cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE RED FIRE ANT (SOL ENOPSJS IN VI CT Α ) : A NEW PEST IN ANTIGUA
Creators: name: Gore, Janil
name: Kentish, Florita
name: Cooper, Brian
name: Laudat, Julie-Ann
name: Gore, Janil
name: Kentish, Florita
name: Cooper, Brian
name: Laudat, Julie-Ann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management
Food Security and Poverty

description: The red fire ant was imported into Antigua several years ago and has now become a serious pest. The ants are very aggressive and will invade houses and other structures. They sting without provocation, Multiple stings have occasionally required hospitalization. Young livestock and small pets have also been attacked. The presence of fire ants in crop fields interferes with field operations and the ants are implicated in the spread of pink and papaya mealy bugs. The Ministry of Agriculture has begun a programme to assist communities in managing the ant with a minimum of risk to human health and the environment. A survey of all parishes in Antigua has established the extent of the problem and the target areas for management programmes. Testing of control measures, including bio-agents and other organic methods has been carried out. Tests have included commercial baits and spot treatments. The results of these tests and consideration of fire ant behaviour have formed the basis for a number of integrated management recommendations, which have been communicated to the public through brochures, community meetings and the media.
Hosting Multinationals: Economic and Fiscal Implications
Creators: name: Köthenbürger, Marko
name: Egger, Peter
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015
Subjects: KOERPERSCHAFTSSTEUERN U.EINKOMMENSSTEUERN JURISTISCHER PERSONEN (FINANZEN)
GLOBALISIERUNG (WIRTSCHAFT)
Fiscal competition
SCHWEIZ (MITTELEUROPA). SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT
MULTINATIONALE UNTERNEHMEN + KONZERNE
SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION
Corporate tax avoidance
Multinational firms
Globalization
GLOBALIZATION (ECONOMY)
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS + CORPORATE GROUP
CORPORATION TAX + LEGAL PERSONS TAX
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 382
Gonadal steroids regulate ADAMTS-1 expression in human endometrial stromal cells in vitro
Creators: name: Wen, Jiadi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Gonadal steroids are regulators of the ECM remodeling events that occur in the human endometrium during each menstrual cycle. The ADAMTS represent a novel family of MMPs, the best characterized of which is the initially identified member, ADAMTS-1. ADAMTS-1 has recently been found to be spatiotemporally expressed in the human endometrium during the menstrual cycle with mice null-mutant for this ADAMTS subtype also exhibiting endometrial dysfunction. To date, the factors capable regulating ADAMTS-1 in the human endometrium have not been identified. In view of these observations, I hypothesized that ADAMTS-1 plays a central role in the steroid-mediated remodeling events that occur in the human endometrium during each reproductive cycle. In the studies presented in this thesis, I have examined the ability of the gonadal steroids, progesterone (P4), 17β-estradiol (E2) or the non-aromatisable androgen, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), alone or in combination to regulate ADAMTS-1 mRNA and protein levels in primary cultures of human endometrial stromal cells in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. In addition, I determined whether the anti-steroidal compounds, RU486 (an antiprogestin), ICI 182, 780 (an anti-estrogen) or hydroxflutamide (an anti-androgen) were capable of inhibiting the regulatory effects of these gonadal steroids on stromal ADAMTS-1 levels. Real-time PCR and Western blotting revealed that P4 and DHT increased ADAMTS-1 expression levels whereas E2 alone had no regulatory effect on the expression levels of this ADAMTS subtype in these primary cell cultures. A combination of DHT and P4 potentiated the increase in the levels of the ADAMTS-1 protein species present in these cell cultures whereas E2 was capable of attenuating the stimulatory effects of both P4 and DHT on stromal ADAMTS-1 mRNA and protein expression levels. In contrast, RU486 and hydroxyflutamide specifically inhibited the increase in ADAMTS-1 expression levels mediated by P4 and DHT, respectively. In summary my studies, demonstrate that the regulation of ADAMTS-1 mRNA and protein expression levels in human endometrial stromal cells by gonadal steroids involves a complex interplay between progestins, estrogens and androgens.
title: Microgrids for macro impact : smart trading for energy transition
Creators: name: Lichtenstein, Vit
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microgrid
subject: Trading
subject: Energy
subject: Smart grid

description: For several years, increasing energy consumption and a lack of alternative energy sources have posed a challenge to the world economy. One of the possible solutions to avoid future energy shortages could be the steadily greater use of renewable sources of energy on a local level and a change of generation and distribution of energy itself. This thesis describes the option to produce and trade electric energy locally. This change in energy production and distribution can bring high-efficiency gains if handled skillfully. Dubbed energy transition, these changes will play a central role in future electricity supply and trading. The research methods for this thesis are comparative and qualitative analyses of trading, technological aspects and the social impact on society. The findings indicate that the best solution for future energy production is a combination of electricity production on a centralized level for factories and a decentralized level for households. This transition in electricity production would allow selling locally generated energy surpluses via virtual power plant. End consumers would lower their electricity expenses due to flexible tariffs. Household electricity producers would enjoy a higher income due to automated software controlling the trading process. Further research should focus on the financial aspects and economic viability of energy decentralization.
title: Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems
Creators: name: Rae, Adam
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis aims to demonstrate the distinct and so far little explored value of knowledge derived from social interaction data within large web-scale image sharing systems like Flickr, Picasa Web, Facebook and others for image recommendation. I have shown how such systems can be significantly improved through personalisation that takes into account the social context of users by modelling their interactions by mining data, building and evaluating systems that incorporate this information. These improvements allow users to search and browse large online image collections more quickly and to find results that more accurately match their personal information needs when compared to existing methods. Traditional information retrieval and recommendation datasets are contrived to provide stable baselines for researchers to compare against but they rarely accurately reflect the media systems users tend to encounter online. The online photo sharing site Flickr provides rich and varied data that can be used by researchers to analyse and understand users’ interactions with images and with each other. I analyse such data by modelling the connections between users as multigraphs and exploiting the resultant topologies to produce features that can be used to train recommender systems based on machine learnt classifiers. The core contributions of this work include insight into the nature of very large-scale on- line photo collections and the communities that form around them, as well as the dynamic nature of the interactions users have with their media. I do this through the rigorous evaluation of both a probabilistic tag recommendation system and a machine learnt classifier trained to mimic user decisions regarding image preference. These implementations focus on treating the user as both a unique individual and as a member of potentially many explicit and implicit communities. I also explore the validity of the Flickr ‘Favourite’ feedback label as proxy for user preference, which is particularly important when considering other analogous media systems to which my findings transfer. My conclusions highlight how vital both social context information and the understanding of user behaviour are for online image sharing systems. In the field of information retrieval the diverse nature of users is often forgotten in the hunt for increases in esoteric performance metrics. This thesis places them back at the centre of the problem of multimedia information retrieval and shows how their variety and uniqueness are valuable traits that can be exploited to augment and improve the experience of browsing and searching shared online image collections.
Linking studies of tiny meteoroids, zodiacal dust, cometary dust and circumstellar disks
Creators: name: Levasseur-Regourd, Anny-Chantal
name: Baruteau, Clément
name: Lasue, Jérémie
name: Milli, Julien
name: Renard, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tiny meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere and inducing meteor showers have long been thought to originate partly from cometary dust. Together with other dust particles, they form a huge cloud around the Sun, the zodiacal cloud. From our previous studies of the zodiacal light, as well as other independent methods (dynamical studies, infrared observations, data related to Earth's environment), it is now established that a significant fraction of dust particles entering the Earth's atmosphere comes from Jupiter-family comets (JFCs). This paper relies on our understanding of key properties of the zodiacal cloud and of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, extensively studied by the Rosetta mission to a JFC. The interpretation, through numerical and experimental simulations of zodiacal light local polarimetric phase curves, has recently allowed us to establish that interplanetary dust is rich in absorbing organics and consists of fluffy particles. The ground-truth provided by Rosetta presently establishes that the cometary dust particles are rich in organic compounds and consist of quite fluffy and irregular aggregates. Our aims are as follows: (1) to make links, back in time, between peculiar micrometeorites, tiny meteoroids, interplanetary dust particles, cometary dust particles, and the early evolution of the Solar System, and (2) to show how detailed studies of such meteoroids and of cometary dust particles can improve the interpretation of observations of dust in protoplanetary and debris disks. Future modeling of dust in such disks should favor irregular porous particles instead of more conventional compact spherical particles.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science
title: Fusing Automatically Extracted Annotations for the Semantic Web
Creators: name: Nikolov, Andriy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This research focuses on the problem of semantic data fusion. Although various solutions have been developed in the research communities focusing on databases and formal logic, the choice of an appropriate algorithm is non-trivial because the performance of each algorithm and its optimal configuration parameters depend on the type of data, to which the algorithm is applied. In order to be reusable, the fusion system must be able to select appropriate techniques and use them in combination. Moreover, because of the varying reliability of data sources and algorithms performing fusion subtasks, uncertainty is an inherent feature of semantically annotated data and has to be taken into account by the fusion system. Finally, the issue of schema heterogeneity can have a negative impact on the fusion performance. To address these issues, we propose KnoFuss: an architecture for Semantic Web data integration based on the principles of problem-solving methods. Algorithms dealing with different fusion subtasks are represented as components of a modular architecture, and their capabilities are described formally. This allows the architecture to select appropriate methods and configure them depending on the processed data. In order to handle uncertainty, we propose a novel algorithm based on the Dempster-Shafer belief propagation. KnoFuss employs this algorithm to reason about uncertain data and method results in order to refine the fused knowledge base. Tests show that these solutions lead to improved fusion performance. Finally, we addressed the problem of data fusion in the presence of schema heterogeneity. We extended the KnoFuss framework to exploit results of automatic schema alignment tools and proposed our own schema matching algorithm aimed at facilitating data fusion in the Linked Data environment. We conducted experiments with this approach and obtained a substantial improvement in performance in comparison with public data repositories.
POTENTIALITES DE PRODUCTION DE TUBERCULES A PARTIR DE BULBILLES ET DE VITROPLANTS CHEZ D. ALATA CV BELEP
Creators: name: Zinsou, Claude
name: Bade, Pascale
name: Vaillant, Victor
name: Zinsou, Claude
name: Bade, Pascale
name: Vaillant, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: Nous avons réalisé une étude comparative de la production expérimentale de tubercules en utilisant comme semences des bulbilles, des tubercules entiers de même classe de poids (15-25g) et des vitroplants. Nous obtenons en moyenne 1 tubercule par plante issue de bulbille ou de tubercule comparé à 7 tubercules pour les vitroplants. Le poids moyen des tubercules se situe entre 1.4 et 1.7 kg pour les bulbilles ou les semenceaux, et est seulement de 0.2 kg pour les vitroplants. Le rendement moyen en tubercules par plante est de 1.7, 1.8 et 1.4 kg respectivement pour les bulbilles, tubercules et vitroplants. Le rendement en tubercules commercialisables (poids supérieur à 400g) est de 16.5 T pour les vitroplants, entre 32.5 et 34 T pour les bulbilles ou les semenceaux, sur la base de 20 000 plants à l'hectare. De plus, seuls les vitroplants génèrent plus de 25 000 tubercules utilisables directement comme semences (25- 100g) et plus de 20 000 tubercules (10-25g) potentiellement utilisables moyennant quelques précautions.
Learning or Leaning: Persistent and Transitory Spillovers from FDI
Creators: name: Davies, Ronald B.
name: Lamla, Michael J.
name: Schiffbauer, Marc
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2016
Subjects: FDI
Spillovers
MULTINATIONALE UNTERNEHMEN + KONZERNE
KAPITALEXPORTE + AUSLANDINVESTITIONEN + DIREKTINVESTITIONEN
CAPITAL EXPORT + FOREIGN INVESTMENTS + DIRECT INVESTMENTS
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS + CORPORATE GROUP
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 399
Does Negative News Reporting on the Economy Get Reflected in Companies’ Business Situation?
Creators: name: Iselin, David
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2017
Subjects: PRESS + NEWSPAPERS
Business Situation
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ASPEKTE + FINANZIELLE ASPEKTE (ALLGEMEIN)
PRODUCTION (BUSINESS ECONOMICS)
News
ECONOMIC ASPECTS + FINANCIAL ASPECTS (GENERAL)
NEWS COVERAGE (PRESS)
UNTERNEHMENSORGANISATIONEN
SCHWEIZ (MITTELEUROPA). SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT
BERICHTERSTATTUNG (ZEITUNGSWESEN)
SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION
WIRTSCHAFTSLAGE
PRODUKTION (BETRIEBSWIRTSCHAFT)
ECONOMIC SITUATION
Media Data
ZEITUNGSWESEN + PRESSE + ZEITUNGEN
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 388 (Update)
University Press Systems - Conceptualization, Development, Deployment and Operating it as a Profit Center
Creators: name: Guhathakurta, Rahul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Journal Systems
Open Monograph Press
Open Preprint Systems
Public Knowledge Project

description: University Press Systems CONCEPTUALIZATION
 DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT
 OPERATING IT AS A PROFIT CENTER
Background Independent Field Quantization with Sequences of Gravity-Coupled Approximants
Creators: name: Becker, Maximilian
name: Reuter, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We outline, test, and apply a new scheme for nonpertubative analyses of quantized field systems in contact with dynamical gravity. While gravity is treated classically in the present paper, the approach lends itself for a generalization to full Quantum Gravity. We advocate the point of view that quantum field theories should be regularized by sequences of quasi-physical systems comprising a well defined number of the field's degrees of freedom. In dependence on this number, each system backreacts autonomously and self-consistently on the gravitational field. In this approach, the limit which removes the regularization automatically generates the physically correct spacetime geometry, i.e., the metric the quantum states of the field prefer to "live" in. We apply the scheme to a Gaussian scalar field on maximally symmetric spacetimes, thereby confronting it with the standard approaches. As an application, the results are used to elucidate the cosmological constant problem allegedly arising from the vacuum fluctuations of quantum matter fields. An explicit calculation shows that the problem disappears if the pertinent continuum limit is performed in the improved way advocated here. A further application concerns the thermodynamics of de Sitter space where the approach offers a natural interpretation of the micro-states that are counted by the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
description: 53 pages, 3 figures
title: Brazilian, Feminist Non-Governmental Organisations - a Force for Change: Constructing Citizenship through Health Sector Reform and Delivery of Reproductive Rights
Creators: name: Allen-Early, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: This thesis examines the role Brazilian feminist institutions - NGOs and the National Council for Women’s Rights, created in the transitional period from dictatorship to democracy (1985-95) to represent the mass social movement of women - have played in transition politics, where their aim has been to invoke the notion of ‘citizenship’ to address marginality and instigate constitutional change to deliver health services to women.

 The methodological framework is the Extended Case Study Method (Burawoy 1991, 2000), which draws on different and complementary ethnographic research traditions. Interviews with leaders of Brazil’s mass women’s movement, as well as with government officials and a leader of the Popular Movement for Health, provide data which give an account of the overall political context of the governance of that period and the constitutional process whereby, as civil society bodies, feminist institutions acted at the macro level of state policy in the public health sector, as well as at the micro, local level in their communities.

 Theories used to interpret data include Social Movement Theory of Latin America, which analyses processes arising from transitional periods following repressive military dictatorship and include: a) the emergence, characteristics and organisation of social movements; b) how the discourse of human rights relates to the notion of citizenship; c) the role of feminism in démocratisation. Also examined are participatory approaches to international development including the contribution made by NGOs in development processes.
Additional file 1 of The required competencies of physicians within palliative care from the perspectives of multi-professional expert groups: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Melender, Hanna-Leena
name: Hökkä, Minna
name: Saarto, Tiina
name: Lehto, Juho T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
DISEASE PREVALENCE AND PESTICIDE USAGE ON SELECTED CROPS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - A REVIEW OF THE PLANT DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC RECORDS (1990-2000) OF THE PLANT PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, MINISTRY OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND MARINE RESOURCES.
Creators: name: Fortune, M.
name: St. Hill, A.
name: Dibar, A.
name: Chow, S.
name: Gosine, S.
name: Gibbs, H.
name: Fortune, M.
name: St. Hill, A.
name: Dibar, A.
name: Chow, S.
name: Gosine, S.
name: Gibbs, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: As a consequence of the diagnostic function of the Plant Pathology Department, Ministry of Food Production and Marine Resources, a database of the important diseases of crops grown in Trinidad and Tobago has been developed over the years. This database is compiled from records of plant samples collected from surveys, field visits and plant clinics conducted by the staff of the department, and specimen submissions from farmers, extension officers and home gardeners. In this paper, 1967 diagnostic entries, representing 27 selected crop species from six families for the period 1990 to 2000, were reviewed. Data were analyzed to determine the prevalence and distribution of diseases, causal agents and crop species affected. Seasonal and annual variations of disease incidence are discussed. Results indicated that 28.8% of recorded health problems were associated with fungi while bacteria, viruses and nematodes accounted for 23.2%, 13.9% and 1.2% respectively. Health problems with undetermined aetiology accounted for 8.2% of reports. The Solanaceae was the family most prone to disease. The records revealed a high use of pesticides, emphasizing the need for an Integrated Crop Management (ICM) approach to plant health.
Looping in the Human Collaborative and Explainable Bayesian Optimization
Creators: name: Adachi, Masaki
name: Planden, Brady
name: Howey, David A.
name: Osborne, Michael A.
name: Orbell, Sebastian
name: Ares, Natalia
name: Muandet, Krikamol
name: Chau, Siu Lun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62C10, 62F15

description: Like many optimizers, Bayesian optimization often falls short of gaining user trust due to opacity. While attempts have been made to develop human-centric optimizers, they typically assume user knowledge is well-specified and error-free, employing users mainly as supervisors of the optimization process. We relax these assumptions and propose a more balanced human-AI partnership with our Collaborative and Explainable Bayesian Optimization (CoExBO) framework. Instead of explicitly requiring a user to provide a knowledge model, CoExBO employs preference learning to seamlessly integrate human insights into the optimization, resulting in algorithmic suggestions that resonate with user preference. CoExBO explains its candidate selection every iteration to foster trust, empowering users with a clearer grasp of the optimization. Furthermore, CoExBO offers a no-harm guarantee, allowing users to make mistakes; even with extreme adversarial interventions, the algorithm converges asymptotically to a vanilla Bayesian optimization. We validate CoExBO's efficacy through human-AI teaming experiments in lithium-ion battery design, highlighting substantial improvements over conventional methods. Code is available https://github.com/ma921/CoExBO.
description: Accepted at AISTATS 2024, 24 pages, 11 figures
title: Austrian electric and electronic wastes flows : Relevance of WEEE-scrap metal losses due to illegal flows of WEEE for Austria's steel industry
Creators: name: Peer, Anna
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: WEEE
subject: illegal waste flows
subject: MFA
subject: steel production

description: Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is one of the fastest-growing streams of waste. These waste flows contain hazardous as well as critical materials, which have the potential to negatively impact the environment, human health and socioeconomic development of a region. The goal is to gage the relevance of misplaced metal scrap of the WEEE category large appliances for Austria's steel industry. Using a material flow analysis (MFA), the potential impact on Austria's steel industry will be estimated. The aim is to show, if the amount of E-waste has a relevant or measurable effect (positive or negative) on Austria's economy, regarding the recovery/misplacement of valuable/critical materials (iron scrap) stemming from large electrical appliances in the steel industry. Further, a literature review will be given to portray the state of the art of research. Data used originates from the Elektroaltgeräte Koordinierungsstelle (EAK) and the Austria Ministry for Environment. A case study review portrays negative environmental impacts abroad, in order to highlight the importance of proper WEEE-management to the domestic society. The outcomes point toward a certain portion of WEEE of the category large electrical appliances entering illegal waste streams, however, the steel industry does not appear to be negatively affected by the current amount of missing metal scrap from WEEE of large appliances. Similarly, while the missing scrap could in theory require the steel industry to compensate with higher inputs of primary resources, which may potentially lead to an increase in the emission of GHG, a relevant increase in GHG emissions due to missing scrap cannot be verified. Nonetheless, the losses to the economy could continue to accumulate. There is a chance to decrease these losses utilizing and further developing public awareness, education regarding WEEE-recycling, and education of impact of illegal waste transfers in less developed countries, in order to further decrease the misplacement of WEEE scrap. To this end, awareness raising campaigns educating the domestic population about potential negative impacts abroad might be useful.
Nereis taichungensis Hsueh, 2020, nom. nov.
Creators: name: Hsueh, Pan-Wen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Nereididae
Nereis
Nereis taichungensis

description: Nereis taichungensis nom. nov.    [Replacement name for] Nereis articulata Hsueh, 2020: 4, figures 1A–F, 2A–G [Junior primary homonym to N. articulata Ehlers, 1887]
 Type material. Holotype NMNS 8174-001, Wuchi Port, Taiwan, as in Hsueh (2020: 4).
 Etymology. The name is derived from the name of the city on west coast of Taiwan where the worm was collected.
 Description. See Hsueh (2020).
description: Published as part of Hsueh, Pan-Wen, 2020, Nereis taichungensis nom. nov., a replacement name for Nereis articulata Hsueh 2020, a junior primary homonym to Nereis articulata Ehlers, 1887, pp. 138 in Zootaxa 4822 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4401367
Novel Catchbond mediated oscillations in motor-microtubule complexes
Creators: name: Guha, Sougata
name: Mitra, MIthun K.
name: Pagonabarraga, Ignacio
name: Muhuri, Sudipto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generation of mechanical oscillation is ubiquitous to wide variety of intracellular processes. We show that catchbonding behaviour of motor proteins provides a generic mechanism of generating spontaneous oscillations in motor-cytoskeletal filament complexes. We obtain the phase diagram to characterize how this novel catch bond mediated mechanism can give rise to bistability and sustained limit cycle oscillations and results in very distinctive stability behaviour, including bistable and non-linearly stabilised in motor-microtubule complexes in biologically relevant regimes. Hitherto, it was thought that the primary functional role of the biological catchbond was to improve surface adhesion of bacteria and cell when subjected to external forces or flow field. Instead our theoretical study shows that the imprint of this catch bond mediated physical mechanism would have ramifications for whole gamut of intracellular processes ranging from oscillations in mitotic spindle oscillations to activity in muscle fibres.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures + Supplementary Mat
title: The introduction of e-mobility in Austria from a resource point of view
Creators: name: Perpmer, Nicholas
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: MFA
subject: resource consumption
subject: electric cars

description: 50% of the resources that have ever been consumed by human kind, have been consumed during the last 25 years. A major part of that is made up by the resource consumption related to traffic. This is mainly due to the skyrocketing demand for oil. However, the material consumption of traffic does not only include oil, but also the resources needed to produce a car. In the last couple of months, the issue of electro mobility raises more and more awareness. A lot of research has been done in the area of emission reduction and energy input of electric cars. However, there is hardly any research about the resource consumption of electric cars. This thesis tries to overcome this gap by investigating how material consumption in the model region (Austria) would change if a society switches to electro mobility. In order to reach this target, the following 4 steps are necessary. First of all, two scenarios are created, one reflecting the status quo (assumption 100% gasoline cars), the other one assuming that the whole society drives electric cars. To show this graphically and quantitatively, four "Material Flow Analyses" (MFA) are performed. The next step aims at collecting data in order to quantify the two scenarios. Subsequently, the major differences in material input, output and stock of the two scenarios are indicated. This will finally lead to the answering of the question raised above in the first paragraph. Finally, the following results are obtained: In Austria, a total switch to electric mobility would decrease the material inputs into the system (defined as Austria) from 13.730kg to 58kg per capita and year. The output would shrink from 13.680kg to 0.5 kg per capita and year. In contrast, the stocks would slightly increase from 56,2 kg to 57,2 kg per capita and year. Furthermore, if only the materials for the production of a car are taken into account, the most important materials are ferrous metals (66%), plastics (11%) and non-iron metals (8%) for conventional mobility. This would change for the scenario of electro mobility. In fact, ferrous metals become less important (54%), and plastic (13%) as well as non-iron metals (24%) get more significant. The reason for that is that engineers try to compensate the heavy batteries with lighter material such as plastics and aluminium (non-iron metals).
Technological Diversification and Innovation Performance
Creators: name: Bolli, Thomas
name: Wörter, Martin
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: Improved products
New products
ZUKUNFT DER TECHNIK
INNOVATION + MODERNIZATION
Patent applications
PATENTANMELDUNG (PATENT-, MARKENRECHT)
Innovative sales share
Technological diversity
PATENT APPLICATION (PATENT LAW, TRADEMARK LAW)
INNOVATION + MODERNISIERUNG
TECHNOLOGISCHE UND WISSENSCHAFTLICHE INNOVATIONEN
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 336
Additional file 1 of A comparison of different oxidative pretreatments on polysaccharide hydrolyzability and cell wall structure for interpreting the greatly improved enzymatic digestibility of sugarcane bagasse by delignification
Creators: name: Yazhu Han
name: Yuchen Bai
name: Jingzhi Zhang
name: Dehua Liu
name: Zhao, Xuebing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Effects of 5 g/L Tween on enzymatic hydrolysis of different oxidative pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse. Cellulase loading was 15 FPU/g solid. Figure S2. XRD diagrams (A) and enzymatic hydrolysis (B) of filter paper treated by sodium chlorite (SC) for different time.
Barriers to adoption
Creators: name: Harrington, Margaret Ellen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Finding adoptive homes for children in continuing custody of child welfare authorities is a significant problem in child welfare. Previous research in this area highlights systemic barriers as the chief impediment to achieving permanency for children in care. Recruiting and retaining families figures prominently in the discourse. This study explores barriers to adoption of children in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development in British Columbia from the perspective of adoptive applicant parents and from the perspective of social workers who work in adoption. Results confirm that barriers to adoption of children in care exist. Social workers and adoptive applicants who participated in the study agreed that the recruitment and retention of families and resource issues are central to addressing the problem of waiting children. They further agreed that improvements in the adoption system in British Columbia are necessary to facilitate the movement of children from government care into permanent families.
SCREENING COWPEA ACCESSIONS FOR THE SEASONALLY DRY HEAVY CLAY SOILS OF THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS
Creators: name: Valencia, Elide
name: Palada, Manuel
name: Valencia, Elide
name: Palada, Manuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L) Walp] is adapted to well-drained soils and is also drought tolerant. It is primarily used as a pulse crop. It is such a versatile crop with multiple uses [i.e., vegetable crop (both for the green young leaves, shoots and the green peas)], cover crop, and also as forage. Little information is available on its adaptation to heavy clay soils. The objective of this research was to characterize 25 cowpea pure lines for seedling vigor (i.e., plant height), dry pod yield, forage dry matter (DM) and tolerance to high pH soils (pH>7.5). Replicated field studies were conducted on a mildly alkaline Fredensborg clay (fine carbonatic, isohyperthermic, Typic Rendolls, Mollisol) in 2000. Average plant height ranged from 24 to 62-cm at 56-d after planting. Days to floral initiation ranged from 36 to 62-d after planting, indicating a high variability among lines. Pod yield differed (P<0.05) among lines, with highest pod yield for line IT97K-437-8 (450 kg ha"1). Forage yield also differed among lines (P<0.05) with DM yields exceeding 3,500 kg ha"1 for line IT90K-277-2. Twelve lines exhibited high seedling vigor, excellent forage and seed yield, and low symptoms of iron deficiency. These were selected for further evaluation.
title: Provision of flexibility in electricity networks in the current Austrian and European regulatory framework
Creators: name: Poplavskaya, Ksenia
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: distributed sources of flexibility
subject: regulation
subject: smart grids
subject: distributed generation
subject: energy storage
subject: energy policy

description: This Master's Thesis focuses on the regulatory framework in Austria and the European Union with regard to provision of flexibility in electricity networks. It further contributes to an Austrian lighthouse project on the integration of Loads and Electric storage systems into Advanced Flexibility Schemes for low-voltage networks (LEAFS). Flexibility sources, such as distributed generation, storage systems and demand response allow not only to incorporate more energy generated from renewable sources into the grid but also to ensure its stability and carry benefits for grid operators, market actors and consumers alike. Multiple grid and market services could be provided by distributed sources of flexibility on par with centralized flexible generators. Flexible components thus lie at the intersection of the electricity network and the market and can potentially be owned and operated by various actors in the evolving system. This research studies possible deployment scenarios of sources of flexibility in the national and European regulatory environment. It identifies existing gaps and inefficiencies with the help of legal and policy documents, a survey of expert opinion and best practices retrieved from relevant European projects, leading the way to a comprehensive gap analysis. Results show that despite positive developments in the related EU and Austrian policy, current regulatory framework is still characterized by a number of grey areas with respect of the status and treatment of distributed flexible resources while different actors in the electricity systems lack adequate incentives for their deployment. This Master's Thesis thus analyzes the identified critical points and elaborates possible action plans needed in order to streamline the regulation of flexibility, improve incentives and reduce system complexity in ways consistent with the goals of the EU energy policy.
DEVELOPMENT OF BREEDING LINES FROM THE HOT PEPPER CULTIVAR, WEST INDIES RED
Creators: name: Adams, Herman V.
name: Sisnett, Derek D.
name: Adams, Herman V.
name: Sisnett, Derek D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: The hot pepper cultivar, "West Indies Red," was described. Three breeding lines were extracted from this popular cultivar in order to develop lines with more uniform beriy shape, size and colour. These lines were compared to the parental population and described showing differences only in berry quality upon which selection pressure was applied. The next round of the Single Seed Descent selection procedure will be applied to ensure further homozygosity for berry colour, shape and size.
Noncontractible periodic orbits in cotangent bundles and Floer homology
Creators: name: Weber, Joa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37Jxx (Primary) 53D40 (Secondary)

description: For every nontrivial free homotopy class $α$ of loops in every closed connected Riemannian manifold $M$, we prove existence of a noncontractible 1-periodic orbit, for every compactly supported time-dependent Hamiltonian on the open unit cotangent bundle which is sufficiently large over the zero section. The proof shows that the Biran-Polterovich-Salamon capacity is finite for every closed connected Riemannian manifold and every free homotopy class of loops. This implies a dense existence theorem for periodic orbits on level hypersurfaces and, consequently, a refined version of the Weinstein conjecture: Existence of closed characteristics (one associated to each nontrivial $α$) on hypersurfaces in $T^*M$ which are of contact type and contain the zero section.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures, submitted 15 April 2004
Feeble neutrino portal dark matter at neutrino detectors
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Priyotosh
name: Chun, Eung Jin
name: Mandal, Rusa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the neutrino portal dark matter (DM) at its minimum of field content having two dark sector particles coupled to a right-handed neutrino. Assuming the feeble nature of their interactions with the standard model (SM) particles, we analyze the freeze-in production of the observed DM relic density characterized by three different categories depending on the major production mechanisms. The portal provides interesting signatures at the neutrino detectors like KamLAND, Super-Kamiokande and IceCube, from a very late decay of the scalar DM to the fermion DM and the SM neutrino. Such neutrino flux spectrum from the cosmic and galactic origins can produce anomalous signals at future experiments.
description: Version accepted for publication in JCAP
Proactive Emergency Collision Avoidance for Automated Driving in Highway Scenarios
Creators: name: Gharavi, Leila
name: Dabiri, Azita
name: Verkuijlen, Jelske
name: De Schutter, Bart
name: Baldi, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Uncertainty in the behavior of other traffic participants is a crucial factor in collision avoidance for automated driving; here, stochastic metrics could avoid overly conservative decisions. This paper introduces a Stochastic Model Predictive Control (SMPC) planner for emergency collision avoidance in highway scenarios to proactively minimize collision risk while ensuring safety through chance constraints. To guarantee that the emergency trajectory can be attained, we incorporate nonlinear tire dynamics in the prediction model of the ego vehicle. Further, we exploit Max-Min-Plus-Scaling (MMPS) approximations of the nonlinearities to avoid conservatism, enforce proactive collision avoidance, and improve computational efficiency in terms of performance and speed. Consequently, our contributions include integrating a dynamic ego vehicle model into the SMPC planner, introducing the MMPS approximation for real-time implementation in emergency scenarios, and integrating SMPC with hybridized chance constraints and risk minimization. We evaluate our SMPC formulation in terms of proactivity and efficiency in various hazardous scenarios. Moreover, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach by comparing it with a state-of-the-art SMPC planner and we validate that the generated trajectories can be attained using a high-fidelity vehicle model in IPG CarMaker.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
On Runge type theorems for solutions to strongly uniformly parabolic operators
Creators: name: Vilkov, P. Yu.
name: Shlapunov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 35K07, Secondary 35K25

description: Let $G_1, G_2 $ be domains in ${\mathbb R}^{n+1}$, $n \geq 2$, such that $G_1 \subset G_2$ and the domain $G_1$ have rather regular boundary. We investigate the problem of approximation of solutions to strongly uniformly $2m$-parabolic system $\mathcal L$ in the domain $G_1$ by solutions to the same system in the domain $G_2$. First, we prove that the space $S _{\mathcal L}(G_2)$ of solutions to the system $\mathcal L$ in the domain $G_2$ is dense in the space $S _{\mathcal L}(G_1)$, endowed with the standard Fréchet topology of the uniform convergence on compact subsets in $G_1$, if and only if the complements $G_2 (t) \setminus G_1 (t)$ have no non-empty compact components in $G_2 (t)$ for each $t\in \mathbb R$, where $G_j (t) = \{x \in {\mathbb R}^n: (x,t) \in G_j\}$. Next, under additional assumptions on the regularity of the bounded domains $G_1$ and $G_1(t)$, we prove that solutions from the Lebesgue class $L^2(G_1)\cap S _{\mathcal L}(G_1)$ can be approximated by solutions from $S _{\mathcal L}(G_2)$ if and only if the same assumption on the complements $G_2 (t) \setminus G_1 (t)$, $t\in \mathbb R$, is fulfilled.
YIELD PERFORMANCE OF TOMATO CULTIVARS GROWN UNDER ORGANIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Creators: name: Palada, Manuel C.
name: Davis, Allison M.
name: Palada, Manuel C.
name: Davis, Allison M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Productivity Analysis

description: On-fann trials were conducted during the spring season of 1999 and 2000 to evaluate the yield performance of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cultivars grown under an organic management system. In 1999, twelve cultivars: 'Bonita', 'Celebrity', 'Colonial', 'Empire', 'Floramerica', 'Joker', 'Liberty', 'Merced', 'Mountain Pride', Olympic', 'Pilgrim' and 'Sunmaster' were grown under an organic management system consisting of mulching with grass straw, fertilizing with cow manure and using organic pesticides for insect control. Similar cultivars were evaluated in spring 2000, but due to lack of seed, 'Bonita' and 'Liberty' were replaced with cultivars 'Keepsake' and 'Mountain Fresh'. In 1999, significant differences (P<0.05) in tomato faiit yield were observed among cultivars. Marketable yield ranged from 28.5 t ha"1 for cultivar 'Pilgrim' to 43.8 t ha"1 for 'Sunmaster'. The top three cultivars with yields of over 40 t ha"1 were 'Sunmaster', 'Bonita', and 'Empire'. 'Sunmaster' also produced the highest total number of tomato fruits (233,000 ha"1). Significant yield differences were also observed in 2000. Marketable fruit yield in 2000 ranged from 20.0 t ha"1 for cultivar 'Olympic' to 38.6 t ha"1 for 'Merced'. The top four cultivars were 'Merced', 'Mountain Pride', 'Sunmaster' and 'Keepsake'. Tomato fruit worm was the major insect pest affecting most cultivars. The organic pesticides used were not very effective in controlling fruit worms. This study indicates that cultivars 'Bonita', 'Empire', 'Keepsake', 'Merced', 'Mountain Pride' and 'Sunmaster' are suitable for tomato production under an organic management system.