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High temperature stresses in brazed Glidcop/W model structures of interest for ITER divertor technology
No full textThis contribution presents the results of an experimental study on high temperature stress evolution in brazed Glidcop/W model structures. The investigated sample (23 mm x 23 mm x 8 mm in volume) had been obtained by brazing a W alloy and a Glidcop (Cu alloy) platelet at 650 degrees C using TiCuAg alloy as a filler. Neutron diffraction was utilized to determine the strains, then the stresses in the bulk of the sample, between room temperature and 300 degrees C; unstrained Glidcop and W reference samples were measured as well in the same temperature range. The measurements were carried out at the D1A diffractorneter of the High Flux Reactor at the Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble. It is found that the residual stresses present at room temperature in the as-brazed sample vanish almost completely at 300 degrees C that provides relevant engineering information such as the zero strain temperature
A Difficulty with Oaths: On Trust, Trustworthiness, and Signalling
No full textIn the wake of the Enron and Worldcom financial scandals that rocked Wall Street in 2002, the US government’s financial regulatory body, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) took the unprecedented step in June 2002 of requiring that the chief executives and chief financial officers of America’s 947 biggest companies to swear on oath that their company results and financial reports were to the best of their knowledge accurate. The one-off order was quickly followed by the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxely act, which will require many more CEOs and CFOs to certify their company reports and financial statements at regular intervals. In this paper we apply a simple signalling model to examine whether or not this type of institutional signal of trustworthiness is always efficient. We find that in the presence of signalling costs, the separating equilibrium can be socially inefficient as well as causing a general loss of trust.asymmetric information, institutional signals, oaths, risk, trust,
Emancipation Day
No full text80.7568.298 – “Emancipation Day”: Music by Dave Braham: Words by C. L. Stout: Wm. A. Pond: 1876: SATB. (2 copies
The Worst It Can Be Is A Disaster
No full textThe Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. With a foreword by Sir Tom Courtenay.
Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray struggled against his parents’ expectations that he should follow them into the world of commerce; instead he became at twenty-two the youngest artistic director in the country when he took over Century Theatre, a theatre company based in Manchester.
Detailing his relationships and the theatrical successes and flops along the way, the narrative takes us through his early years with Century Theatre, with the 69 Theatre Company, and the birth of the Royal Exchange Manchester in the heart of Manchester in 1976. Twenty years later, the theatre rose from the ashes of the IRA bomb brilliantly opening a new production on time just ten days after the bomb had destroyed the city centre.
The role and influence of the author’s Jewish heritage and of his key collaborators – including Caspar Wrede and Michael Elliott – are explored in this illuminating and inspiring account of one of English theatre’s great directors.
‘Braham’s passion is sometimes overwhelming, sometimes annoying but completely inspirational. It’s his passion that the Royal Exchange has thrived on, and this book is full of his passion for the theatre.’ Robert Lindsay</JATS1:p
The death of Nelson [music] : recitative & song /
No full textD.& S. 4820 (Publisher number). No. 1 in C. For voice and piano.; Cover title.; Pl. no.: D.& S. 4820.; "No. 1 in C.".; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn3410504
The anchor's weigh'd [music] : air : in the opera of The Americans /
No full text14680 (Publisher number). For voice and piano.; Caption title.; Pl. no. 14680.; Date approximated from W.H. Glen's address. Cf. Niedorf, Prue, 1999. Guide to dating music published in Sydney and Melbourne, 1800-1899, p. 277.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn4933132
Motor racing, tobacco company sponsorship, barcodes and alibi marketing
No full textBackground Sponsorship of Formula One (F1) motor racing, which has been used as an indirect medium of tobacco advertising for several decades, was prohibited by the 2005 European Union Tobacco Advertising Directive. Most F1 tobacco sponsorship of motor racing in the EU has since ceased, with the exception of the Scuderia Ferrari team, which continues to be funded by Philip Morris. In 2007, the Marlboro logo on Ferrari cars and other race regalia was replaced by an evolving ‘barcode’ design, which Ferrari later claimed was part of the livery of the car, and not a Marlboro advertisement.
Objective: To determine whether the ‘barcode’ graphics used by Ferrari represent ‘alibi’ Marlboro advertising.
Methods Academic and grey literature, and online tobacco industry document archives, were searched using terms relevant to tobacco marketing and motorsport.
Results Tobacco sponsorship of F1 motor racing began in 1968, and Philip Morris has sponsored F1 teams since 1972. Phillip Morris first used a ‘barcode’ design, comprising red vertical parallel lines below the word Marlboro on the British Racing Motors F1 car in 1972. Vertical or horizontal ‘barcode’ designs have been used in this way, latterly without the word Marlboro, ever since. The modern ‘barcode’ logos occupied the same position on cars and drivers' clothing as conventional Marlboro logos in the past. The shared use of red colour by Marlboro and Ferrari is also recognised by Philip Morris as a means of promoting brand association between Marlboro and Ferrari.
Conclusion The Ferrari ‘barcode’ designs are alibi Marlboro logos and hence constitute advertising prohibited by the 2005 EU Tobacco Advertising Directive
Evaluation of a new PT-INR monitoring system in patients with the antiphospholipid syndrome
No full textIntroductionPatients on anticoagulant therapy with vitamin K antagonists (VKA) need frequent INR monitoring. Reliability of point-of-care (POC) devices for measuring INR needs rigorous evaluation, particularly in patient with the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the ProTime InRhythm System (here called device) for INR measurement in patients with APS on VKA.
MethodsWe compared the device INR vs. the laboratory INR measurement for blood samples from 29 APS-positive and 31 APS-negative patients consecutively enrolled. APS was confirmed by positive serological and/or phospholipid-dependent coagulation tests. Chromogenic factor X assay was used to evaluate anticoagulation. Bland-Altman difference plot for paired INR (POC vs. laboratory) was used to evaluate agreement between the device and the laboratory. The device INR relationship with factor X chromogenic assay was evaluated by orthogonal regression analysis.
ResultsOverall, 97% of the device INR measurements were similar to laboratory INR values with an absolute difference less than 0.4 units. Correlation coefficient for the device INR vs. factor X was -0.69 (P < 0.0001, CI 95% -0.80 to -0.52).
ConclusionsThe ProTime InRhythm System is an accurate point-of-care device for measuring INR also in patients with and without APS
Innovative hybrid coupled shear walls for steel buildings in seismic ares
No full textIn this work innovative hybrid coupled shear walls (HCSW) are considered, their design is discussed, their efficiency and limitations evaluated by means of nonlinear static (pushover) analysis. Different numbers of storeys and different geometries of the HCSW system are examined in order to give an overview of situations of interest in European seismic prone areas. The preliminary results here presented show that the force-based design approach leads to promising solutions. However, a displacement-based design approach could help achieving better performing hybrid solutions. This study is part of a larger research project (INNO-HYCO) funded by the European Commission and currently in its first stages of development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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