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Coordination of European transnational research in organic food and farming
Research in organic food and farming is a fairly new, but rapidly ex-panding, discipline on the European research scene. One of the problems faced by the authorities seeking to initiate research programmes in organic food and farming is that the present research effort in Europe is caracterised by small research communities, which are often scattered and fragmented both geographically and institutionally. Therefore a gathering of the dispersed expertise to a critical mass in order to increase the competitive quality and relevance of the research as well as the dessemination and use of research is needed
Double Trace Interfaces
We introduce and study renormalization group interfaces between two
holographic conformal theories which are related by deformation by a scalar
double trace operator. At leading order in the 1/N expansion, we derive
expressions for the two point correlation functions of the scalar, as well as
the spectrum of operators living on the interface. We also compute the
interface contribution to the sphere partition function, which in two
dimensions gives the boundary g factor. Checks of our proposal include
reproducing the g factor and some defect overlap coefficients of Gaiotto's RG
interfaces at large N, and the two-point correlation function whenever
conformal perturbation theory is valid.Comment: 59 pages, 2 figure
Final project report: EEC 2092/91 (ORGANIC) Revision
This report summarises the findings of the project that have been presented in a number of separate reports and publications. In the Chapters 2 to 5 the approach, results and conclusions of the project are summarised, following the structure of the different work packages. Chapter 2 summarises the work on ethical values of organic agriculture. Chapter 3 looks at the differences in the implementation of Regulation (EEC) 2092/91 across Europe and compares the European Regulation with international standards. Chapters 4 and 5 summarise the findings that relate to reducing the dependency on non-organic inputs in the case of feed and seed.
The final Chapter 6 consolidates the recommendations of the whole project arising from the various different work packages in one place. Recommendations are aimed in particular at the second stage of the ongoing revision process of the European Regulation, the transfer of the detailed rules from the Annexes of the Regulation (EEC) 2092/91 that is expected to start after the completion of the project. Further recommendations for standard setting bodies, regulators and research recommendations are also presented.
The overall objective of the project was to provide recommendations for the revision and further development of the Regulation (EEC) 2092/91 and other standards for organic agriculture, broken down into a number of specific objectives that resulted in 12 seperate reports.
The basic ethical values and value differences of organic agriculture in Europe was identified through stakeholder consultation (D 2.1) and through literature as part of developing a procedure for balancing and integrating the basic values in developments of EU regulation (D 2.3).
Organic standards from national and private organisations in Europe were compared with the EU regulation with help of database (www.organicrules.org) and differences were analysed to give recommendations on further harmonisation of the EU regulation (D 3.2).
The knowledge on how to achieve 100 % organic rations in diets for livestock was expanded through a meta-analysis of literature and an overview of the current situation to characterise the availability of protein sources for 100% organic diets for pigs and poultry was produced (D 4.1 part 1 and 2). Criteria for use of organic inputs, evaluation criteria for Annex II C: Feed materials and Annex II D: Dietary supplements of Regulation (EEC) 2092/91 were developed (D. 4.2). A guide for operators was developed (D 4.3).
The knowledge on how to reduce the use of non-organic seed and vegetative propagation materials was improved through reports on seed borne diseases in organic seed and propagation material (D 5.1), on the importance of quality characterising in organic seed and propagation material (D 5.2) and analysis of national derogation regimes (D 5.3).
The project produced 12 reports, 7 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, and a project web-page at www.organic-revision.org where all reports and further documents are available. It organised 3 workshops with stakeholders and had ongoing communication with the Unit on Organic Farming in DG Agriculture responsible for the Organic Regulation. Members of the team produced in total more than 250 dissemination items
Organic Rules and Certification
Development of the database, www.organicrules.org:
The database was developed by ICROFS (DARCOF) and FiBL in 2005 - 2006 for comparison of European and international standards with the EU Regulation 2092/91 in the EU FP6 project, ”EEC 2092/91 Revision” (www.organic-revision).
In the EU FP7 project, Economic Analysis of Certification Systems in Organic Food and Farming, www.CERTCOST.org (2008-2011). The database has been further developed by ICROFS. The information for the database is collected by the 9 partners of the CERTCOST project, and it is edited by Lizzie Melby Jespersen,
ICROFS
Instantons and Entanglement Entropy
We would like to put the area law -- believed to by obeyed by entanglement
entropies in the ground state of a local field theory -- to scrutiny in the
presence of non-perturbative effects. We study instanton corrections to
entanglement entropy in various models whose instanton effects are well
understood, including gauge theory in 2+1 dimensions and false vacuum
decay in theory, and we demonstrate that the area law is indeed obeyed
in these models. We also perform numerical computations for toy wavefunctions
mimicking the theta vacuum of the (1+1)-dimensional Schwinger model. Our
results indicate that such superpositions exhibit no more violation of the area
law than the logarithmic behavior of a single Fermi surface.Comment: 29 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, substantially revised,
published versio
Effects of Myofascial Release and Dynamic Warm-up on Exercise Performance
Color poster with text, tables, and graphs.The purpose of this study was to compare the use of foam-rolling to dynamic warm-up on flexibility, power, speed, endurance, and balance in young recreationally active adults.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
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