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Extremely metal-poor stars from the cosmic dawn in the bulge of the Milky Way
(2015-11-26)
The first stars are predicted to have formed within 200 million years after the Big Bang, initiating the cosmic dawn. A true first star has not yet been discovered, although stars with tiny amounts of elements heavier than ...
Pico without public keys
(Springer Nature, 2015-11-25)
Pico is a user authentication system that does not require remembering secrets. It is based on a personal handheld token that holds the user’s credentials and that is unlocked by a “personal aura” generated by digital ...
'Chunks, schemata and retrieval structures: Past and current computational models
(2015-11-24)
A recurring question in psychology and cognitive science concerns the expression of theories that are internally consistent and testable. Natural language is unsatisfactory, as theoretical concepts and mechanisms are not ...
The EFA calculator : A software tool to support farmers decisions on Ecological Focus Areas
(2015-11-24)
Farming has a central role to play in the delivery of a number of desirable ecosystem services and the enhancement of biodiversity. However, despite the fact that that there has been significant emphasis placed on environment ...
Cold dust emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey : dependence on luminosity, obscuration & AGN activity
(2015-11-21)
We study the 850um emission in X-ray selected AGN in the 2 sq-deg COSMOS field using new data from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. We find 19 850um bright X-ray AGN in a high-sensitivity region covering 0.89 sq-deg ...
The OmegaWhite Survey for Short-Period Variable Stars - I : Overview and First Results
(2015-11-21)
We present the goals, strategy and first results of the OmegaWhite survey: a wide-field high-cadence g-band synoptic survey which aims to unveil the Galactic population of short-period variable stars (with periods <80 min), ...
The VMC survey - XVI : Spatial variation of the cluster-formation activity in the innermost regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud
(2015-11-21)
We present results based on YJKs photometry of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), distributed throughout the central part of the galaxy's bar and the 30 Doradus region. We analysed the field-star-decontaminated ...
Mechanisms contributing to visceral hypersensitivity : focus on splanchnic afferent nerve signalling
(2015-11-19)
Visceral hypersensitivity is a main characteristic of functional bowel disorders and is mediated by both peripheral and central factors. We investigated whether enhanced splanchnic afferent signaling in vitro is associated ...
Wittgenstein, No Linguistic Idealist
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-11-19)
Against the position that our conceptual schemes are evolving attempts to track invisible conceptual seams already in nature (scientific realism), Wittgenstein holds that it is our language that is responsible for those ...
The Superhero Costume : Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2015-11-19)
Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero's otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice. This book ...