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Comment on the Determination of the Polar Anchoring Energy by Capacitance Measurements in Nematic Liquid Crystals by Oswald, Patrick

“…Capacitance measurements have been extensively used to measure the anchoring extrapolation length L at a nematic–substrate interface. These measurements are…”
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Dynamics of Dislocations in Smectic A Liquid Crystals Doped with Nanoparticles by Oswald, Patrick

“…Edge dislocations are linear defects that locally break the positional order of the layers in smectic A liquid crystals. As in usual solids, these defects play…”
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Seismic control of large prehistoric rockslides in the Eastern Alps by Oswald, Patrick, Strasser, Michael, Hammerl, Christa, Moernaut, Jasper

“…Large prehistoric rockslides tend to occur within spatio-temporal clusters suggesting a common trigger such as earthquake shaking or enhanced wet periods. Yet,…”
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Mapping Distinct Forest Types Improves Overall Forest Identification Based on Multi-Spectral Landsat Imagery for Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region by Connette, Grant, Oswald, Patrick, Songer, Melissa, Leimgruber, Peter

“…We investigated the use of multi-spectral Landsat OLI imagery for delineating mangrove, lowland evergreen, upland evergreen and mixed deciduous forest types in…”
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Continuous Rotation of Achiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets Driven by Heat Flux by Ignés-Mullol, Jordi, Poy, Guilhem, Oswald, Patrick

“…Suspended droplets of cholesteric (chiral nematic) liquid crystals spontaneously rotate in the presence of a heat flux due to a temperature gradient, a…”
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Measurement of the continuous Lehmann rotation of cholesteric droplets subjected to a temperature gradient by Oswald, Patrick, Dequidt, Alain

“…In 1900, Otto Lehmann observed the continuous rotation of cholesteric drops when subjected to a temperature gradient. This thermomechanical phenomenon was…”
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Combined Landsat and L-Band SAR Data Improves Land Cover Classification and Change Detection in Dynamic Tropical Landscapes by De Alban, Jose, Connette, Grant, Oswald, Patrick, Webb, Edward

“…Robust quantitative estimates of land use and land cover change are necessary to develop policy solutions and interventions aimed towards sustainable land…”
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Shaken and Stirred: A Comparative Study of Earthquake‐Triggered Soft‐Sediment Deformation Structures in Lake Sediments by Molenaar, Ariana, Wils, Katleen, Daele, Maarten, Daxer, Christoph, Dubois, Nathalie, Grießer, Anja, Oswald, Patrick, Ramisch, Arne, Strasser, Michael, Moernaut, Jasper

“…Subaqueous paleoseismic studies used soft sediment deformation structures (SSDS) to discern the shaking strength of past earthquakes, as the deformation degree…”
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Rapid forest clearing in a Myanmar proposed national park threatens two newly discovered species of geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) by Connette, Grant M, Oswald, Patrick, Thura, Myint Kyaw, LaJeunesse Connette, Katherine J, Grindley, Mark E, Songer, Melissa, Zug, George R, Mulcahy, Daniel G

“…Myanmar's recent transition from military rule towards a more democratic government has largely ended decades of political and economic isolation. Although…”
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TIC Reorientation under Electric and Magnetic Fields in Homeotropic Samples of Cholesteric LC with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy by Oswald, Patrick, Poy, Guilhem, Ignés-Mullol, Jordi

“…In this paper, we numerically and experimentally show that the director field orientation degeneracy within the Translationally Invariant Configuration (TIC)…”
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A 4000-year debris flow record based on amphibious investigations of fan delta activity in Plansee (Austria, Eastern Alps) by Kiefer, Carolin, Oswald, Patrick, Moernaut, Jasper, Fabbri, Stefano Claudio, Mayr, Christoph, Strasser, Michael, Krautblatter, Michael

“…The frequency of debris flows is hypothesized to have increased in recent decades with enhanced rainstorm activity. Geological evidence to test the…”
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Combined On-Fault and Off-Fault Paleoseismic Evidence in the Postglacial Infill of the Inner-Alpine Lake Achensee (Austria, Eastern Alps) by Oswald, Patrick, Moernaut, Jasper, Fabbri, Stefano C., De Batist, Marc, Hajdas, Irka, Ortner, Hugo, Titzler, Sebastian, Strasser, Michael

“…The Eastern European Alps are characterized by slow active deformation with low- to moderate seismicity. Recurrence rates of severe earthquakes exceed the time…”
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Lehmann rotation of cholesteric droplets: Role of the sample thickness and of the concentration of chiral molecules by Oswald, Patrick, Poy, Guilhem

“…We study the role of the sample thickness d and of the concentration C of chiral molecules during the Lehmann rotation of cholesteric droplets of radius R…”
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Backflow-induced asymmetric collapse of disclination lines in liquid crystals by OSWALD, Patrick, IGNES-MULLOL, Jordi

“…We present experiments where opposed pairs of planar parallel disclination lines of topological strength s=+/-1 move due to their mutual attraction. Our…”
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Lehmann rotation of the cholesteric helix in droplets oriented by an electric field by Oswald, Patrick, Pirkl, Slavomir

“…We study the Lehmann rotation of the cholesteric helix in droplets of the liquid crystal N-(p-methoxybenzilidene)-p-butylaniline doped with a small amount of…”
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Measurements of the dielectric and viscoelastic constants in mixtures of 4,4'-n-octyl-cyanobiphenyl and biphenyl by Oswald, Patrick, Scalliet, Camille

“…We performed measurements of the dielectric constants, splay elastic constant, and rotational viscosity of the nematic phase of mixtures of…”
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Sliding planar anchoring and viscous surface torque in a cholesteric liquid crystal by Oswald, Patrick, Dequidt, Alain, Zywociński, Andrzej

“…We propose a surface treatment allowing one to obtain a sliding planar anchoring of nematic (or cholesteric) liquid crystals. It consists of depositing a thin…”
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Magnitude and source area estimations of severe prehistoric earthquakes in the western Austrian Alps by Oswald, Patrick, Strasser, Michael, Skapski, Jens, Moernaut, Jasper

“…In slowly deforming intraplate tectonic regions such as the Alps only limited knowledge exists on the occurrence of severe earthquakes, their maximum possible…”
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Deformation around a detached half-graben shoulder during nappe stacking (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria) by Oswald, Patrick, Ortner, Hugo, Gruber, Alfred

“…This study describes the inversion of a rift-related graben shoulder during emplacement and transport of a major thrust sheet in the external part of the…”
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A comprehensive chemical kinetic combustion model for the four butanol isomers by Sarathy, S. Mani, Vranckx, Stijn, Yasunaga, Kenji, Mehl, Marco, Oßwald, Patrick, Metcalfe, Wayne K., Westbrook, Charles K., Pitz, William J., Kohse-Höinghaus, Katharina, Fernandes, Ravi X., Curran, Henry J.

“…Alcohols, such as butanol, are a class of molecules that have been proposed as a bio-derived alternative or blending agent for conventional petroleum derived…”
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