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Integrated and Ecological Crop Protection (I/ECP)
Manual on integrated and ecological crop protectio
Final report on the VEGINECO project
Vegetable farming systems in Europe, Final report on the VEGINECO project
Manual on prototyping methodology and multifunctional crop rotation
This VEGINECO manual is one of a series of publications resulting from the VEGINECO project. VEGINECO specialises in producing tested and improved multi-objective farming methods for key farming practices – e.g. crop rotation, fertilisation and crop protection – to facilitate the integration of potentially conflicting objectives like economy and ecology. This report consists of two parts. The first part describes the prototyping methodology and how it was used in the VEGINECO project (Chapters 2 - 5). The second part describes the methodology for developing crop rotation strategies with examples of its application under different conditions in Europe (Chapter 6 - 11)
Asymptotically anomalous black hole configurations in gravitating nonlinear electrodynamics
We analyze the class of non-linear electrodynamics minimally coupled to
gravitation supporting asymptotically flat \textit{non Schwarzschild-like}
elementary solutions. The Lagrangian densities governing the dynamics of these
models in flat space are defined and fully characterized as a subclass of the
set of functions of the two standard field invariants, restricted by
requirements of regularity, parity invariance and positivity of the energy,
which are necessary conditions for the theories to be physically admissible.
Such requirements allow for a complete characterization and classification of
the geometrical structures of the elementary solutions for the corresponding
gravity-coupled models. In particular, an immediate consequence of the
requirement of positivity of the energy is the asymptotic flatness of
gravitating elementary solutions for any admissible model. The present
analysis, together with the (already published) one concerning the full class
of admissible gravitating non-linear electrodynamics supporting asymptotically
flat \textit{Schwarzschild-like} elementary solutions, completes and exhausts
the study of the gravitating point-like charge problem for this kind of models.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, revtex4, added extra paragraph in conclusions,
added some references, added other minor changes, to published in Phys.Rev.
Non-topological solitons in field theories with kinetic self-coupling
We investigate some fundamental features of a class of non-linear
relativistic lagrangian field theories with kinetic self-coupling. We focus our
attention upon theories admitting static, spherically symmetric solutions in
three space dimensions which are finite-energy and stable. We determine general
conditions for the existence and stability of these non-topological soliton
solutions. In particular, we perform a linear stability analysis that goes
beyond the usual Derrick-like criteria. On the basis of these considerations we
obtain a complete characterization of the soliton-supporting members of the
aforementioned class of non-linear field theories. We then classify the family
of soliton-supporting theories according to the central and asymptotic
behaviors of the soliton field, and provide illustrative explicit examples of
models belonging to each of the corresponding sub-families. In the present work
we restrict most of our considerations to one and many-components scalar
models. We show that in these cases the finite-energy static spherically
symmetric solutions are stable against charge-preserving perturbations,
provided that the vacuum energy of the model vanishes and the energy density is
positive definite. We also discuss briefly the extension of the present
approach to models involving other types of fields, but a detailed study of
this more general scenario will be addressed in a separate publication.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, revtex4, minor corrections adde
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