WePWEP: web-based participatory wind energy planning [1]. Background information on wind energy and wind farm siting.

This document has been prepared in the frame of a PhD research project, which aim is to develop and test a learning-enhancing website design to involve the public in spatial planning. The application focused is the strategic planning of wind farms location. The website developed is named WePWEP – Web-based Participatory Wind Energy Planning and is available at hppt://ernie.ge.ucl.ac.uk:8080/WePWEP/. Being the purpose of the website to contribute to learning and engage the public in the strategic planning of wind farms, it provides some background information on wind energy and wind farm siting. This document compiles the information that is available in the website. With regard to wind energy, the section dedicated to the debate surrounding wind energy should be of particular relevance for those interested in an overview of the arguments pro and against wind energy development. Under the wind farm siting topic, the factors that need consideration during the site selection process are introduced, and subsequently the involvement of the public in wind farms planning is reviewed and discussed. The document concludes with the author supporting a more participative role of the public in the wind energy planning process and suggesting that the WePWEP website is a means that can contribute to this achievement

WePWEP: Web-based participatory wind energy planning [2]. Wind energy developments in the county of norfolk.

This document results from an effort to compile and make available to the wider public information on wind energy developments in the County of Norfolk. It has been prepared in the frame of a PhD research project, which aim is to develop and test a learning-enhancing website to involve the public spatial planning. The application focused is the strategic planning of wind farms location.This website is named WePWEP – Web-based Participatory Wind Energy Planning and is available at hppt://ernie.ge.ucl.ac.uk:8080/WePWEP/. This information presented here is also available at this website, in a more interactive way. A number of sources have been used in the preparation of this document, namely reports by the local authority’s planning officer involved in the assessment of the submitted wind farm planning applications, which have kindly been provided by respective local planning authority. Three main topics are covered in this document: • the target for renewable energy production that the East of England region is currently working on; • commercial wind energy developments that have been approved in the County of Norfolk so far; • commercial wind energy developments proposed for the County of Norfolk but have that have not been approved by respective planning authority

Hyperon production asymmetries in 500 GeV/c pion nucleus interactions

We present a preliminary study from Fermilab experiment E791 of Lambda^0 / Lambda^0 bar, Xi^- / Xi^+ and Omega^- /Omega^+ production asymmetries from pi^- nucleus interactions at 500 Gev/c. The production asymmetries for these particles are studied as a function of x_F and pt^2. We observed an asymmetry in the target fragmentation region for Lambda^0's larger than that for Xi's, suggesting diquark effects. The asymmetry for Omega's is significatively smaller than for the other two hyperons consistent with the fact that Omega's do not share valence quarks with either the pion or the target particle. In the beam fragmentation region, the asymmetry tends to 0.1 for both Lambda^0's and Xi's. The asymmetries vs pt^2 are approximately constant for the three strange baryons under study.Comment: Typos correcte

Asymmetry studies in Lambda 0/Lambda 0-bar, Xi-/Xi+ and Omega-/Omega+ production

We present a study on hyperon/anti-hyperon production asymmetries in the framework of the recombination model. The production asymmetries for Lambda 0/Lambda 0-bar, Xi-/Xi+ and Omega-/Omega+ are studied as a function of x_F. Predictions of the model are compared to preliminary data on hyperon/anti-hyperon production asymmetries in 500 GeV/c pi- p interactions from the Fermilab E791 experiment. The model predicts a growing asymmetry with the number of valence quarks shared by the target and the produced hyperons in the x_F < 0 region. In the positive x_F region, the model predicts constant asymmetries for Lambda 0/Lambda 0-bar and Omega-/Omega+ production and a growing asymmetry with x_F for Xi-/Xi+. We found a qualitatively good agreement between the model predictions and data, showing that recombination is a competitive mechanism in the hadronization process.Comment: One reference correcte

THE SALT CRYSTALLIZATION WEATHERING OF BUILDING ROCKS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES CALCARENITES OF NORTH-WESTERN MOROCCO (LIXUS, BANASA AND THAMUSIDA)

The archeological cities of north-western Morocco: Lixus, Banasa and Thamusida represent an international heritage, with a great social and cultural importance for the history of the country. This work is dedicated to study the salt crystallization weathering, reaching the building rocks of the monuments in order to preserve and restore them. These monuments show a variety of lithological facies implemented in its construction.The degradation of these materials is accelerated by climate influence of El Gharb and Prerif area, characterized by a high humidity and an important atmospheric and soil salinity. The most affected building rocks by the weathering are generally represented by limestones (calcarenites).When salt crystallizes in the pores of the rock after evaporation, the crystal dissociates the grains surrounding by expansion. Therefore, there is a loss of material. The accelerated aging test laboratory shows that calcarenites present the highest rate of weight loss among the samples of different lithologies. This is rendered in a significant susceptibility to degradation; a physical degradation by salt crystals expansion and a chemical degradation by a carbonates dissolution in the presence of the saline fog and a high temperature (50 °C).Lixus calcarenites are more resistant to weathering by salt, when compared to the calcarenites of the other two monuments

FERTILIZANTES DE LIBERAÇÃO CONTROLADA NO CRESCIMENTO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DO MAMOEIRO THB

O Brasil é um dos principais produtores e exportadores de mamão. Os principais estados brasileiros produtores de mamão, são Bahia e Espírito Santo, os quais são responsáveis por cerca de 60% da produção nacional. O uso de fertilizante de liberação controlada é pouco utilizado a campo no estado do Espírito Santo, principalmente para plantas frutíferas. No Estado, ele tem sido aplicado na cultura do eucalipto. O uso destes tipos fertilizantes, tem como uma das principais vantagens a redução de mão-de-obra para fertilizações de cobertura. Nestes fertilizantes, a liberação de nutrientes é dependente do tamanho do grânulo, temperatura e umidade. Os nutrientes são disponibilizados por hidrólise e pela ação de microrganismos. Objetivou-se neste trabalho avaliar a eficiência de fertilizantes de liberação controlada no crescimento e desenvolvimento de plantas de mamoeiro THB&#8223; na fase vegetativa e produtiva, usando os fertilizantes Basacote P-MAX 6M (Fórmula 17-43-00)®, Basacote NK-MAX 9M (Fórmula 17-43-00)® e DuraTec Top 14 (Fórmula 14-07-14)®. O experimento foi realizado entre junho de 2015 a novembro de 2016, a campo, na fazenda Santa Terezinha, da Caliman Agrícola S. A., em Linhares, estado do Espírito Santo. Adotou-se o delineamento em blocos ao acaso com cinco tratamentos e seis repetições. Os tratamentos, consistiram da aplicação de doses de 25, 50, 75 e 100 g cova-1 de fertilizantes de liberação controlada Basacote P-MAX 6M® no plantio e uma testemunha que foi a fertirrigação por gotejamento. Na fase de produção, os tratamentos consistiram de adubações de cobertura aplicando-se dois fertilizantes de liberação controlada, o Basacote NKMAX 9M® e Duratec Top 14®, aos 3, 6, 9 e 12 meses após plantio. Avaliaram-se no florescimento o diâmetro do caule (DC), a altura de inserção da primeira flor, a altura da planta (AP), comprimento do pecíolo foliar, número de folhas por planta e porcentagem de covas definidas quanto ao sexo; na fase produtiva avaliou-se o DC, a AP, número de frutos comerciais, massa de fruto, sólidos solúveis e firmeza interna do fruto aos 8, 13 e 17 meses após plantio; a produtividade foi avaliada pela produção acumulada, desde os 8 até os 17 meses. O novo pacote tecnológico é uma alternativa à fertirrigação, podendo ser aplicado fertilizante de liberação controlada Basacote P-MAX 6M a 25 g cova-1 no plantio, e as fertilizações de cobertura com Basacote NK-MAX 9M® e Duratec Top 14® após 90 dias do plantio

Targeted Adversarial Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies via Model Checking

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are susceptible to adversarial noise in their observations that can mislead their policies and decrease their performance. However, an adversary may be interested not only in decreasing the reward, but also in modifying specific temporal logic properties of the policy. This paper presents a metric that measures the exact impact of adversarial attacks against such properties. We use this metric to craft optimal adversarial attacks. Furthermore, we introduce a model checking method that allows us to verify the robustness of RL policies against adversarial attacks. Our empirical analysis confirms (1) the quality of our metric to craft adversarial attacks against temporal logic properties, and (2) that we are able to concisely assess a system's robustness against attacks.Comment: ICAART 2023 Paper (Technical Report

Laboratórios Abertos 2018

The Open Labs 2018 book is a collection of lectures and experiments that were made available to secondary and elementary schools that visited the Chemical Engineering Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon during the week of February 5 to 9 2018. This initiative is part of the Science and Technology promotion promoted by the University for young people in the areas of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering. It aims to disseminate the importance of these matters in the construction of a more just, equalitarian and inclusive society, based on scientific knowledge that allows the development of a sustainable world in the future that is wanted for all. The Open Laboratories 2018 received about 2100 students and 200 teachers from secondary and basic education to participate in three different types of actions, depending on the schooling of the visitors: Open Laboratories for the students of the secondary education, the Open Labs Junior for the 3rd and 2nd cycle of basic education and the Kids Open Labs for 1st cycle students. They participated in a series of lectures, conversations around a film and interactive experiences. These activities were facilitated by IST Teachers, Non-Teachers and Students. The 2018 edition of the Open Labs of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Technician took place in the amphitheaters of the South Tower and in the laboratories of the Chemistry Pavilion at the Instituto Superior Técnico.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal (Project UID/QUI/00100/2013)