Abstract Farm diversification is mainly driven by risk mitigation effects and economic gains related to complementarities between production activities. By combining these two aspects, we investigate economies in a sample of French mixed sheep farming systems rank using stochastic dominance criteria. Partially diversified (Sheep-Grass, Sheep-Crop, Sheep-Landless) fully (Sheep-Grass-Crop-Landles...

Continuous control over azimuthal flow and shear in the edge of the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) has been achieved using a biasable limiter which has allowed a careful study of the effect of flow shear on pressure-gradient-driven turbulence and transport in the LAPD. The LAPD rotates spontaneously in the ion diamagnetic direction; positive limiter bias first reduces, then minimizes (producing a n...

We present results from both simulation and experiment on a 2D gran-ular shear-cell. The experiments determine the position of disks and their orientations over time, as well as the force on individual disks. We use computerized particle tracking techniques to achieve the former and pho-toelasticity to achieve the latter. The simulations use MD force laws and eecient algorithms to simulate as c...

We study large-scale dynamo action due to turbulence in the presence of a linear shear flow. Our treatment is quasilinear and equivalent to the standard "first-order smoothing approximation." However it is non perturbative in the shear strength. We first derive an integrodifferential equation for the evolution of the mean magnetic field, by systematic use of the shearing coordinate transformati...

In this paper, a displacement-based, variationally consistent, two variable refined theory for shear deformable beams is presented. The beam is assumed to be of linearly elastic, homogeneous, isotropic material and has a uniform rectangular cross-section. In this theory, the beam axial displacement and beam transverse displacement consist of bending components and shearing components. The assum...

Lateral shearing interferometry is a simple and accurate method of measuring the shape of an optical wave front. However, the complex mathematics required in reduction of the interferograms has limited the adoption of this interferometric technique. A data reduction technique using Fourier analysis methods has been developed which makes lateral shearing interferogram reduction more flexible. Th...

We report a low-pressure microfluidic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fragmentation device based on a combination of mechanical hydrodynamic shearing and low temperature sample heating. Conventional DNA fragmentation based on hydrodynamic shearing is capable of achieving fragment lengths (FL) < 10k bp with pressures ∆P > 1 bar. The application of a small amount of additional thermal energy to the b...