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Innovative spatial timber structures: workshops with physical modeling explorations from small to full scale
Architects and Engineers are educated and work within two separate cultures yet
they are both concerned with conceptual structural design. The collaboration between
the professions is especially important when designing buildings where the structure to
a great degree forms the spaces, as in the cases of form generating structures such as
gridshells, reciprocal frames, space trusses etc . This paper describes several specialist
research based workshops developed at KA over the last two years that use physical
modelling of 1:1 innovative timber load-bearing structures such as gridshells and
reciprocal frames
Bertrand's Postulate for Carmichael Numbers
Alford, Granville, and Pomerance proved that there are infinitely many
Carmichael numbers. In the same paper, they ask if a statement analogous to
Bertrand's postulate could be proven for Carmichael numbers. In this paper, we
answer this question, proving the stronger statement that for all
and sufficiently large in terms of , there exist at least
Carmichael numbers between and
Stark Ionization of Atoms and Molecules within Density Functional Resonance Theory
We show that the energetics and lifetimes of resonances of finite systems
under an external electric field can be captured by Kohn--Sham density
functional theory (DFT) within the formalism of uniform complex scaling.
Properties of resonances are calculated self-consistently in terms of complex
densities, potentials and wavefunctions using adapted versions of the known
algorithms from DFT. We illustrate this new formalism by calculating ionization
rates using the complex-scaled local density approximation and exact exchange.
We consider a variety of atoms (H, He, Li and Be) as well as the hydrogen
molecule. Extensions are briefly discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. This document is the unedited Author's version of
a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in
J.Phys.Chem.Lett., copyright (c) American Chemical Society after peer review.
To access the final edited and published work see
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jz401110
Structural breaks & volatility spillover. effects on the Norwegian financial market
Masteroppgve i finansiering og investering - Nord universitet 202
Attitudes, efficacy beliefs, and willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling
Environmental sustainability may be seen as a collective challenge that can only be met if a sufficient number of individuals cooperate. Whether or not individual tourists are willing to contribute their share may thus depend not only on the degree to which they think that environmental sustainability is important (attitudes), but also on the degree to which they think that other tourists hold similar attitudes (social comparison). Other possible influences are beliefs that one's own behaviour can make a difference (self-efficacy beliefs) and that tourists as a group together can make a difference (collective efficacy beliefs). This paper reports on findings from a study (N = 358) that investigated the role of these factors in explaining people's willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling. Attitudes, self-efficacy and collective efficacy accounted for 30% of the variance in willingness to pay for environmental protection; social comparison did not explain additional variance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.publishedVersio
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