Search results for "ADE"

I-gaming contracts: a first appraisal from a consumer point of view

2016

The essay illustrates some critical aspects regarding the contractual relations between online gambling service providers and the community of online gamblers. Such kind of agreements, given their trans-border nature and the electronic environment, imply mostly unexplored matters related to conflict of laws' matters (applicable law and jurisdiction), place of conclusion, and consumer/user protection.

Mir@bel: a free gateway to journals’ contents

2017

Mir@bel is a network backed by a platform dedicated to the online access to journals (full texts, description, publisher, etc.). This presentation of Mir@bel network took place during a meeting with the Sherpa/Romeo team of JISC. It was organised within the framework of the Bibliothèque Scientifique Numérique (former Committee for Open Science) in the working group dedicated to "Public Scientific Publishing". The aim was to imagine the future for the declaration of publishing policies of French scientific journals in the British Sherpa/Romeo platform.

Toponímia de Vistabella del Maestrat

2015

Toponímia de Vistabella del Maestrat La present tesi recull i analitza la toponímia viva de Vistabella amb el propòsit de mostrar el paper patrimonial de la Toponímia com a notari del paisatge. Una breu introducció geogràfica ens explica els trets generals de les diverses unitats del relleu de Vistabella. Els apunts històrics ens parlen d’un terme que, tot i pertànyer al Maestrat de Montesa, ha estat mal ubicat, juntament amb Benafigos i Atzeneta, dins la comarca de l’Alcalatén. A més del treball de camp, amb 33 informants del terme lligats amb l’ofici (pastors i masovers) a un espai de 151 Km², avui pràcticament deshabitat, hem pogut fer un buidatge de tota la cartografia que sobre Vistabe…

ResearchGate vai julkaisuarkisto – vai molemmat?

2016

Platforma czasopism Uniwersytetu Opolskiego jako nowa forma działalności wydawniczej biblioteki

2022

Platforma czasopism Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (UO) rozpoczęła działalność pod koniec 2018 r. i tym samym rozszerzyła działalność wydawniczą uczelni poza działające od kilkudziesięciu lat wydawnictwa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego i Wydawnictwo Wydziału Teologicznego. Impulsem do jej stworzenia było ogłoszenie przez MNiSW konkursu na uzyskanie dofinansowania ze środków programu ministerialnego Wsparcie dla czasopism naukowych. W artykule przedstawiono model funkcjonowania platformy z zastosowaniem oprogramowania Open Journal Systems oraz udział Biblioteki UO w jej funkcjonowaniu. Obecnie redakcje 13 czasopism naukowych UO wykorzystują funkcjonalności platformy do zarządzania procesem wyd…

Academic Journal Publishing and Open Access

2015

Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments started in 2005 as an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal, published only online. At that time, the traditional printed journal model of publishing houses was quite dominant and largely uncontested. Now open-access journal publishing is growing rapidly (Bjork & Solomon, 2014) and providing important alternative routes to researchers’ access to the literature in many disciplines. This editorial only discusses the gold model of open-access publishing, not the green model (traditional journal publishing and a parallel repository). 1

Predicting tire/pavement noise impact reduction using numerical simulation and experimental data for open graded asphalt mixture

2013

The environmental impact of noise from roads and highways traffic is relevant in urban and rural areas. The use of open-graded asphalt pavements reduces significantly the noise, entrapping the acoustic waves inside the porous structure of the material. In this paper we propose a simulation approach in order to predict the acoustic properties of the asphalt mixture from geometrical and topological indicators. In detail we have generated, using a Random Sequential Adsorption model, synthetic samples starting from the same grading and bitumen contents of real samples manufactured in laboratory. We have measured the acoustic adsorption coefficient of the real samples and we have investigated th…

Assessing the Open Trenches in Screening Railway Ground-Borne Vibrations by Means of Artificial Neural Network

2009

Reducing ground borne vibrations in urban areas is a very challenging task in railway transportation. Many mitigation measures can be considered and applied; among these open trenches are very effective. This paper deals with the study of the effect, in terms of reduction of vertical and horizontal displacements and velocities, of the open trenches. 2D FEM simulations have been performed and several open trench configurations have been analysed varying the main geometric features such as width and depth, distance from the rail, thickness of the soil layer over the rigid bedrock, type of the ground, ratio between the depth of the trench, and the thickness of the soil layer. For quantifying t…

A probabilistic long‐term framework for site‐specific erosion analysis of wind turbine blades: A case study of 31 Dutch sites

2021

Abstract Rain‐induced leading‐edge erosion (LEE) of wind turbine blades (WTBs) is associated with high repair and maintenance costs. The effects of LEE can be triggered in less than 1 to 2 years for some wind turbine sites, whereas it may take several years for others. In addition, the growth of erosion may also differ for different blades and turbines operating at the same site. Hence, LEE is a site‐ and turbine‐specific problem. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic long‐term framework for assessing site‐specific lifetime of a WTB coating system. Case studies are presented for 1.5 and 10 MW wind turbines, where geographic bubble charts for the leading‐edge lifetime and number of repai…

Classroom effect on primary school students’ self-concept in literacy and mathematics

2019

AbstractAccording to the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLP) model, high individual academic performance in a particular subject is related to high self-concept in that subject, whereas high average classroom performance has a negative effect on self-concept. In the present study, data from Finnish primary school students in grade 3 (504 students), grade 4 (487 students), and grade 6 (365 students) are used to examine whether the assumptions of the BFLP effect model hold already in primary school. Furthermore, we examined gender differences in BFLP effect. The results showed that as expected students’ high performance in literacy and in mathematics was related to high self-concept in the sam…