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PDS 144: the first confirmed Herbig Ae-Herbig Ae wide binary
(2012-01-01)
PDS 144 is a pair of Herbig Ae stars that are separated by 5.'' 35 on the sky. It has previously been shown to have an A2Ve Herbig Ae star viewed at 83 degrees inclination as its northern member and an A5Ve Herbig Ae star ...
Brakes on Chinese Development : Institutional Causes of a Growth Slowdown
(University of Hertfordshire, 2012)
China has enjoyed spectacular economic growth since the 1980s. Economic models based on production functions typically suggest that China‟s rapid growth will continue at similarly high rates, but they ignore pressing ...
Strengthening the open cluster distance scale via VVV photometry
(2012)
Approximately 14% of known Galactic open clusters possess absolute errors ≤20% as evaluated from n ≥ 3 independent distance estimates, and the statistics for age estimates are markedly worse. That impedes such diverse ...
Inchoate offences in Cyberspace – a moveable feast or the end of harm?
(ATINER, 2012)
This paper is intended to draw attention to the number of criminal offences – in English law specifically, but also more generally – that can now be committed without harm or the risk of harm to putative ‘victims’. It will ...
Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research
(Ashgate Publishing, 2012)
This text poses lots of questions and their possible solutions, such as how is creativity in music developed? How can collaboration and improvisation cultivate this? As well as, how it may act as a therapy tool. The text ...
Proton-rich nucleosynthesis and nuclear physics
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2012)
Although the detailed conditions for explosive nucleosynthesis are derived from astrophysical modeling, nuclear physics determines fundamental patterns in abundance yields, not only for equilibrium processes. Focussing on ...
The classical music industry and the future that digital innovations can bring to its business models
(IACSIT Press, 2012)
The classical music industry has followed the pop business in expanding its marketing activities since the beginning of the 1990s. In so doing it has broadened its market. Developments in online trade and downloading ...
The VMC survey: IV : the LMC star formation history and disk geometry from four VMC tiles
(2012-01)
We derive the star formation history (SFH) for several regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using deep near-infrared data from the VISTA near-infrared YJK s survey of the Magellanic system (VMC). The regions include ...
Teaching Marketing at University Level : A Review of Recent Research
(The Higher Education Academy, 2012)
This report presents a summary of the key themes found in the published literature on university-level marketing education in the period 2008-2012
An investigative study into the influence of a commercially available carbohydrate-protein-electrolyte beverage on short term repeated exercise performance
(2012)
Background: The purpose of this study was to undertake an independent investigation into the effects of ingesting a carbohydrate-protein-electrolyte (CPE) beverage on repeated submaximal and time-trial cycling performance. ...