Paleobiology of titanosaurs: reproduction, development, histology, pneumaticity, locomotion and neuroanatomy from the South American fossil record

Fil: García, Rodolfo A.. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Museo Provincial Carlos Ameghino. Cipolletti; ArgentinaFil: Salgado, Leonardo. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. General Roca. Río Negro; ArgentinaFil: Fernández, Mariela. Inibioma-Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche. Bariloche. Río Negro; ArgentinaFil: Cerda, Ignacio A.. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología. Museo Provincial Carlos Ameghino. Cipolletti; ArgentinaFil: Carabajal, Ariana Paulina. Museo Carmen Funes. Plaza Huincul. Neuquén; ArgentinaFil: Otero, Alejandro. Museo de La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Coria, Rodolfo A.. Instituto de Paleobiología y Geología. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Neuquén; ArgentinaFil: Fiorelli, Lucas E.. Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica. Anillaco. La Rioja; Argentin

Spatial data infrastructure for emergency response in netherlands

During the crisis management, several organizations coordinate their emergency work based not only on well-defined policies and procedures (product of careful preparation) but also on the outcomes of the decision-making process. Decision-making is a highly complicated process in crisis situations. Good support in decision-making when disaster occurs is of critical importance to react accurately, fast and effectively. Good decision-making helps to control damage, save lives and resources, and reduce unwanted consequences of a crisis. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is increasingly considered a critical aspect of decision-making in disaster management. This paper presents our concept for an appropriate SDI (open-standard generic platform) assisting in administration, analysis of data to predict development of a crisis event and accordingly advise for changes of plan

Photonische Schluesseltechnologien fuer 40-100 Gbit/s (O)TDM-Systeme Schlussbericht

In this project system technologies and concepts for fibre based high-bitrate transmission systems and system limitations are investigated. InP-based as well as fibre-based components and subsystems are realized for the application using time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques at bit-rates of 40 Gbit/s and beyond. Based on optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) a 40 Gbit/s system demonstrator has been realized. Chromatic dispersion as well as polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) are found to the be the main system limitations for high bitrate transmission. To overcome chromatic dispersion limitation of the fibre optical transmission is made close to the zero dispersion wavelength of dispersion shifted fibres or dispersion compensating fibres are used. A linear equalizer based on a tapped delay line filter serving as electronic PMD equalizer is demonstrated at 10 Gbit/s. The closed eye diagram of a 10 Gbit/s data signal which is distorted by PMD is opened by the equalizer and in bit error rate measurements an improvement of receiver sensitivity up to 8.2 dB is achieved. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: F99B815 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman