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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
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
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
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
Community Structure in the United States House of Representatives
We investigate the networks of committee and subcommittee assignments in the
United States House of Representatives from the 101st--108th Congresses, with
the committees connected by ``interlocks'' or common membership. We examine the
community structure in these networks using several methods, revealing strong
links between certain committees as well as an intrinsic hierarchical structure
in the House as a whole. We identify structural changes, including additional
hierarchical levels and higher modularity, resulting from the 1994 election, in
which the Republican party earned majority status in the House for the first
time in more than forty years. We also combine our network approach with
analysis of roll call votes using singular value decomposition to uncover
correlations between the political and organizational structure of House
committees.Comment: 44 pages, 13 figures (some with multiple parts and most in color), 9
tables, to appear in Physica A; new figures and revised discussion (including
extra introductory material) for this versio
Concept design and alternate arrangements of orbiter mid-deck habitability features
The evaluations and recommendations for habitability features in the space shuttle orbiter mid-deck are summarized. The orbiter mission plans, the mid-deck dimensions and baseline arrangements along with crew compliments and typical activities were defined. Female and male anthropometric data based on zero-g operations were also defined. Evaluations of baseline and alternate feasible concepts provided several recommendations which are discussed
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