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Global Utility Industry Still in Need of Transformation
Creators: Sharelynn Moore
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
Utilities have the unique opportunity to deploy technologies and solutions to reduce waste, revitalize infrastructure, and enhance service reliability to become more resourceful. To examine this premise, Itron released the 2015 Itron Resourcefulness Index, a global survey and benchmark that gauges resourcefulness across energy and water. The report includes a survey of utility executives and informed consumers in key markets around the globe.
Gluon Propagator and Heavy Quark Potential in an Anisotropic QCD Plasma
Creators: name: Guo, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general linear gauges are computed. We get the explicit expressions of the gluon propagator in covariant gauge, Coulomb gauge and temporal axial gauge. Considering one gluon exchange, the potential between heavy quarks is defined through the Fourier transform of the static propagator. We find that the potential exhibits angular dependence and that there is stronger attraction on distance scales on the order of the inverse Debye mass for quark pairs aligned along the direction of anisotropy than for transverse alignment.
description: 4 pages, to be published in the proceedings of SEWM 2008, Nucl. Phys. A, in print
Challenges in Feeder Interconnection of Distributed Generation: A Utility Perspective
Creators: Hamed Ahmadi
Aaron Ellis and Jose R. Marti
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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In this article, an overview of some of the relevant issues in interconnection of distributed generation (DG) in distribution systems is provided. The issues discussed are related to voltage management in feeders with multiple DGs, voltage regulators, and other voltage/VAR control equipment. The possibility of multiple voltage management controllers interfering with each other in performing their actions is emphasized. The authors intend to bring the researchers' attention to these challenges and encourage further investigations.
Universal linear-temperature dependence of static magnetic susceptibility in iron-pnictides
Creators: name: Zhang, Guang-Ming
name: Su, Yue-Hua
name: Lu, Zhong-Yi
name: Weng, Zheng-Yu
name: Lee, Dung-Hai
name: Xiang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A universal linear-temperature dependence of the uniform magnetic susceptibility has been observed in the nonmagnetic normal state of iron-pnictides. This non-Pauli and non-Curie-Weiss-like paramagnetic behavior cannot be understood within a pure itinerant picture. We argue that it results from the existence of a wide antiferromagnetic fluctuation window in which the local spin-density-wave correlations exist but the global directional order has not been established yet.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Der Einfluss der Finanzkrise 2008 auf das medial vermittelte Bild von Banken
Creators: name: Born, Marlen
Year: 2013

description: Die Magisterarbeit richtet ihren Fokus auf die massenmediale Berichterstattung während der Finanzkrise mit konkretem Bezug auf die Banken als zentrale Akteure. Es soll analysiert werden, welches Bild von den Banken über die „Meinungsmacher“ Journalisten gezeichnet wird, wie es sich durch die Finanzkrise geändert hat und welche Basis daraus für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit resultiert. Denn Medien vermitteln Vertrauen und journalistische Produkte bilden die Grundlage für die individuelle Meinungsbildung. Gegenstand der empirischen Untersuchung sollen redaktionelle Beiträge aus drei österreichischen und drei deutschen Wochenmagazinen sein, die jeweils in der ersten Jahreshälfte 2008 und 2010 publiziert wurden. In theoretischer Hinsicht stützt sich die Magisterarbeit auf zwei Pfeiler: Einerseits die „Theorie des öffentlichen Vertrauens“ nach Günter Bentele, andererseits die „Verständigungsorientierung“ nach Roland Burkart.
Aufgenommen in die empirische Untersuchung wurden 62 Artikel: 32 aus dem Jahr 2008 und 30 aus 2010 – diese wurden bewusst nach deren „Brauchbarkeit“ ausgewählt. Im Rahmen der zeitlich-vergleichenden Kommunikationsforschung kam eine quantifizierende qualitative Inhaltsanalyse in Form einer Analysekombination der beiden theoretischen Ansätze zum Einsatz. Es wurden sowohl sieben Vertrauensdimensionen je nach Gewicht und Bewertung im Artikel und kommunikative Diskrepanzen als auch die Diskursindikatoren wie geäußerte Zweifel und Lösungsvorschläge erhoben.
Betrachtet man öffentliches Vertrauen als Bündel der verschiedenen Vertrauensdimensionen kann man schlussfolgern, dass die Banken durch die mediale Berichterstattung über die Finanzkrise 2008 durchaus Vertrauensverluste erlitten. Bei den Zweifeln dominieren in beiden Jahreshälften jene an der Richtigkeit (Legitimität), gefolgt von Zweifeln an der Wahrhaftigkeit. Die Artikel vermitteln ein problematisches Verhältnis der Banken insbesondere in Bezug auf geltende Normen und Werte, die herrschende Moral, aber auch Gesetze. Die Berichterstattung der Wochenmagazine trägt alles in allem dazu bei, dass Banken während und insbesondere im Endstadium der Finanzkrise eher vertrauenshemmende Eigenschaften zugeschrieben werden.
Die Rolle des Construal Levels bei der Fokussierung der visuellen Aufmerksamkeit bei Impulskäuferinnen
Creators: name: Rinder, Natascha
Year: 2013

description: Recent empirical studies indicate clear evidence that compulsive buyers are more likely than noncompulsive buyers to get distracted by products that are unrelated to their shopping goal, caused by a lack of self control. There are different capabilities to enhance self-control such as to concentrate on keeping goals in mind - more precisely, to keep in mind how goals were mentally construed and activated.. The activation of a goal at an abstract level of construal should lead to more self control than the activation of a goal at a concrete level of construal. To investigate how compulsive buyers are influenced by the construal level on their visual attention by activating one of their goals, this work examined the impact of the construal level theory by means of an eyetracking task in a simulated shopping situation. The results of a study with 69 women showed that compulsive buyers increased their self control through construal level manipulation and showed more visual attention toward the focal product. Contrary to the assumption that only women in the high level condition increase their self control and attention, women in both construal level conditions showed a better performance in the visual attention test.
description: Studien belegen, dass sich ImpulskäuferInnen im Gegensatz zu Nicht-ImpulskäuferInnen aufgrund mangelnder Selbstkontrolle leichter von irrelevanten Reizen ablenken lassen und sich nicht auf ihr eigentliches Einkaufsziel konzentrieren. Da die mentale Konstruktion eines Zieles auf einer abstrakten Ebene zu einer Erhöhung der Selbstkontrolle führt, wurde in der vorliegenden Studie der Einfluss des Construal Levels auf die visuelle Aufmerksamkeit bei Impulskäuferinnen mittels Eyetracking untersucht. Die Ergebnisse der 69 teilnehmenden Frauen zeigen, dass Personen in der Kontrollgruppe höhere Werte auf der Impulskaufskala erreichten und kürzer auf den fokalen Reiz sahen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auch, dass Impulskäuferinnen im Shopping-Kontext durch die unbewusste Aktivierung von Selbstkontrolle im Zuge einer Construal Level-Manipulation ihre visuelle Aufmerksamkeit auf den fokalen Reiz stärker fokussierten. Bei Frauen die nicht zu Impulskäufen tendieren, zeigte die Manipulation wenig Wirkung. Entgegen der Annahme, dass verstärkt bei Impulskäuferinnen die Ereignisse auf einem High Level of Construal repräsentieren eine Erhöhung der Aufmerksamkeitsfokussierung stattfindet, hatte die Art der Ebene – abstrakt oder konkret – keinen Einfluss.
The Discipline of Grid Architecture for Utilities, Public Policy Makers, and Stakeholders
Creators: Jeffery D. Taft
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Traditional methods of understanding grid interactions are increasingly insufficient for the 21st Century grid. The discipline of grid architecture treats the grid as a Network of Structures with ultra-large scale complexity. This provides a means to help all stakeholders understand the impact of changes across the grid infrastructure, controls, industry structure, communications, markets, and more.
A Vision of a Smart, Happy, Citizen as an Enabling Infrastructure for Smart Cities
Creators: Roberto Saracco
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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The city of the future will be self-aware, much like a second being. These cities will be able to reconfigure themselves, based on what's happening, and what might happen, in the immediate future. A global perception exists that our cities can benefit from technology advances, as so many products and services have, and these in turn can help answer the growing challenges of resource management, economics constraints, and social issues they are facing.
Microgrids Design, Operational Management and Perspectives
Creators: Roberto Saracco
Federico Delfino
Michela Robba and Mansueto Rossi
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Microgrids with local controllers and a variety of generation units (tri-generation, renewables), storage systems (electrical, thermal) and loads (residential buildings, offices, electrical vehicles, etc.) represent a challenge for the development of business models, strategies and approaches for local optimal scheduling, and demand response programs, and can contribute to delivering services to distribution system operators in a smart city.
title: Natural Built Social Environment Health, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Volume 1 Issue 2 2025
title: Volume 1 Issue 2 2025
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Natural Built Social Environment Health
Publisher: name: Natural Built Social Environment Health
Year: 2025

description: Research Handbook on Plastics Regulation: Law, Policy and the Environment, edited by Elizabeth A. Kirk, Naporn Popattanachai, Richard Barnes, and Eva R. van der Marel, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, 480 pp., £190.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-80220-151-2; eISBN: 978-1-80220-152-9
Exploring the Potential of Codium sp. Algal Residues as a Biofertilizer to Enhance Bean Plant Growth in Sustainable Agriculture
Smart Grid Test Facility: An Educational Tool for Power Engineering Students
Creators: Marissa Petersile
Christopher Powers
Tim Leung
Suleyman Kahyaoglu and Jeremy Kramer
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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The Smart Grid Test Facility is an educational tool for engineering students, providing an environment for testing and demonstrations regarding the power grid. This system was designed and constructed by a team of five students at Boston University within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Transactive Control -- What''s in a Name?
Creators: Anuradha Annaswamy and Thomas Nudell
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
The idea of embedding economic markets into the electric grid to efficiently integrate renewable energy resources and move toward a smart grid is a hot topic today. The underlying concept is frequently referred to as Transactive Control or Transactive Energy. With intense investigations being carried out by various technical communities on smart grid and renewable energy integration, there's a strong need to delineate what these names represent so that there's clarity and utility in these definitions and terminologies.
Hygienebedingungen ausgewählter Wiener Apotheken in einer Feldstudie
Creators: name: Vogel, Bernhard
Year: 2013

description: Die grundlegende Idee zu dieser Diplomarbeit kam von der Leiterin der Landesgeschäftsstelle Wien der Apothekerkammer. Ausgearbeitet und durchgeführt wurde sie am Department für Pharmakologie in Zusammenarbeit mit Herrn Ao. Prof. Dr. Christian Studenik und Gregor Stanek.
Mit Hilfe eines Fragebogens wurde der Ist – Zustand bezüglich der Hygiene erhoben und die Ansichten der ApothekerInnen zu diesem Thema erfragt. Um eine größere Menge an Apotheken zu besuchen, wurde Wien in zwei Teile aufgeteilt und von je einem Studenten bearbeitet. Ich übernahm den süd – westlichen Teil Wiens.
Um den Blick dafür zu schärfen, warum ein hoher Hygienestandard auch in Apotheken nötig ist, werden in der Einleitung einige wichtige Mikroorganismen, die pathogen für den Menschen sein können, angeführt. Unter anderem gehören Bakterien, wie die Gruppe der Staphylokokken dazu. Diese kommen bei vielen gesunden Menschen auf den Schleimhäuten vor und können bei geschwächtem Immunsystem pathogen werden. Dabei sind Resistenzen ein großes Problem. Ein weiterer sehr häufig auftretender Keim ist Heliobacter pylori. Er kommt bei der Hälfte der 50 jährigen Menschen in der Magenschleimhaut vor und kann zu schweren Erkrankungen führen.
Neben den Bakterien können auch andere Mikroorganismen wie Pilze oder Viren zu Infektionen führen. Bei den Pilzen wäre die Gattung Candida zu nennen. Unter den wichtigen Viren sind die Influenzaviren, Auslöser der Grippe, das HI Virus, gegen das es noch keine Therapie zur vollständigen Eradikation gibt, und diverse Herpes Viren, die zu mehr oder weniger schweren Erkrankungen führen können, zu nennen.
Die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen für Apotheken, auch die Hygiene betreffend, sind in der Apothekenbetriebsordnung, die im Apothekengesetz und im Arzneimittelgesetz verankert ist, und in verschiedenen Hygienevorschriften, die von der Magistratsabteilung 15 der Stadt Wien beschlossen werden, festgelegt. In manchen Bereichen sind die Vorschriften recht allgemein gehalten, was einen großen Spielraum zulässt und die Eigenverantwortung des Apothekers / der Apothekerin benötigt. In anderen Bereichen wiederum gelten sehr strikte Regeln, die teilweise an Hygienestandards in Krankenhäusern erinnern.
Überprüft werden die Hygienebedingungen in den Apotheken durch sogenannte Visitationen, die von der Magistratsabteilung 15 der Stadt Wien durchgeführt werden. Jede Apotheke hat zumindest alle fünf Jahre eine Visitation.
Gemeinsam mit den ApothekerInnen wurde der Fragebogen ausgefüllt. Dieser wurde natürlich anonym behandelt, um einen möglichst hohen Grad an Ehrlichkeit bei der Beantwortung der Fragen zu erhalten. Immerhin 49 der 54 besuchten Apotheken haben sich bereit erklärt daran teilzunehmen. Die Antworten wurden anschließend ausgewertet.
Anhand von 10 von Apotheken bereitgestellten Probefläschchen wurde getestet, ob Augentropfen steril sind, wenn sie auch nicht unter dem Laminar Air Flow hergestellt werden. Alle waren frei von mikrobielle Kontamination.
Bursts of low-energy electron-positron pairs in TeV-range collider physics
Creators: name: Giacosa, Francesco
name: Hofmann, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter we investigate the possible emission of low-energy electron neutrinos and electron-positron pairs of anomalously large multiplicity in close-to-central $pp$ collisions at LHC. The scenario is based on confining SU(2) Yang-Mills dynamics of Hagedorn temperature $\sim m_e=511 $keV being responsible for the emergence of the lightest lepton family and the weak interactions of the Standard Model. Although cut off by LHC's detectors these electrons-positron bursts would be seen indirectly by a large defect energy and thus an anomalously strong decrease of events with interesting high-energy secondaries for increasing $\sqrt{s}$ . This is because the formation of superconducting (preconfining) SU(2) hot-spots `steals' a large fraction of $\sqrt{s}$ subsequently transferring it to a thermal spectrum of electron neutrinos, electrons, and positrons liberated through evaporation. We thus propose the detection of electrons and positrons of kinetic energy $\sim m_e$ and photons of energy $\sim 2 m_e$.
description: 7 pages and 2 figures
Homosexualität als Asylgrund
Creators: name: Zauner, Agnes
Year: 2013

description: Die Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich im Kern mit den Problematiken, die entstehen, wenn eine Person aufgrund von Verfolgung wegen ihrer sexuellen Orientierung um Asyl ansucht. Diese Problematiken sind das „discretion requirement“, die Glaubwürdigkeit, Klischees und Stereotype,  Bisexualität, das Konstrukt des „coming out“ und neoliberale Subjektivierung.
Den theoretischen Rahmen bilden Queer Theory und Intersektionelle Theorien. Die Analyse findet vorrangig anhand von Fällen des österreichischen Asylgerichtshofs statt. Auch internationale Fälle werden eingebunden. Dabei werden Gesetze, Regelungen, Praktiken und Standards auf internationaler, österreichischer und EU-Ebene analysiert.
Zudem wird ein Überblick über die Entstehung und die geschichtliche Entwicklung des Asylrechts und der Gleichstellungsbestrebungen in Österreich und international gegeben. Auf der internationalen und der europäischen Ebene sind vor allem die jungsten Richtlinien des UNHCR und der Europäischen Union von Bedeutung; diese werden ausführlich in einem eigenen Kapitel behandelt. Zum Schluss werden in der Arbeit noch Perspektiven aufgezeigt wie sich der Umgang von Staaten und Gerichten mit dem Thema Homosexualität und Asyl in Zukunft entwickeln könnte.
Momente der Transgression?
Creators: name: Selzer, Julia Katharina
Year: 2013

description: Transgression wird im Folgenden appliziert auf die Idee einer über die kulturellen Ausgangsformen hinausgehenden durch kreative Arbeit erzeugten künstlerischen Errungenschaft, die als innovativer Beitrag die bisherige Geschichte der Kunst ergänzt. Die vorliegende Studie betrachtet eine Auswahl politischer Werke des sizilianischen Künstlers Renato Guttuso (1911-1987), welche sich durch einen spezifischen Umgang mit der kunstgeschichtlichen Vergangenheit und der zeitgenössischen Avantgarde auszeichnen. Zeitlich berührt dies Werke ab Ende der 1930er, in denen Guttusos soziale und politische Vorstellungen erstmals Eingang in seine Bilder fanden. Das sich in ihnen abzeichnende Verhältnis von Tradition und Innovation, wird einer eingehenden Analyse unterzogen, bei der über das Aufzeigen formaler wie ikonographischer Provenienzen einzelner Motive und Bilderfindungen nach Strategien der Verbildlichung, Gestaltungsprinzipien sowie einer sich ableitenden Methodik gesucht wird. Guttuso verteidigte stets die gesellschaftlichen, ästhetischen und politischen Möglichkeiten der Malerei und bekannte sich zu einer realistischen Formensprache. Die sich im Zuge des Kalten Krieges manifestierende Identifizierung ästhetischer Konzepte mit politischen Systemen, führte in Westeuropa neben der Ächtung der Sowjetunion auch zur Ablehnung des von ihr beförderten politischen Realismus. Die engagierte Kunst Guttusos wurde von den Kritikern seiner Gegenwart entsprechend beständig sowohl politische Vereinnahmung, als auch ausgeprägtes Epigonentum vorgeworfen – es wird zu prüfen sein, ob diese Vorwürfe von einem objektiven Standpunkt aus und mit historischer Distanz haltbar bleiben.
Field Dependence of the Ground State in the Exotic Superconductor CeCoIn$_5$: a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation
Creators: name: Koutroulakis, G.
name: Mitrović, V. F.
name: Horvatić, M.
name: Berthier, C.
name: Lapertot, G.
name: Flouquet, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report $^{115}$In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in CeCoIn$_5$ at low temperature ($T \approx 70$ mK) as a function of magnetic field ($H_0$) from 2 T to 13.5 T applied perpendicular to the $\hat c$-axis. NMR line shift reveals that below 10 T the spin susceptibility increases as $\sqrt{H_0}$. We associate this with an increase of the density of states due to the Zeeman and Doppler-shifted quasiparticles extended outside the vortex cores in a d-wave superconductor. Above 10 T a new superconducting state is stabilized, possibly the modulated phase predicted by Fulde, Ferrell, Larkin and Ovchinnikov (FFLO). This phase is clearly identified by a strong and linear increase of the NMR shift with the field, before a jump at the first order transition to the normal state.
description: 4 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Activated carbon nanospheres as high-power and -energy supercapacitor electrodes
Creators: name: Ratnayaka, Akash
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supercapacitors have seen significant study as an additional electrochemical energy storage technology. Due in large part to their high specific power, they have seen growing application for rapid energy storage, or for the delivery of large bursts of power in a short amount of time. However, there is still a desire to enhance their specific energy without sacrificing that specific power. In this work, the synthesis and novel use of activated carbon spheres between 300 and 400 nm with an exceptionally high specific surface area of 2972 m2/g were used as electrode materials for supercapacitors. When this material was used in an aqueous symmetric device, specific energies of up to 10.59 Wh/kg were obtained at a high specific power of 5.15 kW/kg. This performance was achieved with less than 1% capacitance loss over 10,000 galvanostatic charge-discharge cycles. Finally, a novel and facile electrodeposition of manganese oxide using potassium permanganate solution was described. The technique was found to have a high degree of uniformity in deposition, and the ability to tune the thickness of the deposition layer. The manganese oxide deposited was characterised using a range of techniques and found to behave closely to that of birnessite-type manganese oxide. When deposited onto electrodes with activated carbon spheres, the manganese oxide layer conformed to the spherical surface well. These activated carbon sphere-manganese oxide core-shell electrodes were used in asymmetric two-electrode pseudocapacitors where a specific energy of 5.24 Wh/kg at a specific power of 819 W/kg was achieved.
An optimal network for passenger traffic
Creators: name: Nandi, A. K.
name: Bhattacharya, K.
name: Manna, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optimal solution of an inter-city passenger transport network has been studied using Zipf's law for the city populations and the Gravity law describing the fluxes of inter-city passenger traffic. Assuming a fixed value for the cost of transport per person per kilometer we observe that while the total traffic cost decreases, the total wiring cost increases with the density of links. As a result the total cost to maintain the traffic distribution is optimal at a certain link density which vanishes on increasing the network size. At a finite link density the network is scale-free. Using this model the air-route network of India has been generated and an one-to-one comparison of the nodal degree values with the real network has been made.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Conductance quantization and transport gap in disordered graphene nanoribbons
Creators: name: Mucciolo, Eduardo R.
name: Neto, Antonio H. Castro
name: Lewenkopf, Caio H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to localization induced by edge scattering. We find that even for weak edge roughness, conductance steps are suppressed and transport gaps appear. These gaps are approximately inversely proportional to the nanoribbon width. On/off conductance ratios grow exponentially with the nanoribbon length. Our results impose severe limitations to the use of graphene in ballistic nanowires.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures; references added, typos fixed, to appear in Phys. Rev B
Fattori posizionali nella metatesi del sardo sud-occidentale
Creators: name: Lai, Rosangela
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2014

description: This paper aims to provide a descriptive and theoretical account of a Southern Sardinian metathesis in terms of lateral relations. Assuming the tenets of the CVCV model (Lowenstamm 1996; Scheer 2004), also known as Strict CV, it has been argued that the structural conditions required for the application of metathesis are related to the positional effects of government and licensing on liquids. The basic claim here is that the metathesis under investigation is the effect of the structural conditions experienced by liquids in weak position: metathesis does not apply to liquids in strong position, while weak positions make metathesis possible.
description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, VIII 2 (2013)
Additional file 2 of Assessing transferability in systematic reviews of health economic evaluations – a review of methodological guidance
Creators: name: Weise, Alina
name: Büchter, Roland Brian
name: Pieper, Dawid
name: Mathes, Tim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Assessment Approach Concepts.
$1$-string $B_2$-VPG representation of planar graphs
Creators: name: Biedl, Therese
name: Derka, Martin
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2016

description: In this paper, we prove that every planar graph has a 1-string $B_2$-VPG representation—a string representation using paths in a rectangular grid that contain at most two bends. Furthermore, two paths representing vertices $u,v$ intersect precisely once whenever there is an edge between $u$ and $v$. We also show that only a subset of the possible curve shapes is necessary to represent $4$-connected planar graphs.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016): Special Issue of Selected Papers from SoCG 2015
MSSM with Dimension-five Operators (MSSM_5)
Creators: name: Antoniadis, I.
name: Dudas, E.
name: Ghilencea, D. M.
name: Tziveloglou, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a general analysis of the R-parity conserving dimension-five operators that can be present beyond the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Not all these operators are actually independent. We present a method which employs spurion-dependent field redefinitions that removes this "redundancy" and establishes the minimal, irreducible set of these dimension-five operators. Their potential effects on the MSSM Higgs sector are discussed to show that the tree level bound $m_h\leq m_Z$ cannot be easily lifted within the approximations used, and quantum corrections are still needed to satisfy the LEPII bound. An ansatz is provided for the structure of the remaining couplings in the irreducible set of D=5 operators, which avoids phenomenological constraints from flavor changing neutral currents. The minimal set of operators brings new couplings in the effective Lagrangian, notably "wrong"-Higgs Yukawa couplings and contact fermion-fermion-scalar-scalar interactions, whose effects are expected to be larger than those generated in the MSSM at loop or even tree level. This has implications in particular for LHC searches for supersymmetry by direct squark production.
description: 42 pages, LaTeX; (added references, corrected typos)
Technology Battery Advances for Smart Grids
Creators: Dr. Lucia Gauchia
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Energy storage systems are increasingly recognized as a key element for smart grids. It comes at a time where batteries in particular are already dominating the portable devices and transportation sectors. It is noteworthy to mention how both sectors are being influenced by their higher electrification, and the increased flexibility they offer to consumers. This enhanced flexibility is a key feature for smart grid applications, where storage systems can participate as distributed energy systems in microgrids, increase energy resiliency for consumers and also shift their role from passive consumers to active partners.
Discounted cash flow analysis and relative valuation
Creators: name: Haxhiaj, Ardit
Year: 2013

description: Diese Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über die Anwendbarkeit von Instrumenten und Methoden der Unternehmensbewertung in der Praxis. Der Fokus liegt auf eine börsennotierte österreichische Aktiengesellschaft: „S&T AG“. Grundsätzlich werden zwei Instrumenten beschrieben und im Detail präsentiert: die DCF Bewertung und das Multiplikatoren-Verfahren. Die gesamte Arbeit wird von der Perspektive eines Investors betrachtet, dem ausschließlich öffentliche Information zur Verfügung steht. Die Annahmen, die der Investor von einer allgemeinen bis zu einer detaillierten Bewertung treffen kann, werden auch beschrieben. Gegenüberstellungen zwischen den Instrumenten, Methoden, Modellen und Komponenten werden fernerhin erläutert.
Der Vergleich zwischen den Instrumenten konzentriert sich insbesondere auf die Vor- und Nachteile der DCF Bewertung gegenüber dem Multiplikatoren-Verfahren. Es wird gezeigt, dass der letzte Instrument, obwohl er bezüglich der Zeit, effizienter ist, keinesfalls als Ersatz für die DCF Bewertung dienen soll. Hingegen soll das Multiplikatoren-Verfahren die Plausibilität der Ergebnisse der DCF Bewertung unterstützen.
Im Rahmen der DCF Bewertung, werden die WACC-Methode, APV-Methode, FTE-Methode und DDM-Methode betrachtet. Es ist wichtig zu erwähnen, dass die APV-Methode und insbesondere die WACC-Methode bessere Ergebnisse als die zwei andere Methoden liefern, wenn sie anwendbar sind. Andererseits werden in Rahmen der Multiplikatoren-Verfahren zwei Multiples dargestellt und analysiert: EV/EBITA und das Kurs-Buchwert-Verhältnis (PBV). Es wird gezeigt, dass die Multiples alleine zu Fehlentscheidungen führen können und deshalb ist oft eine Regressionsanalyse notwendig, bei dem auch die grundlegende abhängige Faktoren betrachtet werden sollten.
Innerhalb der Methoden werden die einzelne Modelle und Komponente spezifisch analysiert. Im Hinblick auf die DCF Bewertung, werden die Modelle für die Ermittlung der Eigenkapitalkosten, des systematischen Risikos, des optimalen Verschuldungsgrades, der Fremdkapitalkosten, der Ermittlung der FCF, des Endwertes etc. erklärt.
Schließlich wird der Prozess der Berechnung von dem endgültigen Wert der Aktie und überdies das Entscheidungstreffen über die Investition, dargestellt.
Storage in Unpriced Utility Applications - Finding Value
Creators: Mike Jacobs
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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New energy storage technologies can make electric grids better, but the absence of industry-recognized safety and performance standards is delaying development of this potential. Three examples from Hawaii, the mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM, and New York City illustrate how opportunities and benefits of battery deployment are inhibited by lack of understanding between vendors, customers, and third-party stakeholders. Addressing this communication gap is likely to be useful for a wide assortment of smart-grid technologies.
title: Richmond Racial Equity Essays: 24 Visions for Racial Equity in Richmond
Creators: name: Walden, Ebony
name: Gough, Meghan Z.
Publisher: name: Richmond Racial Equity Essays
Year: 2021

description: A collection of essays on creating racial equity in Richmond, Virginia. Using The Just City Essays as a model, urban planner and consultant Ebony Walden collaborated with Dr. Meghan Gough from VCU's Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and urban farmer and activist Duron Chavis to create a similar collection of essays along with seven video interviews and an eight-episode podcast series focused on racial equity In Richmond, Virginia. We hope to capture voices from all walks of life and sectors in Richmond, from activists to academics, representing the diversity of the Richmond community. The goal is to explore what an equitable Richmond looks like, especially as it relates to racial equity, and to highlight the strategies that will help us get there. We’d like the ideas from the essays and videos to create a solid framework for advancing racial equity in Richmond.
Distribution System State Estimation Will Impact Operation of the Smart Grid
Creators: Arash Alimardani
Francis Therrien
Djordje Atanackovic
Juri Jatskevich and Ebrahim Vaahedi
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Significant resources are being deployed to enable the future smart grid. To help achieve this ambitious objective, distribution management systems (DMS) are expected to provide a growing number of applications, including real-time control and monitoring, distribution transformer usage optimization, volt/VAr control, feeder reconfiguration and restoration, control of switches and reclosers, demand side management, and capacitor switching. The interconnection of distributed generation and renewable energy sources, which is crucial for enabling the future smart grid, also poses new challenges, such as the occurrence of overvoltages at the distribution level. Since distribution system state estimation (DSSE) provides the initial state/condition of numerous DMS applications (including real-time monitoring), its accuracy and reliability will have a significant impact on the operation of the future grid.
Cultural Infrastructure of the Utility of the Future
Creators: Shay Bahramirah and Joseph E. Svachula
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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The grid is becoming smarter as the nature of energy generation is changing. Small scale solar installations, as well as utility-scale wind and solar farms, have begun to complement large coal, gas, and oil-fired power plants. But the energy revolution of the 21st Century isn't just about new fuels and localized energy generation; it's also about the changing role of utility companies, their employees, and the consumers interactions with utilities. In other words, the grid is being turned inside out not only by new sources of energy, but also by new ways of deploying and using energy.
Genetic diversity of Eragrostis tef accessions collected from acid soil-affected areas and cross-amplification of SSR markers linked to Al-toxicity tolerance in cereals
Creators: name: Abate, Ermias
name: Shimelis, Hussein
name: Amelework, Assefa
name: Mengistu, Fentahun
name: Laing, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
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
subject: Plant Biology

description: The aim of this study was to assess the extent of genetic diversity among and within tef populations collected from acid-affected soils in Ethiopia, and to test the cross-amplification of markers linked to Al-toxicity tolerance in other cereals. Forty-two tef genotypes were studied using 33 highly polymorphic SSRs. About 55% of the amplified putative alleles were effective in discriminating the genotypes. The mean PIC value was 0.66, suggesting that the majority of the markers had high discriminatory power. The population structure analysis revealed the presence of two genetically distinct populations and clearly distinguished landraces from the rest. A significant difference in genetic diversity parameters was observed between the two inferred populations. The landraces consistently had higher values for all of the diversity parameters and had contrastingly a higher value of private alleles. The AMOVA showed highly significant (P = 0.001) genetic variation among tef populations and among genotypes, with variance contribution of 17% and 67%, respectively. Eighty-two percent of the Al-toxicity tolerance markers amplified 84 alleles. This finding suggests the possibility of in-situ preservation of rare alleles that may confer acid tolerance through the improvement of available landraces in acid affected soils. Thus, urgent efforts are needed to collect accessions from areas with acid-affected soils.
Atrial Fibrillation: A Medical and Technological Review
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Samayan
name: Shahnawaz, Sk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of arrhythmia (Greek a-, loss + rhythmos, rhythm = loss of rhythm) leading to hospitalization in the United States. Though sometimes AF is asymptomatic, it increases the risk of stroke and heart failure in patients, in addition to lowering the health-related quality of life (HRQOL). AF-related care costs the healthcare system between $6.0 to $26 billion each year. Early detection of AF and clinical attention can help improve symptoms and HRQOL of the patient, as well as bring down the cost of care. However, the prevalent paradigm of AF detection depends on electrocardiogram (ECG) recorded at a single point in time and does not shed light on the relation of the symptoms with heart rhythm or AF. In the recent decade, due to the democratization of health monitors and the advent of high-performing computers, Machine Learning algorithms have been proven effective in identifying AF, from the ECG of patients. This paper provides an overview of the symptoms of AF, its diagnosis, and future prospects for research in the field.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Banking on the Smart Grid
Creators: Doug Houseman
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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When is electricity like money? The answer might be when you think of the smart grid as a debit card, complete with fees. That's because the grid is rapidly becoming a bank for energy, something it was not designed to be. The banking capability of the grid will make a huge difference for people in the future as distributed energy resources (DER) become more important. In this discussion our units will not be dollars, but rather Kilowatt hours (KWh).
Slicing and Dicing Smart Grid Data
Creators: Christos Polyzois
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Capturing all the benefits of the smart grid will require vast amounts of information to be communicated, collected, and processed. It will only be manageable if some basic differences between types of data are recognized and respected. Some information needs to be consulted frequently and in large quantities, but only locally, by the consumer; other information can be broadcast.
Multiple interactions between murine cytomegalovirus and mouse lymphoid cells in vitro
Creators: name: Loh, Lambert C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Swiss white mice and C3H/HeJ mice were used occasionally. It was shown that in vitro infection resulted in the formation of infectious centers in only a small percentage of the spleen cell population even at high multiplicities of infection, when a proportionately higher number of virus particles were being taken up by the cells. Virus could be rescued from some of these infected cells by co-cultivation with susceptible mouse embryo fibroblasts, and the emerging infectious virus particles were detectable 40-50 hours after the start of co-cultivation. It appeared that allogeneic stimulation was not essential to virus rescue in our in vitro system, for both syngeneic and allogeneic mouse embryo fibroblasts were equally efficient in effecting virus reactivation from infected spleen cells. A fraction of the infected spleen cells was capable of supporting spontaneous MCMV replication. Such replication was not affected by incubation with the mitogens Con A or LPS prior to or after infection with the virus. However, the presence of an increased number of activated T cells due to Con A stimulation possibly inhibited virus replication to a certain extent. Virus replication was also reduced in the absence of some heat-labile factor in the fetal calf serum. Cell separation techniques such as nylon wool column adherence, plastic adherence, anti-serum treatment and y-xay irradiation, showed that macrophage-like cells were probably involved in harboring MCMV in a latent state although spontaneous replication did take place to a limited extent in such cells. Another cell fraction, with B-cell-like properties, was capable of supporting spontaneous MCMV replication. Another effect of in vitro MCMV infection on spleen cells was their suppressive effect on the mitogenic responses of such cells. Preliminary evidence suggested that the defective con A response might be mediated by macrophages exposed to MCMV. Moreover, the immunosuppressive effect could only be observed after exposure to infectious virus particles, and the degree of suppression of mitogen responses could be increased by using higher multiplicities of infection. In certain cases, a slight stimulatory effect on the spleen cells was observed about 30 hours after infection. In summary, the spleen cell population contained cell fractions that were capable of harboring MCMV in a latent state and supporting spontaneous viral replication. In addition, the mitogenic responses of infected cells were impaired.
Disruption Becomes Evolution: Creating the Value-Based Utility
Creators: Bob Barker
Andy Bochman
Andres Carvallo
Bruce Hamilton
Erfan Ibrahim and Dr. Mani Vadari
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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New business models and cutting edge technologies such as distributed solar and CHP, demand response, microgrids, energy storage, electric vehicles, cyber-security, advanced wholesale markets, and new competitive retail markets are all impacting the traditional regulated utility industry. Generation, grid operations, and wholesale and retail energy sales are being transformed by innovation and competition, forcing utilities faster than ever to make critical choices about business models and technologies.
Controlled traffic farming delivers improved agronomic performance of wheat as a result of enhanced rainfall and fertiliser nitrogen use efficiency
Creators: name: Hussein, Mahmood A.
name: Antille, Diogenes L.
name: Kodur, Shreevatsa
name: Chen, Guangnan
name: Tullberg, Jeff N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study investigated the agronomic response and economic return of wheat grown in compacted and non-compacted soils to represent the conditions of non-controlled (non-CTF) and controlled traffic (CTF) systems, respectively. Yield-to-nitrogen responses were derived after application of urea, DMPP-treated urea, and UAN at rates between 0 and 300 kg ha−1 N. Soil properties were measured to guide parametrisation of APSIM, which was used to assess long-term (50 years) effects of CTF and non-CTF soil conditions on crop productivity, rainfall-use efficiency (RUE) and surface runoff. Grain yield and yield components were significantly higher in CTF compared with non-CTF. When N inputs were optimised, N use efficiency (NUE) was more than double in CTF (≈23%) compared with non-CTF (≈9%). RUE was about 15% higher in CTF, which concurrently reduced the amount of surface runoff compared with non-CTF. For years with average rainfall (240-mm in-crop), yield penalties of up 12% may be expected in non-CTF. APSIM simulations showed that increased productivity, and inter-annual yield stability, can increase gross margin of wheat by AUD30-50 ha−1 depending on in-crop rainfall and the tillage method used. In non-CTF systems, improvements in NUE and RUE are constrained by soil compaction. Enhanced efficiency fertilizers cannot compensate for other stresses caused by compaction and therefore cannot achieve the same NUE and RUE as the CTF system. Adoption of CTF in water-constrained environments improves profitability and resource-use efficiency.
Additional file 3 of Assessing transferability in systematic reviews of health economic evaluations – a review of methodological guidance
Creators: name: Weise, Alina
name: Büchter, Roland Brian
name: Pieper, Dawid
name: Mathes, Tim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Assessment Criteria.
Development of Training Intiatives within each University
Creators: name: Baldacchino, Godfrey
name: Drago, Aldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: traninig initiatives
open science

description: Report provides a coordinated training effort on Open Science in the respective SEA-EU universities. The training activities are executed through the support of designated Open Science Ambassadors, following a common training plan. The activities are intended to favour the practice of Open Science and Open Research Data, especially by academics, researchers and students, and supported by administrative and technical staff, to enhance the visibility, impact and dissemination of the research developed in the Alliance, following principles, protocols and practices in favour of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) data.
On the Measurement Chain in Hybrid State Estimation
Creators: Mihaela Ablu
Elias Kyriakides and Markos Asprou
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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One of the main features of a future smart grid implementation is the reliable and efficient operation of the power system through better monitoring and control solutions. In these attempts, the contemporary Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is in a transient period, evolving into a Wide Area Monitoring and Control (WAMC) system. The main feature of this evolutionary system is the incorporation of methodologies that rely on the Synchronized Measurement Technology (SMT) that provides a more accurate visualization of the power system operating condition. Among these methodologies, the state estimator is the original application of the SMT.
Light Vector Mesons
Creators: name: Milov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews the current status of experimental results obtained in the measurement of light vector mesons produced in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions at different energies. The review is focused on two phenomena related to the light vector mesons; the modification of the spectral shape in search of Chiral symmetry restoration and suppression of the meson production in heavy ion collisions. The experimental results show that the spectral shape of light vector mesons are modified compared to the parameters measured in vacuum. The nature and the magnitude of the modification depends on the energy density of the media in which they are produced. The suppression patterns of light vector mesons are different from the measurements of other mesons and baryons. The mechanisms responsible for the suppression of the mesons are not yet understood. Systematic comparison of existing experimental results points to the missing data which may help to resolve the problem.
description: 7 pages 6 figures. Talk given at HP2008 in La Toja, Spain