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Factors Associated to Purchase of Quality-Labelled Beef
The aim of the present study is to identify the factors associated to purchase of quality-labelled beef. For this purpose a total of 364 surveys were carried out on buyers of beef in three Spanish cities. The sample was divided into three groups of buyers according to the beef purchasing habits with a quality label. A logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the differences between groups. The results show the importance of the production region as a quality aspect. Income level, association of quality-labelled beef with “guarantee and tradition” aspects, purchasing frequency, place of purchase, production systems and lifestyles are all variables that enabled us to establish differences between groups.beef quality, quality label, consumer perception, Demand and Price Analysis,
Granular-Scale Elementary Flux Emergence Episodes in a Solar Active Region
We analyze data from Hinode spacecraft taken over two 54-minute periods
during the emergence of AR 11024. We focus on small-scale portions within the
observed solar active region and discover the appearance of very distinctive
small-scale and short-lived dark features in Ca II H chromospheric filtergrams
and Stokes I images. The features appear in regions with close-to-zero
longitudinal magnetic field, and are observed to increase in length before they
eventually disappear. Energy release in the low chromospheric line is detected
while the dark features are fading. In time series of magnetograms a diverging
bipolar configuration is observed accompanying the appearance of the dark
features and the brightenings. The observed phenomena are explained as
evidencing elementary flux emergence in the solar atmosphere, i.e small-scale
arch filament systems rising up from the photosphere to the lower chromosphere
with a length scale of a few solar granules. Brightenings are explained as
being the signatures of chromospheric heating triggered by reconnection of the
rising loops (once they reached chromospheric heights) with pre-existing
magnetic fields as well as to reconnection/cancellation events in U-loop
segments of emerging serpentine fields. We study the temporal evolution and
dynamics of the events and compare them with the emergence of magnetic loops
detected in quiet sun regions and serpentine flux emergence signatures in
active regions. Incorporating the novel features of granular-scale flux
emergence presented in this study we advance the scenario for serpentine flux
emergence.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Solar Physic
Inclinations of small quiet-Sun magnetic features based on a new geometric approach
High levels of horizontal magnetic flux have been reported in the quiet-Sun
internetwork, often based on Stokes profile inversions. Here we introduce a new
method for deducing the inclination of magnetic elements and use it to test
magnetic field inclinations from inversions. We determine accurate positions of
a set of small, bright magnetic elements in high spatial resolution images
sampling different photospheric heights obtained by the Sunrise balloon-borne
solar observatory. Together with estimates of the formation heights of the
employed spectral bands, these provide us with the inclinations of the magnetic
features. We also compute the magnetic inclination angle of the same magnetic
features from the inversion of simultaneously recorded Stokes parameters. Our
new, geometric method returns nearly vertical fields (average inclination of
around 14 deg with a relatively narrow distribution having a standard deviation
of 6 deg). In strong contrast to this, the traditionally used inversions give
almost horizontal fields (average inclination of 75+-8 deg) for the same small
magnetic features, whose linearly polarised Stokes profiles are adversely
affected by noise. The almost vertical field of bright magnetic features from
our geometric method is clearly incompatible with the nearly horizontal
magnetic fields obtained from the inversions. This indicates that the amount of
magnetic flux in horizontal fields deduced from inversions is overestimated in
the presence of weak Stokes signals, in particular if Stokes Q and U are close
to or under the noise level. By combining the proposed method with inversions
we are not just improving the inclination, but also the field strength. This
technique allows us to analyse features that are not reliably treated by
inversions, thus greatly extending our capability to study the complete
magnetic field of the quiet Sun.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; Accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysic
The right to gender recognition before the Colombian constitutional court: a queer and travesti theory analysis
This article discusses the case-law on gender recognition of the ColombianConstitutional Court. It argues that the Court, paying attention to queerand trans theory and to the demands of trans activists, has interpretedmainstream constitutional rights in such a way that trans people can havetheir self-defined identities recognised. The article criticises the limitationsof this case-law, which still does not explicitly include non-binary andgender fluid people. On the other hand, it highlights that the Court’s doc-trine has the potential to challenge both the gender binary and the verycategory of ‘sex’ or ‘gender’ in the law
Anderson localization in carbon nanotubes: defect density and temperature effects
The role of irradiation induced defects and temperature in the conducting
properties of single-walled (10,10) carbon nanotubes has been analyzed by means
of a first-principles approach. We find that di-vacancies modify strongly the
energy dependence of the differential conductance, reducing also the number of
contributing channels from two (ideal) to one. A small number of di-vacancies
(5-9) brings up strong Anderson localization effects and a seemly universal
curve for the resistance as a function of the number of defects. It is also
shown that low temperatures, around 15-65 K, are enough to smooth out the
fluctuations of the conductance without destroying the exponential dependence
of the resistivity as a function of the tube length.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Instabilities in tensorial nonlocal gravity
We discuss the cosmological implications of nonlocal modifications of general
relativity containing tensorial structures. Assuming the presence of standard
radiation- and matter-dominated eras, we show that, except in very particular
cases, the nonlocal terms contribute a rapidly growing energy density. These
models therefore generically do not have a stable cosmological evolution.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. v2: version published in PR
Fluxtube model atmospheres and Stokes V zero-crossing wavelengths
First results of the inversion of Stokes I and V profiles from plage regions
near disk center are presented. Both low and high spatial resolution spectra of
FeI 6301.5 and FeI 6302.5 A obtained with the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP)
have been considered for analysis. The thin flux tube approximation,
implemented in an LTE inversion code based on response functions, is used to
describe unresolved magnetic elements. The code allows the simultaneous and
consistent inference of all atmospheric quantities determining the radiative
transfer with the sole assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium. By considering
velocity gradients within the tubes we are able to match the full ASP Stokes
profiles. The magnetic atmospheres derived from the inversion are characterized
by the absence of significant motions in high layers and strong velocity
gradients in deeper layers. These are essential to reproduce the asymmetries of
the observed profiles. Our scenario predicts a shift of the Stokes V
zero-crossing wavelengths which is indeed present in observations made with the
Fourier Transform Spectrometer.Comment: To appear in ApJ Letters (1997) (in press
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