The paper addresses the question of the abolition of the Stability and Growth Pact. More and more authors and policymakers are arising the negative impacts of the European deficit rule on the countries and their ability to respond an asymmetric economic shock. Some others are asking for a redefinition of the Pact. If the focus is only fiscal and in light of the non-respect of the Pact by two of...

One of the primary Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program objectives is to obtain measurements applicable to the development of models for better understanding of radiative processes in the atmosphere. We address this goal by building a three-dimensional (3D) characterization of the cloud structure and properties over the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. We take the approach of ju...

Major advances in impression materials and their application have occurred during the last decade, with greater emphasis being placed on rubber impression materials than on dental compound, zinc oxide-eugenol, and agar and alginate. Of particular interest has been the effect of disinfection solutions on the qualities of impressions and the biocompatibility of impression materials. The principal...

Here we provide details on the components of the hexapedal model described in the main paper, including mechanical and kinematic aspects of limb and body geometry, neural activation and muscle force generation, and reduced ion-channel descriptions of bursting neurons used in the CPG and motoneurons. Parameter values are taken from experimental studies of the death’s head cockroach Blaberus disc...

In this paper, a simplified spring-dashpot model is proposed to represent the complicated nonlinear response of some viscoelastic materials. Recently, the viscoelastic modeling has been adopted by many researchers to characterize some parts of the human body in bioengineering and to simulate many material properties in mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and construction engineering....

Although solution processing of small-molecule organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has been considered as a promising alternative to standard vacuum deposition requiring high material and processing cost, the devices have suffered from low luminous efficiency and difficulty of multilayer solution processing. Therefore, high efficiency should be achieved in simple-structured small-molecule OLE...

CHEM-SHE-01 On the production and chemical separation of Hs (element 108) 183 Experiment Proposal Number: U205 Authors: Dvorak, J.; Krücken, R.; Nebel, F.; Novackova, Z.; Türler, A.; Wierczinski, B.; Yakushev, A.; Brüchle, W.; Jäger, E.; Schimpf, E.; Schädel, M.; Semchenkov, A.; Kuznetsov, A.; Chelnokov, M.; Yeremin, A.; Düllmann, C. E.; Nagame, Y.; Eberhardt, K.; Thörle, P.; Dressler, R.; Qin,...

We introduce a simplified model for thin layer flows of granular materials with yield. The model is derived from a Drucker–Prager rheology, and describes the dynamics of the velocity profile and of the transition between static and flowing material. We compare the analytical solution in the inviscid case, and the numerical solution in the viscous case, to experimental data. Although the model d...

Plasmonic nanostructures are highly used for sensing purposes since they support plasmonic modes which make them highly sensitive to the refractive index change of their surrounding medium. Therefore, they can also be used to detect changes in optical properties of ultrathin layer films in a multilayer plasmonic structure. Here, we investigate the changes in optical properties of ultrathin film...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Despite a recent resurgence, intravoxel incoherent motion MRI faces practical challenges, including limited SNR and demanding acquisition and postprocessing requirements. A simplified approach using linear fitting of a subset of higher b-values has seen success in other organ systems. We sought to validate this method for evaluation of brain pathology by comparing perfusi...