cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
D2.8 - MLOs Final Release
Creators: name: Sarkar, Arkopaul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Alignment
Data
Harmonization
Ontology
Standardisation

description: OntoCommons aims at working toward interoperability by means of harmonization with respect to upper-level ontologies and facilitating agreement in domain ontology development. As part of the effort of work package 2, an objective of OntoCommons is to provide alignments among existing MLOs from different TLO branches. This task needs to perform several activities, such as identification of existing MLOs and corresponding disciplines that are to be covered by the alignment effort, the definition of the expected level of alignment that is to be performed for the MLOs and finding gaps in the disciplines which may be filled with new MLO development. In the 18th month of the project, D2.5 was published, describing the methodology, list of disciplines and MLOs considered and other technical details as a beta version of the MLOs. In the following months, the actual development were advanced resulting in several tangible outcomes. These outcomes are currently being served by GitHub repository. Considering these results as the primary content of the deliverable 2.8 and the theoretical part of MLO development strategy already defined as part of D2.5, this report only serves only as a short descriptions of the artefacts produced by 2.5 in terms of MLO harmonisation and how to access them for practical purposes.
Access policies and usage regulations: licenses [Webinar]
Creators: name: Henriksen, Gry
name: Arnesen, Sondre S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: The webinar aimed to look into why it is important that research data are provided with licenses. The webinar consisted of the following sections: Who benefits from sharing research data? Challenges of preserving and sharing research data What is a license? CESSDA Archives licenses A licensing agreement The End User License Creative Commons Creative Commons Licenses Creative Commons License Generator Note: This video is also available for viewing on Youtube.
Investigation in fuel consumption of a hybrid and conventional vehicle
Creators: name: Šmigins, R.
name: Pīrs, V.
name: Berjoza, D.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: hybrid
testing
driving cycle
operating time
article

description: During the last decade the introduction of more environmentally friendly technologies were raised more rapidly by the decline in the global fossil energy resources and the increased negative environmental impact of conventional vehicles. One of such technology is the hybrid, which is currently making the transition from conventional vehicle with internal combustion engine to an electric vehicle. At this time there exist a lot of offers of such vehicles from different manufacturers, but there do not exist many researches connected with real hybrid performance in different road cycles and conditions allowing evaluate its real economical performance. This research was realized with the aim to evaluate performance and fuel consumption of hybrid electric vehicle and its conventional internal combustion engine analogue in laboratory conditions. Tests were realized with two new Toyota Yaris vehicles in Alternative Fuels and Research Laboratory on chassis dynamometer MD-1750 using AVL KMA Mobile system. The results showed better adaptation of Toyota Yaris Hybrid to urban operation, demonstrating 21.3% lower fuel consumption than Toyota Yaris conventional gasoline vehicle, accordingly 7.29 and 8.84 L (100 km)-1.
Aerobic solid-state fermentation of the solid fraction of pig slurry
Creators: name: Uvarov, R.
name: Shalavina, E.
name: Briukhanov, A.
name: Vasilev, E.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: solid-state fermentation
aerobic fermentation
pig slurry
slurry handling
article

description: Current expansion in the pig number in Russia and their concentration in separate locations contribute to higher environmental risks. One key risk factor is the slurry produced. To utilize it more efficiently, many pig farms introduce its solid-liquid separation. The study objective was to explore the feasibility of accelerated aerobic solid-state fermentation of the solid fraction of pig slurry in closed installations. The stable thermophilic process under the temperature above +55 °C achieves shorter processing time of 3–4 days. To date, however, there is no representative evidence of such an experience. Four options of fermented mixture composition were tested based on two types of the solid fraction of pig slurry: Type 1 fraction coming from a screw separator and Type 2 fraction coming from a decanter centrifuge. The fermenter operating modes were tested in the authors’ previous studies associated with processing of the solid fraction of cattle manure and bedding poultry manure. The intensity measure of fermentation was the temperature reached by the processed material in the fermenter. Under the investigated operation modes, the stable temperature was observed for nine days in the mesophilic process: 20 °С to 55 °С; in some cases, the transition to the thermophilic process – above 55 °С was recorded. Adding the catalytic components to the processed material accelerated the substrate self-heating and a higher temperature up to 59 °С was reached. This suggests that the considered operating modes of the fermenter were suitable for the fermentation of the specified substrate.
Design of modified movement planning system as a component of an intelligent planning system for robot manipulator
Creators: name: Nemeikšytė, D.
name: Osadčuks, V.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: static environment
intelligent planning system
neural network
robot manipulator
fuzzy logic
article

description: Different fields of industry and in-service support widely use robots, mechatronic and robotic technology systems in their activities. This is related to growing functionalities that result from using more advanced control systems the development of which is based on available achievements in the technical measures of computing. Therefore, the subject of study in this article was movement of a robot manipulator in using a fuzzy logics and neural network, and the goal of the study was to develop methods for designing combined intelligent planning and control systems for robot-manipulator movement in static dynamic environments based on the combined use of fuzzy logic apparatus and artificial neural networks to reduce the possibility of robotmanipulator's joints colliding into unknown obstacles located in its operating area. Based on this, the robot arm model has been developed after calculating in the article the missing parameters of the experimental robot manipulator in order to analyze the peculiarities of using the fuzzy logics device as well as the specifics and challenges of using neural network. As a result of the study performed in the article, significant data were obtained based on which a method was offered for an intelligent system for planning robot manipulator movement in static environment using a fuzzy blocks, which was characterized by the use of neural network corresponding each block, and localization of each solution to the task of planning robot manipulator movement in each specific situation, which enables to improve the accuracy and efficiency of movement planning.
What happens to peat during bog fires? Thermal transformation processes of peat organic matter
Creators: name: Ozols, V.
name: Silamikele, I.
name: Kalnina, L.
name: Porshnov, D.
name: Arbidans, L.
name: Krumins, J.
name: Klavins, M.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: bog fires
humic substances
peat
recultivation
torrefication
article

description: Bog fires are a serious natural phenomena. Major increase in the number of fires has happened during the last decades due to bog transformation into agricultural lands, accidents and human activities. During bog fires the peat is exposed to high temperatures due to which chemical transformation and even mineralisation of peat can occur. The aim of the study was to analyse the impacts of the bog fires on the bog as an ecosystem, advance the understanding and knowledge of fire impact on peat and humic matter properties and application possibilities. As the material for the study peat samples from burnt sites and thermally treated peat were used. To reveal peat transformation during bog fires, thermogravimetric analysis of peat samples were done, where amounts of bitumens, humic acids and mineral matter were estimated. During bog fires thermal modification of peat properties takes place, resulting in full mineralisation of peat and release of mineral substances. Bog fires lead to development of peat char, bitumens and significant changes in structure and properties of peat humic acids. However, from perspective of application of peat as a substrate and from perspective of impacts on the bog ecosystems, the effects are negligible.
Recognition of retroreflective traffic signs by a vehicle camera system
Creators: name: Khrapova, M.
name: Růžička, M.
name: Trnka, V.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: ADTF
recognition distance
attributes of the sign
TSDR
article

description: The systems of traffic sign recognition are based on the evaluation of three components of every sign: shape, colour and pictogram. There are different factors that can have an influence on the efficiency of detection and recognition of these components. One of the most important factors is the quality of the retroreflective sign surface. Retroreflective sheeting improves the readability of colour and pictogram of traffic sign by increasing brightness of its background and/or legend elements. The aim of the paper is to provide a comprehensive survey of the efficiency of sign’s recognition by a modern vehicle camera system. The traffic sign sheeting was measured by the handled retroreflectometer. Then this measurement was repeated by the modern camera system used for recognition of traffic signs in the vehicle. The results of this paper present the analysis of the recognition efficiency of traffic signs and the overview of other factors that can have a significant impact on sign detection and recognition distance. The results can be used for creation a traffic sign database for learning-based recognition techniques to vehicle camera systems.
Theoretical and experimental research into impact of threshing tools in combine grain harvesters on quality of cereal crop seeds
Creators: name: Derevjanko, D.
name: Holovach, I.
name: Bulgakov, V.
name: Kuvachev, V.
name: Olt, Jüri
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: damage
deformation
drum and rotor threshing apparatus
grain
quality
seed
strength
article

description: The theoretical and experimental research into the micro-damaging of cereal crop seeds in the process of their harvesting by combine grain harvesters in relation to the strains, forces and stresses imparted to them by the threshing tools has been carried out. The propagation of deformations and cracks in the seeds as well as the nature of their strength and the damage that is sustained, when the critical load is applied, have been investigated. It has been established that the onset of cracks, the direction of their propagation and their quantity in the bodies of grain seeds depends in the majority of cases on the direction of action of the external forces and the specifics of the seeds’ internal biological properties. It has been established that the strength of the grain seed is, apart from the arisen cracks, also under the significant effect of the microtraumas in the germ, endosperm as well as the seed coat and shell. Theoretical calculations have been carried out on the PC and the effect that the drum and rotor threshing apparatus have on the deformation and damage sustained by cereal crop seeds has been substantiated. The said calculations and the obtained graphic relations support the results of the experimental investigations and prove that the macro- and especially micro-damage sustained by the seeds of winter wheat and rye is different, when they are threshed with the use of different types of threshing apparatus, which has a considerable impact on the final quality of the harvested cereal crop seeds. The results obtained in the experimental investigations, field and laboratory tests on the topic of the effect of mechanical loading on the sustained damage and quality of seeds indicate that the damage rate accounted for the work processes of the reaping and postharvest treatment of the cereal crop heaps of different winter wheat varieties with the use of rotor threshing apparatus is 3.1% as compared to the drum threshing apparatus – 6.4%, that is, 2 times lower. The total amount of the seeds with microtraumas collected in the hopper after threshing amounts to 23.0% and 54.0%, respectively, which is a significant difference. Similar results have been obtained in the experimental investigations on the effect of the equipment on the sustained damage and quality of seeds in the cleaning, chemical treatment and sowing of cereal crops.
D2.9 - TLO/MLO Guidelines and Recommendations
Creators: name: Sarkar, Arkopaul
name: Masolo, Claudio
name: Zaccarini, Francesco Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OCES Framework
User Manual
Guidelines
Maintenance & Expansion
Technical Principles

description: The objective of D2.9 is to provide best practices and guidelines for the utilization, exploitation, maintenance, and further development of the tools, methodologies, and infrastructure resulting from the efforts of WP2. This guidance is contextualized within the scope of the overall project. This white paper offers an overview of relevant practical and theoretical aspects related to (1) the TRO and (2) the MRO/Bridge-Concepts, presented in D2.7 and D2.8, respectively. As core contributions, D2.9 also includes a detailed discussion of (3) the OCES Framework (OWL), and (4) a list of technical principles endorsed by OntoCommons. This list serves as both effective recommendations that consider the current landscape and state-of-the-art literature and as requirements for stakeholders.
Structural Alteration of Humic Acids by Pseudomonas spp. from Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Diatomite Formations in Northernmost Japan
Creators: name: Ueno, Akio
name: Shimizu, Satoru
name: Tamamura, Shuji
name: Naganuma, Takeshi
name: Ohmi, Yasushi
name: Kaneko, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bacterial utilization of humic acids (HAs) was examined under aerobic conditions using Pseudomonas spp. from diatomite from a depth of 250 m below ground level in the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory. HA decolorization and bacterial aggregation were observed during cultivation when an auxiliary carbon source was added. High-performance size-exclusion chromatography showed that high-molecular-weight HAs were produced. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy indicated that carboxyl groups and polysaccharide-related substances in HAs were eliminated, while aliphatic structural units and amide groups were added to HAs. These results suggested that Pseudomonas spp. utilize and alter the molecular structure of HAs under aerobic conditions caused by the construction of underground facilities.
title: Onboarding an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken
Creators: name: Haarhaus, Resi
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit untersucht Onboarding-Prozesse wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken, insbesondere anhand einer Analyse der Universitätsbibliothek der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Im ersten Teil werden organisationstheoretische und interdisziplinäre Grundlagen beleuchtet. Dabei liegt ein Fokus auf den Herausforderungen, Nutzen und Zielen von Onboarding-Maßnahmen in Abhängigkeit ihres Zeitpunktes und der Zielgruppe. Im Praxisteil werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse auf die spezifischen Anforderungen von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken angewendet. Die Analyse von Onboarding-Prozessen der Universitätsbibliothek der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg beinhaltet eine Mitarbeitendenbefragung von Onboardees und beteiligten Personen. Die Ergebnisse werden nach der SWOT-Methode eingeordnet. Anschließend folgen Konzepte zur Entwicklung von Arbeitsmaterialien, Unterlagen interner Kommunikation und ein Datenbankkonzept. 
Schließlich erfolgt eine ableitende Handlungsempfehlung für eine effektive Umsetzung von Onboarding in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. Das Fazit fasst die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse zusammen, während der Anhang alle Informationen zu den durchgeführten Befragungen, deren Auswertung und die erstellten Arbeitsmaterialien bzw. deren Konzept enthält.
Accounting and the state: transparency as the art of government
Creators: name: Tweedie, Jonathan Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: state transparency
spectacle of transparency
passive citizens
authority of the state
transparency in accounting
external users of transparency
democratic appearance

description: In this thesis, I explore how accounting is used by the British state in order to govern its citizens. Specifically, I investigate the emergence of ‘the transparent state’, the state that claims to make its inner workings visible to its citizens through the publication of vast arrays of online, financial and non-financial information, audit and performance measures, ranking, ratings and statistics. The state claims that the visibility produced by ‘transparency’ is democratising and empowering for its citizens. I consider how this form of visibility compares to the ways in which the state has appeared to and/or concealed itself from its citizens throughout history. Focusing on suicides in prisons in England and Wales as the empirical context for this study, I theorise the relations that are established between the state and the citizen through transparency by drawing on the interrelated notions of ideology and spectacle. In doing so, I make three key contributions. First, I contribute to the literature on transparency in accounting by demonstrating that part of the power and allure of transparency does not derive from its numerical content, but its particular aesthetic form as a pristine and glossy digital representation of complex and messy realities. Second, I develop the literature on transparency by focusing not on the internal organisational effects of demands to be transparent to external others, but on the external users of transparency, proposing that transparency addresses these users as individualised, isolated and passive spectators. Third, I contribute to the literature on accounting and governing in democracy, proposing that in transparency we find not an empowering and democratising practice, but a ‘spectacle’ in which the state produces a democratic appearance, an idealised ‘self-portrait’ of a social order that cannot be touched, changed or argued with. Thought of as such, transparency is an object of ideology par excellence as it deepens the subservience of citizens to the state whilst promising to do precisely the opposite.
urbisphere_presentations_UR-3: Dynamic Anthropogenic actiVities and feedback to Emissions (DAVE): An agent-based model for heat and exposure to other anthropogenic emissions
Creators: name: McGrory, Megan
name: Hertwig, Denise
name: Grimmond, Sue
name: Paskin, Matthew
name: Kam, Pak Him
name: Han, Jiayi
name: Yu, Fang
name: Chen, Yilin
name: Liu, Yiqing
name: Lo Piano, Samuele
name: Ramirez-Mendiola, Jose Luis
name: Smith, Stefan T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: London
DAVE
model
anthropogenic heat flux
building energy
transport
metabolism
ABM
urbisphere
APEx
ASSURE

description: Abstract

Two thirds of global energy consumption, and over 70% of CO2 emissions came from urban areas in 2020, when 56% of the global population lived in towns and cities. It is predicted that further rapid urbanization will lead to almost 70% of the world’s population living in urban areas by 2050 (https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2021). Therefore, for future energy and climate predictions it is key to model urban climates accurately. Modelling urban climates creates several challenges and considerations, including the additional term in the surface energy balance of anthropogenic heat flux (QF). These heat emissions linked to people’s activities vary with human/animal metabolism, transport, and energy consumption within buildings.Here, a bottom-up approach is taken to model QF accounting for both urban form and function allowing a dynamic response to a wide range of factors. The model DAVE (Dynamic Anthropogenic actiVities and feedback to Emissions), informed by a predecessor (DASH, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4891-2020), is coupled to a surface energy balance model (e.g., SUEWS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001), a building energy model (STEBBS, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4891-2020) and a transport model (MATSDA).  Extensive data mining provides the inputs for the building and transport modules (Hertwig et al. 2023 – this meeting), for the cities simulated. People’s dynamic behaviour is informed by probabilities derived from time use surveys (https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8128-1). Combined, the impacts of energy use and exposure in different environments are simulated for both places and people as daily activities occur.  Examples of applications of how the coupled modelling system can be used are to: model the exposure of people to air pollution and heat, for example those from different age or neighbourhood cohorts; model dynamics of energy demand across urban regions; simulate feedbacks between weather and climate on intra-neighbourhood QF emissions.
Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht_et_al_ESM.pdf from High-throughput biodiversity surveying sheds new light on the brightest of insect taxa
Creators: name: Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, Ela
name: Goodsell, Robert M.
name: Bengsson, Bengt-Åke
name: Mutanen, Marko
name: Klinth, Mårten
name: van Dijk, Laura JA
name: Łukasik, Piotr
name: Miraldo, Andreia
name: Andersson, Anders
name: Tack, Ayco Jerome Michel
name: Roslin, Tomas
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary analyses, methods, results, figures and a table
title: 6e Journée Thématique 25 juin 2021 – » Cellules Souches et Organoïdes : Réalités et Perspectives »
Publisher: name: LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies
Year: 2021

description: En cette période un peu trouble de pandémie et de focalisation évidemment justifiée sur la thématique Covid-19 qui de fait occulte un peu tout le reste, nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer la 6e journée thématique de Biotechnocentre intitulée « Cellules souches et organoïdes : réalités et perspectives ». Du fait de la conjoncture, cette journée thématique sera exceptionnellement organisée sous la forme d’un webinaire.
Structural Alteration of Humic Acids by Pseudomonas spp. from Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Diatomite Formations in Northernmost Japan
Creators: name: Ueno, Akio
name: Shimizu, Satoru
name: Tamamura, Shuji
name: Naganuma, Takeshi
name: Ohmi, Yasushi
name: Kaneko, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Bacterial utilization of humic acids (HAs) was examined under aerobic conditions using Pseudomonas spp. from diatomite from a depth of 250 m below ground level in the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory. HA decolorization and bacterial aggregation were observed during cultivation when an auxiliary carbon source was added. High-performance size-exclusion chromatography showed that high-molecular-weight HAs were produced. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy indicated that carboxyl groups and polysaccharide-related substances in HAs were eliminated, while aliphatic structural units and amide groups were added to HAs. These results suggested that Pseudomonas spp. utilize and alter the molecular structure of HAs under aerobic conditions caused by the construction of underground facilities.
urbisphere_presentations_UR-2: Connecting physical and socio-economic spaces for urban agent-based modelling
Creators: name: Hertwig, Denise
name: McGrory, Megan
name: Paskin, Matthew
name: Lo Piano, Samuele
name: Liu, Yiqing
name: Ramirez-Mendiola, Jose Luis
name: Smith, Stefan T.
name: Grimmond, Sue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: London
model data
DAVE
ABM
urbisphere
APEx
ASSURE

description: Abstract

Holistic approaches for urban modelling need to simultaneously consider the urban form, i.e., the physical characteristics of a city (e.g., urban surfaces, building morphology and fabric), urban function driven by economic, societal, cultural activities, and human behaviour. DAVE (Dynamic Anthropogenic actiVities and feedback to Emissions) is an agent-based modelling system that connects physical and socio-economic urban spaces (McGrory et al. 2023 – this meeting) to model anthropogenic heat emissions and assess human exposure to heat stress and air pollution. In this approach, humans are modelled as active components of the urban system and human exposure to and impact on urban environmental stressors are dynamic. DAVE is intended to dynamically respond to changes of multiple drivers (e.g., urban background climate, physical environment, socio-economic factors). The spatio-temporal complexity and variability of urban form, function, human behaviour and climate puts high demands on the input data needed for DAVE.This poster presents a discussion on the approach taken to mine, process, connect and harmonise geo-spatial and socio-economic data sources for city-scale simulations based on the example of London, UK. This includes the generation of suitable building archetypes for the building-energy modelling (BEM) component of DAVE, encompassing assessments of building function, morphology and household size / occupancy. Using time-use surveys (TUS), domestic occupancy and appliance use profiles are generated for the BEM. Movement schedules of citizens of different demographic groups between different socio-economic areas of activity (e.g., home, work, school, shops, restaurants) are also based on TUS information and statistically invoked in the model. Non-domestic / commercial areas of activity and associated building archetypes are characterised by their baseline energy-demand. Available travel routes for different modes within the city are informed by public transport stops and timetables as well as the road network density and speed limits. DAVE is coupled to a land-surface model, for which landcover and morphology information is provided.
Acid-Base Buffer Properties of Heterogeneous Multicomponent Extraction Systems
Creators: name: Povar, Igor
name: Spinu, Oxana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The quantitative basis of the theory of buffer properties for two-phase acid-base buffer systems was derived. The analytical equations for buffer action with respect to all components βi of acid-base pairs for diverse multicomponent systems were deduced. A remarkable relation of proportionality was found between quantities . In heterogeneous systems the maximum buffer capacity occurs when is equal to , ( and are the dissociation and repartition constants, respectively). The nature of synergic buffer action in two-phase systems by formation of mixed species in organic phase was explained. Agreement between theoretical and experimental data is excellent for all the studied buffer systems.
Researcher RDM Surveys, Interviews and Case Studies
Creators: name: Lewis, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: A list of links to published reports and datasets resulting from surveys, interviews and case studies of researcher's RDM practices. Also a list of links to Data Asset Framework (DAF) implementation project reports, and data interview methods.
Investigation of the anticorrosion performance of lignin coatings after crosslinking with triethyl phosphate and their adhesion to a polyurethane topcoat
Creators: name: Dastpak, A.
name: Wilson, B.P.
name: Lundström, M.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: corrosion protection
kraft lignin
organosolv lignin
triethyl phosphate crosslinker
sustainable coatings
article

description: This study investigates the anticorrosion properties of sustainable organic coatings, which were prepared by dissolution of two different types of technical lignins - organosolv lignin (OL) and kraft lignin (KL) - in an organic solvent and applied onto iron-phosphated steel by airassisted spray coating. Influence of triethyl phosphate (TEP) as a crosslinking agent for lignin and its effect on the anticorrosion properties of coatings during 24 h of immersion in 3.5% NaCl were investigated. Results obtained from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) of coated steels suggest that the initial protection performance (1 h immersion) of non-crosslinked OL is higher than that of KL. Nevertheless, KL coatings that contained TEP and were heat-treated at elevated temperature (180 °C) demonstrated the best overall anticorrosion performance. In contrast, a similar trend was not observed for OL coatings, which indicates that the structural properties of lignin may be a crucial factor in applicability of TEP as a crosslinking agent. In addition, a layer of polyurethane was applied on all the different types of lignin coatings prepared and their adhesion characteristics were studied by crosscut adhesion measurements (ISO 2409). These adhesion results revealed that neither KL-TEP nor OL-TEP coatings demonstrate proper adhesive characteristics with a polyurethane (PU) topcoat and consequently these coatings are not suitable for utilization as a primer coating for the PU topcoat studied.
Biochemical responses of 5 buckwheat (Fagopirum esculentum Moench.) cultivars to seed treatment by Azospirillum brasilense
Creators: name: Honchar, L.
name: Mazurenko, B.
name: Sonko, R.
name: Kyrpa-Nesmiian, T.
name: Kovalenko, R.
name: Kalenska, S.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: buckwheat
malondialdehyde (MDA)
fructans
fluorescence
article

description: Cultivation condition have a large effect on efficiency of buckwheat. Drought, high temperatures and their fluctuations, salinity, oxygen deficit in the soil, ultraviolet radiation, and abnormal nutrient content in the soil are the most common reasons of decreasing productivity of plants. Suboptimal parameters of the cultivation technology can also cause abiotic stress. Plant can decrease its efficiency from 30% to 50% depend on stress conditions. Using bacterial cultures is one of the preventive approaches to overcoming the negative impact of stressors. Microorganisms produce biologically active substances that stimulate plant growth, increase their resistance to abiotic factors. They are growth regulators and long-acting anti-stressants as well. Malondialdehyde (MDA) is formed as a result of the oxidative degradation of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Fructans are polysaccharides that are derived from D-fructose residues found in higher plants, green algae and bacteria. Fructans are involved in the adaptation of plants to the action of abiotic stressors and are valuable nutrients. The effect of Azospirillum brasilense pre-sowing treatment of buckwheat seeds on physiological and biochemical processes of MDA and fructan content was researched. Seed treatment with Azospirillun brasilense reduced the content of MDA in Ukrayinka and Syn 3/02. Sofia and Olga had a low level of MDA, but seed treatment increase it. Seed treatment increased the efficiency of photosynthesis (Fv / Fm) in Syn 3/02 from 0.58 to 0.72; in other varieties this effect was negligible. All cultivars have a strong relation between MDA and fructan content, that shows their participation in responses on cultivation conditions. Efficiency of photosynthesis in flowering–seed formation stage (BBCH 65–75) was close to maximum in field condition(0.70 ± 0.05) and seed treatment can increase it.
Antioxidant activity and chemical composition of three Tunisian Cistus: Cistus monspeliensisCistus villosus and Cistus libanotis☆
Creators: name: Nicoletti, Marcello
name: Toniolo, Chiara
name: Venditti, Alessandro
name: Bruno, Maurizio
name: Mariem Ben Jemia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The chemical composition of three rockrose Cistus species, Cistus monspeliensis, Cistus libanotis and Cistus villosus, collected in Tunisia, was studied by HPTLC, focusing on the terpenes and phenols constituents. Diterpenes of Cistus are important as the main constituents of the leaf sticky aromatic resin, known as labdanum, which are highly appreciated in perfumery. Polyphenols in the methanolic extracts of each species were identified, quantified as total and as flavonoids and tannins, and tested for antioxidant activity. Diterpenes were evident in C. libanotis and C. monspeliensis, whereas they were practically absent in C. villosus; C. libanotis had higher phenolic amount, whereas antioxidant activities were important, but different according to the following tests: DPPH radical scavenging, conversion of the Fe3+/ferricyanide complex and inhibition of β-carotene bleaching. The reported data confirm the validity of utilisation of Cistus sp. in marketed herbal products, as well as the relevant presence of diterpenes in species actually not used for labdanum production.
Supplementary document for Direct observation of the transition from spin waves to the magnon Bose condensate - 6744082.pdf
Creators: name: Bunkov, Yury
name: KNYAZEV, GRIGORIY
name: Kuzmichev, Aleksey
name: Petrov, Petr
name: Savochkin, Igor
name: Vetoshko, Petr
name: Belotelov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supliment
Acid-Base Buffer Properties of Heterogeneous Multicomponent Extraction Systems
Creators: name: Povar, Igor
name: Spinu, Oxana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The quantitative basis of the theory of buffer properties for two-phase acid-base buffer systems was derived. The analytical equations for buffer action with respect to all components of acid-base pairs for diverse multicomponent systems were deduced. A remarkable relation of proportionality was found between quantities. In heterogeneous systems the maximum buffer capacity occurs when is equal to, ( and are the dissociation and repartition constants respectively). The nature of synergic buffer action in two-phase systems by formation of mixed species in organic phase was explained. Agreement between theoretical and experimental data is excellent for all the studied buffer systems.
Statistical analysis of chemical element compositions in food science: problems and possibilities
Creators: name: Templ, Matthias
name: Templ, Barbara
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft

description: In recent years, many analyses have been carried out to investigate the chemical components of food data. However, studies rarely consider the compositional pitfalls of such analyses. This is problematic as it may lead to arbitrary results when non-compositional statistical analysis is applied to compositional datasets. In this study, compositional data analysis (CoDa), which is widely used in other research fields, is compared with classical statistical analysis to demonstrate how the results vary depending on the approach and to show the best possible statistical analysis. For example, honey and saffron are highly susceptible to adulteration and imitation, so the determination of their chemical elements requires the best possible statistical analysis. Our study demonstrated how principle component analysis (PCA) and classification results are influenced by the pre-processing steps conducted on the raw data, and the replacement strategies for missing values and non-detects. Furthermore, it demonstrated the differences in results when compositional and non-compositional methods were applied. Our results suggested that the outcome of the log-ratio analysis provided better separation between the pure and adulterated data and allowed for easier interpretability of the results and a higher accuracy of classification. Similarly, it showed that classification with artificial neural networks (ANNs) works poorly if the CoDa pre-processing steps are left out. From these results, we advise the application of CoDa methods for analyses of the chemical elements of food and for the characterization and authentication of food products.
urbisphere_presentations_UR-1: Modelling anthropogenic heat emissions from residential buildings-comparison between Berlin and London
Creators: name: Hertwig, Denise
name: Liu, Yiqing
name: McGrory, Megan
name: Paskin, Matthew
name: Frid, Martina
name: Han, Jiayi
name: Chen, Yilin
name: Lo Piano, Samuele
name: Ramirez-Mendiola, Jose Luis
name: Smith, Stefan T.
name: Grimmond, Sue
name: Tsirantonakis, Dimitris
name: Poursanidis, Dimitris
name: Somarakis, Giorgos
name: Chrysoulakis, Nektarios
name: Iqbal, Nimra
name: Wendnagel-Beck, Andrea
name: Ravan, Marvin
name: Birkmann, Jörn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: London
Berlin
STEBBS
urbisphere
anthropogenic heat flux
buildings
building energy model
APEx
ASSURE

description: Abstract

Heat emissions from buildings in many cities play an important role for the urban surface energy balance (USEB) and the urban micro-climate. Heat generated indoors from human activities (e.g., use of electrical appliances, space heating, metabolic rate) is conducted through the building fabric and affects the USEB through long-wave radiation and turbulent sensible heat flux. The radiative and thermal properties of materials used in the building’s structural components (e.g., external walls, roof, windows) determine the storage of heat in the building volume and therefore the rate and timing of heat exchange between indoor and outdoor environments. This also affects the overall indoor thermal comfort.We use a building energy model (STEBBS – Simplified Thermal Energy Balance for Buildings Scheme) to simulate and compare the anthropogenic heat flux from residential buildings in the city centres of London, UK, and Berlin, Germany, in different seasons. Occupancy schedules and timings of indoor heat gains for STEBBS can be determined from the agent-based model DAVE (Dynamic Anthropogenic actiVities and feedback to Emissions; McGrory et al. – this meeting). Both cities feature a diverse set of building types (determined by common morphological attributes) and a range of typical construction types that are derived from information on building age bands, building regulations and building typologies (EPISCOPE, TABULA). This poster discusses the generation of characteristic and comparable building archetypes for the two cities, considering and discussing differences in morphology markers (e.g., building height, volume, exposed walls), building age, construction materials (e.g., presence or not of wall insulation, roof types) and the typical state of refurbishment / retrofitting of the residential building stock. Seasonal diurnal variations of the building energy balance in terms of energy consumption, turbulent sensible heat flux and net storage heat flux are compared for common building archetypes in the two cities to assess the main controls on the anthropogenic heat emissions into the urban canopy layer.
Comparison of phosphorus removal efficiency of conventional activated sludge system and sequencing batch reactors in a wastewater treatment plant
Creators: name: Denisova, V.
name: Tihomirova, K.
name: Neilands, J.
name: Gruskevica, K.
name: Mezule, L.
name: Juhna, T.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: phosphorus removal
activated sludge process
SBR
aerobic granules
wastewater treatment plant
article

description: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness application of sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) for phosphorus removal compared to the conventional activated sludge (CAS) treatment system. The results showed that the removal efficiency of phosphorus reached about 99% at wastewater treatment plant with CAS system. At the same time, the maximum phosphorus removal efficiency can be achieved to 88% if the SBRs system operating parameters are optimized. Finally, this study demonstrated that even if granules are not fully developed, the SBR system is working with a good efficiency.
Active querying approach to epidemic source detection on contact networks
Creators: name: Sterchi, Martin
name: Hilfiker, Lorenz
name: Grütter, Rolf
name: Bernstein, Abraham
Publisher: name: Nature
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft

description: The problem of identifying the source of an epidemic (also called patient zero) given a network of contacts and a set of infected individuals has attracted interest from a broad range of research communities. The successful and timely identification of the source can prevent a lot of harm as the number of possible infection routes can be narrowed down and potentially infected individuals can be isolated. Previous research on this topic often assumes that it is possible to observe the state of a substantial fraction of individuals in the network before attempting to identify the source. We, on the contrary, assume that observing the state of individuals in the network is costly or difficult and, hence, only the state of one or few individuals is initially observed. Moreover, we presume that not only the source is unknown, but also the duration for which the epidemic has evolved. From this more general problem setting a need to query the state of other (so far unobserved) individuals arises. In analogy with active learning, this leads us to formulate the active querying problem. In the active querying problem, we alternate between a source inference step and a querying step. For the source inference step, we rely on existing work but take a Bayesian perspective by putting a prior on the duration of the epidemic. In the querying step, we aim to query the states of individuals that provide the most information about the source of the epidemic, and to this end, we propose strategies inspired by the active learning literature. Our results are strongly in favor of a querying strategy that selects individuals for whom the disagreement between individual predictions, made by all possible sources separately, and a consensus prediction is maximal. Our approach is flexible and, in particular, can be applied to static as well as temporal networks. To demonstrate our approach’s practical importance, we experiment with three empirical (temporal) contact networks: a network of pig movements, a network of sexual contacts, and a network of face-to-face contacts between residents of a village in Malawi. The results show that active querying strategies can lead to substantially improved source inference results as compared to baseline heuristics. In fact, querying only a small fraction of nodes in a network is often enough to achieve a source inference performance comparable to a situation where the infection states of all nodes are known.
Dispacamide E and other bioactive bromopyrrole alkaloids from two Indonesian marine sponges of the genus Stylissa
Creators: name: Ebada, Sherif S.
name: Linh, Mai Hoang
name: Longeon, Arlette
name: Voogd, Nicole J. De
name: Durieu, Emilie
name: Meijer, Laurent
name: Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki
name: Singab, Abdel Nasser B.
name: Müller, Werner E.G.
name: Proksch, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Chemical investigation of methanolic extracts of the two Indonesian marine sponges Stylissa massa and Stylissa flabelliformis yielded 25 bromopyrrole alkaloids including 2 new metabolites. The structures of all isolated compounds were unambiguously elucidated based on extensive 1D and 2D NMR, LR-MS and HR-MS analyses. All isolated compounds were assayed for their antiproliferative and protein kinase inhibitory activities. Several of the tested compounds revealed selective activity(ies) which suggested preliminary SARs of the isolated bromopyrrole alkaloids.
Alnuheptanoid A: a new diarylheptanoid derivative from Alnus japonica
Creators: name: Sabrin R.M. Ibrahim
name: Fouad, Mostafa A.
name: Abdel-Lateff, Ahmed
name: Okino, Tatsufumi
name: Mohamed, Gamal A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Extensive chromatographic investigation of the ethanolic extract of Alnus japonica Steud stem bark led to the isolation of a new diarylheptanoid named alnuheptanoid A [(5S)-7-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-5-methoxyheptan-3-one] (8), together with seven known diarylheptanoid derivatives: platyphyllenone (5), (5S)-1,7-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-5-methoxyheptan-3-one (6), 1-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-7-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4-hepten-3-one (7), hirsutenone (9), (5R)-O-methylhirsutanonol (10), hirsutanonol (11) and oregonin (13), three triterpenes: α-amyrin (1), betulinaldehyde (3) and betulinic acid (4), and two sterols: β-sitosterol (2) and daucosterol (12). Compound 6 was isolated for the first time from natural source. The structures of the isolated compounds were determined on the basis of spectroscopic measurements (UV, IR, HR-ESI-MS, 1D and 2D NMR).
Maximilien-Louis de Buissy
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre