NERC Open Research Archive (NORA)

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : Conference PostersNORA (NERC Open Research Archive) is the repository for the peer-reviewed output of the UK's Natural Environment Research Council, covering atmospheric science, earth science, earth observation, environmental maths and statistics, marine, polar, science based archaeology, technology and e-science, terrestrial and freshwater science. NORA phase 1 went live in August 2007 and now has over 5000 entries. With phase 2 we are looking to develop a publication management workflow, add an internal repository, and improve the output of statistics and management information

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From Cracked Polytopes to Fano Threefolds

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