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Relay Autotuning for Identification and Control
Authors: Chidambaram M. , Sathe Vivek
Published: June 2014

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are extensively used for efficient industrial operations. Autotuning such controllers is required for efficient operation. There are two ways of relay autotuning cascade control systems – simultaneous tuning and sequential tuning. This book discusses incorporation of higher order harmonics of relay autotuning for a single loop controller and cascade control systems to get accurate values of controller ultimate gain. It provides a simple method of designing P/PI controllers for series and parallel cascade control schemes. The authors also focus on estimation of model parameters of unstable FOPTD systems, stable SOPTD and unstable SOPTDZ systems using a single relay feedback test. The methodology and final results explained in this book are useful in tuning controllers. The text would be of use to graduate students and researchers for further studies in this area.
Theory of Unipolar Politics
Authors: Monteiro Nuno P.
Published: June 2014

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has enjoyed unparalleled military power. The international system is therefore unipolar. A quarter of a century later, however, we still possess no theory of unipolarity. Theory of Unipolar Politics provides one. Dr Nuno P. Monteiro answers three of the most important questions about the workings of a unipolar world. Is it durable? Is it peaceful? What is the best grand strategy a unipolar power such as the contemporary United States can implement? In our nuclear world, the power preponderance of the United States is potentially durable but likely to produce frequent conflict. Furthermore, in order to maintain its power preponderance, the United States must remain militarily engaged in the world and accommodate the economic growth of its major competitors, namely, China. This strategy, however, will lead Washington to wage war frequently. In sum, military power preponderance brings significant benefits but is not an unalloyed good.
Vygotsky for Educators
Authors: Karpov Yuriy V.
Published: June 2014

Lev Vygotsky's approach to children's learning and development centers on adult mediation: adults engage children in age-appropriate activities and promote in this context the development of new motives and tools for thinking, problem solving, and self-regulation. Although this approach has earned widespread recognition in the global scientific community, English-speaking educators remain relatively unfamiliar with its contemporary elaborations for practical application. Yuriy V. Karpov offers the first comprehensive English introduction to contemporary elaborations of Vygotsky's ideas and their practical applications from birth through adolescence. He demonstrates the advantages of the Vygotskian approach over both traditional and constructivist education. This volume will prove an invaluable resource for educators and students in teacher education programs, as well as for everyone interested in educational and developmental psychology.
On Growth and Form
Authors: Thompson D'Arcy Wentworth
Published: June 2014

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitive to the fascinations and beauty of the natural world tells of jumping fleas and slipper limpets; of buds and seeds; of bees' cells and rain drops; of the potter's thumb and the spider's web; of a film of soap and a bubble of oil; of a splash of a pebble in a pond.
Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development
Authors: Paupp Terrence E.
Published: June 2014

Human rights in peace and development are accepted throughout the Global South as established, normative, and beyond debate. Only in the powerful elite sectors of the Global North have these rights been resisted and refuted. The policies and interests of these global forces are antithetical to advancing human rights, ending global poverty, and respecting the sovereign integrity of States and governments throughout the Global South. The link between poverty, war, and environmental degradation has become evident over the last 60 years, further augmenting international consciousness of these issues as interconnected with the rest of the human rights corpus. This book examines the history of this struggle and outlines practical means to implement these rights through a global framework of constitutional protections. Within this emerging framework, it argues that States will be increasingly obligated to formulate policies and programs to achieve peace and development throughout the global society.
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Authors: May Robert E.
Published: June 2014

Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into the Union as slave states. A skeptic about 'Manifest Destiny', Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico, condemned Americans invading Latin America, and warned that Douglas's 'popular sovereignty' doctrine would unleash US slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America's showdown over slavery, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln's Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics.
Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations
Authors: Shackelford Scott J.
Published: June 2014

This book presents a framework to reconceptualize internet governance and better manage cyber attacks. It examines the potential of polycentric regulation to increase accountability through bottom-up action. It also provides a synthesis of the current state of cybersecurity research, bringing features of cyber attacks to light and comparing and contrasting the threat to all relevant stakeholders. Throughout the book, cybersecurity is treated holistically, covering issues in law, science, economics and politics. This interdisciplinary approach is an exemplar of how strategies from different disciplines as well as the private and public sectors may cross-pollinate to enhance cybersecurity. Case studies and examples illustrate what is at stake and identify best practices. The book discusses technical issues of Internet governance and cybersecurity while presenting the material in an informal, straightforward manner. The book is designed to inform readers about the interplay of Internet governance and cybersecurity and the potential of polycentric regulation to help foster cyber peace.
Authority
Authors: Furedi Frank
Published: June 2014

Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority – democratic consent, public opinion, science – yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.
Rousseau's Social Contract
Authors: Williams David Lay
Published: June 2014

If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as Kant, considered Rousseau to be 'the Newton of the moral world', as he was the first philosopher to draw attention to the basic dignity of human nature. The Social Contract has never ceased to be read and debated in the 250 years since its publication. Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. David Lay Williams offers readers a chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract, squarely confronting these interpretive obstacles. The book also features a special extended appendix dedicated to outlining Rousseau's famous conception of the general will, which has been the object of controversy since the Social Contract's publication in 1762.
Distant Strangers
Authors: Lichtenberg Judith
Published: June 2014

What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers, Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories and with the concepts of duty and obligation have led philosophers astray. She argues that there are serious limits to what can be demanded of ordinary human beings, but this does not mean we must abandon the moral imperative to reduce poverty. Drawing on findings from behavioral economics and psychology, she shows how we can motivate better-off people to lessen poverty without demanding unrealistic levels of moral virtue. Lichtenberg argues convincingly that this approach is not only practically, but morally, appropriate.
A Concise History of France
Authors: Price Roger
Published: June 2014

This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used. Whilst taking full account of major figures such as Philip Augustus, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, it sets their activities within the broader context of changing economic and social structures and beliefs, and offers rich insights into the lives of ordinary men and women. This third edition has been substantially revised and includes a new chapter on contemporary France - a society and political system in crisis as a result of globalisation, rising unemployment, a failing educational system, growing social and racial tensions, corruption, the rise of the extreme right, and a widespread loss of confidence in political leaders.
Speech Communities
Authors: Morgan Marcyliena H.
Published: June 2014

What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech communities are not organized around linguistic facts but around people who want to share their opinions and identities; the language we use constructs, represents and embodies meaningful participation in society. This book focuses on a range of speech communities, including those that have developed from an increasing technological world where migration and global interactions are common. Essential reading for graduate students and researchers in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.
Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, monachi Cestrensis
Authors: Higden Ranulf
Published: June 2014

Ranulf Higden (d.1364) was a monk at the abbey of St Werburgh in Chester. His most important literary work is this universal chronicle, which survives in over a hundred Latin manuscripts, testifying to its popularity. The earliest version of it dates from 1327, but Higden continued writing until his death, expanding and updating the text. It was also continued in other monastic houses, most importantly by John Malvern of Worcester. The English translation made by John Trevisa in the 1380s was also widely circulated and is included in this work, published in nine volumes for the Rolls Series between 1865 and 1886. The chronicle shows how fourteenth-century scholars understood world history and geography. Volume 8 concludes Book 7, reaching the reign of Edward III. The appendices contain some of the continuations written after Higden's death.
Le Livere de reis de Brittanie, e, le Livere de reis de Engleterre
Authors: Peter of Ickham
Published: June 2014

Published as part of the Rolls Series, this genealogy is attributed to Peter of Ickham (d.1295), a chronicler and Benedictine monk better known for his Latin chronicle of the Kings of England. It is mainly an Anglo-Norman version of extracts by well-known historians such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Florence of Worcester, and Ralph de Diceto. The editor, vicar and librarian John Glover (c.1823–84), published the original text in 1865 together with his own facing-page translation into contemporary English. Glover's scholarship, as well as instances of semi-Saxonised French, will interest philologists and history students alike. The genealogy begins with Britain's colonisation by the legendary Brutus and covers the history of Saxon and Norman kings. It ends with a portrait of the life and reign of Edward II.
Historia Anglorum. The History of the English from AC 55 to AD 1154
Authors: Henry of Huntingdon
Published: June 2014

Henry of Huntingdon (c.1088–c.1157) wrote his comprehensive Latin chronicle of English history at the behest of the bishop of Lincoln, who asked him to provide a narrative from the earliest English kings right up to their own day. Henry's fondness for anecdotes - including the story of King Cnut attempting to hold back the tide - adds charm to his account. Although the work was originally completed by 1130, Henry continued to add to his magnum opus for many years, producing a version that concluded with the death of King Stephen and the accession of Henry II in 1154. This is the version edited for the Rolls Series in 1879 by Thomas Arnold (1823–1900), whose scholarly introduction describes the various different versions of the text, lists the extant manuscripts, and surveys Henry's sources. The text is accompanied by side-notes in English as well as appendices, a glossary and an index.
A New Account of the East Indies
Authors: Hamilton Alexander
Published: June 2014

Little is known of Captain Alexander Hamilton other than what he tells us in this work, first published in 1727. Written during his retirement, it is both an invaluable source of information on south-east Asia at the time and a lively travelogue of Hamilton's adventurous seafaring life in the service of the East India Company and independently between 1688 and 1723. An engaging storyteller, Hamilton writes of encounters with pirates, the Portuguese, and of a poisoning in Malacca, as well as providing vivid descriptions of the countries he visited - from Africa to Japan via India, Sumatra and China - and their social customs, religions, trade and commerce. His idiosyncratic maps and illustrations enhance his narrative despite his admission that he makes 'but little use of the pencil'. Volume 1 takes the reader up the east coast of Africa to the Middle East, and round the coast of India to Ceylon.
Peter and Wendy
Authors: Barrie James Matthew
Published: June 2014

'All children, except one, grow up.' Mrs Darling half-remembers Peter Pan from her own childhood; he is an insubstantial figure with a baby's laugh and a habit of blowing out stars. She believes him to be imaginary - until he leaves his shadow in her children's nursery. Accompanied by a foul-mouthed fairy, Peter is in search of good stories, and upon learning that the eldest Darling girl, Wendy, knows a great many, he lures her and her two brothers back to the island of Neverland. There, the dreams and imaginings of childhood become real. Lost boys, pirates and warring Indians populate the shifting landscape, which suddenly seems darker and more frightening without the bedside lamps of home. Adapted by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) from his most famous play, this novelised and illustrated version of the story was first published in 1911.
The Bewick Collector
Authors: Hugo Thomas
Published: June 2014

The names of Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) and his brother John (1760–1795) are synonymous with beautiful, delicate and accurate woodcuts of the natural world. Their instantly recognisable style was to influence book illustration well into the nineteenth century. The antiquary and print collector Thomas Hugo (1820–76), best known as a collector of Bewick woodcuts, first published this two-volume catalogue of his extensive collection in 1866–8. It has since emerged that many of the items sourced from printers' offices and booksellers across the country - including Thomas Bewick's own publisher, Emerson Charnley - cannot be authenticated as the Bewicks' work. The collection was nonetheless a remarkable assemblage of valuable materials, including uncut first editions, woodblocks, handbills and broadsides (all regrettably dispersed after Hugo's death) which might otherwise have been lost. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Volume 1 comprises the catalogue, which includes an appendix of Bewick portraits, letters and memorabilia.
Valuation and Risk Management in Energy Markets
Authors: Swindle Glen
Published: June 2014

Valuation and Risk Management in Energy Markets surveys the mechanics of energy markets and the valuation of structures commonly arising in practice. The presentation balances quantitative issues and practicalities facing portfolio managers, with substantial attention paid to the ways in which common methods fail in practice and to alternative methods when they exist. The material spans basic fundamentals of markets, statistical analysis of price dynamics, and a sequence of increasingly challenging structures, concluding with issues arising at the enterprise level. In totality, the material has been selected to provide readers with the analytical foundation required to function in modern energy trading and risk management groups.
Terrestrial Biosphere-Atmosphere Fluxes
Authors: Monson Russell , Baldocchi Dennis
Published: June 2014

Fluxes of trace gases, water and energy - the 'breathing of the biosphere' - are controlled by a large number of interacting physical, chemical, biological and ecological processes. In this interdisciplinary book, the authors provide the tools to understand and quantitatively analyse fluxes of energy, organic compounds such as terpenes, and trace gases including carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane. It first introduces the fundamental principles affecting the supply and demand for trace gas exchange at the leaf and soil scales: thermodynamics, diffusion, turbulence and physiology. It then builds on these principles to model the exchange of water, carbon dioxide, terpenes and stable isotopes at the ecosystem scale. Detailed mathematical derivations of commonly used relations in biosphere-atmosphere interactions are provided for reference in appendices. An accessible introduction for graduate students and a key resource for researchers in related fields, such as atmospheric science, hydrology, meteorology, climate science, biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology.
Property and Political Order in Africa
Authors: Boone Catherine
Published: June 2014

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and 'nationalization' of political competition.
The Pathologies of Power
Authors: Fettweis Christopher J.
Published: June 2014

The foreign policy of the United States is guided by deeply held beliefs, few of which are recognized much less subjected to rational analysis, Christopher J. Fettweis writes, in this, his third book. He identifies the foundations of those beliefs - fear, honor, glory and hubris - and explains how they have inspired poor strategic decisions in Washington. He then proceeds to discuss their origins. The author analyzes recent foreign policy mistakes, including the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War, and he considers the decision-making process behind them, as well as the beliefs inspiring those decisions. The American government's strategic performance, Professor Fettweis argues, can be improved if these pathological beliefs are recognized and eliminated.
The Modern Prison Paradox
Authors: Lerman Amy E.
Published: June 2014

In The Modern Prison Paradox, Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken place in the politics and practice of American corrections. She argues that this punitive turn has had profoundly negative consequences for both crime control and American community life. Professor Lerman's research shows that spending time in America's increasingly violent and castigatory prisons strengthens inmates' criminal networks and fosters attitudes that increase the likelihood of criminal activity following parole. Additionally, Professor Lerman assesses whether America's more punitive prisons similarly shape the social attitudes and behaviors of correctional staff. Her analysis reveals that working in more punitive prisons causes correctional officers to develop an 'us against them' mentality while on the job, and that the stress and wariness officers acquire at work carries over into their personal lives, straining relationships with partners, children, and friends.
God's Presence
Authors: Young Frances
Published: June 2014

In 2011, Frances Young delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford to great acclaim. She offered a systematic theology with contemporary coherence, by engaging in conversation with the fathers of the church - those who laid down the parameters of Christian theology and enshrined key concepts in the creeds - and exploring how their teachings can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments. This book results from a thorough rewriting of those lectures in which Young explores the key topics of Christian doctrine in a way that is neither simply dogmatic nor simply historical. She addresses the congruence of head and heart, through academic and spiritual engagement with God's gracious accommodation to human limitations. Christianity and biblical interpretation are discussed in depth, and the book covers key topics including Creation, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, spirituality, ecclesiology and Mariology, making it invaluable to those studying historical and constructive theology.
Open Standards and the Digital Age
Authors: Russell Andrew L.
Published: June 2014

How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of 'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavily on hierarchical forms of control.
Tidal flow over topography: effect of excursion number on wave energetics and turbulence
Authors: Jalali Masoud , Rapaka Narsimha R. , Sarkar Sutanu
Published: June 2014

The excursion number, $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}Ex = U_0/\varOmega l$, is a parameter that characterizes the ratio of streamwise fluid advection during a tidal oscillation of amplitude $U_0$ and frequency $\varOmega $ to the streamwise topographic length scale $l$. Direct numerical simulations are performed to study how internal gravity waves and turbulence change when $Ex$ is varied from a low value (typical of a ridge in the deep ocean) to a value of unity (corresponding to energetic tides over a small topographic feature). An isolated obstacle having a smoothed triangular shape and 20 % of the streamwise length at critical slope is considered. With increasing values of $Ex$, the near field of the internal waves loses its beam-like character, the wave response becomes asymmetric with respect to the ridge centre, and transient lee waves form. Analysis of the baroclinic energy balance shows significant reduction in the radiated wave flux in the cases with higher $Ex$ owing to a substantial rise in advection and baroclinic dissipation as well as a decrease in conversion. Turbulence changes qualitatively with increasing $Ex$. In the situation with $Ex \sim 0.1$, turbulence is intensified at the near-critical regions of the slope, and is also significant in the internal wave beams above the ridge where there is intensified shear. At $Ex = O(1)$, the transient lee waves overturn adjacent to the ridge flanks and, owing to convective instability, buoyancy acts as a source for turbulent kinetic energy. The size of the turbulent overturns has a non-monotonic dependence on excursion number: the largest overturns, as tall as twice the obstacle height, occur in the $Ex = 0.4$ case, but there is a substantial decrease of overturn size at larger values of $Ex$ simulated here.
Active control of a turbulent boundary layer based on local surface perturbation
Authors: Bai H. L. , Zhou Y. , Zhang W. G. , Xu S. J. , Wang Y. , Antonia R. A.
Published: June 2014

Active control of a turbulent boundary layer has been experimentally investigated with a view to reducing the skin-friction drag and gaining some insight into the mechanism that leads to drag reduction. A spanwise-aligned array of piezo-ceramic actuators was employed to generate a transverse travelling wave along the wall surface, with a specified phase shift between adjacent actuators. Local skin-friction drag exhibits a strong dependence on control parameters, including the wavelength, amplitude and frequency of the oscillation. A maximum drag reduction of 50 % has been achieved at 17 wall units downstream of the actuators. The near-wall flow structure under control, measured using smoke–wire flow visualization, hot-wire and particle image velocimetry techniques, is compared with that without control. The data have been carefully analysed using techniques such as streak detection, power spectra and conditional averaging based on the variable-interval time-average detection. All the results point to a pronounced change in the organization of the perturbed boundary layer. It is proposed that the actuation-induced wave generates a layer of highly regularized streamwise vortices, which acts as a barrier between the large-scale coherent structures and the wall, thus interfering with the turbulence production cycle and contributing partially to the drag reduction. Associated with the generation of regularized vortices is a significant increase, in the near-wall region, of the mean energy dissipation rate, as inferred from a substantial decrease in the Taylor microscale. This increase also contributes to the drag reduction. The scaling of the drag reduction is also examined empirically, providing valuable insight into the active control of drag reduction.
Linear instability, nonlinear instability and ligament dynamics in three-dimensional laminar two-layer liquid–liquid flows
Authors: Ó Náraigh Lennon , Valluri Prashant , Scott David M. , Bethune Iain , Spelt Peter D. M.
Published: June 2014

We consider the linear and nonlinear stability of two-phase density-matched but viscosity-contrasted fluids subject to laminar Poiseuille flow in a channel, paying particular attention to the formation of three-dimensional waves. A combination of Orr–Sommerfeld–Squire analysis (both modal and non-modal) with direct numerical simulation of the three-dimensional two-phase Navier–Stokes equations is used. For the parameter regimes under consideration, under linear theory, the most unstable waves are two-dimensional. Nevertheless, we demonstrate several mechanisms whereby three-dimensional waves enter the system, and dominate at late time. There exists a direct route, whereby three-dimensional waves are amplified by the standard linear mechanism; for certain parameter classes, such waves grow at a rate less than but comparable to that of the most dangerous two-dimensional mode. Additionally, there is a weakly nonlinear route, whereby a purely spanwise wave grows according to transient linear theory and subsequently couples to a streamwise mode in weakly nonlinear fashion. Consideration is also given to the ultimate state of these waves: persistent three-dimensional nonlinear waves are stretched and distorted by the base flow, thereby producing regimes of ligaments, ‘sheets’ or ‘interfacial turbulence’. Depending on the parameter regime, these regimes are observed either in isolation, or acting together.
Hierarchical parcel-swapping representation of turbulent mixing. Part 2. Application to channel flow
Authors: Kerstein Alan R.
Published: June 2014

A novel concept for simulation of turbulent mixing, termed hierarchical parcel swapping (HiPS), was recently proposed. The method involves either a parameterized representation of the turbulent flow or a more self-contained flow simulation. As a step toward turbulent mixing applications, the latter formulation is used for the first numerical demonstration of model performance. Owing to its suitability for this purpose and its role as a canonical benchmark, channel flow is the target application. Despite its idealized representation of this flow, HiPS is shown to capture salient features of the flow with a notable degree of quantitative accuracy. The implications of this finding with regard to flow physics and with regard to the applicability of HiPS to other problems are discussed.
Cabinet Formation and Portfolio Distribution in European Multiparty Systems
Authors: Cutler Josh , De Marchi Scott , Gallop Max , Hollenbach Florian M. , Laver Michael , Orlowski Matthias
Published: June 2014

Government formation in multiparty systems is of self-evident substantive importance, and the subject of an enormous theoretical literature. Empirical evaluations of models of government formation tend to separate government formationper sefrom the distribution of key government pay-offs, such as cabinet portfolios, between members of the resulting government. Models of government formation are necessarily specifiedex ante, absent any knowledge of the government that forms. Models of the distribution of cabinet portfolios are typically, though not necessarily, specifiedex post, taking into account knowledge of the identity of some government ‘formateur’ or even of the composition of the eventual cabinet. This disjunction lies at the heart of a notorious contradiction between predictions of the distribution of cabinet portfolios made by canonical models of legislative bargaining and the robust empirical regularity of proportional portfolio allocations – Gamson’s Law. This article resolves this contradiction by specifying and estimating ajointmodel of cabinet formation and portfolio distribution that, for example, predictsex antewhich parties will receive zero portfolios rather than taking this as givenex post. It concludes that canonical models of legislative bargaining do increase the ability to predict government membership, but that portfolio distribution between government members conforms robustly to a proportionality norm because portfolio distribution follows the much more difficult process of policy bargaining in the typical government formation process.
Verbal prefixes in Russian: Conceptual structure versus syntax
Authors: TOLSKAYA INNA K.
Published: June 2014

At first glance, the variety of possible denotations of a given prefix in Russian might appear a chaotic set of idiomatic meanings, e.g. the prefixza- may refer to the beginning of an action, movement to a position behind an object, a brief deviation from a path, or completion of an action. I propose a unified analysis of Russian prefixes, where the differences in meaning are claimed to arise from different syntactic positions, while the lexical entry of a prefix remains the same. The main focus is on the verbs of motion due to the consistent duality displayed by the prefix meanings when added to directional and non-directional motion verbs. It turns out that prefixes modify path when added onto a directional motion verb and refer to movement in time with non-directional motion verbs. This semantic distinction corresponds to distinct sets of syntactic properties, characteristic of the lexical and superlexical prefixes. Furthermore, a tripartite division emerges in each set of prefixes, corresponding to goal, source and route of motion (TO, FROM, VIA, respectively) for lexical prefixes and to beginning, completion and duration for superlexical prefixes. This leads to the suggestion that the same prefix with a consistent conceptual meaning, shared with the corresponding preposition receives part of its denotation from its position in the syntactic representation. The separation of conceptual meaning from the structural meaning allows the polysemy to arise from position, rather than from arbitrary homophony. Thus, conceptual structure is unified with syntax.
Partially uncovered Cheatham platinum-covered stent to treat complex aortic coarctation associated with aortic wall aneurysm
Authors: Butera Gianfranco , Piazza Luciane
Published: June 2014

Percutaneous treatment of aortic coarctation is a widely used option. Covered stents have increased the profile of efficacy and safety of this procedure. Here we report on a 32-year-old woman with significant aortic recoarctation associated with aortic wall aneurysm and close proximity of both lesions to the origin of both the subclavian arteries.

It was decided to manually and partially uncover the proximal part of the stent to have a hybrid stent that could act as a bare stent at the level of the origin of the subclavian arteries and as a covered stent at the level of the aneurysm.
Implantable CPW-fed Z-monopole antennas at 2.45 GHz ISM band for biomedical applications
Authors: Ashok Kumar Srinivasan , Shanmuganantham Thangavelu
Published: June 2014

A novel coplanar waveguide-fed Z-monopole antennas are proposed for the first time for a industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.4–2.48 GHz) applications. To make the designed antenna suitable for implantation, it is embedded in biocompatible Al2O3ceramic substrate. The antenna operates at resonance frequency of 2.45 GHz to support wide band communication for high data rate implantable neural monitoring application. The size of the antenna is 38.675 mm3(8.5 mm × 7 mm × 0.65 mm). The antenna was simulated and measured by immersing it in a phantom liquid, imitate the electrical properties of the human body phantom liquid. The simulated and measured bandwidths are 10.2 and 11.4% at the centre frequency. A study of the sensitivity of the antenna performance as a function of its dielectric parameters of the environment in which it is immersed was performed. The demonstration among the design EM characteristics of the antenna is presented by current distributions.
Swarm intelligence inspired shills and the evolution of cooperation
Authors: Duan Haibin , Sun Changhao
Published: June 2014

Many hostile scenarios exist in real-life situations, where cooperation is disfavored and the collective behavior needs intervention for system efficiency improvement. Towards this end, the framework of soft control provides a powerful tool by introducing controllable agents called shills, who are allowed to follow well-designed updating rules for varying missions. Inspired by swarm intelligence emerging from flocks of birds, we explore here the dependence of the evolution of cooperation on soft control by an evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) game staged on square lattices, where the shills adopt a particle swarm optimization (PSO) mechanism for strategy updating. We demonstrate that not only can cooperation be promoted by shills effectively seeking for potentially better strategies and spreading them to others, but also the frequency of cooperation could be arbitrarily controlled by choosing appropriate parameter settings. Moreover, we show that adding more shills does not contribute to further cooperation promotion, while assigning higher weights to the collective knowledge for strategy updating proves a efficient way to induce cooperative behavior. Our research provides insights into cooperation evolution in the presence of PSO-inspired shills and we hope it will be inspirational for future studies focusing on swarm intelligence based soft control.
Effect of confinement on DNA, solvent and counterion dynamics in a model biological nanopore
Authors: Markosyan Suren , De Biase Pablo M. , Czapla Luke , Samoylova Olga , Singh Gurpreet , Cuervo Javier , Tieleman D. Peter , Noskov Sergei Yu.
Published: June 2014

The application of recent advances in nanopore technology to high-throughput DNA sequencing requires a more detailed understanding of solvent, ion and DNA interactions occurring within these pores.
Molecularly imprinted polymer solid phase extraction of fungicides from wine samples
Authors: Bitar Manal , Cayot Philippe , Bou-Maroun Elias
Published: June 2014

In order to preconcentrate iprodione fungicide in white wine samples, molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction (MISPE) was developed and optimised.
The substrate-dependent regeneration capacity of mesenchymal stem cell spheroids derived on various biomaterial surfaces
Authors: Huang Guo-Shiang , Hsieh Pai-Shan , Tseng Ching-Shiow , Hsu Shan-hui
Published: June 2014

ADSC spheroids derived on various biomaterials present differentin vitroproperties, which may explain their different efficacies in cartilage repair.
Trapping of single nano-objects in dynamic temperature fields
Authors: Braun Marco , Würger Alois , Cichos Frank
Published: June 2014

In this article we explore the dynamics of a Brownian particle in a feedback-free dynamic thermophoretic trap.
Accurate characterization of single track-etched, conical nanopores
Authors: Apel Pavel Yu. , Ramirez Patricio , Blonskaya Irina V. , Orelovitch Oleg L. , Sartowska Bozena A.
Published: June 2014

Deviation from cone geometry significantly influences the ion current rectification through track-etched nanopores with tip radii smaller than 10 nm.
Oxidation of methanol to methyl formate over supported Pd nanoparticles: insights into the reaction mechanism at low temperature
Authors: Wojcieszak R. , Karelovic A. , Gaigneaux E. M. , Ruiz P.
Published: June 2014

The mechanism of methyl formate formation at low temperature was studied using DRIFT-operando. The first reaction step would be the formation of methoxy groups by dissociative adsorption of methanol and then transformation into formaldehyde. The final step would be the condensation of the formaldehyde species with gaseous methanol.
Asymmetric hydrolytic kinetic resolution with recyclable polymeric Co(iii)–salen complexes: a practical strategy in the preparation of (S)-metoprolol, (S)-toliprolol and (S)-alprenolol: computational rationale for enantioselectivity
Authors: Roy Tamal , Barik Sunirmal , Kumar Manish , Kureshy Rukhsana I. , Ganguly Bishwajit , Khan Noor-ul H. , Abdi Sayed H. R. , Bajaj Hari C.
Published: June 2014

Role of chiral/achiral linker in asymmetric HKR of terminal epoxides using recyclable polymeric Co(iii) salen complexes.
Upgrading of diols by gas-phase dehydrogenation and dehydration reactions on bifunctional Cu-based oxides
Authors: Torresi P. A. , Díez V. K. , Luggren P. J. , Di Cosimo J. I.
Published: June 2014

A bifunctional ZCuMgAl (Z = 0.3–61.2 wt.% Cu) catalyst converts biomass-derived diols into valuable hydroxyketones or saturated and unsaturated ketones and alcohols depending on the Cu loading.
Changes in wastewater treatment performance and activated sludge properties of a membrane bioreactor at low temperature operation
Authors: Zhang Chiqian , Wang Guangzhi , Hu Zhiqiang
Published: June 2014

The membrane bioreactor (MBR) activated sludge process is being applied more and more for wastewater treatment due to its high treatment efficiency and low space requirement.
Modulation of hyperglycemia and TNFα-mediated inflammation by helichrysum and grapefruit extracts in diabetic db/db mice
Authors: Laura de la Garza Ana , Etxeberria Usune , Palacios-Ortega Sara , Haslberger Alexander G. , Aumueller Eva , Milagro Fermín I. , Martínez J. Alfredo
Published: June 2014

Type-2 diabetes is associated with a chronic low-grade systemic inflammation accompanied by an increased production of adipokines/cytokines in the obese adipose tissue, which may be overcome by flavonoid-rich extracts.
Investigating the mechanism of phase transformations and migration in olivine at high temperature
Authors: Michel R. , Ammar M. R. , Véron E. , Simon P. , Poirier J.
Published: June 2014

A framework is presented to define the formation and migration mechanisms of oxides in olivine during their phase transformations at high temperature.
Fabrication of degradable polymer microspheres via pH-responsive chitosan-based Pickering emulsion photopolymerization
Authors: Liu Hao , Wei Zengjiang , Hu Meng , Deng Yonghong , Tong Zhen , Wang Chaoyang
Published: June 2014

Degradable polymer microspheres were facilely fabricated by chitosan-based Pickering emulsion photopolymerization.
Network evolutions in both pure and silica-filled natural rubbers during cyclic shear loading
Authors: Zhang Fazhong , Chen Yulong , Sun ChongZhi , Wen Shipeng , Liu Li
Published: June 2014

During the fatigue process, the loose silica agglomerates are disrupted and then the closed ones can also be gradually broken down, and the filler particles become more and more homogeneous.
Towards Si@SiO2core–shell, yolk–shell, and SiO2hollow structures from Si nanoparticles through a self-templated etching–deposition process
Authors: Niu Jin , Zhang Su , Niu Yue , Song Ranran , Song Huaihe , Chen Xiaohong , Zhou Jisheng , Hong Song
Published: June 2014

Si@SiO2core–shell, yolk–shell, and SiO2hollow structures can be obtained when Si nanoparticles are simply treated by ammonia–water–ethanol solution.
Biocompatibility and genotoxicity studies of polyallylamine hydrochloride nanocapsules in rats
Authors: Janeesh P. A. , Sami Haider , Dhanya C. R. , Sivakumar Sri , Abraham Annie
Published: June 2014

PAH nanocapsule studies in rats showed that it is biocompatible and nongenotoxic for furtherin vivodrug-delivery studies.
LDI-MS examination of oxygen plasma modified polymer for designing tailored implant biointerfaces
Authors: Gołda-Cępa M. , Aminlashgari N. , Hakkarainen M. , Engvall K. , Kotarba A.
Published: June 2014

A versatile parylene C coating for biomaterials was fabricated by the mild oxygen plasma treatment and examined by the use of LDI-MS..
Graphene oxide based BCNO hybrid nanostructures: tunable band gaps for full colour white emission
Authors: Chu Zengyong , Kang Yue , Jiang Zhenhua , Li Gongyi , Hu Tianjiao , Wang Jing , Zhou Zhongfu , Li Yihe , Wang Xiaojie
Published: June 2014

We report the optimal conversion of graphene oxide (GO) into white-lighting BCNO hybrid nanostructures by a one-step air oxidation process with the aid of boric acid and urea.
Dye adsorbed on copolymer, possible specific sorbent for metal ions removal
Authors: Muntean Simona Gabriela , Rădulescu-Grad Maria Elena , Sfârloagă Paula
Published: June 2014

The efficiency of styrene-divinylbenzene functionalized with trimethylamonium groups as sorbent for the direct dye removal from aqueous solutions was investigated.
Fe whisker growth revisited: effect of Au catalysis for [021̄] oriented nanowires with 100 nm diameter
Authors: Yanase T. , Kawahito A. , Hashimoto Y. , Endo T. , Wang Y. , Nagahama T. , Shimada T.
Published: June 2014

The growth mechanism of Fe nanowires and the role of Au nanoparticle catalysis were revealed using transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction analysis. Fe nanowire has a high aspect ratio and unique [021̄] orientation.
Hydroxyl and ester functionalized N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of iridium(i): efficient catalysts for transfer hydrogenation reactions
Authors: Gülcemal Derya , Gökçe Aytaç Gürhan , Gülcemal Süleyman , Çetinkaya Bekir
Published: June 2014

Iridium(i)–NHC catalyzed transfer hydrogenation reaction of aldehydes and ketones with up to 10 000 TON has been achieved.
Enzymatic synthesis of amylose nanocomposite microbeads using amylosucrase from Deinococcus geothermalis
Authors: Lim Min-Cheol , Seo Dong-Ho , Jung Ji-Hoon , Park Cheon-Seok , Kim Young-Rok
Published: June 2014

This communication reports a biological approach to synthesize pure amylose microbeads and amylose–SWCNT composite microbeads using the amylosucrase from Deinococcus geothermalis.
Phenylenediamine functionalized reduced graphene oxide/polyaniline hybrid: synthesis, characterization, improved conductivity and photocurrent generation
Authors: T Remyamol , Gopinath Pramod , John Honey
Published: June 2014

Phenylenediamine functionalized reduced graphene oxide (GONH2) is designed and synthesized for the preparation of a polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide hybrid having better interactions than that of the unfunctionalized graphite oxide/polyaniline hybrid.
Single-walled carbon nanohorns with unique horn-shaped structures as a scaffold for lithium–sulfur batteries
Authors: Wu Wangliang , Zhao Yi , Wu Chuxin , Guan Lunhui
Published: June 2014

A new SWCNHs–S composite exhibits excellent cycle stability with a high capacity of 693 mA h g−1 retained after 100 cycles at 1600 mA g−1.
Selective oxidation passing through η3-ozone intermediates: applications to direct propene epoxidation using molecular oxygen oxidant
Authors: Manz Thomas A. , Yang Bo
Published: June 2014

An unprecedented catalytic route for selective oxidation is designed that passes through η3-ozone intermediates and uses molecular oxygen as the oxidant without requiring a coreductant. DFT-computed reaction cycles identify a new catalyst type with the lowest computed overall activation energy for direct propene epoxidation for any catalyst to date.