Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge gained from observations, reanalyses, paleoclimate archives and climate model simulations, as well as physical, chemical and biological climate processes. This chapter sets the scene for the WGI Assessment, placing it in the context of ongoing global and regional changes, international policy responses, the history of climate science and the evolution from previous IPCC assessments, including the Special Reports prepared as part of this Assessment Cycle. This chapter presents key concepts and methods, relevant recent developments, and the modelling and scenario framework used in this Assessment

Pervasive interventions to increase pro-environmental awareness, consciousness, and learning at the workplace

Börner, D., Kalz, M., Ternier, S., & Specht, M. (2013). Pervasive interventions to increase pro-environmental awareness, consciousness, and learning at the workplace. In D. Hernández-Leo et al. (Eds.), Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact. Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013), LNCS 8095 (pp. 57-70). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. [The final publication is available at link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_6]This paper reports about pervasive interventions at a university campus to increase the pro-environmental awareness, consciousness, and learning of employees. Based on an assessment of the research gaps in this problem area we present results and design implications from three intervention iterations. While in the first intervention the focus was on increasing awareness through information distribution with ambient learning displays on the campus, the second iteration provided personalised feedback to employees with the help of a sensor network and different client applications. The third iteration then implemented a game-based learning concept. Results reveal that these approaches are effective on different levels and that a combination of these elements can lead to increased pro-environmental consciousness, learning and hopefully a sustained behaviour change of employees.SURFnet Innovatieregeling Duurzaamheid & IC

Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

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Petrographic characterization of Kentucky coals. Quarterly progress report, September-November 1981

The project Petrographic Characterization of Kentucky Coals consists of research in three specific areas of coal petrology: spectral fluorescence of liptinite macerals, properties of semi-inert macerals, and size/form/microlithotype association of pyrite/marcasite. Additional research on the Mannington (No. 4, also known as Mining City and Lewisport) coal will apply techniques developed in the first three areas. Certain suits of coals from other states will also be studied to expand the variability in the samples. Preliminary results are reported

Precision fiducialization of transport components

The Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB) is a transport line designed to test both concept and advanced technology for application to future linear colliders. It is currently under construction at SLAC in the central beam line. Most of the quadrupoles of the FFTB have ab initio alignment tolerances of less than 30 microns, if the planned for beam based alignment tuning procedure is to converge. For such placement tolerances to have any meaning requires that the coordinates of the effective centers, seen by the beam particles, be tansferred to tooling (that can be reached by mechanical or optical alignment methods) located on the outside of the components to comparable or better values. We have constructed an apparatus that simultaneously locates to micron tolerances, the effective magnetic center of fussing lenses, as well as the electrical center of beam position monitors (BPM) imbedded therein, and once located, for transferring these coordinates to specially mounted tooling frames that supported the external retroreflectors used in a laser tracker based alignment of the beam line. Details of construction as well as experimental results from the method are presented

Petrographic characterization of Kentucky coals. Quarterly progress report, March 1982-May 1982

The project Petrographic characterization of Kentucky coals consists of three specific areas of coal petrology: spectral fluorescence of liptinite macerals, properties of semi-inert macerals, and size/form/microlithotype association of pyrite/marcasite. Additional research on the Mannington and Dunbar coals in western Kentucky and the Alma coal zone in eastern Kentucky will apply techniques developed in the first three areas. Suites of coals from other states will also be studied to expand the variability in the sample set

ERKs: A family of protein-serine/threonine kinases that are activated and tyrosine phosphorylated in response to insulin and NGF

We recently described the purification and cloning of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 (ERK1), which appears to play a pivotal role in converting tyrosine phosphorylation into the serine/threonine phosphorylations that regulate downstream events. We now describe cloning and characterization of two ERK1-related kinases, ERK2 and ERK3, and provide evidence suggesting that there are additional ERK family members. At least two of the ERKs are activated in response to growth factors; their activations correlate with tyrosine phosphorylation, but also depend on additional modifications. Transcripts corresponding to the three cloned ERKs are distinctly regulated both in vivo and in a differentiating cell line. Thus, this family of kinases may serve as intermediates that depend on tyrosine phosphorylation to activate serine/threonine phosphorylation cascades. Individual family members may mediate responses in different developmental stages, in different cell types, or following exposure to different extracellular signals

Capacidade de produção de grãos e óleo em linhagens e cultivares de amendoim Grain and oil yield capability of peanut lines and cultivars

Avaliaram-se doze linhagens de amendoim pertencentes à coleção de germoplasma do Instituto Agronômico e os cultivares Tatuí e Tatu, este usado como controle, quanto ao teor de óleo e à produtividade de grãos e de óleo em experimentos conduzidos durante o plantio das águas de 1983/84, 1984/85 e 1985/86 no Centro Experimental de Campinas; de 1983/84 e 1985/86 na Estação Experimental de Pindorama, e de 1985/86 na Estação Experimental de Ribeirão Preto. A maioria do material incluído nas avaliações apresentou, no mínimo, o mesmo nível de produtividade do controle, cv. Tatu - 2.154kg/ha - constituindo material promissor para inclusão nos trabalhos de melhoramento. Destacaram-se em produtividade de grãos e de óleo as linhagens 5567 e Ca-34 e o cv. Tatuí. A 269 apresentou o maior teor de óleo nas sementes, 50,5%, contra 47,2% do controle. Os resultados obtidos mostraram casos em que o teor de óleo nas sementes influenciou o desempenho relativo do material em termos de produção de óleo por área. Isso indica que o teor de óleo deve ser levado em consideração, pelo menos quando da escolha dos pais para os cruzamentos ou nas últimas fases de seleção das linhagens.<br>Twelve peanut lines and the cultivars Tatuí and Tatu were evaluated for grain and oil yield, and seed oil content. The experiments were conducted during the spring summer growing seasons of 1983, 1984 and 1985 at Campinas, 1983 and 1984 at Pindorama and 1985 at Ribeirão Preto Experimental Stations, Instituto Agronômico, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Oil content was determined by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method. Oil yield was calculated from the grain yield and seed oil content. Most of the treatments yielded as much as the control, cv. Tatu. This indicates that they can be considered as promising materials for breeding programs. The highest grain, and oil yields were obtained with lines 5567, Ca-34 and cv. Tatuí. The highest seed oil content, 50.5%, was observed for line 269, in contrast with 47.2% of the control. The results also showed that the seed oil content affected the relative performance of a line in terms of oil yield. Thus, there are evidences that the seed oil content must be evaluated when choosing parents for crossing or in the final stages of line selection