7,758 research outputs found
SHui open data research platform
No full textData collected and revised by individual instutions of the Shui-Consortium. Publication by the EU-China Consortium SHui.For each data-file, the author (institution) of the file is given as “operator”.-- At project end, June 30th, 2022.-- For each data-file, the author/data owner for citation is given as “operator” and “contact”.-- Plot data as .csv; catchment data ad libitum.Spatial situation data: Plot data and catchment data available; country, latitude, and longitude coordinates given.-- Temporal situation data: Long-term and single-season data available. Start and end date for each data file given.CC BY-SA. No embargo. The release on the Shui download site and CSIC repository implies expiration of any embargo delivered by the data owner.Project Co-ordinators: Dr. Jose Alfonso Gómez Calero (Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS-CISC), Dr. Weifeng Xu (Fujian Agriculture and Forest University, FAFU).This data set contains data from the SHui open-data platform for sharing long-term agricultural experiments aimed to optimizing yield and soil and water. Data and additional material are available under https://shui.boku.ac.at/shui/public/startAlphanumeric data measured at hydrologic and agronomical experiments (e.g., plant development, soil properties, hydrology, erosion, management).Further information on the data, project, partners, and publications under https://www.shui-eu.org/EU-China Consortium SHui: European Union Project 773903 and Chinese MOST.Peer reviewe
Severe accident facilities for european safety targets. The safest project
No full textInternational audienceSevere accident with core meltdown is a threat to the containment integrity. As Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents demonstrate, significant release of radioactive products into the environment can have severe consequences both for people's health and the country's economy. Severe accidents are the focus of considerable research involving substantial human and financial resources worldwide. The research field encompasses many challenging phenomena, complicated by high temperatures and presence of radioactive materials. No individual country has sufficient resources to address all important phenomena within the framework of a national research programme, therefore optimised use of resources and the collaboration at European and international level is very important. One of the main objectives of the SAFEST project of the 7th EU framework programme is integrating European severe accident research facilities into a pan-European laboratory for study of corium behaviour in severe accidents. The resources of this laboratory will be provided to other interested European partners for better understanding of possible accident scenarios and phenomena in order to improve safety of existing and, in the long-term, of future reactors. The SAFEST consortium will be able to address several severe accident issues related to accident analysis and corium behaviour. It will be a valuable asset for the fulfilment of the severe accident RandD programmes that are being set up after Fukushima and the subsequent European stress tests, addressing both national and European objectives
Enrichment and characterization of a bacteria consortium capable of heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification at low temperature
No full textNitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants is usually severely inhibited under cold temperature. The present study proposes bioaugmentation using psychrotolerant heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification consortium to enhance nitrogen removal at low temperature. A functional consortium has been successfully enriched by stepped increase in DO concentration. Using this consortium, the specific removal rates of ammonia and nitrate at 10 degrees C reached as high as 3.1 mg N/(g SS h) and 9.6 mg N/ (g SS h), respectively. PCR-DGGE and clone library analysis both indicated a significant reduction in bacterial diversity during enrichment. Phylogenetic analysis based on nearly full-length 16S rRNA genes showed that Alphaproteobacteria. Deltaproteobacteria and particularly Bacteroidetes declined while Gammaproteobacteria (all clustered into Pseudomonas sp.) and Betaproteobacteria (mainly Rhodoferax ferrireducens) became dominant in the enriched consortium. It is likely that Pseudomonas spp. played a major role in nitrification and denitrification, while R. ferrireducens and its relatives utilized nitrate as both electron acceptor and nitrogen source. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.</p
Arabic Treebank : Part 2 v 3.1
No full textArabic Treebank: Part 2 (ATB2) v 3.1 , Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2011T09 and isbn 1-58563-590-1, was developed at LDC. It consists of 501 newswire stories from Ummah Press with part-of-speech (POS), morphology, gloss and syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the Penn Arabic Treebank (PATB) Guidelines developed in 2008 and 2009
Publisher Correction: Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes (Nature Genetics, (2018), 50, 4, (524-537), 10.1038/s41588-018-0058-3)
No full textIn the HTML version of this article initially published, the author groups ‘AFGen Consortium’, ‘Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium’, ‘International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium’, ‘INVENT Consortium’, ‘STARNET’, ‘BioBank Japan Cooperative Hospital Group’, ‘COMPASS Consortium’, ‘EPIC-CVD Consortium’, ‘EPIC-InterAct Consortium’, ‘International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC)’, ‘METASTROKE Consortium’, ‘Neurology Working Group of the CHARGE Consortium’, ‘NINDS Stroke Genetics Network (SiGN)’, ‘UK Young Lacunar DNA Study’ and ‘MEGASTROKE Consortium’ appeared at the end of the author list but should have appeared earlier in the list. In addition, the author group ‘MEGASTROKE Consortium’ was duplicated, and its members were not displayed in the ‘Author information’ section. The errors have been corrected in the HTML version of the article
Food safety consortium
No full textIn recent years, food safety has become an
issue of concern for the beef industry, beef
processors, and the consuming public. Even
though America has the safest and most wholesome
food supply in the world, consumers are
worried about the safety of the meat they eat.
In response to reports of illness from contamination
by both microbes and chemicals in the meat
supply, the United States Congress, in 1988,
authorized and funded a Special Grants Program
in the United States Department of Agriculture
called the Food Safety Consortium. The members
of the Consortium are Kansas State University,
the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and
Iowa State University
Challenges and outcomes from prototypic corium experiments within the safest european consortium
No full textInternational audienceSevere accident with core meltdown is a threat to the containment integrity. As Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents demonstrate, significant release of radioactive products into the environment can cause severe consequences to health, the environment and the economy. Corium is the molten material formed after meltdown of a nuclear reactor core during a severe accident. In order to improve the understanding and modelling of corium behavior, experiments are needed both for LWRs and GenIV fast reactors. As it is not feasible to simulate all the aspects of corium phenomenology, especially its high temperature physico-chemistry, there is the need for prototypic corium experiments with depleted uranium, even though it implies a series of protective and regulatory measures. Within the European SAFEST consortium on severe accidents and corium experimental research a number of facilities operate with prototypic corium KROTOS, MERELAVA,VITI, VULCANO, FLF, COMETA, SICOPS and CODEX,. Many technological challenges arise in heating, measuring and containing such high temperature material. The limited availability of thermodynamic and thermophysical properties for these materials is also a difficulty whereas it must be stressed that there is not one unique corium composition but a large spectrum of compositions depending on accident scenarios.Nevertheless, prototypic material experimental research has already provided numerous insights to the understanding of corium behavior, such, as among others, data on fuel element and melt oxidation processes and kinetics, material effects affecting steam explosion or molten core concrete interaction, efficiency of corium spreading, In the frame of the SAFEST European project, current experimental capabilities are being upgraded, thanks to improvements in high temperature metrology, corium material analyses, measurement of corium thermophysical properties such as electrical properties as well as insights on scaling laws.New prototypic corium experiments are planned in Europe such as PLINIUS2 (CEA)
Author Correction: Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes
No full textOnline Correction for: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2493-4 | Erratum for https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21299In the version of this article initially published, two members of the ENCODE Project Consortium were missing from the author list. Rizi Ai (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA) and Shantao Li (Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA) are now included in the author list. These errors have been corrected in the online version of the article : 'Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes'.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04226-3https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04226-
Author Correction: Perspectives on ENCODE (Nature, (2020), 583, 7818, (693-698), 10.1038/s41586-020-2449-8)
No full textThe Original Article (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2449-8) was published on 29 July 2020.Copyright © The Authors 2022. In this Article, the authors Rizi Ai (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA) and Shantao Li (Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA) were mistakenly omitted from the ENCODE Project Consortium author list. The original Article has been corrected online
Comparing consortial repositories: a model-driven analysis
No full textThis study aims to provide a comparative assessment of different repository consortia as a reference to inform future work in the area. A review of the literature was used to identify repository consortia, and their features were compared. Three models of consortial repositories were derived from this comparison, based on their structure and aims. The consortial models were based around either: creating a shared repository for the members, developing a repository software platform or creating a metadata harvesting service to aggregate content. Using case studies of each type of repository consortium, each model was assessed in terms of its particular strengths and weaknesses. These strengths were then compared across the models to enable those considering a consortial repository project to assess which model, or combination of models, would best address their needs and to aid in project planning
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