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Will agri-environment schemes deliver substantial biodiversity gain and if not why not
Author(s) :
M Whittingham
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1. One of the main aims of agri-environment schemes AES is to increase biodiversity on farmland. Common conservation practice is to identify areas containing valuable resources e.g. habitats ecosystems and species and then to protect them protected area schemes. AES differ from typical protected are...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
A productivity benchmarking case study using Bayesian credible intervals
Description :
A productivity benchmarking case study is presented. Empirically valid evidence exists to suggest that certain project factors such as development type and language type influence project effort and productivity and a comparison is made taking into account these and other factors. The case study ide...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
Assessing variation in development effort consistency using a data source with missing data
Description :
In this study the authors analyse the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group data repository Release 8.0. The data repository comprises project data from several different companies. However the repository exhibits missing data which must be handled in an appropriate manner otherwise in...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
DSoS State of the Art Survey
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This report provides a state of the art survey related to the work package on architecture and design and to the work package on validation. The report is organised into 5 chapters the first 3 relate to DSoS work on architecture and design and the last 2 to work on validation. These chapters may be ...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
Tiling systems and homology of lattices in tree products
Author(s) :
Prof. Alexander Guyan Robertson
Description :
Let 5625656320 be a torsion free cocompact lattice in AutT1 AutT2 where T1 T2 are trees whose vertices all have degree at least three. The group H25625656320 Z is determined explicitly in terms of an associated 2-dimensional tiling system. It follows that under appropriate conditions the crossed pro...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
Chemomechanical effects in optical coating systems
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The major in-service failure mechanisms of modern optical coatings for architectural glass can be mechanical e.g. scratch damage. Many of these coatings are multilayer structures of less than 100 nm thickness and different coating architectures are possible i.e. different layer materials thickness a...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
Assessment of the toughness of thin coatings using nanoindentation under displacement control
Description :
Various indentation models have been developed to measure the toughness of bulk materials and coatings. Most of them are based on the formation of well-developed cracks. However in order to eliminate the influence of elasticplastic deformation in the substrate it is preferable to perform small inden...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
Indentation fracture and toughness assessment for thin optical coatings on glass
Description :
The different indentation fracture mechanisms of coated glass caused by a sharp tip cube corner at low loads 4 mN and a blunt tip Berkovich at high loads up to 500 mN have been analysed in this study. Existing indentation methods to estimate fracture toughness are unsuitable for very thin coatings 5...
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An overview of the potential of quantitative coating adhesion measurement by scratch testing
Description :
The scratch test has been used to assess the adhesion of thin hard coatings for some time now and is a useful tool for coating development or quality assurance. However the test is influenced by a number of intrinsic and extrinsic factors which are not adhesion-related and the results of the test ar...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English
Walker a neighbourhood in transition
Description :
Social exclusion has entered the public agenda in Britain after the election of the new administration in 1997. Specific initiatives such as the establishment of a high level Social Exclusion Unit and the introduction of Health and Education Action Zones signify the ways in which the government inte...
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University of Newcastle Library E-Print Archives
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English