cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Monitoring of high-speed shaft of gas turbine using artificial neural networks: Predictive model application
Creators: name: Rahmoune, Mohamed Ben
name: Hafaifa, Ahmed
name: Abdellah, Kouzou
name: Chen, Xiaoqi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The automatic engineering known a very rapid progress with the consequent development of numerical methods and computer systems, by the growth of computational capacity. In this context, this work proposes a strategy of predictive control of the high-pressure shaft speed of a gas turbine using artificial neural networks in order to monitor the vibratory behavior of this rotating machine. This approach makes it possible to ensure the stability of this turbine under real conditions and to detect any deviation of their dynamic behavior from the margin of safety. This approach makes it possible to include the control limitations on the turbine variables in the modeling step of the high-speed shaft speed controller.
Environmental implications of anaerobic digestion for manure management in dairy farms in Mexico: a life cycle perspective
Creators: name: Pasiano Rivas-García
name: Botello-Álvarez, José E.
name: Seabra, Joaquim E. Abel
name: Walter, Arnaldo C. Da Silva
name: Estrada-Baltazar, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine

description: The environmental profile of milk production in Mexico was analysed for three manure management scenarios: fertilization (F), anaerobic digestion (AD) and enhanced anaerobic digestion (EAD). The study used the life cycle assessment (LCA) technique, considering a ‘cradle-to-gate’ approach. The assessment model was constructed using SimaPro LCA software, and the life cycle impact assessment was performed according to the ReCiPe method. Dairy farms with AD and EAD scenarios were found to exhibit, respectively, 12% and 27% less greenhouse gas emissions, 58% and 31% less terrestrial acidification, and 3% and 18% less freshwater eutrophication than the F scenario. A different trend was observed in the damage to resource availability indicator, as the F scenario presented 6% and 22% less damage than the EAD and AD scenarios, respectively. The magnitude of environmental damage from milk production in the three dairy manure management scenarios, using a general single score indicator, was 0.118, 0.107 and 0.081 Pt/L of milk for the F, AD and EAD scenarios, respectively. These results indicate that manure management systems with anaerobic digestion can improve the environmental profile of each litre of milk produced.
Production of new amilorides as potent inhibitors of mitochondrial respiratory complex I
Creators: name: Murai, Masatoshi
name: Habu, Sayako
name: Murakami, Sonomi
name: Ito, Takeshi
name: Miyoshi, Hideto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Amilorides, well-known inhibitors of Na+/H+ antiporters, have also shown to inhibit bacterial and mitochondrial NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (complex I). Since the membrane subunits ND2, ND4, and ND5 of bovine mitochondrial complex I are homologous to Na+/H+ antiporters, amilorides have been thought to bind to any or all of the antiporter-like subunits; however, there is no direct experimental evidence in support of this notion. Photoaffinity labeling is a powerful technique to identify the binding site of amilorides in bovine complex I. Commercially available amilorides such as 5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl)amiloride are not suitable as design templates to synthesize photoreactive amilorides because of their low binding affinities to bovine complex I. Thereby, we attempted to modify the structures of commercially available amilorides in order to obtain more potent derivatives. We successfully produced two photoreactive amilorides (PRA1 and PRA2) with a photolabile azido group at opposite ends of the molecule.
Environmental implications of anaerobic digestion for manure management in dairy farms in Mexico: a life cycle perspective
Creators: name: Pasiano Rivas-García
name: Botello-Álvarez, José E.
name: Seabra, Joaquim E. Abel
name: Walter, Arnaldo C. Da Silva
name: Estrada-Baltazar, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine

description: The environmental profile of milk production in Mexico was analyzed for three manure management scenarios: fertilization (F), anaerobic digestion (AD) and enhanced anaerobic digestion (EAD). The study used the life cycle assessment (LCA) technique, considering a “cradle-to-gate” approach. The assessment model was constructed using SimaPro LCA software, and the life cycle impact assessment was performed according to the ReCiPe method. Dairy farms with AD and EAD scenarios were found to exhibit respectively 12% and 27% less greenhouse gas emissions, 58% and 31% less terrestrial acidification, and 3% and 18% less freshwater eutrophication than the F scenario. A different trend was observed in the damage to resource availability indicator, as the F scenario presented 6% and 22% less damage than the EAD and AD scenarios, respectively. The magnitude of environmental damage from milk production in the three dairy manure management scenarios, using a general single score indicator, was 0.118, 0.107 and 0.081 Pt/L of milk for the F, AD and EAD scenarios, respectively. These results indicate that manure management systems with anaerobic digestion can improve the environmental profile of each liter of milk produced.Supplementary_material.docx
Does a Long Reference List Guarantee More Citations? Analysis of Malaysian Highly Cited and Review Papers
Creators: name: Ebrahim, Nader Ale
name: H. Ebrahimian
name: Mousavi, Maryam
name: Tahriri, Farzad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: Earlier publications have shown that the number of references as well as the number of received citations are field-dependent. Consequently, a long reference list may lead to more citations. The purpose of this article is to study the concrete relationship between number of references and citation counts. This article tries to find an answer for the concrete case of Malaysian highly cited papers and Malaysian review papers. Malaysian paper is a paper with at least one Malaysian affiliation. A total of 2466 papers consisting of two sets, namely 1966 review papers and 500 highly-cited articles, are studied. The statistical analysis shows that an increase in the number of references leads to a slight increase in the number of citations. Yet, this increase is not statistically significant. Therefore, a researcher should not try to increase the number of received citations by artificially increasing the number of references.
The Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement as a Foundation for Pavements Based On the Indonesian National Standard
Creators: name: Ansori, Muhamad
name: Iphan F. Radam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This research aims to determine the use of materials from reclaimed asphalt pavement layers directly with the addition of virgin aggregates without the addition of other additives (filler) intended for quality improvement based on the 2010 general specifications of the Indonesian National Standard. Utilization of these materials was used for base courses (class A), sub-base courses (class B), and courses without asphalt coverings (class S). The method used was the laboratory-experiment method and the analysis of the relationship was made using the regression equation. Based on the analysis, by combining the mixture with the virgin aggregates, it was revealed that the materials from reclaimed asphalt pavement layers can be used for the base courses by no more than 3 percent, for the sub-base courses by no more than 9 percent, and for the courses without asphalt coverings or shoulders by no more than 10 percent.
Representing coastal land use in the island of Gran Canaria
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This map displays a geographic information system-based spatial analysis representing coastal land use in the island of Gran Canaria. It presents a method of summarizing coastal patterns of land use/cover into arc/sectors of a graph, setting up spatial units of analysis based on compass directions suitable to organize, analyse and depict spatial data. The method allows the easy detection of patterns and visualization of similarities between two or more sets of coastal land use/cover data. This paper outlines the methods used in designing the map.
Comparing the domestic and the EU lobbying context: perceived agenda-setting influence in the multi-level system of the European Union
Creators: name: Rasmussen, Anne
name: Binderkrantz, Anne Skorkjær
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: ABSTRACTThe contribution analyses whether the factors affecting perceived interest group influence on political agendas differ depending on whether groups lobby in their own domestic context or seek influence at the European Union (EU) level. Findings from a multinomial logistic regression analysis based on survey responses from 1,723 domestic interest groups in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands do not indicate that differences in the national setting are important for perceived group influence at the two levels. However, they underline how the decision-making level acts as a contextual factor, which conditions the explanatory potential of other crucial variables: Embeddedness into domestic decision-making is primarily an asset for securing perceived influence on the national rather than the EU agenda, whereas group resources matter more at the EU than the national level. In this way our multi-level design underlines how the state-of-play for securing perceived influence varies across lobbying contexts.
Representing coastal land use in the island of Gran Canaria
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This map displays a geographic information system-based spatial analysis representing coastal land use in the island of Gran Canaria. It presents a method of summarizing coastal patterns of land use/cover into arc/sectors of a graph, setting up spatial units of analysis based on compass directions suitable to organize, analyse and depict spatial data. The method allows the easy detection of patterns and visualization of similarities between two or more sets of coastal land use/cover data. This paper outlines the methods used in designing the map.
Coastal geomorphological cartography of Veracruz State, Mexico
Creators: name: Hernández-Santana, José R.
name: Méndez-Linares, Ana P.
name: López-Portillo, Jorge A.
name: Preciado-López, Julio C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This paper presents a general geomorphological map of the coastal zone of Veracruz State, Mexico, produced using topographic information, digital orthophotos and high-resolution aerial photographs, as well as a study of geological materials and field survey. Hierarchical levels established for the typological classification are (a) relief categories (mountains, hills and plains); (b) relief subcategories (low mountains; foothills; large, medium and small hills; very high, high, medium, low and very low plains); (c) specific morphogenetic relief type, according to morphology, morphometry and the genetic formation process, and geological substratum; (d) relative age of relief, according to correlated data for the Mexican–Caribbean region; and (e) morphogenetic formations complex. The geomorphological history of relief development in the region reveals a period of compression of the palaeo-mesozoic substratum, during the Laramide orogeny, followed by neotectonic reconstruction of the morphostructure, primarily in the mountains, giving rise to intense erosion–denudation processes and the break-up of relief during the Pliocene and up to the present day. These conditions contributed to the spread of a varied, complex and interdigitated sedimentation, shaped by marine, fluvial, lacustrine–palustrine and aeolian processes which, under glacio-eustatic conditions during the Quaternary, established a system of terraced plains of different origin, dissected or not dependent on the prevailing lithology. The study area of 7872 km2 was divided into five sectors: Tamiahua, Poza Rica, Veracruz, Alvarado and Coatzacoalcos, and mapped at a scale of 1:110,000.
The Institute for Earth and Environmental Software (ISEES): A Strategic Plan
Creators: name: Jones, Matthew
name: Allison, Lee
name: Ames, Daniel
name: Caron, Bruce
name: Collins, Scott
name: Cruse, Patricia
name: Fox, Peter
name: Hampton, Stephanie
name: Mattmann, Chris
name: Meyer, Carol
name: Michener, William
name: Robinson, Erin
name: Schildhauer, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: Computer Software
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We envision an Institute for Sustainable Earth and Environmental Software (ISEES) that coordinates development and sustainable support of innovative and interoperable scientific software tools that can transform science at the intersection of earth, environmental, and life sciences. ISEES will advance the state of science software by engaging earth and environmental research communities to address the software barriers that most impede grand challenge earth science. At ISEES, researchers will collaboratively address the entire software lifecycle, from product conceptualization, to requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, long-term support, and decommissioning. A robust workforce development program will sustain these software advances made through ISEES.
Enhancing service quality through integrated services marketing
Creators: name: Maritz, Alex
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Service quality is often conceptualized as the comparison of service expectations with actual performance perceptions. Emphasis is placed on the combined attitudinal construct of service quality, highlighting cognitive and affective components. The aim of this study is to evaluate these expectations and perceptions from the point of view of franchisees in a prominent home entertainment franchise system. The purpose is to identify integrated services marketing initiates to facilitate service quality within the system. Research methodology includes a quantitative study using the Surveypro e commerce survey tool, facilitated with SPSS 2 for data analysis. Use is made of SERVQUAL and SERVPERF measurement tools, with factors incorporating the service profit chain, relationship management, best practice and service quality. Outcomes include the evaluation of the contribution of these factors toward service quality. Management implications involve the implementation of recommended integrated services marketing initiatives to enhance service quality.
Coastal geomorphological cartography of Veracruz State, Mexico
Creators: name: Hernández-Santana, José R.
name: Méndez-Linares, Ana P.
name: López-Portillo, Jorge A.
name: Preciado-López, Julio C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This paper presents a general geomorphological map of the coastal zone of Veracruz State, Mexico, produced using topographic information, digital orthophotos and high-resolution aerial photographs, as well as a study of geological materials and field survey. Hierarchical levels established for the typological classification are (a) relief categories (mountains, hills and plains); (b) relief subcategories (low mountains; foothills; large, medium and small hills; very high, high, medium, low and very low plains); (c) specific morphogenetic relief type, according to morphology, morphometry and the genetic formation process, and geological substratum; (d) relative age of relief, according to correlated data for the Mexican–Caribbean region; and (e) morphogenetic formations complex. The geomorphological history of relief development in the region reveals a period of compression of the palaeo-mesozoic substratum, during the Laramide orogeny, followed by neotectonic reconstruction of the morphostructure, primarily in the mountains, giving rise to intense erosion–denudation processes and the break-up of relief during the Pliocene and up to the present day. These conditions contributed to the spread of a varied, complex and interdigitated sedimentation, shaped by marine, fluvial, lacustrine–palustrine and aeolian processes which, under glacio-eustatic conditions during the Quaternary, established a system of terraced plains of different origin, dissected or not dependent on the prevailing lithology. The study area of 7872 km2 was divided into five sectors: Tamiahua, Poza Rica, Veracruz, Alvarado and Coatzacoalcos, and mapped at a scale of 1:110,000.
A runtime monitoring and validation framework for web service interactions
Creators: name: Li, Zheng
name: Jin, Yan
name: Han, Jun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Web services are designed for composition and use by third parties through dynamic discovery. As such, the issue of interoperability between services is of great importance to ensure that the services can work together towards the overall application goals. In particular, the interaction protocols of a service need to be implemented and used properly so that the service composition can conduct itself in an orderly fashion. In our previous work, we have proposed a lightweight, pattern/constraint-based approach to specifying service interaction protocols. It has been incorporated into OWL-S for service developers to describe service interaction constraints. In this paper, we present a framework for monitoring the run-time interaction behaviour of Web services and validating the behaviour against their pre-defined interaction constraints. The framework involves interception of service interactions/messages, representation of interaction constraints using finite state automata, and conformance checking of service interactions against interaction constraints. As such, the framework provides a useful tool for validating the implementation and use of services regarding their interaction behaviour.
Theme: Logistics management of the company's territory
Creators: name: BELAMRI Mohammed
name: RGUIBI KHALID
name: RIDOINI Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Logistics management of a company’s territory is a complex and multidimensional process aimed at optimizing the flow of materials, information and services in the territory where the company operates. This discipline encompasses a variety of areas, including supply management, distribution, transportation, warehousing and resource planning. Mastering this management is crucial to increase operational efficiency, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.

Procurement is one of the first steps in the supply chain. It involves planning and acquiring raw materials, components and other resources needed for production. Effective inventory management is also essential to avoid stockouts or unnecessary surpluses, which can harm the company’s financial performance. Techniques such as Just-in-Time (JIT) or barcode inventory management can be used to improve efficiency.
Predictive lawful interception in mobile IPv6 networks
Creators: name: Rojas, Andres
name: Branch, Philip
name: Armitage, Grenville
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Lawful Interception (LI) of communications is necessary in modern telecommunications networks in order to help law enforcement agencies with the investigation and prosecution of criminal activities. The challenging aspect of LI in Mobile IPv6 networks lies in the variety of ways that the network can be operated and translates into LI solutions which range in complexity from trivial to complex. In turn, the complexity of an LI solution manifests in LI signalling volume and effects the ability to fulfill critical LI requirements such as capturing 100% of target traffic. We propose a generic LI architecture that supports user mobility prediction schemes to fulfill LI requirements. We then propose two simple user mobility prediction schemes before analysing their prediction performance and effect on LI metrics. Our results show that the simple prediction scheme proposed in this paper can accurately predict the future position of a mobile user and can lead to the fulfillment of LI requirements, such as capturing 100% of target traffic, while at the same time being sensitive to security issues by restricting interception activation only to parts of the network that are visited by the mobile target.
Security attack ontology for Web services
Creators: name: Vorobiev, Artem
name: Han, Jun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Web services (WS) have become a significant part of the Web because of such attractive features as simple to use, platform independence, and XML/SOAP support. However, these features make WS vulnerable to many new and inherited old security threats. Semantic WS, which are capable of publishing semantic data about their functional and nonfunctional properties, add even more security issues. Now, it becomes easier to attack WS because their semantic data is publicly available. To register and prevent these attacks, especially distributed attacks, new distributed firewalls and intrusion detection systems (F/IDS) have to be applied. However, these F/IDS can be developed by different vendors and they do not have the way to cooperate with each other. This problem can be solved if various F/IDS share a common vocabulary, which can be based on ontologies, to allow them to interact with each other. In this paper, we describe WS security threats and state that they have to be analysed and classified systematically in order to allow the development of better distributed defensive mechanisms for WS using F/IDS. We choose ontologies and OWL/OWL-S over taxonomies because ontologies allow different parties to evolve and share a common understanding of information which can be reasoned and analysed automatically. We develop the security attack ontology for WS and illustrate the benefits of using it with an example.
Europe and the Question of Palestine
Creators: name: Abdou, Mahmoud M.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper addresses the following set of questions: how do the recent European measures against the settlements accord with previous European policies towards the Palestinians? In what theoretical framework could we place them? What exactly are they? The objective here is to bridge the gap in existing literature by contextualizing those European measures within the particularity of official European policies towards “the question of Palestine” since the early 1970s - not within the European policies towards the Middle East as a region, nor within European regionbuilding efforts. More specifically, this paper contributes a case study on the “normative power” of the EU, and illustrates how international law has made the official European approach to the subject at hand, "the question of Palestine," marked by a high degree of consistency and endurance over the past four decades.
title: Sur les gens de Gaua
title: Sur les gens de Gaua
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: François, Alexandre
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mwerlap
subject: mrm
subject: Mwerlap
subject: text_and_corpus_linguistics

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Conte
D1.10 - Ontology-based uropean Data Infrastructure v1
Creators: name: Piroi, Florina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: EOSC
Data Infrastructure
Collaboration

description: One of the OntoCommons objectives is to leverage relevant ongoing efforts and create synergies by close cooperation with all relevant bodies and initiatives. Particularly relevant for this document, (which describes the work in Task 1.4) is establishing a cooperation with the European Open Science Cloud, relevant EU projects, RDA and FAIR communities. Actionable and useful resources depend on integration of ontologies with infrastructures.Data infrastructures have become a key service for researchers and data professionals (Millerand & Baker, 2020). An important characteristic of data infrastructures is that they must accommodate not only the technical changes of working with data, but also the organizational changes.In this document we describe the main components of a (data) infrastructure that can serve the OntoCommons community and not only. We explain, then, the state of matters with respect to European Data Infrastructure.To interact with the relevant EOSC, EU projects, RDA and FAIR communities, we have established a Knowledge Exchange Space for Data Management and Documentation (KExS) which, currently, is manifested through a sequence of workshops and meetings attended by OntoCommons members and members of EU, EOSC, RDA, and FAIR related projects and initiatives. The document presents a snapshot of the work done in Task 1.4, which pursues close cooperation in infrastructures via EOSC, and EOSC related initiatives.
title: Inelastic scattering of ⁷²,⁷⁴Ni off a proton target
Creators: name: Cortés, M L
name: Doornenbal, P.
name: Obertelli, A.
name: Pietralla, N.
name: Werner, V.
name: Authelet, G.
name: Baba, H.
name: Calvet, D.
name: Château, F.
name: Corsi, A.
name: Delbart, A.
name: Gheller, J.-M.
name: Gillibert, A.
name: Isobe, T.
name: Lapoux, V.
name: Louchart, C.
name: Matsushita, M.
name: Momiyama, S.
name: Motobayashi, T.
name: Niikura, M.
name: Otsu, H.
name: Péron, C.
name: Peyaud, A.
name: Pollacco, E. C.
name: Roussé, J.-Y.
name: Sakurai, H.
name: Santamaria, C.
name: Sasano, M.
name: Shiga, Y.
name: Takeuchi, S.
name: Taniuchi, R.
name: Uesaka, T.
name: Wang, H.
name: Yoneda, K.
name: Browne, F.
name: Chung, L. X.
name: Dombradi, Zs.
name: Franchoo, S.
name: Giacoppo, F.
name: Gottardo, A.
name: Hadynska-Klek, K.
name: Korkulu, Z.
name: Koyama, S.
name: Kubota, Y.
name: Lee, J.
name: Lettmann, M.
name: Lozeva, R.
name: Matsui, K.
name: Miyazaki, T.
name: Nishimura, S.
name: Olivier, L.
name: Ota, S.
name: Patel, Z.
name: Sahin, E.
name: Shand, C. M.
name: Söderström, P.-A.
name: Stefan, I.
name: Steppenbeck, D.
name: Sumikama, T.
name: Suzuki, D.
name: Vajta, Zs.
name: Wu, J.
name: Xu, Z.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: Inelastic scattering of ⁷²,⁷⁴Ni off a proton target was performed at RIBF, RIKEN, Japan. The isotopes were produced by the fission of ²³⁸U on a thick Beryllium target and were then selected and identified on an event-by-event basis using the BigRIPS separator. Selected isotopes were focused onto the liquid hydrogen target of the MINOS device and gamma rays from the reactions were measured with the DALI2 array. The energy of the ions in the middle of the target was 213 MeV/u. Outgoing particles were identified using the ZeroDegree spectrometer. Here, we report on the current status of the data analysis and preliminary results for the proton inelastic scattering cross sections for both isotopes.
Increasing the migration efficiency of Java-based mobile agents
Creators: name: Braun, Peter
name: Müller, Ingo
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
name: Kern, Steffen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mobile agents were introduced as a design paradigm for distributed systems to reduce network traffic as compared to client-server based approaches, simply by moving code close to the data instead of moving large amount of data to the client. Although this thesis has been proved in many application scenarios, it was also shown that the performance of mobile agents suffers from too simple migration strategies in many other scenarios. In this paper we identify several reasons for mobile agents' poor performance, most of them related to the Java programming language. We propose solutions to all of these problems and present results of first experiments to show the effectiveness of our approaches.
Europe and the Question of Palestine
Creators: name: Abdou, Mahmoud M.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper addresses the following set of questions: how do the recent European measures against the settlements accord with the historical European role towards the Palestinians? In what theoretical framework could we place them? What exactly are they? The objective here is to bridge the gap in existing literature by contextualizing those European
measures within the particularity of official European policies towards “the question of Palestine” since the early 1970s - not within the European policies towards the Middle East as a region, nor within European regionbuilding efforts. More specifically, this paper contributes a case study on the “normative power” of the EU, and illustrates how international law has made the official European approach to the subject at hand, "the question
of Palestine," marked by a high degree of consistency and endurance over the past four decades.
title: Zarys koncepcji zrównoważonego (publicznego) systemu ubezpieczeń społecznych w Polsce
Creators: name: Garbiec , Roman
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2021

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Organizacja i Zarządzanie, 84, 31-47
Lime-hemp concrete (LHC) enhancement using magnesium based binders
Creators: name: Sinka, S.
name: Sahmenko, G.
name: Korjakins, A.
name: Bajare, D.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2017

description: The major CO2 emitting countries have concluded an agreement aimed at reducing the CO2 emissions at the Paris Climate Conference 2015. However, the emission levels are still on the rise. As the building material industry is one of the largest producers of CO2, it should find solutions to limit these emissions, such as development of new materials with negative CO2 balance and low thermal conductivity for energy saving during lifespan. The lime-hemp concrete (LHC) could be one of the solutions as it has negative CO2 emissions balance (up to 80 kg/m2) and low thermal conductivity (0,07-0,09 W/m*K). Even though, the LHC has been gaining popularity and recognition over the past years, it is still not used enough to contribute significantly to lowering the global CO2 emissions. One of the reasons is the low mechanical strength of this material that can be mostly used only with supportive load bearing frame appropriate for the low rise buildings. It could be improved by enhancing the binder strength either through supplementing or substituting it with the magnesium based binders. Made of calcined MgO with possible additions of magnesium salts or other hardeners, the early and overall compressive strength shown by these binders is greater compared to hydraulic lime binders used in the LHC. The magnesium based binders also remain unaffected by the organic water soluble constituents that react with calcium ions in hydraulic lime, thus delaying or preventing hydration process. Various MgO binders are tested in this research, focusing mainly on mechanical strength and thermal conductivity, in order to understand the effect that adding the magnesium binders has on important LHC properties. The obtained results suggest that the MgO binders are viable alternative to hydraulic lime as their superior compressive strength allow for lower amount of binder to be added thus enhancing thermal conductivity or giving material wider possible use due to this strength increase.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 2 (2017): Special Issue - ICBBM 2017
Introducing concepts of estimating tracer and intrinsic diffusion coefficients in a ternary system: a case study in the FCC Fe-Mn-Cr solid solution
Creators: name: Sadhu, Suman
name: Chakraborty, Anindita
name: Dutta, Monojit
name: Makineni, Surendra
name: Bhattacharyya, Saswata
name: Paul, Aloke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Estimating tracer and intrinsic diffusion coefficients following the diffusion couple method with systematic composition variation can be challenging because of the diffusion paths’ serpentine or double serpentine nature on the Gibbs triangle. Moreover, the possibility of estimating these diffusion coefficients from a single diffusion profile can have immense benefits. We have demonstrated four ways of estimating tracer and impurity diffusion coefficients in the FCC Fe-Mn-Cr solid solution: (i) We have shown that these can be estimated directly at the Kirkendall marker plane from a single conventional ternary diffusion profile. (ii) We have, for the first time, demonstrated that the estimation at the intersection of a conventional ternary and constrained pseudo-binary diffusion path is helpful for systematically generating composition-dependent tracer diffusion coefficients. (iii) We have followed the Kirkaldy-Lane method for estimating these diffusion coefficients at the intersection of two conventional ternary diffusion couples (for comparison of the data measured by new methods), although for data generation at random compositions. This was proposed a long time ago but practised occasionally. It helps to compare with the estimated data following other methods. (iv) Additionally, we have estimated the impurity diffusion coefficients of Cr and Mn in Fe following the Hall method, which helps in understanding the variation of the diffusion coefficients in Fe-Mn-Cr alloys compared to pure Fe. The sensitivity of data estimation following different methods, i.e. different equation schemes, is discussed, explaining the strategic design of diffusion couple for a small error range.
IPCP: Immersive Parallel Coordinates Plots for Engineering Design Processes
Creators: name: Tadeja, Slawomir
name: Kipouros, Timoleon
name: Kristensson, Per
Publisher: name: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Year: 2020
Subjects: 33 Built Environment and Design
40 Engineering
46 Information and Computing Sciences
4010 Engineering Practice and Education
4607 Graphics, Augmented Reality and Games
3303 Design
Bioengineering
Generic health relevance
4 Quality Education

description: Computational engineering design methods and tools are common practice in modern industry. Such approaches are integral in enabling designers to efficiently explore larger and more complex design spaces. However, at the same time, computational engineering design methods tend to dramatically increase the number of candidate solutions that decision-makers must interpret in order to make appropriate choices within a set of solutions. Since all candidate solutions can be represented in digital form together with their assessment criteria, evaluated according to some sort of simulation model, a natural way to explore and understand the complexities of the design problem is to visualize their multidimensional nature. The task now involves the discovery of patterns and trends within the multidimensional design space. In this work, we aim to enhance the design decision-making process by embedding visual analytics into an immersive virtual reality environment. To this end, we present a system called IPCP: immersive parallel coordinates plots. IPCP combines the well-established parallel coordinates visualization technique for high-dimensional data with immersive virtual reality. We propose this approach in order to exploit and discover efficient means to use new technology within a conventional decision-making process. The aim is to provide benefits by enhancing visualizations of 3D geometry and other physical quantities with scientific information. We present the design of this system, which allows the representation and exploration of multidimensional scientific datasets. A qualitative evaluation with two surrogate expert users, knowledgeable in multidimensional data analysis, demonstrate that the system can be used successfully to detect both known and previously unknown patterns in a real-world test dataset, producing an early indicative validation of its suitability for decision support in engineering design processes.
Enjeux éthiques et juridiques rencontrés lors de la collecte et l'utilisation de données personnelles en recherche: un petit tour d'horizon !
Creators: name: Ringuette, Louise
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022
Subjects: Accès
Autonomie
Bioéthique
Consentement
Données personnelles de santé
Données à caractère personnel
Utilisation secondaire
Vie privée

description: Cette présentation vise à faire un petit tour d'horizon sur les enjeux éthiques et juridiques rencontrés dans la pratique par les chercheuses et les chercheurs qui souhaitent collecter et utiliser des données personnelles en recherche au Québec.
In-situ neutron diffraction study of micromechanical shear failure in an aerospace composite
Creators: name: Wang, B
name: Seffen, KA
name: Guest, SD
name: Lee, TL
name: Huang, S
name: Luo, S
name: Mi, J
Publisher: name: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Year: 2020
Subjects: 3403 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
34 Chemical Sciences
40 Engineering
4001 Aerospace Engineering
4016 Materials Engineering
7 Affordable and Clean Energy

description: Glass fibre reinforced polypropylene (GF/PP) composite is a well-established material system for fabricating bistable composite tape-spring (CTS) structure. It is light-weight and multifunctional, and has attracted growing interest in shape-adaptive and energy harvesting systems in defence, civil and especially aerospace engineering. The factors governing its bistability have been well-understood; whist there is limited research concerning the micromechanics and microstructural failure. In this research, we investigate the failure mechanisms of the GF/PP composite. This is achieved by performing in-situ neutron diffraction on composite specimens using the ENGIN-X neutron diffractometer at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Shear failures are characterised at both macroscopic and microscopic scales. Elastic and viscoelastic strain evolutions at different levels reveal the micromechanical shear failure. The failure mechanisms are then proposed, which will benefit optimisation of structural design and structural integrity of the CTS in aerospace applications.
Europe and the Question of Palestine
Creators: name: Abdou, Mahmoud M.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper addresses the following set of questions: how do the recent European measures against the settlements accord with the historical European role towards the Palestinians? In what theoretical framework could we place them? What exactly are they? The objective here is to bridge the gap in existing literature by contextualizing those European
measures within the particularity of official European policies towards “the question of Palestine” since the early 1970s - not within the European policies towards the Middle East as a region, nor within European regionbuilding efforts. More specifically, this paper contributes a case study on the “normative power” of the EU, and illustrates how international law has made the official European approach to the subject at hand, "the question of Palestine," marked by a high degree of consistency and endurance over the past four decades.
title: Design intervention of retrofit fixed solar shading device for care homes in Sheffield, UK
Creators: name: Imtiaz, Amit
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2023

description: Climate Based Daylight Modelling simulation has been used in this study to simulate existing care homes in Sheffield, UK. The bedrooms were simulated in terms of the Useful Daylight Index and Daylight factor to understand the current daylight situation. Along with the illuminance values, glare indices have been measured. The CIE Glare index of the bedroom was above the critical level (CGI>19). Among the five different shading devices employed, one of the shading devices placed 500mm apart from the window with four horizontal panels proved to effectively control glare in the bedroom on the southern façade. After installing the shading device, the CIE Glare Index was reduced to 17.54 with a UDI(a) of 78.53%. This study made it possible (a) to examine the current Useful Daylight Index and Daylight factor of the care homes in Sheffield and (b) to implement and experiment with fixed solar shading devices in the care home of Sheffield, UK.
Early Cretaceous palynostratigraphy of the Abu Tunis 1x borehole, northern Western Desert, Egypt, with emphasis on the possible palaeoclimatic effect upon the range of Dicheiropollis etruscus in North Africa
Creators: name: Deaf, Amr S.
name: Harding, Ian C.
name: Marshall, John E.A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Recent hydrocarbon exploration in the northern sector of the Western Desert in Egypt has revealed relatively rich hydrocarbon accumulations, mainly of gas, and demonstrate promising future prospects. In order to improve our understanding of this area and to provide a biostratigraphical framework for the hitherto poorly dated Lower Cretaceous successions, a palynological analysis was carried out on 57 ditch cutting samples from the Abu Tunis 1x borehole. Palynostratigraphic investigation on these samples has enabled the identification of three new palynostratigraphically defined age divisions with three corresponding palynozones defined by first uphole occurrences of gymnosperm and angiosperm pollen and dinoflagellate cysts. Spore and pollen grains recovered from the Abu Tunis 1x borehole show the characteristics of the pre-Albian Dicheiropollis/Afropollis Phytogeographical Province. Discrepancies in the reported range of Dicheiropollis etruscus, when compared with earlier (Berriasian) appearances in West Africa and later (late Hauterivian) appearances in East Africa, may be attributed to palaeoecological factors. Dicheiropollis etruscus is accepted as having a cheirolepidiacean conifer affinity and is regarded as having been produced by a thermophilous plant. Here, we suggest that Dicheiropollis etruscus was adapted to arid conditions. Dicheiropollis etruscus thus first appeared in hot, dry palaeo-subtropical African regions, but as Western Gondwana broke up and the African Plate moved northeast during/after the Late Jurassic, the region that is now present-day Egypt, Libya and Sudan had moved by the late Hauterivian into a subtropical position; the ensuing increased aridity thus allowed Dicheiropollis etruscus to migrate into these areas.
Calcium sulfate: an alternative for environmentally friendly construction
Creators: name: Guerra-Cossío, M. A.
name: González-López, J. R.
name: Magallanes-Rivera, R. X.
name: Zaldívar-Cadena, A. A.
name: Figueroa-Torres, M. Z.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2017

description: One of the challenges of the construction industry today is to develop and promote the use of environmentally friendly materials. The production and use of Portland cement clinker as a construction material is part of the problem because of its high generation of CO2 in its manufacture. Therefore, alternative materials that mitigate in some extent this situation become an important task in the development of new materials. The use of calcium sulfate in any form as a construction material has been limited due to its high solubility in water and low development of mechanical strength. However, its use as an alternative cementitious material provides a notable decrease on greenhouse gases produced when it is compared to the manufacture of other hydraulic cementitious materials, since the temperatures required in its manufacturing are relatively low. Therefore, in this study the feasibility of reuse of waste gypsum from the ceramics industry by milling and calcination was evaluated. This calcium sulfate was used as main component in the manufacture of ternary cementitious mixtures. Cementitious test mixtures were manufactured with CaSO4 synthesized from waste gypsum, ground granulated blast furnace slag and silica fume. Small additions of K2SO4, Ca(OH)2 and Portland cement clinker as chemical activators were used. The addition of blast furnace slag and silica fume to the calcium sulfate systems improved its properties and prevented the dissolution in wet environments. The compressive strength achieved by some systems was near 20 MPa at 56 days of curing, showing that this material may be a feasible option for the manufacture of masonry or elements with low structural strength requirements with a proper behavior in wet environments.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 2 (2017): Special Issue - ICBBM 2017