3,659 research outputs found
Interface de visualisation innovante du Linked Data
Deux applications rĂ©sultent de ce travail de Bachelor. La premiĂšre est un outil utilisĂ© pour extraire des donnĂ©es provenant du web sĂ©mantique. La deuxiĂšme application est capable de crĂ©er des visualisations en se basant sur des donnĂ©es au format JSON. Lâoutil dâadministration est capable de rĂ©cupĂ©rer des donnĂ©es issues de plusieurs points Ă la fois. Il permet Ă lâutilisateur de naviguer Ă lâintĂ©rieur de ces donnĂ©es et dâextraire les informations quâil juge pertinentes. Lâapplication de dĂ©veloppement de visualisations importe des donnĂ©es avec lesquelles elle crĂ©e diffĂ©rentes visualisations. Par la suite, ces visualisations peuvent ĂȘtre dĂ©ployĂ©es sur des sites internet et ĂȘtre consultĂ©es par les visiteurs. Lâobjectif principal de ces deux outils est de permettre dâutiliser les donnĂ©es appartenant au web sĂ©mantique dâune façon simple. Sans grande connaissance dans le domaine, lâutilisateur doit ĂȘtre en mesure de parcourir chacune des Ă©tapes jusquâĂ la publication de visualisations
Les permis dâĂ©mission et les charges : efficacitĂ© et substituabilitĂ©
Cet article examine lâeffet des technologies polluantes sur lâefficacitĂ© de lâĂ©change des permis dâĂ©missions. Nous dĂ©montrons que la capacitĂ© des entreprises Ă substituer les polluants, lorsquâil y a absence de marchĂ© pour certains dâentre eux, fera probablement obstacle Ă lâefficacitĂ© dynamique normalement attribuĂ©e aux instruments de marchĂ©. Il est Ă noter que le rĂ©gulateur dispose dâune mesure qui lui permet dâĂ©valuer lâampleur de ce problĂšme. Par ailleurs, on examine la façon dont le gouvernement peut sâapproprier la rente provenant de lâĂ©change de permis allouĂ©s gratuitement. Nous comparons les effets de quatre mĂ©thodes dâappropriation de rente, soit une surcharge sur le prix des permis dâĂ©mission, une charge sur les profits, une charge sur le produit et une charge sur le transfert des permis dâĂ©mission. On dĂ©montre que ces mĂ©thodes dâappropriation de rente ont des effets diffĂ©rents sur lâefficacitĂ© des permis dâĂ©mission transfĂ©rables. Lâanalyse de ces mĂ©thodes est faite dans un contexte oĂč le rĂ©gulateur fait face Ă de lâinformation imparfaite et oĂč les entreprises peuvent substituer les polluants.This paper examines how the pollution generating technologies of firms affect the efficacy of tradeable emission permits. It is shown that the ability of firms to substitute among pollutants whenever markets are missing for a subset of pollutants is likely to prevent the dynamic efficiencies normally attributed to market based instruments. We argue that regulators have a readily implementable rule for assessing the extent of this problem. The paper also examines how the government may capture the scarcity rent that accrues to tradeable permits allocated gratis. We compare the effects of four possible methods of rent capture: an emissions permit rental charge, profit charge, output charge, and an emissions permit transfer charge. These methods of rent capture are shown to have different impacts on the efficiency of tradeable emission permits. The methods of rent capture are also examined whenever the regulator faces imperfect information and firms can substitute among pollutants
Les permis dâĂ©mission et les charges : efficacitĂ© et substituabilitĂ©
This paper examines how the pollution generating technologies of firms affect the efficacy of tradeable emission permits. It is shown that the ability of firms to substitute among pollutants whenever markets are missing for a subset of pollutants is likely to prevent the dynamic efficiencies normally attributed to market based instruments. We argue that regulators have a readily implementable rule for assessing the extent of this problem. The paper also examines how the government may capture the scarcity rent that accrues to tradeable permits allocated gratis. We compare the effects of four possible methods of rent capture: an emissions permit rental charge, profit charge, output charge, and an emissions permit transfer charge. These methods of rent capture are shown to have different impacts on the efficiency of tradeable emission permits. The methods of rent capture are also examined whenever the regulator faces imperfect information and firms can substitute among pollutants. Cet article examine lâeffet des technologies polluantes sur lâefficacitĂ© de lâĂ©change des permis dâĂ©missions. Nous dĂ©montrons que la capacitĂ© des entreprises Ă substituer les polluants, lorsquâil y a absence de marchĂ© pour certains dâentre eux, fera probablement obstacle Ă lâefficacitĂ© dynamique normalement attribuĂ©e aux instruments de marchĂ©. Il est Ă noter que le rĂ©gulateur dispose dâune mesure qui lui permet dâĂ©valuer lâampleur de ce problĂšme. Par ailleurs, on examine la façon dont le gouvernement peut sâapproprier la rente provenant de lâĂ©change de permis allouĂ©s gratuitement. Nous comparons les effets de quatre mĂ©thodes dâappropriation de rente, soit une surcharge sur le prix des permis dâĂ©mission, une charge sur les profits, une charge sur le produit et une charge sur le transfert des permis dâĂ©mission. On dĂ©montre que ces mĂ©thodes dâappropriation de rente ont des effets diffĂ©rents sur lâefficacitĂ© des permis dâĂ©mission transfĂ©rables. Lâanalyse de ces mĂ©thodes est faite dans un contexte oĂč le rĂ©gulateur fait face Ă de lâinformation imparfaite et oĂč les entreprises peuvent substituer les polluants.
Discovery of planetary nebulae using predictive mid-infrared diagnostics
We demonstrate a newly developed mid-infrared planetary nebula (PN) selection
technique. It is designed to enable efficient searches for obscured, previously
unknown, PN candidates present in the photometric source catalogues of Galactic
plane MIR sky surveys. Such selection is now possible via new, sensitive,
high-to-medium resolution, MIR satellite surveys such as those from the Spitzer
Space Telescope and the all-sky Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
satellite missions. MIR selection is based on how different colour-colour
planes isolate zones (sometimes overlapping) that are predominately occupied by
different astrophysical object types. These techniques depend on the
reliability of the available MIR source photometry. In this pilot study we
concentrate on MIR point source detections and show that it is dangerous to
take the MIR GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire)
photometry from Spitzer for each candidate at face value without examining the
actual MIR image data. About half of our selected sources are spurious
detections due to the applied source detection algorithms being affected by
complex MIR backgrounds and the de-blending of diffraction spikes around bright
MIR point sources into point sources themselves. Nevertheless, once this
additional visual diagnostic checking is performed, valuable MIR selected PN
candidates are uncovered. Four turned out to have faint, compact, optical
counterparts in our H-alpha survey data missed in previous optical searches. We
confirm all of these as true PNe via our follow-up optical spectroscopy. This
lends weight to the veracity of our MIR technique. It demonstrates sufficient
robustness that high-confidence samples of new Galactic PN candidates can be
extracted from these MIR surveys without confirmatory optical spectroscopy and
imaging. This is problematic or impossible when the extinction is large.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables; accepted for publication in MNRA
Electrical investigation of natural lawsonite and application to subduction contexts
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2019. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 142(2), (2019):1430-1442, doi:10.1029/2018JB016899.We report an experimental investigation of the electrical properties of natural polycrystalline lawsonite from Reed Station, CA. Lawsonite represents a particularly efficient water reservoir in subduction contexts, as it can carry about 12 wt % water and is stable over a wide pressure range. Experiments were performed from 300 to about 1325 °C and under pressure from 1 to 10 GPa using a multiâanvil apparatus. We observe that temperature increases lawsonite conductivity until fluids escape the cell after dehydration occurs. At a fixed temperature of 500 °C, conductivity measurements during compression indicate electrical transitions at about 4.0 and 9.7 GPa that are consistent with crystallographic transitions from orthorhombic C to P and from orthorhombic to monoclinic systems, respectively. Comparison with lawsonite structure studies indicates an insignificant temperature dependence of these crystallographic transitions. We suggest that lawsonite dehydration could contribute to (but not solely explain) high conductivity anomalies observed in the Cascades by releasing aqueous fluid at a depth (~50 km) consistent with the basaltâeclogite transition. In subduction settings where the incoming plate is older and cooler (e.g., Japan), lawsonite remains stable to great depth. In these cooler settings, lawsonite could represent a vehicle for deep water transport and the subsequent triggering of melt that would appear electrically conductive, though it is difficult to uniquely identify the contributions from lawsonite on field electrical profiles in these more deepâseated domains.A. P. acknowledges financial support from UCSDâSIO startup funds, NSFâEAR Petrology and Geochemistry (grant 1551200), and NSFâCOMPRES IV EOID subaward. The use of the COMPRES Cell Assembly Project was also supported by COMPRES under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR 1661511. Q. W. acknowledges support from NSF EARâ1620423. We thank Kurt Leinenweber for fruitful discussion, Jake Perez for technical help in the lab, and Sabine Faulhaber (UCSD NanoâEngineering Department) for technical assistance with SEM images and EDS analyses. We also thank two reviewers for detailed comments that improved the manuscript. All the electrical data used for Figures 4 and 5 are available in the supporting information.2019-08-2
Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science (Alien-CSI)
There is no sign of saturation in accumulation of alien species (AS) introductions worldwide, additionally the rate of spread for some species has also been shown to be increasing. However, the challenges of gathering information on AS are recognized. Recent developments in citizen science (CS) provide an opportunity to improve data flow and knowledge on AS while ensuring effective and high quality societal engagement with the issue of IAS (Invasive Alien Species). Advances in technology, particularly on-line recording and smartphone apps, along with the development of social media, have revolutionized CS and increased connectivity while new and innovative analysis techniques are emerging to ensure appropriate management, visualization, interpretation and use and sharing of the data. In early July 2018 we launched a European CO-operation in Science and Technology (COST) Action to address multidisciplinary research questions in relation to developing and implementing CS, advancing scientific understanding of AS dynamics while informing decision-making specifically implementation of technical requirements of relevant legislation such as the EU Regulation 1143/2014 on IAS. It will also support the EU biodiversity goals and embedding science within society. The Action will explore and document approaches to establishing a European-wide CS AS network. It will embrace relevant innovations for data gathering and reporting to support the implementation of monitoring and surveillance measures, while ensuring benefits for society and citizens, through an AS CS European network. The Action will, therefore, increase levels of participation and quality of engagement with current CS initiatives, ensuring and evaluating educational value, and improve the value outcomes for potential users including citizens, scientists, alien species managers, policy-makers, local authorities, industry and other stakeholders
An adaptive multi-agent system for task reallocation in a MapReduce job
International audienceWe study the problem of task reallocation for load-balancing of MapReduce jobs in applications that process large datasets. In this context, we propose a novel strategy based on cooperative agents used to optimise the task scheduling in a single MapReduce job. The novelty of our strategy lies in the ability of agents to identify opportunities within a current unbalanced allocation, which in turn trigger concurrent and one-to-many negotiations amongst agents to locally reallocate some of the tasks within a job. Our contribution is that tasks are reallocated according to the proximity of the resources and they are performed in accordance to the capabilities of the nodes in which agents are situated. To evaluate the adaptivity and responsiveness of our approach, we implement a prototype test-bed and conduct a vast panel of experiments in a heterogeneous environment and by exploring varying hardware configurations. This extensive experimentation reveals that our strategy significantly improves the overall runtime over the classical Hadoop data processing
Predictors of Implantable Pulse Generator Placement After Sacral Neuromodulation: Who Does Better?
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