Dealing with a zombie in EU law: the regulatory procedure with scrutiny

Annotation to Joined Cases T-261/13 and T-86/14 Netherlands v. Commission, EU:T:2015:67

AN ANALYSIS ON CODE-SWITCHING USED BY PRESENTERS OF “MTV WHAT`S UP” ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PROGRAMON GLOBAL TV

Code switching is a bilingual communication strategy consisting of the alternative use of two languages in the same utterance. The main objective of this study is an analysis on code switching used by presenters of MTV WHAT`S UP entertainment news program on GLOBAL TV. They always use Indonesian-English code switching during broadcasting. This study was aimed at getting answer of the research problem, namely (1) What are code-switching that are used by presenters of MTV WHAT'S UP entertainment news program on Global TV? And (2) How does code-switching influence to audience languages? This study is descriptive qualitative methods because, the data do not have any the statistically procedure like those found in the quantitative research. And related to the problem of how to describe what goes on linguistic level when presenters of MTV WHAT`S UP entertainment news program produce code switching on air. The research was conducted on the date of 2, 4,6and 9of August 2004. To collect the data the writer recorded the utterances of the presenters when they are on air, then transcribed them from cassette, and identifies them based on their form. The data analysis is the code-switching used by presenters and how code-switching influence audiences’ language. The presenters often use code-switching while they are performing on TV and based on the functions they use regulatory, interpersonal, personal, imaginative, representational, and ideational function in their conversation. The code- switching influence to audiences’ language which have close relationship with conversational function that used by presenters. The conversational functions are direct quotation, addressee specification, interjections, message qualification, personalization and objectification, and facility of expression

The Construction of Gauge-Links in Arbitrary Hard Processes

Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions are described by hadronic matrix elements of bilocal products of field operators off the light-cone. These bilocal products contain gauge-links, as required by gauge-invariance. The gauge-links are path-ordered exponentials connecting the field operators along a certain integration path. This integration path is process-dependent, depending specifically on the short-distance partonic subprocess. In this paper we present the technical details needed in the calculation of the gauge-links and a calculational scheme is provided to obtain the gauge-invariant distribution and fragmentation correlators corresponding to a given partonic subprocess

Gas Concentration Measurements in Underground Waste Storage Tanks

Currently over 100 underground tanks at the Hanford facility in eastern Washington state are being used to store high-level radioactive waste. With plans for a long-term nuclear-waste repository in Nevada in place (though not yet approved), one promising use for these underground storage tanks is as a temporary waystation for waste destined for the Nevada repository. However, without a reasonable understanding of the chemical reactions going on within the tanks, transporting waste in and out of the tanks has been deemed to be unsafe. One hazard associated with such storage mechanisms is explosion of flammable gases produced within the tank. Within many of the storage tanks is a sludge layer. This layer, which is a mixture of liquid and solids, contains most of the radioactive material. Radioactive decay and its associated heat can produce several flammable materials within this layer. Two components of particular concern are hydrogen (H2) and nitrous oxide (N2O), since they are highly volatile in the gaseous phase. Though the tanks have either forced or natural convection systems to vent these gases, the possibility of an explosion still exists. Measurements of these gases are taken in several ways. Continuous measurements are taken in the headspace, which is the layer between the tank ceiling and the liquid (supernatant) or sludge layer below. In tanks where a supernatant layer sits atop the sludge layer, there are often rollovers or gas release events (GREs), where a large chunk of sludge, after attaining a certain void fraction, becomes buoyant, rising through the supernatant and releasing its associated gas composition to the headspace. Such changes trigger a sensor, and thus measurements are also taken at that time. Lastly, a retained gas sample (RGS) can be taken from either the supernatant or sludge layer. Such a core sample is quite expensive, but can yield crucial data about the way gases are being produced in the sludge and convected through the supernatant. Unfortunately, the measurements from these three populations do not seem to match. In particular, the ratio r = [N2O]/[H2] varies from population to population. r also varies from tank to tank, but this can more readily be explained in terms of the waste composition of each tank. Since H2 is more volatile than N2O (and since there are more sources of oxygen in the headspace), lower values of r correspond to more hazardous situations. This variance in r is troubling, since we need to be able to explain why certain values of r are lower (and hence more dangerous) in certain areas of the tank. In this report we examine the data from three tanks. We first verify that the differences in r among populations is significant. We then postulate several mechanisms which could explain such a difference

Shifting boundaries and new technologies: a case study in the UK banking sector.

This paper describes case study based research on the use of innovative computer-based decision support systems introduced into corporate lending processes in a major UK bank. It describes how the new technology was implicated in shifting boundaries: within the sector as a whole and in specific organizational de-layering; between local/global dimensions of the loans process; and in the status of expertise and personal/professional risk. The case study is connected to broader debates in IS and social transformation through an analysis that relates aspects of the empirical material to themes from social theories of reflexive modernization. Some implications and conclusions are drawn for both the banking sector and IS research.

Economics of the new member states: A post-crisis perspective

This essay addresses four major issues confronting the Central and Eastern European new members of the European Union in the decade to come. First: what to think of the financial meltdown of 2008-2009. Second, what have they learned from the tremors, having shaken the previous star performers of the EU? Third we ask if we can expect a return to ‘normalcy' as forecast by most models of financial rating agencies and international financial institutions? Fourth the question is raised what did the new members benefit from their EU membership? Some conclusions on the future of EU reforms and policies close the overview

Tachyon Hair for Two-Dimensional Black Holes

Using a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we obtain a two-dimensional spacetime describing a black hole with tachyon hair. The physical ADM mass of the black hole is finite. The presence of tachyon hair increases the Hawking temperature.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures (not included), DAMTP-R93-16, IUHET 261 (Sept. 1993