172 research outputs found
Physicians' database searches as a tool for early detection of epidemics.
We analyzed retrospectively the use of Physician Desk Reference Database searches to identify epidemics of tularemia, nephropathy, Pogosta disease, and Lyme disease and compared the searches with mandatory laboratory reports to the National Infectious Diseases Register in Finland during 1995. Continuous recording of such searches may be a tool for early detection of epidemics
When a good science base is not enough to create competitive industries: lock-in and inertia in Russian systems of innovation
Despite having a formidable position in terms of domestic R&D; activity and a welldeveloped science and technology infrastructure prior to transition, Russia has failed to create a competitive firm sector. Using a systems of innovation approach, we argue that institutions are subject to inertia when political and economic regimes were rapidly reformed, and the system structural lock-in, causing industrial enterprises to engage in routines that generated a sub-optimal outcome. Market forces did not result in the western style model, but a hybrid one. A significant segment of industry maintains a Soviet-style dependence on âtop-downâ supply-driven allocation of resources and a reliance on external (and domestic) network of sources for innovation and capital. At the same time, ânewâ industries have also evolved which undertake their own R&D;, and utilise foreign sources of capital and technology, and at least partly determine their production and innovative activities on the basis on market forces
Evaluation of existing resources (study/analysis)
Within TACCLE 3 â Coding European Union Erasmus+ KA2 Programme project, a review and evaluation of a set of resources that can contribute to teaching programming to younger children has made. This document represents the TACCLE 3 O4 deliverable entitled âEvaluation of existing resources (study/analysis)â
Optical polarization reveals colliding stellar stream shocks in a tidal disruption event
Supermassive black holes have been known to disrupt passing stars producing
outbursts called Tidal Disruption Events offering a unique view on the early
stages of accretion disk and jet formation. The advent of large scale optical
time-domain surveys has significantly increased the number of known events and
challenged our understanding of their dynamics and emission processes. Here, we
present the linear polarization curve of the most polarized tidal disruption
without any indication of contribution from a jet to the emission. Our
observations demonstrate that optical TDE emission can be powered by tidal
stream shocks.Comment: 36 pages, 7 figures, author's version of the paper accepted in
Scienc
RoboSTEAM - A Challenge Based Learning Approach for integrating STEAM and develop Computational Thinking
We live in a digital society that needs new better prepared
professionals for the new challenges and opportunities provided
by the ICT. Students must learn how to deal with all the issues
that emerge in this new context. They hsould caquire
computational thinking skills by integrating STEAM, however
this needs for changes in current learning curricula and also new
learning approaches. RoboSTEAM project deals with this issue by
the application of a Challenge Based Learning approach that uses
Robotics and Physical Devices. One of the problems found during
the project is the complexity of the application of a Challenge
Based Learning approach due to the special needs of each
educational institution. Given this situation the present work
presents provides a flexible definition of challenge and describes
also samples regarding how to use them
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Firm-specific, country-specific and region-specific competitive advantages: the case of emerging economy MNEs - Thailand
Increasing levels of regional economic integration have created a new source of international competitiveness for MNEs from an emerging economy, Thailand, in the context of ASEAN economic integration. Building on the theoretical framework of firm-specific advantages (FSAs) and country-specific advantages (CSAs) grounded in internalization theory, we introduce region-specific advantages (RSAs) and advance a novel regional dual-double-diamond model to analyse regional competitiveness. Using both primary and secondary data we find that most Thai firms derive their international competitiveness from CSAs rather than FSAs, and will benefit from ASEAN RSAs. Our study significantly advances the literature on international competitiveness of emerging-economy MNEs
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Externalizing, internalizing and fostering commitment: the case of born-global firms in emerging economies
This paper examines the HR practices of mature born-global firms from twenty-nine emerging economies. Through an examination of large scale survey data the paper questions the extent to which firm size impacts the employment of temporary workers, the employment of skilled workers and the extent of employee training. Findings suggest that as firm size increases the use of temporary workers decreases, the number of skilled workers increases and the number of employees receiving training also increases. The paper highlights how born-global firms are able to shift away from externalized, market-based approaches towards more internalized, commitment-based approaches in order to survive, adapt and grow
A lower bound on intergalactic magnetic fields from time variability of 1ES 0229+200 from MAGIC and Fermi/LAT observations
Extended and delayed emission around distant TeV sources induced by the
effects of propagation of gamma rays through the intergalactic medium can be
used for the measurement of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). We search
for delayed GeV emission from the hard-spectrum TeV blazar 1ES 0229+200 with
the goal to detect or constrain the IGMF-dependent secondary flux generated
during the propagation of TeV gamma rays through the intergalactic medium. We
analyze the most recent MAGIC observations over a 5 year time span and
complement them with historic data of the H.E.S.S. and VERITAS telescopes along
with a 12-year long exposure of the Fermi/LAT telescope. We use them to trace
source evolution in the GeV-TeV band over one-and-a-half decade in time. We use
Monte Carlo simulations to predict the delayed secondary gamma-ray flux,
modulated by the source variability, as revealed by TeV-band observations. We
then compare these predictions for various assumed IGMF strengths to all
available measurements of the gamma-ray flux evolution. We find that the source
flux in the energy range above 200 GeV experiences variations around its
average on the 14 years time span of observations. No evidence for the flux
variability is found in 1-100 GeV energy range accessible to Fermi/LAT.
Non-detection of variability due to delayed emission from electromagnetic
cascade developing in the intergalactic medium imposes a lower bound of
B>1.8e-17 G for long correlation length IGMF and B>1e-14 G for an IGMF of the
cosmological origin. Though weaker than the one previously derived from the
analysis of Fermi/LAT data, this bound is more robust, being based on a
conservative intrinsic source spectrum estimate and accounting for the details
of source variability in the TeV energy band. We discuss implications of this
bound for cosmological magnetic fields which might explain the baryon asymmetry
of the Universe.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted to A&A. Corresponding authors: Ievgen
Vovk, Paolo Da Vela (mailto:[email protected]) and Andrii Neronov
(mailto:[email protected]
MAGIC detection of GRB 201216C at z = 1.1
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are explosive transient events occurring at cosmological distances, releasing a large amount of energy as electromagnetic radiation over several energy bands. We report the detection of the long GRB 201216C by the MAGIC telescopes. The source is located at z = 1.1 and thus it is the farthest one detected at very high energies. The emission above 70 GeV of GRB 201216C is modelled together with multiwavelength data within a synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) scenario. We find that SSC can explain the broad-band data well from the optical to the very-high-energy band. For the late-time radio data, a different component is needed to account for the observed emission. Differently from previous GRBs detected in the very-high-energy range, the model for GRB 201216C strongly favours a wind-like medium. The model parameters have values similar to those found in past studies of the afterglows of GRBs detected up to GeV energies
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