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Fire Retardancy of Natural Fibre Reinforced Sheet Moulding Compound
(2007-07)Due to environmental awareness and economical considerations, natural fibre reinforced polymer composites seem to present a viable alternative to synthetic fibre reinforced polymer composites such as glass fibres. This is ... -
A "Firework" of H2 Knots in the Planetary Nebula NGC 7293 (the Helix Nebula)
(2009-08)We present a deep and wide field-of-view (4' × 7') image of the planetary nebula (PN) NGC 7293 (the Helix Nebula) in the 2.12 μm H2 v = 1 → 0 S(1) line. The excellent seeing (0farcs4) at the Subaru Telescope, allows the ... -
Firing multistability in a locally active memristive neuron model
(2020-06-01)The theoretical, numerical and experimental demonstrations of firing dynamics in isolated neuron are of great significance for the understanding of neural function in human brain. In this paper, a new type of locally active ... -
The firm as an interactor : Firms as vehicles for habits and routines
(2004-07)This paper pursues a research agenda inspired by Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter's Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982). This seminal work applied the Darwinian concepts of variation, replication and selection ... -
Firm Performance and Institutional Context: A Theoretical Exploration With Evidence From the Italian Cooperative Sector
(2010-09-15)This thesis examines the relationship between institutional context and firm performance, from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. The aim is to engage with the debate seeking to explain the observed diversity ... -
The firm's choice of HRM practices : Economics meets strategic human resource management
(2011)The authors compare and contrast two theoretical approaches to explaining a firm's choice of human resource management (HRM) practices - one from strategic human resource management (SHRM) and the other from economics. ... -
Firm-specific learning and the nature of the firm why transaction costs may provide an incomplete explanation
(2007-01-01)This article discusses the limits of a purely transaction cost explanation of the existence of the firm by pointing to additional factors. A simple heuristic model shows that firm-specific learning effects can overcome the ... -
First as Farce, then as Tragedy: art, vaudeville and modern painting after the French Revolution
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2021-07-29)What might art history look like if it was reconstructed using only primary sources? What structures, practices and discursive conventions might crop up, how would we reconcile them with existing art historical narratives ... -
First beta-decay studies of the neutron-rich isotopes Sc53-55 and V56-59
(1998-03-16)The neutron-rich isotopes Sc53-55 and V56-59 have been produced at GANIL in interactions of a 64.5 MeV/u Cu-65 beam with a Be-9 target. They were separated by the doubly achromatic spectrometer LISE3. Beta-decay half-lives ... -
First BISTRO Observations of the Dark Cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: The Role of the Magnetic Field in the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation
(2023-03-30)We present BISTRO Survey 850 μm dust emission polarization observations of the L1495A-B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). We observe a roughly triangular network of ... -
A first catalogue of automatically selected ultraviolet-excess sources from the UVEX survey
(2012-02)We present the first catalogue of point-source ultraviolet (UV)-excess sources selected from the UV-Excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX). UVEX images the Northern Galactic Plane in the U, g, r and He Iota ... -
First communions : mimetic ability versus theory of mind accounts
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008)It is widely held that the gradual development of metarepresentational Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities constituted at least one important hominid upgrade. Are such abilities really needed to explain hominid (i) tool-making, ... -
First Confirmed Detection of a Bipolar Molecular Outflow from a Young Brown Dwarf
(2008-12-20)Studying the earliest stages in the birth of stars is crucial for understanding how they form. Brown dwarfs with masses between that of stars and planets are not massive enough to maintain stable hydrogen-burning fusion ... -
First correlated measurements of the shape and scattering properties of cloud particles using the new Particle Habit Imaging and Polar Scattering (PHIPS) probe
(2011)Studying the radiative impact of cirrus clouds requires the knowledge of thelink between their microphysics and the single scattering properties of thecloud particles. Usually, this link is created by modeling the ... -
First death involving 4-Fluoroethylphenidate (4F-EPH): case-report, user experiences, and review of the related literature
(2022-12-01)Background: 4-Fluoroethylphenidate (4F-EPH) is a psychoactive substance, sold primarily over the Internet as a ‘research chemical’. Recreational and ‘functional’ use of this drug has been reported by online user fora. ... -
First detection of the field star overdensity in the Perseus arm
(2015-03-20)Aims. The main goal of this study is to detect the stellar overdensity associated with the Perseus arm in the anticenter direction. Methods. We used the physical parameters derived from Str\"omgren photometric data to ... -
First experiments relating behavior selection architectures to environmental complexity
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002)Assessing the performance of behavior selection architectures for autonomous robots is a complex task that depends on many factors. This paper reports a study comparing four motivated behavior-based architectures in different ... -
The first generation of Virgo cluster dwarf elliptical galaxies?
(2009)In the light of the question whether most early-type dwarf (dE) galaxies in clusters formed through infall and transformation of late-type progenitors, we search for an imprint of such an infall history in the oldest, most ... -
First Hard X-ray Observation of a Compact Symmetric Object : A Broadband X-ray Study of a radio galaxy OQ+208 with NuSTAR and Chandra
(2019-10-22)Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) have been observed with Chandra and XMM-Newton to gain insights into the initial stages of a radio source evolution and probe the black hole activity at the time of relativistic outflow ...