Abstract Whereas most indicators for food systems performance only focus on outcomes, we explore the prospects a kind of Food Systems Index (FSI) that tries to capture several key components influence differences in system at country level. We outline theoretical foundations and methodological approach underlying FSI framework illustrate its relevance understanding major characteristics. theref...

Frequency Scanning Interferometry (FSI) has been developed for high precision, simultaneous, absolute distance measurements along multiple lines of sight. In the ATLAS semiconductor tracker, FSI will be used to measure lines of sight between nodes of a geodetic grid, attached to the support structure. Movements of the detector modules on the order of ten microns will be monitored by measuring c...

Often objects are to be ranked. However, there is no measurable quantity available to express the ranking aim and to quantify it. The consequence is that indicators are selected, serving as proxies for the ranking aim. Although this set of indicators is of great importance for its own right, the most commonly used practice to obtain a ranking is an aggregation method. Any aggregation, however s...

The symmetry of magnetic quantum tunneling (MQT) has been studied in the prototype single molecule magnet (SMM) Mn12-acetate using a micro-Hall effect magnetometer and superconducting high field vector magnet system. An average crystal 4-fold symmetry is shown to be due to local molecular environments of 2-fold symmetry that are rotated by 90 degrees with respect to one another, confirming that...

This study employs a nonlinear vector autoregression (VAR) model and quantile-based analysis to examine the effects of financial stress index (FSI) developed countries exchange market pressure (EMPI) on USD-denominated yield spreads Poland, Mexico, South Africa. It was found by VAR that increases/decreases in FSI EMPI raise/lower each emerging country. Although different results are obtained am...

The primal and adjoint, time-dependent fluid—structure interaction (FSI) formulations are presented. A simple control strategy for FSI problems is formulated based on the information provided by the solution of the adjoint FSI problem. A well-known benchmark FSI problem is computed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique. Such control strategies as proposed in this paper are ...

Assuming that general intelligence (g) is an honest signal of fitness, we expected g to be related to developmental quality as indexed by Fluctuating Asymmetry (i.e. non-pathological variation in the size of right and left body features). In a population sample of 44 men and 37 women, we assessed the relationship between Fluctuating Asymmetry (FA) and g, and, as a control, to the Big Five perso...