• The breakdown point plays an important though at times controversial role in statistics. In situations in which it has proved most successful there is a group of transformations which act on the sample space and which give rise to an equivariance structure. For equivariant functionals, that is those functionals which respect the group structure, a non-trivial upper bound for the breakdown poi...

Background RARHA (REDUCING ALCOHOL RELATED HARM) is a Joint Action (JA) (2014-2016) that is funded under the EU Health Programme and by EU Member States to address some commonly identified priorities to reduce levels of alcohol related harm in the EU. The RARHA work package 5 contributes towards increased understanding among public health policy makers of the scientific basis and practical impl...

New developments based on nanotechnology have to guarantee safe products and processes to be accepted by society. The Polyfire project will develop and scale-up techniques for processing halogen-free, fire-retardant nanocomposite materials and coatings based on unsaturated polyester resins and organoclays. The project includes a work package that will assess the Health and Environmental impacts...

Emulsion stability is a fundamental determination for separation technologies. We use the critical electric field (CEF) and viscosity changes in DC electrorheological (ER) experiments in dynamic mode to establish the level of stability of water-in-crude oil emulsions previously studied through bottle tests. The CEF value corresponds to the value of electric field at which the current reaches 95...

Glycogen disease of the liver (von Gierke's disease) is a rare and incompletely understood disorder of childhood. It is characterized by defective breakdown of liver glycogen to glucose. In most cases, excessive liver glycogen deposition occurs, reaching levels as high as 14 to 17 per cent of the wet liver weight (1, 2). Major clinical manifestations include hepatomegaly; fasting hypoglycemia, ...

A seemingly mild assumption of the standard alternating offers bargaining model under risk is that the breakdown event is not strictly worse than the worst agreement. When this assumption is relaxed the structure of the equilibrium set of agreements changes in an interesting way. We analyse the effect of disagreement on equilibrium, and relate our result to a class of outside option models. Jou...

All-spin logic device (ASLD) has attracted increasing interests as one of the most promising post-CMOS device candidates, thanks to its low power, non-volatility and logic-in-memory structure. Here we investigate the key current-limiting factors and develop a physics-based model of ASLD through nano-magnet switching, the spin transport properties and the breakdown characteristic of channel. Fir...

Introduction A breakdown of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) into specific diseases, age groups and genders allows an estimation of the level of disease burden that can be attributed to modifiable risk factors. This is important as this proportion of the total disease burden is avoidable and demonstrates the potential gain in health through public health interventions that aim to reduce r...

We model illiquid asset markets where institutional investors account for their priceimpact when trading. The model explains why liquidity beta’s and market prices of liquidity-risk are time varying, and elevated during periods of market turbulence and heightened trading. We extend the distressed investor literature to a setting where all investors are optimizing, rational, and aware of distres...