Effects of agri-environment schemes (AES) on biodiversity remain controversial. While most AES are action-oriented, result-oriented and habitat-oriented schemes have recently been proposed as a solution to improve AES efficiency. The objective of this study was to compare action-oriented, habitat-oriented and result-oriented schemes in terms of ecological and productive performance as well as i...

BACKGROUND Alternatives to traditional in-patient services may be associated with a better experience of admission. AIMS To compare patient satisfaction, ward atmosphere and perceived coercion in the two types of service, using validated measures. METHOD The experience of 314 patients in four residential alternatives and four standard services were compared using the Client Satisfaction Que...

We demonstrate a reconfigurable optical filter implemented using a phase-only two-dimensional liquid-crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulator. To achieve this we utilize two different approaches leading to two different configurations in the modulator. The first one, based on a spatially patterned diffractive lens, permits us to obtain the desired spectrum along the optical axis and, in the s...

[6] Stanislav Bulygin and Michael Brickenstein, Obtaining and solving systems of equations in key variables only for the small variants of AES, 2008. [7] , Obtaining and solving systems of equations in key variables only for the small

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The Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment on the COMPTON Observatory was designed to undertake a broad range of high energy astronomical observations. Many of these have been realized during the first three years of the mission. In this paper we present several of the recent results from OSSE. We highlight recent OSSE results on the galactic center region and on transient galactic X-ra...

Based on the basic imaging theory of the temporally and spatially mixed modulated polarization interference imaging spectrometer (TSMPIIS), a method of interferogram obtaining and processing under polychromatic light is presented. Especially, instead of traditional Fourier transform spectroscopy, according to the unique imaging theory and OPD variation of TSMPIIS, the spectrum is reconstructed ...

A brief summary is presented of results pertinent to strange quark spectroscopy derived from high statistics data on K-p interactions obtained with the LASS spectrometer at SLAC. The present status of strange meson spectroscopy is briefly reviewed, and the impact of the proposed KAON Factory on the future of the subject considered. Invited talk presented by W. Dunwoodie at the 15th APS Division...