Common agricultural policy regionalised impact - the rural development dimension (CAPRI-RD)

The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact – the Rural Development Dimension (CAPRI-RD) aims to develop and apply an operational, Pan-European tool including all Candidate and Potential Candidate countries to analyse the regional impacts of all policy measures under CAP Pillar I and II across a wide range of economic, social and environmental indicators, aligned with the CMEF. CAPRI-RD’s core contains consistently linked economic models at the NUTS 2 level, the CAPRI model for agriculture, and a newly developed layer of regional CGEs. Given the importance of the EU’s agricultural trade, CAPRI includes a global agricultural market model. The project will improve price transmission modelling inside the EU market, review the implementation of de-coupled payments, and maintain the CAPRI farm type layer. Harmonised and regularly updated databases, including regional Social Accounting Matrices, act as the models’ sources. Quality management for data and results is ensured by clearly documented procedures that are partly based on statistical methods and sensitivity analysis. Spatial down-scaling algorithms will break down land use results to 1x1 km grid cells to facilitate the spatially explicit calculation of environmental impacts. During the project’s lifetime, CAPRI-RD will be improved and expanded stepwise. This will enable an annual policy impact assessment of scenarios defined by a user board comprising major stakeholders at the European level, and allow contributions to be made to the yearly DG-AGRI outlook work. Further, yearly training sessions will develop the necessary capacity in the European Research Area to successfully apply CAPRI-RD during and after the project. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) will allow the scenarios to be defined, the model to be steered, and the results to be explained through tables, graphs and maps. Dissemination activities will include the distribution of reports, model documentation, GUI, code and data via the internet.EU, Funded under :FP7-KBBE-2008-2

Clipper amplitude modulator

An amplitude modulated wave is defined as a wave form in which the amplitude of a sinusoidal signal (carrier) is varied in accordance with a modulating signal whose frequency is much lower than the frequency of the carrier signal. Numerous devices have been found for generating an amplitude modulated wave. In some modulators the amplitude of the carrier is actually varied in accordance with the modulating signal. In other types of modulators the carrier and the modulating signal are simultaneously applied to a nonlinear element or circuit. The output of this non-linear element is a distorted wave containing many frequencies. The amplitude modulated wave is then obtained by selecting those particular frequency components needed to constitute an amplitude modulated wave. In this thesis, the possibility of obtaining an amplitude modulated wave by a different method has been investigated. Namely, the carrier signal is clipped with a modulating signal by employing the clipping action of a full-wave diode clipper. The resulting clipped wave form closely resembles an amplitude modulated wave. The close agreement between the mathematical analysis of the wave form in question and the experimental results substantiates the validity of this method --Introduction, page 1

Applications of transparent conductive indium tin oxide films in automotive and vitrifications industries

Thesis (Master)--Izmir Institute of Technology, Physics, Izmir, 2009Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 76-79)Text in English; Abstract:Turkish and Englishxii, 79 leavesDue to its unique electrical and optical properties, highly doped n-type Indium tin oxide used for various applications such as smart glass, LCDs, OLEDs, solar cells and car windows. In this study Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) thin films were grown by both DC and RF magnetron sputtering techniques. To know deposition rate of ITO, system was calibrated for both DCMS and RFMS and then ITO were grown on glass substrate with the thickness of 70 nm and 40 nm by changing substrate temperature. The effect of substrate temperature, film thickness and sputtering method on structural, electrical and optical properties were investigated. Wan der Pauw method was used for electrical characterization and to use this method properly, we patterned ITO thin films by photolithography and Ion beam etching techniques. The results show that substrate temperature and film thickness substantially affects the film properties, especially crystallization and resistivity. The thin films grown at the lower than 150 oC showed amorphous structure. However, crystallization was detected with the further increase of substrate temperature. Substrate temperature and film thickness increment were lead to increase band gap of ITO which can be explained by BMS. Band gap of ITO was calculated to be about 3.64 eV at the substrate temperature of 150 oC, and it widened with substrate temperature increment. From electrical measurements the resistivity at room temperature was obtained 1.28*10 and 1.29*10 cm, for DC and RF sputtered films, respectively. We also measured temperature dependence resistivity and the Hall coefficient of the films, and we calculated carrier concentration and Hall mobility

The mystery of Gallipoli and occupation

What is referred to as the Gallipoli Campaign in the textbooks all over the world is the only major Ottoman victory of World War I. In our country, it is always referred as “The Çanakkale Zaferi” and regarded as a defining moment in our history; it was the final surge in the defense of the motherland as we knew it crumbled on other fronts

Tournament Satisfaction Scale (TOSS)

Increasing in the popularity of regional sport tourism addresses the consumers to measure satisfaction of participants in order to provide high quality product or services. The literature declares the strong need of a reliable and valid scale in the area of sport tourism. For that purpose this paper describes the process of developing Tournament Satisfaction Scale (TOSS) that can be used to asses athletes’ perception of satisfaction through sport tournaments. An item pool with 33 items was developed by literature reviews and interviews with experts in the area of sport tourism, sport management and coaching. Exploratory Factor Analysis with Maximum Likelihood extraction method and oblique rotation (direct oblimin) was carried out by using the data obtained from 278 athletes in various sport branches participated in a tournament as a regional sport tourist. Exploratory Factor Analysis results yielded one factor with 22 items over .50 factor loading. The 22-item TOSS was found to explain 40.3% of the variance in tournament satisfaction. Cronbach alpha coefficient is 0.93 for TOSS indicating satisfactory reliability evidence. Overall, it can be concluded that the scale is reliable and valid tool for evaluating tournament satisfaction from the perceptions of athletes. In this way coaches, team managers, and tournament organizers would possible to obtain important clues about their performances

Ibn what university?

The writer of this column has also joined only a couple of months ago and therefore is subject of questions about his new school. When I tell my colleagues and friends that I have joined the “İbn Haldun Üniversitesi” the usual reaction happens to “Ibn what?” Ibn Haldun, my man! Have you never heard of him? No, he has not. How could he? We are living in a country where even our language has gone through a catastrophe (Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish language reform: A catastrophic success. Oxford 1999.). We cannot read the tombstones of our own grandparents. We denied the legacy of them; we have forsaken everything they have built for us or transferred from their parents