Thermodynamic and kinetic approaches for sublimation inside elastoplastic material under tensile stress are developed for large strains. Various conceptual problems related to irreversible plastic deformation are addressed for a spherical bubble. They include definitions of the thermodynamic driving forces and activation energies, nontraditional concepts of a critical nucleus, path dependence o...

Microstructure analysis of polar ice cores is vital to understand the processes controlling the flow of polar ice on the microscale. This paper presents an automatic image processing framework for extraction and parametrization of grain boundary networks from images of the NEEM deep ice core. As cross-section images are acquired using controlled surface sublimation, grain boundaries and air inc...

concerns us all, for with it may be closely bound up our future prosperity and happiness, our professional reputation, even our professional existence. I propose to draw on my experiences and give you some impressions gained from a good many years' service now, on the Council of the Medical Defence Union. Most people know, no doubt, that that is not the only society which is concerned with such...

CEUTA AND MELILLA UNDER THE SPANISH EUROPEAN SECURITY DEFENCE UMBRELLAIn matters of security and defence, Ceuta Melilla do not appear as territories covered by NATO’s legitimate defence clause, although they would be susceptible to consultations between the parties in event a danger integrity, independence or either them. However, collective self-defence clause contained art. 42.7 TEU. The latt...

of thesis The prospect of a justification defence in cases of direct sex discrimination is universally criticised by academic commentators on the ground that it would subvert the goal of equality that underlies sex discrimination and equal treatment legislation. At the outset the thesis examines the differences between the sexes, how these differences can be used to explain the distinction betw...

It is now almost 45 years since Haldane’s ‘Defense of beanbag genetics’ appeared, and the time is ripe for an evaluation of that defence, particularly in the light of developments over the last two decades. This deliberately provocative review is divided into four parts: first, a discussion of why Haldane felt that a defence was necessary; second, a review of what his defence actually was; thir...