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Farm Diversification in Relation to Landscape Properties
Current European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been moving from production support subsidies to direct decoupled income support. The emergence in policy making of the concept of multifunctional agriculture leads to the recognition that a farmer produces more than food: he produces jointly both commodity and non-commodity goods. Environmental contracts were developed in order to encourage the provision of non-commodity goods such as landscape or biodiversity. Next to these contracts, other activities as for example recreation can be observed. They are the result of farm diversification. The role of location in farmers’ decision making to diversify is pointed out in literature but geographical information is generally reduced to the location within a political delimitation unit the empirical work. Objective of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it addresses the role of location, in term of site specific natural conditions as well as neighbouring emerging dynamics in farmer’s decision making to diversify. Attention is paid to number of activities as well as the specific types of activities, notably green services, daily recreation and other farm-linked services. Secondly, this paper introduces income from agriculture explicitly allowing testing short term price sensitivity. It was found that attractive landscape is a driver for diversification as these landscape offer more opportunities. Furthermore, diversification is responsive to price. Thirdly, role of density of past multifunctional activities in the neighborhood influences farm diversification: multifunctional activities create an externality effects as new activities emerge next to already existing ones. This dynamic may lead to the emergence of ‘multifunctional hotspots’ in landscape.Farmer diversification, landscape services, location, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use,
Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, Application of the Per Se Rule to Price-Fixing Agreements
In Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated regulation of college football television contracts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). This decision left colleges and universities free to contract for the sale of broadcast rights to their football games. The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma held that the NCAA television foot- ball plan and network contracts constituted an illegal price-fixing agreement and thus were per se violations of section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the holding that the NCAA regulations were illegal per se and, under the rule of reason analysis of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, also found the regulations to be unreasonably restrictive of competitive conditions
Simulation of braiding anyons using Matrix Product States
Anyons exist as point like particles in two dimensions and carry braid
statistics which enable interactions that are independent of the distance
between the particles. Except for a relatively few number of models which are
analytically tractable, much of the physics of anyons remain still unexplored.
In this paper, we show how U(1)-symmetry can be combined with the previously
proposed anyonic Matrix Product States to simulate ground states and dynamics
of anyonic systems on a lattice at any rational particle number density. We
provide proof of principle by studying itinerant anyons on a one dimensional
chain where no natural notion of braiding arises and also on a two-leg ladder
where the anyons hop between sites and possibly braid. We compare the result of
the ground state energies of Fibonacci anyons against hardcore bosons and
spinless fermions. In addition, we report the entanglement entropies of the
ground states of interacting Fibonacci anyons on a fully filled two-leg ladder
at different interaction strength, identifying gapped or gapless points in the
parameter space. As an outlook, our approach can also prove useful in studying
the time dynamics of a finite number of nonabelian anyons on a finite
two-dimensional lattice.Comment: Revised version: 20 pages, 14 captioned figures, 2 new tables. We
have moved a significant amount of material concerning symmetric tensors for
anyons --- which can be found in prior works --- to Appendices in order to
streamline our exposition of the modified Anyonic-U(1) ansat
Full- & Reduced-Order State-Space Modeling of Wind Turbine Systems with Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generator
Wind energy is an integral part of nowadays energy supply and one of the
fastest growing sources of electricity in the world today. Accurate models for
wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) are of key interest for the analysis and
control design of present and future energy systems. Existing control-oriented
WECSs models are subject to unstructured simplifications, which have not been
discussed in literature so far. Thus, this technical note presents are thorough
derivation of a physical state-space model for permanent magnet synchronous
generator WECSs. The physical model considers all dynamic effects that
significantly influence the system's power output, including the switching of
the power electronics. Alternatively, the model is formulated in the -
and -reference frame. Secondly, a complete control and operation
management system for the wind regimes II and III and the transition between
the regimes is presented. The control takes practical effects such as input
saturation and integral windup into account. Thirdly, by a structured model
reduction procedure, two state-space models of WECS with reduced complexity are
derived: a non-switching model and a non-switching reduced-order model. The
validity of the models is illustrated and compared through a numerical
simulation study.Comment: 23 pages, 11 figure
Broadband high-resolution x-ray frequency combs
Optical frequency combs have had a remarkable impact on precision
spectroscopy. Enabling this technology in the x-ray domain is expected to
result in wide-ranging applications, such as stringent tests of astrophysical
models and quantum electrodynamics, a more sensitive search for the variability
of fundamental constants, and precision studies of nuclear structure.
Ultraprecise x-ray atomic clocks may also be envisaged. In this work, an x-ray
pulse-shaping method is put forward to generate a comb in the absorption
spectrum of an ultrashort high-frequency pulse. The method employs an
optical-frequency-comb laser, manipulating the system's dipole response to
imprint a comb on an excited transition with a high photon energy. The
described scheme provides higher comb frequencies and requires lower
optical-comb peak intensities than currently explored methods, preserves the
overall width of the optical comb, and may be implemented by presently
available x-ray technology
Ideal Bose gas in fractal dimensions and superfluid He in porous media
Physical properties of ideal Bose gas with the fractal dimensionality between
D=2 and D=3 are theoretically investigated. Calculation shows that the
characteristic features of the specific heat and the superfluid density of
ideal Bose gas in fractal dimensions are strikingly similar to those of
superfluid Helium-4 in porous media. This result indicates that the geometrical
factor is dominant over mutual interactions in determining physical properties
of Helium-4 in porous media.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
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