464 research outputs found
Applying transportation asset management in Connecticut
No full textTitle from cover.; "Author(s): Nicholas Lownes, PhD, Study Manager; Adam Zofka, PhD, Study Manager"--p. iii.; " ... prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration"--p. iii.; "December 2008."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).; Final report;; Performed by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering; sponsored by the Connecticut Dept. of Transportation
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
No full textThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
Correction: Overcoming barriers to NHS adoption of innovative IPC products: A qualitative study of SMEs in the Liverpool city region (PLoS One (2025) 20:9 (e0331688) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331688)
No full textThere are errors in the Author Contributions. The correct contributions are: Conceptualization: Rocío Villacorta Linaza, Janet Hemingway, Adam P. Roberts, Nicholas Feasey. Data curation: Rocío Villacorta Linaza. Formal analysis: Rocío Villacorta Linaza, Adam P. Roberts. Investigation: Rocío Villacorta Linaza, Daire Cantillon. Methodology: Rocío Villacorta Linaza, Daire Cantillon. Project administration: Rocío Villacorta Linaza, Daire Cantillon Writing – original draft: Rocío Villacorta Linaza. Writing – review & editing: Janet Hemingway, Adam P. Roberts, Becky Jones-Philips, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Richard L. Wright, Daire Cantillon, Maria Moore, Russell Dacombe, Ezekiel Boro, Aaron Argomandkhah, Carolina Velasco, Nicholas Feasey.</p
Tracking, alignment and b-tagging performance and prospects in with the ATLAS detector
No full textProcedures employed for the reconstruction of charged particle tracks used by the ATLAS experiment are outlined, and their performance in recent LHC Run 2 data is discussed, with focus on aspects such as the stability with respect to time and instantaneous luminosity, and performance within high- jets. The track-based alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector is introduced, and its importance to track reconstruction is demonstrated. The current level of understanding of detector deformations affecting track parameter determination is shown, and planned future improvements are outlined. Methods devised to distinguish and quark jets from light-flavour jets are introduced. Techniques to extract and calibrate the performance of these methods on data and Monte Carlo are examined, and their results compared. Finally, forthcoming improvements in these areas are highlighted
Collecting and analysing data at high pile-up with ATLAS and CMS
No full textDetector layouts for the Phase 2 upgrades of ATLAS and CMS, designed for operation at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) under conditions with pile-up of 140 and beyond, will be presented and discussed. The event reconstruction performance and techniques implied by these detectors and experimental conditions will be demonstrated, and possibilities for further developments will be explored. The physics reach obtainable with the upgraded detectors at HL-LHC will be shown for a selection of possible HL-LHC measurements
Collecting and analysing data with 200 PU, (detector designs, analysis techniques, ...)
No full textTitle of talk provided to me: Collecting and analysing data with 200 PU, (detector designs, analysis techniques, ...) Slides giving an overview of the ATLAS and CMS phase 2 upgrade plans from the point of view of detector designs, performance studies, and physics analysis prospects
Methodological issues in systems Human Factors and Ergonomics: Perspectives on the research–practice gap, reliability and validity, and prediction
No full textThe changing nature of work and society, and a proliferation of complex globalchallenges, is increasing the need for systems Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE). The discipline is well equipped to respond, but there remain a number of longstanding issues preventing systems HFE from realizing its full impact. There is a research–practice gap, a lack of reliability and validity evidence associated with systems HFE methods, and a shortage of methods that can predict behavior. In this article we revisit each issue, with each co‐author providing their own perspective on the extent and causes of each issue, and their resolution. The perspectives reveal a consensus that the issues exist and are problematic but are challenging, multifactorial, and require various solutions. The findings are subsequently synthesized to form an agenda for the wider discipline
Nicholas Trevet’s Commentary on the Psalms (1317 – c. 1321): A Publishing History
No full textThe attached file includes the amendments of several infelicities noticed when the book had gone to print.How did medieval authors publish their works in the age before print? This study seeks to achieve new insights into the publishing strategies of medieval authors by focusing on Nicholas Trevet, an English Dominican friar and Oxford master. Shortly after 1317, Trevet was commissioned by his provincial prior to write a literal commentary on the Psalter. He chose as his reference version the less commonly used Latin translation by Jerome from the Hebrew, and delivered his work before 1321/22. The first book-length examination of Trevet’s commentary, this detailed study traces the ways in which the work was circulated by the author and his proxies. Through a combined analysis of codicological, textual, and historical features of the nine extant fourteenth-century manuscripts, this study identifies contemporary efforts to make Trevet’s work available to readers within and without the Dominican Order, in England and on the Continent. Even during the author’s lifetime the commentary was copied in Paris and reached readers in Avignon and likely in Naples.European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 716538 (MedPub, Medieval Publishing from c. 1000 to 1500
Hacia la construcción semiótica del mundo. Las consideraciones de Adam Smith sobre el lenguaje
No full textThis article explores the aportation of Adam Smith’s Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages to the rest of his work. It starts analyzing its internal structure in the light of its documented sources, of which it follows a linguistic model that is more constructive than referential. From the initial approach that language, first of all, communicates needs, the author connects this germ of the process of socialization with Smith’s published works, explaining them as a semiotic development of the fundamental idea that the human being has not a definite Nature, but an open history in which he must make to himself.El presente artículo explora la aportación de Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages, de Adam Smith, al resto de su obra. Comienza analizando su estructura interna a la luz de sus fuentes documentadas, de la que se sigue un modelo lingüístico más constructivo que referencial. A partir del planteamiento inicial de que el lenguaje, ante todo, comunica necesidades, el autor conecta este germen del proceso de socialización con las obras publicadas de Smith, explicándolas como un desarrollo semiótico de la idea fundamental de que el ser humano no tiene una naturaleza definida, sino una historia abierta en la que tiene que hacerse a sí mismo
Short-term and long-term effects of United Nations peace operations
No full textEarlier studies have shown that United Nations peace operations make a positive contribution to peacebuilding efforts after civil wars. But do these effects carry over to the period after the peacekeepers leave? And how do the effects of UN peace operations interact with other determinants of peacebuilding in the long run? The author addresses these questions using a revised version of the Doyle and Sambanis dataset and applying different estimation methods to estimate the short-term and long-term effects of UN peace missions. He finds that UN missions have robust, positive effects on peacebuilding in the short term. UN missions can help parties implement peace agreements but the UN cannot fight wars, and UN operations contribute more to the quality of the peace where peace is based on participation, than to the longevity of the peace, where peace is simply the absence of war. The effects of UN missions are also felt in the long run, but they dissipate over time. What is missing in UN peacebuilding is a strategy to foster the self-sustaining economic growth that could connect increased participation with sustainable peace.Post Conflict Reintegration,Peace&Peacekeeping,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Politics and Government
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