Evaluated displacement and gas production cross-sections for materials irradiated with intermediate energy nucleons

International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND) -- SEP 11-16, 2016 -- Bruges, BELGIUMWOS: 000426429500034Atomic displacement and gas production cross-sections were obtained for a number of materials to calculate radiation damage and gas production rate in nuclear-and fusion reactors, and neutron spallation sources. An advanced atomistic modelling approach was applied for calculations of the number of stable displacements in materials.Fusion for Energy [F4E-GRT-168.01, F4E-GRT-168.02]The work leading to this publication has been funded partially by Fusion for Energy under the Specific Grant Agreements F4E-GRT-168.01 and F4E-GRT-168.02. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and Fusion for Energy cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein

Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey: Beyond the Narratives of Progress

Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey’s ‘authoritarian turn’ and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party’s methods of governance have shifted from an earlier ‘democratic’ model – defined by ‘hegemony’ – to an emergent ‘authoritarian’ one. In contrast, by retracing the mechanisms of the state-led reproduction of neoliberalism since 2003, the paper demonstrates that the party’s earlier ‘hegemonic’ activities were also shaped by authoritarian tendencies which manifested at various levels of governance

The anatolian soil concept of the past and today

Anatolia, also called Asia Minor, has an area of about 500,000 km2, is located at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and Asia (Figure 13.1). Several civilizations namely Hittites, Greeks, Urartians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Seljuks, Moguls, and Ottomans occupied Anatolia owing to its favorable climate and rich natural resources, including its soils. These various civilizations in turn strongly modified both the cultural and physical landscapes of Anatolia. The story of why they settled in these lands and their effects upon them reflect the special features of its geological and landscape histories. To a very large extent, these are expressed in the soils of Anatolia, which gave them the materials for their nutrition, fuel, clothing, and shelter. In time, the interplay of these products of the soils with the ingenuity of its different inhabitants was to bring Anatolia through the agricultural revolution. Archaeological evidence outlined in this chapter suggests that it may even have provided the location of the very beginnings of the agricultural revolution: Anatolia may have been the crucible of this vital change in mankind’s evolution. This proposition is examined in this chapter, which also describes the state of soils in Anatolia today. © 2014 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Semi-empirical formula with new coefficients of the (?,n) Reaction Cross-Section

A new modified semi-empirical formula including non-elastic scattering and Coulomb effects for the (?,n) reaction cross-section was obtained. The available experimental data were used to get the (?,n) reaction cross-section systematics. The dependence between the cross-section and asymmetry term was discussed for (?,n) reaction at 18:5 ± 3 MeV energies classifying the target nuclei into odd Zeven N and even Zeven N. The coefficients of determination (R2) for all classifications were detected to exhibit the amount of relation between asymmetry term and cross-sections obtained from the modified semi-empirical formula with new coefficients