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Dataset associated with "Energy use and needs of disabled people in the EU: towards inclusion in the energy transition"
Get PDFThis dataset contains household-level energy footprint (energy use) calculations based on consumption data from the Household Budget Surveys (HBS) disseminated by Eurostat, wave 2010. The dataset contains energy footprints (total and by consumption category) and categorical variables on poverty, energy poverty and disability, all of which generated by the authors. The dataset also contains household IDs, country codes and household weights generated by Eurostat and corresponding to the HBSs. The household and country ID variables are included in order to allow for households to be identifiable by users of the HBS dataset disseminated by Eurostat. For access to other variables in the HBSs (e.g. household size, income, population density etc.), which have been used in the statistical analysis, please seek microdata access through the official Eurostat portal. Designing environmental policy to take account of social difference is increasingly recognised as essential to address both effectiveness and justice concerns. To date there is limited research on the experiences of disabled people in the environmental literature, amounting to a failure to recognise this substantial constituency. Here we compare disabled households’ embodied energy use, income, risk of poverty and energy poverty, and other socio-demographics to other households in Europe. We find that households that include an economically inactive disabled person earn less and consume 10% less energy than other households, as well as being more likely to experience energy poverty. Disabled households have lower consumption than other households in most categories, with the exception of basic consumption such as food, energy at home (gas and electricity), water and waste services: in effect they have less, and sometimes inadequate access to resources. We conclude that more attention should be paid to disabled households needs to ensure a just energy transition
Displaced thermal state QKD simulation data set: Mutual information changes with loss
No full textSimulation results showing the effects of loss on mutual information measurements in a thermal QKD protocol
Dataset associated with "All-electronic phase-resolved THz microscopy using the self-mixing effect in a semiconductor laser"
No full textThis dataset relates to data presented in the work, "All-electronic phase-resolved THz microscopy using the self-mixing effect in a semiconductor laser". In this work we report all-electronic coherent scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) using a terahertz-frequency quantum cascade laser. By exploiting the coherent self-mixing effect in these lasers, in conjunction with electronic frequency tuning of the laser, we demonstrate spatial mapping of both the amplitude and phase of the scattered field with deeply sub-wavelength resolution. We apply our technique for coherent microscopy of a phonon-resonant crystal. The extracted amplitude and phase parameters reveal clear contrast when compared to both metallic and non-resonant dielectric materials, and show excellent agreement with those calculated using a finite-dipole model of the near-field interaction between the s-SNOM tip and the resonant sample in the Reststrahlen band
Dataset for Dichroic Calcite Reveals the Pathway from Additive Binding to Occlusion
No full textDataset for all results concerning the occlusion for linear dyes in calcite, particularly that of Congo red. This includes photographs, micrographs and absorbance spectra. This data was used to show that linear dyes incorporate in an oriented way, such that their absorbance, and therefore colour, relates to the orientation of the crystal with respect to the plane of polarised light
Dataset for 'An Innovative Data Processing Method for Studying Nanoparticle Formation in Droplet Microfluidics using X-rays Scattering'
No full textX-ray scattering techniques provide a powerful means of characterizing the formation of nanoparticles in solution. Coupling these techniques to segmented-flow microfluidic devices that offer well-defined environments gives access to in situ time-resolved analysis, excellent reproducibility, and eliminates potential radiation damage. However, analysis of the resulting datasets can be extremely time-consuming, where these comprise frames corresponding to the droplets alone, the continuous phase alone, and to both at their interface. We here describe a robust, low-cost, and versatile droplet microfluidics device and use it to study the formation of magnetite nanoparticles with simultaneous synchrotron SAXS and WAXS. Lateral outlet capillaries facilitate the X-ray analysis and reaction times of between a few seconds and minutes can be accommodated. A two-step data processing method is then described that exploits the unique WAXS signatures of the droplets, continuous phase, and interfacial region to identify the frames corresponding to the droplets. These are then sorted, and the background scattering is subtracted using an automated frame-by-frame approach, allowing the signal from the nanoparticles to be isolated from the raw data. Modeling these data gives quantitative information about the evolution of the sizes and structures of the nanoparticles, in agreement with TEM observations. This versatile platform can be readily employed to study a wide range of dynamic processes in heterogeneous systems
Natura Naturans
Get PDFComposition for clarinet and prepared string orchestra, 15mins. Commissioned by Ilan volkov and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Orchestra for Tectonics Festival Glasgow. The piece focusses on indeterminacy: using unstable clarinet multiphonics with exploratory performance processes, non-standard string harmonic positions, low strings use string-coupling preparations
Register venting study no.1
Get PDFA study for solo clarinet on 'venting'; the technique of altering a clarinet fingering by opening holes further up the instrument (skipping at least one closed hole above the terminator hole), which sharpens pitch, can afford register shifting and increases possibilities for multiphonics. This study focusses on the second venting effect of register changes using halfhole technique
Dataset associated with 'Scaling of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction with magnetization in Pt/Co(Fe)B/Ir multilayers'
No full textMagnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy and an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction contain chiral domain walls and skyrmions that are promising for applications. Here we measure the temperature dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in Pt/CoFeB/Ir and Pt/CoB/Ir multilayers by means of static domain imaging. First, the temperature dependences of saturation magnetization (), exchange stiffness () and intrinsic perpendicular anisotropy () are determined. Then the demagnetized domain pattern in each multilayer is imaged by wide-field Kerr microscopy in the temperature range 9-290 K, and the characteristic domain period at each temperature is determined. We calculate the DMI constant from an analytical expression for the domain wall energy density that treats the multilayer as a uniform medium. Scaling laws for and with the magnetization are established from the experiments. While the scaling of is consistent with Callen-Callen theory, we find that the scaling of is similar to that of predicted theoretically ()
Data for "Homogeneous freezing of water using microfluidics"
No full textThe homogeneous freezing of water is important in the formation of ice in clouds, but there remains a great deal of variability in the representation of the homogeneous freezing of water in the literature. The development of new instrumentation, such as droplet microfluidic platforms, may help to constrain our understanding of the kinetics of homogeneous freezing via the analysis of monodisperse, size-selected water droplets in temporally and spatially controlled environments. Here, we evaluate droplet freezing data obtained using the Lab-on-a-Chip Nucleation by Immersed Particle Instrument (LOC-NIPI), in which droplets are generated and frozen in continuous flow. This high-throughput method was used to analyse over 16,000 water droplets (86 μm diameter) across three experimental runs, generating data with high precision and reproducibility that has largely been unrepresented in the microfluidic literature. Using this data, a new LOC-NIPI parameterisation of the volume nucleation rate coefficient (JV(T)) was determined in the temperature region of −35.1 to −36.9 °C, covering a greater JV(T) compared to most other microfluidic techniques thanks to the number of droplets analysed. Comparison to recent theory suggests inconsistencies in the theoretical representation, further implying that microfluidics could be used to inform on changes to parameterisations. By applying classical nucleation theory (CNT) to our JV(T) data, we have gone a step further than other microfluidic homogeneous freezing examples by calculating the stacking-disordered ice–supercooled water interfacial energy, estimated to be 22.5 ± 0.7 mJ m−2, again finding inconsistencies when compared to theoretical predictions. Further, we briefly review and compile all available microfluidic homogeneous freezing data in the literature, finding that the LOC-NIPI and other microfluidically generated data compare well with commonly used non-microfluidic datasets, but have generally been obtained with greater ease and with higher numbers of monodisperse droplets
Data summary of 34 meander-belt cases simulated by PB-SAND model
No full textData summary of 34 meander-belt cases simulated by PB-SAND model, including preservation ratio for different architectural hierarchies (accretion package pairs, accretion stages and meander belts), their accumulation time, accretion rate, and platform characteristics (apex rotation, channel sinuosity, and migration angle)