4,185 research outputs found
J.L. Merino Hernandez, , El contrato de permuta
No full textJ.L. Merino Hernandez, , El contrato de permuta. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 31 N°1, Janvier-mars 1979. p. 241
J.L. Merino Hernandez, , El contrato de permuta
No full textJ.L. Merino Hernandez, , El contrato de permuta. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 31 N°1, Janvier-mars 1979. p. 241
Inter-reciprocity applied to electrical networks
No full textElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
'Twas on the beach at Brighton one fine Summer day, I met this handsome man who stole my heart away [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceTo Wm. Lingard, Author & Singerads on inside back cover for J.L. Peters stock353-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
053, Item 027W.D. Raphaelson.Sung by LingardPaleri[?
'Twas on the beach at Brighton one fine Summer day, I met this handsome man who stole my heart away [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceTo Wm. Lingard, Author & Singerads on inside back cover for J.L. Peters stock353-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
053, Item 027W.D. Raphaelson.Sung by LingardPaleri[?
Feasibility Study of a Balanced Upper Arm Orthosis based on Bending Beams
No full textPeople with neuromuscular diseases request an orthosis close to the body for assistance with their arm movements. This paper proposes a concept for a passive arm support that is close to the body and is based on bending beams. Simulations resulted in the final configuration and dimensions of the beams, optimised to balance an arm. One Carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer beam with dimensions 0.22x0.0041x0.0027m at the medial side and one at the lateral side of the upper arm delivers the required energy for balancing the arm. Experimental evaluation of a prototype demonstrated the technical principle; more than 87% of the moment around the shoulder was balanced between 0 and 1.1rad. A second prototype was built for preliminary evaluation of the concept in relation to the body. The width of the elastic and structural elements was more than four times smaller than in present arm supports. From this it was concluded that bending beams have the potential to make an orthosis that is closer to the upper arm than current orthoses.BMEBioMechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
A Northern Tablelands Whole-Farm Linear Program for Economic Evaluation of New Technologies at the Farm-Level
No full textThe benefits of evaluating a new technology in a whole-farm context using a linear programming framework are well known. Linear programming allows the joint evaluation of concurrent farm activities, while considering the costs and returns of all enterprises and any resource adjustments imposed by adoption of the technology. This Report provides a rationale for and description of a whole-farm linear programming model that can be used for the economic evaluation of new technologies that are applicable to beef/sheep grazing farms typical of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. In this farming system, the whole-farm focus incorporates various aspects of the pasture base, resource constraints and sheep and cattle interactions. An overview of economic tools that are available to assess technologies at the farm level is provided first, listing some of the major benefits and limitations of each of these various techniques. A representative farm for the selected farming system is then developed and a whole-farm linear program based on this representative farm is described in some detail. A series of modelling experiments is undertaken to examine variations of the base model and their impact on the resulting technology evaluation. An example technology, involving the genetic improvement of beef cattle for improved feed efficiency (NFE), is evaluated. The optimal farm plan for a "typical" (single) year is generated, given the objective of maximising farm total gross margin. Three enterprises are selected: 1,108 first-cross ewes, 1,732 Merino wethers and a beef herd of 127 cows producing 18 month old heavy feeder steers (HFS) at 448kg liveweight and excess heifers sold as 9 month old weaners. For this farm plan, the annual operating budget shows a total gross margin for the farm of 5.02, using a 5 per cent discount rate. Other experiments reported include adding constraints for fixed costs, family drawings and an overdraft facility; alternate discount rates for the NPV calculations; alternate terminal values for the livestock assets at the end of the simulation period; and a post-optimality risk analysis. This study has highlighted several additional benefits of evaluating a technology in a whole-farm multi-period linear programming framework. First, apart from determining the type and size of the optimal farm enterprise mix and the optimal value of the objective function, whole-farm multi-period linear programming also provides important additional information including shadow costs and prices and constraint slacks, and how they change over time. Shadow costs of activities show how sensitive the optimal farm enterprise mix is to changes in the gross margins of alternate farm activities not included in the current farm plan. The shadow prices for resources indicates how much a farm manager could pay for additional units of a limiting resource, for example, additional labour. Second, in terms of the specific NFE technology examined in this report, it would appear that there may well be regions where such feed efficiencies may be of greater benefit due to particularly large variations in pasture growth patterns throughout the year. The Northern Tablelands with its recognised winter feed deficit may be one such area. This information may be of benefit to researchers in extending the NFE technology to farmers. Third, the deterministic multi-period version of the model highlighted the impact of the inclusion of overhead and capital constraints in the modelling process in determining the potential adoption of a technology by a farm manager. The availability and cost of capital is shown to influence the extent to which the NFE technology may be adopted by an individual farm business. Fourth, from a modelling perspective, the effect of uncertain terminal values and the bearing that they have on measuring the level of adoption of a new technology is an area for further investigation. Finally, the impact of risk was assessed in this study post-optimally by the inclusion of stochastic output prices in the optimal whole farm budgets. This is an area for further research, including the potential of alternate modelling techniques such as MOTAD programming or stochastic dynamic programming. However due to size constraints, such approaches may necessitate trade-offs in terms of the detail of whole-farm models to which they are applied.Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land. by J.L. Stephens, author of Incidents of travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland.Edinburgh published by William and Robert Chambers. and sold by all booksellers 1839.
No full textPreface: as Prefatory noticeDedication:Content description: Detailed contentsPagination: PP4+119PVolumes: 1Edition:6thText Genre:Journa
J.L. Brierly and The Modernization of International Law
No full textIn this Article, the author provides an analysis of a classic of international law, The Law of Nations, by J.L. Brierly. The author describes Brierly as an international legal scholar whose modernization of international law involves an emphasis on fact and complexity, an emphasis that is ultimately little more than a gesture. The author then examines the narrative structure of The Law of Nations and indicates the normative messages disclosed in Brierly\u27s telling of the story of international law. Finally, the author describes Brierly\u27s effort to describe international law as occupying a political realm while Brierly\u27s evolutionary optimism made him anything but a political realist. In short, the author sees in Brierly\u27s promises of complexity and realism a thinly veiled simplicity that would be subsumed into the orthodoxies of international legal thought
DNA polymorphisms in Merino and Churra Lebrijana sheep breeds
No full textThe Merino and Churra Lebrijana ovine breeds are two of the most important sheeps developed in Spain. In the first case, the study of its genetic characteristics is justified by the importance it has have in the origin of other wool breeds. The Churra Lebrijana sheep breed is next the extinction therefore it is necessary to begin a conservation programme of its genetic resources.Las razas ovinas Merino y Churra son dos de las más importantes ovejas explotadas en España. En el primer caso, el estudio de sus características genéticas se justifica por la importancia que ha tenido en el origen de otras razas ovinas productoras de lana. La raza Churra Lebrijana se encuentra próxima a la extinción por lo que es necesario iniciar programas para la recuperación de sus recursos genéticos
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