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Nitrogen Recovery via Aquaponics–Bioponics: Engineering Considerations and Perspectives (2021)

Nitrogen, a critically important nutrient that boosts yields in agriculture and food production, is currently overused to meet the rising demand for food. Surplus nitrogen ends up in the environment in excess of the capacity of natural nitrogen cycle, thereby leading to serious environmental pollutions, such as eutrophication of water bodies and emission of nitrous oxide (a highly potent greenhouse gas) to atmosphere. Aquaponics–bioponics is an emerging soilless technology for nitrogen recovery that links organic vegetable production to aquaculture effluent remediation (aquaponics) or organic waste recycling (bioponics). This Review presents the concept of aquaponics–bioponics for nitrogen recovery. Nitrogen transformations and nitrogen mass distributions in aquaponic–bioponic systems are critically discussed, along with the nutrient availability of several organic composts that can be integrated with the systems, and the microbial communities involved. This discussion is followed by a dynamic nitrogen modeling for managing nitrogen from different wastes in aquaponics–bioponics. Various emerging engineering technologies that could improve aquaponics–bioponics are presented, including aeration with microbubbles and/or nanobubbles, cocultivation with algae, process automation with Internet of Things, and integration with indoor vertical farming (plant factory with artificial light). Overall, the Review lays out the state-of-art in aquaponics–bioponics and highlights potential approaches for developing highly efficient nitrogen recovery technologies from diverse organic waste streams.
Risk factors for unassisted on-farm death in Swedish dairy cows (2014)

Abstract Increased on-farm cow mortality (ie unassisted death and euthanasia) has been demonstrated in Swedish dairy herds during the last decade. Identifying risk factors associated with type of death is needed for future work in reducing cow mortality rates. The objectives of this case-control study were to quantify the relative proportion of unassisted dead cows among cows that die on-farm, and to identify risk factors associated with unassisted death (as opposed to euthanasia). In Sweden, cadavers and animal waste products are being processed into biofuel at destruction plants. Two destruction plants were visited three times in 2011-2012. All dairy cows (n = 556) entering the plants were examined. Farmers that had sent the cows were contacted by telephone to verify type of death. Of the 433 dairy cows included in the analysis, 30% had died unassisted. A stillbirth rate above or equal to the median in the study material (7%) increased the risk for unassisted death. The proportion of unassisted dead cows was lower than that found in other countries. The results indicate that it might be possible to study euthanasia and unassisted death as one group in Swedish dairy cows, because only one factor differentiating between the two types of death was identified. However, unidentified risk factors may still differ and, possibly more importantly, welfare implications may also differ between the two types of death which implies the need to separate them in future studies.
Review: Aspects of the Origin of Life, by M. Florkin (1961)

Book Review| May 01 1961 Review: Aspects of the Origin of Life, by M. Florkin Aspects of the Origin of LifeM. Florkin Charles W. Hagen,, Jr. Charles W. Hagen,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (1961) 23 (5): 300. https://doi.org/10.2307/4439602 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Charles W. Hagen,; Review: Aspects of the Origin of Life, by M. Florkin. The American Biology Teacher 1 May 1961; 23 (5): 300. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/4439602 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
Immunosuppressive therapy influences the accelerated age-dependent T-helper cell differentiation in systemic lupus erythematosus remission patients (2018)

Our data reveal that the currently used immunosuppressive therapy has a favorable effect on the differentiation and proliferation of Tresps but has a rather unfavorable effect on the proliferation of Tregs. Newer substances with more specific effects on the immune system would be desirable.
Fabrication of Multi-Layered Thermoelectric Thick Films and their Thermoelectric Performance (2009)

We report the fabrication of p- and n-type thermoelectric oxide thick films laminated by insulating alumina using electrophoretic deposition and their thermoelectric performance. From the experimental studies performed for optimization of the thermoelectric performance in the p- and n-type mono-layers, the control of sintering temperature for densification and the usage of fine powder were effective for reducing the electrical resistivity of thermoelectric layers. These findings could be applicable also to the triple-layered thick films. When one assumes that two triple-layered films of p- and n-type thermoelectric materials are combined as unicouple of thermoelectric module, an estimated maximum output power was 20 times higher than a measured maximum output power of a previously reported multi-layered thermoelectric module. It was found that precise control of the microstructure in the thermoelectric layers is indispensable for development of the thermoelectric modules based on the electrophoretic deposition.
Change and adaptive maintenance detection in Java software systems (2002)

Java is a relatively new programming language that is gaining popularity due to its network-centric features and platform independence (Write Once, Run Anywhere). This popularity has caused rapid evolution in the libraries that are available for Java applications. This evolution, in combination with Java's run-time linking, may cause incompatibilities between an application and the library it depends on: an application may execute with a different library version than the one it was compiled for. This paper presents techniques to automatically detect change in a library from its bytecode (binary) representation, and to apply the impact of those changes to any Java application. This paper also includes results of change detection experiments performed on the standard Java library (JDK).
A Blog-Based Peer Assessment Model to Support Pupils’ Composition Activity (2010)

In this study, we design a blog-based peer assessment composition model for the elementary school students and try to identify the specific benefits of the blog-based assessment. This study spent effort to explain the characteristics of blog-based peer assessment through designing a composition model. In addition, the preliminary evaluation to understand teachers’ initial opinions about this composition model was also provided.
Feature Detection of a Contacting Object with an Image Based Compliant Tactile Sensor (1996)

This paper presents a prototype of an image based compliant tactile sensor for soft fingers. The sensor measures an indent of the rubber skin using stereo vision. And this sensor detects features of a contacting object.
Magnetic Properties of Tb/Fe Multilayers (1992)

Tb/Fe multilayer films with Fe/Tb layer thickness ratios of 1/1 and 1/2 were prepared on glass substrate by rf sputtering. The Fe layers were poly-crystalline when their thickness d <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Fe</inf> was greater than 17 Å. When d <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Fe</inf> was less than or near 17 Å, the Fe layer became amorphous. Films with d <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Fe</inf> =17 Å exhibited small magnetizations and spin glass-like magnetization curves, because of the antiferromagnetic nature of amorphous Fe. Magnetic properties changed as a result of changes in the crystallographic structure.
Introduction to the Financing of Cross-Border Gas Pipelines in Emerging Nations (2003)

With oil companies intent on commercialising stranded gas reserves and developing countries anxious to maximise their exports or find cleaner energy sources for their industries, increased attention is being focused on cross-border natural gas pipeline projects in emerging nations. This article examines the financing considerations necessary to make the project bankable.
Synthesis and Reactivity of a Super‐Reactive Metastable Intermolecular Composite Formulation of Al/KMnO4 (2005)

A new metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) which employs KMnO4 nanoparticles as the oxidizer has been developed for energetic-material applications. The nanoparticles are synthesized by a spray-drying process, and a strong correlation between pressurization rates (measurement schematic shown in Figure) for several MIC combinations and the fraction of reactive oxygen present in the combustion product is observed.
An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment (1999)

A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so that the enterprises can react quickly and accurately to the ever changing market dynamics. In such an integrated P/E environment it is, at times, necessary to bring in a new application in order to replace an outmoded one or to provide functionality that is not available in the existing environment. The process of introducing a new application, Application Initialization, is very complicated and can be extremely costly in terms of time and resources. In this paper we propose a multi-agent system (MAS) to assist with the application initialization process. A collection of eight agents with specialized expertise is assembled to carry out the operational steps of the initialization process. These agents interact with each other, with other applications in the environment, and with the human specialist in the process. All agents speak KQML language, supported by Jackal, a JAVA based, light-weighted and flexible agent communication infrastructure we have developed. The MAS is tested with an integrated environment involving real P/E applications. The success of the experiment demonstrates that MAS is a technically viable approach for providing flexible and inexpensive solutions to difficult tasks (application initialization and others) in the integration of manufacturing planning and execution.
Dose determination using alanine detectors in a mixed neutron and gamma field for boron neutron capture therapy of liver malignancies (2011)

Alanine dosimeters, in combination with flux measurements and Monte Carlo calculations with FLUKA, suggest that it is possible to establish a system for monitoring the dose in a mixed neutron and gamma field for BNCT and other applications in radiotherapy.
Assigning Relative Importance to Scene Elements (2017)

The human brain is able to rapidly understand scenes through the recognition of their composing elements and comprehension of the role that each of them plays. This process, related to human perception, impacts in what people care when they see an image and the priority they give to each element. The idea of priority, also referred as importance, is based on biological features of perception and social aspects that interfere in how people perceive what they see and what is considered relevant. In this context, this paper proposes the Element Importance Relative Assignment (EIRA), an approach that models how humans attribute importance to elements in a scene. This approach is based on perceptual, compositional and contextual features employed to assign importance to elements in a scene. To evaluate the proposed approach, tests are conducted in different image datasets with emphasis on the UIUC Pascal Sentence Dataset, where our approach achieves an average accuracy of 86.89%.
Concours pour l'année 1914. Section d'histoire et des lettres - Sixième question: Faire une étude critique des thèses soutenues jusqu'ici sur la parenté qui existe entre l'Apologétique de Tertullien et l'Octavius de Minucius Felix, et particulièrement de la thèse récente de M. Richard Heinze. - Prix : huit cents francs. (1914)

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Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computing frontiers (2007)

It is our pleasure to introduce the 2007 edition of the International Conference on Computing Frontiers. The goal of this conference is to peer into the future of computing, to expose researchers in various computing disciplines to each others' work, and to explore extreme and novel ideas pushing computing to its limits. This year's program spans a wide range of topics, including technology-driven, embedded and highperformance architectures, massively parallel systems, software for emerging systems, and quantum computing. Besides the regular sessions, we have added three keynotes on topics that reflect the contents of the proceeding.

In order to have a reliable evaluation of research papers in such a wide variety of research areas, we decided early on to organize the program committee in six tracks, each headed by a world-class expert acting as vice program chair. We were very fortunate to be able to convince the best people our community can offer to act as vice chair. The vice chairs recruited program committee members specialized in the area covered by their track. As you can tell, the list of program committee members is long and distinguished. By delegating the decision process to vice chairs we were able to get recommendations from experts in each area of research.

After the paper submission deadline, we assigned each paper to the most appropriate track. To provide a substantive and fair evaluation of each paper, each paper was assigned to at least four program committee members and, in some cases, a paper was also reviewed by external reviewers. At the end we collected an average of 4.3 reviews per paper (242 reviews for 56 papers). After recommendations from the vice chairs and deliberations across all tracks, we decided to accept 28 papers.
Mobile intelligent agent systems: WAVE vs. JAVA (2002)

We examine and contrast two interesting systems which are at the two ends of the scale in their ability to support program mobility: JAVA and WAVE. JAVA offers a useful combination of some of the most attractive features in conventional programming languages and environments. It supports distributed computing and TCP/IP protocols (e.g. HTTP), and allows transparent access to objects across the net via URLs. New interactive code modules can be dynamically loaded and linked on demand from a variety of distributed sources, thus supporting to some extent the implementation of mobile intelligent agents. WAVE, on the other hand, offers a completely new programming paradigm, which directly supports dynamic creation and processing of arbitrary knowledge networks. In WAVE, programs ("waves") can be injected from arbitrary points in the distributed system, roam in the network in a virus-like mode, while replicating into parallel instances, and coordinating with each other, without any centralized control. Different waves can cooperate in a distributed space, thereby forming dynamic societies which may collectively perform complex knowledge processing.
[Percutaneous reanastomosis of a transplanted kidney]. (1987)

A case of a successful percutaneous reanastomosis of a transplanted kidney is reported. The kidney had already been operated on several times. The kidney-ureter anastomosis was occluded. Using a combination of ureteroscopy and the percutaneous technique, the old anastomosis was bypassed and a new one was made.
Semantic Analytics and Ontologies (2013)

In today’s fast-paced global economy, changes in the environment result in new opportunities for wealth creation that decision makers use in strategy formulation and implementation. Organizations have grown global by not only expanding businesses and setting up branches overseas, but they have grown global in a different kind of way-leveraging on knowledge tapped globally rather than merely growing outward from a domestic base. In organizations, information from various departments and functions, as well as formal and informal sources of information, are boughtIntroduction ........................................................................................................1 The Need for Data Governance ........................................................................2 Place for Data Governance in Organizational Strategy .................................3 Data Governance across Intrafirm Networks .................................................4 Data Governance Characteristics of Organizations through Their Life Cycle .............................................................................................................5 Data Governance Program ................................................................................7 Benefits from Data Governance .......................................................................9 Data Quality and Data Governance Process .................................................10 Data Governance and Master Data Management ........................................13 Managing Risk with Data Governance ..........................................................13 Information Governance and Cloud Computing ........................................14 Conclusion ........................................................................................................15 References ..........................................................................................................16 Further Readings ..............................................................................................16together to detect and interpret problem areas, identify opportunities, and implement strategic objectives. Strategies define the purpose of organizations, the competitive domain of firms, and the resource commitment these organizations make to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Hence, developing an appropriate data strategy that fits the marketplace is one necessary ingredient for business success. Effective data governance reduces uncertainty and helps improve an organization’s performance. An organization’s ability to collect pertinent information and act on signals that others miss provides it a strategic advantage.
A novel bifunctional histone protein in Streptomyces : a candidate for structural coupling between DNA conformation and transcription during development and stress? (2013)

Antibiotic-producing Streptomyces are complex bacteria that remodel global transcription patterns and their nucleoids during development. Here, we describe a novel developmentally regulated nucleoid-associated protein, DdbA, of the genus that consists of an N-terminal DNA-binding histone H1-like domain and a C-terminal DksA-like domain that can potentially modulate RNA polymerase activity in conjunction with ppGpp. Owing to its N-terminal domain, the protein can efficiently bind and condense DNA in vitro. Loss of function of this DNA-binding protein results in changes in both DNA condensation during development and the ability to adjust DNA supercoiling in response to osmotic stress. Initial analysis of the DksA-like activity of DdbA indicates that overexpression of the protein suppresses a conditional deficiency in antibiotic production of relA mutants that are unable to synthesise ppGpp, just as DksA overexpression in Escherichia coli can suppress ppGpp(0) phenotypes. The null mutant is also sensitive to oxidative stress owing to impaired upregulation of transcription of sigR, encoding an alternative sigma factor. Consequently, we propose this bifunctional histone-like protein as a candidate that could structurally couple changes in DNA conformation and transcription during the streptomycete life-cycle and in response to stress.
Silicone Breast Implants as Predisposing Factor for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: An Additional Facet of Auto-Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvant (2014)

Autoimmune disorders are already established as risk factors for 			later development of lymphoproliferative disease, i.e. non-Hodgkin’s 			lymphoma (NHL). The recently defined a utoimmunity 			syndrome induced by a djuvants (ASIA syndrome) 			involves autoimmunity ignited by the mere presence of various 			adjuvants (e.g. components of certain vaccines) triggering 			autoimmunity. A causative relation between ASIA-related autoimmunity 			and later development of NHL has not yet been shown. The current 			case presents a 77-year-old patient, diagnosed to have NHL 13 years 			following cosmetic bilateral breast augmentation (with silicone 			implants) surgery. The authors regard the silicone implants of this 			patient as the trigger for ASIA syndrome later causing her 			subsequent lymphoproliferative disease. J Med Cases. 2014;5(7):413-416 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc1828w
Pyridinium N-phenolate betaine dyes as empirical indicators of solvent polarity: Some new findings (2004)

Abstract Solutions of the zwitterionic betaine dye 4-(2,4,6-triphenylpyridinium-1-yl)-2,6-di- phenylphenolate are solvatochromic, thermochromic, piezochromic, and halochromic. That means the position of its longest-wavelength intramolecular charge-transfer absorption band depends on solvent polarity, solution temperature, external pressure, and the nature and concentration of added salts. The extraordinarily large negative solvatochromism of this standard betaine dye has been used to establish UV/vis spectroscopically an empirical scale of solvent polarity, called E T (30), respectively E T N scale, meanwhile known for many organic solvents and solvent mixtures. In this review, the solvatochromic properties of some new hydrophilic and lipophilic betaine dyes with better solubility in water (respectively, nonpolar solvents), as well as some recent applications of these betaine dyes in various fields of interest [e.g., microheterogeneous (micellar) and polymer solutions, chemical sensors, as well as surface polarity of silicas, aluminas, and cellulose derivatives] are described.
The effect of porous coating processing on the corrosion behavior of cast Co–Cr–Mo surgical implant alloys (1990)

The manufacture of porous coated cobalt-based surgical implant alloys requires sintering--a high temperature process above the incipient melting temperature of this alloy system. The metallurgical changes produced by the high temperature sinter cycle consist of dissolution of interdendritic carbides, massive precipitation of lamellar carbide eutectic phases at grain boundaries, localized porosity from incipient melting that is not completely eliminated by subsequent hot isostatic pressing, and grain growth in fine-grained materials. These microstructural changes, which are known to affect the mechanical properties, do not affect the static in vitro localized and generalized corrosion behavior of the bulk material as determined by anodic polarization measurements in a buffered saline environment and direct examination by scanning electron and optical microscopy. Additionally, cast Co-Cr-Mo surgical implant alloys are found to be immune to crevice corrosion (in the absence of mechanical fretting) in the saline environment studied. The hysteretic component of the anodic polarization curve is not due to crevice corrosion; rather, as suggested by the electrochemical tests and Auger spectroscopy, the hysteresis is due to redox reactions in the chromium-rich surface layer.