329 research outputs found
Veterinary science : humans, animals and health
No full textThis living book is a collection of open access materials bringing scientific papers to a humanities audienc
Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes from Near-, Intermediate-, and Far-Field Locations
No full textHolocene relative sea-level (RSL) records exhibit spatial and temporal variability that arises mainly from the interaction of eustatic (land ice volume and thermal expansion) and isostatic (glacio- and hydro-) factors. We fit RSL histories from near-, intermediate-, and far-field locations with noisy-input Gaussian process models to assess rates of RSL change. Records from near-field regions (e.g., Antarctica, Greenland, Canada, Sweden, and Scotland) reveal a complex pattern of RSL fall from a maximum marine limit due to the net effect of eustatic sea-level rise and glacio-isostatic uplift with rates of RSL fall as great as -69 ± 9 m/ka. Intermediate-field regions (e.g., mid-Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, Netherlands, Southern France, St. Croix) display variable rates of RSL rise from the cumulative effect of isostatic and eustatic factors. Fast rates of RSL rise (up to 10 ± 1 m/ka) are found in the early Holocene in regions near the center of forebulge collapse. Far-field RSL records exhibit a mid-Holocene highstand, the timing (between 8 and 4 ka) and magnitude (between <1 and 6 m) of which varies among South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania regions.Peer reviewe
Application of three-dimensional circuit integration to global clock distribution
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 35).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.As the semi-conductor industry moves towards deep sub-micron designs, efficiency of chip-wide communication is becoming the limiting factor on system performance. One globally distributed signal with significant effect on system performance is the clock signal. In this paper utilization of three-dimensional circuit integration to reduce the negative effects of technology scaling on clock signal distribution is investigated. A design is proposed that removes the clock distribution network from the same active plane as the logical functions of the system and places them on a separate, but electrically connected active plane. Proposed benefits of a three-dimensional distribution network are the reduction of global skew, greater signal integrity, and an increase in system density. All aspects of the design process are detailed including methodology, simulation tools and verification, interconnect and repeater design, the three-dimensional integration process, and the overall predicted system benefits.by Erica M. Salinas.M.Eng
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Central Area between the Vestry and the Altar and 2 External Areas overlying the former Lady Chapel of Dunfermline Abbey For Dr Michael Penman University of Stirling
No full textThese are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This second stage surveyed the Abbey Church north transept exteriors (east and weast, atop the medieval Lady Chapel) and the central east-end (atop the medieval chancel/altar), identifying numerous possible burials and architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 12-14th June 2017 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Dr Oliver O'Grady of OJT Heritage and Dr Michael Penmen of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, Fife Council and Historic Enviornment Scotland, and funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2016 and 2019 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020)
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of an area to the South East of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Abbey For Dr Michael Penman University of Stirling (19th September 2019)
No full textThese are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This third stage surveyed the Abbey Church south transept exteriors, identifying possible architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 21st-22nd August 2019 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Mr Alex Birtwistle of Atlas Geophysical and Dr Michael Penman of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, Fife Council and Historic Environment Scotland, and funded by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the University of Stirling. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2016 and 2017 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020)
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Part of the North Transept and the Vestry of Dunfermline Abbey For Dr Michael Penman University of Stirling
No full textThese are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This first stage surveyed the north choir aisle and Lady Chapel areas and beneath the modern east-end vestry, identifying numerous possible burials and architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 13-14th June 2016 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Dr Oliver O'Grady of OJT Heritage and Dr Michael Penmen of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, and funded by the G.W.S. Barrow Award and the Strathmartine Trust. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2017 and 2019 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020)
Per una dottrina della costituzione come scienza della cultura
No full textIn tempi in cui in Italia e in Germania si è posto il problema di rinnovare il patto costituzionale e di riscrivere la costituzione per le generazioni successive a quella dei padri costituenti, e in cui l’Europa e il mondo intero si interrogano sulla multiculturalità dello Stato costituzionale e sullo sviluppo di costituzioni sovranazionali ed internazionali, di spiccata rilevanza appare il problema del rapporto tra costituzione e cultura. Le costituzioni moderne non sono infatti un pezzo di carta, una decisione della politica o un prodotto dell’economia; esse si configurano piuttosto come cristallizzazioni di cultura, frutti e semi di un processo pubblico sempre aperto e mediato da istituzioni culturali che alimentano tanto la politica quanto il diritto.
È questo il filo conduttore del volume di Peter Häberle, 'Per una dottrina della costituzione come scienza della cultura' (Carocci, 2001), traduzione italiana della seconda edizione di un opuscolo di appena ottanta pagine, pubblicato nel 1982 con il titolo 'Verfassungslehre als Kulturwissenschaft'. Häberle – autore, nell’opinione di molti, dell’ultima grande teoria della costituzione del XX secolo – cerca di rintracciare nel dialogo interdisciplinare con una tradizione più remota delle “scienze della cultura” (W. Dilthey, A. Weber, M. Eber) e sulla scia di un filone di esperienze della dottrina del diritto civile, l’impronta delle scienze della cultura nel diritto pubblico di Weimar, con le firme di R. Smend e G. Holstein, H. Heller e A. Hensel. Tale impostazione, lamenta l’autore, è andata smarrita nel secondo dopoguerra “nei cantieri della ricostruzione della Germania, in una Repubblica federale fissata sui valori dell’economia e del benessere”. Ma, nell’arco di più decenni, “la legge fondamentale ha generato una tradizione di cultura costituzionale, un insieme di comprensioni e precomprensioni della scienza e della prassi che merita ora un’analisi più approfondita – dalla prospettiva di una teoria della costituzione come scienza della cultura. I testi della legge fondamentale restano testi giuridici e conservano il loro carattere di diritto ‘positivo’, ma rinviano nel contempo anche a qualcosa di ulteriore: a una realtà solo parzialmente e ‘superficialmente’ indicata e creata dai testi stessi” (p. 17).At a time when Italy and Germany has raised the issue of renewing the constitutional pact and to rewrite the constitution to succeeding generations to that of the founding fathers, and in which Europe and the whole world will wonder about multiculturalism State constitutions and constitutional development of supra-national and international, with a strong importance is the problem of the relationship between the constitution and culture. The modern constitutions are not in fact a piece of paper, a policy decision or a product of the economy, rather they are configured as crystallizations of culture, fruits and seeds of an open and public process always mediated by cultural institutions that feed both the policy As the law. This is the leitmotif of the volume of Peter Häberle, 'For a doctrine of creation as a science of culture' (Carocci, 2001), the Italian translation of the second edition of a booklet of just eighty pages, published in 1982 under the title 'Verfassungslehre als Kulturwissenschaft '. Häberle - author, in the opinion of many, the last great theory of the constitution of the twentieth century - trying to track down in interdisciplinary dialogue with a tradition of more remote "science of culture" (W. Dilthey, A. Weber, M. Eber ) and on the heels of a loaf of experiences of the doctrine of the civil law, the footprint of the sciences of culture in the public right of Weimar, with the signatures of R. Smend and G. Holstein, H. Heller and A. Hensel. This approach, the author complains, was lost in the Second World War "in the yards of the reconstruction of Germany, a federal republic set the values of the economy and well-being." But, over several decades, "the fundamental law has created a tradition of constitutional culture, a set of understandings and preconceptions of science and practice that now deserves a deeper analysis - from the perspective of a theory of the constitution as a science culture. The texts of the Basic Law are legal texts and retain their character of law 'positive', but at the same time also refer to something further: in reality only partially and 'superficial' and indicated created by the texts themselves "(p. 17)
Dunfermline Draft GPR R2 - 2017
No full textThese are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This second stage surveyed the Abbey Church north transept exteriors (east and weast, atop the medieval Lady Chapel) and the central east-end (atop the medieval chancel/altar), identifying numerous possible burials and architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 12-14th June 2017 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Dr Oliver O'Grady of OJT Heritage and Dr Michael Penmen of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, Fife Council and Historic Enviornment Scotland, and funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2016 and 2019 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020).This report was written by lead GPR-scanner, Erica Carrick Utsi, commissioned by Dr Michael Penman (History, Heritage and Politics, University of Stirling)
Dunfermline Draft GPR R1 - 2016
No full textThese are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This first stage surveyed the north choir aisle and Lady Chapel areas and beneath the modern east-end vestry, identifying numerous possible burials and architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 13-14th June 2016 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Dr Oliver O'Grady of OJT Heritage and Dr Michael Penmen of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, and funded by the G.W.S. Barrow Award and the Strathmartine Trust. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2017 and 2019 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020).This report was written by lead GPR-scanner, Erica Carrick Utsi, commissioned by Dr Michael Penman (History, Heritage and Politics, University of Stirling)
Dunfermline GPR Draft R3 - 2019
No full textThese are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This third stage surveyed the Abbey Church south transept exteriors, identifying possible architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 21st-22nd August 2019 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Mr Alex Birtwistle of Atlas Geophysical and Dr Michael Penman of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, Fife Council and Historic Environment Scotland, and funded by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the University of Stirling. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2016 and 2017 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020).This report was written by lead GPR-scanner, Erica Carrick Utsi, commissioned by Dr Michael Penman (History, Heritage and Politics, University of Stirling)
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