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Management system requirements for wireless systems beyond 3G

This paper presents a comprehensive description of various management system requirements for systems beyond 3G, which have been identified as a result of the Software Based Systems activities within the Mobile VCE Core 2 program. Specific requirements for systems beyond 3G are discussed and potential technologies to address them proposed. The analysis has been carried out from network, service and security viewpoints

The Appraisal of Policy Appraisal – Learning About the Quality of Impact Assessment

notes: This article is based on research carried out with the support of the European Research Council (ERC) grant Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance, ALREG, directed by Claudio Radaelli. Dunlop, Fritsch and Radaelli gratefully acknowledge the support of the ERC. A previous version was prepared for the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) workshop on ‘Theory and Practice of Regulatory Impact Assessments in Europe’ 10 June 2013. The authors wish to express their gratitude to Ioannis Lianos and two anonymous referees for their insightful comments on earlier drafts. The usual disclaimer applies.publication-status: Acceptedtypes: ArticleFinal draftWhat do governments, international organizations and stakeholders mean when they say that proposals for new regulation should be systematically appraised? And do regulators really use the results of appraisal? In this article, we consider two dimensions of policy appraisal: the breadth and scope of the empirical analysis, and the utilization of impact assessment. We use these two dimensions to produce an explanatory typology with four types. The types enable us to review the literature systematically, exposing gaps as well as documenting the results. In the final part of the article we build hypotheses that link quality of analysis and utilization, thus showing how future research may become less descriptive and more inclined to test explicit hypotheses.European Research Council (ERC) grant Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance, ALRE

Narrating Impact Assessment in the European Union

This paper is based on research carried out with the support of the European Research Council grant on Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance, ALREG http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/ceg/research/ALREG/index.php. Previous versions of this paper were presented at the UK Political Studies Association (PSA) annual conference, Belfast 3-5 April 2012 and the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change conference, Berlin 5-6 October 2012. We are grateful to Mathias Delori and Anna Durnova for extensive comments on an early draft.publication-status: AcceptedSince 2003, the European Commission has produced analytical documents to appraise and support its policy proposals. These so-called impact assessments (IAs) are now quite common in the preparation of legislation in the member states of the European Union. Previous research has been concerned with the quality of the IAs in terms of evidence-based policy, especially in terms of economic analysis and other standards of smart regulation. In this article, we move from a different perspective. We draw on the narrative policy framework to explore impact assessment as text and discursive instrument. We consider a sample of IAs that differ by originating DGs, legal instrument, and level of saliency. The findings show that the narrative components of the IA are quite prominent in the sample. The Commission may use IA to produce evidence-based policy, but it also engages with IA to provide a presentation of self, to establish EU norms and values, and to create consensus around policy proposals by using causal plots, doomsday scenarios, and narrative dramatization

Fringe spacing and phase of interfering matter waves

We experimentally investigate the outcoupling of atoms from Bose-Einstein condensates using two radio-frequency (rf) fields in the presence of gravity. We show that the fringe separation in the resulting interference pattern derives entirely from the energy difference between the two rf fields and not the gravitational potential difference. We subsequently demonstrate how the phase and polarisation of the rf radiation directly control the phase of the matter wave interference and provide a semi-classical interpretation of the results.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

How many species of fossil arachnids are there?

The species-level diversity of fossil Chelicerata is summarized for each order. 1952 valid species of fossil\ud chelicerates are currently recognized, of which 1593 are arachnids. In order of abundance they are: Araneae (979 fossil\ud species), Actinotrichida (283), Eurypterida (241), Scorpiones (111), Xiphosura (96), Trigonotarbida (71), Pseudoscorpiones\ud (38), Phalangiotarbida (30), Opiliones (25), Ricinulei (15), and Anactinotrichida (11). Other groups are represented by ten\ud fossil species or fewer. Based on published descriptions, spiders thus appear to dominate the fossil arachnid species\ud assemblage, making up a greater proportion of paleodiversity than their Recent diversity would predict. Scorpions are also\ud overrepresented, particularly in the Paleozoic, compared to their modern diversity. By contrast, groups like mites,\ud harvestmen, pseudoscorpions and solifuges are noticeably under-represented as fossils when compared to modern patterns\ud of diversity