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Jurisdiction in, and the law applicable to, cross-border contractual obligations: the objectives and impact of the EU's legislative journey
This thesis researches EU private international law rules relating to contracts, including its historical development, its rules and its policy objectives. In order to evaluate EU private international law and its policy objectives, English and Belgian private international law rules are investigated as exemplars of domestic law systems within the EU. In this approach lies one of the unique contributions to knowledge of the project. In particular the research takes an original and unique approach by investigating issues from an EU as well as a comparative national perspective. English and Belgian law represent different legal histories and systems (common law and civil law) and are therefore representative of the types of compromises that have to be made at an EU level. Moreover, the relevant legal instruments in the area of research have undergone some changes, some of which are significant and very recent. Particular reference must be made here to the Brussels I Regulation recast 2012. Due to its recent nature, very little publications are available, a gap the research wants to help fill by a detailed textual analysis of the relevant provisions. Finally, there is as of yet little detailed research on the EUâs policy objectives in the area of private international law. To some extent this holds true for English and Belgian law as well. The research aims to help fill that gap
Highly Sensitive Gamma-Spectrometers of GERDA for Material Screening: Part 2
The previous article about material screening for GERDA points out the
importance of strict material screening and selection for radioimpurities as a
key to meet the aspired background levels of the GERDA experiment. This is
directly done using low-level gamma-spectroscopy. In order to provide
sufficient selective power in the mBq/kg range and below, the employed
gamma-spectrometers themselves have to meet strict material requirements, and
make use of an elaborate shielding system. This article gives an account of the
setup of two such spectrometers. Corrado is located in a depth of 15 m w.e. at
the MPI-K in Heidelberg (Germany), GeMPI III is situated at the Gran-Sasso
underground laboratory at 3500 m w.e. (Italy). The latter one aims at detecting
sample activities of the order ~0.01 mBq/kg, which is the current
state-of-the-art level. The applied techniques to meet the respective needs are
discussed and demonstrated by experimental results.Comment: Featured in: Proceedings of the XIV International Baksan School
"Particles and Cosmology" Baksan Valley, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, April
16-21,2007. INR RAS, Moscow 2008. ISBN 978-5-94274-055-9, pp. 233-238; (6
pages, 4 figures
Fluvial Sediment Aggradation and Incision in NW Sub-Himalaya
Abstract HKT-ISTP 2013
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Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions on a ring
Considering an effectively attractive quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein
condensate of atoms confined in a toroidal trap, we find that the system
undergoes a phase transition from a uniform to a localized state, as the
magnitude of the coupling constant increases. Both the mean-field
approximation, as well as a diagonalization scheme are used to attack the
problem.Comment: 4 pages, 4 ps figures, RevTex, typographic errors correcte
Bright solitons and soliton trains in a fermion-fermion mixture
We use a time-dependent dynamical mean-field-hydrodynamic model to predict
and study bright solitons in a degenerate fermion-fermion mixture in a
quasi-one-dimensional cigar-shaped geometry using variational and numerical
methods. Due to a strong Pauli-blocking repulsion among identical
spin-polarized fermions at short distances there cannot be bright solitons for
repulsive interspecies fermion-fermion interactions. However, stable bright
solitons can be formed for a sufficiently attractive interspecies interaction.
We perform a numerical stability analysis of these solitons and also
demonstrate the formation of soliton trains. These fermionic solitons can be
formed and studied in laboratory with present technology.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus
Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising; but, in spite of our enhanced awareness, little deliberate attention is devoted to modeling or grounding such phenomena. Attending to both linguistic and extra-linguistic modalities of chiasmus (the X figure), a group of anthropologists has recently embraced this challenge. Applied to contemporary problems in linguistic anthropology, chiasmus functions to highlight and enhance relationships of interdependence or symbiosis between contraries, including anthropologyâs four fields, the nature of human being and facets of being human
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