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    • Virtue Ethics and Particularism 

      Sandis, Constantine (2021-07-01)
      Moral particularism is often conceived as the view that there are no moral principles. However, its most fêted accounts focus almost exclusively on rules regarding actions and their features. Such action-centred particularism, ...

    • Virtue Ethics, Kantian Ethics and Consequentialism 

      Singleton, J. (2002)
      Contemporary theories of Virtue Ethics are often presented as being in opposition to Kantian Ethics and Consequentialism. It is argued that Virtue Ethics takes as fundamental the question, “What sort of character would a ...

    • Virus Infection Impairs Fungal Response to Stress: Effect of Salt 

      Stevens, David A.; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly; Martinez, Marife; Coutts, Robert H. A.; Sass, Gabriele (2023-03-10)
      Infection with Aspergillus fumigatus polymycovirus 1 (AfuPmV-1) weakens the resistance of biofilms of common A. fumigatus reference strain Af293 in intermicrobial competition with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and sensitizes A. ...

    • Virus Infection of Aspergillus fumigatus Compromises the Fungus in Intermicrobial Competition 

      Nazik, Hasan; Kotta Loizou, Ioly; Sass, Gabriele; Coutts, Robert; Stevens, David (2021-04-16)
      Aspergillus and Pseudomonas compete in nature, and are the commonest bacterial and fungal pathogens in some clinical settings, such as the cystic fibrosis lung. Virus infections of fungi occur naturally. Effects on fungal ...

    • The Virus Yellows Epidemic in Sugar Beet in the UK in 2020 and the Adverse Effect of the EU Ban on Neonicotinoids on Sugar Beet Production 

      Qi, Aiming; Dewar, Alan (2021-04-01)
      It is fervently to be hoped that the decision to continue the ban on neonicotinoids in the UK will not be detrimental to the long-term future of the sugar beet industry here. If yields of sugar beet suffer the same fate ...

    • VISION - Vienna survey in Orion I. VISTA Orion A Survey 

      Meingast, Stefan; Alves, João; Mardones, Diego; Teixeira, Paula; Lombardi, Marco; Großschedl, Josefa; Ascenso, Joana; Bouy, Herve; Forbrich, Jan; Goodman, Alyssa; Hacar, Alvaro; Hasenberger, Birgit; Kainulainen, Jouni; Kubiak, Karolina; Lada, Charles; Lada, Elizabeth; Moitinho, André; Petr-Gotzens, Monika; Rodrigues, Lara; Román-Zúñiga, Carlos G. (2016-03-07)
      Orion A hosts the nearest massive star factory, thus offering a unique opportunity to resolve the processes connected with the formation of both low- and high-mass stars. Here we present the most detailed and sensitive ...

    • VISION - Vienna survey in Orion. III. Young stellar objects in Orion A 

      Großschedl, Josefa E.; Alves, João; Teixeira, Paula S.; Bouy, Hervé; Forbrich, Jan; Lada, Charles J.; Meingast, Stefan; Hacar, Álvaro; Ascenso, Joana; Ackerl, Christine; Hasenberger, Birgit; Köhler, Rainer; Kubiak, Karolina; Larreina, Irati; Linhardt, Lorenz; Lombardi, Marco; Möller, Torsten (2018-09-30)
      We extend and refine the existing young stellar object (YSO) catalogs for the Orion A molecular cloud, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth. This updated catalog is driven by the large spatial coverage (18.3 ...

    • Vision based closed-loop control system for satellite rendezvous with model-in-the-loop validation and testing 

      du~Bois, J. L.; Newell, P.; Bullock, S.; Thomas, Peter R.; Richardson, T. S. (2012)
      A relative motion robotic facility has been developed at the University of Bristol which allows model in the loop testing of Matlab and Simulink based models. Automated rendezvous is highly desirable for space debris ...

    • A vision for the early years Curriculum in the United Kingdom 

      Miller, L.K. (1997)
      This paper presents a strictly personal point of view of a program for preschoolers in the UK. It outlines the historical influences that affected the current position. Some generally accepted principles are explained ...

    • A vision-based strategy for autonomous aerial refueling tasks 

      Martinez, C.; Richardson, T.; Thomas, Peter R.; du-Bois, J. L.; Campoy, P. (2013-08)
      Autonomous aerial refueling is a key enabling technology for both manned and unmanned aircraft where extended flight duration or range are required. The results presented within this paper offer one potential vision-based ...

    • Visioning 2035: The future of the higher education sector in the UK 

      Blass, E.; Jasman, A.; Shelley, S. (2010)
      The concept of ‘university’ has been around for centuries and yet the majority of British Universities have yet to reach their 50th birthday. The higher education sector has been through extensive change over a relatively ...

    • Visions of blended learning: identifying the challenges and opportunities in shaping institutional approaches to blended learning in higher education 

      Hill, John; Smith, Karen (2023-02-17)
      Although higher education has engaged in blended learning since the early 1990s and its benefits are well catalogued, research often focuses on individual programmes and less on how institutions envision and engage with ...

    • VISIONS: The VISTA Star Formation Atlas 

      Meingast, Stefan; Alves, João; Bouy, Hervé; Petr-Gotzens, Monika G.; Fürnkranz, Verena; Großschedl, Josefa E.; Hernandez, David; Rottensteiner, Alena; Arnaboldi, Magda; Ascenso, Joana; Bayo, Amelia; Brändli, Erik; Brown, Anthony G. A.; Forbrich, Jan; Goodman, Alyssa; Hacar, Alvaro; Hasenberger, Birgit; Köhler, Rainer; Kubiak, Karolina; Kuhn, Michael; Lada, Charles; Leschinski, Kieran; Lombardi, Marco; Mardones, Diego; Mascetti, Laura; Miret-Roig, Núria; Moitinho, André; Mužic, Koraljka; Piecka, Martin; Posch, Laura; Prusti, Timo; Ramírez, Karla Peña; Ramlau, Ronny; Ratzenböck, Sebastian; Sacco, Germano; Swiggum, Cameren; Teixeira, Paula Stella; Urban, Vanessa; Zari, Eleonora; Zucker, Catherine (2023-05-31)
      VISIONS is an ESO public survey of five nearby (d < 500 pc) star-forming molecular cloud complexes that are canonically associated with the constellations of Chamaeleon, Corona Australis, Lupus, Ophiuchus, and Orion. The ...

    • Visitor attractions and events : Responding to seasonality 

      Connell, Joanne; Page, Stephen J.; Meyer, Denny (2015-02-28)
      Seasonality is a protracted problem for the tourism sector due to the uneven nature of demand and the relatively fixed nature of the supply of capacity and resources, particularly in the attraction sector. Managing the ...

    • Visitor Centers: Territory, Beauty and Monument 

      Carta, Silvio (2014)

    • VISTA Milky Way Public Survey 

      CASU (VDFS) Team; WFAU (VDFS) Team (Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, 2009-05-01)

    • VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) : The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way 

      Minniti, D.; Lucas, P.W.; Emerson, J.P.; Saito, R.K.; Hempel, M.; Pietrukowicz, P.; Ahumada, A.V.; Alonso, M.V.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Arias, J.I.; Bandyopadhyay, R.M.; Barba, R.; Barbuy, B.; Bedin, L.R.; Bica, E.; Borissova, J.; Bronfman, L.; Carraro, G.; Catelan, M.; Claria, J. J.; Cross, N.; de Grijs, R.; Dekany, I.; Drew, J.E.; Farina, C.; Feinstein, C.; Fernandez Lajus, E.; Gamen, R.C.; Geisler, D.; Gieren, W.; Goldman, B.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Gunthardt, G.; Gurovich, S.; Hambly, N.C.; Irwin, M.J.; Ivanov, V.D.; Jordan, A.; Kerins, E.; Kinemuchi, K.; Kurtev, R.; Lopez-Corredoira, M.; Maccarone, T.; Masetti, N.; Merlo, D.; Messineo, M.; Mirabel, I.F.; Monaco, L.; Morelli, L.; Padilla, N.; Palma, T.; Parisi, M.C.; Pignata, G.; Rejkuba, M.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Sale, S. E.; Schreiber, M. R.; Schroder, A.C.; Smith, M.; Sodre Jr, L.; Soto, M.; Tamura, M.; Tappert, C.; Thompson, Mark; Toledo, I.; Zoccali, M.; Pietrzynski, G. (2010)
      We describe the public ESO near-IR variability survey (VVV) scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. The survey will take 1929 h of observations with the ...

    • Visual and PCR assessment of light leaf spot (Pyrenopeziza brassicae) on winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) cultivars 

      Karolewski, Z.; Fitt, Bruce D.L.; Latunde-Dada, A.O.; Foster, S.J.; Todd, A.D.; Downes, K.; Evans, N. (2006-06)
      Methods to assess light leaf spot (Pyrenopeziza brassicae) on winter oilseed rape cultivars were compared in laboratory, controlled-environment and field experiments. In controlled-environment experiments with seedling ...

    • A visual attention mechanism for autonomous robots controlled by sensorimotor contingencies 

      Maye, Alexander; Trendafilov, Dari; Polani, D.; Engel, Andreas (2015-10-02)
      Robot control architectures that are based on learning the dependencies between robot's actions and the resulting change in sensory input face the fundamental problem that for high-dimensional action and/or sensor spaces, ...

    • Visual communications – the Japanese experience 

      Mestre, M.; Stainer, A.; Stainer, L.; Strom, B. (2000)
      Visual communications are defined and illustrated in their contemporary operations management setting. They manifest four distinct advantages: assimilation, exposure, evoking and unifying. In Japan, they are related to ...