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    • Sm-147(n,alpha) cross section measurements from 3 eV to 500 keV : Implications for explosive nucleosynthesis reaction rates 

      Gledenov, Y.M.; Koehler, P. E.; Andrzejewski, J.; Guber, K. H.; Rauscher, T. (2000-10)
      We have measured the Sm-147(n, alpha) cross section from 3 eV to 500 keV. These data were used to test nuclear statistical models which must be relied on to calculate the rates for as yet unmeasurable reactions occurring ...

    • Smacking: a family perspective 

      Whiting, Lisa; Whiting, M.; Whiting, T. (2004)

    • A small actively-controlled high-resolution spectrograph based on off-the-shelf components 

      Jones, Hugh; Martin, Bill; Anglada, Guillem; Errmann, Ronny; London, Queen Mary University; Choochalerm, Piyamas; Boonsri, Chantira (2021-02-01)
      We present the design and testing of a prototype in-plane echelle spectrograph based on an actively controlled fiber-fed double-pass design. This system aims to be small and efficient with the minimum number of optical ...

    • A small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe 

      Maiolino, Roberto; Scholtz, Jan; Witstok, Joris; Carniani, Stefano; D’Eugenio, Francesco; de Graaff, Anna; Übler, Hannah; Tacchella, Sandro; Curtis-Lake, Emma; Arribas, Santiago; Bunker, Andrew; Charlot, Stéphane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Curti, Mirko; Looser, Tobias J.; Maseda, Michael V.; Rawle, Timothy D.; Rodríguez del Pino, Bruno; Willott, Chris J.; Egami, Eiichi; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Hainline, Kevin N.; Robertson, Brant; Williams, Christina C.; Willmer, Christopher N. A.; Baker, William M.; Boyett, Kristan; DeCoursey, Christa; Fabian, Andrew C.; Helton, Jakob M.; Ji, Zhiyuan; Jones, Gareth C.; Kumari, Nimisha; Laporte, Nicolas; Nelson, Erica J.; Perna, Michele; Sandles, Lester; Shivaei, Irene; Sun, Fengwu (2024-03-07)
      Several theories have been proposed to describe the formation of black hole seeds in the early Universe and to explain the emergence of very massive black holes observed in the first thousand million years after the Big ...

    • Small business development and tourism: Terra incognita? 

      Page, S.J.; Forer, P.; Lawton, G.R. (1999-08-01)
      This paper argues that the relationship between tourism and small business remains terra incognita because much of the existing research is published in diverse sources and fails to explicitly contribute to methodological ...

    • Small business growth through franchising : A qualitative investigation 

      Watson, Anna (2008-04-01)
      Although franchising has long been recognised as an attractive means of growing a business, the impact of franchising for small businesses is an area that is relatively less researched and understood. Whilst resource ...

    • Small Change: Economics and the British coin-tree 

      Houlbrook, Ceri (2015-06-23)
      Throughout the c.2000 year period coins have been circulated in Britain, they have also been ritually employed, most notably as votive deposits. Focusing specifically on the understudied custom of the British coin-tree, ...

    • Small Change? : Emily Post’s Etiquette (1922-2011) 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Continuum, 2012-10-04)
      In the contemporary book market, non-fiction genres such as biography and self-help command considerable sales, yet ‘bestseller’ is still a term primarily associated with fiction (the nature of that fiction is explored in ...

    • Small Churches 

      Carta, Silvio (2010)

    • Small farmers and sustainability : Institutional barriers to investment and innovation in the Malaysian palm oil industry in Sabah 

      Martin, Susan; Rieple, Alison; Chang, Jane; Boniface, Bonaventure; Ahmad, Amran (2015-08)
      The Malaysian palm oil industry is well known for the social, environmental and sustainability challenges associated with its rapid growth over the past ten years. Technologies exist to reduce the conflict between national ...

    • Small Galaxies Blowing Big Bubbles 

      Ott, J.; Walter, F.; Brinks, E.; Klein, U. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000)
      Some of the lowest-mass dwarf irregular galaxies, such as Leo A, Sag DIG and Cas 1, show a characteristic distribution of their neutral interstellar medium (ISM) as observed in the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen (HI): the ...

    • Small molecule recognition of mephedrone using an anthracene molecular clip 

      Kellett, Kathryn; Broome, J. Hugh; Zloh, Mire; Kirton, Stewart B.; Fergus, Suzanne; Gerhard, Ute; Stair, Jacqueline L.; Wallace, Karl J. (2016-05-16)
      An anthracene molecular probe has been synthesised and shown to target mephedrone, a stimulant drug from the cathinone class of new psychoactive substances (NPS). A protocol has been developed to detect mephedrone via the ...

    • Small scale star formation as revealed by VVVX galactic cluster candidates 

      Borissova, J.; Kurtev, R.; Amarinho, N.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Bernal, S.; Medina, N.; Chene, A. -N.; Ivanov, V. D.; Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D. (2020-10-02)
      We report a search and analysis of obscured cluster candidates in the "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX)" ESO Public Survey area encompassing the region between 229.4 < l <295.2 and -4.3 < b <4.4 of the ...

    • Small-scale variations in the radiating surface of the GRB 011211 jet 

      Jakobsson, P.; Hjorth, J.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; Kouveliotou, C.; Pedersen, K.; Fynbo, J.; Gorosabel, J.; Watson, D.; Jensen, B.L.; Hansen, M.W.; Michelsen, R.; Andersen, M.I.; Weidinger, M.; Pedersen, H.; Grav, T. (2004)

    • Smart Blade Flutter Alleviation 

      Moosavi, Reza (2023-12-30)
      In this paper, the effect of using a piezoelectric material has been shown on postponing the flutter phenomenon on a regular blade. System response of a smart blade with only flap-wise and edgewise plunge DOF shows that ...

    • Smart Blade Flutter Alleviation with Rotational Effect 

      Moosavi, Mohammadreza (2022-10-19)
      The effect of using a piezoelectric material has been shown on postponing the flutter phenomenon on a regular blade with rotational effects in this paper. The system response of a smart blade with only flapwise and edgewise ...

    • Smart Contracts Software Metrics: a First Study 

      Tonelli, Roberto; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Marchesi, Michele; Ortu, Marco (arXiv, 2018-02-05)
      Smart contracts (SC) are software codes which reside and run over a blockchain. The code can be written in different languages with the common purpose of implementing various kinds of transactions onto the hosting blockchain, ...

    • Smart Distributed Processing Technologies For Hedge Fund Management 

      Thayalakumar, Sinnathurai (2018-01-29)
      Distributed processing cluster design using commodity hardware and software has proven to be a technological breakthrough in the field of parallel and distributed computing. The research presented herein is the original ...

    • A Smart Game for Data Transmission and Energy Consumption in the Internet of Things 

      Abegunde, Jacob; Xiao, Hannan; Spring, William (2020-01-12)
      The current trend in developing smart technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) has motivated a lot of research interest in optimizing data transmission or minimizing energy consumption, but with little evidence of ...

    • Smart homes under siege: Assessing the robustness of physical security against wireless network attacks 

      Allen, Ashley; Mylonas, Alexios; Vidalis, Stilianos; Gritzalis, Dimitris (2024-04)
      Nowadays domestic smart security devices, such as smart locks, smart doorbells, and security cameras, are becoming increasingly popular with users, due to their ease of use, convenience, and declining prices. Unlike ...