cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genomic tools to assess plant genetic diversity in grasslands
Creators: name: Loera-Sánchez, Miguel
name: Widmer, Franco
name: Widmer, Alex
name: Studer, Bruno
name: Kölliker, Roland
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Plant biodiversity —in terms of both species richness and within-species genetic diversity— brings multiple benefits to grasslands (e.g., insurance effects against environmental stress and hence, more stable forage yields). However, traditional, morphology-based methods to assess biodiversity are labor intensive and not suitable for large-scale assessments. 
How are my results improving/affecting future agriculture?
Our central vision is to develop a tool that enables regular and less expensive genetic diversity assessments over large grassland extensions. We also anticipate that our tool will be useful for forage breeders that want to quantify genetic diversity in germplasm, and overall in contexts where plant genetic diversity assessments are needed.

Genomic tools based on high-throughput DNA sequencing have the potential to resolve this limitation. Our goal is to develop a high-throughput amplicon-based method, which allows us to measure both species-richness and genetic diversity in mixed samples. As a first step, genomic loci that are semi-conserved in forage grasses and legumes were identified. Then, we designed RNA baits to target 611 loci and used them to capture those loci from Illumina libraries of genomic DNA from multiple genotypes of 16 forage grasses and legumes. We shortlisted 50 loci after quality control and several filtering steps of the ~14.5 million raw reads (2 x 300 bp) that we obtained with Illumina MiSeq. 

A preliminary sequence distance analysis showed that the 50 candidate loci were able to assign correctly all the analyzed legume species and most grasses to their respective species. Furthermore, these loci showed the highest within-species sequence diversity among all the rest, as measured by the kmer-richness of the reads that mapped within each locus. Currently, primers are being designed to target the candidate loci in mixed samples. After validation, the five best performing loci will be selected for larger scale tests.
Selektive Kontextualisierung als Wirklichkeitskonstruktion.
Creators: name: Winkler, Katja
Publisher: name: Ethik und Gesellschaft
Year: 2024

description: Die Dekonstruktion von einer quasi naturgegebenen sozialen Wirklichkeit, insbesondere von (Gruppen)Identitäten, die eindeutig identifizierbar sind, ist ein Kennzeichen der Postcolonial und Gender Studies. Im Text wird das Verständnis sozialer Wirklichkeit von J. Butler und G. Spivak anhand ihrer antiessentialistischen Theoriebildung vorgestellt und mit ihrem Entwurf von Identitätspolitik, der sich des Essentialismus‘ in strategischer Weise bedient, konfrontiert. Am Beispiel aktueller Debatten um Antisemitismus im postkolonialen Spektrum und am konkreten Butler-Text The Compass of mourning (2023) werden Spannungen in diesem Theoriefeld aufgezeigt und letztlich gefragt, warum im Postkolonialismus eigentlich nicht mit einem antiessentialistischen Wirklichkeitsverständnis Politik gemacht wird?
description: Ethik und Gesellschaft, Nr. 1 (2024): Ge|teilte Wirklichkeit
Little Chester, Derby: changing room service trench, October 1980.
Creators: name: Brassington, Maurice
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 26-27
description: An excavation was carried out during the winter of 1979-80, prior to the erection of new changing rooms on a site near the former Derwent House stables. Two wells were encountered, and a quantity of pottery collected.
Electronic supplementary material from Body size and mortality rates in coral reef fishes: a three-phase relationship
Creators: name: Goatley, Christopher Harry Robert
name: Bellwood, David Roy
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Combined ESM for Goatley, CHR and Bellwood, DR. Body size and mortality rates in coral reef fishes: a three-phase relationship
title: 05 –Entretien avec les azmari Almaz et Ṭašu Gʷäbäzé : chants
Creators: name: Wion, Anaïs
name: Bolay, Anne
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Chants, le premier à propos du résistant Belay Zäläqa lors de l’occupation italienne.
Cardiovascular responses to antigravity muscle loading during head-down tilt at rest and after dynamic exerrcises
Creators: name: Alessandro, Cristiano
name: Sarabadani Tafreshi, Amirehsan
name: Riener, Robert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: The physiological processes underlying hemodynamic homeostasis can be modulated by muscle activity and gravitational loading. The effects of antigravity muscle activity on cardiovascular regulation has been observed during orthostatic stress. Here, we evaluated such effects during head-down tilt (HDT). In this posture, the gravitational gradient along the body is different than in upright position, leading to increased central blood volume and reduced venous pooling. We compared the cardiovascular signals obtained with and without antigravity muscle loading during HDT in healthy human subjects, both at rest and during recovery from leg-press exercises. Further, we compared such cardiovascular responses to those obtained during upright position. We found that loading the antigravity muscles during HDT at rest led to significantly higher values of arterial blood pressure than without muscle loading, and restored systolic values to those observed during upright posture. Maintaining muscle loading post-exercise altered the short-term cardiovascular responses, but not the values of the signals five minutes after the exercise. These results demonstrate that antigravity muscle activity modulates cardiovascular regulation during HDT. This modulation should therefore be considered when interpreting cardiovascular responses to conditions that affect both gravity loading and muscle activity, for example bed rest or microgravity.
description: bioRxiv
Embryonic Staging in Pogona vitticeps from Expression of a hindlimb-determining factor Pitx1 in the forelimb of the lizard Pogona vitticeps during morphogenesis
Creators: name: Melville, Jane
name: Sumitha Hunjan
name: McLean, Felicity
name: Mantziou, Georgia
name: Boysen, Katja
name: Parry, Laura J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: With over 9000 species, squamates, which include lizards and snakes, are the largest group of reptiles and second-largest order of vertebrates, spanning a vast array of appendicular skeletal morphology. As such, they provide a promising system for examining developmental and molecular processes underlying limb morphology. Using the Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) as the primary study model, we examined limb morphometry throughout embryonic development and characterized the expression of three known developmental genes (GHR, Pitx1 and Shh) from early embryonic stage through to hatchling stage via reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and immunohistochemistry (IHC). In this study, all genes were found to be transcribed in both the forelimb and hindlimbs of P. vitticeps. While the highest level of GHR expression occurred at the hatchling stage, Pitx1 and Shh expression was greatest earlier during embryogenesis, which coincides with the onset of the differentiation between forelimb and hindlimb length. We compared our finding of Pitx1 expression—a hindlimb-determining gene—in the forelimbs of P. vitticeps to that in a closely related Australian agamid lizard, Ctenophorus pictus, where we found Pitx1 expression to be more highly expressed in the hindlimb compared with the forelimb during early and late morphogenesis—a result consistent to that found across other tetrapods. Expression of Pitx1 in forelimbs has only rarely been documented, including via in situ hybridization in a chicken and a frog. Our findings, from both RT-qPCR and IHC, indicate that further research across a wider range of tetrapods is needed to more fully understand evolutionary variation in molecular processes underlying limb morphology.
The representation of solar cycle signals in stratospheric ozone. Part II: Analysis of global models
Creators: name: Maycock, Amanda C.
name: Matthes, Katja
name: Tegtmeier, Susann
name: Schmidt, Hauke
name: Thiéblemont, Rémi
name: Hood, Lon L.
name: Bekki, Slimane
name: Deushi, Makoto
name: Jöckel, Patrick
name: Kirner, Oliver
name: Kunze, Markus
name: Marchand, Marion
name: Marsh, Daniel R.
name: Michou, Martine
name: Revell, Laura E.
name: Rozanov, Eugene
name: Stenke, Andrea
name: Yamashita, Yousuke
name: Yoshida, Kohei
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2017

description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
description: ISSN:1680-7375
description: ISSN:1680-7367
Integrated management of Swiss cropland is not sufficient to preserve its soil carbon pool in the long-term
Creators: name: Emmel, Carmen
name: Winkler, Annina
name: Hörtnagl, Lukas
name: Revill, Andrew
name: Ammann, Christof
name: D'Odorico, Petra
name: Buchmann, Nina
name: Eugster, Werner
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Croplands are involved in the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the atmosphere and the biosphere. Furthermore, soil carbon (C) stocks play an important role in soil fertility. It is thus of great interest to know whether intensively managed croplands act as a net source or sink of atmospheric CO2 and if soil C stocks are preserved over long timescales. The FluxNet site CH-Oe2 in Oensingen, Switzerland, has been operational since the end of 2003. This cropland is managed under the Swiss framework of the Proof of Ecological Performance (PEP, a variant of integrated management) with a crop rotation centred on winter wheat, which also includes winter barley, winter rapeseed, peas, potato and intermediate cover crops. In addition to eddy covariance measurements, meteorological and soil measurements were available along with information on C imports and exports from organic fertilisation, sowing and harvesting. This study investigates cropland C budgets over 13 years and assesses whether the PEP regulations resulted in a balanced C budget. The strongest CO2 uptake was observed during cereal seasons. C export through harvest, however, offset the strong uptake of the cereal crops. The largest net CO2 emissions to the atmosphere were observed during pea and cover crop seasons. Net biome production, representing the overall C budget (assuming carbon leaching to groundwater to be negligible), typically ranged between close to C neutral to C losses of up to 407gCm−2 per season, with peas being the largest source. Overall, the field lost 1674gCm−2 over 13 years (129gCm-2yr−1), which was confirmed by soil C stock measurements at the beginning and the end of the study period. Although managing the field under the regulations of PEP did not result in an overall C sink, model simulations showed that the use of cover crops reduced the C losses compared to leaving the field bare. The use of solid manure improved the C budget by importing substantial amounts of C into the soil, while liquid manure had only a small effect. We thus conclude that additional efforts are needed to bring Swiss management practices closer to the goal of preserving soil C in the long term.
description: Biogeosciences Discussions
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
Dissociable mechanisms govern when and how strongly reward attributes affect decisions
Creators: name: Maier, Silvia U.
name: Raja Beharelle, Anjali
name: Polania, Rafael
name: Ruff, Christian C.
name: Hare, Todd A.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Rewards usually have multiple attributes that are relevant for behavior. For instance, even apparently simple choices between liquid or food rewards involve comparisons of at least two attributes, flavor and amount. Thus, in order to make the best choice, an organism will need to take multiple attributes into account. Theories and models of decision making usually focus on how strongly different attributes are weighted in choice, e.g., as a function of their importance or salience to the decision-maker. However, when different attributes impact on the decision process is a question that has received far less attention. Although one may intuitively assume a systematic relationship between the weighting strength and the timing with which different attributes impact on the final choice, this relationship is untested. Here, we investigate whether attribute timing has a unique influence on decision making using a time-varying sequential sampling model (tSSM) and data from four separate experiments. Contrary to expectations, we find only a modest correlation between how strongly and how quickly reward attributes impact on choice. Experimental manipulations of attention and neural activity demonstrate that we can dissociate at the cognitive and neural levels the processes that determine the relative weighting strength and timing of attribute consideration. Our findings demonstrate that processes determining either the weighting strengths or the timing of attributes in decision making can adapt independently to changes in the environment or goals. Moreover, they show that a tSSM incorporating separable influences of these two sets of processes on choice improves understanding and predictions of individual differences in basic decision behavior and self-control.
description: bioRxiv
Co-detection of micro seismic activity as early warning of gravitational slope failure
Creators: name: Faillettaz, Jérome
name: Funk, Martin
name: Beutel, Jan
name: Vieli, Andreas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: We developed a new strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction for gravitational slope failure: We propose a simple method for real-time early warning of gravity-driven failures that considers and exploits both the heterogeneity of natural media and characteristics of acoustic emissions attenuation. This method capitalizes on co-detection of elastic waves emanating from micro-cracks by a network of multiple and spatially distributed sensors. Event co-detection is considered as surrogate for large event size with more frequent co-detected events marking imminence of catastrophic failure. In this study we apply this method to a steep rock glacier/debris slope and demonstrate the potential of this simple strategy for real world cases, i.e. at slope scale. This low cost, robust and autonomous system provides a well adapted alternative/complementary solution for Early Warning Systems.
description: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions
A 1770-90 kiln dump of the Derby China Works.
Creators: name: Barkla, Robin
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 28-33
description: From 1987 to 1990, excavations were made at the former site of the China Works on Nottingham Road, Derby. Almost all the pottery shards found were of glazed porcelain, and showed some of the production techniques used at the manufactory. The contents of the kiln dump provide an insight into the late 18th-century production at Derby.
Co-localized arsenic speciation and cycling in the rhizosphere of hyperaccumulating ferns
Creators: name: Hoefer, Christoph
name: Wagner, Stefan
name: Santner, Jakob
name: Wenzel, Walter
name: Puschenreiter, Markus
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Observations on the Holocene mammalian faunal remains from two caves in Hartle Dale.
Creators: name: Hamshaw-Thomas, J F
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 34-44
description: The principal aims of this analysis were to first clarify any outstanding problems in the faunal sample, and secondly to attempt to illustrate the nature of the domestic use of the caves in a more precise fashion. The faunal assemblages were from New and Fissure Cave and had been donated to Sheffield City Museum in 1967, but not researched until 1991. It is concluded that the excavated faunal assemblage is a mixture of the residue of both human and carnivore use of the caves.
Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon
Creators: name: Khatiwala, Samar P.
name: Tanhua, Toste
name: Mikaloff Fletcher, Sara E.
name: Gerber, Markus
name: Doney, Scott C.
name: Graven, Heather D.
name: Gruber, Nicolas
name: McKinley, G.A.
name: Murata, Akihiko
name: Rios, A.F.
name: Sabine, C.L.
name: Sarmiento, J.L.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2012

description: he global ocean is a significant sink for anthropogenic carbon (Cant), absorbing roughly a third of human CO2 emitted over the industrial period. Robust estimates of the magnitude and variability of the storage and distribution of Cant in the ocean are therefore important for understanding the human impact on climate. In this synthesis we review observational and model-based estimates of the storage and transport of Cant in the ocean. We pay particular attention to the uncertainties and potential biases inherent in different inference schemes. On a global scale, three data-based estimates of the distribution and inventory of Cant are now available. While the inventories are found to agree within their uncertainty, there are considerable differences in the spatial distribution. We also present a review of the progress made in the application of inverse and data assimilation techniques which combine ocean interior estimates of Cant with numerical ocean circulation models. Such methods are especially useful for estimating the air–sea flux and interior transport of Cant, quantities that are otherwise difficult to observe directly. However, the results are found to be highly dependent on modeled circulation, with the spread due to different ocean models at least as large as that from the different observational methods used to estimate Cant. Our review also highlights the importance of repeat measurements of hydrographic and biogeochemical parameters to estimate the storage of Cant on decadal timescales in the presence of the variability in circulation that is neglected by other approaches. Data-based Cant estimates provide important constraints on forward ocean models, which exhibit both broad similarities and regional errors relative to the observational fields. A compilation of inventories of Cant gives us a "best" estimate of the global ocean inventory of anthropogenic carbon in 2010 of 155 ± 31 PgC (±20% uncertainty). This estimate includes a broad range of values, suggesting that a combination of approaches is necessary in order to achieve a robust quantification of the ocean sink of anthropogenic CO2.
description: Biogeosciences Discussions, 9
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
An unusual Roman brooch from Beeley.
Creators: name: Dearne, Martin J
name: Parsons, Julien
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 45-47
description: The subject of this note was found by Mr J. Rockach using a metal detector in Beeley parish. The brooch's findspot is in an area generally lacking in Romano-British finds, but a possible Romano-British query and pottery fragment found fairly close to the brooch suggests at least a Romano-British presence in the area.
Test-pitting for prehistoric artifacts near Bradwell Moor Barn.
Creators: name: Guilbert, Graeme
name: Garton, Daryl
name: Malone, Steven J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 48-53
description: As a follow-up to fieldwork carried out at a site near Bradwellmoor Barn in 1990 and 1994, a test-pitting strategy was implemented when the opportunity arose in 1995. The full archives regarding the excavations and artefacts have been deposited with the Sites & Monuments records held by Park Peak Joint Planning Board, Derbyshire County Council and Sheffield City Museum. The patterns of distribution of the lithic artefacts is discussed.
The impact of extreme summer drought on the short-term carbon coupling of photosynthesis to soil CO2 efflux in a temperate grassland
Creators: name: Sturm, Patrick
name: Prechsl, Ulrich
name: Knohl, Alexander
name: Buchmann, Nina
name: Burri, Susanne
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013

description: Along with predicted climate change, increased risks for summer drought are projected for Central Europe. However, large knowledge gaps exist in terms of how drought events influence the short-term ecosystem carbon cycle. Here, we present results from 13CO2 pulse labeling experiments at an intensively managed lowland grassland in Switzerland. We investigated the effect of extreme summer drought on the short-term coupling of freshly assimilated photosynthates in shoots to roots as well as to soil CO2 efflux. Summer drought was simulated using rainout shelters during two field seasons (2010 and 2011). Soil CO2 efflux and its isotopic composition were measured with custom-built chambers coupled to a quantum cascade laser spectrometer (QCLAS-ISO, Aerodyne Research Inc., MA, USA). During the 90min pulse labeling experiments, we added 99.9atom% 13CO2 to the grass sward. In addition to the isotopic analysis of soil CO2 efflux, this label was traced over 31 days into bulk shoots, roots and soil. Drought reduced the incorporation of recently fixed carbon into shoots and increased carbon allocation belowground relative to total tracer uptake. Contrary to our hypothesis, we did not find a change in allocation speed in response to drought, although drought clearly reduced soil CO2 efflux rates. 19 days after pulse labeling, only about 60% of total tracer uptake was lost via soil CO2 efflux under drought compared to about 75 % under control conditions. Predisposition of grassland by spring drought lead to different responses to summer drought in 2011 compared to 2010, suggesting increased sensitivity of grassland to consecutive drought events as predicted under future climate
change.
description: Biogeosciences Discussions, 10
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
Quality control of CarboEurope flux data - Part I: Footprint analyses to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems
Creators: name: Göckede, Mathias
name: Foken, Thomas
name: Aubinet, Marc
name: Aurela, Mika
name: Banza, João
name: Bernhofer, Christian
name: Bonnefond, Jean Marc
name: Brunet, Yves
name: Carrara, Arnaud
name: Clement, Robert J.
name: Dellwik, Ebba
name: Elbers, Jan A.
name: Eugster, Werner
name: Fuhrer, Jürg
name: Granier, André
name: Grünwald, Thomas
name: Heinesch, Bernhard
name: Janssens, Ivan A.
name: Knohl, Alexander
name: Koeble, Renate
name: Laurila, Tuomas
name: Longdoz, Bernard
name: Manca, Giovanni
name: Marek, Michal V.
name: Markkanen, Tiina
name: Matteucci, Giorgio
name: Matteucci, Giorgio
name: Mauder, Matthias
name: Migliavacca, Mirco
name: Minerbi, Stefano
name: Moncrieff, John B.
name: Montagnani, Leonardo
name: Moors, Eddy J.
name: Ourcival, Jean-Marc
name: Papale, Dario
name: Pereira, João Santos
name: Pilegaard, Kim I.M.
name: Pita, Gabriel P.A.
name: Rambal, Serge
name: Rebmann, Corinna
name: Rodrigues, Abel D.
name: Rotenberg, Eyal
name: Sanz-Sanchez, Maria José
name: Sedlák, Pavel
name: Seufert, Günther
name: Soussana, Jean-François
name: Valentini, Riccardo
name: Vesala, Timo
name: Verbeeck, Hans
name: Yakir, Dan
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2007

description: We applied a site evaluation approach combining Lagrangian Stochastic footprint modelling with a quality assessment approach for eddy-covariance data to 25 forested sites of the CarboEurope-IP network. The analysis addresses the spatial representativeness of the flux measurements, instrumental effects on data quality, spatial patterns in the data quality, and the performance of the coordinate rotation method. Our findings demonstrate that application of a footprint filter could strengthen the CarboEurope-IP flux database, since only one third of the sites is situated in truly homogeneous terrain. Almost half of the sites experience a significant reduction in eddy-covariance data quality under certain conditions, though these effects are mostly constricted to a small portion of the dataset. Reductions in data quality of the sensible heat flux are mostly induced by characteristics of the surrounding terrain, while the latent heat flux is subject to instrumentation-related problems. The Planar-Fit coordinate rotation proved to be a reliable tool for the majority of the sites using only a single set of rotation angles. Overall, we found a high average data quality for the CarboEurope-IP network, with good representativeness of the measurement data for the specified target land cover types.
description: Biogeosciences Discussions, 4 (6)
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
Primers designed for this study, which were used in sequencing and in QPCR for the three limb development genes and ribosomal 28S in Pogona vitticeps from Expression of a hindlimb-determining factor Pitx1 in the forelimb of the lizard Pogona vitticeps during morphogenesis
Creators: name: Melville, Jane
name: Sumitha Hunjan
name: McLean, Felicity
name: Mantziou, Georgia
name: Boysen, Katja
name: Parry, Laura J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: With over 9000 species, squamates, which include lizards and snakes, are the largest group of reptiles and second-largest order of vertebrates, spanning a vast array of appendicular skeletal morphology. As such, they provide a promising system for examining developmental and molecular processes underlying limb morphology. Using the Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) as the primary study model, we examined limb morphometry throughout embryonic development and characterized the expression of three known developmental genes (GHR, Pitx1 and Shh) from early embryonic stage through to hatchling stage via reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and immunohistochemistry (IHC). In this study, all genes were found to be transcribed in both the forelimb and hindlimbs of P. vitticeps. While the highest level of GHR expression occurred at the hatchling stage, Pitx1 and Shh expression was greatest earlier during embryogenesis, which coincides with the onset of the differentiation between forelimb and hindlimb length. We compared our finding of Pitx1 expression—a hindlimb-determining gene—in the forelimbs of P. vitticeps to that in a closely related Australian agamid lizard, Ctenophorus pictus, where we found Pitx1 expression to be more highly expressed in the hindlimb compared with the forelimb during early and late morphogenesis—a result consistent to that found across other tetrapods. Expression of Pitx1 in forelimbs has only rarely been documented, including via in situ hybridization in a chicken and a frog. Our findings, from both RT-qPCR and IHC, indicate that further research across a wider range of tetrapods is needed to more fully understand evolutionary variation in molecular processes underlying limb morphology.
Anthropogenic and natural methane fluxes in Switzerland synthesized within a spatially-explicit inventory
Creators: name: Hiller, Rebecca V.
name: Bretscher, Daniel
name: DelSontro, Tonya
name: Diem, Torsten
name: Eugster, Werner
name: Henneberger, Ruth
name: Hobi, S.
name: Hodson, Elke L.
name: Imer, Dennis
name: Kreuzer, Michael
name: Künzle, Thomas
name: Merbold, Lutz
name: Niklaus, Pascal Alex
name: Rihm, Beat
name: Schellenberger, A.
name: Schroth, Martin Herbert
name: Schubert, Carsten J.
name: Siegrist, H.
name: Stieger, Jacqueline
name: Buchmann, Nina
name: Brunner, Dominik
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013

description: We present the first high-resolution (500 m × 500 m) gridded methane (CH4) emission inventory for Switzerland, which integrates 90 % of the national emission totals reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and recent CH4 flux studies conducted by research groups across Switzerland. In addition to anthropogenic emissions, we also include natural and semi-natural CH4 fluxes, i.e., emissions from lakes and reservoirs, wetlands, wild animals as well as uptake by forest soils. National CH4 emissions were disaggregated using detailed geostatistical information on source locations and their spatial extent and process- or area-specific emission factors. In Switzerland, the highest CH4 emissions in 2011 originated from the agricultural sector (150 Gg CH4 yr−1), mainly produced by ruminants and manure management, followed by emissions from waste management (15 Gg CH4 yr−1) mainly from landfills and the energy sector (12 Gg CH4 yr−1), which was dominated by emissions from natural gas distribution. Compared with the anthropogenic sources, emissions from natural and semi-natural sources were relatively small (6 Gg CH4 yr−1), making up only 3% of the total emissions in Switzerland. CH4 fluxes from agricultural soils were estimated to be not significantly different from zero (between −1.5 and 0 Gg CH4 yr−1), while forest soils are a CH4 sink (approx. −2.8 Gg CH4 yr−1), partially offsetting other natural emissions. Estimates of uncertainties are provided for the different sources, including an estimate of spatial disaggregation errors deduced from a comparison with a global (EDGAR v4.2) and an European (TNO/MACC) CH4 inventory. This new spatially explicit emission inventory for Switzerland will provide valuable input for regional-scale atmospheric modeling and inverse source estimation.
description: Biogeosciences Discussions, 10
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
Appendix.pdf: Appendix containing extra information regarding media function model selection from Twitter data from A data-driven model for influenza transmission incorporating media effects
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lewis
name: Ross, Joshua V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Numerous studies have attempted to model the effect of mass media on the transmission of diseases such as influenza, however, quantitative data on media engagement has until recently been difficult to obtain. With the recent explosion of ‘big data’ coming from online social media and the like, large volumes of data on a population’s engagement with mass media during an epidemic are becoming available to researchers. In this study, we combine an online dataset comprising millions of shared messages relating to influenza with traditional surveillance data on flu activity to suggest a functional form for the relationship between the two. Using this data, we present a simple deterministic model for influenza dynamics incorporating media effects, and show that such a model helps explain the dynamics of historical influenza outbreaks. Furthermore, through model selection we show that the proposed media function fits historical data better than other media functions proposed in earlier studies.
Temporal and spatial variations of CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes at three differently managed grasslands
Creators: name: Imer, Dennis
name: Merbold, Lutz
name: Eugster, Werner
name: Buchmann, Nina
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013

description: Biogeosciences Discussions, 10
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
Sudden cold temperature regulates the time-lag between plant CO2 uptake and release
Creators: name: Barthel, Matti
name: Cieraad, Ellen
name: Zakharova, Elena A.
name: Hunt, J.E.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013

description: Since substrates for respiration are supplied mainly by recent photo-assimilates, there is a strong but time-lagged link between short-term above- and belowground carbon (C) cycling. However, regulation of this coupling by environmental variables is poorly understood. Whereas recent studies focussed on the effect of drought and shading on the link between above- and belowground short-term C cycling, the effect of temperature remains unclear. We used a 13CO2 pulse-chase labelling experiment to investigate the effect of a sudden temperature change from 25 to 10◦C on the short-term coupling between assimilatory C uptake and respiratory loss. The study was done in the laboratory using two-month-old perennial rye-grass plants (Lolium perenne L.). After label application, the δ13 C signal of respired shoot and root samples was analysed at regular time intervals using laser spectroscopy. In addition, δ13C was analysed in bulk root and shoot samples. Cold temperature (10◦C) reduced the short-term coupling between shoot and roots by delaying belowground transfer of recent assimilates and its subsequent respiratory use, as indicated by the δ13 C signal of root respiration (δ13C RR). That is, the time lag from the actual shoot labelling to the first appearance of the label in 13CRR was about 1.5 times longer under cold temperature. Moreover, analysis of bulk shoot and root material revealed that plants at cold temperature invest relatively more carbon into respiration compared to growth or storage. While the whole plant C turnover increased under cold temperature, the turnover time of the labile C pool decreased, probably because less 13C is used for growth and/or storage. That is, (almost) all recent C remained in the labile pool serving respiration under these conditions. Overall, our results highlight the importance of temperature as a driver of C transport and relative C allocation within the plant–soil system.
description: Biogeosciences Discussions, 10 (11)
description: ISSN:1810-6277
description: ISSN:1810-6285
Old Woman's (House) Cave, Taddington Dale.
Creators: name: Smith, P
name: Frost, E G G
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 54-55
description: Results of investigatory work into the location of Old Woman's House Cave were passed to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and an alteration to the National Monuments Record (NMR) relating to it resulted. The revised version of the relevant section of the record (NMR record SK 17 SE/4) is reproduced here.
Excavation and restoration of the Doll Tor stone circle, Stanton, Derbyshire, 1994.
Creators: name: Barnatt, John W
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 117, 81-85
description: In the spring of 1993 the stone circle at Doll Tor was seriously damaged by persons unknown who 'restored' it prior to holding spring equinox ceremonies there. In 1994 work on site brought together professional archaeologists, students and Peak National Park Rangers in an effort to return the monument to its pre-1993 'restoration' state. The input of different skills allowed a greater understanding of the site to be reached and for the circle to again act as a communal focus, if only for a short time. This publication note is a summary of a detailed archive report which is retained in the Peak National Park Archaeological Archive, Bakewell, and by English Heritage, London.
title: 07 –Entretien avec les azmari Almaz et Ṭašu Gʷäbäzé : chant à propos du roi Yohannes IV
Creators: name: Wion, Anaïs
name: Bolay, Anne
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: chant

description: Le chanteur répond à la demande des interviewers.
title: Priority Based Mobile Edge Cloud Offloading (PBMECO) algorithm for latency sensitive applications
Creators: name: Lindner, Manuel
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Edge Computing
subject: Edge Computing

description: In the last decades, technological improvements have made it possible to increase the complexity in mobile applications and to offer them to a large number of users. Therefore, the concept of task offloading has become an attractive solution for mobile applications to overcome the problems of limited processing capabilities and limited battery life because tasks are sent for execution to a remote infrastructure. Additionally, the concept of Edge Computing has gained considerable attention in recent years to achieve near real-time end-to-end communication, which is possible due to the close proximity of edge servers to mobile devices. In this work, we are tackling the challenge that different tasks of a mobile application need to be treated with different importance to reduce the latency of latency sensitive tasks. Therefore, we have implemented a Priority Based Mobile Edge Cloud Offloading (PBMECO) algorithm, which is operating within an Edge Cloud Computing environment. This means, that the tasks of the mobile application can be either sent to edge nodes or the public cloud. Our approach makes a joint offloading decision based on the pre-defined priorities HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW and the task’s resource requirements. These three priorities can be assigned to each task for both the communication and computation latency to enable more granular differentiation for finding offloading targets. Hereby, the communication latency specifies the importance with respect to network transfer whereas computation latency is used to set the priority for the execution time. We have additionally proposed a simulation framework, which is also used to evaluate our PBMECO implementation. The simulation framework is using Monte Carlo Simulation and we have applied three different real-world mobile applications to get insights about the performance of the algorithm compared to randomly selecting target nodes and ignoring task priorities. Firstly, the simulation results have illustrated that the performance of our solution remains constant when the number of HIGH prioritized tasks increases. Furthermore, the numerical results have shown that the communication latency of HIGH priority tasks can be reduced by up to 65% and it has been demonstrated that our offloading approach can achieve a latency reduction by up to 30% for tasks with computation latency HIGH.
研究-実務間ギャップ： 自然環境政策が必要とする科学的情報・知見とは？
Creators: name: Ohsawa, Takafumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: 本文書は、日本生態学会第63回大会で開催されたシンポジウム「保全科学が挑む情報のギャップ」での著者の講演の一部に基づいて執筆されたものです。 本原稿は保全生態学研究に受理された原稿のプレプリントであり、ここでの記述の内容は査読を経ていないことをご了承ください。査読後の内容は出版された下記論文をご確認いただき、それを引用してご活用ください。
 大澤隆文（2017）研究-実務間ギャップ：自然環境政策が必要とする科学的情報・知見とは？. 保全生態学研究22:55-61.
This manuscript is a pre-print of the paper below that has already been published in Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology. Please note that the information provided in this version has not been peer-reviewed and the published version below, not this manuscript, should be cited.
Ohsawa, T. (2017). Research-implementation gap: What scientific knowledge and insights are needed for policy-making for natural environments? Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology 22:55-61.
要 約： 保全生物学の分野では長年に渡り、科学と実務の間のギャップという課題について対策が進められてきた。本稿では、国際及び国内の両レベルにおいてこのようなギャップの現状を紹介した後、どのような科学的知見がとりわけわが国における保全を進める上で必要とされているかについて論じた。国際的には、例えば生物多様性の愛知目標の裏付け（根拠）やその進捗を計測するために科学的証拠・知見が必要とされる。国内的には、政策立案過程において様々な科学的疑問・課題が急な形で出てくる。また、一部の分野においてはどのような科学的知見が不足しているかを明示している場合もある（例：レッドリストにおける情報不足種や外来生物法における未判定外来生物）。これらを踏まえ、政策立案のために以下三つのタイプの科学的情報を著者は提案する。第一に、実際の保全対策に係る情報（コスト及び効果を含む）。第二に、開発を含む有害な行為・制度による悪影響に係る科学的情報も有用である。そして、上述した外来生物法の未判定外来生物やレッドリストの情報不足種といった情報不足が明らかな生物種についても、基礎的な知見を収集・蓄積することが望まれる。さらに、論文として成果が纏まったものを、保全主体・政策決定者がアクセスしやすく且つ理解しやすい形でフィードバックすることも重要であろう。仮に国際的な一流雑誌に掲載されなくとも、保全行政に役に立つような知見は多数あると期待される。
Abstract： The gap between science and practice has been addressed for a long time in the field of conservation biology. In this article, I introduced such gaps at both the international and domestic levels, and subsequently discussed what kinds of scientific knowledge and insights are needed to promote practical conservation, particularly in Japan. At the international level, scientific evidence is needed, for instance, to give rationales for Aichi Biodiversity Target and measure the extents of the target’s achievement. At the national level, various questions emerge suddenly in policy-making scenes. Besides, some sub-fields declare what scientific information is lacking (e.g., “Data Deficient (DD)” species on the red lists and “Uncategorized Alien species (UAS)” under the Invasive Alien Species Act). I then suggest the following three types of scientific information to meet the demands by policy-making: information on practical conservation measures including their effectiveness and costs, information on impacts of harmful activities and systems on natural environment, and information on specific matters such as DDs and UASs. Additionally, by giving policy-makers such scientific insights this should be done in proper ways. Some of the studies that are not published in academically renowned journals could be still significant on practical conservation.
title: Towards circular resource use: the potential of Extended Producer Responsibility for textile circularity in the EU
Creators: name: Gerstmann, Brigitte Simone
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Textile waste
subject: circular economy
subject: EPR
subject: environmental policy
subject: textile recycling

description: The textile industry has come into the policy spotlight due to growing evidence on negative social and environmental impacts and insufficient resource circularity. However, little is known on how the according policy goals by the EU will look like and how member states can achieve them. The aim of this study was to evaluate Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for their applicability in the textile context, since these instruments proved beneficial in increasing recycling of other product groups. By performing expert interviews, complemented by literature research, this study first explored textile streams along the “waste hierarchy”, followed by an analysis of EPR instruments. The results of this study show that EPR is specifically applicable for clothing, suggest promising textile products to achieve ambitious recycling targets and propose a combined, fourfold EPR approach for textiles: (1) design regulations coupled with product take-back, (2) financial responsibility as advanced fees dedicated to reuse, recycling and disposal, (3) organizational responsibility that integrates pre-existing collection infrastructure and (4) legal initiatives that ensure maximum transparency. Such a combined approach may increase textile circularity, assist in long-term environmental responsibility and create room for innovation in this market that also plays important social roles. Further research is needed to obtain more quantitative data on textile streams and to evaluate the recycling potential of technical and industrial textiles, in particular. This Master’s Thesis contributes to the understanding of EPR applicability in the textile industry. The results may serve as an orientation for the implementation of upcoming EU legislation on textiles.
Arsenic contamination of the Ogosta River floodplain and its environmental impacts
Creators: name: Christl, Iso
name: Simmler, Michael
name: Kotsev, Tsvetan
name: Kretzschmar, Ruben
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Research priorities and progress in faecal sludge dewatering
Creators: name: Ward, Barbara Jeanne
name: Sam, S.
name: Andriessen, N.
name: Morgenroth, Eberhard
name: Strande, Linda
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Sandec News, 19
description: ISSN:1420-5572
Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia, by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner (eds.)
Creators: name: Schär, Bernhard C.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 174 (2-3)
description: ISSN:0006-2294
description: ISSN:1383-5408
Decentralized Optimal Route Navigation
Creators: name: Verma, Trivik
name: Folini, Marc
name: Wang, Yi
name: Heinimann, Hans R.
name: Araújo, Nuno A.M.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019

description: Complex Networks 2018, The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications, December 11-13, 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Book of Abstracts
description: ISBN:978-2-9557050-2-5
Excavations of a Bronze Age cremation burial and multi-period scatters at Horse Pastures, Beeley.
Creators: name: Barnatt, John W
name: Robinson, Frank
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 118, 24-64
description: Reports investigation of a chance discovery on a spur-like section of a river terrace of the Derwent. Further survey failed to locate other burials. However, evaluation trenches produced artefacts spanning the Late Mesolithic to the modern period. An important Meso flint assemblage was discovered, along with evidence for medieval cultivation and manuring. The report is followed by further detail in: `Appendix 1: the excavations' (37--41); `Appendix 2: the cremated bone' by Jacqueline McKinley (41--3); `Appendix 3: charcoal, plant material and radiocarbon dating' (43--6) including `Charcoal' by Rowena Gale (43--5); `Appendix 4: the small finds' (46--60) includes `The collared urn' by Pauline Beswick (46--8), `The copper-alloy knife-dagger' (48--50), `Segmented bone beads' (50--1), `Bone pins' (51), and `Other worked bone' (51--2) all by Julien Parsons, `The pottery sherds' by Pauline Beswick (53--6), and `The lithics' by Andrew Myers (56--60).
A scarp-edge enclosure at Gardom's Edge. Baslow, Derbyshire.
Creators: name: Ainsworth, Stewart
name: Barnatt, John W
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 118, 5-23
description: Reports a D-shaped enclosure, the first in the uplands of northern Britain to be surveyed in detail. There is a short appendix concerning the survey methodology (20).
title: 08 –Entretien avec les azmari Almaz et Ṭašu Gʷäbäzé : chant šäläla
Creators: name: Wion, Anaïs
name: Bolay, Anne
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: chant

description: Chant šäläla
Test-pitting on Bradwell Moor.
Creators: name: Guilbert, Graeme
name: Challis, Keith C
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 118, 65-68
description: Work at the site of a proposed break-pressure reservoir yielded no archaeological features or deposits. Four worked stone artefacts were found, the most notable being a fine Late Neo--EBA chisel arrowhead.
title: Enabling Sustainable Electricity Grid Infrastructure in Europe - Strategies and Challenges in Austria and Switzerland
Creators: name: Pisarevic, Marija
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: electricity infrastructure
subject: grid development
subject: European transmission grid
subject: sustainable grid
subject: energy transition

description: The European electricity infrastructure is essential for a successful energy transition in the future. In that sense, a well-functioning cooperation framework that sets common priorities is indispensable for enabling a sustainable electricity grid. However, planning and permitting procedures are complex undertakings due to various technical, environmental, and legal considerations, mainly on the national level, and extensive scenario analyses and significant interdependencies on the transnational level. By analysing the common cooperation framework on the European level and its relations to the country-specific strategic approaches of Austria and Switzerland, this thesis examines conflicting and common priorities towards reaching the overall goal of a secure, reliable, and sustainable future electricity supply.