Whereas those working on the inside of tourism generally feel that tourism research is making good progress, the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in the UK offered an outsiders' assessment of UK tourism research that was less benign. This paper examines the results and consequences of the RAE based on an examination of the submissions made by UK higher education institutions. It describe...

In the present work, the design and the environmental conditions of a micromachined thermal accelerometer, based on convection effect, are discussed and studied in order to understand the behavior of the frequency response evolution of the sensor. It has been theoretically and experimentally studied with different detector widths, pressure and gas nature. Although this type of sensor has alread...

A 20 year quantitative assessment of research in British universities has coincided with a renaissance in their international status. But even as other nations seek to emulate the approach, domestic critics are calling into question its dominance over university life.

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AbsrrmrWe propose an estimation method of crosstalk noise for generic RC trees. The proposed method derives an analytic waveform of crosstalk noise in a 2-7r equivalent circuit. The peak voltage is calculated from the closed-form expression, and the crosstalk induced delay is estimated using the derived noise waveform. We also develop a transformation method from generic RC trees with branches ...

An increasing emphasis on waste minimization has prompted research aimed at replacing common synthetic techniques with greener alternatives. In biaryl synthesis, direct arylation1,2 is an emerging alternative to Suzuki and Stille couplings;3 however, a more efficient strategy would involve the direct catalytic crosscoupling of two arenes without recourse to stoichiometric activating groups (eq ...