Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Narrating the Past -- 1 The EU Has Been Shaped by Crisis: Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold -- 2 The Search for Leadership and a Convincing Narrative -- 3 The Sources of the Crisis in Europe -- Part II Seeking a Future -- 4 Contesting Europe's Past and Imagining Europe's Future: Do Identity and Participation Matter? -- 5 Problems in Search of a Solution, Solutions in Search of Legitimacy -- Bibliography -- A Guide to Further Reading and Useful Websites -- Index
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In: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation: official publication of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Volume 6, Issue 4, p. 202-207
In Europe, urban areas represent the "engine" of economic growth and employment in a territory: about 85% of the EU's GDP (gross domestic product) is generated in european cities. Several European cities, due to the extensive economic activities in urban areas, have to deal with and manage issues related to or caused by transport and mobility such as congestion, air pollution, safety and noise pollution. In 2010, for example, about 73% of European citizens lived in urban areas; this percentage is estimated to increase to more than 80% by 2050. In addition to the direct impact generated by traffic, urban mobility can also influence social development, social exclusion, and accessibility for people with reduced mobility. Consequently, the need to adopt sustainable transport systems is now a global goal that can no longer be postponed. To promote sustainable mobility models, current planning strategies have used smart growth interventions to move from mono-centric city structures to poly-centric, more localized configurations. For example, the idea of the 15-minute city is gradually growing in importance from both a policy and social perspective. The basis of the idea is the promotion of interventions to increase the supply of local services, such as schools, public transportation systems, health care facilities, dining facilities, jobs, recreation areas, and retail stores. In this way, local areas are created that are sustainable, inclusive, and walkable within a small radius on foot or by bicycle. Starting from these considerations, the aim of this work is to apply the idea of the city in 15 min to railway stations: in this perspective, the railway station becomes the starting point of the analysis as it represents the "door of the house", from where users start their last mile trips after getting off the train. For some railway stations located in Northern Italy, an analytical index has been defined that summarizes the characteristics of the station in relation to the territory in which it is located. In this way, it is possible to classify the stations on the one hand and, on the other, to identify and propose improvements aimed at relaunching the role of a railway station in a territory.
In: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation: official publication of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 59A-59A
In: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation: official publication of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 187A-187A
The underlying mechanism driving the structural amorphous-to-crystalline transition in Group VI chalcogenides is still a matter of debate even in the simplest GeTe system. We exploit the extreme sensitivity of 57Fe emission Mössbauer spectroscopy, following dilute implantation of 57Mn (T½ = 1.5 min) at ISOLDE/CERN, to study the electronic charge distribution in the immediate vicinity of the 57Fe probe substituting Ge (FeGe), and to interrogate the local environment of FeGe over the amorphous-crystalline phase transition in GeTe thin films. Our results show that the local structure of as-sputtered amorphous GeTe is a combination of tetrahedral and defect-octahedral sites. The main effect of the crystallization is the conversion from tetrahedral to defect-free octahedral sites. We discover that only the tetrahedral fraction in amorphous GeTe participates to the change of the FeGe-Te chemical bonds, with a net electronic charge density transfer of ~ 1.6 e/a0 between FeGe and neighboring Te atoms. This charge transfer accounts for a lowering of the covalent character during crystallization. The results are corroborated by theoretical calculations within the framework of density functional theory. The observed atomic-scale chemical-structural changes are directly connected to the macroscopic phase transition and resistivity switch of GeTe thin films. ; This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework through ENSAR (Contract No. 262010). R. Fallica, C. Wiemer, and M. Longo acknowledge the SYNAPSE project ("SYnthesis and functionality of chalcogenide NAnostructures for PhaSE change memories"), which received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013), under grant agreement n° 310339. H. P. Gunnlaugsson acknowledges support from the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders and the KU Leuven BOF (SF/14/013, CREA/14/13, and STRT/14/002). K. Bharuth-Ram, H. Masenda, D. Naidoo, and M. Ncube acknowledge support from the South African National Research Foundation and the Department of Science and Technology. T. E. Mølholt, H. P. Gislason, and S. Ólafsson acknowledge support from the Icelandic Research Fund (Grant No. 110017021-23). The authors acknowledge Numonyx for the GeTe samples and Dr. Enrico Varesi (now at Micron), Dr. Davide Erbetta (now at STMicroelectronics) and Dr. Roberto Bez (now at LFoundry) for scientific discussion. ; Peer Reviewed
We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of 7 below the spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational waves to be less than similar to 2% of the available spin-down power. For the X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars, several of themeasured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3 x 10(-26) for J1603-7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0 x 10(-8) for J2124-3358. ; Australian Research Council ; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India ; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy ; Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia ; Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears ; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research ; Royal Society ; Scottish Funding Council ; Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Foundation for Polish Science ; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Carnegie Trust ; Leverhulme Trust ; David and Lucile Packard Foundation ; Research Corporation ; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ; Commonwealth Government ; Astronomy