Threading dislocation lines in two-sided flux-array decorations

Two-sided flux decoration experiments indicate that threading dislocation lines (TDLs), which cross the entire film, are sometimes trapped in metastable states. We calculate the elastic energy associated with the meanderings of a TDL. The TDL behaves as an anisotropic and dispersive string with thermal fluctuations largely along its Burgers vector. These fluctuations also modify the structure factor of the vortex solid. Both effects can, in principle, be used to estimate the elastic moduli of the material.

Anàlisi del flux de materials del sector de la fusta a Catalunya per l’any 2005

Anàlisi del flux de manterials que travessen el sector de la fusta a Catalunya durant l’any 2005 calculant els balanços de matèria i els indicadors derivats, de cara a avaluar la gestió dels boscos a Catalunya

Soporte RSS para la integración y distribución de documentación educativa.

La educación se ha visto revolucionada en los últimos tiempos por los avances alcanzados por las NTIC. El desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías y sistemas para la gestión del conocimiento juegan un papel cada vez más importante en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en las universidades. En el presente trabajo se propone el uso extensivo de la tecnología RSS para la distribución e integración de contenidos en la educación superior, y se evalúa su impacto en la construcción de un repositorio semántico distribuido de documentación educativa. Los resultados mostrados en este artículo están fundamentados sobre la base del proyecto Educative, como caso de estudio de gestión integral de documentación educativa para el ámbito universitario.

Implementación del formato RSS (Rich Site Summary) en procesos de gestión y comunicación electrónica en instituciones educativas, públicas y empresariales.

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La Infermera i la gestió del flux de ciutadants en l'atenció primària de salut

Les consultes d’infermeria contribueixen com una porta d’entrada normalitzada en el sistema d’Atenció Primària, oferint resposta a la demanda habitual d’un número important de ciutadans. Una expectativa és reduir els cost i el volum de treball dels metges, sempre que es mantingui la qualitat de l’atenció al ciutadà. La millora organitzativa vers l’accessibilitat al Centre de Salut millora la satisfacció de ciutadans i professionals.

A review of the theoretical basis for bulk mass flux convective parameterization

Most parameterizations for precipitating convection in use today are bulk schemes, in which an ensemble of cumulus elements with different properties is modelled as a single, representative entraining-detraining plume. We review the underpinning mathematical model for such parameterizations, in particular by comparing it with spectral models in which elements are not combined into the representative plume. The chief merit of a bulk model is that the representative plume can be described by an equation set with the same structure as that which describes each element in a spectral model. The equivalence relies on an ansatz for detrained condensate introduced by Yanai et al. (1973) and on a simplified microphysics. There are also conceptual differences in the closure of bulk and spectral parameterizations. In particular, we show that the convective quasi-equilibrium closure of Arakawa and Schubert (1974) for spectral parameterizations cannot be carried over to a bulk parameterization in a straightforward way. Quasi-equilibrium of the cloud work function assumes a timescale separation between a slow forcing process and a rapid convective response. But, for the natural bulk analogue to the cloud-work function (the dilute CAPE), the relevant forcing is characterised by a different timescale, and so its quasi-equilibrium entails a different physical constraint. Closures of bulk parameterization that use the non-entraining parcel value of CAPE do not suffer from this timescale issue. However, the Yanai et al. (1973) ansatz must be invoked as a necessary ingredient of those closures.

Moving towards a more mechanistic approach in the determination of soil heat flux from remote measurements - I. A universal approach to calculate thermal inertia

In this paper we pledge that physically based equations should be combined with remote sensing techniques to enable a more theoretically rigorous estimation of area-average soil heat flux, G. A standard physical equation (i.e. the analytical or exact method) for the estimation of G, in combination with a simple, but theoretically derived, equation for soil thermal inertia (F), provides the basis for a more transparent and readily interpretable method for the estimation of G; without the requirement for in situ instrumentation. Moreover, such an approach ensures a more universally applicable method than those derived from purely empirical studies (employing vegetation indices and albedo, for example). Hence, a new equation for the estimation of Gamma(for homogeneous soils) is discussed in this paper which only requires knowledge of soil type, which is readily obtainable from extant soil databases and surveys, in combination with a coarse estimate of moisture status. This approach can be used to obtain area-averaged estimates of Gamma(and thus G, as explained in paper II) which is important for large-scale energy balance studies that employ aircraft or satellite data. Furthermore, this method also relaxes the instrumental demand for studies at the plot and field scale (no requirement for in situ soil temperature sensors, soil heat flux plates and/or thermal conductivity sensors). In addition, this equation can be incorporated in soil-vegetation-atmosphere-transfer models that use the force restore method to update surface temperatures (such as the well-known ISBA model), to replace the thermal inertia coefficient.