Center for low-gravity fluid mechanics and transport phenomena

Research projects in several areas are discussed. Mass transport in vapor phase systems, droplet collisions and coalescence in microgravity, and rapid solidification of undercooled melts are discussed

Multiplication Semigroups on Banach Function Spaces

In this paper we characterize multiplication operators induced by operator valued maps on Banach function spaces. We also study multiplication semigroups and stability of these operators.Comment: We want to withdraw the paper due to the paper needs a careful revision and some proper citations are to be provided. Also there are certain gaps in the results which need to be taken car

Antennas and Propagation of Implanted RFIDs for Pervasive Healthcare Applications

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The Education of Female élites in Nineteenth-Century Papal Rome. Innovative Contributions of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Madeleine-Sophie Barat

After a brief description of the evolution of educational institutions in the first half of the nineteenth century Papal Rome, the Author explores the role played –on this side– of the new female religious institutions arose after the French Revolution. The article, on the basis on a rich archival and printed documentation, analyzes the innovative work of the teaching and religious Congregation of the Sacred Heart, founded in Paris in 1800 by Madeleine-Sophie Barat, whose “colleges for young ladies” of bourgeois and aristocracy offered to the young women of upper classes of papal capital a cultural and religious education, that was much more rich and elaborate than that provided by female traditional boarding schools

Formulasi Strategi Bersaing PT. Santoso Kencana Sakti

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memformulasikan strategi bersaing yang tepat untuk Perusahaan PT. Santoso Kencana Sakti yang bergerak di bidang transportasi bis dalam menghadapi persaingan yang terjadi. Penelitian bersifat kualitatif. Penelitian ini menggunakan wawancara dengan purposive sampling dalam menentukan informan. Penelitian ini menganalisa lingkungan internal, lingkungan eksternal melalui Porter's five forces dan PEST dengan menggunakan SWOT, agar didapatkan beberapa alternative strategi bersaing untuk PT. Santoso Kencana Sakti. Dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan, didapatkan bahwa strategi yang disarankan untuk PT. Santoso Kencana Sakti adalah dengan melakukan strategi intensif penetrasi pasar dan strategi intensif pengembangan pasar

Spectral decomposition of starbursts and AGNs in 5-8 micron Spitzer IRS spectra of local ULIRGs

We present an analysis of the 5-8 micron Spitzer-IRS spectra of a sample of 68 local Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs). Our diagnostic technique allows a clear separation of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and starburst (SB) components in the observed mid-IR emission, and a simple analytic model provides a quantitative estimate of the AGN/starburst contribution to the bolometric luminosity. We show that AGNs are ~30 times brighter at 6 micron than starbursts with the same bolometric luminosity, so that even faint AGNs can be detected. Star formation events are confirmed as the dominant power source for extreme infrared activity, since ~85% of ULIRG luminosity arises from the SB component. Nonetheless an AGN is present in the majority (46/68) of our sources.Comment: 5 Pages, 3 figures. MNRAS Letters, Accepte

The Gentile reform (1923) and academic strategies of the University of Macerata between national science and development of the local economy = La Reforma Gentile de 1923 y las estrategias académicas de la Universidad de Macerata

This paper aims to examine the peculiar and significant innovations introduced by the University of Macerata in the aftermath of the Gentile reform on the educational syllabus and, in particular, in relation to the rise of a specific line of applied research having as its object the improvement of the agricultural economy and the formation of specialists in this field. In this regard, on the basis of the need to «promote any form of involvement and financial contribution» of the local authorities, resulting from its being among the universities of B type, i.e. those only partially supported by the State, the University Macerata was engaged in a work of rethinking of its role in the local and regional level. In 1925, for example, the University inaugurated a School of Accounting and Foreign Languages, which would have to become a real center of higher education for the new financial and accounting professions related to the development and modernization of the agricultural and manufacturing enterprises, as well as of the trade and credit activities in the region. The initiative promoted by the University Macerata two years later, in 1927, was even more articulate and ambitious with the establishment of the Graduate School in Agricultural Law and Agricultural Economics and Statistics. In the intentions of the leadership of the university, these two institutions had to go beyond the expansion and diversification of the educational syllabus, to represent the fundamental elements of a more comprehensive project. According to this, the University of Macerata was intended to be a real source of «highlevel professionals», and, at the same time, the laboratory for the formation of a new local ruling class, capable of leading not only the cultural, but also the «industrial, agricultural and commercial» growth of the entire region.Este artículo pretende examinar las innovaciones específicas y significativas introducidas por la Universidad de Macetara como consecuencia de la Reforma Gentile de los planes de estudio y, en particular, en relación con el desarrollo de una línea de investigación aplicada que tenía como objeto la mejora de la agricultura y la formación de especialistas en este campo. En este sentido, partiendo de la necesidad de «promover cualquier forma de participación y contribución financiera» de las autoridades locales a consecuencia de su clasificación como universidad de tipo B que sólo recibía apoyo parcial del Estado, la Universidad de Macerata se esforzó en replantearse su papel en el ámbito local y regional. En 1925, por ejemplo, la Universidad inauguró una Escuela de Contabilidad y Lenguas Extranjeras, que debería convertirse en un verdadero centro de educación superior para las nuevas profesiones financieras y contables relacionadas con el desarrollo y la modernización de las empresas agrícolas y de fabricación, así como con las actividades comerciales y de crédito en la región. Más elocuente y ambicioso fue aún la iniciativa promovida por la Universidad de Macerata dos años más tarde, en 1927, de establecer una Escuela de Graduados en Derecho Agrario y Economía Agrícola y Estadística. Las intenciones de la dirección de la universidad eran que estas dos instituciones trascendieran la expansión y diversificación del currículo educativo para constituir los elementos fundamentales de un proyecto más amplio. Desde este planteamiento, la Universidad de Macerata estaba destinada a ser una verdadera fuente de «profesionales de alto nivel», y, al mismo tiempo, el laboratorio para la formación de una nueva clase dirigente local, capaz de liderar no sólo el desarrollo cultural, sino también «industrial,agrícola y comercial» de la región entera