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Analysis of the CICC Performance Through the Measurement of the Thermal Strain Distribution of the Nb-3 Sn Filaments in the Cable Cross Section

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Ciro Calzolaio

The knowledge of the thermal strain distribution of the Nb3Sn filaments in a cable in conduit conductor (CICC) cross section is a key parameter in understanding the cable performance evolution when it undergoes electromagnetic (EM) cyclic loading. A CICC i ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

[Genomic medicine and infectious diseases]

Jacques Fellay

Relentless progress in our knowledge of the nature and functional consequences of human genetic variation allows for a better understanding of the protracted battle between pathogens and their human hosts. Multiple polymorphisms have been identified that i ...

2014

Architecture Without Content 9: The Difficult Double

Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac

The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent pas ...

2014

The Dynamics of Restraint in Cote d'Ivoire

Research on conflict prevention has mainly focused on the causes of war and post-conflict reconstruction. Our knowledge on how civilians manage to contain violence in unstable and conflict environments is, however, very limited. This article aims to unders ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

The fragility of experiential knowledge

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has thus far been forthcoming representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging cons ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2012

Integration of Eye-tracking Methods in Visual Comfort Assessments

Marilyne Andersen, Mandana Sarey Khanie

Discomfort glare, among different aspects of visual discomfort is a phenomenon which is little understood and hard to quantify. As this phenomenon is dependent on the building occupant’s view direction and on the relative position of the glare source, a de ...

2011

Revisiting the Edge, Ten Years On

Valérie Chavez, Paul Embrechts

When these lines are written, it is January 21, 2008, a further `Black Monday' on the international markets. Stock indices have fallen between 5 and 10%. Which statistical tools help in describing such events and may help in understanding the consequences? ...

2010

Systemic risk in the network industries: is there a governance gap?

Marc Laperrouza, Ian Robert Bartle

Systemic risks and hazards have become increasingly significant features of modern industrial society of which the network industries form a vital element. The idea of systemic risk, however, is much less prominent in the network industries compared to ban ...

2009

Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship : The Organizational Side of Technology Commercialization

New knowledge with commercial potential is continually created in academic institutions. How is it turned into economically valuable businesses? This paper argues that the transfer is an entrepreneurial process. To understand this, the actions and the cons ...

2005

Natural Language Techniques for Model-driven Semantic Constraint Extraction

Martin Rajman, Marita Ailomaa

This report describes a model-driven approach to natural language understanding (NLU) in which the “meaning” of natural language queries is extracted based on a domain model composed of a set of concepts and relations specified in the system’s domain. The ...

2005