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    • The Np-237(n,f) cross section at the CERN n-TOF facility 

      Karadimos, D.; Vlastou, R.; Vlachoudis, V.; Pavlopoulos, P.; Konovalov, V.; Diakaki, M.; Abbondanno, U.; Aerts, G.; Alvarez, H.; Alvarez-Velarde, F.; Andriamonje, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Assimakopoulos, P.; Audouin, L.; Badurek, G.; Baumann, P.; Becvar, F.; Benlliure, J.; Berthoumieux, E.; Calvino, F.; Cano-Ott, D.; Capote, R.; Carrillo de Albornoz, A.; Chepel, V.; Chiaveri, E.; Colonna, N.; Cortes, G.; Cortina, D.; Couture, A.; Cox, J.; David, S.; Dolfini, R.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Dorochenko, A.; Dridi, W.; Duran, I.; Eleftheriadis, Ch.; Embid-Segura, M.; Ferrant, L.; Ferrari, A.; Ferreira-Marques, R.; Fitzpatrick, L.; Frais-Koelbl, H.; Fujii, K.; Furman, W.; Goncalves, I.; Gallino, R.; Cennini, P.; Gonzalez-Romero, E.; Rauscher, T.; N TOF Collaboration (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2011)
      The Np-237(n,f) cross sections have been measured at the n-TOF facility relative to the U-235 and U-238 fission cross sections. The n-TOF spallation neutron source at CERN is characterized by a high intensity flux, an ...

    • NPARSEC : NTT Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects. Goals, targets, procedures and first results 

      Smart, R.L.; Tinney, C.G.; Bucciarelli, B.; Marocco, F.; Abbas, U.; Andrei, A.; Bernardi, G.; Burningham, B.; Cardoso, C.; Costa, E.; Crosta, M.T.; Dapra, M.; Day-Jones, A.; Goldman, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lattanzi, M.G.; Leggett, S.K.; Lucas, P.W.; Mendez, R.; Penna, J.L.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smith, Leigh; Sozzetti, A.; Vecchiato, A. (2013-08)
      The discovery and subsequent detailed study of T dwarfs have provided many surprises and pushed the physics and modelling of cool atmospheres in unpredicted directions. Distance is a critical parameter for studies of these ...

    • NPM is dead, long live NPM : The strategic shift in public sector discourse 

      Shah, Syed; Malik, Ali (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)
      Strategic performance measurement (SPM) is an important tool of New Public Management (NPM) which found great currency during the previous New Labour Government in the U.K. A discourse analysis of the official publications ...

    • NPS detection in Prison: a Systematic Literature Review of Use, Drug Form, and Analytical Approaches 

      Stair, Jacqueline; Vaccaro, Giorgia; Guirguis, Amira; Kirton, Stewart; Massariol, Anna (2022-03-30)
      This paper presents a systematic literature review on the detection of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in prison settings. It includes the most frequently reported NPS classes, the routes and forms used for smuggling, ...

    • NPS: Medical Consequences Associated with Their Intake 

      Schifano, Fabrizio; Orsolini, Laura; Papanti, Duccio; Corkery, John (Springer Nature, 2016-06-07)
      Over the last decade, the 'traditional' drug scene has been supplemented - but not replaced - by the emergence of a range of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), which are either newly created or existing drugs, including ...

    • The NSPCC UK Minding the Baby® (MTB) home-visiting programme, supporting young mothers (aged 14-25) in the first 2 years of their baby's life : study protocol for a randomised controlled trial 

      Longhi, Elena; Murray, Lynne; Hunter, Rachael; Wellsted, David; Taylor-Colls, Samantha; MacKenzie, Kathryn; Rayns, Gwynne; Cotmore, Richard; Fonagy, Peter; Fearon, Richard M Pasco (2016-10-07)
      BACKGROUND: Young mothers living in low-income urban settings often are exposed to significant and chronic environmental difficulties including poverty, social isolation and poor education and typically also have to cope ...

    • Nuclear aspects of stellar and explosive nucleosynthesis 

      Rauscher, T.; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Hoffman, R. D.; Woosley, S.E. (Springer Nature, 2001)
      The majority of nuclear reactions in astrophysics involve unstable nuclei which are not yet fully accessible by experiments. Therefore, there is high demand for reliable predictions of cross sections and reaction rates by ...

    • Nuclear Astrophysics 

      Rauscher, T.; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl (2001-12)

    • The Nuclear Astrophysics program at n-TOF (CERN) 

      Colonna, N.; Aberle, O.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, L.; Bacak, M.; Balibrea, J.; Barbagallo, M.; Bečvář, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Billowes, J.; Bosnar, D.; Brown, A.; Caamaño, M.; Calviño, F.; Calviani, M.; Cano-Ott, D.; Cardella, R.; Casanovas, A.; Cerutti, F.; Chen, Y. H.; Chiaveri, E.; Clai, G.; Cortés, G.; Cortés-Giraldo, M. A.; Cosentino; Cristallo, S.; Damone, L. A.; Diakaki, M.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Dressler, L. R.; Dupont, E.; Durán, I.; Fernández-Domínguez, B.; Ferrari, A.; Ferreira, P.; Finocchiaro, P.; Furman, V.; Göbel, K.; García, A. R.; Gawlik, A.; Gilardoni, S.; Glodariu, T.; Gonçalves, I. F.; González, E.; Griesmayer, E.; Guerrero, C.; Gunsing, F.; Harada, H.; Heinitz, S.; Rauscher, T.; The n-TOF Collaboration (EDP Sciences, 2017-12-30)
      An important experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics is being carried out at the n-TOF since several years, in order to address the still open issues in stellar and primordial nucleosynthesis. Several neutron capture ...

    • Nuclear cross sections, nuclear structure and stellar nucleosynthesis 

      Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Argast, D.; Brachwitz, F.; Hix, W. R.; Hoflich, P.; Liebendoerfer, M.; Martinez-Pinedo, G.; Mezzacappa, A.; Panov, I.; Rauscher, T. (2003-05-05)
      The role of nuclear reactions (strong, weak and electromagnetic) and nuclear structure effects are discussed in a number of stellar applications. We address fusion cross sections in stellar evolution, neutrino-induced ...

    • Nuclear data activities at the n_TOF facility at CERN 

      Gunsing, F.; Aberle, O.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, L.; Bécares, V.; Bacak, M.; Balibrea-Correa, J.; Barbagallo, M.; Barros, S.; Bečvář, F.; Beinrucker, C.; Belloni, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Billowes, J.; Bosnar, D.; Brugger, M.; Caamaño, M.; Calviño, F.; Calviani, M.; Cano-Ott, D.; Cardella, R.; Casanovas, A.; Castelluccio, D. M.; Cerutti, F.; Chen, Y. H.; Chiaveri, E.; Colonna, N.; Cortés-Giraldo, M. A.; Cortés, G.; Cosentino, L.; Damone, L. A.; Deo, K.; Diakaki, M.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Dressler, R.; Dupont, E.; Durán, I.; Fernández-Domínguez, B.; Ferrari, A.; Ferreira, P.; Finocchiaro, P.; Frost, R. J W; Furman, V.; Ganesan, S.; García, A. R.; Gawlik, A.; Gheorghe, I.; Glodariu, T.; Gonçalves, I. F.; González, E.; Goverdovski, A.; Griesmayer, E.; Guerrero, C.; Göbel, K.; Harada, H.; Heftrich, T.; Heinitz, S.; Hernández-Prieto, A.; Heyse, J.; Jenkins, D. G.; Jericha, E.; Käppeler, F.; Kadi, Y.; Katabuchi, T.; Kavrigin, P.; Ketlerov, V.; Khryachkov, V.; Kimura, A.; Kivel, N.; Kokkoris, M.; Krtička, M.; Leal-Cidoncha, E.; Lederer, C.; Leeb, H.; Lerendegui, J.; Licata, M.; Lo Meo, S.; Lonsdale, S. J.; Losito, R.; Macina, D.; Marganiec, J.; Martínez, T.; Masi, A.; Massimi, C.; Mastinu, P.; Mastromarco, M.; Matteucci, F.; Maugeri, E. A.; Mazzone, A.; Mendoza, E.; Mengoni, A.; Milazzo, P. M.; Mingrone, F.; Mirea, M.; Montesano, S.; Musumarra, A.; Nolte, R.; Oprea, A.; Palomo-Pinto, F. R.; Paradela, C.; Patronis, N.; Pavlik, A.; Perkowski, J.; Porras, I.; Praena, J.; Quesada, J. M.; Rajeev, K.; Rauscher, T.; Reifarth, R.; Riego-Perez, A.; Robles, M.; Rout, P.; Radeck, D.; Rubbia, C.; Ryan, J. A.; Sabaté-Gilarte, M.; Saxena, A.; Schillebeeckx, P.; Schmidt, S.; Schumann, D.; Sedyshev, P.; Smith, A. G.; Stamatopoulos, A.; Suryanarayana, S. V.; Tagliente, G.; Tain, J. L.; Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.; Tarrío, D.; Tassan-Got, L.; Tsinganis, A.; Valenta, S.; Vannini, G.; Variale, V.; Vaz, P.; Ventura, A.; Vlachoudis, V.; Vlastou, R.; Wallner, A.; Warren, S.; Weigand, M.; Weiss, C.; Wolf, C.; Woods, P. J.; Wright, T.; Žugec, P. (2016-10-21)
      Nuclear data in general, and neutron-induced reaction cross sections in particular, are important for a wide variety of research fields. They play a key role in the safety and criticality assessment of nuclear technology, ...

    • Nuclear data needs for the study of nucleosynthesis in massive stars 

      Woosley, S.E.; Heger, A.; Rauscher, T.; Hoffman, R. D. (2003-05-05)
      The critical nuclear physics needed to calculate the evolution of and nucleosynthesis in massive stars is reviewed with emphasis on the uncertainties. Some reaction rates - the most important and uncertain still being C-12 ...

    • Nuclear discs as clocks for the assembly history of early-type galaxies: the case of NGC 4458 

      Sarzi, M.; Ledo, H.~R.; Coccato, L.; Corsini, E.~M.; Dotti, M.; Khochfar, S.; Maraston, C.; Morelli, L.; Pizzella, A. (2016-04-01)
      Approximately 20 per cent of early-type galaxies host small nuclear stellar discs that are tens to a few hundred parsecs in size. Such discs are expected to be easily disrupted during major galactic encounters, hence their ...

    • A nuclear grand-design spiral within the normal disc spiral of NGC 5248 

      Laine, S.; Knapen, J.; Perez-Ramirez, D.; Doyon, R.; Nadeau, D. (1999-01)
      We report the discovery of trailing grand-design nuclear spiral structure in the spiral galaxy NGC 5248. Two tightly-wound red spiral arms, with widths less than 1 arcsec (~ 75 pc), emanate at 1 arcsec outside the quiescent ...

    • Nuclear level density and the determination of thermonuclear rates for astrophysics 

      Rauscher, T.; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Kratz, K.L. (1997-09)
      The prediction of cross sections for nuclei far off stability is crucial in the field of nuclear astrophysics. In recent calculations the nuclear level density-as an important ingredient to the statistical model ...

    • Nuclear medicine 

      Major, Vicki; Griffiths, Marc (Churchill Livingstone, 2009)
      Nuclear Medicine is concerned with providing diagnostic information about patients following the administration of a radioactive product. The patient is imaged using a Gamma Camera. Images are produced of the distribution ...

    • Nuclear partition functions at temperatures exceeding 10(10) K 

      Rauscher, T. (2003-08)
      Nuclear partition functions were calculated for a grid of temperatures from 1.2 x 10(10) to 2.75 x 10(11) K (1 MeV less than or equal to kT less than or equal to 24 MeV) within a Fermi-gas approach, including all nuclides ...

    • Nuclear physics : A key ingredient in astrophysical modeling 

      Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Argast, D.; Brachwitz, F.; Fisker, J. L.; Froehlich, Carla; Hirschi, R.; Kolbe, E.; Mocelj, D.; Rauscher, T. (2005-04-18)
      Nuclear physics is a basic ingredient in a large number of energetic astrophysical environments which are characterized by sufficient temperatures and densities to permit scattering events among particles, leading to nuclear ...

    • Nuclear physics for the Re/Os clock 

      Mosconi, M.; Heil, M.; Kaeppeler, F.; Plag, R.; Mengoni, A.; Fujii, K.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Aerts, G.; Terlizzi, R.; Gallino, R.; Abbondanno, U.; Alvarez, H.; Alvarez-Velarde, F.; Andriamonje, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Assimakopoulos, P.; Audouin, L.; Badurek, G.; Baumann, P.; Becvar, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Calvino, F.; Calviani, M.; Cano-Ott, D.; Capote, R.; Carrapico, C.; Cennini, P.; Chepel, V.; Colonna, N.; Cortes, G.; Couture, A.; Cox, J.; Dahlfors, M.; David, S.; Dillmann, I.; Dridi, W.; Duran, I.; Eleftheriadis, C.; Embid-Segura, M.; Ferrant, L.; Ferrari, A.; Ferreira-Marques, R.; Furman, W.; Goncalves, I.; Gonzalez-Romero, E.; Gramegna, F.; Guerrero, C.; Gunsing, F.; Haas, B.; Rauscher, T.; n TOF Collaboration (2008-01)
      Dating the age of the universe by the beta-decay of (187)Re (t(1/2) = 41.2 Gyr) requires the accurate assessment of the s-process reaction flow. The daughter nucleus (187)Os as well as its immediate s-only neighbor (186)Os ...

    • Nuclear physics issues of the r-process 

      Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Kolbe, E.; Martinez-Pinedo, G.; Panov, I.; Rauscher, T.; Kratz, K.L.; Pfeiffer, B.; Rosswog, S. (World Scientific Publishing, 2003)
      The present paper aims at understanding r-process nucleosynthesis by addressing the nuclear physics involved, the necessary environment conditions in the (stellar) production sites, and the observational constraints. We ...