MPS contains a combination of core items that MSPB tracks over time and special-purpose items developed to support a particular special study. This survey differs...

Merit Pay and Music Education: A Motivation Perspective

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Vagi, Robert

2014-01-01

Recently, state and federal legislators have emphasized teacher quality in their efforts to improve public education. Many reformers believe that merit pay may prove invaluable in attracting highly qualified educators to the workforce and retaining them, as well as in improving students' test scores. While merit pay's ability to recruit and retain…

Tamm-Horsfall protein in urine after uninephrectomy/transplantation in kidney donors and their recipients

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Torffvit, O; Kamper, A L; Strandgaard, S

1997-01-01

Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP) is a large glycoprotein with unknown physiological function synthesized in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle. Urinary THP has recently been suggested as being suitable for monitoring the functional state of transplanted kidneys. In the present study......, the urinary excretion of THP after uninephrectomy and transplantation among relatives was determined in order to study the influence of the acute reduction in renal mass on the excretion of this peptide. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR), estimated by the plasma clearance of 51Cr-EDTA, and the excretion rate...... of THP were measured 2 days before nephrectomy and 5, 12, 26 and 54 days after nephrectomy/transplantation in 22 healthy living kidney donors and in 16 of their recipients. In the donors, THP excretion rate of the kidney to remain in the donor was 22.3 micrograms/min before and 33.7 micrograms/min at 5...

Coupled Optical Tamm States in a Planar Dielectric Mirror Structure Containing a Thin Metal Film

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Zhou Hai-Chun; Yang Guang; Lu Pei-Xiang; Wang Kai; Long Hua

2012-01-01

The coupling between two optical Tamm states (OTSs) with the same eigenenergy is numerically investigated in a planar dielectric mirror structure containing a thin metal film. The reflectivity map in this structure at normal incidence is obtained by applying the transfer matrix method. Two splitting branches appear in the photonic bandgap region when both adjacent dielectric layers of metal film are properly set. The splitting energy of two branches strongly depends on the thickness of the metal film. According to the electric field distribution in this structure, it is found that the high-energy branch corresponds to the antisymmetric coupling between two OTSs, while the low-energy branch is associated with the symmetric coupling between two OTSs. Moreover, the optical difference frequency of two branches is located in a broad terahertz region. (condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties)

Clinical track faculty: merits and issues.

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Lee, Won-Hee; Kim, Cho Ja; Roh, Young Sook; Shin, Hyunsook; Kim, Mi Ja

2007-01-01

Clinical track faculty (CTF) has been in operation for more than two decades in the United States, and 12 of the top 20 schools of nursing with the highest National Institutes of Health funding in the United States have CTF in place. Yet, only limited articles have been published regarding the merits and issues related to its operation. This article examines the advantages/merits of establishing CTF in schools of nursing, discusses the qualification criteria and types of appointment for CTF, and analyzes issues related to operating CTF in Korea. A questionnaire survey and two workshops were conducted involving faculty from a college of nursing and clinical nurse managers from university-affiliated medical centers and community agencies. Most of the respondents indicated that establishing CTF was advantageous. Merits included the following: increasing reality-based clinical education and training; decreasing the reality shock of students; increasing student satisfaction; and linking education, practice, and research more effectively. Major issues were as follows: getting the approval of medical centers/universities; developing an agreement on CTF operation between the college of nursing and clinical agencies; clarifying types and criteria of appointment and promotion; and developing a statement on role and compensation policies. Most issues are similar to what U.S. schools of nursing have faced, except for the first one. In conclusion, establishing CTF in Korea appears to be highly desirable. Merits outweigh issues/concerns, and Korean nursing schools may look for an opportune time for obtaining the approval of medical centers/universities. Nursing schools in other countries that face a similar challenge of providing clinical teaching with high research performance may consider instituting CTF.

78 FR 66384 - Membership of the Merit Systems Protection Board's Performance Review Board

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2013-11-05

... MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD Membership of the Merit Systems Protection Board's Performance Review Board AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection Board. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the members of the Merit Systems Protection Board's Performance Review Board. DATES: November 5, 2013...

Wind energy and electricity prices. Exploring the 'merit order effect'

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Morthost, P.E.; Ray, S.; Munksgaard, J.; Sinner, A.F.

2010-04-01

This report focuses on the effect of wind energy on the electricity price in the power market. As the report will discuss, adding wind into the power mix has a significant influence on the resulting price of electricity, the so called merit order effect (MOE). The merit order effect has been quantified and discussed in many scientific publications. This report ends the first phase of a study on the MOE, evaluating the impact of EWEA's 2020 scenarios on future European electricity prices. The basic principles of the merit order effect are provided in the first part of the document. The literature review itself contains methods and tools not only to quantify the merit order effect but also in order to forecast its future range and volume.

Pedagogical Merit Review of Animal Use for Education in Canada.

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Full Text Available There are two components to the review of animal based protocols in Canada: review for the merit of the study itself, and review of the ethical acceptability of the work. Despite the perceived importance for the quality assurance these reviews provide; there are few studies of the peer-based merit review system for animal-based protocols for research and education. Institutional animal care committees (ACCs generally rely on the external peer review of scientific merit for animal-based research. In contrast, peer review for animal based teaching/training is dependent on the review of pedagogical merit carried out by the ACC itself or another committee within the institution. The objective of this study was to evaluate the views of ACC members about current practices and policies as well as alternate policies for the review of animal based teaching/training. We conducted a national web-based survey of ACC members with both quantitative and qualitative response options. Responses from 167 ACC members indicated broad concerns about administrative burden despite strong support for both the current and alternate policies. Participants' comments focused mostly on the merit review process (54% relative to the efficiency (21%, impact (13%, and other (12% aspects of evaluation. Approximately half (49% of the comments were classified into emergent themes that focused on some type of burden: burden from additional pedagogical merit review (16%, a limited need for the review (12%, and a lack of resources (expertise 11%; people/money 10%. Participants indicated that the current system for pedagogical merit review is effective (60%; but most also indicated that there was at least some challenge (86% with the current peer review process. There was broad support for additional guidance on the justification, criteria, types of animal use, and objectives of pedagogical merit review. Participants also supported the ethical review and application of the Three Rs in

Characteristics of National Merit Scholars from Small Rural Schools.

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Peltier, Gary; And Others

This study compares 1988 National Merit Scholars enrolled in rural public schools with a senior class smaller than 99 students to other merit scholars and the national sample of SAT takers. Rural scholars were more likely to be female (45.5%) and Caucasian (98%) than other scholars. Involvement in extracurricular activities was significantly…

Profiles of Merit Pay Provisions in Ohio School Districts

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Willis, Chris; Ingle, W. Kyle

2018-01-01

A small number of districts in Ohio from a variety of locales have adopted merit pay provisions. Using Springer's (2009) taxonomy of teacher compensation, we analyzed compensation provisions of these districts. We asked: What are the characteristics of these districts? What criteria are used to determine merit? Who is determining who receives…

The merit of cogeneration: Measuring and rewarding performance

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Verbruggen, Aviel

2008-01-01

Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is a thermal power generation cycle with the merit of recovering part or all of the heat that is fatally discarded by such cycles. This merit of higher efficiency is subject of rewarding by public authorities. When the EU enacts CHP promotion in a Directive (1997-2004), crucial measurement and qualification issues remain unsolved. CEN (coordinator of the European Bureaus of Standards) contributes in clarifying the measurement of CHP activities, but shortfalls remain, while CEN bypasses the debate on qualifying CHP performance. This article offers appropriate methods for measuring CHP activities based on design characteristics of the plants. The co-generated electric output is a necessary and sufficient indicator of CHP merit and performance. Regulators can extend this indicator, but should avoid the perverse effects of biased external benchmarking as the EU Directive entails

Improved radioimmunoassay for urinary Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein. Investigation and resolution of factors affecting its quantification

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Dawney, A B.St.J.; Thornley, C; Cattell, W R [Saint Bartholomew' s Hospital, London (UK)

1982-09-15

A rapid specific radioimmunoassay has been used to measure Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (TH glycoprotein) in urine, and the method described. The apparent concentration increased with increasing dilution of urine in water, reaching a plateau at 1 in 20. This increase was greater the higher the osmolality and TH glycoprotein concentration and the lower the pH of the original sample. The apparent concentration of TH glycoprotein in neat or diluted urine was not affected by freezing or by storage at 4/sup 0/C or room temperature for at least 2 days. A physiological range for the urinary excretion rate was established as 22-56 mg/24h, (considerably higher than the amount present in serum) based on samples from 29 individuals with normal renal function, as defined by their creatinine clearance. There was no significant correlation between serum concentrations of TH glycoprotein and its urinary excretion rate, nor between urinary excretion rate and creatinine clearance.

Performance appraisal and merit recognition exercise 2007

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2006-01-01

The 2007 performance appraisal and merit recognition exercise will start in the usual way with annual interviews between staff and their supervisors. This year, these interviews should be held in the period from 8 January 2007 to 16 April 2007. Interconnection with the 5-yearly review, a number of modifications to the procedures relating to the performance appraisal and merit recognition are currently under study. Administrative Circular No. 26 (Procedures governing the Career Development of Staff Members) and the electronic MAPS form in EDH are being reviewed and will be available from January onwards. HR Department will shortly provide further information on this subject. Human Resources Department Tel. 73566

Group-theoretical deduction of a dyadic Tamm-Dancoff equation by using a matrix-valued generator coordinate

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Nishiyama, Seiya; Morita, Hiroyuki; Ohnishi, Hiromasa

2004-01-01

The traditional Tamm-Dancoff (TD) method is one of the standard procedures for solving the Schroedinger equation of fermion many-body systems. However, it meets a serious difficulty when an instability occurs in the symmetry-adapted ground state of the independent particle approximation (IPA) and when the stable IPA ground state becomes of broken symmetry. If one uses the stable but broken symmetry IPA ground state as the starting approximation, TD wave functions also become of broken symmetry. On the contrary, if we start from a symmetry-adapted but unstable wave function, the convergence of the TD expansion becomes bad. Thus, the requirements of symmetry and rapid convergence are not in general compatible in the conventional TD expansion of the systems with strong collective correlations. Along the same line as Fukutome's, we give a group-theoretical deduction of a U(n) dyadic TD equation by using a matrix-valued generator coordinate

2008 annual merit review

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None, None

2009-01-18

The 2008 DOE Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review was held February 25-28, 2008 in Bethesda, Maryland. The review encompassed all of the work done by the Vehicle Technologies Program: a total of 280 individual activities were reviewed, by a total of just over 100 reviewers. A total of 1,908 individual review responses were received for the technical reviews, and an additional 29 individual review responses were received for the plenary session review.

Redefining the merit order of stochastic generation in forward markets

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Morales González, Juan Miguel; Zugno, Marco; Pineda Morente, Salvador

2014-01-01

This letter proposes a new merit order for the dispatch of stochastic production in forward markets (e.g., dayahead markets). The proposed merit order considers not only the marginal cost of the stochastic generating unit, which is often very low or zero, but also the projected cost of balancing...

Teachers' Perceptions of Merit Pay

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Jackson, Vanessa; Langheinrich, Cornelia; Loth, Dan

2012-01-01

The purpose of the study is to show the various perceptions teachers have on merit pay. This research was designed to examine the perceptions and attitudes of teachers towards the idea of performance based pay. This topic has been an ongoing battle within school systems since the 1800s. The participants in this study were teachers from the state…

Employee Reactions to Merit Pay: Cognitive Approach and Social Approach

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Wang, Yingchun

2010-01-01

The dissertation aims to tackle one of the most pressing questions facing the merit pay system researchers and practitioners: Why do merit pay raises have such a small effect on employees' satisfaction, commitment and job performance? My approach to the study of this question is to develop explanatory frameworks from two perspectives: cognitive…

Publication of administrative circular No. 26 (Rev. 8) – Recognition of merit

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2008-01-01

Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 8) – Recognition of merit Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 8) – "Recognition of merit", approved by the Standing Concertation Committee at its meeting on 3 September 2008, is now available on the intranet site of the Human Resources Department. It cancels and replaces Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 7) – "Recognition of merit of staff members" of May 2007. Paper copies will shortly be available in Departmental secretariats. Human Resources Department Tel. 78003

Publication of administrative circular No. 26 (Rev. 8) – Recognition of merit

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2008-01-01

Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 8) – Recognition of merit Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 8) – "Recognition of merit", approved by the Standing Concertation Committee meeting on 3 September 2008, is now available on the intranet site of the Human Resources Department. It cancels and replaces Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 7) – "Recognition of merit of staff members" of May 2007. Paper copies will shortly be available in Departmental secretariats. Human Resources Department Tel. 78003

The effective communication methodology and influence of merit information on nuclear power

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Oiso, Shinichi

2007-01-01

It was found by the survey the author carried out in 2005 that there is a possibility that even the person who opposes nuclear power generation may change his or her opinion after understanding the advantage of nuclear power. Then, how should merit information be transmitted? Is there a possibility that people feel repulsion after receiving merit information? What is the influence of providing merit information of nuclear power? Those kinds of questions were investigated in 2006. As a result, it was found that the use of magazine and NPO/NGO is effective. The utilization of all-night television broadcasting, iPod, energy environmental education in schools and science cafe have an effect too, especially for young generation. It was also found that 20% or less of the people feel repulsion for providing merit information of nuclear power. Concerning people's attitude towards nuclear power utilization, it was found that the number of those who support nuclear power generation tended to increase significantly by providing information depicting merits or benefits of nuclear power, however, it did not increase by explaining electric power companies' effort to promote nuclear power. Further more, concerning to the image of a nuclear power station site, it became clear that merit information of nuclear power provided positive effect for some items in explaining nuclear power generation. (author)

An Optimization Model for the Allocation of University Based Merit Aid

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Sugrue, Paul K.

2010-01-01

The allocation of merit-based financial aid during the college admissions process presents postsecondary institutions with complex and financially expensive decisions. This article describes the application of linear programming as a decision tool in merit based financial aid decisions at a medium size private university. The objective defined for…

Milline kevad tuleb? / Kätlin Karik

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Karik, Kätlin

2016-01-01

Oma kevadisi rõivakollektsioone tutvustavad Ülle Pohjanheimo, Ivo Nikkolo, Althea/Thea Pilvet, Roberta Einer, Monton, Aldo Järvsoo, Ketlin Bachmann, Riina Põldroos, Kriss Soonik, Tiina by Tiina/Tiina Talumees, Iris Janvier

76 FR 42140 - Public Availability of the Merit Systems Protection Board's FY 2010 Service Contract Inventory

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2011-07-18

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Tamm-plasmon and surface-plasmon hybrid-mode based refractometry in photonic bandgap structures.

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Das, Ritwick; Srivastava, Triranjita; Jha, Rajan

2014-02-15

The transverse magnetic (TM) polarized hybrid modes formed as a consequence of coupling between Tamm plasmon polariton (TM-TPP) mode and surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode exhibit interesting dispersive features for realizing a highly sensitive and accurate surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor. We found that the TM-TPP modes, formed at the interface of distributed Bragg reflector and metal, are strongly dispersive as compared to SPP modes at optical frequencies. This causes an appreciably narrow interaction bandwidth between TM-TPP and SPP modes, which leads to highly accurate sensing. In addition, appropriate tailoring of dispersion characteristics of TM-TPP as well as SPP modes could ensure high sensitivity of a novel SPR platform. By suitably designing the Au/TiO₂/SiO₂-based geometry, we propose a TM-TPP/SPP hybrid-mode sensor and achieve a sensitivity ≥900  nm/RIU with high detection accuracy (≥30  μm⁻¹) for analyte refractive indices varying between 1.330 and 1.345 in 600-700 nm wavelength range. The possibility to achieve desired dispersive behavior in any spectral band makes the sensing configuration an extremely attractive candidate to design sensors depending on the availability of optical sources.

75 FR 3939 - Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Provides Notice of Opportunity To File Amicus Briefs

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2010-01-25

... MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Provides Notice of Opportunity To File Amicus Briefs AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection Board. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 7521 and 5 CFR 1201.131, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is providing notice of...

Merit Pay and the Music Teacher

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Elpus, Kenneth

2011-01-01

Current proponents of education reform are at present seeking to fundamentally change the system of teacher compensation by eliminating the traditional single salary schedule and instituting a merit pay system that directly links teacher pay to student achievement. To date, the scholarly literature in music education has been silent on the subject…

Excited state nuclear forces from the Tamm-Dancoff approximation to time-dependent density functional theory within the plane wave basis set framework

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Hutter, Jürg

2003-03-01

An efficient formulation of time-dependent linear response density functional theory for the use within the plane wave basis set framework is presented. The method avoids the transformation of the Kohn-Sham matrix into the canonical basis and references virtual orbitals only through a projection operator. Using a Lagrangian formulation nuclear derivatives of excited state energies within the Tamm-Dancoff approximation are derived. The algorithms were implemented into a pseudo potential/plane wave code and applied to the calculation of adiabatic excitation energies, optimized geometries and vibrational frequencies of three low lying states of formaldehyde. An overall good agreement with other time-dependent density functional calculations, multireference configuration interaction calculations and experimental data was found.

Metacognitive reflection and insight therapy (MERIT) for patients with schizophrenia.

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de Jong, S; van Donkersgoed, R J M; Timmerman, M E; Aan Het Rot, M; Wunderink, L; Arends, J; van Der Gaag, M; Aleman, A; Lysaker, P H; Pijnenborg, G H M

2018-04-25

Impaired metacognition is associated with difficulties in the daily functioning of people with psychosis. Metacognition can be divided into four domains: Self-Reflection, Understanding the Other's Mind, Decentration, and Mastery. This study investigated whether Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) can be used to improve metacognition. This study is a randomized controlled trial. Patients in the active condition (n = 35) received forty MERIT sessions, the control group (n = 35) received treatment as usual. Multilevel intention-to-treat and completers analyses were performed for metacognition and secondary outcomes (psychotic symptomatology, cognitive insight, Theory of Mind, empathy, depression, self-stigma, quality of life, social functioning, and work readiness). Eighteen out of 35 participants finished treatment, half the drop-out stemmed from therapist attrition (N = 5) or before the first session (N = 4). Intention-to-treat analysis demonstrated that in both groups metacognition improved between pre- and post-measurements, with no significant differences between the groups. Patients who received MERIT continued to improve, while the control group returned to baseline, leading to significant differences at follow-up. Completers analysis (18/35) showed improvements on the Metacognition Assessment Scale (MAS-A) scales Self Reflectivity and metacognitive Mastery at follow-up. No effects were found on secondary outcomes. On average, participants in the MERIT group were, based on MAS-A scores, at follow-up more likely to recognize their thoughts as changeable rather than as facts. MERIT might be useful for patients whose self-reflection is too limited to benefit from other therapies. Given how no changes were found in secondary measures, further research is needed. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.

75 FR 40036 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2010-07-13

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit... (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit... is to review rehabilitation research and development applications for scientific and technical merit...

Thermoelectric figure of merit of chiral carbon nanotube

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Mensah, N.G.; Nkrumah-Buandoh, G.K.; Mensah, S.Y.; Allotey, F.K.A.; Twum, A.K.

2005-09-01

We have investigated the thermoelectrical properties of chiral carbon nanotube and numerically evaluated the figure of merit. We observed that the properties are highly anisotropic and depend on the geometric chiral angle (GCA) θ h , temperature and the overlapping integrals (exchange energy) for the jumps along the tubular axis Δ z and the base helix Δ s . The thermopower α exhibited giant values with the peak occurring between 100 K and 150 K. The electron thermal conductivity showed unusually high value with the peaks shifting towards high temperature. We attribute the high peak values to electron-phonon interactions. Finally we noted that by changing the Δ s and Δ z it is possible to get a figure of merit greater than 1. (author)

The merit of synesthesia for consciousness research

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Tessa Marije Van Leeuwen

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which additional perceptual experiences are elicited by sensory stimuli or cognitive concepts. Synesthetes possess a unique type of phenomenal experiences not directly triggered by sensory stimulation. Therefore, for better understanding of consciousness it is relevant to identify the mental and physiological processes that subserve synesthetic experience. In the present work we suggest several reasons why synesthesia has merit for research on consciousness. We first review the research on the dynamic and rapidly growing field of the studies of synesthesia. We particularly draw attention to the role of semantics in synesthesia, which is important for establishing synesthetic associations in the brain. We then propose that the interplay between semantics and sensory input in synesthesia can be helpful for the study of the neural correlates of consciousness, especially when making use of ambiguous stimuli for inducing synesthesia. Finally, synesthesia-related alterations of brain networks and functional connectivity can be of merit for the study of consciousness.

Restricted second random phase approximations and Tamm-Dancoff approximations for electronic excitation energy calculations

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Peng, Degao; Yang, Yang; Zhang, Peng; Yang, Weitao

2014-01-01

In this article, we develop systematically second random phase approximations (RPA) and Tamm-Dancoff approximations (TDA) of particle-hole and particle-particle channels for calculating molecular excitation energies. The second particle-hole RPA/TDA can capture double excitations missed by the particle-hole RPA/TDA and time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), while the second particle-particle RPA/TDA recovers non-highest-occupied-molecular-orbital excitations missed by the particle-particle RPA/TDA. With proper orbital restrictions, these restricted second RPAs and TDAs have a formal scaling of only O(N 4 ). The restricted versions of second RPAs and TDAs are tested with various small molecules to show some positive results. Data suggest that the restricted second particle-hole TDA (r2ph-TDA) has the best overall performance with a correlation coefficient similar to TDDFT, but with a larger negative bias. The negative bias of the r2ph-TDA may be induced by the unaccounted ground state correlation energy to be investigated further. Overall, the r2ph-TDA is recommended to study systems with both single and some low-lying double excitations with a moderate accuracy. Some expressions on excited state property evaluations, such as 〈S ^2 〉 are also developed and tested

Restricted second random phase approximations and Tamm-Dancoff approximations for electronic excitation energy calculations

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Peng, Degao; Yang, Yang; Zhang, Peng [Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States); Yang, Weitao, E-mail: weitao.yang@duke.edu [Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)

2014-12-07

In this article, we develop systematically second random phase approximations (RPA) and Tamm-Dancoff approximations (TDA) of particle-hole and particle-particle channels for calculating molecular excitation energies. The second particle-hole RPA/TDA can capture double excitations missed by the particle-hole RPA/TDA and time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), while the second particle-particle RPA/TDA recovers non-highest-occupied-molecular-orbital excitations missed by the particle-particle RPA/TDA. With proper orbital restrictions, these restricted second RPAs and TDAs have a formal scaling of only O(N{sup 4}). The restricted versions of second RPAs and TDAs are tested with various small molecules to show some positive results. Data suggest that the restricted second particle-hole TDA (r2ph-TDA) has the best overall performance with a correlation coefficient similar to TDDFT, but with a larger negative bias. The negative bias of the r2ph-TDA may be induced by the unaccounted ground state correlation energy to be investigated further. Overall, the r2ph-TDA is recommended to study systems with both single and some low-lying double excitations with a moderate accuracy. Some expressions on excited state property evaluations, such as 〈S{sup ^2}〉 are also developed and tested.

49 CFR 1103.19 - Advising upon the merits of a client's cause.

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2010-10-01

... 49 Transportation 8 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Advising upon the merits of a client's cause. 1103... Practitioner's Duties and Responsibilities Toward A Client § 1103.19 Advising upon the merits of a client's cause. A practitioner shall try to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon...

78 FR 12422 - Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, Notice of Meeting

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2013-02-22

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit... nursing research. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit, mission relevance, and the... Program Manager, Scientific Merit Review Board, Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research...

78 FR 6854 - Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2013-01-31

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit... Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will meet on February 13-14, 2013, at the... research. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit. Recommendations regarding funding...

Risk Aversion and Support for Merit Pay: Theory and Evidence from Minnesota's Q Comp Program

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Nadler, Carl; Wiswall, Matthew

2011-01-01

Recent research attributes the lack of merit pay in teaching to the resistance of teachers. This article examines whether the structure of merit pay affects the types of teachers who support it. We develop a model of the relative utility teachers receive from merit pay versus the current fixed schedule of raises. We show that if teachers are risk…

High figure-of-merit SOI power LDMOS for power integrated circuits

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Yashvir Singh

2015-06-01

Full Text Available The structural modifications in the conventional power laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (LDMOS are carried out to improve the breakdown voltage, on-resistance, gate-charge and figure-of-merits of the device with reduced cell pitch. The modified device has planer structure implemented on silicon-on-insulator which is suitable for low to medium voltage power integrated circuits. The proposed LDMOS consists of two gate electrodes placed vertically in two separate trenches build in the drift region and single source and drain contacts are taken on the top. The trench structure reduces the electric field inside the drift region and allow increased drift layer doping concentration leading to higher breakdown voltage, lower specific on-resistance, reduced gate-drain charge, and substantial improvement in the figure-of-merits. Using two-dimensional simulations, the performance of the proposed LDMOS is optimized and results are compared with the conventional LDMOS. Our simulation results show that the proposed device exhibits 110% higher breakdown voltage, 40% reduction in cell pitch, 19% lower specific on-resistance, 30% lower gate-to-drain charge leading to 5.5 times improvement in Baliga's figure-of-merit and 43% reduction in dynamic figure-of-merit over the conventional device.

Minimización de una función normal-merit mediante un algoritmo convergente globalmente

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Gómez Suárez, M.

1998-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo presentamos dos conceptos relacionados con la solución de sistemas de ecuaciones no lineales y con desigualdades. El primer concepto es el de una función normal merit, que resume las propiedades básicas que tienen distintas funciones merit conocidas. El segundo concepto es el de un operador Newtoniano, cuyos valores generalizan el concepto de Hessiana para la función normal merit. Combinando el resultado del método generalizado de Newton con ciertos métodos de primer orden, obtenemos un algoritmo de convergencia global para minimizar funciones normales merit.

5 CFR 335.106 - Special selection procedures for certain veterans under merit promotion.

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2010-01-01

... veterans under merit promotion. 335.106 Section 335.106 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS PROMOTION AND INTERNAL PLACEMENT General Provisions § 335.106 Special selection procedures for certain veterans under merit promotion. Preference eligibles or veterans who have...

Cybersecurity Figure of Merit

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Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command The Cybersecurity Challenge in Acquisition Sonia Kaestner, Adjunct Professor, McDonough School of Business ...qÜáêíÉÉåíÜ=^ååì~ä= ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ= póãéçëáìã= tÉÇåÉëÇ~ó=pÉëëáçåë= sçäìãÉ=f= = Cybersecurity Figure of Merit CAPT Brian Erickson, USN, SPAWAR...the Acquisition Research Program of the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. To request defense acquisition

Reactions to merit pay increases: a longitudinal test of a signal sensitivity perspective.

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Shaw, Jason D; Duffy, Michelle K; Mitra, Atul; Lockhart, Daniel E; Bowler, Matthew

2003-06-01

The relationships among merit pay raises, trait positive affectivity (PA), and reactions to merit pay increases (pay attitudes and behavioral intentions) were explored in a longitudinal study of hospital employees. Drawing on signal sensitivity theory, the authors expected that PA would moderate the relationship between merit pay raise size and reactions to the increase such that pay raise size would be more strongly related to pay attitudes and behavioral intentions among those low in PA. Results strongly supported the predictions in the case of reactions to the raise amount (happiness and effort intentions) but not for pay level satisfaction. Implications of the results and directions for future research are identified.

Policy Perspectives: No Merit in these Scholarships

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Vincent, Fay

2005-01-01

Mr. Fay Vincent, former Commissioner of Major League Baseball and Executive Vice President of The Coca Cola Company, provides a crisp, concise assessment of a trend that has worried us for quite a while: the growing trend of rewarding academically-gifted and typically-affluent students with an extra dose of merit aid, often at the expense of…

DOE Hydrogen Program: 2005 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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Chalk, S. G.

2005-09-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the FY 2005 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 23-26, 2005, in Arlington, Virginia. The projects evaluated support the Department of Energy and President Bush's Hydrogen Initiative. The results of this merit review and peer evaluation are major inputs used by DOE to make funding decisions. Project areas include hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; technology validation; safety, codes and standards; education; and systems analysis.

DOE Hydrogen Program: 2006 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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Milliken, J.

2006-09-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the FY 2006 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 16-19, 2006, in Arlington, Virginia. The projects evaluated support the Department of Energy and President Bush's Hydrogen Initiative. The results of this merit review and peer evaluation are major inputs used by DOE to make funding decisions. Project areas include hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; technology validation; safety, codes and standards; education; and systems analysis.

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Merit Pay vs. Organizational Culture.

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Bushardt, Stephen C.; Fowler, Aubrey R.

1987-01-01

Identifies four conditions which cause merit pay systems to fail to increase teacher performance: lack of skills, the poor timing of rewards, an inability to measure performance; and competing reinforcers. Explains why organizational culture is a more effective mediator of rewards. (SD)

Measuring Provider Performance for Physicians Participating in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

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Squitieri, Lee; Chung, Kevin C

2017-07-01

In 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began requiring all eligible providers to participate in the Quality Payment Program or face financial reimbursement penalty. The Quality Payment Program outlines two paths for provider participation: the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System and Advanced Alternative Payment Models. For the first performance period beginning in January of 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that approximately 83 to 90 percent of eligible providers will not qualify for participation in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model and therefore must participate in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System program. The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System path replaces existing quality-reporting programs and adds several new measures to evaluate providers using four categories of data: (1) quality, (2) cost/resource use, (3) improvement activities, and (4) advancing care information. These categories will be combined to calculate a weighted composite score for each provider or provider group. Composite Merit-Based Incentive Payment System scores based on 2017 performance data will be used to adjust reimbursed payment in 2019. In this article, the authors provide relevant background for understanding value-based provider performance measurement. The authors also discuss Merit-Based Incentive Payment System reporting requirements and scoring methodology to provide plastic surgeons with the necessary information to critically evaluate their own practice capabilities in the context of current performance metrics under the Quality Payment Program.

The Impact of Merit Pay on Teaching and Research Outcomes of Accounting Programs

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Lindsay, David H.; Campbell, Annhenrie; Tan, Kim B.

2012-01-01

Basing the compensation of accounting professors on merit pay in order to encourage better teaching, research and service is controversial. This study uses data from a survey of the 852 accounting programs in the United States to empirically examine the influence of merit-based salary plans. Findings indicate a strong positive association between…

75 FR 65404 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2010-10-22

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The merits of a robot : A Dutch experience

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Mobach, M.P.

2006-01-01

Purpose: To determine the merits of a robot at the community pharmacy in a quasi-experiment. Method: The applied methods for data-collection were barcode-time measurements, direct observations, time-interval studies, and tally at a Dutch community pharmacy. The topics consisted of workload, waiting

2009 DOE Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review

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2009-10-01

Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting to review the FY2008 accomplishments and FY2009 plans for the Vehicle Technologies Program, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academic to give inputs to DOE on the Program with a structured and formal methodology.

Relative Merits of Four Methods for Scoring Cloze Tests.

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Brown, James Dean

1980-01-01

Describes study comparing merits of exact answer, acceptable answer, clozentropy and multiple choice methods for scoring tests. Results show differences among reliability, mean item facility, discrimination and usability, but not validity. (BK)

DOE Hydrogen Program: 2007 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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Milliken, J.

2007-09-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the FY 2007 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 14-18, 2007, in Washington, D.C. The projects evaluated support the Department of Energy and President Bush's Hydrogen Initiative. The results of this merit review and peer evaluation are major inputs used by DOE to make funding decisions. Project areas include hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; technology validation; safety, codes and standards; education; and systems analysis.

Enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit in a quantum dot due to external ac field

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Chen, Qiao, E-mail: cqhy1127@yahoo.com.cn [Department of Maths and Physics, Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan 411104 (China); Wang, Zhi-yong, E-mail: wzyong@cqut.edu.cn [School of Optoelectronic Information, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054 (China); Xie, Zhong-Xiang [Department of Mathematics and Physics, Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang 421002 (China)

2013-08-15

We investigate the figure of merit of a quantum dot (QD) system irradiated with an external microwave filed by nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) technique. Results show that the frequency of microwave field influence the figure of merit ZT significantly. At low temperature, a sharp peak can be observed in the figure of merit ZT as the frequency of ac field increases. As the frequency varies, several zero points and resonant peaks emerge in the figure of merit ZT. By adjusting the frequency of the microwave field, we can obtain high ZT. The figure of merit ZT increases with the decreasing of linewidth function Γ. In addition, Wiedemann–Franz law does not hold, particularly in the low frequency region due to multi-photon emission and absorption. Some novel thermoelectric properties are also found in two-level QD system.

HIV / AIDS prevalence testing - merits, methodology and outcomes ...

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HIV / AIDS prevalence testing - merits, methodology and outcomes of a survey conducted at a large mining organisation in South Africa. ... These baseline prevalence data also provide an opportunity for monitoring of proposed interventions using cross-sectional surveys at designated intervals in the future. South African ...

78 FR 18680 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Scientific Merit Review Board, Notice of Meeting

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2013-03-27

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Scientific Merit Review... Service, and the Chief Research and Development Officer on the scientific and technical merit, the mission... Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service...

Ultra-fast computation of electronic spectra for large systems by tight-binding based simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation (sTDA-xTB)

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Grimme, Stefan; Bannwarth, Christoph

2016-01-01

The computational bottleneck of the extremely fast simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximated (sTDA) time-dependent density functional theory procedure [S. Grimme, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 244104 (2013)] for the computation of electronic spectra for large systems is the determination of the ground state Kohn-Sham orbitals and eigenvalues. This limits such treatments to single structures with a few hundred atoms and hence, e.g., sampling along molecular dynamics trajectories for flexible systems or the calculation of chromophore aggregates is often not possible. The aim of this work is to solve this problem by a specifically designed semi-empirical tight binding (TB) procedure similar to the well established self-consistent-charge density functional TB scheme. The new special purpose method provides orbitals and orbital energies of hybrid density functional character for a subsequent and basically unmodified sTDA procedure. Compared to many previous semi-empirical excited state methods, an advantage of the ansatz is that a general eigenvalue problem in a non-orthogonal, extended atomic orbital basis is solved and therefore correct occupied/virtual orbital energy splittings as well as Rydberg levels are obtained. A key idea for the success of the new model is that the determination of atomic charges (describing an effective electron-electron interaction) and the one-particle spectrum is decoupled and treated by two differently parametrized Hamiltonians/basis sets. The three-diagonalization-step composite procedure can routinely compute broad range electronic spectra (0-8 eV) within minutes of computation time for systems composed of 500-1000 atoms with an accuracy typical of standard time-dependent density functional theory (0.3-0.5 eV average error). An easily extendable parametrization based on coupled-cluster and density functional computed reference data for the elements H–Zn including transition metals is described. The accuracy of the method termed sTDA-xTB is first

Ultra-fast computation of electronic spectra for large systems by tight-binding based simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation (sTDA-xTB)

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Grimme, Stefan, E-mail: grimme@thch.uni-bonn.de; Bannwarth, Christoph [Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Beringstraße 4, 53115 Bonn (Germany)

2016-08-07

The computational bottleneck of the extremely fast simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximated (sTDA) time-dependent density functional theory procedure [S. Grimme, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 244104 (2013)] for the computation of electronic spectra for large systems is the determination of the ground state Kohn-Sham orbitals and eigenvalues. This limits such treatments to single structures with a few hundred atoms and hence, e.g., sampling along molecular dynamics trajectories for flexible systems or the calculation of chromophore aggregates is often not possible. The aim of this work is to solve this problem by a specifically designed semi-empirical tight binding (TB) procedure similar to the well established self-consistent-charge density functional TB scheme. The new special purpose method provides orbitals and orbital energies of hybrid density functional character for a subsequent and basically unmodified sTDA procedure. Compared to many previous semi-empirical excited state methods, an advantage of the ansatz is that a general eigenvalue problem in a non-orthogonal, extended atomic orbital basis is solved and therefore correct occupied/virtual orbital energy splittings as well as Rydberg levels are obtained. A key idea for the success of the new model is that the determination of atomic charges (describing an effective electron-electron interaction) and the one-particle spectrum is decoupled and treated by two differently parametrized Hamiltonians/basis sets. The three-diagonalization-step composite procedure can routinely compute broad range electronic spectra (0-8 eV) within minutes of computation time for systems composed of 500-1000 atoms with an accuracy typical of standard time-dependent density functional theory (0.3-0.5 eV average error). An easily extendable parametrization based on coupled-cluster and density functional computed reference data for the elements H–Zn including transition metals is described. The accuracy of the method termed sTDA-xTB is first

Figures of Merit Guiding Research on Organic Solar Cells

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Kirchartz, Thomas; Kaienburg, Pascal; Baran, Derya

2018-01-01

these criteria considering thermodynamic limits, their correlation to photocurrent and photovoltage, and effects on the fill factor. Each criterion is quantified by a figure of merit (FOM) that directly relates to device performance. To ensure a wide

75 FR 3542 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2010-01-21

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit... (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit... Board is to review rehabilitation research and development applications for scientific and technical...

76 FR 42167 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2011-07-18

... subcommittees of the Board will meet to evaluate merit review applications: August 9--Rehabilitation Engineering... Rehabilitation. August 16--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics. August 16-17--Psychological... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit...

A Review of NASA Human Research Program's Scientific Merit Processes: Letter Report

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Pawelczyk, James A. (Editor); Strawbridge, Larisa M. (Editor); Schultz, Andrea M. (Editor); Liverman, Catharyn T. (Editor)

2012-01-01

At the request of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the Committee on the Review of NASA Human Research Program's (HRP's) Scientific Merit Assessment Processes in December 2011. The committee was asked to evaluate the scientific merit assessment processes that are applied to directed research tasks2 funded through the HRP and to determine best practices from similar assessment processes that are used in other federal agencies. This letter report and its recommendations are the product of a 10-member ad hoc committee, which included individuals who had previously conducted research under the HRP, were familiar with the HRP s research portfolio and operations, had specific knowledge of peer review processes, or were familiar with scientific merit assessment processes used in other organizations and federal agencies, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Science Foundation (NSF); and U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Defense (DOD), and Transportation.

75 FR 6728 - The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is Providing Notice of the Opportunity to File Amicus...

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2010-02-10

... MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is Providing Notice of the Opportunity to File Amicus Briefs in the Matters of Conyers v. Department of Defense, Docket No...: Merit Systems Protection Board. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: On January 25, 2010, the MSPB published in the...

Teacher Merit Pay: Is It a Good Idea?

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Clabaugh, Gary K.

2009-01-01

President Obama's education agenda, which unhappily seems to be George W. Bush's program squared, contains two major features that will impact teacher pay and working conditions. The first is that charter schools are to be promoted aggressively. The second is an insistence on teacher merit pay. In this article, the author talks about teacher merit…

77 FR 21622 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2012-04-10

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75 FR 72872 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2010-11-26

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit...-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will be held on December 13-14, 2010, at the Hilton Alexandria Old...

Half-metallic perovskite superlattices with colossal thermoelectric figure of merit

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Upadhyay Kahaly, M.; Ozdogan, K.; Schwingenschlö gl, Udo

2013-01-01

Nowadays heavy experimental efforts are focussed on doped oxide thermoelectrics to increase the thermopower and thermoelectric performance. We propose a high thermoelectric figure of merit for half-metallic SrTi1−xCoxO3 (x = 0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.375, and 0.5) in a superlattice with SrTiO3, which is stable at high temperatures and in an oxygen environment. The maximal value of Z hardly depends on the doping, while the temperature at which the maximum occurs increases with the Co concentration. The easy tunability from being an insulator to a half-metal under substitutional doping combined with the colossal figure of merit opens up great potential in the emerging field of spin-caloritronics.

Half-metallic perovskite superlattices with colossal thermoelectric figure of merit

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Upadhyay Kahaly, M.

2013-05-09

Nowadays heavy experimental efforts are focussed on doped oxide thermoelectrics to increase the thermopower and thermoelectric performance. We propose a high thermoelectric figure of merit for half-metallic SrTi1−xCoxO3 (x = 0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.375, and 0.5) in a superlattice with SrTiO3, which is stable at high temperatures and in an oxygen environment. The maximal value of Z hardly depends on the doping, while the temperature at which the maximum occurs increases with the Co concentration. The easy tunability from being an insulator to a half-metal under substitutional doping combined with the colossal figure of merit opens up great potential in the emerging field of spin-caloritronics.

75 FR 25885 - The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is Providing Notice of the Opportunity to File Amicus...

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2010-05-10

... MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is Providing Notice of the Opportunity to File Amicus Briefs in the Matter of Larry L. Evans v. Department of Veterans Affairs, MSPB Docket Number AT-3330-09-0953- I-1. AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection Board. ACTION: Notice...

75 FR 20007 - The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Is Providing Notice of the Opportunity To File Amicus...

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2010-04-16

... MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Is Providing Notice of the Opportunity To File Amicus Briefs in the Matter of Hyginus U. Aguzie v. Office of Personnel Management, MSPB Docket Number DC-0731- 09-0261-R-1 AGENCY: Merit Systems Protection Board. ACTION: Notice...

Short communication: Genetic lag represents commercial herd genetic merit more accurately than the 4-path selection model.

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Dechow, C D; Rogers, G W

2018-05-01

Expectation of genetic merit in commercial dairy herds is routinely estimated using a 4-path genetic selection model that was derived for a closed population, but commercial herds using artificial insemination sires are not closed. The 4-path model also predicts a higher rate of genetic progress in elite herds that provide artificial insemination sires than in commercial herds that use such sires, which counters other theoretical assumptions and observations of realized genetic responses. The aim of this work is to clarify whether genetic merit in commercial herds is more accurately reflected under the assumptions of the 4-path genetic response formula or by a genetic lag formula. We demonstrate by tracing the transmission of genetic merit from parents to offspring that the rate of genetic progress in commercial dairy farms is expected to be the same as that in the genetic nucleus. The lag in genetic merit between the nucleus and commercial farms is a function of sire and dam generation interval, the rate of genetic progress in elite artificial insemination herds, and genetic merit of sires and dams. To predict how strategies such as the use of young versus daughter-proven sires, culling heifers following genomic testing, or selective use of sexed semen will alter genetic merit in commercial herds, genetic merit expectations for commercial herds should be modeled using genetic lag expectations. Copyright © 2018 American Dairy Science Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Merit Goods, Education Public Policy--India at Cross Roads

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Misra, Satya Narayan; Ghadai, Sanjaya Ku.

2015-01-01

Merit Goods have always received handsome attention and allocation from countries which have witnessed a congruence between high significant economic growth and Human Development Index (HDI). The Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) have become significant manufacturing hubs by universalizing education and improving their Incremental Capital Output…

Universal Curve of Optimum Thermoelectric Figures of Merit for Bulk and Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

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Hung, Nguyen T.; Nugraha, Ahmad R. T.; Saito, Riichiro

2018-02-01

This paper is a contribution to the Physical Review Applied collection in memory of Mildred S. Dresselhaus. Analytical formulas for thermoelectric figures of merit and power factors are derived based on the one-band model. We find that there is a direct relationship between the optimum figures of merit and the optimum power factors of semiconductors despite of the fact that the two quantities are generally given by different values of chemical potentials. By introducing a dimensionless parameter consisting of the optimum power factor and lattice thermal conductivity (without electronic thermal conductivity), it is possible to unify optimum figures of merit of both bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors into a single universal curve that covers many materials with different dimensionalities.

The thermoelectric figure of merit of poor thermal conductors

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Dixon, A.J.

1977-01-01

Calculations are given to show that for low thermal conductivity materials the radiation losses at even moderate temperatures preclude the use of the Harman technique for measuring the thermoelectric figure of merit. Measurements on liquid Tl 66 Se 34 , which has suitable thermoelectric properties, confirm this. (author)

Puuduv paradigma : klassitsism : koopia / Linnar Priimägi

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Priimägi, Linnar, 1954-

2005-01-01

Näitusekataloog-artiklikogumikust "Meistriteoste lummus : koopia Eestis XIX sajandil : näitus Kadrioru Kunstimuuseumis" (Tallinn : Eesti Kunstimuuseum, 2005), Peeter Lauritsa kujundusest, Tiina Abeli ja Tiina-Mall Kreemi artiklitest

Epistemic merit, autonomy, and testimony

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Jesús VEGA ENCABO

2008-01-01

Full Text Available In this paper, it is argued that both the informer and the hearer in a testimonial situation deserve epistemic merit insofar as they contribute to the collaborative achievement of sharing knowledge. The paper introduces a distinction between the ideals of self-sufficiency and epistemic autonomy. The autonomous exercise of our epistemic agency is very often carried out under strong conditions of epistemic dependence. Testimony exhibits a kind of social dependence that does not threaten the autonomy of the subjects that need to consider their own epistemic capacities. When involved in a testimonial situation, both speaker and hearer declare, at least implicitly, the standings they occupy in an epistemic space and are obliged to recognise certain epistemic requirements.

Public Entrepreneurs and the Adoption of Broad-Based Merit Aid beyond the Southeastern United States

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Ingle, William Kyle; Petroff, Ruth Ann

2013-01-01

The concentration of broad-based merit aid adoption in the southeastern United States has been well noted in the literature. However, there are states that have adopted broad-based merit aid programs outside of the Southeast. Guided by multiple theoretical frameworks, including innovation diffusion theory (e.g., Gray, 1973, 1994; Rogers, 2003),…

Tunnustame tõenduspõhise õendusabi edendajaid / Ester Öpik, Ilme Aro

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Öpik, Ester

2014-01-01

Tunnustati meditsiiniõdesid Tiina Freimanni, Reet Urbanit, Marika Asbergi, Tiina Tõemetsa, Kersti Viitkarit ja Ireen Bruusi Eesti Õdede Liidu poolt 2011. aastani kaitstud õendusteaduslike uurimistööde eest

Advanced combustion, emission control, health impacts, and fuels merit review and peer evaluation

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None, None

2006-10-01

This report is a summary and analysis of comments from the Advisory Panel at the FY 2006 DOE National Laboratory Advanced Combustion, Emission Control, Health Impacts, and Fuels Merit Review and Peer Evaluation, held May 15-18, 2006 at Argonne National Laboratory. The work evaluated in this document supports the FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program. The results of this merit review and peer evaluation are major inputs used by DOE in making its funding decisions for the upcoming fiscal year.

Exact Solution of a Constraint Optimization Problem for the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit

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Wolfgang Seifert

2012-03-01

Full Text Available In the classical theory of thermoelectricity, the performance integrals for a fully self-compatible material depend on the dimensionless figure of merit zT. Usually these integrals are evaluated for constraints z = const. and zT = const., respectively. In this paper we discuss the question from a mathematical point of view whether there is an optimal temperature characteristics of the figure of merit. We solve this isoperimetric variational problem for the best envelope of a family of curves z(TT.

Exact Solution of a Constraint Optimization Problem for the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit.

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Seifert, Wolfgang; Pluschke, Volker

2012-03-21

In the classical theory of thermoelectricity, the performance integrals for a fully self-compatible material depend on the dimensionless figure of merit zT. Usually these integrals are evaluated for constraints z = const. and zT = const., respectively. In this paper we discuss the question from a mathematical point of view whether there is an optimal temperature characteristics of the figure of merit. We solve this isoperimetric variational problem for the best envelope of a family of curves z(T)T.

78 FR 50144 - Health Services Research and Development Service, Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2013-08-16

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Health Services Research and Development Service, Scientific Merit... management, and nursing research. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit, mission... Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, that the Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D...

77 FR 42365 - Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, Notice of Meeting

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2012-07-18

... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit...-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that various subcommittees of the Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will meet on August 28-30, 2012, at the Boston Omni Parker...

Risk Aversion and Support for Merit Pay: Theory and Evidence from Minnesota's Q Comp Program. Working Paper #09-05

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Nadler, Carl; Wiswall, Matthew

2009-01-01

Recent research attributes the lack of merit pay in teaching to the resistance of teachers. This paper examines whether the structure of merit pay affects the types of teachers who support it. We develop a model of the relative utility teachers receive from merit pay versus the current fixed schedule of raises. We show that if teachers are risk…

An empirically derived figure of merit for the quality of overall task performance

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Lemay, Moira

1989-01-01

The need to develop an operationally relevant figure of merit for the quality of performance of a complex system such as an aircraft cockpit stems from a hypothesized dissociation between measures of performance and those of workload. Performance can be measured in terms of time, errors, or a combination of these. In most tasks performed by expert operators, errors are relatively rare and often corrected in time to avoid consequences. Moreover, perfect performance is seldom necessary to accomplish a particular task. Moreover, how well an expert performs a complex task consisting of a series of discrete cognitive tasks superimposed on a continuous task, such as flying an aircraft, does not depend on how well each discrete task is performed, but on their smooth sequencing. This makes the amount of time spent on each subtask of paramount importance in measuring overall performance, since smooth sequencing requires a minimum amount of time spent on each task. Quality consists in getting tasks done within a crucial time interval while maintaining acceptable continuous task performance. Thus, a figure of merit for overall quality of performance should be primarily a measure of time to perform discrete subtasks combined with a measure of basic vehicle control. Thus, the proposed figure of merit requires doing a task analysis on a series of performance, or runs, of a particular task, listing each discrete task and its associated time, and calculating the mean and standard deviation of these times, along with the mean and standard deviation of tracking error for the whole task. A set of simulator data on 30 runs of a landing task was obtained and a figure of merit will be calculated for each run. The figure of merit will be compared for voice and data link, so that the impact of this technology on total crew performance (not just communication performance) can be assessed. The effect of data link communication on other cockpit tasks will also be considered.

First MARS exercise of merit recognition: what's the outcome?

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Staff Association

2007-01-01

In June, the decisions concerning the various forms of merit recognition of the staff are taken. The Staff Association commends all those involved and, in particular, the supervisors who, for this first exercise, have had to assess your performance in record time, in accordance with the new provisions in the recently revised administrative circular no. 26.

2012 DOE Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review

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2012-10-26

The 2012 DOE Hydrogen Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting was held May 14-18, 2012 in Crystal City, Virginia. The review encompassed all of the work done by the Hydrogen Program and the Vehicle Technologies Program: a total of 309 individual activities were reviewed for Vehicle Technologies, by a total of 189 reviewers. A total of 1,473 individual review responses were received for the technical reviews.

Theory of tamm surface states on the boundary between Hgsub(1-x)Cdsub(x)Te type semimetal and narrow-gap semiconductor

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Mekhtiyev, M.A.; Kalina, V.A.

1980-01-01

The conditions of appearance of tamm surface states and their energy spectrum on the boundary of semimetals and narrow-gap semiconductors are considered. By the Green function method the equation for surface state energy is obtained. The solution of the latter is analyzed in particular cases when energy of heavy hole zones of the semimetal and semiconductor is the same and when the heavy hole gap of the semiconductor is shifted down relatively to the semimetal of the same name gap as well as accurate computer calculation. It is shown that neither in parabolic limits, nor in cases of a strongly unparabolic semiconductor (semimetal) and a parabolic semimetal (semiconductor) the equation obtained has no solutions at small quasipulse values i.e. there are no surface states. In the case when the heavy hole zone of a semiconductor is shifted down for the value of the order of narrow-gap semiconductor the effective mass of surface states turns to be twice heavier than that of the semimetal volumetrical electrons [ru

Time Structure of Particle Production in the Merit High-Power Target Experiment

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Efthymiopoulos, I; Palm, M; Lettry, J; Haug, F; Pereira, H; Pernegger, H; Steerenberg, R; Grudiev, A; Kirk, H G; Park, H; Tsang, T; Mokhov, N; Striganov, S; Carroll, A J; Graves, V B; Spampinato, P T; McDonald, K T; Bennett, J R J; Caretta, O; Loveridge, P

2010-01-01

The MERIT experiment is a proof-of-principle test of a target system for high power proton beam to be used as front-end for a neutrino factory complex or amuon collider. The experiment took data in autumn 2007 with the fast extracted beam from the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) to a maximum intensity of about 30 × 1012 protons per pulse. We report results from the portion of the MERIT experiment in which separated beam pulses were delivered to a free mercury jet target with time intervals between pulses varying from 2 to 700 μs. The analysis is based on the responses of particle detectors placed along side and downstream of the target.

Reflections on receiving the ASIS&T 2016 Award of Merit

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Ingwersen, Peter

2016-01-01

At the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Peter Ingwersen expressed surprise and gratitude for being honored with the Association’s 2016 Award of Merit. The professor emeritus from Denmark’s Royal School of Library and Information Science thanked peers for recognizing him as a mentor and research...

Mutant tamm-horsfall glycoprotein accumulation in endoplasmic reticulum induces apoptosis reversed by colchicine and sodium 4-phenylbutyrate.

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Choi, Sung Won; Ryu, Ok Hee; Choi, Sun Jin; Song, In Sun; Bleyer, Anthony J; Hart, Thomas C

2005-10-01

As a consequence of uromodulin gene mutations, individuals develop precocious hyperuricemia, gout, and progressive renal failure. In vitro studies suggest that pathologic accumulation of uromodulin/Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THP) occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), but the pathophysiology of renal damage is unclear. It was hypothesized that programmed cell death triggered by accumulation of misfolded THP in the ER causes progressive renal disease. Stably transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells and immortalized thick ascending limb of Henle's loop cells with wild-type and mutated uromodulin cDNA were evaluated to test this hypothesis. Immunocytochemistry, ELISA, and deglycosylation studies indicated that accumulation of mutant THP occurred in the ER. FACS analyses showed a significant increase in early apoptosis signal in human embryonic kidney 293 and thick ascending limb of Henle's loop cells that were transfected with mutant uromodulin constructs. Colchicine and sodium 4-phenylbutyrate treatment increased secretion of THP from the ER to the cell membrane and into the culture media and significantly improved cell viability. These findings indicate that intracellular accumulation of THP facilitates apoptosis and that this may provide the pathologic mechanism responsible for the progressive renal damage associated with uromodulin gene mutations. Colchicine and sodium 4-phenylbutyrate reverse these processes and could potentially be beneficial in ameliorating the progressive renal damage in uromodulin-associated kidney diseases.

The Role of Merit-Based Scholarships in Meeting Affordability Goals

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Pugh, Susan L.; Thompson, Roger J.

2010-01-01

Institutions across the country continue to ponder and evaluate strategies for aligning financial aid to complement their enrollment goals. Two Indiana University enrollment managers examine the purposeful application of institutional aid in financial aid packaging. In response to the debate about the of merit-based aid vs. the appropriate share…

Free parameter, figure of merit and ionization quench in liquid scintillation counting

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Carles, P. Grau; Malonda, A. Grau

2001-01-01

A statistical study of the detection process demonstrates that the free parameter is essential to compute the counting efficiency in both CIEMAT/NIST and TDCR methods. An analysis of the computed counting efficiencies shows the uselessness of old definition of the figure of merit. A new definition is required and we adopt the idea of taking quantities related with the output of the photomultiplier. In addition, we justify the application of the chemical quenching simulation with the electronic variation of the photomultiplier gain. Finally, we describe a new procedure to determine the figure of merit and the optimum ionization-quenching factor from the pulse spectrum of different radionuclides. The robustness of the new procedure is tested with three different sets of stopping power for low-energy electrons

On-Chip Sensing of Thermoelectric Thin Film’s Merit

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Xiao, Zhigang; Zhu, Xiaoshan

2015-01-01

Thermoelectric thin films have been widely explored for thermal-to-electrical energy conversion or solid-state cooling, because they can remove heat from integrated circuit (IC) chips or micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) devices without involving any moving mechanical parts. In this paper, we report using silicon diode-based temperature sensors and specific thermoelectric devices to characterize the merit of thermoelectric thin films. The silicon diode temperature sensors and thermoelect...

Metabolic safety-margins do not differ between cows of high and low genetic merit for milk production

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Knight, Christopher Harold; Alamer, Mohammed A; Sorensen, Annette

2004-01-01

Three galactopoietic stimuli, frequent milking (4X), bovine somatotrophin (bST) and thyroxine (T4) were used in an additive stair-step design to achieve maximum output (metabolic capacity) in six peak-lactation cows of high genetic merit (HT) and six of low genetic merit (LT). A further six of ea...... the commonly held belief that selective breeding of dairy cows for high milk production has rendered them markedly more susceptible to metabolic disturbances.......Three galactopoietic stimuli, frequent milking (4X), bovine somatotrophin (bST) and thyroxine (T4) were used in an additive stair-step design to achieve maximum output (metabolic capacity) in six peak-lactation cows of high genetic merit (HT) and six of low genetic merit (LT). A further six of each...... elevated heart rate and significant loss of body weight and condition compared with the combination of 4X and bST. As a result, treatments were discontinued, on an individual cow basis, before completion of this 6-week phase. Time on experiment did not differ between HT and LT. The results do not support...

The assessment of science: the relative merits of post-publication review, the impact factor, and the number of citations.

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Eyre-Walker, Adam; Stoletzki, Nina

2013-10-01

The assessment of scientific publications is an integral part of the scientific process. Here we investigate three methods of assessing the merit of a scientific paper: subjective post-publication peer review, the number of citations gained by a paper, and the impact factor of the journal in which the article was published. We investigate these methods using two datasets in which subjective post-publication assessments of scientific publications have been made by experts. We find that there are moderate, but statistically significant, correlations between assessor scores, when two assessors have rated the same paper, and between assessor score and the number of citations a paper accrues. However, we show that assessor score depends strongly on the journal in which the paper is published, and that assessors tend to over-rate papers published in journals with high impact factors. If we control for this bias, we find that the correlation between assessor scores and between assessor score and the number of citations is weak, suggesting that scientists have little ability to judge either the intrinsic merit of a paper or its likely impact. We also show that the number of citations a paper receives is an extremely error-prone measure of scientific merit. Finally, we argue that the impact factor is likely to be a poor measure of merit, since it depends on subjective assessment. We conclude that the three measures of scientific merit considered here are poor; in particular subjective assessments are an error-prone, biased, and expensive method by which to assess merit. We argue that the impact factor may be the most satisfactory of the methods we have considered, since it is a form of pre-publication review. However, we emphasise that it is likely to be a very error-prone measure of merit that is qualitative, not quantitative.

Research on the Effects of Rewards: Implications for Annual Merit Pay.

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Burke, Richard R.

Some research suggests reduced cooperation and collaboration among college faculty may result when annual pay increments are based on merit evaluations. Various theories and principles have been put forward to explain these effects. The overjustification theory suggests that extrinsically presented rewards become more salient than one's intrinsic…

DOE Hydrogen Program: 2010 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2010-12-01

This document summarizes the comments provided by peer reviewers on hydrogen and fuel cell projects presented at the FY 2010 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), held June 7-11, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

The Zernike expansion--an example of a merit function for 2D/3D registration based on orthogonal functions.

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Dong, Shuo; Kettenbach, Joachim; Hinterleitner, Isabella; Bergmann, Helmar; Birkfellner, Wolfgang

2008-01-01

Current merit functions for 2D/3D registration usually rely on comparing pixels or small regions of images using some sort of statistical measure. Problems connected to this paradigm the sometimes problematic behaviour of the method if noise or artefacts (for instance a guide wire) are present on the projective image. We present a merit function for 2D/3D registration which utilizes the decomposition of the X-ray and the DRR under comparison into orthogonal Zernike moments; the quality of the match is assessed by an iterative comparison of expansion coefficients. Results in a imaging study on a physical phantom show that--compared to standard cross--correlation the Zernike moment based merit function shows better robustness if histogram content in images under comparison is different, and that time expenses are comparable if the merit function is constructed out of a few significant moments only.

Merit pay as a motivator in the federal sector.

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Engel, James D.

1982-01-01

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 required the implementation of the Merit Pay System for a portion of the Federal civilian workforce as a means of increasing productivity through the use of monetary incentives. To test the validity of this concept, several theories of worker motivation are reviewed and their relation to money motivation and pay-for-performance is established. These relationships are compared to the results of dat...

Merit pay: the Federal Government's pay-for-performance experience.

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Holliman, Sherry Diane.

1983-01-01

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited For many years, businesses in private industry have been utilizing and experimenting with various forms of performance-based pay. These innovations have been part of a continuing search by organizations for better approaches to administering pay. With the passing of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the Federal Government began its form of this concept entitled, 'Merit Pay'. Although many studies have examined uses in the areas of ...

Handover training: does one size fit all? The merits of mass customisation

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Kicken, Wendy; Van der Klink, Marcel; Barach, Paul; Boshuizen, Els

2012-01-01

Kicken, W., Van der Klink, M., Barach, P., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (2012). Handover training: does one size fit all? The merits of mass customisation. British Medical Journal Quality & Safety, 21, i84-i88. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001164

2008 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2008-06-13

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2008 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review, held on June 9-13, 2008, in Arlington, Virginia. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; education; systems analysis; and manufacturing.

Imeilus Fine 5

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2017-01-01

Vaba Lava teatrikeskuse laval esineb Fine 5 oma lavastusega "Imeilus". Tiina Ollesk ja Renee Nõmmik, tantsulavastuse autorid on koreograafid, õppejõud, lavastajad ja kogemustega tantsijad. 29. jaanuaril korraldavad Tiina Ollesk ja Renee Nõmmik Tallinna Ülikoolis kaasaegse liikumismõtlemise töötoa, mis on pühendatud lavastusele "Imeilus"

Magnetothermoelectric figure of merit of Co/Cu multilayers

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Hu, X. K., E-mail: xiukun.hu@ptb.de; Krzysteczko, P.; Liebing, N.; Schumacher, H. W. [Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, D-38116 Braunschweig (Germany); Serrano-Guisan, S. [International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Av. Mestre José Veiga, 4715-330 Braga (Portugal); Rott, K.; Reiss, G. [Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld (Germany); Kimling, J.; Böhnert, T.; Nielsch, K. [Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 11, D-20355 Hamburg (Germany)

2014-03-03

The switching of the magnetic configuration of giant magnetoresistance multilayers not only changes the electrical and thermal conductivities but also the thermopower. We study the magnetotransport and the magnetothermoelectric properties of Co/Cu multilayer devices in a lateral thermal gradient. The Seebeck coefficient reaches values up to −18 μV/K at room temperature and shows a magnetic field dependence up to 28.6% upon spin reversal. In combination with thermal conductivity data of the same Co/Cu stack, we find a magnetothermoelectric figure of merit of up to 65%. Furthermore, a magneto-power factor of up to 110% is derived.

The clinical case report: a review of its merits and limitations.

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Nissen, Trygve; Wynn, Rolf

2014-04-23

The clinical case report has a long-standing tradition in the medical literature. While its scientific significance has become smaller as more advanced research methods have gained ground, case reports are still presented in many medical journals. Some scholars point to its limited value for medical progress, while others assert that the genre is undervalued. We aimed to present the various points of view regarding the merits and limitations of the case report genre. We searched Google Scholar, PubMed and select textbooks on epidemiology and medical research for articles and book-chapters discussing the merits and limitations of clinical case reports and case series. The major merits of case reporting were these: Detecting novelties, generating hypotheses, pharmacovigilance, high applicability when other research designs are not possible to carry out, allowing emphasis on the narrative aspect (in-depth understanding), and educational value. The major limitations were: Lack of ability to generalize, no possibility to establish cause-effect relationship, danger of over-interpretation, publication bias, retrospective design, and distraction of reader when focusing on the unusual. Despite having lost its central role in medical literature in the 20th century, the genre still appears popular. It is a valuable part of the various research methods, especially since it complements other approaches. Furthermore, it also contributes in areas of medicine that are not specifically research-related, e.g. as an educational tool. Revision of the case report genre has been attempted in order to integrate the biomedical model with the narrative approach, but without significant success. The future prospects of the case report could possibly be in new applications of the genre, i.e. exclusive case report databases available online, and open access for clinicians and researchers.

2010 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2010-12-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2010 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review, held on June 7-11, 2010, in Washington, DC. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; education; and systems analysis.

2009 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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Satyapal, S. [Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Washington, DC (United States)

2009-10-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2009 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 18-22, 2009, in Arlington, Virginia. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; education; safety, codes, and standards; technology validation; systems analysis; and manufacturing R&D.

Discharge Onset Voltage Prediction for a Gas-Insulated System Via the Figure-of-Merit Concept

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Crichton, George C; Vibholm, Svend

1987-01-01

The accuracy of discharge onset prediction via thefigur figure-of-merit concept for a strongly electronegative gas is examined. A coaxial system is employed, for which the inner electrode possesses a surface roughness of Ra=35 ¿m. With SF6 as the insulating medium a reference discharge......-onset characteristic is obtained for gas pressures up to 0.8 MPa. From a knowledge of this onset characteristic, the direct calculation of discharge onset voltages in other strongly electronegative gases is undertaken by utilizing thefigur figure-of-merit concept. For gas pressures in the range O.02...

Merits and difficulties in adopting codes, standards and nuclear regulations

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El-Saiedi, A.F.; Morsy, S.; Mariy, A.

1978-01-01

Developing countries planning for introducing nuclear power plants as a source of energy have to develop or adopt sound regulatory practices. These are necessary to help governmental authorities to assess the safety of nuclear power plants and to perform inspections needed to confirm the established safe and sound limits. The first requirement is to form an independent regulatory body capable of setting up and enforcing proper safety regulations. The formation of this body is governed by several considerations related to local conditions in the developing countries, which may not always be favourable. It is quite impractical for countries with limited experience in the nuclear power field to develop their own codes, standards and regulations required for the nuclear regulatory body to perform its tasks. A practical way is to adopt codes, standards and regulations of a well-developed country. This has merits as well as drawbacks. The latter are related to problems of personnel, software, equipment and facilities. The difficulties involved in forming a nuclear regulatory body, and the merits and difficulties in adopting foreign codes, standards and regulations required for such body to perform its tasks, are discussed in this paper. Discussions are applicable to many developing countries and particular emphasis is given to the conditions and practices in Egypt. (author)

Olla originaalne ja tähelepandud / Eve Sepp

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Sepp, Eve

1989-01-01

Tuntud daamide originaalehetest - tekstiilikunstnik Anna Gerretzi Ülle Kõutsi valmistatud kõrvarõngad, disainer Helle Gansi Katrin Amose loodud rinnanõel, raamatukogudirektrissi Anne Randeli Tiina Käeseli loodud ehted, arhitekt Marka Lõokese Kadri Mälgu loodud komplekt, kunstiteadlase Krista Kodrese Tiina Käeseli loodud komplekt, grimeerija Krista Pärdi abikaasa Rein Metsa loodud ehted

Islands Unto Themselves: How Merit Pay Schemes May Undermine Positive Teacher Collaboration

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Brewer, T. Jameson; Myers, P. S.; Zhang, Michael

2015-01-01

Educational reforms have become the new policy mainstay in educational discourse and policy. Without doubt, "fixing" teachers and increasing student test scores have both been a large component of much of the reform rhetoric. Moreover, calls for implementing merit pay schemes have uniquely combined reformer's efforts to "fix"…

Point mutation in D8C domain of Tamm-Horsfall protein/uromodulin in transgenic mice causes progressive renal damage and hyperuricemia.

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Lijie Ma

Full Text Available Hereditary mutations in Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP/uromodulin gene cause autosomal dominant kidney diseases characterized by juvenile-onset hyperuricemia, gout and progressive kidney failure, although the disease pathogenesis remains unclear. Here we show that targeted expression in transgenic mice of a mutation within the domain of 8 cysteines of THP in kidneys' thick ascending limb (TAL caused unfolded protein response in younger (1-month old mice and apoptosis in older (12-month old mice. While the young mice had urine concentration defects and polyuria, such defects progressively reversed in the older mice to marked oliguria, highly concentrated urine, fibrotic kidneys and reduced creatinine clearance. Both the young and the old transgenic mice had significantly higher serum uric acid and its catabolic product, allantoin, than age-matched wild-type mice. This THP mutation apparently caused primary defects in TAL by compromising the luminal translocation and reabsorptive functions of NKCC2 and ROMK and secondary responses in proximal tubules by upregulating NHE3 and URAT1. Our results strongly suggest that the progressive worsening of kidney functions reflects the accumulation of the deleterious effects of the misfolded mutant THP and the compensatory responses. Transgenic mice recapitulating human THP/uromodulin-associated kidney diseases could be used to elucidate their pathogenesis and test novel therapeutic strategies.

Point mutation in D8C domain of Tamm-Horsfall protein/uromodulin in transgenic mice causes progressive renal damage and hyperuricemia

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Landry, Nichole K.; El-Achkar, Tarek M.; Lieske, John C.

2017-01-01

Hereditary mutations in Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP/uromodulin) gene cause autosomal dominant kidney diseases characterized by juvenile-onset hyperuricemia, gout and progressive kidney failure, although the disease pathogenesis remains unclear. Here we show that targeted expression in transgenic mice of a mutation within the domain of 8 cysteines of THP in kidneys’ thick ascending limb (TAL) caused unfolded protein response in younger (1-month old) mice and apoptosis in older (12-month old) mice. While the young mice had urine concentration defects and polyuria, such defects progressively reversed in the older mice to marked oliguria, highly concentrated urine, fibrotic kidneys and reduced creatinine clearance. Both the young and the old transgenic mice had significantly higher serum uric acid and its catabolic product, allantoin, than age-matched wild-type mice. This THP mutation apparently caused primary defects in TAL by compromising the luminal translocation and reabsorptive functions of NKCC2 and ROMK and secondary responses in proximal tubules by upregulating NHE3 and URAT1. Our results strongly suggest that the progressive worsening of kidney functions reflects the accumulation of the deleterious effects of the misfolded mutant THP and the compensatory responses. Transgenic mice recapitulating human THP/uromodulin-associated kidney diseases could be used to elucidate their pathogenesis and test novel therapeutic strategies. PMID:29145399

Agreement in polar motion measurements during the MERIT campaign

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Djurovic, D.; Techy, C.; Paquet, P.

From the original polar motion (PM) measurements performed during the MERIT Campaign, the Chandler and the annual components are removed. The analysis of the residuals shows a high level of significant correlation between the various techniques mainly for phenomenon ranging from 30 days to a few months. For periods smaller than one month the series are not correlated except for the X component, deduced from laser and Doppler techniques, which remains significant at the 99 percent level. These results led to the belief for a new earth rotation service open to different sources of data.

Soolopartiid Von Krahli katuse all / Kristi Eberhart

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Eberhart, Kristi

2007-01-01

Von Krahli Teatri kolmest lavastusest: "Erki ja Tiina" (lavastaja Mart Kangro, tantsivad Erki Laur ja Tiina Tauraite), "Faust" (J. W. Goethe ainetel tekst ja lavastus Taavi Eelmaa, muusika ja laulud Chalice, osades Jarek Kasar ja Rein Pakk), "Hamletid" (William Shakespeare'i ainetel kontseptsiooni, lavastuse, koreograafia, kujunduse, valguse autor Sasha Pepeljajev, video- ja helikunstnik Taavet Jansen. Esitaja Juhan Ulfsak)

Näitleja teeb vahekokkuvõtte ehk Kuidas lavastatakse aega / Katrin Ruus

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Ruus, Katrin

2006-01-01

Von Krahli Teatri kolmest lavastusest: "Erki ja Tiina" (lavastaja Mart Kangro, tantsivad Erki Laur ja Tiina Tauraite), "Faust" (J. W. Goethe ainetel tekst ja lavastus Taavi Eelmaa, muusika ja laulud Chalice, osades Jarek Kasar ja Rein Pakk), "Hamletid" (William Shakespeare'i ainetel kontseptsiooni, lavastuse, koreograafia, kujunduse, valguse autor Sasha Pepeljajev, video- ja helikunstnik Taavet Jansen. Esitaja Juhan Ulfsak)

Fotokaameraga Sotšis, Adleris ja Eesti Aiakeses / Riina Mägi

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Mägi, Riina, 1957-

2009-01-01

Ants Paju, kunstnik Tiina Sääliku ja Tartus tegutseva Tarbatu segakoori osalemisest 13. septembril Anton-Hansen Tammsaare majamuuseumi taasavamisel Sotši lähedal külas Eesti Aiake (kohtuti ka kohalike eestlaste kooriga Sügis), kontsertidest Sotši sanatooriumides ja orelisaalis. Tiina Säälik avas Jõgeva Kultuurikeskuse galeriis reisipiltidega fotonäituse

Tulge vaatama filme eesti kunstnikest!

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2002-01-01

24. V Tallinna Kunstihoones filmiprogramm: Peeter Brambat "Müütide mäss", 2002 (Lembit Sarapuust); Rühm+0 (režissöör Meelis Salujärv) "Erki Kasemets", 2002; Mari Sobolev ja Jasper Zoova "The Kids of Rock'n roll", 2000; Tiina Kolgi portreesaade "Õnne sünnipäevaks, Tiina Tammetalu"

14. II kell 14 esitletakse EKMi Rüütelkonna hoones...

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2005-01-01

Esitletakse raamatuid "Eesti kunst. 101 teost Eesti kunstimuuseumi kogudest" (autorid: Tiina Abel, Eha Komissarov, Hanno Soans, koostanud T. Abel, E. Komissarov, H. Soans ja Kädi Talvoja, kujundanud Anu Lemsalu), "Kunstnik ja tema kodu. C. T. von Neffi kunstikogu Piira ja Muuga mõisast" (koostanud Tiina Abel, kujundanud Andres Tali) ja Kiwa "Roboti tee on nihe. Salatühik"

Figures of merit for detectors in digital radiography. II. Finite number of secondaries and structured backgrounds

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Pineda, Angel R.; Barrett, Harrison H.

2004-01-01

The current paradigm for evaluating detectors in digital radiography relies on Fourier methods. Fourier methods rely on a shift-invariant and statistically stationary description of the imaging system. The theoretical justification for the use of Fourier methods is based on a uniform background fluence and an infinite detector. In practice, the background fluence is not uniform and detector size is finite. We study the effect of stochastic blurring and structured backgrounds on the correlation between Fourier-based figures of merit and Hotelling detectability. A stochastic model of the blurring leads to behavior similar to what is observed by adding electronic noise to the deterministic blurring model. Background structure does away with the shift invariance. Anatomical variation makes the covariance matrix of the data less amenable to Fourier methods by introducing long-range correlations. It is desirable to have figures of merit that can account for all the sources of variation, some of which are not stationary. For such cases, we show that the commonly used figures of merit based on the discrete Fourier transform can provide an inaccurate estimate of Hotelling detectability

Significant enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit of polycrystalline Si films by reducing grain size

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Valalaki, K; Nassiopoulou, A G; Vouroutzis, N

2016-01-01

The thermoelectric properties of p-type polycrystalline silicon thin films deposited by low pressure chemical vapour deposition (LPCVD) were accurately determined at room temperature and the thermoelectric figure of merit was deduced as a function of film thickness, ranging from 100 to 500 nm. The effect of film thickness on their thermoelectric performance is discussed. More than threefold increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of the 100 nm thick polysilicon film was observed compared to the 500 nm thick film, reaching a value as high as 0.033. This enhancement is mainly the result of the smaller grain size in the thinner films. With the decrease in grain size the resistivity of the films is increased twofold and electrical conductivity decreased, however the Seebeck coefficient is increased by 30% and the thermal conductivity is decreased eightfold, being mainly at the origin of the increased figure of merit of the 100 nm film. Our experimental results were compared to known theoretical models and the possible mechanisms involved are presented and discussed. (paper)

Relative merits of size, field, and current on ignited tokamak performance

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Uckan, N.A.

1988-01-01

A simple global analysis is developed to examine the relative merits of size (L = a or R/sub 0 /), field (B/sub 0 /), and current (I) on ignition regimes of tokamaks under various confinement scaling laws. Scalings of key parameters with L, B/sub 0 /, and I are presented at several operating points, including (a) optimal path to ignition (saddle point), (b) ignition at minimum beta, (c) ignition at 10 keV, and (d) maximum performance at the limits of density and beta. Expressions for the saddle point and the minimum conditions needed for ohmic ignition are derived analytically for any confinement model of the form tau/sub E/ ∼ n/sup x/T/sup y/. For a wide range of confinement models, the ''figure of merit'' parameters and I are found to give a good indication of the relative performance of the devices where q* is the cylindrical safety factor. As an illustration, the results are applied to representative ''CIT'' (as a class of compact, high-field ignition tokamaks) and ''Super-JETs'' [a class of large-size (few x JET), low-field, high-current (≥20-MA) devices.

How Money Helps Keep Students in College: The Relationship between Family Finances, Merit-Based Aid, and Retention in Higher Education

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Olbrecht, Alexandre M.; Romano, Christopher; Teigen, Jeremy

2016-01-01

In this paper, we leverage detailed, individual-level student data to understand the relationships between family finances, merit-based aid, and first-year student retention. With three cohorts of student data that comprise family financial status, institutional merit scholarships, and many of the other known correlates of student retention, we…

Blocked, Diluted, and Co-Opted: Interest Groups Wage War against Merit Pay

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Buck, Stuart; Greene, Jay P.

2011-01-01

According to the latest "Education Next" poll, public support for merit pay gained significant ground over the past year and now outdistances opposition by a 2:1 margin. Replacing the standardized salary schedule, where the only factors that determine teacher salaries are the number of years on the job and academic credentials, seems a…

A figure of merit for selective absorbers in flat plate solar water heaters

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Roberts, DE

2013-12-01

Full Text Available We derive from first principles an analytical expression for a figure of merit (FM) for a selective solar absorber in a single glazed flat plate water heater. We first show that the efficiency of a collector with an absorber with absorptance α...

γ-decay of {}_{8}^{16}{{\\rm{O}}}_{8}\\,{and}\\,{}_{7}^{16}{{\\rm{N}}}_{9} in proton-neutron Tamm-Dancoff and random phase approximations with optimized surface δ interaction

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Pahlavani, M. R.; Firoozi, B.

2016-09-01

γ-ray transitions from excited states of {}16{{N}} and {}16{{O}} isomers that appear in the γ spectrum of the {}616{{{C}}}10\\to {}716{{{N}}}9\\to {}816{{{O}}}8 beta decay chain are investigated. The theoretical approach used in this research starts with a mean-field potential consisting of a phenomenological Woods-Saxon potential including spin-orbit and Coulomb terms (for protons) in order to obtain single-particle energies and wave functions for nucleons in a nucleus. A schematic residual surface delta interaction is then employed on the top of the mean field and is treated within the proton-neutron Tamm-Dancoff approximation (pnTDA) and the proton-neutron random phase approximation. The goal is to use an optimized surface delta interaction interaction, as a residual interaction, to improve the results. We have used artificial intelligence algorithms to establish a good agreement between theoretical and experimental energy spectra. The final results of the ‘optimized’ calculations are reasonable via this approach.

Tagasivaade T-le / Riin Kübarsepp

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Kübarsepp, Riin, 1978-

2002-01-01

Tiina Tammetalu 2001. a. loodud Imaginaarse Muuseumi projekt "Elav klassika. Rühm T & Guest Stars. Teosed eelmisest sajandist ja tänapäevast" 14. VI-14. VII Haapsalu Linnagaleriis. Väljas on Vilen Künnapu, Raoul Kurvitza, Lilian Mosolaineni, Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere, Tiina Tammetalu, August Künnapu ja Ken Saani maalid ning Mihkel Muti raamat "Elu allikad" (2002)

Figures of merit for measuring aging management program effectiveness

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Knudson, R.; Sciacca, F.; Walsh, R.; Zigler, G.

1991-01-01

One of the requirements for nuclear plant license renewal may be the establishment and demonstration of an effective aging management program. An analysis of both qualitative and quantitative information will be required to define the contents of this aging management program. The authors propose two quantitative figures of merit, Mean Event Detection Frequency and Mean Renewal Rate, that can be used to compare the effectiveness of various inspection, surveillance, test, and monitoring (ISTM) activities for aging mitigation. An example showing the relative effectiveness of an enhanced Loose Parts Monitoring System with current ISTM activities for steam generators and reactor internals is provided. (author)

Improved merit order and augmented Lagrange Hopfield network for short term hydrothermal scheduling

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Vo Ngoc Dieu; Ongsakul, Weerakorn

2009-01-01

This paper proposes an improved merit order (IMO) combined with an augmented Lagrangian Hopfield network (ALHN) for solving short term hydrothermal scheduling (HTS) with pumped-storage hydro plants. The proposed IMO-ALHN consists of a merit order based on the average production cost of generating units enhanced by heuristic search algorithm for finding unit scheduling and a continuous Hopfield neural network with its energy function based on augmented Lagrangian relaxation for solving constrained economic dispatch (CED). The proposed method is applied to solve the HTS problem in five stages including thermal, hydro and pumped-storage unit commitment by IMO and heuristic search, constraint violations repairing by heuristic search and CED by ALHN. The proposed method is tested on the 24-bus IEEE RTS with 32 units including 4 fuel-constrained, 4-hydro, and 2 pumped-storage units scheduled over a 24-h period. Test results indicate that the proposed IMO-ALHN is efficient for hydrothermal systems with various constraints.

Measurement of the figure of merit M for 1-C3F6/SF6 mixtures

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Christensen, Jørn Erik Berril; McAllister, Iain Wilson

1997-01-01

High precision measurements of the linear part of the Paschen curve are reported for 1-C3F6/SF6 mixtures. From these measurements, values for the pressure-reduced limiting electric field strength (E/p)lim and the associated figure of merit M are derived. These two parameters can be used to charac......High precision measurements of the linear part of the Paschen curve are reported for 1-C3F6/SF6 mixtures. From these measurements, values for the pressure-reduced limiting electric field strength (E/p)lim and the associated figure of merit M are derived. These two parameters can be used...

2017 DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Annual Merit Review

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2017-10-31

The 2017 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR) was held June 5-9, 2017, in Washington, DC. The review encompassed work done by the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and VTO: 263 individual activities were reviewed for VTO by 191 reviewers. Exactly 1,241 individual review responses were received for the VTO technical reviews. The objective of the meeting was to review the accomplishments and plans for VTO over the previous 12 months, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academia to give inputs to DOE with a structured and formal methodology. The meeting also provided attendees with a forum for interaction and technology information transfer.

2016 DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Annual Merit Review

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2016-12-01

The 2016 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR) was held June 6-9, 2016, in Washington, DC. The review encompassed work done by the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and VTO: 226 individual activities were reviewed for VTO, by 171 reviewers. A total of 1,044 individual review responses were received for the VTO technical reviews. The objective of the meeting was to review the accomplishments and plans for VTO over the previous 12 months, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academia to give inputs to DOE with a structured and formal methodology. The meeting also provided attendees with a forum for interaction and technology information transfer.

Elu koos loodusega / Ell-Maaja Randküla

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Randküla, Ell-Maaja, 1939-2016

2005-01-01

Villa Harjumaal Viimsi vallas Miidurannas. Arhitekt Emil Urbel. Sisekujundus: Katrin Vaikla, Argo Vaikla, Tiina Teng, AS Vaikla Disain. Villa pälvis Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu 2004. a. aastapreemia. Argo ja Katrin Vaiklast, AS Vaikla Disain tähtsamad tööd. Tiina Tengist, tema erialasest tegevusest. Liis Lindverest, tema tähtsamad tööd. Ill.: 3 plaani, 11 värv. vaadet

Marguerite Duras ja tema võimukolmnurgad / Kärt Hellerma

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Hellerma, Kärt, 1956-

2007-01-01

Arvustus: Duras, Marguerite. Armuke / tlk. Malle Talvet. Tallinn : Perioodika, 1989. (Loomingu Raamatukogu ; 1989, 11-12) ; Duras, Marguerite. Tamm Vaikse ookeani vastu / tlk. Triinu Tamm. Tallinn : Varrak, 2006

Tamm-Horsfall Glycoprotein Enhances PMN Phagocytosis by Binding to Cell Surface-Expressed Lactoferrin and Cathepsin G That Activates MAP Kinase Pathway

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Chia-Li Yu

2011-03-01

Full Text Available The molecular basis of polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN phagocytosis-enhancing activity (PEA by human purified urinary Tamm-Horsfall glyco- protein (THP has not been elucidated. In this study, we found human THP bound to lactoferrin (LF and cathepsin G (CG expressed on the surface of PMN, identified by a proteomic study with MALDI-TOF- LC/LC/mass spectrometric analysis. Pre-incubation of 10% SDS-PAGE electrophoresed PMN lysates with monoclonal anti-LF or anti-CG antibody reduced the binding with THP. To elucidate the signaling pathway of THP on PMN activation, we found THP enhanced ERK1/2 phosphorylation, reduced p38 MAP kinase phosphorylation, but had no effect on DNA binding of the five NF-kB family members in PMN. To further clarify whether the carbohydrate-side chains or protein-core structure in THP molecule is responsible for THP-PEA, THP was cleaved by different degrading enzymes with carbohydrate specificity (neuraminidase and β-galactosidase, protein specificity (V8 protease and proteinase K or glycoconjugate specificity (carboxylpeptidase Y and O-sialoglycoprotein endopeptidase. We clearly demonstrated that the intact protein-core structure in THP molecule was more important for THP-PEA than carbohydrate-side chains. Putting these results together, we conclude that THP adheres to surface-expressed LF and CG on PMN and transduces signaling via the MAP kinase pathway to enhance PMN phagocytosis.

Figures of merit for self-beating filtered microwave photonic systems.

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Pérez, Daniel; Gasulla, Ivana; Capmany, José; Fandiño, Javier S; Muñoz, Pascual; Alavi, Hossein

2016-05-02

We present a model to compute the figures of merit of self-beating Microwave Photonic systems, a novel class of systems that work on a self-homodyne fashion by sharing the same laser source for information bearing and local oscillator tasks. General and simplified expressions are given and, as an example, we have considered their application to the design of a tunable RF MWP BS/UE front end for band selection, based on a Chebyshev Type-II optical filter. The applicability and usefulness of the model are also discussed.

76 FR 17846 - Objective Merit Review of Discretionary Financial Assistance and Other Transaction Authority...

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2011-03-31

.... 2. Merit Review Panel Member Selection. The DOE Senior Procurement Executive (SPE) has the ultimate.... Reviewers shall not accept any invitations, gratuities (i.e., meals, gifts, favors, etc.), or job offers... single case deviation, while the Director, Procurement and Assistance Management (Senior Procurement...

Merit-order effects of renewable energy and price divergence in California’s day-ahead and real-time electricity markets

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Woo, C.K.; Moore, J.; Schneiderman, B.; Ho, T.; Olson, A.; Alagappan, L.; Chawla, K.; Toyama, N.; Zarnikau, J.

2016-01-01

We answer two policy questions: (1) what are the estimated merit-order effects of renewable energy in the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO’s) day-ahead market (DAM) and real-time market (RTM)? and (2) what causes the hourly DAM and RTM prices to systematically diverge? The first question is timely and relevant because if the merit-order effect estimates are small, California’s renewable energy development is of limited help in cutting electricity consumers’ bills but also has a lesser adverse impact on the state’s investment incentive for natural-gas-fired generation. The second question is related to the efficient market hypothesis under which the hourly RTM and DAM prices tend to converge. Using a sample of about 21,000 hourly observations of CAISO market prices and their fundamental drivers during 12/12/2012–04/30/2015, we document statistically significant estimates (p-value≤0.01) for the DAM and RTM merit-order effects. This finding lends support to California’s adopted procurement process to provide sufficient investment incentives for natural-gas-fired generation. We document that the RTM-DAM price divergence partly depends on the CASIO’s day-ahead forecast errors for system loads and renewable energy. This finding suggests that improving the performance of the CAISO’s day-ahead forecasts can enhance trading efficiency in California’s DAM and RTM electricity markets. - Highlights: •Estimate the day-ahead and real-time merit-order effects of renewable energy in California. •Document statistically significant merit-order effects of solar and wind energy. •Document the difference between the day-ahead and real-time prices. •Attribute the price differences to forecast errors for load, solar and wind energy. •Discuss the evidence’s implications for California’s energy policy.

Arsenene and Antimonene: Two-Dimensional Materials with High Thermoelectric Figures of Merit

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Sharma, S.

2017-10-25

We study the thermoelectric properties of As and Sb monolayers (arsenene and antimonene) using density-functional theory and the semiclassical Boltzmann transport approach. The materials show large band gaps combined with low lattice thermal conductivities. Specifically, the small phonon frequencies and group velocities of antimonene lead to an excellent thermoelectric response at room temperature. We show that n-type doping enhances the figure of merit.

2015 DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Annual Merit Review

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2015-11-01

The 2015 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR) was held June 8-12, 2015, in Arlington, Virginia. The review encompassed all of the work done by the FCTO and the VTO: 258 individual activities were reviewed for VTO, by 170 reviewers. A total of 1,095 individual review responses were received for the VTO technical reviews. The objective of the meeting was to review the accomplishments and plans for VTO over the previous 12 months, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academia to give inputs to DOE on the Office with a structured and formal methodology. The meeting also provided attendees with a forum for interaction and technology information transfer.

77 FR 40412 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, Notice of Meeting

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2012-07-09

...: August 7 Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease; Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics; and... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit...-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that subcommittees of the Rehabilitation Research and Development...

Optimization of Nonlinear Figure-of-Merits of Integrated Power MOSFETs in Partial SOI Process

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Fan, Lin; Jørgensen, Ivan Harald Holger; Knott, Arnold

2016-01-01

State-of-the-art power semiconductor industry uses figure-of-merits (FOMs) for technology-to-technology and/or device-to-device comparisons. However, the existing FOMs are fundamentally nonlinear due to the nonlinearities of the parameters such as the gate charge and the output charge versus...

Lifetime Net Merit vs. annualized net present value as measures of profitability of selection

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Current USDA linear selection indexes such as Lifetime Net Merit (NM$) estimate lifetime profit given a combination of 13 traits. In these indexes, every animal gets credit for 2.78 lactations of the traits expressed per lactation, independent of its productive life (PL). Selection among animals wit...

Ultrahigh figure-of-merit for hydrogen generation from sodium borohydride using ternary metal catalysts

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Hu, Lunghao; Ceccato, R.; Raj, R.

We report further increase in the figure-of-merit (FOM) for hydrogen generation from NaBH 4 than reported in an earlier paper [1], where a sub-nanometer layer of metal catalysts are deposited on carbon nanotube paper (CNT paper) that has been functionalized with polymer-derived silicon carbonitride (SiCN) ceramic film. Ternary, Ru-Pd-Pt, instead of the binary Pd-Pt catalyst used earlier, together with a thinner CNT paper is shown to increase the figure-of-merit by up to a factor of six, putting is above any other known catalyst for hydrogen generation from NaBH 4. The catalysts are prepared by first impregnating the functionalized CNT-paper with solutions of the metal salts, followed by reduction in a sodium borohydride solution. The reaction mechanism and the catalyst efficiency are described in terms of an electric charge transfer, whereby the negative charge on the BH 4 - ion is exchanged with hydrogen via the electronically conducting SiCN/CNT substrate [1].

Search for thermoelectrics with high figure of merit in half-Heusler compounds with multinary substitution

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Choudhary, Mukesh K.; Ravindran, P.

2018-04-01

In order to improve the thermoelectric performance of TiCoSb we have substituted 50% of Ti equally with Zr and Hf at Ti site and Sb with Sn and Se equally at Sb site. The electronic structure of Ti0.5Zr0.25Hf0.25CoSn0.5Se0.5 is investigated using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method and the thermoelectric transport properties are calculated on the basis of semi-classical Boltzmann transport theory. Our band structure calculations show that Ti0.5Zr0.25Hf0.25CoSn0.5Se0.5 has semiconducting behavior with indirect band gap value of 0.98 eV which follow the empirical rule of 18 valence-electron content to bring semiconductivity in half Heusler compounds, indicating that one can have semiconducting behavior in multinary phase of half Heusler compounds if they full fill the 18 VEC rule and this open-up the possibility of designing thermoelectrics with high figure of merit in half Heusler compounds. We show that at high temperature of around 700K Ti0.5Zr0.25Hf0.25CoSn0.5Se0.5 has high thermoelectric figure of merit of ZT = 1.05 which is higher than that of TiCoSb (˜ 0.95) suggesting that by going from ternary to multinary phase system one can enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit at higher temperatures.

Non-invasive method of determination of thermoelectric materials figure of merit

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Ashcheulov А. А.

2009-04-01

Full Text Available Thermoelectric effects arising in a sample placed in a measuring oscillating loop have been studied. It has been shown that asymmetric character of flowing current results in a volumetric bundle of induced Foucault currents and regions of Peltier heat release by thermoelectric sample which leads to increasing of irreversible heat losses recorded by measuring oscillating loop. The presence of this effect has caused the emergence of ingenious non-invasive method for recording of thermoelectric materials figure of merit.

76 FR 5650 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2011-02-01

... Rehabilitation. March 1--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics. March 1-2--Psychological Health... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit...-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and Development...

Cooling System for the Merit High-Power Target Experiment

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Haug, F; Silva, P; Pezzeti, M; Pavlov, O; Pirotte, O; Metselaar, J; Efthymiopoulos, I; Fabich, A; Lettry, J; Kirk, H G; McDonald, K T; Titus, P; Bennett, J R J

2010-01-01

MERIT is a proof-of-principle experiment of a target station suitable as source for future muon colliders or neutrino factories. When installed at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) PS (Proton Synchrotron)complex fast-extracted high-intensity proton beams intercepted a free mercury jet inside a normal-conducting, pulsed 15-T capture solenoid magnet cooled with liquid nitrogen. Up to 25 MJ of Joule heat was dissipated in the magnet during a pulse. The fully automated, remotely controlled cryogenic system of novel design permitted the transfer of nitrogen by the sole means of differential pressures inside the vessels. This fast cycling system permitted several hundred tests in less than three weeks during the 2007 data taking campaign.

77 FR 9731 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2012-02-17

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Anomalous enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit by V co-doping of Nb-SrTiO3

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Ozdogan, K.

2012-05-10

The effect of V co-doping of Nb-SrTiO3 is studied by full-potential density functional theory. We obtain a stronger increase of the carrier density for V than for Nbdopants. While in Nb-SrTiO3 a high carrier density counteracts a high thermoelectric figure of merit, the trend is inverted by V co-doping. The mechanism leading to this behavior is explained in terms of a local spin-polarization introduced by the V ions. Our results indicate that magnetic co-doping can be a prominent tool for improving the thermoelectric figure of merit.

Anomalous enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit by V co-doping of Nb-SrTiO3

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Ozdogan, K.; Alshareef, Husam N.; Schwingenschlö gl, Udo; Upadhyay Kahaly, M.

2012-01-01

The effect of V co-doping of Nb-SrTiO3 is studied by full-potential density functional theory. We obtain a stronger increase of the carrier density for V than for Nbdopants. While in Nb-SrTiO3 a high carrier density counteracts a high thermoelectric figure of merit, the trend is inverted by V co-doping. The mechanism leading to this behavior is explained in terms of a local spin-polarization introduced by the V ions. Our results indicate that magnetic co-doping can be a prominent tool for improving the thermoelectric figure of merit.

2014 DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Annual Merit Review

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The 2014 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR) was held June 16-20, 2014, in Washington, DC. The review encompassed all of the work done by the FCTO and the VTO: a total of 295 individual activities were reviewed for VTO, by a total of 179 reviewers. A total of 1,354 individual review responses were received for the VTO technical reviews. The objective of the meeting was to review the accomplishments and plans for VTO over the previous 12 months, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academia to give inputs to DOE on the Office with a structured and formal methodology. The meeting also provided attendees with a forum for interaction and technology information transfer.

2013 DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Annual Merit Review

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2013-10-01

The 2013 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR) was held May 13-17, 2013, in Crystal City, Virginia. The review encompassed all of the work done by the FCTO and the VTO: a total of 287 individual activities were reviewed for VTO, by a total of 187 reviewers. A total of 1,382 individual review responses were received for the VTO technical reviews. The objective of the meeting was to review the accomplishments and plans for VTO over the previous 12 months, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academia to give inputs to DOE on the Office with a structured and formal methodology. The meeting also provided attendees with a forum for interaction and technology information transfer.

78 FR 9455 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, Notice of Meeting

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Treatment planning figures of merit in thermal and epithermal boron capture therapy of brain tumours

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Wallace, S.A.; Mathur, J.N. (Wollongong Univ., NSW (Australia)); Allen, B.J. (Ansto PMB 1 Menai, NSW (Australia). Biomedicine and Health)

1994-05-01

The boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) figures of merit of advantage depth, therapeutic depth, modified advantage depth and maximum therapeutic depth have been studied as functions of [sup 10]B tumour to blood ratios and absolute levels. These relationships were examined using the Monte Carlo neutron photon transport code, MCNP, with an ideal 18.4 cm diameter neutron beam incident laterally upon an ellipsoidal neutron photon brain-equivalent model. Mono-energetic beams of 0.025 eV (thermal) and 35 eV (epithermal) were simulated. Increasing the tumour to blood [sup 10]B ratio predictably increases all figures of merit. [sup 10]B concentration was also shown to have a strong bearing on the figures of merit when low levels were present in the system. This is the result of a non-[sup 10]B dependent background dose. At higher levels however, the concentration of [sup 10]B has a diminishing influence. For boron sulphydryl (BSH), little advantage is gained by extending the blood [sup 10]B level beyond 30 ppm, whilst for D, L,-p-boronophenylalanine (BPA) this limit is 10 ppm. Applying the epithermal beam under identical conditions, the therapeutic depth reaches the brain mid-line with a tumour to blood [sup 10]B ratio of only 5.7 for BPA. For BSH, the maximum therapeutic depth reaches the brain mid-line with a tumour to blood ratio of only 1.9 with 30 ppm in the blood. Human data for these compounds are very close to these requirements. (author).

A Figure-of-Merit for Beta Cell Detector Characterization

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Foxe, Michael P. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Miller, Brian W. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Suarez, Rey [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Hayes, James C. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

2015-09-02

In order to decrease the minimum detectable activities (MDAs) of beta-gamma radioxenon detectors, it is important to increase the ability to resolve the individual isotopes. One proposed method for doing this is to increase the energy resolution of the beta cell through the use of silicon detectors. While silicon detectors can improve the energy resolution, it is accompanied with a decrease in detection efficiency compared to plastic scintillator beta cells. Due to the uncertainty on the impact of the competing variables, we have developed a figure-of-merit (FOM) capable of determining the impact of detector parameters on the MDAs. By utilizing the FOM to analyze different detectors, we are able to directly compare current and future detectors and estimate their impact on the radioxenon MDAs.

Investigation of High-Efficiency Wireless Power Transfer Criteria of Resonantly-Coupled Loops and Dipoles through Analysis of the Figure of Merit

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Charles Moorey

2015-10-01

Full Text Available The efficiency of a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT system is greatly dependent on both the geometry and operating frequency of the transmitting and receiving structures. By using Coupled Mode Theory (CMT, the figure of merit is calculated for resonantly-coupled loop and dipole systems. An in-depth analysis of the figure of merit is performed with respect to the key geometric parameters of the loops and dipoles, along with the resonant frequency, in order to identify the key relationships leading to high-efficiency WPT. For systems consisting of two identical single-turn loops, it is shown that the choice of both the loop radius and resonant frequency are essential in achieving high-efficiency WPT. For the dipole geometries studied, it is shown that the choice of length is largely irrelevant and that as a result of their capacitive nature, low-MHz frequency dipoles are able to produce significantly higher figures of merit than those of the loops considered. The results of the figure of merit analysis are used to propose and subsequently compare two mid-range loop and dipole WPT systems of equal size and operating frequency, where it is shown that the dipole system is able to achieve higher efficiencies than the loop system of the distance range examined.

AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING RELIABLE NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICE APPROACHES: ECONOMIC AND NON-PROLIFERATION MERITS OF NUCLEAR FUEL LEASING

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Kreyling, Sean J.; Brothers, Alan J.; Short, Steven M.; Phillips, Jon R.; Weimar, Mark R.

2010-01-01

The goal of international nuclear policy since the dawn of nuclear power has been the peaceful expansion of nuclear energy while controlling the spread of enrichment and reprocessing technology. Numerous initiatives undertaken in the intervening decades to develop international agreements on providing nuclear fuel supply assurances, or reliable nuclear fuel services (RNFS) attempted to control the spread of sensitive nuclear materials and technology. In order to inform the international debate and the development of government policy, PNNL has been developing an analytical framework to holistically evaluate the economics and non-proliferation merits of alternative approaches to managing the nuclear fuel cycle (i.e., cradle-to-grave). This paper provides an overview of the analytical framework and discusses preliminary results of an economic assessment of one RNFS approach: full-service nuclear fuel leasing. The specific focus of this paper is the metrics under development to systematically evaluate the non-proliferation merits of fuel-cycle management alternatives. Also discussed is the utility of an integrated assessment of the economics and non-proliferation merits of nuclear fuel leasing.

Optical Diagnostic Results from the MERIT High-Power Target Experiment

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Kirk, H G; Tsang, T; Efthymiopoulos, I; Fabich, A; Haug, F; Lettry, J; Palm, M; Mokhov, N; Striganov, S; Carroll, A J; Graves, V B; Spampinato, P T; McDonald, K T; Bennett, J R J; Caretta, O; Loveridge, P

2010-01-01

We re­port on the anal­y­sis of data col­lect­ed from the op­ti­cal di­ag­nos­tics of the MERIT ex­per­i­ment which was run at CERN in the fall of 2007. The breakup of the free mer­cury jet re­sult­ing from the im­pact of in­tense pro­ton beams from the CERN PS with­in a mag­net­ic field en­vi­ron­ment is de­scribed.

Relative merits of travelling-wave and resonant operation of linac

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Shoffstall, D.R.; Gallagher, W.J.

1985-01-01

Discussion of the relative merits of so-called standing wave vis-a-vis travelling wave operation of linear accelerator waveguides is complicated by various considerations. In the first instance, standing wave should be distinguished from resonant operation. Standing wave operation is exactly the same as travelling wave, excepting that the waveguide is terminated by a total reflection of power instead of a matched load. In resonant operation a length of slow wave structure is terminated, theoretically at reflection planes of symmetry; the discrete modes of resonance consist of two oppositely directed travelling wave ensembles, one of which will provide a space harmonic of an intended phase velocity

Thermoelectric System in Different Thermal and Electrical Configurations: Its Impact in the Figure of Merit

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Alexander Vargas-Almeida

2013-05-01

Full Text Available In this work, we analyze different configurations of a thermoelectric system (TES composed of three thermoelectric generators (TEGs. We present the following considerations: (a TES thermally and electrically connected in series (SC; (b TES thermally and electrically connected in parallel (PSC; and (c parallel thermally and series electrical connection (SSC. We assume that the parameters of the TEGs are temperature-independent. The systems are characterized by three parameters, as it has been showed in recent investigations, namely, its internal electrical resistance, R, thermal conductance under open electrical circuit condition, K, and Seebeck coefficient α. We derive the equivalent parameters for each of the configurations considered here and calculate the Figure of Merit Z for the equivalent system. We show the impact of the configuration of the system on Z, and we suggest optimum configuration. In order to justify the effectiveness of the equivalent Figure of Merit, the corresponding efficiency has been calculated for each configuration.

The effect of level of feeding, genetic merit, body condition score and age on biological parameters of a mammary gland model.

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Bryant, J R; Lopez-Villalobos, N; Holmes, C W; Pryce, J E; Pitman, G D; Davis, S R

2007-03-01

An evolutionary algorithm was applied to a mechanistic model of the mammary gland to find the parameter values that minimised the difference between predicted and actual lactation curves of milk yields in New Zealand Jersey cattle managed at different feeding levels. The effect of feeding level, genetic merit, body condition score at parturition and age on total lactation yields of milk, fat and protein, days in milk, live weight and evolutionary algorithm derived mammary gland parameters was then determined using a multiple regression model. The mechanistic model of the mammary gland was able to fit lactation curves that corresponded to actual lactation curves with a high degree of accuracy. The senescence rate of quiescent (inactive) alveoli was highest at the very low feeding level. The active alveoli population at peak lactation was highest at very low feeding levels, but lower nutritional status at this feeding level prevented high milk yields from being achieved. Genetic merit had a significant linear effect on the active alveoli population at peak and mid to late lactation, with higher values in animals, which had higher breeding values for milk yields. A type of genetic merit × feeding level scaling effect was observed for total yields of milk and fat, and total number of alveoli produced from conception until the end of lactation with the benefits of increases in genetic merit being greater at high feeding levels. A genetic merit × age scaling effect was observed for total lactation protein yields. Initial rates of differentiation of progenitor cells declined with age. Production levels of alveoli from conception to the end of lactation were lowest in 5- to 8-year-old animals; however, in these older animals, quiescent alveoli were reactivated more frequently. The active alveoli population at peak lactation and rates of active alveoli proceeding to quiescence were highest in animals of intermediate body condition scores of 4.0 to 5.0. The results

2015 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2015 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review, held on June 8-12, 2015, in Arlington, Virginia. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; market transformation; and systems analysis.

2011 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2011-09-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2011 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 9-13, 2011, in Arlington, Virginia. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; education; market transformation; and systems analysis.

2013 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2013 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 13-17, 2013, in Arlington, Virginia. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; market transformation; and systems analysis.

2014 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2014 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review, held on June 16-20, 2014, in Washington, DC. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; market transformation; and systems analysis.

2012 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2012-09-01

This report summarizes comments from the Peer Review Panel at the 2012 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review, held on May 14-18, 2012, in Arlington, Virginia. It covers the program areas of hydrogen production and delivery; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; manufacturing R&D; technology validation; safety, codes, and standards; education; market transformation; and systems analysis.

Development of the PRO-LOCA Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Code, MERIT Final Report

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Scott, Paul; Kurth, Robert; Cox, Andrew; Olson, Rick; Rudland, Dave

2010-12-01

The MERIT project has been an internationally financed program with the main purpose of developing probabilistic models for piping failure of nuclear components and to include these models in a probabilistic code named PRO-LOCA. The principal objective of the project has been to develop probabilistic models for piping failure of nuclear components and to include these models in a probabilistic code. The MERIT program has produced a code named PRO-LOCA with the following features: - Crack initiation models for fatigue or stress corrosion cracking for previously unflawed material. - Subcritical crack growth models for fatigue and stress corrosion cracking for both initiated and pre-existing circumferential defects. - Models for flaw detection by inspections and leak detection. - Crack stability. The PRO-LOCA code can thus predict the leak or break frequency for the whole sequence of initiation, subcritical crack growth until wall penetration and leakage, instability of the through-wall crack (pipe rupture). The outcome of the PRO-LOCA code are a sequence of failure frequencies which represents the probability of surface crack developing, a through-wall crack developing and six different sizes of crack opening areas corresponding to different leak flow rates or LOCA categories. Note that the level of quality assurance of the PRO-LOCA code is such that the code in its current state of development is considered to be more of a research code than a regulatory tool.

Development of the PRO-LOCA Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Code, MERIT Final Report

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Scott, Paul; Kurth, Robert; Cox, Andrew; Olson, Rick (Battelle Columbus (United States)); Rudland, Dave (Nuclear Regulatory Commission (United States))

2010-12-15

The MERIT project has been an internationally financed program with the main purpose of developing probabilistic models for piping failure of nuclear components and to include these models in a probabilistic code named PRO-LOCA. The principal objective of the project has been to develop probabilistic models for piping failure of nuclear components and to include these models in a probabilistic code. The MERIT program has produced a code named PRO-LOCA with the following features: - Crack initiation models for fatigue or stress corrosion cracking for previously unflawed material. - Subcritical crack growth models for fatigue and stress corrosion cracking for both initiated and pre-existing circumferential defects. - Models for flaw detection by inspections and leak detection. - Crack stability. The PRO-LOCA code can thus predict the leak or break frequency for the whole sequence of initiation, subcritical crack growth until wall penetration and leakage, instability of the through-wall crack (pipe rupture). The outcome of the PRO-LOCA code are a sequence of failure frequencies which represents the probability of surface crack developing, a through-wall crack developing and six different sizes of crack opening areas corresponding to different leak flow rates or LOCA categories. Note that the level of quality assurance of the PRO-LOCA code is such that the code in its current state of development is considered to be more of a research code than a regulatory tool.

Suure filosoofi surm / Meelis Piller

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Piller, Meelis

2003-01-01

Eesti päritolu mõtlejast ja joogist Rama Tammest ; Samal teemal vaata ka "Mihkel Tamm" (Haljand Udami materjalide põhjal). Ajakirjanik ja režissöör käis Mihkel (Rama) Tamme portreefilmi "Null" tarvis USAs intervjueerimas

76 FR 6197 - Health Services Research and Development Service Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2011-02-03

... Board will be held March 2-3, 2011, at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District, 750 Kearny Street... management, and nursing research. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit... subcommittee on Nursing Research Initiatives will convene from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; the subcommittee for pilot...

The influence nuclear power has on corporate image and the effect of offering merit information of nuclear power

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Oiso, Shinichi

2006-01-01

Many electric power companies in Japan, irrespective of their nuclear power generation ratio's difference, have nuclear power plants. These days, corporate brand image is becoming more and more important. Therefore, a survey was carried out to study the effect that nuclear power (including comparison with the other type of industry besides electric power) has on the corporate image of an electric power company. Further more, the survey includes a research about the effect on people's attitude change towards nuclear power before and after discovering the merits or benefits of nuclear power. The possibility of enhancing the corporate brand image of electric power companies by providing merit information of nuclear power was studied. (author)

78 FR 50144 - Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meetings

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2013-08-16

... Review Board; Notice of Meetings The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under the Federal... Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the dates indicated below: Subcommittee Date(s) Location Career Development Award Program.... August 6, 2013........ VHA National...

Cui Bono? On the Relative Merits of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

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Mykhnenko, Vlad

2016-01-01

This article provides evidence from a 4-year longitudinal study on the comparative use of illustrative video podcasts during Economic Geography lectures vis-à-vis traditional educational methods in order to guide pedagogic practice and future research on the relative merits of technology-enhanced learning in higher education. Key benefits derived…

Eesti linnu juhivad keskeas mehed

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1999-01-01

Eesti omavalitsusjuhtide tutvustus - I. Eesmaa, E. Tamm, J. Tamkivi, P. Jalakas, A. Heinvee, M. Tilga, A. Õun, K. Kaugija, M. Mettus, T. Asi, M. Lepik, U. Heinla, A. Pajula, R. Amos, M. Kadak, T. Loog, L. Mägi, R. Siim, T. Kõiv, A. Taimla, A. Tisler, I. Eesalu, P. Aru, T. Juul, V. Tõemets, L. Meltsa, J. Lillsoo, zh. Botvinkina, G. Bõstrov, H. Vinkman, A. Kaskla, R. Heina, T. Laimets, K. Aun, M. Jürisson, M. Moll, J. Aab, A. Pärna, T. Tamm, P. Urman, V. Nellis, I. Müür, M. Jaago, J. Jalakas, U. Tamm, A. Tamme, A. Lumi, V. Mäesepp, P. Kostromin, K. Pajula, M. Ein, R. Kirsel, M. Mälberg, O. Tuvik, V. Murd, T. Kuusmik, V. Kruzman, A. Keerme, A. Kiir, M. Kärbo, R. Annik, T. Pruul, A. Anderson, T. Järveoja, T. Hilpus, R. Fjodorov, T. Jõgi, T. Anton

High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit by Resonant Dopant in Half-Heusler Alloys

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Chen, Long; Liu, Yamei; He, Jian; Tritt, Terry M.; Poon, S. Joseph

2017-01-01

Half-Heusler alloys have been one of the benchmark high temperature thermoelectric materials owing to their thermal stability and promising figure of merit ZT. Simonson et al. early showed that small amounts of vanadium doped in Hf0.75Zr0.25NiSn enhanced the Seebeck coefficient and correlated the change with the increased density of states near the Fermi level. We herein report a systematic study on the role of vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), and tantalum (Ta) as prospective resonant dopants in e...

Walter Scandale receives the decoration of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

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2008-01-01

On 9 December 2008, Walter Scandale, a member of the EN Department, received the decoration of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, one of Italy's highest decorations. He was awarded the medal by the Consul-General of Italy in Geneva.

Lutheri kvartali lood = The Stories of Luther Quarter / Tuuli Köller

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Köller, Tuuli

2008-01-01

Tallinna Lutheri vabriku hoonete korteriteks renoveerimine. Rajatud on 132 uut kodu. Arhitekti, ühe kodu ja juhusliku mööduja lood. Arhitektuur: OÜ Ars Projekt. Kontseptsioon: Rasmus Tamme, Eero Jürgenson (OÜ Ars Projekt). Autorid: Eero Jürgenson (projektijuht), Rasmus Tamme, Jaanus Saarepera, Andrei Pleskatsjov, Evelin Eelma. Konstruktor: Pärnu EKE Projekt AS. Sisekujundus: Eero Jürgenson, Reio Raudsepp, Rasmus Tamme, Liina Kink. Projekt: 2004-2008, valmis: 2008 (I etapp). Asendi-, I korruse (sektsioon hoonest nr. 1) ja II korruse (hoone nr. 1) plaan, vaade (joon.) aerofoto (1938), 4 värv. välis- ja 6 sisevaadet

A user's perspective on the merits and shortcomings of ASME Section III

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Antaki, G.A.

1994-01-01

There are several aspects of Section III which when compared to process industry codes (ASME VIII, ASME B31.3, API, etc.) have proven to be a significant improvement in engineering practice. There are, however, other aspects of ASME III which have added to costs without clear benefits in safety or reliability. The authors present a user's perspective on some of the relative merits and shortcomings of the nuclear codes (ASME III and XI) compared to the process industry codes (such as ASME VIII, B31.3 and API)

Operational testing of a figure of merit for overall task performance

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Lemay, Moira

1990-01-01

An overall indicator or figure of merit (FOM), for the quality of pilot performance is needed to define optimal workload levels, predict system failure, measure the impact of new automation in the cockpit, and define the relative contributions of subtasks to overall task performance. A normative FOM was developed based on the calculation of a standard score for each component of a complex task. It reflected some effects, detailed in an earlier study, of the introduction of new data link technology into the cockpit. Since the technique showed promise, further testing was done. A new set of data was obtained using the recently developed Multi-Attribute Task Battery. This is a complex battery consisting of four tasks which can be varied in task demand, and on which performance measures can be obtained. This battery was presented to 12 subjects in a 20 minute trial at each of three levels of workload or task demand, and performance measures collected on all four tasks. The NASA-TLX workload rating scale was presented at minutes 6, 12, and 18, of each trial. A figure of merit was then obtained for each run of the battery by calculating a mean, SD, and standard score for each task. Each task contributed its own proportion to the overall FOM, and relative contributions changed with increasing workload. Thus, the FOM shows the effect of task changes, not only on the individual task that is changed, but also on the performance of other tasks and of the whole task. The cost to other tasks of maintaining constant performance on an individual task can be quantified.

Thermoelectric-figure-of-merit enhancement of silicon-germanium through nanocomposite concept

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Wang, Dezhi

SiGe alloy has been the thermoelectric material element of RTGs (Radioisotope thermoelectric power generators) for more than 20 years because of its good performance at high temperature. It also has a very high potential application in converting exhaust heat into useful electricity, which currently attracts a lot of research interest in the automotive industry where 40% of the energy was rejected as exhaust heat. However, its low conversion efficiency (8%) is a major concern although it is the best in practice. A new concept, namely Si-Ge nanocomposite, was proposed to enhance thermoelectric figure-of-merit. Fast heating pressure sintering was found to be an appropriate synthesizing method and a lab-made direct current-induced hot press system was established. It can reach l200°C within several minutes and many parameters can be controlled. The uniquely designed graphite die assembly can stand l60MPa pressure which is better than the best commercial products (127MPa). Numerous Si-Ge nanocomposite samples were pressed using our DC hot press. Fully dense n-type Si-Ge nanocomposite samples of nanoSi80nanoGe20P were finally obtained. The nanocomposite structure was characterized via XRD, SEM, EDS, and TEM. The proposed nanocomposite structure, dots in a matrix, was observed. Most importantly, the thermoelectric property measurements showed that the Si-Ge nanocomposite of n-type nanoSi80nanoGe20 possessed higher electrical conductivity but lower thermal conductivity, thus a higher ZT than that of n-type nanoSi80microGe20. This result proved that thermoelectric-figure-of-merit enhancement through the nanocomposite concept was the right direction.

Ray trajectories for Alcubierre spacetime

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Anderson, Tom H; Mackay, Tom G; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh

2011-01-01

The Alcubierre spacetime was simulated by means of a Tamm medium which is asymptotically identical to vacuum and has constitutive parameters which are continuous functions of the spatial coordinates. Accordingly, the Tamm medium is amenable to physical realization as a micro- or nanostructured metamaterial. A comprehensive characterization of ray trajectories in the Tamm medium was undertaken, within the geometric-optics regime. Propagation directions corresponding to evanescent waves were identified: these occur in the region of the Tamm medium which corresponds to the warp bubble of the Alcubierre spacetime, especially for directions perpendicular to the velocity of the warp bubble at high speeds of that bubble. Ray trajectories are acutely sensitive to the magnitude and direction of the warp bubble's velocity, but rather less sensitive to the thickness of the transition zone between the warp bubble and its background. In particular, for rays which travel in the same direction as the warp bubble, the latter acts as a focusing lens, most notably at high speeds

Merits of CMOS/SIMOX technology for low-voltage SRAM macros

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Kumagai, K; Yamada, T; Nakamura, H; Onishi, H; Matsubara, Y; Imai, K; Kurosawa, S

1999-01-01

A 128-kbit SRAM (static random access memory) macro with the 0.35 mu m FD (fully-depleted) CMOS/SIMOX (separation by implantation of oxygen) technology has been developed to demonstrate the merits of that technology for low-voltage $9 applications. Its access time at Vdd =1.5 V was comparable with that obtained with the 0.35 mu m standard bulk CMOS technology at Vdd=3.3 V, due to the combination of the small S/D capacitance and the small back-bias effect. As the $9 yield of the 128-kbit SRAM macros was almost the same as the standard bulk CMOS technology, the manufacturability of the 0.35 mu m FD-CMOS/SIMOX technology has also been demonstrated. (7 refs).

High thermoelectric figure of merit in nanocrystalline polyaniline at low temperatures

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Nath, Chandrani; Kumar, Ashok, E-mail: ask@tezu.ernet.in, E-mail: okram@csr.res.in [Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Tezpur 784 028 (India); Kuo, Yung-Kang [Department of Physics, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien 974, Taiwan (China); Okram, Gunadhor Singh, E-mail: ask@tezu.ernet.in, E-mail: okram@csr.res.in [Electrical Transport Laboratory, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore 452 017 (India)

2014-09-29

Thermoelectric coolers with figure of merit (ZT) close to unity at low temperatures are the need of the hour with new advances in high temperature superconductors, superconducting microelectronic circuits, quantum computers, and photonics. Here, we demonstrate that the conducting polymer polyaniline (Pani) doped with camphor sulfonic acid synthesized in semi-crystalline nanostructures, possesses a giant Seebeck effect at low temperatures. The resulting enormously large Seebeck coefficient (up to 0.6 V/K) combined with an intrinsically low electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity give rise to a ZT = 0.77 at 45 K and ZT = 2.17 at 17 K.

Environmental Science and Engineering Merit Badges: An Exploratory Case Study of a Non-Formal Science Education Program and the U.S. Scientific and Engineering Practices

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Vick, Matthew E.; Garvey, Michael P.

2016-01-01

The Boy Scouts of America's Environmental Science and Engineering merit badges are two of their over 120 merit badges offered as a part of a non-formal educational program to U.S. boys. The Scientific and Engineering Practices of the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards provide a vision of science education that includes integrating eight…

Efficacy and safety of maraviroc versus efavirenz, both with zidovudine/lamivudine: 96-week results from the MERIT study.

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Sierra-Madero, Juan; Di Perri, Giovanni; Wood, Robin; Saag, Michael; Frank, Ian; Craig, Charles; Burnside, Robert; McCracken, Jennifer; Pontani, Dennis; Goodrich, James; Heera, Jayvant; Mayer, Howard

2010-01-01

The MERIT study evaluated maraviroc versus efavirenz, both with zidovudine/lamivudine, in treatment-naïve patients with CCR5-tropic (R5) HIV-1. Post hoc analyses previously assessed week 48 outcomes in patients rescreened with R5 virus by a more sensitive tropism assay. Week 96 efficacy (post hoc, n = 614) and safety (n = 721) were assessed. Proportions of subjects <50 copies/mL (58.8% maraviroc, 62.7% efavirenz) and time to loss of virologic response (TLOVR) responders (<50 copies/mL: 60.5% vs 60.7%) were similar. Maraviroc recipients had greater CD4 increases (+ 212 vs + 171 cells/mm(3)) and fewer adverse event discontinuations (6.1% vs 15.5%), malignancies, and category C events. Week 96 data confirm week 48 observations in MERIT.

77 FR 8330 - Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board; Notice of Meeting

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2012-02-14

... Disorders; HCR 2--Substance Use Disorders; HCR 3--Rehabilitation/Rural; HCR 4--Women's Health; HCR 5--Pain... Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will meet on March 6-8, 2012, at the Hilton New Orleans... to the Chief Research and Development Officer. On March 6, the subcommittee on Nursing Research...

Figures of merit for microwave photonic phase shifters based on semiconductor optical amplifiers.

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Sancho, Juan; Lloret, Juan; Gasulla, Ivana; Sales, Salvador; Capmany, José

2012-05-07

We theoretically and experimentally compare the performance of two fully tunable phase shifter structures based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) by means of several figures of merit common to microwave photonic systems. A single SOA stage followed by a tailored notch filter is compared with a cascaded implementation comprising three SOA-based phase shifter stages. Attention is focused on the assessment of the RF net gain, noise figure and nonlinear distortion. Recommendations on the performance optimization of this sort of approaches are detailed.

An economics figure of merit in ALPS

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Shatilla, Y.A.

2000-01-01

One of the most pressing issues facing the deregulated nuclear electric power industry is its economic competitiveness when compared to other sources of electrical power. Traditionally, finding the optimum loading pattern (LP) that meets all the safety and operational objective functions and at the same time produces the most attractive economical solutions is an iterative process. This is because (a) LP search tools usually lack the capability to generate equilibrium solutions and (b) economics objective functions are hard to include in the search process. In this paper, the Westinghouse Advanced Loading Pattern Search code (ALPS) has been demonstrated to successfully find LPs that meet user-defined operational and safety as well as economics objectives. This has been made possible by the development of TULIP language that allows the integration of external procedures into the search process of the main program, ALPS. In the example given, an economic figure of merit (EFM) has been defined and included via TULIP script into the fuel management optimization problem of a three-loop Westinghouse core operating an 18-month cycle. The LPs found by ALPS exhibit a clear trend of meeting and, in some cases, exceeding the EFM objective function defined for the ALPS search process a priori

Performance Appraisal and Merit Compensation. Community Colleges: Quality Education for a Learning Society. Round Table Talk.

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Anderson, Robert A., Jr.

Detailed information is provided on the Performance Appraisal/Salary System adopted by the New Mexico Junior College (NMJC) Board in 1981 as the basis for the performance evaluation of all college employees. Introductory material discusses the concepts of performance appraisal and merit compensation and provides an update on changes in NMJC's…

Figures of merit for the evaluation of regenerative power converters

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AUTHOR|(CDS)2083258; Rossini, Stefano; Le Godec, Gilles; Papastergiou, Konstantinos; Carrica, Daniel; Retegui, Rogeli Garcia

2016-01-01

In some applications, like those for particle accelerators and transfer lines, electromagnet loads operate in cycling mode i.e. absorbing or extracting energy from or to a power source. Built-in energy storage such as electrochemical capacitors can be used whose lifetime is heavily depended on the current ripple and depth of discharge. Moreover, the sizing of this storage element is a trade-off between power taken from the grid and energy stored. Additionally, the adopted power conversion structure and control strategy impact on such decision process. In this work, a number of topologies have been evaluated for these applications and the key metrics used to compare them. The proposed figures of merit are used through examples to highlight the trade-offs related with the choice of dc-bus regulation topology and control strategy.

High room-temperature figure of merit of thin layers prepared by laser ablation from Bi2Te3 target

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Walachova, J.; Zeipl, R.; Zelinka, J.; Malina, V.; Pavelka, M.; Jelinek, M.; Studnicka, V.; Lost'ak, P.

2005-01-01

The figure of merit ZT is measured by a Harman method on simple devices prepared on single thermoelectric layers of different thicknesses. The thermoelectric layers are prepared at different conditions by laser ablation from Bi 2 Te 3 target. The best measured figure of merit ZT is for our devices ZT=2.65. This result is comparable with the results obtained on superlattices. ZT oscillated with the thickness of the layers. On some devices the Seebeck coefficient is measured and using conductivity measurements along the thermoelectric layers the thermal conductivity is estimated from ZT. The low thermal conductivity of samples is explained by the quantum size effect and by existence of few phases of type Bi 2(m+n) Te 3n in the thermoelectric layers

DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2017 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2017-10-16

The fiscal year 2017 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), in conjunction with DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office AMR, was held from June June 5-9, 2017, in Washington, D.C. This report is a summary of comments by AMR peer reviewers about the hydrogen and fuel cell projects funded by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2016 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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2016-11-01

The fiscal year 2016 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), in conjunction with DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office AMR, was held from June 6-10, 2016, in Washington, D.C. This report is a summary of comments by AMR peer reviewers about the hydrogen and fuel cell projects funded by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Examining the Impact of a Highly Targeted State Administered Merit Aid Program on Brain Drain: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Missouri's Bright Flight Program

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Harrington, James R.; Muñoz, José; Curs, Bradley R.; Ehlert, Mark

2016-01-01

The adoption of state-funded merit-based aid programs has become increasingly popular among policy-makers, particularly in the southeastern part of the United States. One of the primary rationales of state-funded merit-based aid is to provide scholarships to the best and brightest students as a means to retain high quality human capital in the…

State Merit-Based Aid and Enrolling in Graduate Study: Evidence from the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship

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Delaney, Jennifer A.

2011-01-01

This study considers the effect of a state merit-based aid program for undergraduate students on subsequent enrollment in graduate school. It uses student unit record data to analyze the impact of the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES). Price theory is used as a framework for understanding the incentives provided by KEES. Using a…

Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev.10) - Recognition of merit

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2014-01-01

Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 10) entitled “Recognition of Merit”, approved by the Director-General following discussion at the Standing Concertation Committee meeting of 5 December 2013 and entering into force on 1 January 2014, is available on the intranet site of the Human Resources Department (see here).   This circular is applicable to staff members. It cancels and replaces Administrative Circular No. 26 (Rev. 9) entitled “Recognition of Merit” of December 2011. The circular was revised in order to take into account the work performed in the framework of an elective mandate during the exercise of merit recognition of staff members. In addition, the circular was revised to provide that, in the case of staff members on special leave for professional reasons for a period equal to or longer than half a year, it will no longer be possible to grant an exceptional advancement. Department Head Office HR Department

The Effect of Merit Aid on Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Iowa's National Scholars Award

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Leeds, Daniel M.; DesJardins, Stephen L.

2015-01-01

The cost of attending college has risen steadily over the past 30 years, making financial aid an important determinant of college choice for many students and a subject of concern for colleges and state governments. In this paper, we estimate the effect of rule-based merit aid assignment on students' enrollment decisions at the University of Iowa.…

Nõmme maja "Kergus" : Kerese tn., Tallinn / Ülar Mark, Kalle Komissarov

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Mark, Ülar

1999-01-01

Kahekorruselise, tänavapoolse pika umbse seinaga eramu projekteeris Arhitektuuribüroo Mark & Tamm, arhitekt Ülar Mark, kaasautor Kalle Komissarov. Konstruktiivne osa: Randväli & Karema Inseneribüroo. Projekt 1997, hoone valmis 1999. Eramu tähenduse ümbermõtestamisest. 13 illustratsiooni: korruste plaanid, välisvaated, sisevaade.Mark & Tamm (arhitektibüroo)

CERN's Merit Appraisal and Recognition System from the point of view of the supervisor

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2013-01-01

The required training consists of 2 parts : This presentation explaining “CERN’s merit recognition system”, followed by a session of questions/answers – duration : 2 hours A training session on “How to get, as a supervisor, the most out of the annual interview” – duration : 1 day. This hands-on training focuses on how to set smart work and development objectives, how to give feedback and how to run the annual interview in a constructive way.

Bayesian inference on genetic merit under uncertain paternity

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Tempelman Robert J

2003-09-01

Full Text Available Abstract A hierarchical animal model was developed for inference on genetic merit of livestock with uncertain paternity. Fully conditional posterior distributions for fixed and genetic effects, variance components, sire assignments and their probabilities are derived to facilitate a Bayesian inference strategy using MCMC methods. We compared this model to a model based on the Henderson average numerator relationship (ANRM in a simulation study with 10 replicated datasets generated for each of two traits. Trait 1 had a medium heritability (h2 for each of direct and maternal genetic effects whereas Trait 2 had a high h2 attributable only to direct effects. The average posterior probabilities inferred on the true sire were between 1 and 10% larger than the corresponding priors (the inverse of the number of candidate sires in a mating pasture for Trait 1 and between 4 and 13% larger than the corresponding priors for Trait 2. The predicted additive and maternal genetic effects were very similar using both models; however, model choice criteria (Pseudo Bayes Factor and Deviance Information Criterion decisively favored the proposed hierarchical model over the ANRM model.

The merits of measuring challenge and hindrance appraisals.

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Searle, Ben J; Auton, Jaime C

2015-01-01

The challenge-hindrance framework has shown that challenge stressors (work characteristics associated with potential personal gain) tend to have positive outcomes, whereas hindrance stressors (those which obstruct goals) have negative outcomes. However, typical research methods assume that stressors allocated to these categories are appraised consistently by different people and across different situations. We validate new measures of challenge and hindrance appraisals and demonstrate their utility in stress research. We used a cross-sectional survey of American employees (Study 1, n = 333), a diary survey of Australian employees (Study 2, n = 241), and a survey of Australian college students whose performance was evaluated independently (Study 3, n = 350). Even after accounting for the effects of stressors, challenge and hindrance appraisals consistently explained unique variance in affective states, with indications that stressors have indirect effects via appraisals. Such effects were seen within- as well as between-participants (Study 2). Appraisals also had expected associations with specific coping behaviors (Study 1), while challenge appraisal was associated with task performance (Study 3). The scales of challenge and hindrance appraisals were psychometrically sound across multiple contexts. RESULTS highlight the merit of considering appraisal in stress research.

Current developments on the coal and gas markets and their retroactive effects on the Merit Order; Aktuelle Entwicklungen auf den Kohle- und Gasmaerkten und ihre Rueckwirkungen auf die Merit Order

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Hecking, Harald; Cam, Eren; Schoenfisch, Max; Schulte, Simon [ewi Energy Research and Scenarios gGmbH, Koeln (Germany)

2017-06-15

Coal and gas continue to play a significant role in the European power generation system, especially in Germany. According to the AG energy balances, the share of hard coal in German gross electricity generation in 2016 was 17.2% and natural gas 12.4%. In addition to the CO{sub 2} price, the prices for steam coal and natural gas are a key factor in determining which gas or coal power station is in Merit Order and whether it comes to a fuel switch. Declining gas prices have been rising sharply since the middle of 2016, and the volatile prices for steam coal have been rising. This article discusses the developments and factors responsible for these developments, which could be expected in the near future, and the implications for the gas-coal spread in the electricity market. [German] Kohle und Gas spielen weiterhin eine bedeutende Rolle im europaeischen Stromerzeugungssystem, insbesondere in Deutschland. Laut AG Energiebilanzen lag 2016 der Anteil der Steinkohle an der deutschen Bruttostromerzeugung bei 17,2 % und der von Erdgas bei 12,4 %. Neben dem CO{sub 2}-Preis sind die Preise fuer Kesselkohle und Erdgas massgeblich dafuer verantwortlich, welches Gas- bzw. Kohlekraftwerk welche Position in der Merit Order einnimmt und ob es zu einem Fuel Switch kommt. Sinkende Preise beim Gas stehen seit Mitte 2016 stark gestiegenen und volatilen Preisen fuer Kesselkohle gegenueber. Dieser Artikel diskutiert, welche Entwicklungen und Faktoren fuer diese Entwicklungen verantwortlich sind, womit in naher Zukunft zu rechnen sein koennte und welche Implikationen dies fuer den Gas-Kohle-Spread im Strommarkt hat.

Measuring Student Growth within a Merit-Pay Evaluation System: Perceived Effects on Music Teacher Motivation Career Commitment

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Munroe, Angela

2017-01-01

In this experimental study, music teachers from a large school district were randomly assigned to one of two hypothetical conditions reflecting different methods for measuring student growth under a merit pay compensation system. In Scenario A, half of a teacher's effectiveness rating was based on student standardized test scores in reading,…

Merits and demerits of engaging in athletic, academic and part-time job roles among university student-athletes in Japan.

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Yamada, Yasuyuki; Mizuno, Motoki; Ebara, Takeshi; Hirosawa, Masataka

2011-12-01

Although role conflict management is necessary for the prevention of dropout from participation in sports, little has been known about it, especially regarding Japanese university student-athletes. Hence, this study examined the aspects of merit and demerit involved in their performances of academic, athletic, part-time job, family and human relationship roles. The merits and demerits were evaluated using the theoretical concepts of negative spillover (NSP), positive spillover (PSP), compensation and segmentation. In the research, a total of 108 participants (63 males, 45 females) described information about their multiple roles in the Multiple Roles Map (MRM) form. NSP with high frequency rates (3rd quartile) showed demerit that negative condition in athletic and part-time job roles tended to disturb performance of other roles (male ≥ 17.5%, female ≥ 15.6%). The results of PSP showed merit that positive condition in the athletic, part-time job and academic roles contributes to accomplishment of good performance in other roles (male ≥ 19.0%, female ≥ 17.8%). Compensation indicated that negative conditions in the roles were compensated by satisfaction in the human relationships and family roles and private time (male ≥ 9.5%, female ≥ 11.1%). The family role was segmented from other roles (male ≥ 71.4%, female ≥ 68.9%). Sharing these findings will be effective in helping to solve role conflict problems of university student-athletes in Japan.

The relationship between genetic merit for yield and live weight, condition score, and energy balance of spring calving Holstein Friesian dairy cows on grass based systems of milk production

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Buckley, F.; Dillon, P.; Rath, M.; Veerkamp, R.F.

2000-01-01

The objectives of this study were to estimate the effects of genetic merit for milk yield on energy balance, DM intake (DMI), and fertility for cows managed on three different grass-based feeding systems and to estimate possible interactions between genetic merit and feeding system. Individual

EDCTP regional networks of excellence: initial merits for planned clinical trials in Africa.

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Miiro, George M; Oukem-Boyer, Odile Ouwe Missi; Sarr, Ousmane; Rahmani, Maerangis; Ntoumi, Francine; Dheda, Keertan; Pym, Alexander; Mboup, Souleymane; Kaleebu, Pontiano

2013-03-22

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and combating hotspots with escalating but preventable communicable diseases remain major challenges in Africa. The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) intervened to combat poverty-related diseases including malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, and to conduct multi-centre clinical trials and multi-disciplinary health research through an innovative model of regional Networks of Excellence (NoEs). We participated in a quasi-formative evaluation between October and December 2011 on the 4 regional-led research networks. These included the: Central Africa Network on Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (CANTAM); East African Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR); West African Network of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM), and the Trials of Excellence for Southern Africa (TESA) launched between 2009 and 2010. We shared a participatory appraisal of field reports, progress reports and presentations from each network to jointly outline the initial experiences of the merits, outputs and lessons learnt. The self-regulating democratic networks, with 64 institutions in 21 African countries, have trained over 1, 000 African scientists, upgraded 36 sites for clinical trials, leveraged additional € 24 million and generated 38 peer-reviewed publications through networking and partnerships. The shared initial merits and lessons learnt portray in part the strengthened capacity of these networks for improved research coordination and conduct of planned multi-center clinical trials in Africa. Increased funding by African agencies, governments and international health partners will ensure sustainability of these networks for research capacity development and demonstrate their commitment to achieving the MDGs in Africa.

Nuclear Detection Figure Of Merit (NDFOM) Version 1.2 User's Guide

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Stroud, Phillip D.; Dufresne, Thomas A.

2012-01-01

NDFOM is a detector database and detector evaluation system, accessible as a web service. It runs on the same server as the Patriot service, but uses port 8081. In this user's guide, we will use the example case that the patriot service is running on http://patriot.lanl.gov. Then the NDFOM service would be accessible at the URL http://patriot.lanl.gov:8081/ndfom. In addition to local server installations, common server locations are 1) a patriot server running on a virtual machine (use the virtual machine URL with :8081/ndfom), and 2) a patriot server running on a local machine (use http://localhost:8081/ndfom or http://127.0.0.1:8081/ndfom). The home screen provides panels to select detectors, a scenario, and a figure-of-merit. It also has an 'analyze' button, which will evaluate the selected figure-of-merit for the selected detectors, for the scenario selected by the user. The detector effectiveness evaluations are presented through the browser in a ranked list of detectors. The user does not need to log in to perform analysis with pre-supplied detectors, scenarios, and FOMs. The homepage view is shown in Figure 1. The first panel displays a list of the detectors in the current detector database. The user can select one, some, or all detectors to evaluate. On the right of each listed detector, there is a star icon. Clicking that icon will open a panel that displays the details about that detector, such as detector material, dimensions, thresholds, etc. The center panel displays the pre-supplied scenarios that are in the database. A scenario specifies the source of interest, the spectrum of the radiation, the background radiation spectrum, the distance or distance of closest approach, the allowable false positive rate, and the dwell time or speed. Scenario details can be obtained by clicking the star to the right of a scenario. A scenario can be selected by clicking it.

Figures of Merit Guiding Research on Organic Solar Cells

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Kirchartz, Thomas

2018-03-02

While substantial progress in the efficiency of polymer-based solar cells was possible by optimizing the energy levels of the polymer and more recently also the acceptor molecule, further progress beyond 10% efficiency requires a number of criteria to be fulfilled simultaneously, namely, low energy-level offsets at the donor–acceptor heterojunction, low open-circuit voltage losses due to nonradiative recombination, and efficient charge transport and collection. In this feature article we discuss these criteria considering thermodynamic limits, their correlation to photocurrent and photovoltage, and effects on the fill factor. Each criterion is quantified by a figure of merit (FOM) that directly relates to device performance. To ensure a wide applicability, we focus on FOMs that are easily accessible from common experiments. We demonstrate the relevance of these FOMs by looking at the historic and recent achievements of organic solar cells. We hope that the presented FOMs are or will become a valuable tool to evaluate, monitor, and guide further development of new organic absorber materials for solar cells.

The 1993 timber assessment market model: structure, projections, and policy simulations.

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Darius M. Adams; Richard W. Haynes

1996-01-01

The 1993 timber assessment market model (TAMM) is a spatial model of the solidwood and timber inventory elements of the U.S. forest products sector. The TAMM model provides annual projections of volumes and prices in the solidwood products and sawtimber stumpage markets and estimates of total timber harvest and inventory by geographic region for periods of up to 50...

Eesti disainer valiti maailmas esisajasse / Alo Lõhmus

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Lõhmus, Alo

2009-01-01

USA kirjastus Rockport Publishers ja Hispaania kirjastus Maomao Publications valisid kunstnik Margus Tamme töö raamatusse "1000 Ideas from 100 Graphic Designers", mis tutvustab sadat maailma parimat nüüdisaegset graafilist disainerit. Margus Tamm on esindatud kunstirühmituse Artishok näituseplakatiga, mis kujutab kolme mustvalget risti. Tema loomingust. Pikemalt Arvo Pärdi festivali plakatist, mis sarnanes Coca-Cola logole

Thermoelectric figure of merit of polymeric systems for low-power generators

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Cigarini, Luigi; Ruini, Alice; Catellani, Alessandra; Calzolari, Arrigo

2017-10-01

The request of thermoelectric materials for low-power and flexible applications fosters the investigation of the intrinsic electron and thermal transport of conducting polymeric chains, which are building blocks of the complex variety of organic composites proposed in experimental samples. Using calculations from first principles and the Landauer approach for both electron and phonon carriers, we study the thermoelectric figure of merit zT of three representative and largely used polymer chains, namely poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), polyaniline and polyfluorene. Our results provide an upper-limit estimate of zT, due to the intrinsic electronic and vibrational properties of the selected compounds, and pave the way to a microscopic understanding of the mechanisms that affect their electronic and transport characteristics in terms of structural distortions and chemical doping.

U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2011 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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Satypal, S.

2011-09-01

This document summarizes the comments provided by peer reviewers on hydrogen and fuel cell projects presented at the FY 2011 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), held May 9-13, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia

Optimization principles and the figure of merit for triboelectric generators.

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Peng, Jun; Kang, Stephen Dongmin; Snyder, G Jeffrey

2017-12-01

Energy harvesting with triboelectric nanogenerators is a burgeoning field, with a growing portfolio of creative application schemes attracting much interest. Although power generation capabilities and its optimization are one of the most important subjects, a satisfactory elemental model that illustrates the basic principles and sets the optimization guideline remains elusive. We use a simple model to clarify how the energy generation mechanism is electrostatic induction but with a time-varying character that makes the optimal matching for power generation more restrictive. By combining multiple parameters into dimensionless variables, we pinpoint the optimum condition with only two independent parameters, leading to predictions of the maximum limit of power density, which allows us to derive the triboelectric material and device figure of merit. We reveal the importance of optimizing device capacitance, not only load resistance, and minimizing the impact of parasitic capacitance. Optimized capacitances can lead to an overall increase in power density of more than 10 times.

Paper Prototyping: The Surplus Merit of a Multi-Method Approach

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Stephanie Bettina Linek

2015-07-01

Full Text Available This article describes a multi-method approach for usability testing. The approach combines paper prototyping and think-aloud with two supplemental methods: advanced scribbling and a handicraft task. The method of advanced scribbling instructs the participants to use different colors for marking important, unnecessary and confusing elements in a paper prototype. In the handicraft task the participants have to tinker a paper prototype of their wish version. Both methods deliver additional information on the needs and expectations of the potential users and provide helpful indicators for clarifying complex or contradictory findings. The multi-method approach and its surplus benefit are illustrated by a pilot study on the redesign of the homepage of a library 2.0. The findings provide positive evidence for the applicability of the advanced scribbling and the handicraft task as well as for the surplus merit of the multi-method approach. The article closes with a discussion and outlook. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150379

Figure of merit comparison of PP-based electret and PVDF-based piezoelectric polymer energy harvesters

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Mrlík, M.; Leadenham, S.; AlMaadeed, M. A.; Erturk, A.

2016-04-01

The harvesting of mechanical strain and kinetic energy has received great attention over the past two decades in order to power wireless electronic components such as those used in passive and active monitoring applications. Piezoelectric ceramics, such as PZT (lead zirconate titanate), constitute the most commonly used electromechanical interface in vibration energy harvesters. However, there are applications in which piezoelectric ceramics cannot be used due to their low allowable curvature and brittle nature. Soft polymer PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) is arguably the most popular non-ceramic soft piezoelectric energy harvester material for such scenarios. Another type of polymer that has received less attention is PP (polypropylene) for electret-based energy harvesting using the thickness mode (33- mode). This work presents figure of merit comparison of PP versus PVDF for off-resonant energy harvesting in thickness mode operation, revealing substantial advantage of PP over PVDF. For thickness mode energy harvesting scenarios (e.g. dynamic compression) at reasonable ambient vibration frequencies, the figure of merit for the maximum power output is proportional to the square of the effective piezoelectric strain constant divided by the effective permittivity constant. Under optimal conditions and for the same volume, it is shown that PP can generate more than two orders of magnitude larger electrical power as compared to PVDF due to the larger effective piezoelectric strain constant and lower permittivity of the former.

2011 Mars - Refresher presentation - General principles of the Merit, Appraisal and Recognition Scheme

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2010-01-01

Staff members are invited to attend one of the following three information sessions that shall outline the general principles of the 2011 annual Merit, Appraisal and Recognition Scheme (MARS). Monday 10 January at 16:00-17:00 BE Auditorium Prévessin (864-1-D-02) – French;   Tuesday 11 January at 15:00-16:00 – Council Chamber (503-1-001) – English;   Thursday 13 January at 15:00-16:00 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium (30-7-018) – French. General information on the MARS exercise may also be found on the Human Resources website: https://hr-eguide.web.cern.ch/hr-eguide/mars/mars.asp Tel. 70674 / 72728

Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory beyond the Tamm-Dancoff approximation: Obtaining efficiency and accuracy with in situ optimised local orbitals

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Zuehlsdorff, T. J., E-mail: tjz21@cam.ac.uk; Payne, M. C. [Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE (United Kingdom); Hine, N. D. M. [Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL (United Kingdom); Haynes, P. D. [Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom); Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom); Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom)

2015-11-28

We present a solution of the full time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) eigenvalue equation in the linear response formalism exhibiting a linear-scaling computational complexity with system size, without relying on the simplifying Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA). The implementation relies on representing the occupied and unoccupied subspaces with two different sets of in situ optimised localised functions, yielding a very compact and efficient representation of the transition density matrix of the excitation with the accuracy associated with a systematic basis set. The TDDFT eigenvalue equation is solved using a preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm that is very memory-efficient. The algorithm is validated on a small test molecule and a good agreement with results obtained from standard quantum chemistry packages is found, with the preconditioner yielding a significant improvement in convergence rates. The method developed in this work is then used to reproduce experimental results of the absorption spectrum of bacteriochlorophyll in an organic solvent, where it is demonstrated that the TDA fails to reproduce the main features of the low energy spectrum, while the full TDDFT equation yields results in good qualitative agreement with experimental data. Furthermore, the need for explicitly including parts of the solvent into the TDDFT calculations is highlighted, making the treatment of large system sizes necessary that are well within reach of the capabilities of the algorithm introduced here. Finally, the linear-scaling properties of the algorithm are demonstrated by computing the lowest excitation energy of bacteriochlorophyll in solution. The largest systems considered in this work are of the same order of magnitude as a variety of widely studied pigment-protein complexes, opening up the possibility of studying their properties without having to resort to any semiclassical approximations to parts of the protein environment.

Estimating total economic merit for the Portuguese Holstein cattle population under new economic conditions

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Joana B.M. Almeida

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The objective of this study was to develop a total economic merit index that identifies more profitable animals using Portugal as a case study to illustrate the recent economic changes in milk production. Economic values were estimated following future global prices and EU policy, and taking into consideration the priorities of the Portuguese dairy sector. Economic values were derived using an objective system analysis with a positive approach, that involved the comparison of several alternatives, using real technical and economic data from national dairy farms. The estimated relative economic values revealed a high importance of production traits, low for morphological traits and a value of zero for somatic cell score. According to several future market expectations, three scenarios for milk production were defined: a realistic, a pessimistic and an optimistic setting, each with projected future economic values. Responses to selection and efficiency of selection of the indices were compared to a fourth scenario that represents the current selection situation in Portugal, based on individual estimated breeding values for milk yield. Although profit resulting from sale of milk per average lactation in the optimistic scenario was higher than in the realistic scenario, the volatility of future economic conditions and uncertainty about the future milk pricing system should be considered. Due to this market instability, genetic improvement programs require new definitions of profit functions for the near future. Effective genetic progress direction must be verified so that total economic merit formulae can be adjusted and selection criteria redirected to the newly defined target goals.

Relationships between Milk Progesterone Profiles and Genetic Merit for Milk Production, Milking Frequency, and Feeding Regimen in Dairy Cattle

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Windig, J.J.; Beerda, B.; Veerkamp, R.F.

2008-01-01

Milk progesterone profiles were determined from samples obtained twice weekly for 100 d postpartum in 100 Holstein primiparous cows at a Dutch experimental farm. Three treatments were applied in a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement with high-low genetic merit for overall production, high-low caloric

Kus me kange bestseller? / Peeter Künstler

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Künstler, Peeter, 1958-2009

2000-01-01

Arvustus: Uustulnd, Lembit. Kiikhobune Antverpenist. Tallinn : Varrak, 1999 ; Tiidenberg, Ants. Vietnam-transiit Tallinn : SE & JS, 1999 ; Tamman, Tiina. Tihe udu Tallinnas. Tallinn : Perioodika, 2000

The effect of basis set and exchange-correlation functional on time-dependent density functional theory calculations within the Tamm-Dancoff approximation of the x-ray emission spectroscopy of transition metal complexes.

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Roper, Ian P E; Besley, Nicholas A

2016-03-21

The simulation of X-ray emission spectra of transition metal complexes with time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is investigated. X-ray emission spectra can be computed within TDDFT in conjunction with the Tamm-Dancoff approximation by using a reference determinant with a vacancy in the relevant core orbital, and these calculations can be performed using the frozen orbital approximation or with the relaxation of the orbitals of the intermediate core-ionised state included. Both standard exchange-correlation functionals and functionals specifically designed for X-ray emission spectroscopy are studied, and it is shown that the computed spectral band profiles are sensitive to the exchange-correlation functional used. The computed intensities of the spectral bands can be rationalised by considering the metal p orbital character of the valence molecular orbitals. To compute X-ray emission spectra with the correct energy scale allowing a direct comparison with experiment requires the relaxation of the core-ionised state to be included and the use of specifically designed functionals with increased amounts of Hartree-Fock exchange in conjunction with high quality basis sets. A range-corrected functional with increased Hartree-Fock exchange in the short range provides transition energies close to experiment and spectral band profiles that have a similar accuracy to those from standard functionals.

Tiina Tammetalu vahemerelised akvarellid / tekst ja akvarellid Tiina Tammetalu

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Tammetalu, Tiina, 1961-

2012-01-01

Akvarellid "Sain Jean Cap Ferrat", "Viinamarjaväli. Minu kodus, tugitooli kohal", "Paradiisiaed. Villa et Jardins Eprussi de Rothscild", "Belle Air. 700 meetri kõrgusel õhus", "Kaatriga Saint Tropez`i", "Õnnistatud maa. Caesarea, Akko, Haifa" autori kommentaaridega

Lapsed kapsapõldudel mehe eest väljas / Anne Oja

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Oja, Anne, 1970-

2006-01-01

Kadarbiku talu peremees Ants Pak kasutab oma põldudel 8-12-aastaste laste tööd. Vt. samas: Vanemad tohivad lapsi tööle panna vaid oma tallu ja pereettevõttesse. Vt. samas Gert D Hankewitz interv. talu peremehe Ants Pakìga: Vanem ise sokutab lapse meile. Kommenteerivad Alar Tamm, Tarmo Kriis, Mailis Reps, Juhan Salum, Janno Järve, Aivo Tamm, Dmitri Jegorov ja Liivi Lents

Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Harsh Choices For Interventional Pain Management Physicians.

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Manchikanti, Laxmaiah; Helm Ii, Standiford; Benyamin, Ramsin M; Hirsch, Joshua A

2016-01-01

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) was created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) to improve the health of all Americans by providing incentives and policies to improve patient health outcomes. MIPS combines 3 existing programs, Meaningful Use (MU), now called Advancing Care Information (ACI), contributing 25% of the composite score; Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), changed to Quality, contributing 50% of the composite score; and Value-based Payment (VBP) system to Resource Use or cost, contributing 10% of the composite score. Additionally, Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA), contributing 15% of the composite score, create multiple strategic goals to design incentives that drive movement toward delivery system reform principles with inclusion of Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). Under the present proposal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has estimated approximately 30,000 to 90,000 providers from a total of over 761,000 providers will be exempt from MIPS. About 87% of solo practitioners and 70% of practitioners in groups of less than 10 will be subjected to negative payments or penalties ranging from 4% to 9%. In addition, MIPS also will affect a provider's reputation by making performance measures accessible to consumers and third-party physician rating Web sites.The MIPS composite performance scoring method, at least in theory, utilizes weights for each performance category, exceptional performance factors to earn bonuses, and incorporates the special circumstances of small practices.In conclusion, MIPS has the potential to affect practitioners negatively. Interventional Pain Medicine practitioners must understand the various MIPS measures and how they might participate in order to secure a brighter future. Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, merit-based incentive payment system, quality performance measures, resource use, clinical practice

Enhancement in figure-of-merit with superlattices structures for thin-film thermoelectric devices

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Venkatasubramanian, R; Colpitts, T

1997-07-01

Thin-film superlattice (SL) structures in thermoelectric materials are shown to be a promising approach to obtaining an enhanced figure-of-merit, ZT, compared to conventional, state-of-the-art bulk alloyed materials. In this paper the authors describe experimental results on Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3}/Sb{sub 2}Te{sub 3} and Si/Ge SL structures, relevant to thermoelectric cooling and power conversion, respectively. The short-period Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3} and Si/Ge SL structures appear to indicate reduced thermal conductivities compared to alloys of these materials. From the observed behavior of thermal conductivity values in the Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3}/Sb{sub 2}Te{sub 3} SL structures, a distinction is made where certain types of periodic structures may correspond to an ordered alloy rather than an SL, and therefore, do not offer a significant reduction in thermal conductivity values. The study also indicates that SL structures, with little or weak quantum-confinement, also offer an improvement in thermoelectric power factor over conventional alloys. They present power factor and electrical transport data in the plane of the SL interfaces to provide preliminary support for the arguments on reduced alloy scattering and impurity scattering in Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3}/Sb{sub 2}Te{sub 3} and Si/Ge SL structures. These results, though tentative due to the possible role of the substrate and the developmental nature of the 3-{omega} method used to determine thermal conductivity values, suggest that the short-period SL structures potentially offer factorial improvements in the three-dimensional figure-of-merit (ZT3D) compared to current state-of-the-art bulk alloys. An approach to a thin-film thermoelectric device called a Bipolarity-Assembled, Series-Inter-Connected Thin-Film Thermoelectric Device (BASIC-TFTD) is introduced to take advantage of these thin-film SL structures.

Effects of the Boy Scouts of America Personal Fitness Merit Badge on Cardio-Metabolic Risk, Health Related Fitness and Physical Activity in Adolescent Boys.

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Maxwell, Justin; Burns, Ryan D; Brusseau, Timothy A

2017-01-01

A growing number of adolescents are more sedentary and have fewer formal opportunities to participate in physical activity. With the mounting evidence that sedentary time has a negative impact on cardiometabolic profiles, health related fitness and physical activity, there is a pressing need to find an affordable adolescent physical activity intervention. One possible intervention that has been overlooked in the past is Boy Scouts of America. There are nearly 900,000 adolescent boys who participate in Boy Scouts in the United States. The purpose of this research study was to evaluate the effect of the Personal Fitness merit badge system on physical activity, health-related fitness, and cardio-metabolic blood profiles in Boy Scouts 11-17 years of age. Participants were fourteen (N = 14) Boy Scouts from the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America who earned their Personal Fitness merit badge. Classes were held in the Spring of 2016 where boys received the information needed to obtain the merit badge and data were collected. Results from the related-samples Wilcoxon signed rank test showed that the median of differences between VO 2 peak pre-test and post-test scores were statistically significant ( p = 0.004). However, it also showed that the differences between the Pre-MetS (metabolic syndrome) and Post-MetS scores (p = 0.917), average steps taken per day ( p = 0.317), and BMI ( p = 0.419) were not statistically significant. In conclusion, the merit badge program had a positive impact on cardiovascular endurance, suggesting this program has potential to improve cardiovascular fitness and should be considered for boys participating in Boy Scouts.

Analysis of Scaling Law and Figure of Merit of Fiber-Based Biosensor

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Jui-Teng Lin

2012-01-01

Full Text Available This paper presents a normalized transmitted signal (NTS of a fiber-based sensor using gold nanorods as the plasmon excitation medium of the evanescent wave. The NTS and the refractive index (RI sensitivity is calculated as a function of the gold aspect ratio (R, the RI of the sensing medium, and a scaling parameter given by the ratio of the fiber length and its diameter. Finally, the optimal value of gold aspect ratio is calculated to be R = (3.0–4.0 for maximum figure of merits (FOMs defined by the ratio of the refractive index sensitivity and the full width at half maximum. The scaling laws and the FOM presented in this paper may serve as the guidelines for optimal designs in fiber-based nanosensors.

Kirjastusuudiseid

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2007-01-01

Uutest kunstiraamatutest "Meistriteoste lummus. Koopia 19. sajandil" (koostaja Tiina-Mall Kreem), "Priit Pärn" (koostaja Eha Komissarov), "Henn Roode. Modernist saatuse kiuste" (koostaja Kädi Talvoja)

Palmse viinaköögi manifest

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1996-01-01

Manifest. Tõlkijate seminari puhul 17. mail 1996 Palmse viinaköögis Juta Bedia, Eric Dickens, Gyözö Fehérvári, Guntars Godinsh, Maima Grinberga, Irja Grönholm, Leif Hannibal, Cornelius Hasselblatt, Pirkko Huurto, Ivo Iliste, Nora Javorskaja, Gisbert Jänicke, Kaisu Lahikainen, Enel Melberg, Vera Ruber, Arnold Tamm, Leili Tamm, Jonatan Tomesh, Lilia Velic'kova, Marianne Vogel. Inglise k.: Estonian Literary Magazine, autumn 1996, nr. 3

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): A Primer for Otolaryngologists.

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Rathi, Vinay K; Naunheim, Matthew R; Varvares, Mark A; Holmes, Kenneth; Gagliano, Nancy; Hartnick, Christopher J

2018-05-01

Following passage of the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, most clinicians caring for Medicare Part B patients were required to participate in a new value-based reimbursement system known as the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) beginning in 2017. The MIPS adjusts payment rates to providers based on a composite score of performance across 4 categories: quality, advancing care information, clinical practice improvement activities, and resource use. However, factors such as practice size, setting, informational capabilities, and patient population may pose challenges as otolaryngologists endeavor to adapt to this broad-reaching payment reform. Given potential barriers to adoption, otolaryngologists should be aware of several important initiatives to help optimize their performance, including advocacy efforts by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the development of otolaryngology-specific MIPS quality measures, and the launch of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-qualified otolaryngology clinical data registry to facilitate reporting.

2013 MARS – Refresher presentation | General principles of the Merit, Appraisal and Recognition Scheme

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2013-01-01

Staff members are invited to attend one of the three following information sessions that shall outline the general principles of the 2013 annual Merit, Appraisal and Recognition Scheme (MARS).   Monday 14 January at 10:00-11:30 – Filtration Plant (222-R-001) Thursday 17 January at 10:00-11:30 – Kjell Johnsen Auditorium (30-7-018) Monday 21 January at 10:00-11:30 - BE Amphitheatre Prévessin (864-1-D02)   General information on the MARS exercise may also be found in the CERN admin e-guide: https://admin-eguide.web.cern.ch/admin-eguide/mars/mars.asp. Human Resources Department Tel. 72728

Jaapani animafilmid vallutavad kinod / Signe Sillasoo

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Sillasoo, Signe

2009-01-01

Kolmas Jaapani animafilmifestival (JAFF) toimub 3.-12. aprillini Tallinna kinos Sõprus ja 6.-15. aprillini Tartus Athena keskuses. Tutvustab pressiesindaja Tiina Savi, lisatud kinos Sõprus linastuvate filmide programm

Euroopa temaatika intrigeerib ja harib / Imbi Leevand

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Leevand, Imbi

2008-01-01

ERÜ kooliraamatukogude sektsiooni teabepäevast "Kooliraamatukogu - aken Euroopasse", kus esinesid ettekandega ka TLÜ algõpetuse õppetooli lastekirjanduse dotsent Mare Müürsepp ja Tiina Sulg Tartu Linnaraamatukogust

Milliseid mõtteid tekitas konverents "Tsensuur meedias ja kunstis"? / Jonas Valatkevicius, Jevgeni Tsymbal, Mark Soosaar...[jt.] ; interv. Grete Naaber

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2000-01-01

Küsimusele vastavad Vilniuse kunstikeskuse kuraator Jonas Valatkevicius, Moskva filmirežissöör Jevgeni Tsymbal, Mark Soosaar, Albaania kunstigalerii juhataja Gezim Qendro, BBC ajakirjanik Tiina Tamman

Kui kaugel on Peruu? / Ricardo Mateo Durand

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Durand, Ricardo Mateo

2002-01-01

Peruu Vabariigi aukonsul Eestis Ricardo Mateo Durand Eesti-Portugali diplomaatilistest suhetest, Eesti viisa hankimise raskustest Peruus, Lõuna-Ameerikast. Vt. samas Tiina Maiberg "Välisministeerium loodab saata Peruusse aukonsuli"

"Ametniku soovitussõnastik" / Tuuli Rehemaa

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Rehemaa, Tuuli, 1974-

2014-01-01

Tutvustus: Ametniku soovitussõnastik [Võrguteavik] / Eesti Keele Instituut ; koostanud ja toimetanud Tiina Paet, Tuuli Rehemaa, Argo Mund. Tallinn : Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014. - http://www.eki.ee/dict/ametnik/

Enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit in strained Tl-doped Bi2Se3

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Saeed, Y.

2014-07-21

We explain recent experimental findings on Tl-doped Bi2Se3 by determining the electronic and transport properties by first-principles calculations and semi-classical Boltzmann theory. Though Tl-doping introduces a momentum-dependent spin-orbit splitting, the effective mass of the carriers is essentially not modified, while the band gap is reduced. Tl is found to be exceptional in this respect as other dopants modify the dispersion, which compromises thermoelectricity. Moreover, we demonstrate that only after Tl-doping strain becomes an efficient tool for enhancing the thermoelectric performance. A high figure of merit of 0.86 is obtained for strong p-doping (7 × 10^20 cm^(−3), maximal power factor) at 500 K under 2% tensile strain.

Phenotypic and genetic relationships of feed efficiency with growth performance, ultrasound, and carcass merit traits in Angus and Charolais steers.

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Mao, F; Chen, L; Vinsky, M; Okine, E; Wang, Z; Basarab, J; Crews, D H; Li, C

2013-05-01

Feed efficiency is of particular importance to the beef industry, as feed costs represent the single largest variable cost in beef production systems. Selection for more efficient cattle will lead to reduction of feed related costs, but should not have adverse impacts on quality of the carcass. In this study, we evaluated phenotypic and genetic correlations of residual feed intake (RFI), RFI adjusted for end-of-test ultrasound backfat thickness (RFIf), and RFI adjusted for ultrasound backfat thickness and LM area (RFIfr) with growth, ultrasound, and carcass merit traits in an Angus population of 551 steers and in a Charolais population of 417 steers. In the Angus steer population, the phenotypic and genetic correlation of RFI with carcass merit traits including HCW, carcass backfat, carcass LM area, lean meat yield, and carcass marbling were not significant or weak with correlations coefficients ranging from -0.0007 ± 0.05 to 0.18 ± 0.21. In the Charolais steer population, the phenotypic and genetic correlations of RFI with the carcass merit traits were also weak, with correlation coefficients ranging from -0.07 ± 0.06 to 0.19 ± 0.18, except for the genetic correlation with carcass average backfat, which was moderate with a magnitude of 0.42 ± 0.29. Inclusion of ultrasound backfat thickness in the model to predict the expected daily DMI for maintenance explained on average an additional 0.5% variation of DMI in the Angus steers and 2.3% variation of DMI in the Charolais steer population. Inclusion of both the ultrasound backfat and LM area in the model explained only 0.7% additional variance in DMI in the Angus steer population and only 0.6% in the Charolais steer population on top of the RFIf model. We concluded that RFIf adjusted for ultrasound backfat at the end of the test will lead to decreases of both the phenotypic and genetic correlations with carcass backfat and marbling score to a greater extent for late-maturing beef breeds such as Charolais than

Genetic merit for fertility traits in Holstein cows: I. Production characteristics and reproductive efficiency in a pasture-based system.

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Cummins, S B; Lonergan, P; Evans, A C O; Berry, D P; Evans, R D; Butler, S T

2012-03-01

The objective of the present study was to characterize the phenotypic performance of cows with similar proportions of Holstein genetics, similar genetic merit for milk production traits, but with good (Fert+) or poor (Fert-) genetic merit for fertility traits. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that cows with a negative estimated breeding value for calving interval would have superior fertility performance and would have detectable differences in body reserve mobilization and circulating concentrations of metabolic hormones and metabolites compared with cows that had a positive estimated breeding value for calving interval. For the duration of the study, cows were managed identically as a single herd in a typical grass-based, spring-calving production system. A total of 80 lactation records were available from 26 Fert+ and 26 Fert- cows over 2 consecutive years (2008 and 2009). During yr 1, cows were monitored during a 20-wk breeding season to evaluate reproductive performance. Milk production, body condition score (scale 1 to 5), body weight, grass dry matter intake, energy balance, and metabolic hormone and metabolite data were collected during both years. The Fert+ cows had greater daily milk yield (19.5 vs. 18.7 kg/d), shorter interval from calving to conception (85.6 vs. 113.8 d), and fewer services per cow (1.78 vs. 2.83). No difference between groups in grass dry matter intake, energy balance, or body weight was observed. The Fert+ cows maintained greater BCS during mid (2.84 vs. 2.74 units) and late lactation (2.82 vs. 2.73 units). Circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I were greater throughout the gestation-lactation cycle in Fert+ cows (148.3 vs. 128.2 ng/mL). The Fert+ cows also had greater circulating concentrations of insulin during the first 4 wk of lactation (1.71 vs. 1.24 μIU/mL). Analysis of records from national herd data verified the association between genetic merit for fertility traits and phenotypic reproductive

Modernistlik ruumikontseptsioon ja nõukogude ideoloogia kohtuvad Viru hotellis / Karen Jagodin

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Jagodin, Karen, 1982-

2006-01-01

Ajavahemikul 1964-1968 arhitektide Henno Sepmanni ja Mart Pordi poolt projekteeritud ning 1972. a. valminud Viru hotellist Tallinnas, põhjalikum ülevaade hoone interjöörist. Sisearhitektid Väino Tamm, Vello Asi, Taevo Gans, Mait Summatavet ja Loomet Raudsepp. II korruse naiste juuksuri ruumid kujundas Kirsti Laanemaa. II korruse banketisaalis oli Mari Adamsoni gobelään "Tare", suures restoranisaalis Aet Andresma-Tamme ja Mare Soovik-Lobjakase klaaskompositsioon "Pilved", Viru väljakul Edgar Viiese skulptuur "Merepiiga" (1981)

Ungari ja eesti kõrvallauset kõrvutav väitekiri / János Pusztay

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Pusztay, János, 1948-

2014-01-01

Arvustus: Tiina Rüütmaa. Kontrastiivne ülevaade kõneviisisüsteemist ungari ja eesti kõrvallauses. Tartu : Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2014. (Dissertationes philologiae Uralicae Universitatis Tartuensis ; 13)

A Comparison of Individual and School Level Approaches to Merit Pay: A Case Study of the Dade County Public Schools.

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Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr.; And Others

This policy study discusses two models of merit pay programs enacted in Florida: the Florida Meritorious Teacher Program and the Quality Instruction Incentives Program (QUIIP). Using the Motivation-Hygiene Theory (Herzberg et al.) as a theoretical framework, each program was analyzed from the perspective of how it worked as a motivator and source…

[The long pilgrimage of Spanish biomedical journals toward excellence. Who helps? Quality, impact and research merit].

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Alfonso, Fernando

2010-03-01

Biomedical journals must adhere to strict standards of editorial quality. In a globalized academic scenario, biomedical journals must compete firstly to publish the most relevant original research and secondly to obtain the broadest possible visibility and the widest dissemination of their scientific contents. The cornerstone of the scientific process is still the peer-review system but additional quality criteria should be met. Recently access to medical information has been revolutionized by electronic editions. Bibliometric databases such as MEDLINE, the ISI Web of Science and Scopus offer comprehensive online information on medical literature. Classically, the prestige of biomedical journals has been measured by their impact factor but, recently, other indicators such as SCImago SJR or the Eigenfactor are emerging as alternative indices of a journal's quality. Assessing the scholarly impact of research and the merits of individual scientists remains a major challenge. Allocation of authorship credit also remains controversial. Furthermore, in our Kafkaesque world, we prefer to count rather than read the articles we judge. Quantitative publication metrics (research output) and citations analyses (scientific influence) are key determinants of the scientific success of individual investigators. However, academia is embracing new objective indicators (such as the "h" index) to evaluate scholarly merit. The present review discusses some editorial issues affecting biomedical journals, currently available bibliometric databases, bibliometric indices of journal quality and, finally, indicators of research performance and scientific success. Copyright 2010 SEEN. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

Phase transition enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in copper chalcogenides

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David R. Brown

2013-11-01

Full Text Available While thermoelectric materials can be used for solid state cooling, waste heat recovery, and solar electricity generation, low values of the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, have led to an efficiency too low for widespread use. Thermoelectric effects are characterized by the Seebeck coefficient or thermopower, which is related to the entropy associated with charge transport. For example, coupling spin entropy with the presence of charge carriers has enabled the enhancement of zT in cobalt oxides. We demonstrate that the coupling of a continuous phase transition to carrier transport in Cu2Se over a broad (360–410 K temperature range results in a dramatic peak in thermopower, an increase in phonon and electron scattering, and a corresponding doubling of zT (to 0.7 at 406 K, and a similar but larger increase over a wider temperature range in the zT of Cu1.97Ag.03Se (almost 1.0 at 400 K. The use of structural entropy for enhanced thermopower could lead to new engineering approaches for thermoelectric materials with high zT and new green applications for thermoelectrics.

Ruti raamat ja Jaakobi redel / Anu Saluäär

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Saluäär, Anu, 1948-

2006-01-01

Arvustus: Ruti raamat : artikleid, lugusid ja mälestusi : pühendusteos Rutt Hinrikusele : 7.05.2006 / [koostanud Sirje Olesk ja Janika Kronberg ; toimetanud Tiina Saluvere]. Tartu : Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, 2006

Kuni 21. III on Tartu Kunstimajas vaadata Eesti Nahakunstnike Liidu näitust "Nahk on ruumis"

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2004-01-01

Kujundaja Tea Tammelaan. Osalevad Tiiu Tulev, Pille Kivihall, Rete Kalder, Ulla Torop, Tiina Piisang, Rutt Maantoa jt. Eksponeeritakse ka jaapanlannast animatsioonikunstniku Maya Jonesho eesti köitekunstnikega koos tehtud filmi

[New International Classification of Chronic Pancreatitis (M-ANNHEIM multifactor classification system, 2007): principles, merits, and demerits].

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Tsimmerman, Ia S

2008-01-01

The new International Classification of Chronic Pancreatitis (designated as M-ANNHEIM) proposed by a group of German specialists in late 2007 is reviewed. All its sections are subjected to analysis (risk group categories, clinical stages and phases, variants of clinical course, diagnostic criteria for "established" and "suspected" pancreatitis, instrumental methods and functional tests used in the diagnosis, evaluation of the severity of the disease using a scoring system, stages of elimination of pain syndrome). The new classification is compared with the earlier classification proposed by the author. Its merits and demerits are discussed.

Custom Hardware Processor to Compute a Figure of Merit for the Fit of X-Ray Diffraction

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Gomez-Pulido, P.J.A.; Vega-Rodriguez, M.A.; Sanchez-Perez, J.M.; Sanchez-Bajo, F.; Santos, S.P.D.

2008-01-01

A custom processor based on re configurable hardware technology is proposed in order to compute the figure of merit used to measure the quality of the fit of X-ray diffraction peaks. As the experimental X-ray profiles can present many peaks severely overlapped, it is necessary to select the best model among a large set of reasonably good solutions. Determining the best solution is computationally intensive, because this is a hard combinatorial optimization problem. The proposed processors, working in parallel, increase the performance relative to a software implementation.

Plasmonic Refractive Index Sensor with High Figure of Merit Based on Concentric-Rings Resonator

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Zhang, Zhaojian; Yang, Junbo; He, Xin; Zhang, Jingjing; Huang, Jie; Chen, Dingbo; Han, Yunxin

2018-01-01

A plasmonic refractive index (RI) sensor based on metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide coupled with concentric double rings resonator (CDRR) is proposed and investigated numerically. Utilizing the novel supermodes of the CDRR, the FWHM of the resonant wavelength can be modulated, and a sensitivity of 1060 nm/RIU with high figure of merit (FOM) 203.8 is realized in the near-infrared region. The unordinary modes, as well as the influence of structure parameters on the sensing performance, are also discussed. Such plasmonic sensor with simple framework and high optical resolution could be applied to on-chip sensing systems and integrated optical circuits. Besides, the special cases of bio-sensing and triple rings are also discussed. PMID:29300331

Quantum confinement effects on the thermoelectric figure of merit in Si/Si{sub 1{minus}x}Ge{sub x} system

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Sun, X; Dresselhaus, M S; Wang, K L; Tanner, M O

1997-07-01

The Si/Si{sub 1{minus}x}Ge{sub x} quantum well system is attractive for high temperature thermoelectric applications and for demonstration of proof-of-principle for enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit Z, since the interfaces and carrier densities can be well controlled in this system. The authors report here theoretical calculations for Z in this system, and results from theoretical modeling of quantum confinement effects in the presence of {delta}-doping within the barrier layers. The {delta}-doping layers are introduced by growing very thin layers of wide band gap materials within the barrier layers in order to increase the effective barrier height within the barriers and thereby reduce the barrier width necessary for the quantum confinement of carriers within the quantum well. The overall figure of merit is thereby enhanced due to the reduced barrier width and hence reduced thermal conductivity, {kappa}. The {delta}-doping should further reduce {kappa} in the barriers by introducing phonon scattering centers within the barrier region. The temperature dependence of Z for Si quantum wells is also discussed.

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's Survey of Sexual Harassment: The Fit of a Three-Factor Model.

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Stockdale, Margaret S.; Hope, Kathryn G.

1997-01-01

Factor analysis of data from 1,070 federal employees, 575 undergraduates and 575 graduate students, faculty, and staff uncovered some weaknesses in the Merit Systems Protection Board's sexual harassment survey instrument. This type of survey does not adequately measure sexual coercion or quid pro quo forms of harassment. (SK)

A bottom-up route to enhance thermoelectric figures of merit in graphene nanoribbons

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Sevincli, Haldun; Sevik, Cem; Cagin, Tahir

2013-01-01

We propose a hybrid nano-structuring scheme for tailoring thermal and thermoelectric transport properties of graphene nanoribbons. Geometrical structuring and isotope cluster engineering are the elements that constitute the proposed scheme. Using first-principles based force constants and Hamilto......We propose a hybrid nano-structuring scheme for tailoring thermal and thermoelectric transport properties of graphene nanoribbons. Geometrical structuring and isotope cluster engineering are the elements that constitute the proposed scheme. Using first-principles based force constants...... and Hamiltonians, we show that the thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons can be reduced by 98.8% at room temperature and the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, can be as high as 3.25 at T = 800 K. The proposed scheme relies on a recently developed bottom-up fabrication method, which is proven to be feasible...

Killustatud toetusvõimalused panevad ettevõtja eri asutuste vahet jooksma / Merike Lees

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Lees, Merike, 1976-

2004-01-01

Ettevõtluse Arendamise Sihtasutus, Põllumajanduse Registrite ja Informatsiooni Amet, konsultatsioonifirma BDA Estonia ning maakondlikud arenduskeskused jagavad toetusvõimaluste kohta erinevat informatsiooni. Kommenteerivad Kadri Ugand, Piret Arusaar, Heli Raamets ja Tiina Tarma

ÜRO Lastefond toetab Memme Musi eest võitlejaid / Sirje Pärismaa

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Pärismaa, Sirje, 1958-

2003-01-01

Riigikogu liige, UNICEF-i Eesti president Elle Kull ning haridus- ja teadusministeeriumi järelevalvetalituse peainspektor Tiina Peterson kohtusid Räpina vallavanema Inge Hirmoga, kes on lasteaia Memme Musi sulgemise poolt

[Marge Rennit. Eesti muuseumid / Estonian museums] / Tapio Mäkeläinen

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Mäkeläinen, Tapio

2009-01-01

Tutvustus: Eesti muuseumid = Estonian museums / [Eesti Muuseumiühing ; koostaja Marge Rennit ; tõlkija Tiina Mällo ; toimetaja Ivi Tammaru ; eessõna: Piret Õunapuu ; kujundaja Marek Allvee]. Tallinn : Oomen, 2008

U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program: 2017 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report

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Popovich, Neil A [National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2017-10-18

The fiscal year 2017 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), in conjunction with DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office AMR, was held from June June 5-9, 2017, in Washington, D.C. This report is a summary of comments by AMR peer reviewers about the hydrogen and fuel cell projects funded by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

DVD. Piret Tamm soovitab : "Mootorrattapäevikud" / Piret Tamm

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Tamm, Piret, 1966-

2006-01-01

Mängufilm Che Guevarast "Mootorratta päevikud" ("Diarios de motocicleta") : režissöör Walter Salles : Ameerika Ühendriigid - Saksamaa - Suurbritannia - Argentiina - Tšiili - Peruu 2004. Kriitikat ka firma V&K Holding DVD kvaliteedi kohta

Diagnostic value of determination of amount of urinary excretion of proteins for early diabetic nephropathy

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Li Zhuocheng; Chen Jianxiong; Yan Dewen

2007-01-01

Objective: To investigate the value of detection of changes of the amount of usinary excretion of albumin, β 2 -m, Tamm- Horsfall protein and α 1 -m for diagnosis of early diabetic nephropathy. Methods: The amounts of 24h urinary excretion of albumin, β 2 -m, Tamm-Horsfall protein and α 1 -m were determined with RIA in 78 patients with diabetes mellitus and 40 controls. Results: The amounts of 24h urinary excretion of albumin, β 2 -m, α 1 -m in patients with diabetes mellitus were significantly higher than those in controls (P<0.01 ), while the amount of Tamm-Horsfall protein was significantly lower (P<0.01). Among the diabetic patients, the changes of the amount of protein excretion were more pronounced in those with advanced impairment of renal function. Conclusion: Determination of amount of urinary excretion of proteins was helpful for diagnosis and assessment of early diabetic nephropathy. (authors)

Fine 5 kolib Kumu lavale

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2006-01-01

Kumu kunstimuuseumi auditooriumis toimub 21. veebruaril Fine 5 kaasaegse tantsu etendus "Panus". Esinevad Tiina Ollesk, Irina Pähn, žonglöör Dimitri Kruus, disainer Rain Saukas ja muusik Mattias Siitan

Fine 5 tantsib Bachi järgi

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2016-01-01

Tantsuteater Fine 5 toob lavale lavastuse "HTK ehk hästi treenitud klaviir". Teos on loodud J.S. Bachi "Hästitempereeritud klaviiri" (HTK) esimese osa muusikale. Koreograafid Tiina Ollesk ja Renee Nõmmik

Fine 5 hoiab tantsu taset kõrgel / Anu Jürisson

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Jürisson, Anu, 1977-

2015-01-01

Eesti teatri aastaauhindade galal tantsuauhinna pälvinud tantsuteatri Fine 5 lavastusest "...and Blue", selgitusi jagavad tantsuteatri lavastajad-koreograafid Renee Nõmmik ja Tiina Ollesk. Ka Eesti professionaalse nüüdistantsu hetkeseisust

Vana vimm lõi Maltal välja / Katrin Pauts

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Pauts, Katrin, 1977-

2003-01-01

President Arnold Rüütli Malta riigivisiidi ajal ütles presidendi protokolliülem Andrei Birov välisministeeriumi protokolliosakonna juhatajale Tiina Nirgile "Fuck you!". Riigivisiit Malta Vabariiki 1.-3.10.2003

Vanad ja noored koos - kas pereidüll või tülide tallermaa / Tea Raidsalu ; kommenteerinud Meelike Saarna

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Raidsalu, Tea

2016-01-01

Mitme põlvkonna kooselamise plussidest ja miinustest. Selgitusi jagavad ka Tallinna Ülikooli Humanitaarteaduste instituudi vanemteadur Marju Kõivupuu ja Tallinna Ülikooli Eesti Demograafia keskuse nooremteadur ja SHARE Eesti projektijuht Tiina Tambaum

"Las näitlejannad mängivad. Ülevoolavalt" / Ott Karulin

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Karulin, Ott, 1980-

2009-01-01

Rakvere Teatri lavastusest Jean Genet "Toatüdrukud", lavastaja Hendrik Toompere, kunstnik Ervin Õunapuu, osatäitjad Ülle Lichtfeldt, Tiina Mälberg ja Anneli Rahkema. Esietendus 5. juunil Rakvere Pangamajas

MERIT - The high intensity liquid mercury target experiment at the CERN PS

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Efthymiopoulos, I

2009-01-01

The MERIT experiment is a proof-of-principle test of a target system for high power proton beams to be used as front-end for a Neutrino Factory complex or a Muon Collider. The experiment took data in autumn 2007 with the fast extracted beam from the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) to a maximum intensity of about 30 × 1012 protons per pulse. The target system, based on a free mercury jet, allowed investigation of the interseption of a 4-MW proton beam inside a 15-T magnetic field required to capture the low-energy secondary pions as the source of the required intense muon beams. Particle detectors have been installed around the target setup to measure the secondary particle flux out of the target and probe cavitation effects in the mercury jet when exited with a beam of variable intensity. With the analysis of the data ongoing, results will be presented here that demonstrate the validity of the liquid target concept.

EBSCO infopäev Tallinnas / Marika Meltsas

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Meltsas, Marika

2008-01-01

16. aprillil 2008 toimus Tallinnas EBSCO (Elton B. Stephens Company) infopäev, kus maailma suurim elektrooniliste ja trükiajakirjade vahendaja tutvustas oma tooteid ja teenuseid Eesti raamatukogudele. Kommentaar korraldajalt Tiina Nurmilt

Edasi loodusesse! Aga kuhu? / Riina Oruaas

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Oruaas, Riina

2007-01-01

Tantsulavastustest: Oksana Titova, Päär Pärenson ja Juhan Ulfsak "Roots", Kaja Kanni sooloetendus "There are Laika dogs living in Estonia", Tiina Mölder, Kaja Kann ja Bush Hartshor "Naine ja Hunt"

Treeneri abiga edukaks / Kärt Ulman

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Ulman, Kärt

2007-01-01

Coach ehk isiklik nõustaja on pühendunud oma kliendile, tagab tema arengu ja parema toimetuleku. Kommenteerivad Judith F. Chusid, Arthur Clancy, Asko Talu, Tiina Merkuljeva. Lisa: Coachingþu rahvusvaheline taust

Kolmesaja aasta tagune kroonika sai raamatuks / Meeli Pärtelpoeg

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Pärtelpoeg, Meeli, 1965-

2006-01-01

Rmt.: Jõelähtme kirik ja kogudus 18. sajandi esimesel poolel. Pastor Heinrich Christopher Wrede ja tema ametijärglaste kroonikamärkmed / transkribeerinud, tõlkinud ja kommenteerinud Tiina Kala. Tallinn : Muinsuskaitseamet, 2006

Eesti ropendavad diplomaadid

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2003-01-01

Presidendi kantselei protokolliülem Andrei Birov ütles president Arnold Rüütli Malta riigivisiidi ajal välisministeeriumi protokolliosakonna juhataja Tiina Nirgile "Fuck you!". Riigivisiit Malta Vabariiki 1.-3.10.2003

Koolisõidust Valgevenes / Eva-Maria Vint-Warmington

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Vint-Warmington, Eva-Maria

2013-01-01

Ratsaspordi korraldusest Valgevenes, Valgevene Vabariiklikust Olümpia Ratsaspordi ja Hobusearetuskeskusest ehk Ratomka ratsakeskusest ning seal toimunud CDI3* / CDIJ / CDIYH võistlustest, kus osalesid ka Eesti sportlased Dina Ellermann ja Tiina Kuusman

Ray trajectories for a spinning cosmic string and a manifestation of self-cloaking

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Anderson, Tom H.; Mackay, Tom G.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh

2010-01-01

A study of ray trajectories was undertaken for the Tamm medium which represents the spacetime of a zero-tension cosmic spinning string, under the geometric-optics approximation. Our numerical studies revealed that: (i) rays never cross the string's boundary; (ii) the Tamm medium supports evanescent waves in regions of phase space that correspond to those regions of the string's spacetime which could support closed timelike curves; and (iii) a spinning string can be slightly visible while a non-spinning string is almost perfectly invisible.

Kontvõõras segas presidenti puuistutamisel / Oliver Rand

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Rand, Oliver, 1971-

2007-01-01

Saaremaal maakonnavisiidil viibiv president Toomas Hendrik Ilves istutas Kuressaarde riigipeade hiide tamme. Puuistutamisse sekkus plaaniväliselt linnakodanik Väino Salundi. Samamoodi oli Salundi puuistutamise tseremoonial sekkunud ka viis aastat tagasi, kui toonane riigipea Arnold Rüütel ja Läti president Vaira Vike-Freiberga riigipeade hiiele aluse panid. T. H. Ilves on viies riigipea, kes riigipeade hiide oma tamme istutas. 2005. aastal täiendasid hiit Poola president Aleksander Kwasniewski ja Leedu president Valdas Adamkus. Vabariigi President Hiiu- ja Saaremaal 8.-10.08.2007

Aid allocation through various official and private channels: need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors

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Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes

2009-01-01

Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a large sample of recipient countries in 2005-2007. Our findings strongly underscore the need for a disaggregated analysis of aid allocation. Aid channels differ significantly in the extent to which need and...

Kuidas möödus 2012. aasta komplekteerimises? / Külli Karu, Rutt Enok, Kaili Õunapuu-Seidelberg ... [jt.

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2013-01-01

Vastavad Külli Karu Tallinna Keskraamatukogust, Rutt Enok Harju Maakonnaraamatukogust, Kaili Õunapuu-Seidelberg Lääne-Virumaa Keskraamatukogust, Tiina Talvet Rapla Keskraamatukogust, Toivo Ärtis Kambja raamatukogust ning kultuuriministeeriumi raamatukogunõunik Meeli Veskus

Fine 5 Eesti tantsuväljal / Iiris Viirpalu

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Viirpalu, Iiris, 1992-

2017-01-01

Nüüdistantsuteatril Fine 5 täitub tänavu 25. tegutsemisaasta. Fine 5 käekirjast. Vestlusest Fine 5 tantsuteatri ja -kooli kauaaegsete kunstiliste juhtide Renee Nõmmiku ja Tiina Olleskiga Eesti tantsukunstist

TiSSA eelkonverents doktorantidele Tallinnas / Koidu Saame

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Saame, Koidu

2010-01-01

Tallinna Ülikoolis toimunud TiSSA doktorantide eelkonverentsist 22.-24. aug. 2010.a. Doktorantide ettekannetest. Esinesid: Hans-Uwe Otto, Andriy Yuryev, Tiina Naarits, Ivar Tröner, Koidu Saame, Maija Jäppinen, Janissa Miettinen

Sissejuhatus sõnavõlur Tolkieni juurde / Neeme Korv

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Korv, Neeme, 1974-

2003-01-01

Carpenter, Humphrey. J. R. R. Tolkien : elulugu / inglise keelest tõlkinud Tiina Randus.Tallinn : Tänapäev, 2002 ; Day, David. Tolkieni entsüklopeedia / inglise keelest tõlkinud Marek Laane. Tallinn : Varrak, 2002

Номинанты на премию Oscar в мире моды / Бритт Розен

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Розен, Бритт, 1968-

2009-01-01

Eesti moeauhinna Kuldnõel nominendid 2008 on moekunstnikud Tiina Talumees, Liivia Leškin, Liisi Eesmaa ja Aldo Järvsoo. Nominentide uuemast moeloomingust. Kuldnõela galaetendus toimub 6. märtsil 2009 Viru keskuses

Riho Pätsi Koolimuusika Fond austab uusi laureaate / Inge Raudsepp

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Raudsepp, Inge

2009-01-01

4. septembril saavad Riho Pätsi Koolimuusika Fond laureaaditiitli muusikaõpetaja Koidu Ilmjärv, tšellopedagoog Mart Laas, helilooja Mart Siimer, dirigent Jüri-Ruut Kangur, Tallinna Ülikooli muusikaosakonna juhataja Tiina Selke

Hans Christian Andersen 200

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2005-01-01

Hollandi lasteraamatute autorist ja illustraatorist Max Velthuijs'ist (1923-2005). H.C. Anderseni 200. sünniaastapäevale pühendatud lasteraamatunäitusest Rahvusraamatukogus. Eksponeeritakse ka Tiina Reinsalu akvarelle raamatule "Ööbik"

Homeopathic potencies of Arnica montana L. change gene expression in a Tamm-Horsfall protein-1 cell line in vitro model: the role of ethanol as a possible confounder and statistical bias.

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Chirumbolo, Salvatore; Bjørklund, Geir

2017-07-01

Marzotto et al. showed that homeopathic preparations of Arnica montana L. acted directly on gene expression of Tamm-Horsfall protein-1 (THP-1) monocyte/macrophage cell lines activated with phorbol12-myristate13-acetate and interleukin-4 (IL-4). A. montana homeopathic dilutions are used in complementary and alternative medicine to treat inflammation disorders and post-traumatic events as well as for wound repair. The French Pharmacopoeia of these remedies uses 0.3% ethanol in each centesimal dilution. In this paper, we discuss how ethanol-containing A. montana homeopathic centesimal dilutions can change gene expression in IL-4-treated monocyte/macrophage THP-1. We assessed the role of ethanol in the Arnica homeopathic dilutions containing this alcohol by investigating its action on gene expression of THP-1 cell. Evidence would strongly suggest that the presence of ethanol in these remedies might play a fundamental role in the dilutions ability to affect gene expression, particularly for doses from 5c to 15c. Where, rather than playing a major role in the mesoscopic structure of water, the ethanol might have a chemical-physical role in the induction of THP-1 gene expression, apoptosis, and deoxyribonucleic acid function. This evidence generates a debate about the suggestion that the use of a binary-mixed solvent in homeopathic chemistry, used by Hahnemann since 1810, may be fundamental to explain the activity of homeopathy on cell models.

Bingo! / Tiina Tammet

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Tammet, Tiina, 1971-

2005-01-01

Diarmuid Gavin Design'i kujundatud Rahvuslik Loteriiaed (The National Lottery Garden) Chelsea aiandusnäitusel. Rohelisi toone täiendavad värvilised metallist pallid. Kõrgete metallvarbade otsas moodustavad pallid värvika õielaine, aia eesosas saab neist pergola. Pallid vooderdavad ka mullikujulist aiapaviljoni. Aia teostas Sean Cunningham. 3 värv. ill

Asepresident / Tiina Kaalep

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Kaalep, Tiina, 1964-

2003-01-01

Ilmunud ka: Den za Dnjom 4. juuli lk. 12-13, Hiiu Leht 8. juuli lk. 4-5. Autor kirjutab presidendi kantseleis valitsevast õhkkonnast ja suhetest töötajate ning kantselei direktori Tarmo Männi vahel

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of a plant subtilase

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Rose, Rolf; Huttenlocher, Franziska; Cedzich, Anna; Kaiser, Markus; Schaller, Andreas; Ottmann, Christian

2009-01-01

The first crystallographic study of a plant subtilase, SBT3 from S. lycopersicum, is reported. The subtilase SBT3 from Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) was purified from a tomato cell culture and crystallized using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. A native data set was collected to 2.5 Å resolution at 100 K using synchrotron radiation. For experimental phasing, CsCl-derivative and tetrakis(acetoxymercuri)methane (TAMM) derivative crystals were employed for MIRAS phasing. Three caesium sites and one TAMM site were identified, which allowed solution of the structure

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with hexapole collision cell: figures of merit and applications

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Boulyga, S.F. [Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (Germany). Zentralabteilung fuer Chemische Analysen]|[Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problems Inst., Minsk (Belarus); Becker, J.S. [Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (Germany). Zentralabteilung fuer Chemische Analysen

2000-11-01

The use of gas-filled multipole collision cells represents important progress in ICP-MS instrumentation. It enables an increase in element sensitivity based on the improvement of ion transmission efficiency from near thermalization and collisional focusing of ions. In addition, gas-phase ion-molecule chemistry can be applied in order to reduce mass spectral interferences via charge transfer reaction of interfering ions with reaction gas or via fragmentation of interfering molecular ions by collision-induced dissociation. The application of a hexapole collision cell in quadrupole based ICP-MS (HEX-ICP-QMS) was studied systematically in order to characterize the analytical figures of merit of this approach. Additionally, the performance of different solution introduction systems as well as an inductively coupled plasma shielded torch was studied for use with HEX-ICP-QMS. (orig.)

Solar feed-in tariffs and the merit order effect: A study of the German electricity market

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Tveten, Åsa Grytli; Bolkesjø, Torjus Folsland; Martinsen, Thomas; Hvarnes, Håvard

2013-01-01

This study investigates the merit order effect (MOE) of the recent years' implementation of solar power in Germany. Market clearing electricity prices and production levels are compared for the years 2009–2011, and a model for the relationship between the electricity price and price sensitive electricity production is developed and applied to predict electricity prices in Germany from July 2010 to July 2011 with and without solar electricity generation (SEG). The results show that the SEG has caused a 7% reduction in average electricity prices for this period. The average daily maximum price and daily price variation are also found to decrease, by 13% and 23%, respectively. When taking the MOE into account the net consumer's cost of the solar feed-in tariff (FIT) system is found to be 23% less than the charge listed in the electricity bill. The German FIT policy for solar power has been subject to considerable public debate, and a common argument brought up in disfavor of the system is the high cost for the consumers. In this study we demonstrate the importance of including the MOE when evaluating the total costs and benefits of the FIT policy mechanism. - Highlights: • The merit order effect (MOE) of the German solar feed-in tariffs (FITs) is analyzed. • Solar power is found to substitute thermal power on the margin in peak hours. • In a 1 year period, solar power has reduced electricity prices by 7%, on average. • The solar power has also reduced the daily price variation by 23%, on average. • When including the MOE, the net consumer's cost of solar FITs are reduced by 23%

Analytical model and figures of merit for filtered Microwave Photonic Links.

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Gasulla, Ivana; Capmany, José

2011-09-26

The concept of filtered Microwave Photonic Links is proposed in order to provide the most general and versatile description of complex analog photonic systems. We develop a field propagation model where a global optical filter, characterized by its optical transfer function, embraces all the intermediate optical components in a linear link. We assume a non-monochromatic light source characterized by an arbitrary spectral distribution which has a finite linewidth spectrum and consider both intensity modulation and phase modulation with balanced and single detection. Expressions leading to the computation of the main figures of merit concerning the link gain, noise and intermodulation distortion are provided which, to our knowledge, are not available in the literature. The usefulness of this derivation resides in the capability to directly provide performance criteria results for complex links just by substituting in the overall closed-form formulas the numerical or measured optical transfer function characterizing the link. This theory is presented thus as a potential tool for a wide range of relevant microwave photonic application cases which is extendable to multiport radio over fiber systems. © 2011 Optical Society of America

Validation for 2D/3D registration II: The comparison of intensity- and gradient-based merit functions using a new gold standard data set

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Gendrin, Christelle; Markelj, Primoz; Pawiro, Supriyanto Ardjo; Spoerk, Jakob; Bloch, Christoph; Weber, Christoph; Figl, Michael; Bergmann, Helmar; Birkfellner, Wolfgang; Likar, Bostjan; Pernus, Franjo

2011-01-01

Purpose: A new gold standard data set for validation of 2D/3D registration based on a porcine cadaver head with attached fiducial markers was presented in the first part of this article. The advantage of this new phantom is the large amount of soft tissue, which simulates realistic conditions for registration. This article tests the performance of intensity- and gradient-based algorithms for 2D/3D registration using the new phantom data set. Methods: Intensity-based methods with four merit functions, namely, cross correlation, rank correlation, correlation ratio, and mutual information (MI), and two gradient-based algorithms, the backprojection gradient-based (BGB) registration method and the reconstruction gradient-based (RGB) registration method, were compared. Four volumes consisting of CBCT with two fields of view, 64 slice multidetector CT, and magnetic resonance-T1 weighted images were registered to a pair of kV x-ray images and a pair of MV images. A standardized evaluation methodology was employed. Targets were evenly spread over the volumes and 250 starting positions of the 3D volumes with initial displacements of up to 25 mm from the gold standard position were calculated. After the registration, the displacement from the gold standard was retrieved and the root mean square (RMS), mean, and standard deviation mean target registration errors (mTREs) over 250 registrations were derived. Additionally, the following merit properties were computed: Accuracy, capture range, number of minima, risk of nonconvergence, and distinctiveness of optimum for better comparison of the robustness of each merit. Results: Among the merit functions used for the intensity-based method, MI reached the best accuracy with an RMS mTRE down to 1.30 mm. Furthermore, it was the only merit function that could accurately register the CT to the kV x rays with the presence of tissue deformation. As for the gradient-based methods, BGB and RGB methods achieved subvoxel accuracy (RMS m

Blogid Rapla maakonna rahvaraamatukogudes / Maie Jakobson

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Jakobson, Maie

2009-01-01

Rapla maakonna raamatukoguhoidjate arvamus ajaveebi pidamisest, eelnevatest koolitustest. Arvamust avaldavad: Helve Lehtmaa Laukna raamatukogust, Ilme Säde Käru ramatukogust, Tiina Vaher ja Maie Kalmiste Kehtna raamatukogust, Irma Robam Vahastu raamatukogust ning Mariina Madisson Lelle raamatukogust

Nii loodi fond Mälestus / Linda Järve

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Järve, Linda, 1946-

2003-01-01

12. dets. 2002.a. kirjutasid sihtasutuse Eesti Rahvuskultuuri Fond nõukogu esimees Eri Klas ja Tallinna noorte klubi Kodulinn juhataja Tiina Mägi alla lepingule, millega pandi alus Eesti Rahvuskultuuri Fondi uuele nimelisele allfondile Mälestus

[Raamat] / Kaja Tiisel

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Tiisel, Kaja

2007-01-01

Rets. rmt.: Jõelähtme kirik ja kogudus 18. sajandi esimesel poolel. Pastor Heinrich Christopher Wrede ja tema ametijärglaste kroonikamärkmed. Transkribeerinud, tõlkinud ja kommenteerinud Tiina Kala. Tallinn : Muinsuskaitseamet, 2006. 420 lk.

The National Representation Beauty Contest / Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus

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Łabowicz-Dymanus, Karolina

2011-01-01

Näitus "The Art of Estonia - Adapting Modernity / Provocations and Confrontations" Szczecini Rahvusmuuseumis kuni 27.veebr. 2011 ja Varssavi Rahvusmuuseumis kuni 04. juulini 2011. Kumu Kunstimuuseumi korraldatud näituse kuraatorid Tiina Abel ja Eha Komissarov

A Critical Examination of Figure of Merit (FOM). Assessing the Goodness-of-Fit in Gamma/X-ray Peak Analysis

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Croft, S. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Favalli, Andrea [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Weaver, Brian Phillip [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Williams, Brian J. [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Burr, Thomas Lee [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); Henzlova, Daniela [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); McElroy, R. D. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

2015-10-06

In this paper we develop and investigate several criteria for assessing how well a proposed spectral form fits observed spectra. We consider the classical improved figure of merit (FOM) along with several modifications, as well as criteria motivated by Poisson regression from the statistical literature. We also develop a new FOM that is based on the statistical idea of the bootstrap. A spectral simulator has been developed to assess the performance of these different criteria under multiple data configurations.

Fine 5 lavastab Venemaal

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2013-01-01

Tantsuteatru Fine 5 koreograafid Tiina Ollesk ja Rene Nõmmik toovad Jekaterinburgis välja lavastuse "... and Red", esitajaks Venemaa nimekas nüüdistantsutrupp Provintsialnõje Tantsõ. Lavastuses kõlab Taavo Remmeli kontrabassiimprovisatsioon "12.12.2006"

Kui koolist saab villand / Aivi Pargi

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Pargi, Aivi, 1950-

2004-01-01

Mitme riigi pedagoogid leiavad, et põhikoolieas kooli pooleli jätmine on uus sotsiaalne nähtus, mida saab ennetada õpetajatele uusi oskusi andes ning vanematega koostööd tehes. Kommenteerivad Riina Veidenbaum, Tiina Kivirand

DVD. Piret Tamm soovitab : "Rütm kisub kaasa" / Piret Tamm

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Tamm, Piret, 1966-

2007-01-01

Mängufilm "Rütm kisub kaasa" ("Take the Lead") : režissöör Liz Friedlander : peaosas Antonio Banderas : Ameerika Ühendriigid 2006. Film põhineb tantsuõpetaja Pierre Dulaine'i tantsuteraapia tegevusel

Faraday rotation and magneto-optical figure of merit for the magnetite magnetic fluids

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Kalandadze L.

2011-05-01

Full Text Available In the present paper, using magnetite magnetic fluids as examples, we consider the optical and magneto-optical properties of magnetic fluids based on particles of magnetic oxides, for the optical constants of the material of which, n and k , the relation k2 ≺≺ n2 holds. In this work the Faraday rotation is represented within the theoretical Maxwell-Garnett model. A theoretical analysis has shown that Faraday rotation for magnetic fluids is related to the Faraday rotation on the material of particles by the simple relation. According to this result  in specific experimental conditions the values of the Faraday rotation prorate to q , which is the occupancy of the volume of the magnetic fluid with magnetic particles and spectral dependences of effect in magnetic fluid and in the proper bulk magnetic are similar. We also show that the values of the magneto-optical figure of merit for ultrafine medium and for the bulk material are equal.

Volta alale kerkib uhke elurajoon / Ann-Marii Nergi

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Nergi, Ann-Marii

2011-01-01

Põhja-Tallinnas asuva Volta kvartali detailplaneeringu eskiis on linnavalitsuses kooskõlastatud. Volta kvartali ideekonkursi võitis Soome arhitektibüroo AW². Detailplaneeringu koostaja, ConArte AB juhatuse liikme Tiina Vilbergi ja AS-i Volta tegevdirektori Aivar Reiviku kommentaarid

Swiss Property kontor = Offices of Swiss Property / kommenteerinud Tõnis Sõõrumaa

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2015-01-01

Swiss Property kontoriruumid Tallinnas Rotermanni 8. Sisekujunduse autorid Kätlin Ölluk, Tiina Kesküla, Katy Seppel, Aet Kiivet, Liina Rohtlaan, Marita Mätas, Lilian Esing, Kristin Boginski (Swiss Property); arhitektid Yoko Azukawa, Hanno Grossschmidt, Tomomi Hayashi

Eesti oopereid Nargen-festivalil / Evi Arujärv

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Arujärv, Evi, 1953-

2011-01-01

Timo Steineri ooperist "Kask pead", libretist Maarja Kangro, lavastaja Mart Koldits, dirigent Tõnu Kaljuste ja Anti Marguste mini mono-ooperite A. H. Tammsaare, August Kitzbergi ja Oskar Lutsu tekstidele "Andreses monoloogid", "Tiina monoloogid", "Arno monoloogid", dirigent Tõnu Kaljuste,

90-aastane Tallinna Polütehnikum - ainus omataoline / Sirje Tohver

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Tohver, Sirje

2005-01-01

Polütehnikumi vilistlastest õpetajate (Heiki Tähis, Andres Ojalill, Jüri Jakubovitš, Hugo Tartlan, Hergi Kruusimaa, Tiina Karja, Priit Kalman, Ardi Priks, Jaan Kuus, Jüri Puhang, Vello Vanem, Rein Kask, Kalle Sammal, Ain Saaret) meenutusi

1 küsimus noorele juhile : Mis teha, kui kopp on ees - kuidas sa stressist jagu saad? / Riho Jürvetson, Merit Miller, Krister Rekkaro ... [jt.

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2009-01-01

Küsimusele vastavad EMT erakliendi osakonna juhataja Riho Jürvetson, KPMG Baltics müügijuht Merit Miller, ArtPrint juht Krister Rekkaro, Dateli juhatuse liige Triin Sepp, Media House projektijuht Tanel Tarkmees, Ober-Haus Kinnisvara tegevjuht Katrin Klein-Näppi

Relations between the efficiency, power and dissipation for linear irreversible heat engine at maximum trade-off figure of merit

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Iyyappan, I.; Ponmurugan, M.

2018-03-01

A trade of figure of merit (\\dotΩ ) criterion accounts the best compromise between the useful input energy and the lost input energy of the heat devices. When the heat engine is working at maximum \\dotΩ criterion its efficiency increases significantly from the efficiency at maximum power. We derive the general relations between the power, efficiency at maximum \\dotΩ criterion and minimum dissipation for the linear irreversible heat engine. The efficiency at maximum \\dotΩ criterion has the lower bound \

Getting More Value from the LibQUAL+® Survey: The Merits of Qualitative Analysis and Importance-Satisfaction Matrices in Assessing Library Patron Comments

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Detlor, Brian; Ball, Kathryn

2015-01-01

This paper examines the merit of conducting a qualitative analysis of LibQUAL+® survey comments as a means of leveraging quantitative LibQUAL+ results, and using importance-satisfaction matrices to present and assess qualitative findings. Comments collected from the authors' institution's LibQUAL+ survey were analyzed using a codebook based on…

Arstide koolitus vaakumis / Triin Tabur

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Tabur, Triin

2014-01-01

Arstide täienduskoolituse fondi tulumaksusoodustustega ühenduste nimekirjast välja jätmine on arstide erialase täienduskoolituse välismaal jätnud stipendiumiteta. Selgitusi jagavad Katrin Rehemaa, Margus Viigimaa, Tiina Sats ja Toomas Pruunsild

Mozarti kadunud autograaf võtab publiku ees kuju / Riina Luik

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Luik, Riina, 1962-

2011-01-01

Eesti Ajaloomuuseumis asuvast Mozarti autograafist 27. klaverikontserdi B-duur käsikirjast. Tiina Õuna uurimistööst Mozarti noodikäsikirja teekonna Viinist Tallinna uurimisel. 30. septembril Estonia kontserdisaalis toimuvast kontserdist, kus ettekandele tuleb ka 27. klaverikontsert

Moodsad näidisasumid : Weissenhof & Maasika-Vaarika : näitus Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseumis 21. 04.-20. 05. 2001 / Triin Ojari

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Ojari, Triin, 1974-

2001-01-01

Karin Kirschi ja Tiina Tammeti koostatud näituse põhjal 1927. a. Stuttgarti rajatud Weissenhofi väikemajade elamurajoonist (arhitektid Walter Gropius, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier jt.) ja 1931-1932 Tallinnasse ehitatud Maasika-Vaarika tänava asumit

Tallinlased kostitavad Euroopa filmitähti / Andreas Sepp

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Sepp, Andreas

2010-01-01

Eesti-poolne korraldaja Ave Ungro projektist "Kino kiikab kööki", mille raames kostitavad Tallinna kodud Euroopa Filmiakadeemia gala külalisi. EFA külalist võõrustavast kunstnik Andres Lõost ja kino "Sõprus" loovjuhist Tiina Savist

"Ega need loteriivõidud meile taevast alla ei kuku" : Eesti Kooli jõulupidu pole enem mägede taga / Katrin Käärik ; foto: Katrin Käärik

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Käärik, Katrin, 1950-

2006-01-01

lapsevanemad Tiina Baugus-Hörnstam, Aime Mölder ja Mart Klaar on need, kes on võtnud Stockholmi Eesti Kooli jõululoterii korraldamise töö ja rõõmu endi kanda. Annetamise võimalustest ja tähtaegadest

Noorteprogramm "Angelika! Angelika!" / Helemall Piirfeldt

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Piirfeldt, Helemall

2005-01-01

2005. a. mais Kadrioru Kunstimuuseumis näituse "Šveitsi muusa. Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807)" raames toimunud noorteprogrammist "Angelika! Angelika!", mida juhendasid moekunstnik Sirje Märjamaa ja muuseumipedagoog Helemall Piirfeldt. Moeetenduse lavastas Tiina Makarov, konsultant oli grimmikunstnik Anu Konze

Fine5 tantsuteater võitis Vitebskis teise preemia

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2006-01-01

22. - 26. XI Valgevenes toimunud kaasaegse koreograafia konkursil "International Festival of Modern Choreography" võitsid Laura Kvelstein ja Dmitri Kruus lühiteostega "1 spot, 2 shadows" teise preemia. Konkursi raames toimunud meistriklasse juhendas Fine5 koreograaf Tiina Ollesk

Roman Toi kaks suurt armastust : muusika ja Eesti / Elle Puusaag ; foto: V. Sarapuu

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Puusaag, Elle, 1945-2017

2007-01-01

Toronto Eesti Maja kristallsaalis toimunud pidulikust õhtust 5. detsembril: maestro Roman Toi mälestusteraamatu esitlusest. Rets. rmt.: Toi, Roman. Kaunimad laulud pühendan sull' : Roman Toi mälestused/toimetaja Tiina Sarv. Toronto : Viljandi : T. Sarv, 2007

Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkooli Arhitektuuri Instituudi rahvusvaheline töötuba 8.-12. september 2008

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2009-01-01

Töötoa "Linnamaastik / Roheline Tallinn" teemad: "Tuukri park", "Vanalinna bastionite rohevöönd", "Teatriväljak", juhendajad: maastikuarhitekt Günter Nagel (Saksamaa), arhitektid Irina Raud ja Katrin Vannas, maastikuarhitekt Tiina Tuulik . Osalesid 4. kursuse arhitektuuri eriala tudengid

Moodulitest komplekteeritav diivan Black = A modular sofa called Black

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2007-01-01

Autor Tiina Mang pälvis diivanikomplekti Black eest Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu 2006. a. esemepreemia. T. Mangist, objektid, kuhu on valitud T. Mangi projekteeritud mööblit, näitused. 3 värv. vaadet, foto T. Mangist

Kauplus Mulberry - Oksana Tandit = Mulberry - Oksana Tandit store

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2011-01-01

Inglise firma Mulberry ja eesti moekunstniku Oksana Tanditi kauplusest Tallinnas Suur-Karja 2. Sisearhitektid Tiina Talvi ja Elo Pärlioja. Loetletud sisearhitektide tehtud töid. Interjööris kasutatud sepised valmistasid Tõnu Narro ja Märt Vaidla

В Нарве можно будет посмотреть удостоенный эстонской театральной премии спектакль / Рене Ныммик ; интервьюировала Тийа Линнард

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Ныммик, Рене

2015-01-01

Narva kultuurimajas Rugodiv näeb Fine5 tantsuteatri lavastust "...and blue", mis võitis tänavu Eesti teatriauhinna. Etenduse koreograafideks ja lavastajateks on Tiina Ollesk ja Rene Nõmmik, keda on palutud lavastama ka Venemaale. Intervjuu Rene Nõmmikuga

Narvas näeb Eesti tantsuauhinna võitnud tantsulavastust / Rene Nõmmik ; intervjueerinud Tiia Linnart

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Nõmmik, Rene, 1962-

2015-01-01

Narva kultuurimajas Rugodiv näeb Fine5 tantsuteatri lavastust "...and blue", mis võitis tänavu Eesti teatriauhinna. Etenduse koreograafideks ja lavastajateks on Tiina Ollesk ja Rene Nõmmik, keda on palutud lavastama ka Venemaale. Intervjuu Rene Nõmmikuga

Fonoloogiast piiblitõlkeni. Mati Hindi juubelikogumik / Reili Argus

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Argus, Reili, 1967-

2012-01-01

Tutvustus: Pühendusteos emeriitprofessor Mati Hindi 75. sünnipäevaks / koostanud ja toimetanud Reili Argus, Annika Hussar ja Tiina Rüütmaa. Tallinn : Tallinna Ülikool, 2012. (Tallinna Ülikooli eesti keele ja kultuuri instituudi toimetised ; 14)

Monkey Business toetab shimpansit / Sergo Selder

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Selder, Sergo

2004-01-01

Moeturg teeb show'd Reval Park Hotelli & Casino heategevusüritusel. Osalevad tuntud tegijad Tiina Talumees Pärni, Triin Randloo, Kris Soonik ja noored moekunstnikud Triin Kärblane, Janina Pasti, Jana Einard. Kampaania on Tallinna loomaaia shimpansi Pino toetuseks

Comparative merits of radioimmunoscintigraphy and computer tomography in diagnosis and follow-up of primary ovarial cancer

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Barzen, G.; Cordes, M.; Langer, M.; Felix, R.; Friedman, W.; Mayr, A.C.

1990-01-01

In this prospective study the diagnostic merit of radioimmunoscintigraphy (RIS) was compared with computed tomography (CT) and operation in the primary diagnostic procedure and follow-up of women with suspected ovarial cancer. In primary diagnosis, sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy was 100%, 60% and 90% for RIS. In follow-up, sensitivity for local recurrence was slightly higher in CT than in RIS. It was possible to detect peritoneal carcinosis in the pelvis and lower abdominal region better with RIS, but in the upper abdominal region, peritoneal carcinosis was detected better with CT. If no differentiation between benign or malignant lesion, is possible with CT, differentiation will in many cases be possible with RIS. (orig.) [de

Broadband nonvolatile photonic switching based on optical phase change materials: beyond the classical figure-of-merit.

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Zhang, Qihang; Zhang, Yifei; Li, Junying; Soref, Richard; Gu, Tian; Hu, Juejun

2018-01-01

In this Letter, we propose a broadband, nonvolatile on-chip switch design in the telecommunication C-band with record low loss and crosstalk. The unprecedented device performance builds on: 1) a new optical phase change material (O-PCM) Ge 2 Sb 2 Se 4 Te 1 (GSST), which exhibits significantly reduced optical attenuation compared to traditional O-PCMs, and 2) a nonperturbative design that enables low-loss device operation beyond the classical figure-of-merit (FOM) limit. We further demonstrate that the 1-by-2 and 2-by-2 switches can serve as basic building blocks to construct nonblocking and nonvolatile on-chip switching fabric supporting arbitrary numbers of input and output ports.

The directivity of a compact antenna: an unforgettable figure of merit

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Ziolkowski Richard W.

2017-01-01

Full Text Available When an electrically small antenna is conceived, designed, simulated, and tested, the main emphasis is usually placed immediately on its impedance bandwidth and radiation efficiency. All too often it is assumed that its directivity will only be that of a Hertzian dipole and, hence, its directivity becomes a minor consideration. This is particularly true if such a compact antenna radiates in the presence of a large ground plane. Attention is typically focused on the radiator and its size, while the ground plane is forgotten. This has become a too frequent occurrence when antennas, such as patch antennas that have been augmented with metamaterial structures, are explored. In this paper, it is demonstrated that while the ground plane has little impact on the resonance frequency and impedance bandwidth of patch antennas or metamaterial-inspired three-dimensional magnetic EZ antennas, it has a huge impact on their directivity performance. Moreover, it is demonstrated that with both a metamaterial-inspired two-element array and a related Huygens dipole antenna, one can achieve broadside-radiating electrically small systems that have high directivities. Several common and original designs are used to highlight these issues and to emphasize why a fundamental figure of merit such as directivity should never be overlooked.

Eesti tants ühines Dogma-manifestiga / Tiit Tuumalu

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Tuumalu, Tiit, 1971-

2001-01-01

"1=3 õige või vale" (idee autor ja lavastaja Jarmo Karing), kunstnik Liina Tepand, esietendus 1. märtsil Tartu Teatrilaboris; "1973. Võrrand kolme muutuja ja ühe puudujaga" ( idee autor Tiina Mölder), esietendus 1. aprillil Mustpeade Majas

Lugupeetud emakeeleõpetaja! / Martin Ehala

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Ehala, Martin, 1963-

2006-01-01

Tutvustatakse eesti keele õpikuid: Ehala, Martin. Eesti keele struktuur. Tallinn, 2001 ; Ehala, Martin. Kirjutamise kunst. Tallinn, 2000 ; Ehala, Martin. Eesti kirjakeel. Tallinn, 2002 ; Madisso, Maia. Keele- ja tekstiharjutusi abiturientidele. Tallinn, 2002 ; Ehala, Martin ; Veismann, Tiina jt. Noor keelekasutaja. Tallinn, 2005

Eesti Lähimineviku Okupatsioonide Muuseumi arhitektuurivõistlus : okupatsiooni igaveseks jäädvustamiseks = Architectural Competition of the Museum of Recent Past Occupations in Estonia : for Eternal Remembrance of the Occupation / Leonhard Lapin

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Lapin, Leonhard, 1947-

2001-01-01

Zürii koosseis, võistlusest, võidutööst. Preemiad: I - Indrek Peil, Siiri Vallner; II - Tiina Teng, Peeter Loo; III - Reio Avaste; ostud - Andres Kask ning Markus Kaasik, Kalle Komissarov, Andres Ojari, Indrek Tiigi ja Ilmar Valdur. 5 ill.

Neoimpressionismi klassikud Kumus / Ragne Nukk

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Nukk, Ragne, 1984-

2010-01-01

Näitus "Neoimpressionismi jälgedes. Mägi ja Finch" Kumu Kunstimuuseumis 12. septembrini 2010. Kuraator Tiina Abel, kujundaja Inga Heamägi. Eksponeeritakse Soome muuseumide kogudesse kuuluvaid prantsuse maalikunstnike töid ja eesti kunstnike teoseid. Lühidalt neoimpressionismist

Pärnu muuseumis näeb vammuseid ja pesu / Karin Klaus

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Klaus, Karin

2009-01-01

Näitus "Meie vammus" Pärnu Muuseumis, koostaja Ülli Kont. Viljandi Muuseumi rändnäitus "Need" Pärnu Muuseumis, koostajad Tiina Jürgen, Ebe-Triin Arros, Lüüli Kiik, Herki Helves. Näitused on avatud 12. septembrini

The application of a figure of merit for nuclear explosive utility as a metric for material attractiveness in a nuclear material theft scenario

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King, Wayne E.; Bradley, Keith; Jones, Edwin D.; Kramer, Kevin J.; Latkowski, Jeffery F.; Robel, Martin; Sleaford, Brad W.

2010-01-01

Effective integration of nonproliferation management into the design process is key to the broad deployment of advanced nuclear energy systems, and is an explicit goal of the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The nuclear explosives utility of a nuclear material to a state (proliferator) or sub-state (terrorist) is a critical factor to be assessed and is one aspect of material attractiveness. In this work, we approached nuclear explosives utility through the calculation of a 'figure of merit' (FOM) that has recently been developed to capture the relative viability and difficulty of constructing nuclear explosives starting from various nuclear material forms and compositions. We discuss the integration of the figure of merit into an assessment of a nuclear material theft scenario and its use in the assessment. This paper demonstrates that material attractiveness is a multidimensional concept that embodies more than the FOM. It also seeks to propose that other attributes may be able to be quantified through analogous FOMs (e.g., transformation) and that, with quantification, aggregation may be possible using concepts from the risk community.

U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program, 2013 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report (Book)

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None, None

2013-10-01

The fiscal year (FY) 2013 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), in conjunction with DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office AMR, was held from May 13-16, 2013, at the Crystal City Marriott and Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. This report is a summary of comments by AMR peer reviewers about the hydrogen and fuel cell projects funded by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

The MERIT High-Power Target Experiment at the CERN PS

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McDonald, K T; Park, H; Tsang, T; Efthymiopoulos, I; Fabich, A; Haug, F; Lettry, J; Palm, M; Pereira, H; Mokhov, N; Striganov, S; Carroll, A J; Graves, V B; Spampinato, P T; Bennett, J R J; Caretta, O; Loveridge, P

2010-01-01

The MERIT (MER­cury In­tense Tar­get) ex­per­i­ment was run in the fall of 2007 using 14 and 24 GeV in­tense pro­ton beams from the CERN PS. It is a proof-of-prin­ci­ple ex­per­i­ment de­signed to val­i­date a tar­get con­cept for pro­duc­ing an in­tense muon source for a fu­ture muon col­lid­er or neu­tri­no fac­to­ry. The ex­per­i­ment suc­cess­ful­ly demon­strat­ed a tar­get tech­nique for mul­ti-MW pro­ton beams that uti­lizes a free-flow­ing liq­uid metal jet with­in the con­fines of a high-field solenoid. We de­scribe the ex­per­i­men­tal strat­e­gy and pa­ram­e­ters, as well as the re­sults ob­tained and their im­pli­ca­tions for fu­ture muon-based ac­cel­er­a­tor fa­cil­i­ties.

Electrical properties and figures of merit for new chalcogenide-based thermoelectric materials

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Schindler, J L; Hogan, T P; Brazis, P W; Kannewurf, C R; Chung, D Y; Kanatzidis, M G

1997-07-01

New Bi-based chalcogenide compounds have been prepared using the polychalcogenide flux technique for crystal growth. These materials exhibit characteristics of good thermoelectric materials. Single crystals of the compound CsBi{sub 4}Te{sub 6} have shown conductivity as high as 2440 S/cm with a p-type thermoelectric power of {approx}+110 {micro}V/K at room temperature. A second compound, {beta}-K{sub 2}Bi{sub 8}Se{sub 13} shows lower conductivity {approx}240 S/cm, but a larger n-type thermopower {approx}{minus}200 {micro}V/K. Thermal transport measurements have been performed on hot-pressed pellets of these materials and the results show comparable or lower thermal conductivities than Bi{sub 2}Te{sub 3}. This improvement may reflect the reduced lattice symmetry of the new chalcogenide thermoelectrics. The thermoelectric figure of merit for CsBi{sub 4}Te{sub 6} reaches ZT {approx} 0.32 at 260 K and for {beta}-K{sub 2}Bi{sub 8}Se{sub 13} ZT {approx} 0.32 at room temperature, indicating that these compounds are viable candidates for thermoelectric refrigeration applications.

U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2012 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Report: May 14-18, 2012, Arlington, VA

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2012-09-01

This document summarizes the comments provided by peer reviewers on hydrogen and fuel cell projects presented at the fiscal year (FY) 2012 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting (AMR), held May 14-18, 2012, in Arlington, VA.

Pritjagatelnõje aromatõ zolotoi oseni / Britt Rosen

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Rosen, Britt, 1968-

2008-01-01

2008. a. sügise moeparfüümidest. Naisteparfüümi Lancome Magnifique loojad on Olivier Cresp ja Jacques Cavallier. Dsquared esimese naistelõhna She Wood autorid on kanada moedisainerid kaksikvennad Dean ja Dan Caten. Kommenteerivad Anu Merila ja Tiina Talumees

Suvised mööndused kontoririietele / Sigrid Tappo

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Tappo, Sigrid

2005-01-01

Audiitorteenuseid pakkuva AS-i Deloitte Audit Eesti töötajate suvisest kontoririietusest. Eesti Kunstiakadeemia moedisaini osakonna dotsent Jüri Siim ning Estonian Business Schooli suhtekorralduse ja ärijuhtimise õppejõud Tiina Tshatshua tutvustavad nõudeid suvisele töörõivastusele

101 riigikogulast said valijalt ehmatava liputervituse / Tuuli Koch

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Koch, Tuuli

2006-01-01

Ilmunud ka: Postimees : na russkom jazõke 4. sept. lk. 4. Valija Tiina Talts saatis presidendivalimiste esimese päeva hommikul parlamendiliikmetele kirja, mille juurde oli ümber disainitud Eesti lipp. Vastused saatsid neli saadikut, nende hulgas Mait Klaassen, Jaak Allik, Janno Reiljan

Blogi näitab vingemaid kontoreid / Kristiina Viiron

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Viiron, Kristiina, 1971-

2010-01-01

Veebiagentuuri Okia Blogi inspiratsioonirubriigi "Disainisahtel" artikliseeria pealkirjaga "Inspireeriv töökeskkond" tutvustab välismaiseid büroode sisekujundusi, reklaamiagentuuri Tank ja veebiagentuuri Okia ühist kontorit Tallinnas Baltika kvartalis (sisekujundus Tiina Teng) ja teisi loova sisekujundusega büroosid Eestis

Peterburis maandusid tulnukad - Rasmus Merivoo juhatab vägesid! / Kristiina Davidjants

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Davidjants, Kristiina, 1974-

2008-01-01

Peterburis Eesti-Vene koostöös sündiva mängufilmi "Buratino" võtetel. Režissöör on Rasmus Merivoo, nimiosas Mikk Nurga, Carabas Barabasi rollis Jaan Rekkor, operaator Aleksandr Kornejev, Eestipoolsed produtsendid Mati Sepping ja Tiina Lokk

Hudozhnik i jego dom

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2004-01-01

Näituse "Kunstnik ja tema kodu. C. T. von Neffi kunstikogu Piira ja Muuga mõisast" raames Väliskunsti Muuseumis toimunud konverentsi "19. sajandi keskpaiga kunstiruum" ettekannetest. Esinesid Jevgenia Kiritshenko, Juri Gudõmenko, Ants Hein, Kadi Polli, Veronika Bogdan, Ingrida Raudsepa, Tiina Abel

Täna toimub Kadrioru lossis väliskunsti muuseumis...

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2004-01-01

Näituse "Kunstnik ja tema kodu. C. T. von Neffi kunstikogu Piira ja Muuga mõisast" raames toimuva ettekannete päeva "19. sajandi keskpaiga kunstiruum" kava. Esinevad Jevgenia Kiritshenko, Juri Gudõmenko, Ants Hein, Kadi Polli, Veronika Bogdan, Ingrida Raudsepa, Tiina Abel

Avastatud klaas / Kai Lobjakas

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Lobjakas, Kai, 1975-

2006-01-01

Euroopa kõrgkoolide klaasieriala üliõpilaste tööde näitus "Discovery / Avastusretk" Kullo galeriis kuni 19. V. Rahvusvahelise ürituse korraldajaks oli EKA klaasikunsti osakond eesotsas Mare Saare ja Tiina Sarapuga. Pikemalt Ave Maseri tööst "Maandumine"

Koopia. Koopia? Koopia! / Anne Untera

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Untera, Anne, 1951-

2006-01-01

Eesti Kunstimuuseumi näitusest "Meistriteoste lummus. Koopia Eestis 19. sajandil" ja satelliitnäitusest "Laurits ja Laurentsius. Meistriteoste varjus". 3. aprillil 2006. a. toimunud konverentsist - Dorothee von Hellermanni, Mai Levini, Tiina-Mall Kreemi, Juta Keevalliku, Inge Kuke ja Bärbel Kovalevski ettekannetest

Kas internet muudab meid rumalamaks? / Liis Kängsepp

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Kängsepp, Liis, 1981-

2012-01-01

Raamatust: Carr, Nicholas. Triiv madalikule : mida Internet meie ajuga teeb / tõlkija Tiina Randus. Tallinn : Äripäev, 2012. (Äripäeva raamat). Ka intervjuu Tallinna Ülikooli dotsendi Kristjan Pordiga raamatus esitatud väidetest interneti mõjust inimesele

Alfred Kongo, intiimse maalilaadi meister / Juta Kivimäe

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Kivimäe, Juta, 1952-

2001-01-01

Alfred Kongost, tema loomingust. A. Kongo 95. sünniaastapäeva tähistav näitus Adamson-Ericu muuseumis 10. X-11. XI ja 9. XI toimub mälestusteõhtu. Näha saab Tiina Pargi 1984. a. filmi A. Kongost

Kas töötukassa soovitab lapsed CV-st välja jätta? / Mari Kodres

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Kodres, Mari

2010-01-01

Karjäärinõustaja Tiina Saare väitel selgus vestlusest töötukassa ühe konsultandiga, et töötukassa klientidel soovitatakse lapsi elulookirjeldusse mitte märkida. Töötukassa nõustamisteenuste ala teenustejuhi Lana Randaru selgitus

Kunst ja käsitöö Eesti hapras filmiühiskonnas ehk Kes määrab rahva maitse / Tarmo Teder

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Teder, Tarmo, 1958-

2002-01-01

Probleemidest eesti filmikunstis ja -tootmises kõnelevad produtsent ja režissöör Peeter Urbla, filmikriitik Tiina Lokk, režissöör, stsenarist ja filmikriitik Andres Maimik ning režissöörid Marko Raat ja Rainer Sarnet

Effect of microemulsion component purity on the chromatographic figures of merit in chiral microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography.

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Kojtari, Adeline B; Foley, Joe P

2009-04-17

Numerous combinations of one-, two-, and three-chiral-component microemulsions have been previously prepared in our group, using N-dodecoxycarbonylvaline (DDCV), 2-hexanol, and ethyl acetate, dibutyl tartrate, or diethyl tartrate. A few results of the various formulations investigated suggested the possible presence of minor impurities in one or more components of the microemulsion. In this study, the purity of the current lots of R- and S-surfactant were measured, as was the subsequent effect of minor impurities on the relevant chromatographic figures of merit (CFOMs) that describe a chiral separation, i.e., efficiency, enantioselectivity, retention, migration window (elution range), and resolution. Two related methods are proposed for correcting enantioselectivities measured in the presence of chiral impurities in the chiral microemulsion.

Ultrahigh pyroelectric figures of merit associated with distinct bistable dielectric phase transition in a new molecular compound: di-n-butylaminium trifluoroacetate.

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Sun, Zhihua; Tang, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Shuquan; Ji, Chengmin; Chen, Tianliang; Luo, Junhua

2015-08-26

Ultrahigh pyroelectric figures of merit are achieved in a new phase-transition material, di-n-butylaminium trifluoroacetate, of which the peak values are an order of magnitude larger than those of their inorganic counterparts. Such an attractive behavior of pyroelectric detectivity is strongly related to its distinct bistable dielectric behavior, which recalls excellent thermoelectric response in organic molecular phase-transition systems. © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Raamatulett / Jaanus Tamm

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Tamm, Jaanus

1996-01-01

Põder, Rein. Armastuse hääl; Schmidt, Erik. Pagana eestlane!; Lina, Jüri. Skorpioni märgi all; Nesser, Hõkan, Tagasitulek; Fallada, Hans. Tookord meil isakodus; Fitzgerald, Francis Scott. Suur Gatsby

Raamatulett / Jaanus Tamm

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Tamm, Jaanus

1996-01-01

Grazie, Marie Eugenie delle. Raamat armastusest; Macdonald, Finlay. Minu noorusmaa; Duckwell, Ernest Simon. Misery Halli saladus; Van Dine, S. S. Greene'i mõrvajuhtum; Van Dine, S. S. Kanaarilinnu mõrvajuhtum

Raamatulett / Jaanus Tamm

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Tamm, Jaanus

1996-01-01

Highsmith, Patricia. Ripley mäng ; Chichester, J. J. Vahialune vaikib ; Kuznetsova, Agnia. Dolly ; Kallas, Aino. Suurlinnade udus ja säras ; Kallas, Aino. Pööripäevad ; Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Saatan Gorais; Patukahetseja

Sant / Jakob Tamm

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Tamm, Jakob

2003-01-01

Sisu: Sant ; Kepitükk ; Kask ; Kõrts ; Sulase mõte ; Surm ; Ahervars ; Orjakivi ; Odavad orjad : [Eesti rahva muinasjutt] ; Kaks püssipauku : [keskaja muinasjutt] ; Ulli allik ; Ussipealik : [muinasjutt] ; Ussi hari ; Varjatud varandus ; Hundi loomine : [rahvajutt] ; Röövli heategu ; Õnn ; Orjavaim ; Ema-armastus ; Isa õpetus ; Moksi Jõõva ; Puugi kinnipanek ; Õnnevalamine ; Suits Ebavere mäel ; Eksituses ; Sikk ; Kodukäija ; Kurja küüsis ; Rongatsi Mats ; Kõrtsi ees ; Rehetuli : [rahvanali] ; Ilm on suur : [rahvanali] ; Lüpsik

Muusika / Saari Tamm

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Tamm, Saari, 1968-

2005-01-01

Lühisõnumid: ERSO osales Läänemere festivalil. 18. - 29. VIII toimuvad EMAs suvekursused "Crossing Borders in interpretation of Classical Music and jazz". Konstantin Türnpu 140. 22. - 24. VIII toimub XII Lõuna-Eesti noorte pianistide suvekool. 21. VIII esineb Estonia kontserdisaalis Helsinki Festival Orchestra. 20. VIII toimub Tartu laululaval Olav Ehala loomingu galakontsert

Vares ja kana : [valmid] / Ivan Krõlov ; tlk. Eduard Kansa, Mart Raud, Timotheos Kuusik, Johannes Semper, G. Õis, Arnold Tulik, Oskar Urgart, Jaan Kärner, Jakob Tamm, Erni Hiir

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Krõlov, Ivan, 1768(1769)-1844

2006-01-01

Sisu: Vares ja Kana ; Moosekandid ; Vares ja Rebane ; Konn ja Härg ; Pirtsakas Näitsik ; Oraakel ; Rukkilill ; Tuli ja Metsatukk ; Hunt ja Talleke ; Pärdik ja Prillid ; Ahvid ; Tihane ; Eesel ; Kotkas ja Kanad ; Võimumees ja Mõttetark ; Koerte sõprus ; Kasujaotus ; Vaat ; Kvartett ; Teekäijad ja Koerad ; Hunt penilas ; Oja ; Rebane ja Mäger ; Rohutirts ja Sipelgas ; Luiskaja ; Kukk ja Pärlitera ; Jänes jahil ; Hunt ja Kägu ; Haug ja Kass ; Peremees ja Sulane ; Voor ; Elevant maavalitsejaks ; Eesel ja Ööbik ; Külamehe kimbatus ; Elevant ja Mops ; Hunt ja tema Kutsikas ; Kass ja Kokk ; Lõvi ja Sääsk ; Aednik ja Filosoof ; Haned ; Siga ; Vanamees ja kolm noorukit ; Kotkas ja Ämblik ; Lehed ja Juured ; Hunt ja Rebane ; Lohe ; Rästas ; Mehhaanik ; Trishka satter ; Tiik ja Jõgi ; Luik, Haug ja Vähk ; Erak ja Karu ; Mesilane ja Kärbsed ; Lõvi jahisaak ; Talupojad ja Jõgi ; Lilled ; Uudishimulik ; Kaastundlik Rebane ; Kogukonna koosolek ; Demjani kalasupp ; Tihane ja Tuvi ; Hiir ja Rott ; Peegel ja Ahv ; Sääsk ja Karjane ; Talupoeg ja Surm ; Hunt ja Karjased ; Lõvi ja Rebane ; Kamm ; Hunt ja Kurg ; Pilv ; Poiss ja Siug ; Maamees ja Siug ; Kägu ja Tuvike ; Kaks Vaati ; Töökas Karu ; Rebane ja Viinamarjad ; Karu võrgus ; Kirjamees ja Röövel ; Mölder ; Siga Tamme all ; Kärbes ja Mesilane ; Ämblik ja Mesilane ; Rebane ja Eesel ; Siug ja Talleke ; Ööbikud ; Peremes ja Lammas ; Kaks Külameest ; Kaks Koera ; Kass ja Ööbik ; Kalade tants ; Haug ; Habemenoad ; Hiired ; Hunt ja Kass ; Karjane ; Orav ; Damaskuse mõõk ; Koer ja Hobune ; Rebane ; Hundid ja Lambad ; Kägu ja Kukk

Wind power merit-order and feed-in-tariffs effect: A variability analysis of the Spanish electricity market

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Azofra, D.; Jiménez, E.; Martínez, E.; Blanco, J.; Saenz-Díez, J.C.

2014-01-01

Highlights: • M5P algorithm-based model determines influence of wind power on Spanish spot market. • Assessment of the wind power influence for different levels of wind resource. • Cost-benefit analysis is developed, accounting feed-in-tariffs and merit order effect. • The worst and best levels of wind power production for the system are determined. - Abstract: The incipient large-scale energy-storage technologies are not sufficiently developed yet, which means that the wind power production depends on the wind speed at every moment. This, along with the fact that the wind resource is not constant over time, makes wind power production quite variable. Therefore, an artificial intelligence-based technique (M5P algorithm) is applied to empirical hourly data to determine the influence of wind power technology on the spot market for different levels of wind resource in 2012. It concludes that wind power depressed the spot prices between 7.42 and 10.94 €/MW h for a wind power production of 90% and 110% of the real one, respectively. Furthermore, taking into account the important presence of wind power in the Spanish generation mix, the above range has been extended up to 0% in order to determine the worst and best level of wind power production for the Spanish electrical system (from an economical point of view). To do so, both feed-in-tariffs and wind power impact on spot market (merit order effect) have been accounted in accordance with the different levels of wind power production. Since empirical data from 2012 have been used to conduct the research, the results presented in this paper may provide policy makers with a worst and best-case scenario to discuss about the convenience of the last cutting expenses over wind power technology in Spain

Gamma and neutron detection modeling in the nuclear detection figure of merit (NDFOM) portal

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Stroud, Phillip D.; Saeger, Kevin J.

2009-01-01

The Nuclear Detection Figure Of Merit (NDFOM) portal is a database of objects and algorithms for evaluating the performance of radiation detectors to detect nuclear material. This paper describes the algorithms used to model the physics and mathematics of radiation detection. As a first-principles end-to-end analysis system, it starts with the representation of the gamma and neutron spectral fluxes, which are computed with the particle and radiation transport code MCNPX. The gamma spectra emitted by uranium, plutonium, and several other materials of interest are described. The impact of shielding and other intervening material is computed by the method of build-up factors. The interaction of radiation with the detector material is computed by a detector response function approach. The construction of detector response function matrices based on MCNPX simulation runs is described in detail. Neutron fluxes are represented in a three group formulation to treat differences in detector sensitivities to thermal, epithermal, and fast neutrons.

Kuidas tõlkida Kumu-hoonet kunsti keelde ehk kunstiehitus versus kunst = How to translate the Kumu building into the language of art or artistic architecture versus art / Liina Siib

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Siib, Liina

2006-01-01

Kumu näitusekujundaja tähelepanekuid maja ja ekspositsiooni vahelistest seostest. Kumu põhiekspositsioonide kujundajad: Liina Siib (Eesti kunst 18. sajandist kuni 1944. aastani, kuraator Tiina Abel) ning Terje Kallast ja Urmas Luure (Eesti kunst 1945-1991, kuraatorid Eha Komissarov ja Kädi Talvoja)

Mida sina täna õppisid? / Veikko Täär, Ain Aaviksoo, Ingrid Tõniste ... [jt.

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2012-01-01

Oma õppimistest ja tulevikuplaanidest räägivad näitleja ja ettevõtja Veikko Täär, tervishoiuteadlane Ain Aaviksoo, tegevjuht Ingrid Tõniste, TV3 avalike suhete juht ja uudisteankur Anneli Adermann, arenduskonsultant Anu Puusaag, personaaltreener Katrin Pärt ja loodusarst Tiina Keldrima

Veerandfinalist Kaia Kanepi : hoidke mulle veel kord pöialt! / Jaan Jürine

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Jürine, Jaan, 1946-

2008-01-01

Täna kordub French Openil seitsme aasta tagune noorte finaal Kaia Kanepi ja Svetlana Kuznetsovaga. Kommenteerivad suusakahevõistluse olümpiavõitja Allar Levandi, kümnevõistluse olümpiavõitja Riigikogu liige Erki Nool ja TC Reval Ladiesi tenniseklubi juht Tiina Mõis

Kasutamata potensiaal saatkondade arhitektuuris / Andro Mänd

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Mänd, Andro

2008-01-01

USA ja Põhjamaade suunast saatkonnahoonete arhitektuuris. Soome saatkonnahoonest (Mikko Heikkinen, Markku Komonen, 1994) Washingtonis, Põhjamaade (Taani, Islandi, Norra, Rootsi, Soome) saatkonnakompleksist (Alfred Berger, Tiina Parkkinen, 1999) Berliinis, Rootsi saatkonnahoonest (Gert Wingardh, Tomas Hansen, 2006) Washingtonis. Eesti uutest Riia ja Pekingi saatkonnahoonetest, ruumiprogrammist, konkursi tingimustest

Moda vernulas v Tallin / Marina Poltavtseva

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Poltavtseva, Marina

2005-01-01

Tallinnas Viru Keskuses toimuvast moeürituste sarjast FIBIT. Keskne sündmus on Kuldnõela nominentide Katrin Kuldma, Tiina Talumehe, Thea Pilveti ja Evelin Lille kollektsioonide esitamine. Lisas "Primetshai marku!" juttu moekunstnik Oksana Tanditi uuest kollektsioonist, mida näidatakse ka Viru keskuses

Gericault, Monet ja Dufy Kumus / Harry Liivrand

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Liivrand, Harry, 1961-

2009-01-01

Prantsusmaalt Lille'i Kunstimuuseumi kogudest pärinev 19. sajandi ja 20. sajandi I poole maastikumaali väljapanek "Normandia maalijad" Kumu Kunstimuuseumis 16. oktoobrist 10. jaanuarini 2010. Näituse koostaja Alain Tapié ja kuraator Tiina Abel. Nimetatud eksponeeritavate tööde autoreid

Mida teha varemetega? / Epp Lankots

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Lankots, Epp, 1976-

2002-01-01

1. ja 2. IV Tallinnas toimunud rahvusvahelise konverentsi "Varemed. Vahemerest Läänemereni" teisest konverentsipäevast, mis keskendus varemetele Tallinnas (Jaani seek, Rotermanni kvartal, Harju tänav, tselluloosikombinaat). Tiina-Mall Kreemi eestvedamisel Väliskunsti muuseumi korraldatud noortenäitusest "Elu varemete keskel"

INES 2000 ja Läänemere ülikool / Annika Tenno

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Tenno, Annika

2000-01-01

Läänemere Ülikooli programmiga (The Baltic University Programme) seotud õppejõududel oli võimalus osaleda INES 2000 konverentsil Stockholmis 14.-18. juunil̀2000, peateemaks "Challenges for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century". Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikooli esindajaks oli Tiina Elvisto

Samblikud astusid sammu õppurile lähemale / Juhani Püttsepp

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Püttsepp, Juhani, 1964-

2010-01-01

Rahvusvahelise haridusprojekti KeyToNature raames valminud e-samblikumäärajast Android OSil töötavatele mobiiltelefonidele "Eesti epifüütsed suursamblikud", mille loojateks on Tartu ülikooli botaanikud Tiina Randlane ja Andres Saag ning IT-spetsialist Marko Peterson koos itaalia kolleegidega

16. oktoobril 2005 Kõik valima! : [luuletused

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2005-01-01

Sisu: Inna Feldbach. "Tegin vahtralehdedele põletusmatust..." ; Katrin Väli. Ülesanne: vrais ou faut ; Karl Martin Sinijärv. Monkey Doodle ehk Kommarid? Kahju... ; Andra Teede. Suurte siniste silmade maa ; Tiina Saar. Valijale ; Kohutav keskerakohuke / tundmatu netifolklorist ; Julius Ürt. Etteütlus

The application of a figure of merit for nuclear explosive utility as a metric for material attractiveness in a nuclear material theft scenario

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King, Wayne E., E-mail: weking@llnl.go [Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States); Bradley, Keith [Global Security Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States); Jones, Edwin D. [Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States); Kramer, Kevin J.; Latkowski, Jeffery F. [Engineering Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States); Robel, Martin [Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States); Sleaford, Brad W. [Engineering Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States)

2010-11-15

Effective integration of nonproliferation management into the design process is key to the broad deployment of advanced nuclear energy systems, and is an explicit goal of the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The nuclear explosives utility of a nuclear material to a state (proliferator) or sub-state (terrorist) is a critical factor to be assessed and is one aspect of material attractiveness. In this work, we approached nuclear explosives utility through the calculation of a 'figure of merit' (FOM) that has recently been developed to capture the relative viability and difficulty of constructing nuclear explosives starting from various nuclear material forms and compositions. We discuss the integration of the figure of merit into an assessment of a nuclear material theft scenario and its use in the assessment. This paper demonstrates that material attractiveness is a multidimensional concept that embodies more than the FOM. It also seeks to propose that other attributes may be able to be quantified through analogous FOMs (e.g., transformation) and that, with quantification, aggregation may be possible using concepts from the risk community.

Pagari 1 kortermaja = Apartment building at Pagari 1 / Reio Raudsepp ; kommenteerinud Reet Roos

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Raudsepp, Reio

2015-01-01

Pagari 1 kortermaja (Tallinn, vanalinn) renoveerimisest. Hoone arhitekt Hans Schmidt, valmimisaasta 1911. Renoveerimise autorid Reio Raudsepp, Rasmus Tamme, Jaanus Saarepera; projekteerija ARS Projekt

Analysis of nanostructuring in high figure-of-merit Ag{sub 1-x}Pb{sub m}SbTe{sub 2+m} thermoelectric materials

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Cook, Bruce A; Harringa, Joel L [Materials and Engineering Physics Program, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University Ames, IA (United States); Kramer, Matthew J [Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University Ames, IA (United States); Han, Mi-Kyung [Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University Evanston, IL (United States); Chung, Duck-Young [Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, IL (United States); Kanatzidis, Mercouri G [Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University Evanston, IL (United States); Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, IL (United States)

2009-04-23

Thermoelectric materials based on quaternary compounds Ag{sub 1-x}Pb{sub m}SbTe{sub 2+m} exhibit high dimensionless figure-of-merit values, ranging from 1.5 to 1.7 at 700 K. The primary factor contributing to the high figure of merit is a low lattice thermal conductivity, achieved through nanostructuring during melt solidification. As a consequence of nucleation and growth of a second phase, coherent nanoscale inclusions form throughout the material, which are believed to result in scattering of acoustic phonons while causing only minimal scattering of charge carriers. Here, characterization of the nanosized inclusions in Ag{sub 0.53}Pb{sub 18}Sb{sub 1.2}Te{sub 20} that shows a strong tendency for crystallographic orientation along the {l_brace}001{r_brace} planes, with a high degree of lattice strain at the interface, consistent with a coherent interfacial boundary is reported. The inclusions are enriched in Ag relative to the matrix, and seem to adopt a cubic, 96 atom per unit cell Ag{sub 2}Te phase based on the Ti{sub 2}Ni type structure. In-situ high-temperature synchrotron radiation diffraction studies indicated that the inclusions remain thermally stable to at least 800 K. (Abstract Copyright [2009], Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

Phenotypic and genetic relationships of feeding behavior with feed intake, growth performance, feed efficiency, and carcass merit traits in Angus and Charolais steers.

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Chen, L; Mao, F; Crews, D H; Vinsky, M; Li, C

2014-03-01

Feeding behavior traits including daily feeding duration (FD), daily feeding head down time (HD), average feeding duration per feeding event (FD_AVE), average feeding head down time per feeding event (HD_AVE), feeding frequency (FF), and meal eating rate (ER) were analyzed to estimate their phenotypic and genetic correlations with feed intake, growth performance, residual feed intake (RFI), ultrasound, and carcass merit traits in Angus and Charolais finishing steers. Heritability estimates for FD, HD, FD_AVE, HD_AVE, FF, and ER were 0.27 ± 0.09 (SE), 0.25 ± 0.09, 0.19 ± 0.06, 0.11 ± 0.05, 0.24 ± 0.08, and 0.38 ± 0.10, respectively, in the Angus population and 0.49 ± 0.12, 0.38 ± 0.11, 0.31 ± 0.09, 0.29 ± 0.10, 0.43 ± 0.11, and 0.56 ± 0.13, respectively, in the Charolais population. In both the Angus and Charolais steer populations, FD and HD had relatively stronger phenotypic (0.17 ± 0.06 to 0.32 ± 0.04) and genetic (0.29 ± 0.17 to 0.54 ± 0.18) correlations with RFI in comparison to other feeding behavior traits investigated, suggesting the potential of FD and HD as indicators in assessing variation of RFI. In general, feeding behavior traits had weak phenotypic correlations with most of the ultrasound and carcass merit traits; however, estimated genetic correlations of the feeding behavior traits with some fat deposition related traits were moderate to moderately strong but differed in magnitude or sign between the Angus and Charolais steer populations, likely reflecting their different biological types. Genetic parameter estimation studies involving feeding behavior traits in beef cattle are lacking and more research is needed to better characterize the relationships between feeding behavior and feed intake, growth, feed utilization, and carcass merit traits, in particular with respect to different biological types of cattle.

Additional merit of coronal STIR imaging for MR imaging of lumbar spine

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Ranjana Gupta

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Introduction: Back pain is a common clinical problem and is the frequent complaint for referral of lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI. Coronal short tau inversion recovery sequence (STIR can provide diagnostically significant information in small percentage of patients. Materials and Methods: MRI examinations of a total of 350 patients were retrospectively included in the study. MR sequences were evaluated in two settings. One radiologist evaluated sagittal and axial images only, while another radiologist evaluated all sequences, including coronal STIR sequence. After recording the diagnoses, we compared the MRI findings in two subsets of patients to evaluate additional merit of coronal STIR imaging. Results: With addition of coronal STIR imaging, significant findings were observed in 24 subjects (6.8%. Twenty-one of these subjects were considered to be normal on other sequences and in three subjects diagnosis was changed with the addition of coronal STIR. Additional diagnoses on STIR included sacroiliitis, sacroiliac joint degenerative disease, sacral stress/insufficiency fracture/Looser′s zones, muscular sprain and atypical appendicitis. Conclusion: Coronal STIR imaging can provide additional diagnoses in a small percentage of patients presenting for lumbar spine MRI for back pain. Therefore, it should be included in the routine protocol for MR imaging of lumbar spine.

High thermoelectric figure of merit by resonant dopant in half-Heusler alloys

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Chen, Long; Liu, Yamei; He, Jian; Tritt, Terry M.; Poon, S. Joseph

2017-06-01

Half-Heusler alloys have been one of the benchmark high temperature thermoelectric materials owing to their thermal stability and promising figure of merit ZT. Simonson et al. early showed that small amounts of vanadium doped in Hf0.75Zr0.25NiSn enhanced the Seebeck coefficient and correlated the change with the increased density of states near the Fermi level. We herein report a systematic study on the role of vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), and tantalum (Ta) as prospective resonant dopants in enhancing the ZT of n-type half-Heusler alloys based on Hf0.6Zr0.4NiSn0.995Sb0.005. The V doping was found to increase the Seebeck coefficient in the temperature range 300-1000 K, consistent with a resonant doping scheme. In contrast, Nb and Ta act as normal n-type dopants, as evident by the systematic decrease in electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficient. The combination of enhanced Seebeck coefficient due to the presence of V resonant states and the reduced thermal conductivity has led to a state-of-the-art ZT of 1.3 near 850 K in n-type (Hf0.6Zr0.4)0.99V0.01NiSn0.995Sb0.005 alloys.

The Merit(nTOF-11) High Intensity Liquid Mercury Target Experiment at the CERN PS

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Efthymiopoulos, I; Caretta, O; Carroll, A J; Fabich, A; Graves, V B; Grudiev, A; Haug, F; Kirk, H G; Lettry, Jacques; Loveridge, P; McDonald, K T; Mokhov, N; Palm, M; Park, H; Pernegger, H; Spampinato, P T; Steerenberg, R; Striganov, S; Tsang, T

2008-01-01

The MERIT(nTOF-11) experiment is a proof-ofprinciple test of a target system for a high power proton beam to be used as front-end for a neutrino factory or a muon collider. The experiment took data in autumn 2007 with the fast-extracted beam from the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) to a maximum intensity of $30 × 10^{12}$ per pulse. The target system, based on a free mercury jet, is capable of intercepting a 4-MW proton beam inside a 15-T magnetic field required to capture the low energy secondary pions as the source for intense muon beams. Partice detectors installed around the target setup measure the secondary particle flux out of the target and can probe cavitation effects in the mercury jet when excited by an intense proton beam.Preliminary results of the data analysis will be presented here.

Figures of merit of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for compliant analysis of waters and wastes using USEPA standard operating procedures

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Brenner, I.B.; Spence, B.; Walder, A.

2004-01-01

The scope of this study is to critically review the performance of the ICP-MS instrumentation and aspects of the analytical methodology for compliant determination of Al, Sb, As, Ba, Be, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Fe, Pb, Mn, Ni, Se, Ag, Tl, V, and Zn in surface and subsurface water, soil, sludge, sediments and various solid wastes. The evaluation was performed using conventional and practical figures of analytical merit detailed in using USEPA SW (Solid Waste) 846 procedures and ISO/EC 17025

Gurmee, kiirtoit ja koduköök läbisegi / Heie Treier

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2006-01-01

Rahvusvahelisest joonistuste näitusest "Improvisatsioon" Tallinna Kunstihoones. Oma töid eksponeerivad Tõnis Vint, Evald Okas, Lembit Sarapuu, Aili Vahtrapuu, Albert Gulk, Ülle Marks, Anu Kalm, Vive Tolli, Inga Heamägi, Evi Tihemets, Mare Vint, Maria-Kristiina Ulas, Kuzja Zverev, Tiina Tammetalu jt

Klaas ja mõis / Maie-Ann Raun

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2007-01-01

Klaasikunstinäitus "Ringkäik" Albu mõisas, kuraatorid Virve Kiil, Kati Kerstna, Kairi Orgusaar. Eksponeeritakse Tiina Sarapu, Mare Saare, Eeva Käsperi, Kai Kiudsoo-Värvi, Pilvi Ojamaa, Merle Bukoveci, Kalli Seina, Viivi-Ann Keerdo, Liisi Junolaineni, Kristiina Uslari, Ivo Lille töid

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Rahvusraamatukogu - Eesti Vabariigi 80. aastapäevale pühendatud näitused, Kristjan Raua majamuuseum - Tiina Käeseli ehtenäitus "Traat tõmbab", Niguliste kiriku Antoniuse kabel - Sally Stuudio näitus "Vapp kohtub vapiga Nigulistes", Tervishoiumuuseum - ungari kunstniku Gyula Madarasz'i akvarellinäitus

Eesti Kunstiakadeemia tootedisaini eriala magistritööde kaitsmised 3. juulil...

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2001-01-01

Kaitsmisele tulevad tööd: Liis Ira "Säästev tootearendus ja tekstiilide recycling" (juh. Tiina Laurila); Ruth-Helene Kaasiku "Energiasäästmisvõimalused välisvalgustuses" (juh. Arvo Pärenson); Maria Pukk'i "Linnainventari kohereerumine vahelduvates maastikes" - "Green Way" (juh. A. Pärenson).

Enesetapp helesinisel ekraanil / Margit Tõnson

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2008-01-01

Telemängudest, televisiooni võimalikust mõjust inimeste vaimsele tervisele, emotsionaalsele heaolule. Telemängust "Tõehetk", mis ka Eestis on vaadatavuse edetabelites esikohal (Kanal 2). Oma arvamuse ütlevad artiklis "Mis sa oskad kosta?" kirjanik Jan Kaus, ajakirjanik Tiina Kaalep ja sotsioloog Airi-Alina Allaste

Tantsuteater ütleb oma ruumidele hüvasti / Andres Laasik

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2011-01-01

Tantsuteatri Fine 5 uuest tantsulavastusest "Enne kui minna, ma ütlen", mis tähistab teatri sunnitud lahkumist Tallinnas Lai t. 9 asuvatest ruumidest. Tantsuteatri Fine 5 eestvedajad Tiina Ollesk ja René Nõmmik Lai t. 9 asuva hoone seisukorrast, sinna kolimisest, teatrist, uute ruumide otsingust

"The word was sung, the word was bound" / Lester Capon

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2010-01-01

4. rahvusvaheline köitekunsti näitus-konkurss "Scripta manent" Eesti Tarbekunsti- ja Disainimuuseumis 9. jaanuarini 2011. Köita tuli Veljo Tormise "Lauldud sõna". Jeff Clementsi, Katinka Keusi (Holland), Lolita Grabauskiene-Tarbunaite (Leedu), Tiina Piisangu, Maila Käose, Ruuda Maarandi töödest

Neli vaadet banaanile / Evelin Lagle, Heili Einasto

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Lagle, Evelin, 1986-

2010-01-01

Kahest tantsulavastusest: "Kaks naist köögis, banaanist rääkimata", koreograafid ja esitajad Kaja Lindal ja Mari Mägi, esietendus 14. oktoobril 2010 Kanuti gildi saalis ning "Neli vaadet", lavastaja Maret Mursa, tantsijad Rene Nõmmik ja Tiina Ollesk, esietendus 15. oktoobril NO99s

Aldo Järvsoo: kirivööd ma ei lõigu / Tiiu Laks

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2009-01-01

Eesti 2008. aasta parim moekunstnik ja auhinna Kuldnõel omanik on Aldo Järvsoo, tema kollektsioonist "Virve". Lühidalt auhinna teiste nominentide Liisi Eesmaa, Tiina Talumehe ja Liivia Leškini kollektsioonidest. Võidukollektsiooni saab 15. märtsini vaadata Tallinna Kaubamaja Naistemaailmas paikneval näitusepinnal

Naismaalijate abstraktsioon ja empaatia / Reet Varblane

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2003-01-01

Tartu Kunstimajas näitus "Abstraktsioon ja empaatia. Kristiina Kaasik, Lola Liivat, Helina Loid (sünd. 1982), Tiiu Pallo-Vaik, Mall Paris, Anne Parmasto, Mari Roosvalt, Sirje Runge, Tiina Tammetalu, Margi Vähi (sünd. 1975)". Kuraator ja väljapaneku kujundaja Reet Varblane

The merits of a robot: a Dutch experience.

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Mobach, Mark P

2006-01-01

To determine the merits of a robot at the community pharmacy in a quasi-experiment. The applied methods for data-collection were barcode-time measurements, direct observations, time-interval studies, and tally at a Dutch community pharmacy. The topics consisted of workload, waiting times, congestion, slack, general work, counter work, and work at the consultation room. The topics were studied in pre-test and post-test stages, each stage during six weeks. By using these topics and some additional data from the pharmacy, the economics of the robot were also assessed. The workload decreased with 15 prescriptions per person per day. The waiting times decreased with one minute and 18 seconds per dispensing process, reducing the wait until counter contact. The day congestion decreased with one hour 27 minutes and 36 seconds, and the day slack increased with 28 minutes. The analysis of the general work showed no appreciable difference in the bulk of the care-related activities and the other activities. However, some work was re-shuffled: 7% increase at counter work and 7% decrease at logistics. Moreover, statistically significant increases were observed at counter work (5%) and robot work (4%), and significant decreases at telephone (3%) and filling work in presence of the patient (4%). The counter tally study showed a rise in care-related activities with 8%. Moreover, it also illuminated a statistically significant decrease at no information (11%) and an increase at only social (2%). The consultation room was never used during the study. The pharmacy economics of the robot showed that the robot had high estimated costs for purchase, depreciation, and maintenance: EUR 187,024 in the first year. Moreover, the robot had positive impact on waiting times, congestion, staffing, logistics, and care-related work, which was estimated on EUR 91,198 in the first year. The estimated payback time of the robot was three years. An introduction of the robot may indeed have the often

Relationship between the merit factor of thermoelectric materials and the air conditioning unit of urban electric cars

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Buffet, J.

1994-01-01

The main benefit of electric cars is to reduce air pollution in cities that is thus desirable to equip them with non polluting air conditioning units and this rules out frigorific compressors operating with CFC. The planned replacement of CFC by HFC is at best an interim solution. The best solution is certainly to use thermoelectric air conditioning units, which are inherently pollution-free. However, these have a fairly low COPF when compared to traditional compressor units. We study the relationship between the cooling of the interior of urban electric cars and the merit factor of the thermoelectric material in their Peltier unit. This should help provide concrete target properties of future T E materials. copyright 1995 American Institute of Physics

"Ehitamata. Visioonid uuest ühiskonnast 1986-1994" : näitus Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseumis 24.04. - 07.06.2015 = "Unbuilt. Visions for a New Society 1986-1994. Exhibition at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, 24 April to 7 June 2015 / Ingrid Ruudi

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2016-01-01

Näituse "Ehitamata. Visioonid uuest ühiskonnast 1986-1994" koostamisest. Kuraator Ingrid Ruudi, kujundajad Karli Luik ja Margus Tamm. Kultuurkapitali arhitektuuri sihtkapitali aastapreemia nominent 2016

The equivalent width as a figure of merit for XPS narrow scans

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Singh, Bhupinder; Velázquez, Daniel; Terry, Jeff; Linford, Matthew R.

2014-01-01

Highlights: • We introduce a new figure of merit for XPS narrow scans: the equivalent width (EW XPS ). • EW XPS is less subjective and involves lesser user bias than traditional peak fitting. • EW XPS is responsive to changes in chemical states of materials. • EW XPS could be used for quality control and comparing spectra from similar samples. • EW XPS has the potential to be part of an expert software system for machine interpretation of spectra. - Abstract: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a widely used surface analytical tool that provides information about the near surface regions of materials. And while indispensable for XPS data analysis, peak fitting of narrow scans is often a fairly subjective exercise. Herein we introduce the equivalent width (EW) as an additional and less subjective figure of merit for XPS narrow scans. We believe that this parameter will prove particularly useful for analyzing series of similar or nominally identical spectra, perhaps as a component of an expert software system for the machine interpretation of spectra. It also appears to be useful, shedding light on the chemical state of materials, when additional information about a sample is known. The EW XPS is simply defined as the area of a narrow scan divided by the height of the maximum of its peak envelope. To limit any ambiguity in EW XPS for a series of spectra, we may also list the peak position of the maximum of the envelope (PE max ). The potential usefulness and limitations of the EW XPS and PE max parameters are demonstrated by their application to the narrow scans of: (i) four sets of ozone-treated carbon nanotubes (EW XPS ∼ 2.11–2.16 eV for a Shirley background, and up to 2.88 eV for no background, PE max ∼ 284.4–284.5 eV), (ii) a series of silicon wafers with different oxide thicknesses (EW XPS ∼ 1.5–2.8 eV, PE max ∼ 99–103 eV), (iii) hydrogen-terminated silicon before and after derivatization with pentyl groups, and after annealing of

Kavatsedes kaminat / Tiina Kolk

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Kolk, Tiina

2007-01-01

AET Arhitektide arhitekt Priit Hamer kaminate paigaldamisest, avatud koldega kaminast, klaasuksega ahjust, õhkkütte- ehk malmsüdamega kaminast, gaasikaminast ja valmiskaminatest, kamina sobitumisest ruumikujundusega

Tulipunktis tootekunst / Tiina Kolk

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Kolk, Tiina

2008-01-01

Muljeid disainimessilt "100% Design London". Eesti disainiauhinna Bruno pälvisid Mare Kelpman kollektsiooniga ""Light & Stripes" ning Tarmo Luisk valgusallikaga "Led Stick". Kommenteerivad Ilona Gurjanova, Heikki Zoova, Kaire Kemp-Tishler

Hullutav hortensia / Tiina Kolk

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2016-01-01

Põhja-Ameerikast ning Ida- ja Kagu-Aasiast pärit hortensia perekond on ligi 75-liigiline. Eesti aedades on levinud püstise ja koonilise õisikuga aedhortensia Hydrangea paniculata ja ümarakujulise õisikuga puishortensia Hydrangea arborescens. Vestlusest Sadevälja aiandustalu perenaise Jana Proosiga

Helsingisse kunstireisile! / Tiina Kolk

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Kolk, Tiina

2016-01-01

Soome tekstiilikunstniku Kirsti Rantaneni vaipade ja ruumiinstallatsioonide näitus Helsingi Disainimuuseumis. Itaalia maalikunstniku Amadeo Modigliani loomingu näitus Helsingis Ateneumis. Jaapani kunstniku Yayoi Kusama loomingu näitus "In Infinity" Helsingi kunstimuuseumis HAM

Õigus / Tiina Kala

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2008-01-01

Käsikirjalistest allikatest (Lübecki õigus = Jus Lubicense 1257 ; Lübecki õigus = Das lübische Recht 1282 ; Lübecki õigus : raehärrade valimise ja vannutamise kord = Das lübische Recht : Ordnung für die Wahl und Beeidigung der Ratsherren 13.-16. saj. ; Lübecki õigus : Tallinna privileegid : das lübische Recht : Privilegien der Stadt Reval 14. saj. ; Kuningas Magnus Erikssoni linnaõigus = Kung Magnus Erikssons stadslag 15. saj. ; Vendi linnade mereõigus = Seerecht der wendischen Städte 1482 ; Lübecki õigus = Das lübische Recht 1511) Tallinna Linnaarhiivis ja Eesti Ajaloomuuseumis

Current developments on the coal and gas markets and their retroactive effects on the Merit Order

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Hecking, Harald; Cam, Eren; Schoenfisch, Max; Schulte, Simon

2017-01-01

Coal and gas continue to play a significant role in the European power generation system, especially in Germany. According to the AG energy balances, the share of hard coal in German gross electricity generation in 2016 was 17.2% and natural gas 12.4%. In addition to the CO 2 price, the prices for steam coal and natural gas are a key factor in determining which gas or coal power station is in Merit Order and whether it comes to a fuel switch. Declining gas prices have been rising sharply since the middle of 2016, and the volatile prices for steam coal have been rising. This article discusses the developments and factors responsible for these developments, which could be expected in the near future, and the implications for the gas-coal spread in the electricity market. [de

Kolm põnevat raamatut / Kristiina Ehin

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Ehin, Kristiina, 1977-

2003-01-01

Coelho, Paulo. Palverännak: maagi päevik : [romaan] / tõlkinud Kadre Vaik, Tiina Ristimets. [Tallinn] : Philos, 2002 ; Lescuyer, Jean ; Benchelah, Mehdi. Palverännak Jeruusalemma / prantsuse keelest tõlkinud Jaanus Õunpuu. Tallinn : Olion, 2001 ; Kureishi, Hanif. Lähedus : [romaan] / tõlkinud Aet Varik. [Tallinn] : Huma, 2002

IFLA 39. aastakongress Baltimaades / Peep Moorast

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Moorast, Peep

2002-01-01

Rahvusvaheline maastikuarhitektide föderatsiooni IFLA 39. kongress deviisiga "Muutused maastikus" Baltimaades 7.-13. X 2002. Kongressi peakorterist Riias korraldati väljasõite Lätisse, Eestisse ja Leetu. Eesti Põllumajandusülikoolis sümpoosionil esinesid Eestist Tiina Tammet ja Peeter Vassiljev. Eestile esitati kutse astuda IFLA liikmeks

Lugu, mis ütles / Kairi Prints

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Prints, Kairi, 1977-

2011-01-01

Tantsuteatri Fine 5 tantsulavastusest "Enne kui minna, ma ütlen". Esietendus 24. detsembril Tallinnas lai tänav 9. Fine 5 Laia tänava stuudiost lahkumise spetsiaalse lavastuse lõid Fine 5 koreograafid ja asutajad Tiina Ollesk ja Rene Nõmmik, lavastuses osalevad nad ise koos seitsme tantsijaga

Eesti palus "Fuck you!" pärast andeks

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2003-01-01

Eesti vabandas Malta ees president Arnold Rüütli riigivisiidi ajal aset leidnud ropendamise pärast. Presidendi kantselei protokolliülem Andrei Birov ütles välisministeeriumi protokolliosakonna peadirektorile Tiina Nirgile tüli käigus: "Fuck you!". Riigivisiit Malta Vabariiki 1.-3.10.2003

Errors in the calculation of new salary positions and performance premiums – 2017 MERIT exercise

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2017-01-01

Following the receipt of the letters dated May 12th announcing the qualification of their performance (MERIT 2017), and the notification of their salary slips for the month of May, several colleagues have come to us to enquire about the calculation of salary increases and performance premiums. After verification, the Staff Association has informed the Management, in a meeting of the Standing Concertation Committee on June 1st, about errors owing to rounding in the applied formulas. James Purvis, Head of HR department, has published in the CERN Bulletin dated July 18th an article, under the heading “Better precision (rounding)”, that gives a short explanation of these rounding effects. But we want to further bring you more precise explanations. Advancement On the salary slips for the month of May, the calculations of the advancement and new salary positions were done, by the services of administrative computing in the FAP department, on the basis of the salary, rounded to the nearest franc...

On the radiation of electric, magnetic and toroidal dipoles

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Afanas'ev, G.N.; Stepanovskij, Yu.P.

2002-01-01

We consider the radiation of electric, magnetic and toroidal dipoles uniformly moving in unbounded medium (this corresponds to the Tamm-Frank problem). The densities of these dipoles are obtained from the corresponding charge-current densities in an infinitesimal limit. The behaviour of radiation intensities in the neighbourhood of the Cherenkov threshold β = 1/n is investigated. The frequency and velocity regions are defined where radiation intensities are maximal. The comparison with previous attempts is given. We consider also the radiation of electric, magnetic and toroidal dipoles uniformly moving in medium, in a finite space interval (this corresponds to the Tamm problem). The properties of radiation arising from the precession of a magnetic dipole are studied

Effects of Edge on-Site Potential in a Honeycomb Topological Magnon Insulator

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Pantaleón, Pierre A.; Xian, Yang

2018-06-01

While the deviation of the edge on-site potential from the bulk values in a magnonic topological honeycomb lattice leads to the formation of edge states in a bearded boundary, this is not the case for a zigzag termination, where no edge state is found. In a semi-infinite lattice, the intrinsic on-site interactions along the boundary sites generate an effective defect and this gives rise to Tamm-like edge states. If a nontrivial gap is induced, both Tamm-like and topologically protected edge states appear in the band structure. The effective defect can be strengthened by an external on-site potential, and the dispersion relation, velocity and magnon density of the edge states all become tunable.

On the Radiation of Electric, Magnetic and Toroidal Dipoles

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Afanasiev, G N

2002-01-01

We consider the radiation of electric, magnetic and toroidal dipoles uniformly moving in unbounded medium (this corresponds to the Tamm-Frank problem). The densities of these dipoles are obtained from the corresponding charge-current densities in an infinitesimal limit. The behaviour of radiation intensities in the neighbourhood of the Cherenkov threshold beta=1/n is investigated. The frequency and velocity regions are defined where radiation intensities are maximal. The comparison with previous attempts is given. We consider also the radiation of electric, magnetic and toroidal dipoles uniformly moving in medium, in a finite space interval (this corresponds to the Tamm problem). The properties of radiation arising from the precession of a magnetic dipole are studied.