713 research outputs found
Wind for Schools: Fostering the Human Talent Supply Chain for a 20% Wind Energy Future
As the United States dramatically expands wind energy deployment, the industry is challenged with developing a skilled workforce and addressing public resistance. Wind Powering America’s Wind for Schools project addresses these issues by:• Developing Wind Application Centers (WACs) at universities; WAC students assist in implementing school wind turbines and participate in wind courses• Installing small wind turbines at community “host” schools• Implementing teacher training with interactive curricula at each host school
A review of Emma Wilby’s The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex University Press, 2010)
<div>This is an annotated data management plan (DMP) template for an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) data management plan.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This document (available in .pdf and .docx formats) was created using the <a href="https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/">DMPonline tool</a>, which provides templates for structuring major research funders' DMPs. The document includes the guidance text provided in the tool, produced by the <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/publications/DMP-themes.pdf">Digital Curation Centre (DCC)</a>, the <a href="https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/expectations/">EPSRC</a> and the <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/rdm/dmp">University of Sheffield Library</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Although the EPSRC does not require that a DMP is submitted as part of a grant application, it still expects one to be in place. A DMP describes how you will collect, organise, manage, store, secure, backup, preserve, and where applicable, share your data. The EPSRC DMP template is organised into seven sections and the resulting DMP is expected to be two or three of pages of A4 in length. </div><div><br></div><div>For further guidance see the <a href="https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/expectations/">EPSRC expectations concerning management of research data</a> and the DCC webpages on <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans">Data management Plans</a> and <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/develop-data-plan">How to Develop a Data Management and Sharing Plan</a>. </div
A Second Method to Photometrically Align Multi-Site Microlensing Light Curves: Source Color in Planetary Event MOA-2007-BLG-192
At present, microlensing light curves from different telescopes and filters
are photometrically aligned by fitting them to a common model. We present a
second method based on photometry of common field stars. If two spectral
responses are similar (or the color of the source is known) then this technique
can resolve important ambiguities that frequently arise when predicting the
future course of the event, and that occasionally persist even when the event
is over. Or if the spectral responses are different, it can be used to derive
the color of the source when that is unknown. We present the essential elements
of this technique and apply it to the case of MOA-2007-BLG-192, an important
planetary event for which the system may be a terrestrial planet orbiting a
brown dwarf or very low mass star. The refined estimate of the source color
that we derive here, V-I=2.36 +- 0.03, will aid in making the estimate of the
lens mass more precise.Comment: 16 pages including 3 figures. Submitted to Ap
Wind Energy Workforce Development: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Wind Industry
As the United States moves toward greatly expanded wind energy use, the need for skilled workers at all industry levels has been repeatedly identified as a critical issue. Additionally, if the industry and nation wish to capitalize on this rapid industry growth by becoming a major international green technology exporter, reversing current educational trends away from science, engineering, and technical skills must be achieved.
This poster provides an overview of the educational infrastructure and expected industry needs through a discussion of the activities to train workers while addressing issues for each of the education sectors, leading to the development of an educational infrastructure to support wind technology
Does the month of birth affect educational and health outcomes? A population-based analysis using the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study
Challenges and opportunities for antimicrobial stewardship in resource-rich and resource-limited countries
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Identification of the OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53 Planetary Host Star
We present the results of HST observations of the host star for the first
definitive extrasolar planet detected by microlensing. The light curve model
for this event predicts that the lens star should be separated from the source
star by ~6mas at the time of the HST images. If the lens star is a late G, K or
early M dwarf, then it will be visible in the HST images as an additional
source of light that is blended with the source image. Unless the lens and
source have exactly the same colors, its presence will also be revealed by a
systematic shift between centroids of the source plus lens in different filter
bands. The HST data indicates both of these effects: the HST source that
matches the position of the source star is 0.21 magnitudes brighter in the
ACS/HRC-F814W filter than the microlensing model predicts, and there is an
offset of ~0.7mas between the centroid of this source in the F814W and F435W
filter bands. We conclude the planetary host star has been detected in these
HST images, and this identification of the lens star enables a complete
solution of the lens system. The lens parameters are determined with a Bayesian
analysis, averaging over uncertainties in the measured parameters, interstellar
extinction, and allowing for the possibility of a binary companion to the
source star. This yields a stellar mass of M_* = 0.63(+0.07/-0.09) M_solar and
a planet mass of M_p = 2.6 (+0.8/-0.6) M_Jup at an orbital separation of 4.3
(+2.5/-0.8) AU. Thus, the lens system resembles our own Solar System, with a
planet of ~3 Jupiter-masses in a Jupiter-like orbit around a star of two-thirds
of a Solar mass. These conclusions can be tested with future HST images, which
should reveal a broadening of the blended source-plus-lens point spread
function due to the relative lens-source proper motion.Comment: 11 pages, with 3 figures. to appear in ApJ Lett (Aug 20 issue
Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting visually-grounded navigation instructions in real environments
A robot that can carry out a natural-language instruction has been a dream
since before the Jetsons cartoon series imagined a life of leisure mediated by
a fleet of attentive robot helpers. It is a dream that remains stubbornly
distant. However, recent advances in vision and language methods have made
incredible progress in closely related areas. This is significant because a
robot interpreting a natural-language navigation instruction on the basis of
what it sees is carrying out a vision and language process that is similar to
Visual Question Answering. Both tasks can be interpreted as visually grounded
sequence-to-sequence translation problems, and many of the same methods are
applicable. To enable and encourage the application of vision and language
methods to the problem of interpreting visually-grounded navigation
instructions, we present the Matterport3D Simulator -- a large-scale
reinforcement learning environment based on real imagery. Using this simulator,
which can in future support a range of embodied vision and language tasks, we
provide the first benchmark dataset for visually-grounded natural language
navigation in real buildings -- the Room-to-Room (R2R) dataset.Comment: CVPR 2018 Spotlight presentatio
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