The Enabling of School Participants' Access to Negotiation of Meaning: A Way of Improving Intercultural Understanding

RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League is an international artificial intelligence (AI) competition in which computer programs compete in soccer. This report will present the work of analyzing the successful teamWrightEagle, and the isolation of the key strategic and behavioral aspects that make them successful. It will also present the work of creating a new team in which the aspects exctracted from WrightEagle has been implemented, but in a much simpler way. It was found that good passing play, good stamina preservation and the ability to stay spread out wereWrightEagle’s key strategic and behavioral aspects. While these aspects has been implemented in the created team, the lack of good core functionality proved to be a moreRoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League är en internationell tävling i artificiell intelligens (AI), där datorprogram tävlar i fotboll. Den här rapporten kommer presentera arbetet i att analysera det framgångsrika laget WrightEagle, och att hitta de aspekter vad gäller strategi och betéende som gör dem så framgångsrika. Den kommer också att presentera skapandet av ett nytt lag som implementerar de funna aspekterna från WrightEagle, men på ett mycket enklare sätt. Bra passningsspel, bra uthållighetsbevarande, och deras förmåga att hålla sig utspridda var de funna aspekterna från WrightEagle vad gäller strategi och betéende. De här aspekterna har blivit implementerade i det skapade laget, men bristen av bra basfunktionalitet visade sig väga mycket tyngre och det resulterande laget preseterar dåligt

Expedientes civil: "indemnización" y administrativo: "protección al consumidor-idoneidad"

Materia: Indemnización Nº de Expediente: 00031-2007-0-2402-JR-CI-01 El presente caso trata sobre la Demanda de Indemnización por Daños y Perjuicios interpuesta por L. G. R. contra el Proyecto Especial de Control y Reducción de la Hoja de Coca en el Alto Huallaga del Ministerio del Interior. Materia: Protección al Consumidor – Idoneidad No de Título: 302-2015/CC1 El presente caso trata sobre la denuncia por infringir los artículos18° y 19° del Código de Protección y Defensa del Consumidor interpuesta por J. F.V. contra RSR S.A

Thermodynamic cycles in the stratosphere

Large-scale overturning mass transport in the stratosphere is commonly explained through the action of potential vorticity (PV) rearrangement in the flank of the stratospheric jet. Large-scale Rossby waves, with wave activity source primarily in the troposphere, stir and mix PV and an overturning circulation arises to compensate the zonal torque imposed by the breaking waves. In this view, any radiative heating is relaxational and the circulation is mechanically driven. Here we present a fully thermodynamic analysis of these phenomena, based on ERA-Interim data. Stream functions in a thermodynamic, log-pressure-temperature space are computed. The sign of a circulation cell in these coordinates directly shows whether it is mechanically driven, converting kinetic energy to potential and thermal energy, or thermally driven, with the opposite conversion. The circulation in the lower stratosphere is found to be thermodynamically indirect, i.e. mechanically driven. In the middle and upper stratosphere thermodynamically indirect and direct circulations coexist, with a prominent semiannual cycle. A part of the overturning in this region is thermally driven, whilst a more variable indirect circulation is mechanically-driven by waves. The wave driving does not modulate the strength of the thermally direct part of the circulation. This suggests that the basic overturning circulation in the stratosphere is largely thermally driven, while tropospheric waves add a distinct indirect component to the overturning. This indirect overturning is associated with poleward transport of anomalously warm air parcels

Meridional ocean carbon transport

The ocean's ability to take up and store CO2 is a key factor for understanding past and future climate variability. However, qualitative and quantitative understanding of surface‐to‐interior pathways, and how the ocean circulation affects the CO2 uptake, is limited. Consequently, how changes in ocean circulation may influence carbon uptake and storage and therefore the future climate remains ambiguous. Here we quantify the roles played by ocean circulation and various water masses in the meridional redistribution of carbon. We do so by calculating streamfunctions defined in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and latitude coordinates, using output from a coupled biogeochemical‐physical model. By further separating DIC into components originating from the solubility pump and a residual including the biological pump, air‐sea disequilibrium, and anthropogenic CO2, we are able to distinguish the dominant pathways of how carbon enters particular water masses. With this new tool, we show that the largest meridional carbon transport occurs in a pole‐to‐equator transport in the subtropical gyres in the upper ocean. We are able to show that this pole‐to‐equator DIC transport and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)‐related DIC transport are mainly driven by the solubility pump. By contrast, the DIC transport associated with deep circulation, including that in Antarctic bottom water and Pacific deep water, is mostly driven by the biological pump. As these two pumps, as well as ocean circulation, are widely expected to be impacted by anthropogenic changes, these findings have implications for the future role of the ocean as a climate‐buffering carbon reservoir

Remineralization rate of terrestrial DOC as inferred from CO2 supersaturated coastal waters

Coastal seas receive large amounts of terrestrially derived organic carbon (OC). The fate of this carbon, and its impact on the marine environment, is however poorly understood. Here we combine underway CO2 partial pressure (pCO(2)) measurements with coupled 3-D hydrodynamical-biogeochemical modelling to investigate whether remineralization of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon (tDOC) can explain CO2 supersaturated surface waters in the Gulf of Bothnia, a subarctic estuary. We find that a substantial remineralization of tDOC and a strong tDOC-induced light attenuation dampening the primary production are required to reproduce the observed CO2 supersaturated waters in the nearshore areas. A removal rate of tDOC of the order of 1 year, estimated in a previous modelling study in the same area, gives a good agreement between modelled and observed pCO(2). The remineralization rate is on the same order as bacterial degradation rates calculated from published incubation experiments, suggesting that bacteria has the potential to cause this degradation. Furthermore, the observed high pCO(2) values during the ice-covered season argue against photochemical degradation as the main removal mechanism. All of the remineralized tDOC is outgassed to the atmosphere in the model, turning the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia into a source of CO2 to the atmosphere.peerReviewe