Planning the cultural quarter in Birmingham's Eastside

Cultural planning and the development of cultural quarters has become a new orthodoxy in the revitalization of inner city industrial districts, yet this orthodoxy is now widely questioned as to whether it delivers on its promises. In Birmingham UK, the aim to create a new cultural quarter in the industrial inner city area of Eastside represents a unique opportunity for the city to examine and learn from past lessons of the "cultural turn" in urban policy. The article examines these lessons and whether the Eastside scheme is set to repeat the mistakes of the past

Control in the technical societies: a brief history

By the time control engineering emerged as a coherent body of knowledge and practice (during and just after WW2) professional engineering societies had existed for many decades. Since control engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of the profession, new sections devoted to control were quickly established within the various existing technical societies. In addition, some new bodies devoted specifically or primarily to control were established. This article, a revised version of a paper presented at the IEEE 2009 Conference on the History of Technical Societies, describes how control engineering as a distinct branch of engineering became represented in technical societies in a number of countries

Feasibility Study of Microwave Radiometric Remote Sensing. Volume 3 - Additional Plots and Printouts

Microwave radiometric remote sensing feasibility study - Vol. 3 - additional plots and printout

Feshbach Resonance Management of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

We analyze gap solitons in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in optical lattice potentials under Feshbach resonance management. Starting with an averaged Gross-Pitaevsky (GP) equation with a periodic potential, we employ an envelope wave approximation to derive coupled-mode equations describing the slow BEC dynamics in the first spectral gap of the optical lattice. We construct exact analytical formulas describing gap soliton solutions and examine their spectral stability using the Chebyshev interpolation method. We show that these gap solitons are unstable far from the threshold of local bifurcation and that the instability results in the distortion of their shape. We also predict the threshold of the power of gap solitons near the local bifurcation limit.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures (1 with six parts, 3 with two parts

Degradation by the atmosphere of microwave radiometric observations from space - 0.5 to 20 GHz, volume 2 Final report

Brightness temperatures and emissivities of sea wate

Few-fermion systems in one dimension: Ground- and excited-state energies and contacts

Using the lattice Monte Carlo method, we compute the energy and Tan's contact in the ground state as well as the first excited state of few- to many-fermion systems in a one-dimensional periodic box. We focus on unpolarized systems of N=4,6,...,12 particles, with a zero-range interaction, and a wide range of attractive couplings. In addition, we provide extrapolations to the infinite-volume and thermodynamic limits.Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures; published versio