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Privatisation of state-owned enterprises in Spain: redefining the political economy
(2001)Spain was at the forefront of a worldwide wave of privatisation in the 1990s. The process was driven by a mixture of pragmatism, belief in its economic benefits and a desire to be at the heart of Europe. It was lubricated ... -
Pro-inflammatory cytokines and lipopolysaccharide synergize to induce L-arginine transport and iNOS activity in vascular smooth muscle cells
(1995)The interactions between proinflammatory cytokines and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on L-arginine transporter and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) activities were examined in rat cultured aortic smooth muscle ... -
Probabilistic galactic dynamics I - the Sun and GJ 710 with Monte Carlo, linearised and unscented treatments
(2018-12-07)Deterministic galactic dynamics is impossible due to the space-time randomness caused by gravitational waves. Instead of treating stellar orbits deterministically, we integrate not only the mean but also the covariance of ... -
Probabilistic Model Checking of Constraints in a Supply Chain Business Process
(Springer Nature, 2011)Business process models represent corporate activities, their dependencies and relations, as far as they are needed to reach a specific company goal. In practice, they often exhibit stochastic behavior, e.g., to deal with ... -
A Probabilistic Model for Estimating the Depth and Threshold Temperature of C-fiber Nociceptors
(2015-12-07)The subjective experience of thermal pain follows the detection and encoding of noxious stimuli by primary afferent neurons called nociceptors. However, nociceptor morphology has been hard to access and the mechanisms of ... -
Probabilities of exoplanet signals from posterior samplings
(2012-08-12)Estimating the marginal likelihoods is an essential feature of model selection in the Bayesian context. It is especially crucial to have good estimates when assessing the number of planets orbiting stars when the models ... -
A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
(2002-07)We report the detection of a extrasolar planet candidate orbiting the G1 V star HD 39091. The orbital period is 2083 d and the eccentricity is 0.62. With a minimum (M sin i) mass of 10.3 MJUP this object falls near the ... -
The probation service in England and Wales: A decade of radical change or more of the same?
(2020-08-01)This article reviews developments in probation in England and Wales since 2010, a decade in which services were exposed to the logic of competition and profit. In 2014, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government’s ... -
Probation training: the experience of teachers and learners
(2009)Qualifying training in probation is under review and likely to be substantially changed. This article draws on a small scale study of current training arrangements designed to explore the views of trainee probation officers, ... -
Probing a composite spin-boson environment
(2009)We consider non-interacting multi-qubit systems as controllable probes of an environment of defects/impurities modelled as a composite spin-boson environment. The spin-boson environment consists of a small number of ... -
Probing evolutionary mechanisms in galaxy clusters: H I in Abell 1367
(2009)We are carrying out a programme of CO and interferometric H I observations in the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 1367. The aim is to better understand the processes driving the evolution of the ISM in late-type galaxies in ... -
Probing evolutionary mechanisms in galaxy clusters: neutral atomic hydrogen in Abell 1367
(2010)We present Very Large Array H i imaging data for a field in the NW of the galaxy cluster Abell 1367 (z= 0.02) in an attempt to probe the effect environment has on the interstellar medium of late-type spiral galaxies. Several ... -
Probing gamma-ray burst environments with time variability: ULTRASPEC fast imaging of GRB 080210
(2011-04)We present high time resolution (1.09 s) photometry of GRB 080210 obtained with ULTRASPEC mounted on the ESO/3.6-m telescope, starting 68.22 min after the burst and lasting for 26.45 min. The light curve is smooth on both ... -
Probing gaseous halos of galaxies with radio jets
(2019-07-09)Context. Gaseous halos play a key role in understanding inflow, feedback, and the overall baryon budget in galaxies. Literature models predict transitions of the state of the gaseous halo between cold and hot accretion, ... -
Probing M subdwarf metallicity with an esdK5+esdM5.5 binary
(2015-10-15)We present a spectral analysis of the binary G 224-58 AB that consists of the coolest M extreme subdwarf (esdM5.5) and a brighter primary (esdK5). This binary may serve as a benchmark for metallicity measurement calibrations ... -
Probing quasar shutdown timescales with Hanny's Voorwerp
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2012)Galaxy formation is significantly modulated by energy output from supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies which grow in highly efficient luminous quasar phases. The timescale on which black holes transition ...