cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Overview: Efficient Transportation: An Action Plan for Energy and Emissions Innovation
Creators: name: United States Department of Energy
name: United States Department of Transportation
name: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
name: Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97454
subject: Guidelines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96350
subject: Energy
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91295
subject: Exhaust gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91294
subject: Polluting gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91299
subject: Greenhouse gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91159
subject: Climate change
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89772
subject: Sustainable transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89768
subject: Transportation planning

description: The purpose of this Action Plan is to identify actions under the Efficiency strategy to realize the goal of decarbonizing the transportation sector by 2050. This plan describes actions that all levels of government and the private sector can take to reduce the energy intensity of travel. The federal agencies that developed this plan can have a major impact on improving transportation-sector efficiency and reducing emissions; therefore, this plan has a particular focus on federal actions. Recognizing the key role that state, local, and private sector entities play in realizing a more efficient transportation system, the plan also provides examples of successful actions these entities are taking.
Synthesis of 1,4,5-Trisubstituted 1,2,3-Triazoles Through a One-Pot Three Component Reaction of Boronic Acids, Sodium Azide and Active Methylene Compounds Under Ball-Milling Conditions
Creators: name: Hosseinzadeh, Rahman
name: Fathalipour, Fatemeh
name: Tajbakhsh, Mahmood
name: Mavvaji, Mohammad
name: Pooryousef, Mona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: In this study, we report a mild and efficient one-pot synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles via a three-component reaction of aryl boronic acids with sodium azide and active methylene compounds under ball-milling condition. In order to determine optimized reaction conditions, several grinding auxiliaries (basic, neutral and acidic alumina, silica gel, K10 and KSF), bases (DBU, DABCO, piperidine, triethylamine, potassium t-butoxide and potassium carbonate) and copper salts under ball-milling conditions were examined. Using the optimized condition procedure, a wide variety of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazole derivatives were prepared in very good yields. All products were well-characterized by 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. This environmentally friendly protocol offers several advantages including high yields of products, relatively short reaction time and simple work-up procedure.
Advances in metallic materials processing
Creators: name: Majumdar, Jyotsna Dutta
name: Smurov, Igor
name: Sun, Shoujin
name: Manna, Indranil
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Besides chemistry, processing route influences the microstructures and properties of metallic materials significantly. The emerging processing (fabrication) routes capable of tailoring the microstructures and hence properties of metallic materials include semisolid processing, spray forming, melt spinning, and laser materials processing. Although the present issue was initially proposed to present the articles based on all novel processing routes and its status on understanding the properties of materials, however, the topics and papers are not extensive representation of all the areas of advanced metallic materials processing. Furthermore, advanced processing of nonmetallic materials like polymeric materials is also included in the special issue. The special issue contains eight papers, out of them three articles present research works related to semisolid processing and five contributions on laser materials processing including one on processing of polymeric materials.
Comprehensive Kinetics and a Mechanistic Investigation on the Biological Active Pyrano[2,3-C]Pyrazole Core in the Presence of Both Eco-Friendly Catalyst and Solvent: Experimental Green Protocol
Creators: name: Talaiefar, Sadegh
name: Habibi-Khorassani, Sayyed Mostafa
name: Shaharaki, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Full chemical-kinetics of the green one-pot four-component condensation among ethyl acetoacetate 1, hydrazine hydrate 2, malononitrile 3 and various substituents of benzaldehyde 4 has been spectrally investigated for the generation of pyranopyrazoles 5. The extremely large negative ΔS‡ values were obtained for all the reactions, particularly in four-component reaction among 1, 2, 3 and para electron-withdrawing substituted benzaldehyde 4. The high unfavorable ΔS‡ value (-188.2 J mol−1 K−1) is compensated by the favorable ΔH electron−withdrawing‡ value (lower, 13.47 k J mol−1) in comparison with ΔH‡ values of unsubstituted benzaldehyde 4 (19.1 k J mol−1) and electron-donating substituted benzaldehyde 4 (37.4 k J mol−1), herein, the reaction rate with lesser value of ΔG electron−withdrawing‡=69.58 k J mol−1 is faster than other reactions, compared to ΔG unsubstituted‡=72.74 and ΔGelectron−donating‡=76.63 k J mol−1. A reliable correlation of log k and σR+ with an excellent DPF (r = 0.990) and positive value of reaction constant (ρ=+1.1003) demonstrated that both resonance and inductive effects “altogether” contributed on the reaction center with a strong electron-withdrawing group, accompanied by high positive charges, which can be stabilized by electron-donating compound. The substituent effects on the reaction kinetics generally obey the same kinetics role for the series of compounds used in this work (Hammett, Exner and isokinetic relationship studies). Among ten steps inside the reaction mechanism, only step8 with the substituent group near the reaction center could be resonated directly with this center. So, step8 was identified as RDS.
Experimental and Quantum Chemical Computational Analysis of Novel N4,N4′-Dimethyl-[1,1′-Biphenyl]-3,3′,4,4′-Tetraamine
Creators: name: Prabakaran, Arunachalam
name: Vijayakumar, Veeraragavan
name: Radhakrishnan, Narayanaswamy
name: Chidambaram, Rameshkumar
name: Muthu, Sambanthan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The aim of this work is to investigate the structural and chemical behavior of the novel N4,N4′-dimethyl-[1,1′-biphenyl]-3,3′,4,4′-tetraamine (NNDMTA) compound using experimental and computational method. The synthesized compound has been characterized by FT-IR, NMR and UV-Visible spectroscopy method. The geometry structure was optimized by means of on density functional theory (DFT) and time depended density functional theory (TD-DFT) method with the ultrafine grid method. The theoretically computed spectroscopic properties (FT-IR, NMR UV-visible) of the compound was compared with experimental results and were found to be in accord. The complete vibrational frequency assignments were carried out using Vibrational Energy Distribution Analysis 4 (VEDA 4) program. The electronic absorption behavior of the compound has been performed by the TD-DFT method. Global chemical reactivity descriptors (GCRD) parameters and activity site of the compound has been discussed. Further, intermolecular interaction and molecular reactive behaviors toward electrophiles have been reported. Besides, molecular physicochemical, absorption distribution metabolism and excretion (ADME) and molecular docking analysis were also carried using Molinspiration, Swiss ADME and Patchdock methods respectively. The results have shown the highest atomic contact energy for the human squalene synthase (−246.41 kcal/mol) and the least atomic contact energy for the influenza neuraminidase (−57.88 kcal/mol).
D2.1 Targeted landscape analysis report
Creators: name: Davidson, Joy
name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Boerman, Sandra
name: Brinkman, Loek
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Kalaitzi, Vasso
name: Kechagioglou, Xeni
name: L'Hours, Herve
name: Marjamaa-Mankinen, Liisa
name: Mathers, Benjamin
name: Meneses, Rita
name: Nordling, Josefine
name: O'Connor, Ryan
name: Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: FAIR
INFRAEOSC
European Open Science Cloud
FAIR-enabling resources
FAIR Implementation Framework

description: FAIR-IMPACT aims to support the implementation phase of the European Open Science Cloud by helping Research Performing Organisations (RPOs), repositories, data and metadata service providers (including persistent identifier services and semantic services) and national level initiatives to adopt FAIR-enabling practices, tools and services. To this end, FAIR-IMPACT is conducting a targeted landscape analysis to identify viable tools, methods and solutions that have been produced by the recent H2020 INFRAEOSC FAIR-related projects and that are currently available to support FAIR Implementation in a practical sense. The resulting FAIR Implementation Framework (FIF) catalogue of resources will be made accessible via the FAIR-IMPACT website to enable others to find, assess and adopt them. 

The FAIR implementation framework will be instrumental for delivery of in-kind support to RPOs, repositories and data service providers, and national level initiatives, but the framework will also be openly available to support adoption by a wider range of stakeholders across Europe and globally. The framework will be updated periodically to ensure that emerging approaches, tools and resources such as those resulting from ongoing related projects and initiatives are included.

This report outlines the approach adopted for the landscape analysis, a summary of the projects and initiatives reviewed, and next steps in developing the FAIR Implementation Framework.
Blind identification of non-minimum phase ARMA systems
Creators: name: Yu, Chengpu
name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Xie, Lihua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a second-order statistics based method for blind identification of non-minimum phase single-input-single-output (SISO) auto-regression moving-average (ARMA) systems. By holding the system input while sampling the system output at the normal rate, the SISO system is transformed into an equivalent single-input-multi-output (SIMO) ARMA model. Theoretical analysis is conducted to exploit the system auto-regressive information contained in the autocorrelation matrices of the over-sampled output and to derive expressions for constructive estimation of the ARMA system parameters. The developed systematic identification method has flexibility in choosing the over-sampling rate which can be as low as two. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by simulation results.
D2.1 Targeted landscape analysis report
Creators: name: Davidson, Joy
name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Boerman, Sandra
name: Brinkman, Loek
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Kalaitzi, Vasso
name: Kechagioglou, Xeni
name: L'Hours, Herve
name: Marjamaa-Mankinen, Liisa
name: Mathers, Benjamin
name: Meneses, Rita
name: Nordling, Josefine
name: O'Connor, Ryan
name: Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR
INFRAEOSC
European Open Science Cloud
FAIR-enabling resources
FAIR Implementation Framework

description: FAIR-IMPACT aims to support the implementation phase of the European Open Science Cloud by helping Research Performing Organisations (RPOs), repositories, data and metadata service providers (including persistent identifier services and semantic services) and national level initiatives to adopt FAIR-enabling practices, tools and services. To this end, FAIR-IMPACT is conducting a targeted landscape analysis to identify viable tools, methods and solutions that have been produced by the recent H2020 INFRAEOSC FAIR-related projects and that are currently available to support FAIR Implementation in a practical sense. The resulting FAIR Implementation Framework (FIF) catalogue of resources will be made accessible via the FAIR-IMPACT website to enable others to find, assess and adopt them. The FAIR implementation framework will be instrumental for delivery of in-kind support to RPOs, repositories and data service providers, and national level initiatives, but the framework will also be openly available to support adoption by a wider range of stakeholders across Europe and globally. The framework will be updated periodically to ensure that emerging approaches, tools and resources such as those resulting from ongoing related projects and initiatives are included. This report outlines the approach adopted for the landscape analysis, a summary of the projects and initiatives reviewed, and next steps in developing the FAIR Implementation Framework.
An Efficient Process for the Synthesis of Novel 1-[(2,7-Dichloro-9-(4-chlorobenzylidene)-9H-fluoren-4-yl]-2-(methylselanyl)ethanol with Excellent HPLC Purity
Creators: name: Puthran, Divyaraj
name: Poojary, Boja
name: Purushotham, Nikil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A convenient, commercial and simple process was developed for the synthesis of 1-[2,7-dichloro-9-(4-chlorobenzylidene)-9H-fluoren-4-yl]-2-(methylselanyl)ethanol. 2-(2,7-dichloro-9H-fluoren-4-yl)oxirane was converted to 1-(2,7-dichloro-9H-fluoren-4-yl)-2-(methylselanyl)ethanol in presence of dimethyl diselenide and sodium borohydride and consequently converted to 1-[2,7-dichloro-9-(4-chlorobenzylidene)-9H-fluoren-4-yl]-2- (methylselanyl)ethanol via Knoevenagel condensation with 4-chlorobenzaldehyde in presence of sodium hydroxide in reasonably good yield and purity.
The l1 measure of image reconstruction subject to motion corrupted k-space data
Creators: name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Yangt, Zai
name: Xie, Lihua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For reconstruction of a non-negative real valued object based on scanned data in the k-space, it is shown that the l1 norm of the original motionless object is minimum among that of all objects with combined translational and rotational motions and is a sensitive measure of the object motions. These results provide an insight and theoretical fundamental for applying the l1 optimization to the motion correction problem for image reconstruction in various practical applications.
Multicomponent Preparation of Quinazolinone Derivatives in the Presence of TiO2 Nanoparticles Supported Ionic Liquids
Creators: name: Bakhshali-Dehkordi, Raziyeh
name: Ghasemzadeh, Mohammad Ali
name: Safaei-Ghomi, Javad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: In this study, triazoloquinazolinone and benzimidazoquinazolinone derivatives have been synthesized via a suitable and efficient procedure using one-pot multicomponent reactions of 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole or 2-aminobenzimidazole, dimedone and aromatic aldehydes in the presence of TiO2@ILs as an efficient nanocatalyst. In the presented approach all of the products were prepared with good to excellent yields using TiO2@ILs nanostructures. Moreover, the TiO2 NPs were prepared using beet juice extract and functionalized with ILs based on imidazole. TiO2@ILs nanocatalyst has been characterized by different techniques such as Fourier transforms infrared, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Moreover, this ionic liquid presented itself as a good protective and activator agent for nanocatalyst.
MPEC 2024-E75 : 2024 EV1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EV1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Paraschistura turcomana
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura turcomana

description: 71. Paraschistura turcomana (Nikolskii, 1947)
Common name. Murgab loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Nemacheilus kessleri turcomanus Nikolskii, 1947: 32, fig. 3 [Kushka River near town of Kushka, Murgab River basin, Turkmenistan; syntypes: ZMMU P-5734 (3), P-5735 (1)].
Revisions. Kottelat (2012: 102).
Illustrations. Nikolskii (1947: fig. 3) as Nemacheilus kessleri turcomanus.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Hari River.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 630-Middle Amu Darya.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch-e Torkamani.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
Remarks. Nemacheilus kessleri turcomanus Nikolskii 1947 is a synonym according to Freyhof et al. (2015), but Mousavi-Sabet et al. (2015) consider it as valid species of P. turcomana. Coad (1995) placed turcomana in Noemacheilus kessleri as subspecies, Kottelat (2012) regard as full species and transferred to Paraschistura. Morphological characters of this species, not diagnostic and most of them overlap with P. turcomanica so Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) suggested the validity of this species should be examined by molecular markers.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
title: Overview: An Action Plan for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Energy and Emissions Innovation
Creators: name: United States Department of Energy
name: United States Department of Transportation
name: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
name: Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97454
subject: Guidelines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96350
subject: Energy
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91295
subject: Exhaust gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91294
subject: Polluting gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91299
subject: Greenhouse gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91159
subject: Climate change
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89772
subject: Sustainable transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89768
subject: Transportation planning
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93274
subject: Heavy duty vehicles
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93170
subject: Medium trucks

description: A Report on Actions for Medium – and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Energy and Emissions Innovation (the MHDV Plan) summarizes strategies and actions to substantially reduce emissions in the U.S. commercial on-road medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) sector. This includes all on-road vehicles over 8,500 pounds used for commercial purposes. The intended audience of this report are industry and stakeholders who will take on the suite of actions needed to drive forward MHDV emissions reduction and decarbonization in a sustainable and economic way.
Testing the feasibility of the Dignity Therapy interview: adaptation for the Danish culture
Creators: name: Houmann, Lise J.
name: Rydahl-Hansen, Susan
name: Chochinov, Harvey M.
name: Kristjanson, Linda
name: Groenvold, Mogens
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background. 'Dignity Therapy' (DT) is a brief, flexible intervention, which allows patients to complete an interview and create a document regarding their life, identity and what they want to leave in writing for their loved ones. DT is based on the DT Question Protocol. Developed and tested in English speaking settings, DT has proven to be a feasible and effective way to enhance patient dignity, while diminishing suffering and depression. The aim of this study was to test the acceptability and feasibility of the DT Question Protocol among Danish health professionals and cancer patients, and to obtain preliminary estimates of patient uptake for DT. These results will be used to inform a larger evaluation study. Method. Ten professionals were interviewed about their perception of DT and the Question Protocol. It was then tested with 20 patients at two palliative care sites and one gynecologic oncology department. Data was analyzed using content analysis techniques to evaluate the protocol for relevance, acceptability and comprehension. The interest and relevance of the intervention was also determined by examining the preliminary participation rate. Results. Overall, DT was perceived to be comprehensible and relevant. Professionals highlighted six concerns that might warrant modification. These issues were examined using patient data. Some of their concerns overlapped with those raised by the professionals (e.g. 'unacceptable self-praise' and 'interference with the lives of others'). Tailoring DT to Danish culture required easily accommodated adjustments to the procedures and the DT Question Protocol. Some concerns expressed by health professionals may have reflected protectiveness toward the patients. While the intervention was relevant and manageable for patients admitted to palliative care, DT was less easily implemented at the gynecologic oncology department. Conclusion. Based on patients' and professionals' reaction to the DT Question Protocol, and based on the preliminary proportion of participants accepting DT, the DT question protocol---with minor adaptations---appears to be a manageable, acceptable and relevant intervention for Danish patients admitted to palliative care.
Sasanidus kermanshahensis
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Sasanidus
Sasanidus kermanshahensis

description: 72. Sasanidus kermanshahensis (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966)
Common name. Kermanshah stone loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Noemacheilus kermanshahensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966: 151, figs. 1-2; Pl. 19 (fig. 2) [Kermanshah in the drainage of the Karun River, tributary of lower Tigris, western Iran; holotype: ZMUC P2787].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Bănărescu & Nalbant (1966: 151, fig. 1).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e Kermanshah.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Structural reform and productivity in the water and wastewater industry: Emerging issues
Creators: name: Abbott, Malcolm
name: Cohen, Bruce
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Over the past 2 decades there has been a range of reforms to the structure of the water supply and wastewater industries around the world. As yet these reforms have not been as extensive, or as uniform, as in other utilities such as telecommunications, gas, and electricity supply. One focus of reform has been to enhance the structure of water supply and wastewater industries to improve levels of productivity and efficiency while at the same time maintaining environmental and water quality standards, providing affordable access to clean water and encouraging innovation and improvement in service delivery. Now, however, a changing climate, new technologies, and greater emphasis on environmental impacts of supply from traditional sources are creating forces which are requiring a rethinking of traditional water and wastewater industry structures. The purpose of this paper is to examine emerging issues that confront the structure of the water and wastewater industries and to assess them in light of the findings of productivity and efficiency analysis undertaken to date. In doing so, this paper considers how industry structure may impact upon, and be influenced by, the dual achievement of both economic efficiency and issues such as water quality standards, environmental outcomes, innovation, and social goals in an evolving industry environment.
Sociale integratie in het primair onderwijs. Een studie naar de relatie tussen de sociale, etnische, religieuze en cognitieve schoolcompositie en de cognitieve en niet-cognitieve positie van verschillende groepen leerlingen. Analyses bij het PRIMA-cohortonderzoek, derde meting
Creators: name: Driiessen, Geert
name: Doesborgh, Jan
name: Ledoux, Guuske
name: Van der Veen, Ineke
name: Vergeer, Margaretha
Publisher: name: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Year: 2003
Subjects: PRIMA
cohortonderzoek
sociale integratie

description: Het onderwerp sociale integratie krijgt recentelijk veel aandacht, niet alleen in dewetenschap, maar ook in het beleid en maatschappelijk debat. De aanleiding daartoeis gelegen in verschillende maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen.De eerste daarvan is het groeiend aandeel allochtonen in de bevolking van Nederlanden de blijvende instroom van nieuwkomers uit zeer verschillende landen en regio’s.Een groot deel van deze groep is naar Nederlandse begrippen ‘kansarm’ (gezien hunopleidingsniveau). Tussen de autochtone bevolking en de allochtone oud- en nieuwkomersbestaan verder evidente verschillen in leefstijl, taal en cultuur. Bovendien iser sprake van een sterke concentratie van allochtone inwoners in bepaalde delen vanNederland: ze wonen en vestigen zich vooral in de Randstad, met name in de viergrote steden, en in stedelijke kernen elders in Nederland. Deze combinatie van factorenleidt tot politieke zorg over de mate en het tempo waarin allochtonen, zowel oudalsnieuwkomers, geïntegreerd (kunnen) raken in de Nederlandse samenleving. Deangst bestaat dat wanneer achterstand, achterstelling, woonconcentratie en vasthoudenaan de cultuur en gewoonten uit het herkomstland over generaties heen voortduren,de allochtone groepen gemarginaliseerd zullen raken en er situaties van uitsluitingzullen ontstaan die vergelijkbaar zijn met die in ‘zwarte’ wijken in sommigeAmerikaanse steden. Onderzoeksrapporten waarin de achterstandspositie van allochtonenin Nederland voortdurend weer bevestigd wordt, of het nu gaat om onderwijs,arbeidsmarkt of de beheersing van de Nederlandse taal, leveren de laatste jarensteeds nieuwe munitie voor het debat over de integratie van minderheden.De tweede ontwikkeling is de toenemende individualisering, waardoor ‘oude’ socialeverbanden aan betekenis verliezen en, volgens sommigen, de sociale cohesie in desamenleving afneemt. Ook hiervan worden negatieve effecten gevreesd: afnemendesociale controle, minder steun voor individuen vanuit sociale netwerken, en daardoormogelijk minder welbevinden en gevoel van ‘belonging’ enerzijds en meer agressieen onaangepast gedrag anderzijds.
MPEC 2024-E76 : 2024 EW1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EW1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Dynamic function optimisation with hybridised extremal dynamics
Creators: name: Moser, Irene
name: Chiong, Raymond
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dynamic function optimisation is an important research area because many real-world problems are inherently dynamic in nature. Over the years, a wide variety of algorithms have been proposed to solve dynamic optimisation problems, and many of these algorithms have used the Moving Peaks (MP) benchmark to test their own capabilities against other approaches. This paper presents a detailed account of our hybridised Extremal Optimisation (EO) approach that has achieved hitherto unsurpassed results on the three standardised scenarios of the MP problem. Several different components are used in the hybrid EO, and it has been shown that a large proportion of the quality of its outstanding performance is due to the local search component. In this paper, the behaviour of the local search algorithms used is analysed, and the roles of other components are discussed. In the concluding remarks, the generalisation ability of this method and its wider applicability are highlighted.
Turcinoemacheilus bahaii Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Ozulud, Geiger & Freyhof 2014
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Turcinoemacheilus
Turcinoemacheilus bahaii

description: 73. Turcinoemacheilus bahaii Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Özuluð, Geiger & Freyhof, 2014
Common name. Bahaii dwarf loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Turcinoemacheilus bahaii Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Özuluð, Geiger & Freyhof, 2014: 259, figs. 3-6, 7a [Esfahan province, Zayandeh River between Azadegan and Qalee Shahrokh, 32°40'54"N, 50°27'47"E, Iran; holotype: ZM-CBSU 7193 B].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Esmaeili et al. (2014: 259, fig. 3).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Esfahan.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 449- Esfahan.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e kotolye Bahaii.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
title: Overview: An Action Plan for Maritime Energy and Emissions Innovation
Creators: name: United States Department of Energy
name: United States Department of Transportation
name: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
name: Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97454
subject: Guidelines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96350
subject: Energy
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91294
subject: Polluting gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91299
subject: Greenhouse gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91159
subject: Climate change
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89772
subject: Sustainable transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89768
subject: Transportation planning
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87924
subject: Water transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87947
subject: Marine transit
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88310
subject: Fleet management

description: The Action Plan for Maritime Energy and Emissions Innovation (the action plan) lays out a strategy to reduce and eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. maritime sector by 2050, in line with the U.S. economy-wide goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. To reach this goal, the action plan outlines actions, objectives, targets, and activities to scale low- and net-zero emissions fuels, energies, and technologies; strengthen the maritime workforce; bolster shipbuilding capacity; and expand complementary landside infrastructure. The action plan supports industry, mariners, communities, civil society, sub-national governments, and other interested parties that will decarbonize the maritime sector alongside the U.S. government.
Parallel constraint handling in a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for the automotive deployment problem
Creators: name: Montgomery, James
name: Moser, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The component deployment problem is a complex multiobjective optimisation task faced by engineers in the automotive industry. Thus far, the best-known solutions to this problem have been achieved using the NSGA-II algorithm combined with a constraint handling method based on repairing solutions that have been rendered infeasible by the genetic operators. It can reasonably be assumed that an approach that repairs solutions immediately after a change has limited coverage of the infeasible space. Exchanging solutions with other algorithms may help enhance the search space coverage. However, we observe an improvement in performance through parallelisation only after increasing the complexity of the problem.
title: European Super League Company and the (New) Law of European Football
Creators: name: Íñiguez, Guillermo
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EU law
subject: European Super League
subject: sport law
subject: competition law
subject: free movement law
subject: European Sport Model

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2024 9(1), 1-15
description: European Forum Insight of 27 March 2024
description: I. Introduction. - II. Background to the case. - III. The Advocate General's Opinion. - IV. The Judgment. - IV.1. The Analysis Under Art. 102 TFEU. - IV.2. The Analysis Under Art. 101 TFEU. - IV.3. Freedom to Provide Services. - V. Analysis. - V.1 What Role for the "European Sport Model"? - V.2. Can the UEFA/FIFA Rules Be Objectively Justified? - V.3. Broadcasting Rights, or How to Apply the European Sport Model.- VI. Conclusion: What Next for European Sport Law?
description: In European Super League Company (ESLC), the Court of Justice was faced with a challenge against the legality of FIFA and UEFA’s prior approval scheme for the creation of, and participation in, breakaway football competitions. The Court’s judgment is lengthy and nuanced, and touches on many of the issues which have characterised the ever-growing interaction between EU law and sport. The Court of Justice holds that the lack of a clear, transparent framework for the prior approval of breakaway constitutes a violation of arts 56, 101 and 102 TFEU, but provides indications about how such practices could be justified. Other aspects of the FIFA-UEFA regulatory ecosystem – for example, the framework for the joint sale of broadcasting rights – are found to be justifiable under EU law. The judgment also provides clarifications about how sport-related considerations can feed into the analysis of the TFEU’s competition and free movement provisions.
Population-ACO for the automotive deployment problem
Creators: name: Moser, Irene
name: Montgomery, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The automotive deployment problem is a real-world constrained multiobjective assignment problem in which software components must be allocated to processing units distributed around a car's chassis. Prior work has shown that evolutionary algorithms such as NSGA-II can produce good quality solutions to this problem. This paper presents a population-based ant colony optimisation (PACO) approach that uses a single pheromone memory structure and a range of local search operators. The PACO and prior NSGA-II are compared on two realistic problem instances. Results indicate that the PACO is generally competitive with NSGA-II and performs more effectively as problem complexity---size and number of objectives---is increased.
Immunohistochemical biomarkers and FDG uptake on PET/CT in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Gregers Brünnich Rasmussen
name: Vogelius, Ivan R.
name: Rasmussen, Jacob H.
name: Schumaker, Lisa
name: Ioffe, Olga
name: Cullen, Kevin
name: Fischer, Barbara Malene
name: Therkildsen, Marianne Hamilton
name: Specht, Lena
name: Bentzen, Søren M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTBackground. There is an exciting complementarity between the spatial resolution provided by molecular imaging of a single, often unspecific, biomarker on one hand and the more detailed biological profile achievable from a diagnostic biopsy using a panel of immunohistochemical (IHC) markers on the other. A number of previous studies have shown a relationship between glucose transport protein expression and 18F-Fludeoxyglucose (FDG) PET uptake. Here, FDG uptake is analyzed in relation to expression of a selected panel of IHC cancer biomarkers in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC).Material and methods. IHC staining for Bcl-2, β-tubulin-1 and 2, p53, EGFR, Ki-67, glutathione-S-transferase-π and p16 was performed on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded diagnostic biopsies from 102 HNSCC cases treated at Rigshospitalet during 2005–2009. The proportion of positive cells was used for analyses, except p16, which was scored according to EORTC guidelines. In all cases, maximal FDG standardized uptake value (SUV) metrics were extracted for the primary tumor, TSUVmax. Univariate linear regression and multiple linear regression of TSUVmax versus IHC markers were performed.Results. In univariate analyses, TSUVmax showed negative associations with Bcl-2 (p = 0.002) and p16 (p = 0.005) indices and positive association with β-tubulin-1 index (p = 0.003). On multivariate analysis, TSUVmax remained associated with β-tubulin-1 (p = 0.009), Bcl-2 (p = 0.03) and p16 (p = 0.03). All correlations had r-squared < 0.3.Conclusion. Statistically significant correlations were observed between the expression of IHC biomarkers and maximum FDG uptake in the primary tumor.
Predictive parameter control
Creators: name: Aleti, Aldeida
name: Moser, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In stochastic optimisation, all currently employed algorithms have to be parameterised to perform effectively. Users have to rely on approximate guidelines or, alternatively, undertake extensive prior tuning. This study introduces a novel method of parameter control, i.e. the dynamic and automated variation of values for parameters used in approximate algorithms. The method uses an evaluation of the recent performance of previously applied parameter values and predicts how likely each of the parameter values is to produce optimal outcomes in the next cycle of the algorithm. The resulting probability distribution is used to determine the parameter values for the following cycle. The results of our experiments show a consistently superior performance of two very different EA algorithms when they are parameterised using the predictive parameter control method.
MPEC 2024-E77 : 2024 EX1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EX1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The 5-point Investigator’s Global Assessment (IGA) Scale: A modified tool for evaluating plaque psoriasis severity in clinical trials
Creators: name: Langley, Richard G. B.
name: Feldman, Steven R.
name: Nyirady, Judit
name: Kerkhof, Peter Van De
name: Papavassilis, Charis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biophysics

description: Background: To evaluate new psoriasis treatments, clinicians, regulators and pharmaceutical developers require well-accepted, clinically meaningful measures of disease severity. The Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score is most widely used as a primary endpoint in clinical trials, although it is not routinely used in clinical practice. Objective: Characterize a 5-point Investigator’s Global Assessment (IGA) tool and evaluate whether it meets the needs for a valid, clinically meaningful measure. Methods: A 5-point IGA tool was developed with input from regulatory authorities and clinical trial investigators involved with psoriasis drug development and evaluation. Associations between IGA 0/1 responder rates and PASI scores were evaluated using data from two phase 2 studies with the anti-interleukin (IL)-17A monoclonal antibody secukinumab (AIN457) that utilized a similar 6-point IGA. Results: The 5-point IGA has a more stringent definition for a score of 1 (“almost clear”) compared with 6-point IGA/Physician’s Global Assessment (PGA) tools used in previous trials of other biologics in moderate-to-severe psoriasis. Whereas IGA/PGA 0/1 responder rates for earlier scales are strongly associated with PASI 75, the IGA 0/1 rate for the secukinumab 6-point scale was more robust, demonstrating a strong association with PASI 90, and the results for the 5-point IGA are expected to show the same association. Discussion: The 5-point IGA is a valid measure of disease severity and meets the need for a clinically meaningful measure of success for psoriasis treatment studies.
title: Overview: An Action Plan for Rail Energy and Emissions Innovation
Creators: name: United States Department of Energy
name: United States Department of Transportation
name: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
name: Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97454
subject: Guidelines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96350
subject: Energy
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91295
subject: Exhaust gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91294
subject: Polluting gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91299
subject: Greenhouse gases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91159
subject: Climate change
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89772
subject: Sustainable transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89768
subject: Transportation planning

description: The Action Plan for Rail Energy and Emissions Innovation proposes actions to reduce and nearly eliminate emissions in the U.S. rail sector, in line with the U.S. economy-wide goal of net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. It also proposes actions to leverage the rail system to reduce emissions from other modes. The national goal of achieving a zero-emission freight system by 2050 draws our attention to the fact that freight transport cannot be addressed simply mode by mode, but it should instead be treated as an interdependent system. This is especially true when pursuing decarbonization. This action plan presents how both rail transport and decarbonization intersect with our national transportation decarbonization blueprint, the decarbonization of the freight system, and national transmission goals. The intended audience of this report is the stakeholders who will advance rail decarbonization in a just and economical way by propelling the suite of actions listed here. This includes government at all levels, rail companies, locomotive manufacturers, labor unions, Amtrak, and more.