cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kollektivfeltet – kampen om kapasiteten
Creators: name: Svortøl, Eli-Trine
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: In order to encourage people to buy electric vehicles (EVs) and promote environmentally friendly E- mobility, the Norwegian Government has introduced several incentives, one of them, which gave EVs access to the PT lane (2003/2005). The background for the incentive was the Government’s climate policy. In a country such as Norway, which gets most of the electric power from hydroelectric sources, EVs are more environmental friendly than the conventional car. The incentives have proven very effective, and in the last few years, the EV market in Norway has grown rapidly. It has been argued that the EVs has become so popular that they are becoming a threat to the buses mobility, speed and thereby punctuality, in urban areas since they are just as space demanding as the conventional car. The incentive might degrade the bus service and cause an unfortunate modal shift towards increased car ownership and car use. That could lead to increased urban sprawl, putting the incentive at risk of contrary environmental impacts. This is of special interest since the foremost political goal is to freeze the level of passenger car traffic, which will lead to an increase in PT traffic in the coming years. The first part of this paper explores the current use and challenges for the PT traffic by allowing EVs or other groups into the PT lanes. It will examine the excess capacity for PT lanes, which is of importance since many interest groups drool for the apparent excess capacity in these lanes. The spacing between vehicles in these lanes might have given travelers in the other lanes the impression that the spare capacity is higher than what it actually is. This has caused political pressure from various groups to get access to these lanes. However, the major question is whether the EVs are causing mobility problems for the buses in the bus lanes on the main road into the cities. In addition, the paper addresses questions such as; what is the expected development if the current use of PT lanes is continued? What would happen to the EV ownership if the government removes the possibility for them to use the PT lanes, and would it affect the modal split in the area? Answers to these questions will be given through various registrations and counts on the main road from Asker to Oslo. The second part of this paper focuses on the social impacts of using incentives like allowing EVs into the PT lanes to encourage people to buy EVs. Is the bus lane about to lose its intended purpose and becoming an asset for the individual instead of a public good, a “rich man’s good” since you can pay yourself out of traffic jams? The paper examines this through earlier surveys complemented by a survey amongst people that are considering buying a car in the near future and one amongst existing EV owners.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
+Way på linje 5A
Creators: name: Gaard, Jeppe
name: Petersen, Thomas Damkjær
name: Wibrand, Jesper
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: I april 2017 er der driftsstart for Movia’s højklassede busløsning +Way. +Way er en effektiv, komfortabel og miljøvenlig transportløsning, der tænker by og transport sammen. Movia er derfor i tæt samarbejde med kommuner og operatører om at udrulle +Way konceptet på en af Skandinaviens største buslinjer, linje 5A i København. Ambitioner og forventninger er store. +Way skal være en attraktiv løsning for alle parter både passagerer, finansierende myndigheder og operatører.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Fully selfconsistent GW calculations for molecules
Creators: name: Rostgaard, C.
name: Jacobsen, K. W.
name: Thygesen, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate single-particle excitation energies for a series of 33 molecules using fully selfconsistent GW, one-shot G$_0$W$_0$, Hartree-Fock (HF), and hybrid density functional theory (DFT). All calculations are performed within the projector augmented wave (PAW) method using a basis set of Wannier functions augmented by numerical atomic orbitals. The GW self-energy is calculated on the real frequency axis including its full frequency dependence and off-diagonal matrix elements. The mean absolute error of the ionization potential (IP) with respect to experiment is found to be 4.4, 2.6, 0.8, 0.4, and 0.5 eV for DFT-PBE, DFT-PBE0, HF, G$_0$W$_0$[HF], and selfconsistent GW, respectively. This shows that although electronic screening is weak in molecular systems its inclusion at the GW level reduces the error in the IP by up to 50% relative to unscreened HF. In general GW overscreens the HF energies leading to underestimation of the IPs. The best IPs are obtained from one-shot G$_0$W$_0$ calculations based on HF since this reduces the overscreening. Finally, we find that the inclusion of core-valence exchange is important and can affect the excitation energies by as much as 1 eV.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Major public transport hubs in the light rail design and operation
Creators: name: Romani, Fosca
name: Plogstert, Steffen
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: Light Rail Transport systems (shortly LRT in the text) are experiencing a second youth in Europe in general and more specifically in Northern European countries in recent years. New lines are built and existing LRT networks are extended, both in countries where they previously existed (like in Denmark) or where they see the light for the first time. We see an important goal in the planning process of a LRT in conceiving and designing user friendly projects, which will attract the maximal number of customers. Only by obtaining this goal a LRT will be a successful alternative to road/private traffic and hence be the driving factor for an environmentally conscious urban development. Thus a key factor in the realization of the design and the operational concept of a high performance LRT is to guarantee rapid and trustworthy connections combined with optimized and reliable interchanges with other public transport modes. This will give the customers the feeling of a competitive transport service they will choose because of its attractiveness. The paper will analyze the role of major public transport hubs in LRT projects during the realization of the design and the operational concept: • which are the main issues integrating a new LRT hub in the existing public transport network? • what operational, infrastructural or systems solutions make the hub attractive? • what operational challenges have to be overcome?
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the evolving shock in the 2006 outburst of RS Ophiuchi
Creators: name: Ness, J. -U.
name: Drake, J. J.
name: Starrfield, S.
name: Bode, M. F.
name: O'Brien, T. J.
name: Evans, A.
name: Eyres, S. P. S.
name: Helton, L. A.
name: Osborne, J. P.
name: Page, K. L.
name: Schneider, C.
name: Woodward, C. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi was followed with 12 X-ray grating observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton. We present detailed spectral analyses using two independent approaches. From the best dataset, taken on day 13.8 after outburst, we reconstruct the temperature distribution and derive elemental abundances. We find evidence for at least two distinct temperature components on day 13.8 and a reduction of temperature with time. The X-ray flux decreases as a power-law, and the power-law index changes from -5/3 to -8/3 around day 70 after outburst. This can be explained by different decay mechanisms for the hot and cool components. The decay of the hot component and the decrease in temperature are consistent with radiative cooling, while the decay of the cool component can be explained by the expansion of the ejecta. We find overabundances of N and of alpha-elements, which could either represent the composition of the secondary that provides the accreted material or that of the ejecta. The N overabundance indicates CNO-cycled material. From comparisons to abundances for the secondary taken from the literature, we conclude that 20-40% of the observed nitrogen could originate from the outburst. The overabundance of the alpha-elements is not typical for stars of the spectral type of the secondary in the RS Oph system, and white dwarf material might have been mixed into the ejecta. However, no direct measurements of the alpha-elements in the secondary are available, and the continuous accretion may have changed the observable surface composition.
description: 24 pages, 15 figures, 7 tables
Surface operators in the Klebanov-Witten theory
Creators: name: Koh, Eunkyung
name: Yamaguchi, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate 1/2 BPS conformal surface operators in the Klebanov-Witten theory. These surface operators preserve certain parts of the conformal symmetry and R-symmetry as well as half of the supersymmetry. We propose the gravity dual of the surface operator as a configuration of a D3-brane in AdS_5 x T^{1,1}. This D3-brane preserves the same amount of the supersymmetry as the surface operator. We also compute the correlation function of the surface operator and a chiral primary operator.
description: 21 pages, comments and references added, minor typos corrected ; added references, minor changes
The Index Distribution of Gaussian Random Matrices
Creators: name: Majumdar, Satya N.
name: Nadal, Celine
name: Scardicchio, Antonello
name: Vivo, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute analytically, for large N, the probability distribution of the number of positive eigenvalues (the index N_{+}) of a random NxN matrix belonging to Gaussian orthogonal (β=1), unitary (β=2) or symplectic (β=4) ensembles. The distribution of the fraction of positive eigenvalues c=N_{+}/N scales, for large N, as Prob(c,N)\simeq\exp[-βN^2 Φ(c)] where the rate function Φ(c), symmetric around c=1/2 and universal (independent of $β$), is calculated exactly. The distribution has non-Gaussian tails, but even near its peak at c=1/2 it is not strictly Gaussian due to an unusual logarithmic singularity in the rate function.
description: 4 pages Revtex, 4 .eps figures included
Suwallia RICKER 1943
Creators: name: Li, Weihai
name: Murányi, Dávid
name: Shi, Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Chloroperlidae
Suwallia

description: Suwallia Ricker 1943 Diagnosis: The hemitergal process on tergum 10 of the male forms a medially directed finger-like hook, which easily separates this genus from other genera in the subfamily Chloroperlinae (Surdick 1985, Alexander and Stewart 1999, Baumann & Lee 2014) (Fig. 1). The general color of the adult is yellow with a distinct head pattern, U-shaped markings on the meso- and metanota, and a narrow, but distinct abdominal stripe that extends beyond the middle of the terga (Fig. 7-8).
description: Published as part of Li, Weihai, Murányi, Dávid & Shi, Li, 2015, The First Record Of Genus Suwallia Ricker 1943 (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) From China, pp. 23-28 in Illiesia 11 (3) on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760546
description: {"references": ["Ricker, W. E. 1943. Stoneflies of southwest British Columbia. Indiana University Publications, Science Series, 12: 1 - 145.", "Surdick, R. F. 1985. Nearctic genera of Chloroperlinae (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Illinois Biological Monographs, 54: 1 - 146.", "Alexander, K. D. & K. W. Stewart 1999. Revision of the genus Suwallia Ricker (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Transactions of the American", "Baumann, R. W. & J. J. Lee 2014. Neaviperla is a valid stonefly genus in North America (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Illiesia, 10 (9): 80 - 87."]}
Additional file 10 of CK2 alpha prime and alpha-synuclein pathogenic functional interaction mediates synaptic dysregulation in Huntington’s disease
Creators: name: Yu, Dahyun
name: Zarate, Nicole
name: White, Angel
name: Coates, De’jah
name: Tsai, Wei
name: Nanclares, Carmen
name: Cuccu, Francesco
name: Yue, Johnny S.
name: Brown, Taylor G.
name: Mansky, Rachel H.
name: Jiang, Kevin
name: Kim, Hyuck
name: Nichols-Meade, Tessa
name: Larson, Sarah N.
name: Gundry, Katherine
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Tomas-Zapico, Cristina
name: Lucas, Jose J.
name: Benneyworth, Michael
name: Öz, Gülin
name: Cvetanovic, Marija
name: Araque, Alfonso
name: Gomez-Pastor, Rocio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Alteration in CK2α’ expression changes cytokine profiles but not microglia. a, RT-qPCR analysis for CK2α’ and IL-6 in STHdhQ7/Q7 (control) and STHdhQ111/Q111 (HD) cell (n = 5 independent experiments). Data were normalized to GAPDH and control cells. b, siRNA knockdown of CK2α’ for 24 h in STHdhQ111/Q111 cells and RT-qPCR. Data were normalized with GAPDH and relativized to non-targeting control siRNA-treated cells (scramble), (n = 6 independent experiments). c, d, Representative images of mouse cytokine array panels from striatum extracts of WT, zQ175, and zQ175:CK2α’(+/-) at 12-14 months of age (n = 6 mice/genotype). e, f, Iba1 immunoblotting in the striatum of 12 months old WT, zQ175 and zQ175:CK2α’, quantification was measured by image analyses using Image J software, GAPDH is used as a loading marker. g-i, Representative images show the labeling of Iba1 in the dorsal striatum of WT, zQ175 and zQ175:CK2α’(+/-) at 3, 6 and 12 months old (g). Images were analyzed using the Image J software. Scale bar, 100 µm. Iba1+ cell body area in 12 months old mice (n = 3-4 mice/genotype, 18 images averaged/mouse) (h) and percent of Iba1+ cells in 300mm2 (n=3-4 mice/genotype, at least 9 images averaged/mouse) (i). Error bars denote mean ± SEM, values were analyzed by Student's t test in d, and one-way ANOVA and Tukey post-hoc test in a, b, f, h, i. *p represent p-values comparing zQ175 and WT, #p are p-values comparing zQ175 and zQ175:CK2α’(+/-).
A lower limit of 50 microgauss for the magnetic field near the Galactic Centre
Creators: name: Crocker, Roland M.
name: Jones, David
name: Melia, Fulvio
name: Ott, Jürgen
name: Protheroe, Raymond J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The amplitude of the magnetic field near the Galactic Centre has been uncertain by two orders of magnitude for several decades. On a scale of approximately 100 pc fields of approximately 1000 microG have been reported, implying a magnetic energy density more than 10,000 times stronger than typical for the Galaxy. Alternatively, the assumption of pressure equilibrium between the various phases of the Galactic Centre interstellar medium (including turbulent molecular gas; the contested "very hot" plasma; and the magnetic field) suggests fields of approximately 100 microG over approximately 400 pc size scales. Finally, assuming equipartition, fields of only approximately 6 microG have been inferred from radio observations for 400 pc scales. Here we report a compilation of previous data that reveals a down-break in the region's non-thermal radio spectrum (attributable to a transition from bremsstrahlung to synchrotron cooling of the in situ cosmic-ray electron population). We show that the spectral break requires that the Galactic Centre field be at least 50 microG on 400 pc scales, lest the synchrotron-emitting electrons produce too much gamma-ray emission given existing constraints. Other considerations support a field of 100 microG, implying that > 10% of the Galaxy's magnetic energy is contained in only < 0.05% of its volume.
description: Published in Nature. 17 page main article; 4 figures
Oplæg til Syddansk banestrategi
Creators: name: Kaas, Anders Hunæus
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: I de seneste 10-15 år er der kommet mere fokus på banen og dens rolle i samfundet, end der har været tidligere. Det skyldes flere faktorer, ikke mindst en omlægning i transportpolitikken – ikke bare i Danmark – men i det meste af Europa, idet tidligere tiders skiftende kortsigtede fokus på vej og bane er smeltet sammen til, at der skal satses mere bredt på alle transportformer. Det giver alt i alt en mere langsigtet og sammenhængende transportpolitik. Hertil kommer, at banen efterhånden er ved at stå stærkt i konkurrencen med andre transportformer, fordi: • Banen bliver opgraderet til hurtigere kørsel, dvs. der opnås kortere transporttider • Der er stigende trængsel på vejene Et supplerende element, der gør banen til en attraktiv spiller i transportbilledet, er, at på relativt kortere afstande (dvs. op til 2-3 timers kørsel på bane) er banen en alvorlig konkurrent til flytransport, hvilket blandt andet skyldes komfort sammenholdt med det faktum, at banetransporter oftest foregår fra bycentrum til bycentrum, dvs. derfra og dertil, hvor den store andel af rejsende starter fra eller slutter rejsen. Der har været et stadigt stigende fokus på banen fra starten af 00 ́erne og frem til i dag. Skiftende regeringer har indgået brede politiske aftaler, der har til formål at styrke banen gennem en række konkrete tiltag. For Region Syddanmark udestår der dog stadig afklaring af nogle vigtige problemstillinger, såsom hvordan bliver Sønderjylland en del af timemodellen og bør der arbejdes for en for en fælles station i Trekantområdet, og hvor bør den i givet fald placeres?
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Meson-Baryon Scattering Lengths from Mixed-Action Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Torok, Aaron
name: Beane, Silas R.
name: Detmold, William
name: Luu, Thomas C
name: Orginos, Kostas
name: Parreno, Assumpta
name: Savage, Martin J.
name: Walker-Loud, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $π^+Σ^+$, $π^+Ξ^0$, $K^+p$, $K^+n$, and $\overline{K}{}^0 Ξ^0$ scattering lengths are calculated in mixed-action Lattice QCD with domain-wall valence quarks on the asqtad-improved coarse MILC configurations at four light-quark masses, and at two light-quark masses on the fine MILC configurations. Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory with two and three flavors of light quarks is used to perform the chiral extrapolations. To the order we work in the three-flavor chiral expansion, the kaon-baryon processes that we investigate show no signs of convergence. Using the two-flavor chiral expansion for extrapolation, the pion-hyperon scattering lengths are found to be $a_{π^+Σ^+}=-0.197\pm0.017$ fm, and $a_{π^+Ξ^0}=-0.098\pm0.017$ fm, where the comprehensive error includes statistical and systematic uncertainties.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures
Lucid madman in contemporary European drama : an analysis of four plays by Durrenmatt, Frisch and Camus
Creators: name: Rosenbluth, Vera Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Although the theme of madness has been of concern to writers of all ages, there is a perceptible change in the madness of the dramatic character of the twentieth century from that of the past. This thesis is an attempt to analyse that phenomenon as it is manifested in a number of characters of twentieth century drama. The introduction contains a brief outline of the history of madness in society, and a general discussion as to how it is reflected in literature, from Biblical times to the present. It is found that writers make little attempt to explain the madness of a literary character, other than by attributing to him specific personal reasons for his behaviour; i.e. disappointment in love. The characters of twentieth century drama however, are found to be not "mad" in the same way; their madness is linked to their relationship with the rest of society. Thus, a character who considers the rest of society mad, and acts in a way which counteracts that society, is considered mad by those around him. However, to the audience or reader, who are made to recognize the motives for his behaviour, the character is not necessarily mad, and in fact it may be, the playwright implies, that the people who accept the values of the society as absolute who are "mad." By discussing principally "madmen" of four recent dramas: Romulus der Große (1956) and Die Physiker (I962) by Friedrich Düirrenmatt, Graf Öderland (final version 196l) by Max Frisch, and Albert Camus' Caligula (1944), as well as making peripheral references to other dramas in the Conclusion, definite patterns of behaviour emerge. The "madman" is judged in ways which are not understood by his contemporaries. He is generally more intelligent, more perceptive than the other members of his society, and has perceived a truth which is hidden from others. In revolting against a society whose values he cannot accept, he is making what he considers a positive step towards improving in some way the quality of life. (In this respect he is perhaps different from "madmen" of previous literature who are presented as having chosen to opt out.) In each case the revolt fails, leading to chaos or a reimposition of the old system. Despite the failure of the revolt to achieve permanent change, each hero is found to be an idealist oblivious to the reality around him rather than a "madman." The breakdown of traditionally accepted norms such as religion, has meant that in the twentieth century there are no absolute standards of behaviour. Sanity thus becomes a relative concept. This thesis attempts to explore that nebulous and shifting area between madness and sanity as it is reflected in modern drama.
A framework to model real-time databases
Creators: name: Idoudi, Nizar
name: louati, Nada
name: Duvallet, Claude
name: Sadeg, Bruno
name: Bouaziz, Rafik
name: Gargouri, Faiez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Real-time databases deal with time-constrained data and time-constrained transactions. The design of this kind of databases requires the introduction of new concepts to support both data structures and the dynamic behaviour of the database. In this paper, we give an overview about different aspects of real-time databases and we clarify requirements of their modelling. Then, we present a framework for real-time database design and describe its fundamental operations. A case study demonstrates the validity of the structural model and illustrates SQL queries and Java code generated from the classes of the model
Jernbaneforbindelse på tværs af Vejle Fjord
Creators: name: Thesbjerg, Marie Kjellerup
name: Hansen, Lars
name: Larsen, Rasmus
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: Med baggrund i Togfonden er Vejdirektoratet blevet sat i spidsen for at udarbejde en VVM-redegørelse for en ny jernbaneforbindelse på tværs af Vejle Fjord. Rambøll er teknisk rådgiver og ansvarlig for projektering af de bane-, bro- og tunnelprojekter, der skal vurderes i VVM-redegørelsen. Baneteknisk arbejdes med en højhastighedsbane med 250 km/t samt udfletningsanlæg ude af niveau. For broen arbejdes med meget store spænd ved gennemsejlingsfaget og udfordrende jordbundsforhold i Fjorden. For tunnelen arbejdes med to forskellige længdeprofiler alt efter om tunnelen skal kunne benyttes af godstog. Dette har stor betydning for tunnelens længde og placering af startkamre.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
title: Evaluating ecosystem services: Starting at the bottom of the food-chain?
Creators: name: Tweddle, Jacqueline F.
name: Murray, Rory O’Hara
name: Scott, Beth
name: Gubbins, Matthew
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session N
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Primary producers (phytoplankton) provide important provisioning and regulating ecosystem services. They form the basis of marine food-webs, supporting production of higher trophic levels (a provisioning ecosystem service), and act as a sink of CO2 (a climate regulation service). We propose that, as phytoplankton are important to climate cycle and ecosystem functions, and as concentrations of phytoplankton are neither spatially nor temporally homogenous, consideration for the potential impact from human developments and activities on the service provision afforded by phytoplankton should be accounted for in marine planning processes. As a case study, we consider the impacts of marine renewable developments. Previous studies have looked at impacts of marine renewable structures on the physical environment, and at interactions with higher trophic levels (such as fish, birds and mammals). However, due to the tight coupling between physical and biological processes in the ocean, an effect on phytoplankton is predicted. In a preliminary study, the regional impact of proposed large scale offshore wind farms in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, on levels of primary production, through changes in physical processes, is investigated. The results are expected to inform the sectoral planning and licensing process for renewable energy developments.
title: Quantifying the value created from research surveys
Creators: name: Prellezo, Raúl
name: Pozo, Rogelio
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session N
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The paper presents a methodology on how value is created through research. It is based on the idea that value is created through the wiliness to pay of a customer for a research minus the opportunity costs of not buying it. The methodology pivots on the idea that information provided by signals (research) reduces the uncertainty of the customer and increasing the likelihood of a better management. The paper explores three ways of understanding the uncertainty of signals concluding that the expected value of information is a suitable metric that covers all the requirements to consider that value creation is being measured. Finally, the paper applies all these findings on a particular ecosystem service (fisheries) for which in the framework of a case study, the value created by research signals (scientific surveys) is quantified and analyzed.
Improving Application of Bayesian Neural Networks to Discriminate Neutrino Events from Backgrounds in Reactor Neutrino Experiments
Creators: name: Xu, Ye
name: Xu, WeiWei
name: Meng, YiXiong
name: Wu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of Bayesian Neural Networks(BNN) to discriminate neutrino events from backgrounds in reactor neutrino experiments has been described in Ref.\cite{key-1}. In the paper, BNN are also used to identify neutrino events in reactor neutrino experiments, but the numbers of photoelectrons received by PMTs are used as inputs to BNN in the paper, not the reconstructed energy and position of events. The samples of neutrino events and three major backgrounds from the Monte-Carlo simulation of a toy detector are generated in the signal region. Compared to the BNN method in Ref.\cite{key-1}, more $^{8}$He/$^{9}$Li background and uncorrelated background in the signal region can be rejected by the BNN method in the paper, but more fast neutron background events in the signal region are unidentified using the BNN method in the paper. The uncorrelated background to signal ratio and the $^{8}$He/$^{9}$Li background to signal ratio are significantly improved using the BNN method in the paper in comparison with the BNN method in Ref.\cite{key-1}. But the fast neutron background to signal ratio in the signal region is a bit larger than the one in Ref.\cite{key-1}.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure and 1 table, accepted by Journal of Instrumentation
New fixed links across the Öresund – what is the point?
Creators: name: Hansen, Sten
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: During the last years, several investigations on new fixed links across the Öresund have been conducted and presented to the public. These new fixed links intend to supplement the already existing bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen, the Öresund Bridge. We review these proposals and outline their intended function in the regional cross-border transport system as well as the European transport system (TEN-T) in order to identify the objective(s) of the proposals. New fixed links are generally proposed as a “one-solution-only” alternative, focusing more on the proposed alternative, than identifying the transport problem. The overall aim of the paper is to achieve a deeper understanding of the basic transport-planning question: What is the problem? Based on a review of reports, we conclude that four key-objectives exist for a new fixed link across the Öresund. Each proposal meets one or more of these objectives.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Supplementary Text from Diverse stem-chondrichthyan oral structures and evidence for an independently acquired acanthodid dentition
Creators: name: Dearden, Richard P.
name: Giles, Sam
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Notes on the phylogenetic analysis (taxon addition, character addition and coding changes) and supplementary figures 1-2.
Parking and the visual perception of space
Creators: name: Seba, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using measured data we demonstrate that there is an amazing correspondence among the statistical properties of spacings between parked cars and the distances between birds perching on a power line. We show that this observation is easily explained by the fact that birds and human use the same mechanism of distance estimation. We give a simple mathematical model of this phenomenon and prove its validity using measured data.
The middle years of schooling : a critical time for developing mental computation
Creators: name: Caney, Annaliese
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In the field of mathematics education, this thesis is intended to make a contribution to the literature on the teaching and learning of mental computation. The aim of the thesis is to explore the role and potential of mental computation in strengthening numeracy practices across the middle years of schooling by providing a detailed analysis of the mental computation experiences of both middle years teachers and their students (Grades 5 to 8). A focus of the study is mental computation with part-whole numbers including fractions, decimals, and percents, extending previous research that has focused almost exclusively on mental computation with whole numbers. Given the emphasis of the middle years mathematics curriculum on part-whole numbers, it is argued that this period of schooling is a critical time for developing mental computation.
Nye tider – DSB’s køreplan 2016
Creators: name: Larsen, Steen
name: Thorsen, Jesper
name: Bak, Joachim
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: Søndag den 13. december 2015 træder DSB’s nye køreplan for 2016 i kraft. For første gang i mange år er der med køreplanen for 2016 ikke taget udgangspunkt i sidste års køreplan, men i stedet startet helt fra bunden, hvilket giver ændringer over hele landet. Den nye køreplan betyder dog ikke kun nye minuttal. Køreplanen indeholder både generelle forbedringer og en række nyskabelser. Af de generelle forbedringer kan nævnes reducerede rejsetider, fast systemtime, faste minuttal, jævne frekvenser, symmetrisk køreplan, bedre korrespondancer og bedre muligheder for at genoprette driften efter driftsuorden. Blandt nyskabelserne er 15-minutters drift i Østjylland i myldretiderne, direkte forbindelse mellem Aalborg og Flensborg/Hamborg, Sønderborg kobles på lyntogssystemet i Fredericia samt at IC-toget mellem København og Esbjerg overhales af lyntoget i Odense. Totalt betyder køreplansændringerne, at rejsetiden på årsbasis reduceres med 800.000 timer, og at der er et teoretisk vækstpotentiale på 540.000 DSB-rejser svarende til ca. 100 mio personkm.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Optimering af Hastighedsprofilet ved opgradering af Jernbaner
Creators: name: Thorsen, Jesper
name: Salling, Kim Bang
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: Gennem bl. a. Togfonden DK er der bevilget penge til en lang række jernbaneopgraderinger over hele landet. Der ligger derfor et stort projekteringsarbejde foran sektoren, hvilket bl.a. øger behovet for optimering af arbejdsprocesserne. Når sporets horisontale geometri, som grundlæggende består af kurver og rette linjestykker, forberedes til hastighedsopgradering, er det billigste tiltag at øge kurvernes overhøjde. Dette skal dog ske under hensyntagen til de krav og regler, Banedanmark har fastsat, og som sikrer et minimum af slid af infrastrukturen samt en sikker og komfortabel rejse for passagerne. I dag er der et stort manuelt arbejde forbundet med at vurdere muligheden for øge kurvernes overhøjde for at opnå en højere hastighed. Opgaven kompliceres yderligere af, at kurver, der deler en overgangskurve, påvirker hinanden indbyrdes – overhøjden, der vælges i den første kurve, har betydning for, hvilken overhøjde der kan vælges i den næste kurve og så fremdeles. Ydermere gælder der forskellige krav, alt efter om der projekteres efter ønskelige, normal- eller undtagelsesbestemmelser, ligesom perroner og sporskifter pålægger andre begrænsninger. Det er derfor vanskeligt og tidskrævende at finde det optimale hastighedsprofil manuelt. Denne artikel præsenterer en ny optimeringsmodel, som giver en løsning langt hurtigere og med garanti for optimalitet ud fra de givne forudsætninger. Modellen testes på en given strækning hvor kurveradier, kurvelængder, længden af overgangskurver og stationeringer benyttes som input. Ligeledes indikeres det på forhånd, i hvilke kurver der findes sporskifter og perroner, samt hvilke kurver, der ønskes projekteret efter hhv. ønskelige, normal- og undtagelsesbestemmelser. De krav og normer, der skal efterleves, indsættes som begrænsninger til modellen, således at de i løsningen vil være overholdt. Modellen optimerer overhøjder efter at finde den højest mulige hastighed i kurverne, således at hastighedsprofilet på strækningen bliver optimalt. Ud fra resultaterne fra modellen kan de kurver, der er begrænsende for hastigheden, hurtigt identificeres. Der kan herefter tages stilling til, om der for at opnå højere hastighed i disse kurver skal tillades undtagelsesbestemmelser, om overgangskurven skal forlænges eller om der skal foretages en kurveudretning. I forhold til en manuel proces kan der derfor identificeres en række forskellige scenarier for, hvordan en given banestrækning kan hastighedsopgraderes, således at beslutningsgrundlaget i sidste ende kan forbedres.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
title: 100 years of Baltic Sea Changes
Creators: name: Tomczak, Anna Luzenczyk and Maciej T.
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session N
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Historical reconstruction is a tool to understand the ecosystem dynamic, which is essential for making prediction models. Most of the studies concerning Baltic ecosystem took place in the second half of XX century. Although the Baltic ecosystem is relatively well understood, there are still some missing elements as stock dynamic of flounder and its role in the ecosystem. The aim of this project is to perform the reconstruction of the biomass dynamics of the Baltic Sea flounder in the light of environmental conditions. To achieve this, the historical catch data and environmental conditions characteristics were compiled and analyzed. Preliminary results showed that the rapid decrease in flounder's biomass was caused mainly by extremely high catch during so called the salinity “stagnation period” at 1930s - which probably effected weak recruitment. Both of these factors: high catch level and low salinity might contribute to reduce reproductive capacity of flounder stocks. According to our models the biomass of flounder started to rebuilt after ca. 20 years.
An integrated PABX/LAN system architecture
Creators: name: Annamalay, Vijayadas Dharmadas
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Fast advances in communication engineering especially in the office environment , require an integration of different services and the easy accessibility of these services via smaller and more compact equipment. The integration of voice and data has been the goal of ISDN technology. There is also a high demand for the transfer of high speed data (1.536Mbps e.g. for computer graphics) across different floors and buildings in a typical office environment. One efficient solution for this is to attempt to integrate LAN within an ISDN PABX system. This thesis examines one such design and the proposed design simulation results are also verified here highlighting how the integration of the ISDN PABX & LAN can be achieved successfully.
title: Local knowledge for marine spatial planning: understanding interactions between fisheries and seagrass meadows in San Simón Bay (Galicia, NW Spain) trough participatory mapping processes
Creators: name: Ventín, Leticia Bas
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session N
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. San Simón Bay (NW Spain) is a shallow 2.252,06 hectares protected natural area and approximately the 96% of this Site of Community Importance (SCI) belongs to a marine environment. This bay is an example of the interactions between fisheries and seagrasses, where seagrasses play an important role in the production of finfish and shellfish and where the seagrass meadows are vulnerable in the face of the pressures relied on fishing practices. Participatory mapping facilitates the inclusion of local knowledge in marine spatial planning processes. The identification and valuation of marine and coastal areas that are most important for humans makes it easy to understand the interactions between marine users and nature. As well as to detect synergies and trade-offs between sectorial policies.
CHAPTER 5 ESM
Creators: name: Farrell, Callyn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520502
subject: Gender psychology

description: An Electronic Supplementary to Chapter 5 of the PhD thesis submitted by Callyn Farrell titled Talk, Toys, and Gender: Investigating the influence of child gender in developmentally relevant contexts
Compass4D – EU ITS-projekt om kommunikation mellem køretøjer og infrastruktur
Creators: name: Madsen, Anders Torp
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: Kooperative intelligente transport systemer (C-ITS) er et stadigt voksende område inden for transportsektoren. C-ITS åbner mulighed for, at køretøjer kan kommunikere med andre køretøjer og vejinfrastrukturen. Københavns Kommune er en del af det europæiske C-ITS pilotprojekt Compass4D, hvor WIFI kommunikation mellem køretøjer og infrastruktur afprøves på gaden i syv forskellige europæiske byer. Denne artikel vil give et indblik i implementeringen af systemet i den godt fire kilometer lange centrale strækning i København, som udgør én af de syv test sites. Artiklen vil fortælle om kommunikationsteknologien bag systemet DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication), samt give en beskrivelse af de køretøjer og tjenester, som benyttes i København. Desuden vil implementeringsprocessen blive gennemgået, og afslutningsvis vil fremtidsperspektiverne for denne type systemer i kommunen blive vurderet.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Bluetooth-datas egnethed til bestemmelse af retningsfordelinger og trafikmængder i vejkryds
Creators: name: Halskov-Sørensen, Asbjørn
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2015

description: Som et led i uddannelsen til civilingeniør i Veje og Trafik på Aalborg Universitet, udarbejdede undertegnede, i forbindelse med et virksomhedsophold i efteråret 2014 hos COWI A/S Aalborg, et projekt omkring mulighederne for at anvende Bluetooth-data til estimering af trafikmængder og retningsfordelinger i vejkryds. Essensen i arbejdet var at finde ud af, hvorvidt de mange Bluetooth-sensorer, som allerede er opsat i en række danske byer, kan anvendes til mere end det de primært er tiltænkt – at estimere rejsetider. Projektet tog udgangspunkt i data fra to større signalregulerede kryds i Aarhus, og resultaterne viser, at Bluetooth-sensorerne er underkastet så mange ukontrollerbare bias – primært relateret til de stedsspecifikke fysiske omgivelser, at de ikke i sig selv kan estimere trafikmængder eller retningsfordelinger.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Progress Tracking in Guadalajara Meeting: Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM (W-STEM)
Creators: name: Henao, K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Women, Science, CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM, Attraction Campaigns

description: The 3rd meeting of the W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) had scheduled to be held in Guadalajara (Mexico). The COVID-19 pandemic did not allow us to meet face-to-face, and we decided to organize the meeting online on January 12-14, 2021. This presentation is for the progress tracking session driven by the external evaluator partner in the Guadalajara project meeting.

description: W-STEM (Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM) is a project funded under European Union ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education Programme (598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Patterns of cell loss in ATM multiplexers
Creators: name: Branch, Philip Andrew
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Keywords: B-ISDN, congestion, ATM, statistical multiplexer, cell-loss. Cell loss is often assumed to occur at random. However, when an ATM cell is lost because of buffer overflow at a statistical multiplexer, there is an altered probability that the cells following it will be lost. In this report, conditional probabilities of cell-loss due to congestion are modelled mathematically, and then simulations used to verify the models are described. Conditional probabilities are modelled and simulated using M/M/1/K, MID/1/K, M/D/1/K with minimum interarrival times and SPP/D/1/K queues. Results from the models and simulations show that cell loss exhibits 'bursty' behaviour. If one cell is lost, the probability of following cells being lost is substantially higher than the overall cell loss probability. Consequently, cell loss has to be characterised by more than just an average rate. The average and variance of the number of cells lost are proposed as additional statistics to characterise cell loss caused by buffer overflow. In this paper these statistics are calculated and tabulated for M/M/1/K and M/D/1/K multiplexer models. Some of the repercussions of the bursty nature of cell loss for Broadband services are discussed.
title: The ICES Working Group on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean marine ecosystems – a new effort towards developing Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management (WG-COMEDA)
Creators: name: Hidalgo, Manuel
name: Coll, Marta
name: Hinz, Hilmar
name: Catalán, Ignaci C.
name: Claudet, Joachim
name: Demestre, Montserrat
name: Giannoulaki, Marianna
name: Heymans, Joana J.
name: Le Loch, François
name: Lindegren, Martin
name: Möllmann, Christinan
name: Muntadas, Alba
name: Navarro, Joan
name: Olivar, Pilar
name: Otero, Jaime
name: Palomera, Isabel
name: Piroddi, Chiara
name: Steenbeek, Jeroen
name: Tsagarakis, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session N
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. ICES WG COMEDA is a new integrative and comparative platform of research to strengthen the scientific basis for regional ecosystem assessments and to move towards ecosystem-based management of living resources in the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas. COMEDA is one of the few scientific fora that bring together scientists from Atlantic and Mediterranean countries aiming at harmonizing and integrating the knowledge on populations, communities and ecosystems structure and function, as well as how these are affected by external stressors. COMEDA had its first meeting at the Institute of Marine Science in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2014, and here we report on the first steps of the WG