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Weber. "Phase-change-related degradation of catalyst layers in proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells." Electrochimica Acta 95 (2013): 29-37. Hwang, Gi Suk, Dilworth Y. Parkinson,...
Macroeconomic Activity Module
Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (EIA)
d022412A. U.S. Energy Information Administration | Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2012 18 Macroeconomic Activity Module To reflect uncertainty in the projection of...
Essays in macroeconomics
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This thesis examines questions in macroeconomics motivated by the 2007-2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Chapter 1 studies the impact of a housing bust on regional labor reallocation and the labor market. I document ...
Nenov, Plamen T. (Plamen Toshkov)
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Documents the objectives, analytical approach, and development of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) used to develop the Annual Energy Outlook for 2013 (AEO2013). The report catalogues and describes the module assumptions, computations, methodology, parameter estimation techniques, and mainframe source code
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This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank 19 U.S. Energy Information Administration | Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook2011 Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module.
Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook - Macroeconomic Activity...
Macroeconomic Activity Module Assumption to the Annual Energy Outlook Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the...
Essays in macroeconomics and experiments
This dissertation consists of four chapters on empirical and experimental macroeconomics and other experimental topics. Chapter 1 uses a laboratory experiment to test the predictions of a dynamic global game designed to ...
Shurchkov, Olga
Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM ...
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Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System April 2013 Independent Statistics & ...
International Macroeconomic Data Set | Data.gov
International Macroeconomic Data Set International Macroeconomic Data Set Agriculture Community Menu DATA APPS EVENTS DEVELOPER STATISTICS COLLABORATE ABOUT Agriculture You are here Data.gov » Communities » Agriculture » Data International Macroeconomic Data Set Dataset Summary Description The International Macroeconomic Data Set provides data from 1969 through 2020 for real (adjusted for inflation) gross domestic product (GDP), population, real exchange rates, and other variables for the 190 countries and 34 regions that are most important for U.S. agricultural trade. The data presented here are a key component of the USDA Baseline projections process, and can be used as a benchmark for analyzing the impacts of U.S. and global macroeconomic shocks. The data for the Baseline projections are updated once a year to reflect the assumptions used for the Baseline. The historical data will be revised several times a year as the underlying data evolve.
Macroeconomic Real Gross Domestic Product
Macroeconomic Macroeconomic Real Gross Domestic Product (billion chained 2009 dollars - SAAR) ............. 15,584 15,680 15,819 15,886 15,970 16,068 16,173 16,295 16,422 16,557 16,701 16,832 15,742 16,127 16,628 Real Disposable Personal Income (billion chained 2009 dollars - SAAR) ............. 11,502 11,618 11,703 11,757 11,883 11,970 12,057 12,151 12,273 12,363 12,451 12,526 11,645 12,015 12,403 Real Personal Consumption Expend. (billion chained 2009 dollars - SAAR) ............. 10,644 10,692 10,729 10,813 10,884 10,959 11,036 11,114 11,191 11,264 11,343 11,416 10,719 10,998 11,304 Real Fixed Investment (billion chained 2009 dollars - SAAR) ............. 2,420 2,458 2,491 2,508 2,551 2,604 2,655 2,700 2,752 2,816 2,885 2,944 2,469 2,627 2,849 Business Inventory Change (billion chained 2009 dollars - SAAR) .............
Essays on political institutions and macroeconomics
This dissertation consists of three chapters on the interaction of political institutions and macroeconomic activity in dynamic environments. Chapter 1 studies the optimal management of taxes and debt in a framework which ...
Yared, Pierre
Essays in macroeconomics : liquidity and taxation
This thesis consists of three independent chapters on the Macroeconomics of Liquidity and Taxation. The first chapter studies how concerns about future funding difficulties and liquidity dry ups influence investment ...
Iachan, Felipe Saraiva
Essays in macroeconomics and corporate finance
This thesis examines questions at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. Chapter 1 studies the persistent effects of a decrease in firms' ability to borrow. I develop a tractable model of deleveraging that emphasizes ...
Goldberg, Jonathan E. (Jonathan Elliot)
Essays on finance, learning, and macroeconomics
This thesis consists of four essays on finance, learning, and macroeconomics. The first essay studies whether learning can explain why the standard consumption-based asset pricing model produces large pricing errors for ...
Doyle, Joseph Buchman, Jr
Short-Term Energy Outlook Model Documentation: Macro Bridge Procedure to Update Regional Macroeconomic Forecasts with National Macroeconomic Forecasts
The Regional Short-Term Energy Model (RSTEM) uses macroeconomic variables such as income, employment, industrial production and consumer prices at both the national and regional1 levels as explanatory variables in the generation of the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). This documentation explains how national macroeconomic forecasts are used to update regional macroeconomic forecasts through the RSTEM Macro Bridge procedure.
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Essays on macroeconomics and forecasting
This dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II uses the method of structural factor analysis to study the effects of monetary policy on key macroeconomic variables in a data rich environment. I propose two structural factor models. One is the structural factor augmented vector autoregressive (SFAVAR) model and the other is the structural factor vector autoregressive (SFVAR) model. Compared to the traditional vector autogression (VAR) model, both models incorporate far more information from hundreds of data series, series that can be and are monitored by the Central Bank. Moreover, the factors used are structurally meaningful, a feature that adds to the understanding of the ��?black box� of the monetary transmission mechanism. Both models generate qualitatively reasonable impulse response functions. Using the SFVAR model, both the ��?price puzzle� and the ��?liquidity puzzle� are eliminated. Chapter III employs the method of structural factor analysis to conduct a forecasting exercise in a data rich environment. I simulate out-of-sample real time forecasting using a structural dynamic factor forecasting model and its variations. I use several structural factors to summarize the information from a large set of candidate explanatory variables. Compared to Stock and Watson (2002)��?s models, the models proposed in this chapter can further allow me to select the factors structurally for each variable to be forecasted. I find advantages to using the structural dynamic factor forecasting models compared to alternatives that include univariate autoregression (AR) model, the VAR model and Stock and Watson��?s (2002) models, especially when forecasting real variables. In chapter IV, we measure U.S. technology shocks by implementing a dual approach, which is based on more reliable price data instead of aggregate quantity data. By doing so, we find the relative volatility of technology shocks and the correlation between output fluctuation and technology shocks to be much smaller than those revealed in most real-business-cycle (RBC) studies. Our results support the findings of Burnside, Eichenbaum and Rebelo (1996), who showed that the correlation between technology shocks and output is exaggerated in the RBC literature. This suggests that one should examine other sources of fluctuations for a better understanding of the business cycle phenomena.
Liu, Dandan
The evolution of consensus in macroeconomic forecasting
When professional forecasters repeatedly forecast macroeconomic variables, their forecasts may converge over time towards a consensus. The evolution of consensus is analyzed with Blue Chip data under a parametric polynomial decay function that permits flexibility in the decay path. For the most part, this specification fits the data. We test whether forecast differences decay to zero at the same point in time for a panel of forecasters, and discuss possible explanations for this, along with its implications for studies using panels of forecasters.
Allan W. Gregory; James Yetman; Jel Codes C E; Robert Eggert; Fred Joutz
The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 1998 - Macroeconomic...
of the Underlying Core Models Macroeconomic assessment at EIA involves several modes of analysis. The first type of analysis, used in forecasting the Annual Energy Outlook where...
EIA - Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2008 - Macroeconomic
Macroeconomic Activity Module Macroeconomic Activity Module Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2008 Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-M065(2007), (Washington, DC, January 2007).
EIA - Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2009 - Macroeconomic
Macroeconomic Activity Module Macroeconomic Activity Module Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2009 Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-M065(2008), (Washington, DC, January 2008).
The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2000 - Macroeconomic
Macroeconomic assessment at EIA involves several modes of analysis. The first type of analysis, used in forecasting the Annual Energy Outlook where energy prices change, uses kernel regression and response surface techniques to mimic the response of larger macroeconomic and industrial models. This mode of analysis requires a given economic baseline and then calculates the economic impacts of changing energy prices, calculated from the chosen growth path. The economic growth cases are derived from the larger core models and can reflect either high, low, or reference case growth assumptions. Analyzing economic impacts from energy price changes uses the macroeconomic activity module (MAM) within NEMS and provides a subset of the macroeconomic variables available in the larger core models. The composition of the subset is determined by the other energy modules in NEMS, as they use various macroeconomic concepts as assumptions to their particular energy model.
EIA-Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook - Macroeconomic Activity
Macroeconomic Activity Module Macroeconomic Activity Module Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2007 Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-M065(2007), (Washington, DC, January 2007).
Macroeconomic Activity Module Macroeconomic Activity Module Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2010 Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Document>ation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-M065(2009), (Washington, DC, January 2009).
EIA - The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2003-Macroeconomic
Macroeconomic Activity Module Macroeconomic Activity Module The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2003 Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) links NEMS to the rest of the economy by providing projections of economic driver variables for use by the supply, demand, and conversion modules of NEMS. The derivation of the baseline macroeconomic forecast lays a foundation for the determination of the energy demand and supply forecast. MAM is used to present alternative macroeconomic growth cases to provide a range of uncertainty about the growth potential for the economy and its likely consequences for the energy system. MAM is also able to address the macroeconomic impacts associated with changing energy market conditions, such as alternative world oil price assumptions. Outside of the Annual Energy Outlook setting, MAM represents a system of linked modules which can assess the potential impacts on the economy of changes in energy events or policy proposals. These economic impacts then feed back into NEMS for an integrated solution. MAM consists of five modules:
World Energy Projection System Plus Model Documentation: Macroeconomic Model
This report documents the objectives, analytical approach and development of the World Energy Projection System Plus (WEPS+) Macroeconomic Model. It also catalogues and describes critical assumptions, computational methodology, parameter estimation techniques, and model source code.
Brian Murphy
14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2005
The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course ...
Blanchard, Olivier (Olivier J.)
R&D Activity Investments and Macroeconomic Determinant Factors.
?? Investments in R&D activities are essential to firms. Decisions to increase or decrease R&D investments may rely according to changes in macroeconomic factors. The� (more)
Gardell, Pierre
Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2001 - Macroeconomic Activity
Macroeconomic Activity Module Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module
Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 1999 - Macroeconomic Activity
macroeconomic.gif (5367 bytes) macroeconomic.gif (5367 bytes) The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System, DOE/EIA-M065, (Washington, DC, February 1994).
Macroeconomic Activity Module (Mam) 1998 (Kernel Regression), Model Documentation
The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) serves two functions within the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). First, it provides consistent sets of baselines macroeconomic variables (GDP and components, aggregate prices, interest rates, industrial output, housing starts, commercial floorspace, newcar sales, etc.) which are used by the supply, demand and conversion modules in reaching an energy market equilibrium. Second, it is designed to provide a feedback mechanism that alters the baseline variables during the course of an integrated NEMS run.
Ron Earley
Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2002 - Macroeconomic Activity
Macroeconomic Activity Module The Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) represents the interaction between the U.S. economy as a whole and energy markets. The rate of growth of the economy, measured by the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is a key determinant of the growth in demand for energy. Associated economic factors, such as interest rates and disposable income, strongly influence various elements of the supply and demand for energy. At the same time, reactions to energy markets by the aggregate economy, such as a slowdown in economic growth resulting from increasing energy prices, are also reflected in this module. A detailed description of the MAM is provided in the EIA publication, Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Forecasting
This dissertation contains three essays in international macroeconomics and financial time series forecasting. In the first essay, I show, numerically, that a two-country New-Keynesian Sticky Prices model, driven by monetary and productivity shocks, is capable of explaining the highly positive correlation across the industrialized countries' inflation even though their cross-country correlation in money growth rate is negligible. The structure of this model generates cross-country correlations of inflation, output and consumption that appear to closely correspond to the data. Additionally, this model can explain the internal correlation between inflation and output observed in the data. The second essay presents two important results. First, gains from monetary policy cooperation are different from zero when the elasticity of substitution between domestic and imported goods consumption is different from one. Second, when monetary policy is endogenous in a two-country model, the only Nash equilibria supported by this model are those that are symmetrical. That is, all exporting firms in both countries choose to price in their own currency, or all exporting firms in both countries choose to price in the importer's currency. The last essay provides both conditional and unconditional predictive ability evaluations of the aluminum futures contracts prices, by using five different econometric models, in forecasting the aluminum spot price monthly return 3, 15, and 27-months ahead for the sample period 1989.01-2010.10. From these evaluations, the best model in forecasting the aluminum spot price monthly return 3 and 15 months ahead is followed by a (VAR) model whose variables are aluminum futures contracts price, aluminum spot price and risk free interest rate, whereas for the aluminum spot price monthly return 27 months ahead is a single equation model in which the aluminum spot price today is explained by the aluminum futures price 27 months earlier. Finally, it shows that iterated multiperiod-ahead time series forecasts have a better conditional out-of-sample forecasting performance of the aluminum spot price monthly return when an estimated (VAR) model is used as a forecasting tool.
Bejarano Rojas, Jesus Antonio
Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of ...
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Macroeconomic determinants of the stock market movements: empirical evidence from the Saudi stock market.
??This dissertation investigates the long run and short run relationships between Saudi stock market returns and eight macroeconomic variables. We investigate the ability of these� (more)
Alshogeathri, Mofleh Ali Mofleh
Optimal Deterministic and Stochastic Macroeconomic Policies for Slovenia: An Application of the OPTCON Algorithm
Science Conference Proceedings (OSTI)
This paper reports about applications of optimal control theory to the analysis of macroeconomic policies for Slovenia during its way into the Euro Area. For this purpose, the model SLOPOL4, a macroeconometric model for Slovenia, is used. Optimal policies ... Keywords: C5, E5, E6, Econometric model, Macroeconomic policy, O5, Optimal control, Sensitivity analysis, Slovenia, Stochastic control
Reinhard Neck; Gottfried Haber; Klaus Weyerstrass
Methodology for the Assessment of the Macroeconomic Impacts of Stricter CAF. Standards
For For a full documentation of the macroeconomic linkage refer to "Model Documentation Report: Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) of the National Energy Modeling System," January 2002 found on the EIA web site at http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/modeldoc/m065(2002).pdf Methodology for the Assessment of the Macroeconomic Impacts of Stricter CAFÉ Standards This assessment of the economic impacts of CAFÉ standards marks the first time EIA has used the new direct linkage of the DRI-WEFA Macroeconomic Model to NEMS in a policy setting. This methodology assures an internally consistent solution between the energy market concepts forecast by NEMS and the aggregate economy as forecast by the DRI-WEFA Macroeconomic Model of the U.S. Economy. While we refer to DRI- WEFA model as a macro model, the full DRI-WEFA model forecasts more than 1600 detailed concepts covering
Heterogeneous Enterprises in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model
We present a macroeconomic agent-based model that combines several mechanisms operating at the same timescale, while remaining mathematically tractable. It comprises enterprises and workers who compete in a job market and a commodity goods market. The model is stock-flow consistent; a bank lends money charging interest rates, and keeps track of equities. Important features of the model are heterogeneity of enterprises, existence of bankruptcies and creation of new enterprises, as well as productivity increase. The model's evolution reproduces empirically found regularities for firm size and growth rate distributions. It combines probabilistic elements and deterministic dynamics, with relative weights that may be modified according to the considered problem or the belief of the modeler. We discuss statistical regularities on enterprises, the origin and the amplitude of endogeneous fluctuations of the system's steady state, as well as the role of the interest rate and the credit volume. We also summarize obtain...
Metzig, Cornelia
Transportation technology transitions and macroeconomic growth -- Contemporary evidence
SciTech Connect
This paper presents international and temporal extensions of evidence for a theory developed by the author concerning the interaction of transportation technology transitions and macroeconomic growth. The period 1970 to the present is examined for the nations of Japan, the US, and Europe (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom collectively). An addition to the abstract logic supporting the general arguments of the theory is also presented. The theory has been developed concerning the role of significant transportation technology transitions as a cause of significant macroeconomic declines in nations for which the manufacture of transportation vehicles (ships, locomotives, and automobiles) is a dominant economic activity. The theory offers an explanation for periods of pronounced multiyear decline in economic growth rate--sometimes called depressions and sometimes called stagnations. One purpose of this paper is to explore whether or not Japan and Europe have each recently experienced a multiyear event of this type. In the theory and the evidence presented for it, environmental regulation of transportation vehicles has been shown to be an initiating cause of significant technical change, with sharp, sustained fuel price increases being a second frequent initiating cause. These causes of significant technical change, and their possible consequences, are potentially important considerations for those proposing policies to deal with global warming, since both fuel economy regulation and fuel price increases have been recommended by policy analysts as means to reduce transportation`s contribution to global warming. The theory has been offered and supported by publications developing mathematical models and examining US historical evidence consistent with the theory.
Santini, D.J.
Senior Vice President Enclosure document8 This page intentionally left blankMacroeconomic Impacts of LNG
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European Macro-economic Policy and Technological Development: the case of Greece
Recent studies on economic and technological transformation in less developed countries emphasise that improvement of their performance in terms of competitiveness and successful integration into the world economy requires both economic stabilisation at the macroeconomic level and technological development. Greece is a typical case, which during the last twenty years has had to deal with specific imperatives: European integration, technological catch-up and macro-economic stability. These processes are envisaged under the pressure of the opening of the economy, which in principle could facilitate dissemination of new technologies on the one hand but constrain the development of national capabilities on the other. In this paper we present the specificities of the Greek productive system that have shaped its integration into the EC and attempt to link the process of European integration with its technological development. Special reference is made to the macroeconomic policy of the EU and its impact on technological transformation. 2
Ioanna Kastelli
"Omics of the mammalian gut new insights into function
To understand the role of gut microbes in host health, it is imperative to probe their genetic potential, expression, and ecological status. The current high-throughput sequencing revolution, in addition to advances in mass spectrometry-based proteomics, have recently enabled deep access to these complex environments, and are revealing important insights into the roles of the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota in host physiology and health. This review discusses examples of how the integration of cutting-edge meta-omics technologies are providing new knowledge about the relationships between host health status in mammals and the microbes inhabiting the GI tract. In addition, we address some promises that these techniques hold for future therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
Lamendella, Regina [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); Verberkmoes, Nathan C [ORNL; Jansson, Janet [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Table 9a. U.S. Macroeconomic Indicators and CO2 Emissions U.S ...
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 2012 2013 2014 Macroeconomic Real Gross Domestic Product (billion chained 2005 dollars - SAAR) ..... 13,506 13,549 ...
Macroeconomic impacts of clean coal technologies and acid rain legislation: A comparative analysis
In 1987, the National Association of Manufacturers published a study documenting the negative macroeconomic impacts that could occur if proposed acid rain legislation were passed (NAM 1987). These negative impacts would result from the substantially higher electricity rates that would be needed to finance conventional pollution-control retrofits. The US Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (DOE/FE) wanted to evaluate the macroeconomic impacts of nonregulatory approaches to reduce the emissions of acid rain precursors. DOE/FE therefore directed Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to determine the potential for clean coal technologies (CCTs) to satisfy future electric load growth and achieve greater long-term reductions in emissions at a lower cost than could be achieved through a legislative mandate. This study documents the macroeconomic impacts of CCT deployment without acid rain legislation and compares these results with the corresponding impacts of using conventional technologies and meeting mandatory emission reductions. The Argonne Utility Simulation (ARGUS) model was used to determine the least-cost solution and incremental levelized system costs* over the period 1995-2030 for three scenarios: (1) a baseline scenario, in which no acid rain controls are mandated and no CCTs are deployed; (2) an acid rain (AR) scenario, in which legislation (S. 1894, 100th Congress) is mandated but no CCTs are deployed; and (3) a CCT scenario, in which maximum CCT deployment (specifically, integrated gasification combined-cycle or IGCC technology in repowering and new or greenfield'' applications) occurs but no acid rain legislation is mandated. The Data Resources Inc. (DRI) annual macroeconomic model (which was extended from 2010 to 2030) was used to compute the macroeconomic impacts of the AR and CCT scenarios. 2 refs., 28 figs.
Edwards, B.K.; South, D.W.; Veselka, T.D. (Argonne National Lab., IL (USA). Environmental Assessment and Information Sciences Div.); Gault, N.J. (DRI/McGraw-Hill Energy Service, Lexington, MA (USA))
The macroeconomic effects of oil price shocks : why are the 2000s so different from the 1920s?
We characterize the macroeconomic performance of a set of industrialized economies in the aftermath of the oil price shocks of the 1970s and of the last decade, focusing on the differences across episodes. We examine four ...
Blanchard, Olivier
�The Long-run Macroeconomic Impacts of Fuel Subsidies in an Oil-importing Developing
Many developing and emerging market countries have subsidies on fuel products. Using a small open economy model with a non-traded sector I show how these subsidies impact the steady state levels of macroeconomic aggregates such as consumption, labor supply, and aggregate welfare. These subsidies can lead to crowding out of non-oil consumption, inefficient inter-sectoral allocations of labor, and other distortions in macroeconomic variables. Across steady states aggregate welfare is reduced by these subsidies. This result holds for a country with no oil production and for a net exporter of oil. The distortions in relative prices introduced by the subsidy create most of the welfare losses. How the subsidy is financed is of secondary importance. Aggregate welfare is significantly higher if the subsidies are replaced by lump-sum transfers of equal value.
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The $G/GI/N$ queue in the Halfin--Whitt regime
In this paper, we study the $G/\\mathit{GI}/N$ queue in the Halfin--Whitt regime. Our first result is to obtain a deterministic fluid limit for the properly centered and scaled number of customers in the system which may be used to provide a first-order approximation to the queue length process. Our second result is to obtain a second-order stochastic approximation to the number of customers in the system in the Halfin--Whitt regime. This is accomplished by first centering the queue length process by its deterministic fluid limit and then normalizing by an appropriate factor. We then proceed to obtain an alternative but equivalent characterization of our limiting approximation which involves the renewal function associated with the service time distribution. This alternative characterization reduces to the diffusion process obtained by Halfin and Whitt [Oper. Res. 29 (1981) 567--588] in the case of exponentially distributed service times.
Reed, Josh
My dissertation studies various questions falling into the broad context of macroeconomics and international economics. The questions have macroeconomic components because they are concerned with the behavior of aggregates. Specifically, the second and third chapters of my dissertation study the causes of fluctuations in aggregate macroeconomic variables and the way policy can be coordinated internationally to reduce these fluctuations, respectively. In addition, chapters III and IV address questions that fall into the realm of international economics. They are concerned with the optimal exchange rate regime between two countries, the consequences of partial exchange rate pass-through and the effect of an increase in vertical Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by domestic firms. The framework of my analysis is given by different versions of general equilibrium models. The second chapter of my dissertation decomposes fluctuations in aggregate observables for the UK economy during the 1980s recession. Using a modern accounting procedure, I estimate parameters that describe the economy using annual data from 1970 to 2002. Then, I simulate different versions of the model to find the distortions that are essential in driving the observed fluctuations. I find labor market distortions to be crucial in accounting for the episode, suggesting that the policies of the time were well targeted and effective. The third chapter of my dissertation studies policy coordination in a two-country framework allowing for partial pass-through. In particular, both countries are assumed to have monetary and fiscal stabilization instruments available. The optimal setting of these instruments under differing pass-through regimes is analytically derived. Fiscal policy is found to be used in a counter-cyclical fashion. In addition, the magnitude of fiscal stabilization is the largest when pass-through is partial. In the fourth chapter, I study the consequences of vertical FDI on aggregate productivity and welfare. The framework allows for heterogeneity across firms in two dimensions. It is firms that are at a disadvantage with respect to manufacturing costs that are benefiting most from moving their production process abroad. Overall, the ability to engage in vertical FDI increases productivity, lowers prices and thus increases welfare.
Kersting, Erasmus K.
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Floodplain delineation with heC-RaS and GiS September 6-8, 2011
Floodplain delineation with heC-RaS and GiS September 6-8, 2011 texaS a&m UniverSity College Station, texaS texaS Water reSoUrCeS inStitUte Continuing Education Courses http, September 8, 5 p.m. at the Centeq Building on the Texas A&M University Campus. Please note that all
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Outlook Outlook Mary Novak Managing Director IHS Global Insight Copyright © 2010 IHS Global Insight, Inc. Overview: Energy Sector Transformation Underway * The recession has hit energy demand hard, and aggregate energy demand is not expected to return to 2007 levels until 2018. * Oil and natural gas prices will both rise over the long-term, but the price trends will diverge with natural gas prices rising slowly due to the development of shale gas. * This forecast does not include a GHG cap-and-trade program. However, it is assumed that there will be continued improvement in equipment, appliance and building efficiencies that will reduce carbon emissions relative to past projections. * The forecast also includes the more than 30 state- level programs to increase efficiency and reduce
Update on INSIGHTS Development
INSIGHTS is a transformational separate effects testing capability to perform in situ irradiation studies and characterization of the microscale behavior of nuclear fuel materials under a wide variety of in-pile conditions. Separate effects testing including growth, irradiation, and monitoring of these materials, and encompasses the full science based approach for fuels development from the nanoscale to the mesoscale behavior of the sample material and other defects driven by the modeling and simulation efforts of INL.
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The homeownership gap : how the post-world War II GI bill shaped modern day homeownership patterns for black and white Americans
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the GI Bill, was a transformative piece of legislation signed by President Roosevelt intended to help WWII Veterans transition successfully from soldier to citizen. ...
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Exascale Insights (2011) | National Nuclear Security Administration
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Macroeconomic effects of accelerated implementation of renewable energy technologies in the US
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The original formulation of the Brookhaven energy system models was directed toward technology assessment for new and competing energy technologies. The Hudson-Jorgenson econometric model was originally formulated to identify the economic impacts of energy futures where energy-use projections departed markedly from historical trends. The two models were married so that the feedback effects of energy and nonenergy demand levels and nonenergy prices generated by the economic model could be reflected in the technology and fuel-mix-selection solutions of the energy model. In turn, the engineering-based energy costs, energy prices, and capital requirements for energy systems characterized in the energy model are used to override the econometric estimates based on historical data in the economic model. Recently, the coupled models have been used to address questions concerning the macroeconomic impacts of accelerating the implementation of renewable energy technologies in the United States. Of particular interest were the scenarios where (1) renewables were included which cost more than conventional alternatives now and in the future, and (2) some renewables that are initially more costly are characterized by a learning curve so that in time their costs come to equal conventional alternatives. A further analysis was done for the first case (renewables always more expensive) under conditions where (1) the incremental costs were paid by the government through deficit financing, and (2) the incremental costs were paid by consumers. This paper presents the formulation of the analysis using the combined energy system - economic model and the results of the study.
Marcuse, W; Groncki, P J
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Energy Insight Energy Insight Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Energy Insight Agency/Company /Organization: Tendril Connect Sector: Energy Focus Area: Energy Efficiency Resource Type: Software/modeling tools User Interface: Website Website: greenbuttonconnect.com/home Web Application Link: greenbuttonconnect.com/apps/energyinsight/? OpenEI Keyword(s): Green Button Apps Language: English Energy Insight Screenshot References: Tendril[1] Green Button Connect[2] Logo: Energy Insight An application that analyzes and presents your energy data in easy-to-understand charts. Energy Insight enables you to dynamically sort the chart data using a variety of time periods: hourly, daily, monthly. In addition to the charts, the Energy Insight application can display your
Modeling for Insights
System Dynamics is a computer-aided approach to evaluating the interrelationships of different components and activities within complex systems. Recently, System Dynamics models have been developed in areas such as policy design, biological and medical modeling, energy and the environmental analysis, and in various other areas in the natural and social sciences. The real power of System Dynamic modeling is gaining insights into total system behavior as time, and system parameters are adjusted and the effects are visualized in real time. System Dynamic models allow decision makers and stakeholders to explore long-term behavior and performance of complex systems, especially in the context of dynamic processes and changing scenarios without having to wait decades to obtain field data or risk failure if a poor management or design approach is used. The Idaho National Laboratory recently has been developing a System Dynamic model of the US Nuclear Fuel Cycle. The model is intended to be used to identify and understand interactions throughout the entire nuclear fuel cycle and suggest sustainable development strategies. This paper describes the basic framework of the current model and presents examples of useful insights gained from the model thus far with respect to sustainable development of nuclear power.
Jacob J. Jacobson; Gretchen Matthern
Three Essays on Price Dynamics and Causations among Energy Markets and Macroeconomic Information
This dissertation examines three important issues in energy markets: price dynamics, information flow, and structural change. We discuss each issue in detail, building empirical time series models, analyzing the results, and interpreting the findings. First, we examine the contemporaneous interdependencies and information flows among crude oil, natural gas, and electricity prices in the United States (US) through the multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (MGARCH) model, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for contemporaneous causal structures and Bernanke factorization for price dynamic processes. Test results show that the DAG from residuals of out-of-sample-forecast is consistent with the DAG from residuals of within-sample-fit. The result supports innovation accounting analysis based on DAGs using residuals of out-of-sample-forecast. Second, we look at the effects of the federal fund rate and/or WTI crude oil price shock on US macroeconomic and financial indicators by using a Factor Augmented Vector Autoregression (FAVAR) model and a graphical model without any deductive assumption. The results show that, in contemporaneous time, the federal fund rate shock is exogenous as the identifying assumption in the Vector Autoregression (VAR) framework of the monetary shock transmission mechanism, whereas the WTI crude oil price return is not exogenous. Third, we examine price dynamics and contemporaneous causality among the price returns of WTI crude oil, gasoline, corn, and the S&P 500. We look for structural break points and then build an econometric model to find the consistent sub-periods having stable parameters in a given VAR framework and to explain recent movements and interdependency among returns. We found strong evidence of two structural breaks and contemporaneous causal relationships among the residuals, but also significant differences between contemporaneous causal structures for each sub-period.
Hong, Sung Wook 1977-
Estimating macroeconomic effects of proposed safety and environmental regulations using the new DRI annual model of the US economy
The long-run macroeconomic effects of proposed environmental and safety regulations are analyzed by use of DRI's (Data Resources, Inc.) new annual model of the US economy. This annual model has fewer variables than the DRI quarterly US economy model. Many short-run cyclical factors have been condensed while long-run supply factors have been enhanced. The model was used to estimate the macroeconomic effects of proposed simultaneous application of (1) new safety regulations regarding air bags or automatic seat belts on cars in 1984 and thereafter, and (2) tight acid-rain environmental regulations for coal-using electric utilities and industry. The effects of the regulations while favorable in the short run, were found to be quite adverse over the long run. Regulatory effects were further analyzed under the assumption that the initial application of regulations was accompanied by a shock in world oil prices (similar to situations in the 1970s when regulatory costs rose simultaneously with the two major energy price shocks). However, a synergistic effect between the shock and new regulation cost was not found.
Teotia, A.P.; Santini, D.J.; Caton, C.
European Economic Review 18 11982)243-248. Norfh-Holle,nd Publishing Company THE OIL SHOCKS AND MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMEN'F IN
/38, USA Though 'supply-side economics' is politically ascendant in the United States, the relative importance of supply versus demand factors in r,x:ent U.S. macroeconomic history remains in strong dispute the oil price increases a~d pre-ta~: profitability remained strong throughout the 1970s. Demand factors
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... Nuclear Physics meets Biophysics: New Insights into Macromolecules. Frank Heinrich, Institut f�r Experimentelle Physik II, Universit�t Leipzig. ...
Fundamental limits and insights: from wireless communication to DNA sequencing
Fundamental limits and insights: from wireless communicationDavid Aldous Fall 2012 Fundamental limits and insights: fromGuy Bresler Abstract Fundamental limits and insights: from
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Three essays on macroeconomics
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Pruitt, Seth James
Nonfarm labor productivity is expected to diminish from its current high level to a more sustainable level between 1.8 and 2.6 percent for the remainder of the forecast period...
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one studies the effect of labor policy, in particular of firing costs, on financially restricted firms. It proposes and models an effect of firing costs that has not ...
Bennett, Herman Z
Essays on international macroeconomics
This thesis examines the impact of terms of trade shocks on commodity-exporting small, open economies. The first chapter examines whether households, firms and policymakers in these economies can distinguish between temporary ...
Rees, Daniel Morgan
HEV Fleet Testing - 2001 Honda Insight Hybrid
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ALS Gives Chevron Scientists New Insights into Corrosion Resistance
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Space-Time Insight Space-Time Insight Jump to: navigation, search Name Space-Time Insight Address 45680 Northport Loop East Place Fremont, California Zip 94538 Sector Efficiency Product SpaceTime Awareness Server Year founded 2008 Number of employees 11-50 Website http://www.spacetimeinsight.co Coordinates 37.4923832°, -121.9532879° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":37.4923832,"lon":-121.9532879,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
IBM Internet Security Systems Threat Insight Monthly
. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303411 BEA Systems - 2007 Daylight Savings Time ChangesIBM Internet Security Systems X-Force ® Threat Insight Monthly www.iss.netwww.iss.net February 2007 Shellcode Heuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The 2007 Daylight
Study of capital requirements for solar energy. Final report, Volume 1. Analysis of the macroeconomic effects of increased solar energy market penetration
This report defines the analytical framework for, and presents the results of, a study to determine the macroeconomic effects of increased market penetration of solar energy technologies over the 1977-2000 time period. For the purposes of this document, solar technologies are defined as wind, photovoltaics, ocean thermal electric (OTEC), small-scale (non-utility) hydroelectric and all solar active and passive thermal technologies. This research has been undertaken in support of the National Plan to Accelerate Commercialization (NPAC) of Solar Energy. The capital and operating requirements for three market penetration levels are first determined; the effects of these requirements on economic performance are then estimated using the Hudson-Jorgenson Energy/Economic Model. The analytical design, computational methods, data sources, assumptions and scenario configurations for this analysis are defined in detail. The results of the analysis of the economic impact of solar energy are presented in detail, and the implications of these results are discussed. Appendix A explains the methodology for transforming investment to capital stocks. Appendix B, which is provided in a separate volume, describes the Hudson-Jorgenson Model in greater detail. (WHK)
Pleatsikas, C.J.; Hudson, E.A.; O'Connor, D.C.; Funkhouser, D.H.
THE PALAEOZOIC PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE KAROO SUPERGROUP AND PALYNOFACIES INSIGHT INTO PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIONS, KALAHARI KAROO BASIN, BOTSWANA Benson N. Modie 2007 Thesis submitted Techniques THE PALAEOZOIC PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE KAROO SUPERGROUP AND PALYNOFACIES INSIGHT
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Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging
Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:00 XPD helicase is an enzyme...
Insights from Human/Mouse genome comparisons
Large-scale public genomic sequencing efforts have provided a wealth of vertebrate sequence data poised to provide insights into mammalian biology. These include deep genomic sequence coverage of human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, and two pufferfish (Fugu rubripes and Tetraodon nigroviridis) (Aparicio et al. 2002; Lander et al. 2001; Venter et al. 2001; Waterston et al. 2002). In addition, a high-priority has been placed on determining the genomic sequence of chimpanzee, dog, cow, frog, and chicken (Boguski 2002). While only recently available, whole genome sequence data have provided the unique opportunity to globally compare complete genome contents. Furthermore, the shared evolutionary ancestry of vertebrate species has allowed the development of comparative genomic approaches to identify ancient conserved sequences with functionality. Accordingly, this review focuses on the initial comparison of available mammalian genomes and describes various insights derived from such analysis.
Pennacchio, Len A.
RCx Insights and Best Practices from Utilities
Insights and Best Practices from Insights and Best Practices from Utilities Ryan Stoianowski Senior Program Manager, ComEd A PECI EVENT 18 th National Conference on Building Commissioning Learning Objectives 1. ComEd's RCx Program and all its flavors 2. Case studies for Museum, Hospital, and Office 3. Program design changes and lessons learned 4. Anticipated future direction of the program AIA Quality Assurance A PECI EVENT 18 th National Conference on Building Commissioning Smart Ideas Background What is the Smart Ideas Program? * Provides incentives for energy efficient upgrades and incentives * Part of Illinois energy legislation passed in 2007 * Program implemented by ComEd, Ameren Illinois, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Insights from UT Austin Energy Poll
Insights from UT Austin Energy Insights from UT Austin Energy Poll on U.S. Consumer Attitudes July 24, 2013 Sheril Kirshenbaum Director of The Energy Poll Page 2 Source: University of Texas at Austin Energy Poll Impartial and authoritative source of public perspectives on energy to inform and guide discussion, business planning and policy development Page 3 Source: University of Texas at Austin Energy Poll Background * First questionnaire developed in 2010 (Inaugural launch Oct. 2011) * Collaborative effort with representatives from academic institutions, polling companies, non-governmental organizations, energy producers and energy consumers Fall 2012 - Third Release * Online survey conducted September 6-17, 2012 * 2,092 respondents, weighted to reflect U.S. Census demographics
Probabilistic Risk Assessment - Insights for Executives
This report describes the development and use of a new Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) training resource, Probabilistic Risk Assessment � Insights for Executives.� It consists of a slide package with speaker notes, for use by EPRI members to expand understanding of PRA and its applications among executives and nuclear power plant leadership teams.BackgroundWhile many technical disciplines in the nuclear industry have gained acceptance and are ...
Ecofys-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Insights from Example
Ecofys-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Insights from Example Ecofys-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Insights from Example Development Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: National Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Insights from Example Development Agency/Company /Organization: Ecofys Sector: Energy, Land Topics: Low emission development planning, Policies/deployment programs Resource Type: Lessons learned/best practices Website: www.ecofys.com/com/publications/brochures_newsletters/documents/Report National Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Insights from Example Development Screenshot References: National Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Insights from Example Development[1] "Ecofys elaborated in several projects, concrete examples of NAMAs to understand the issues arising from this concept. This report summarizes the
Open Data for Climate and Health Insights
Open Data for Climate and Health Insights Print E-mail Open Data for Climate and Health Insights Print E-mail Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) Website Thursday, May 9, 2013 Posted by Tom Armstrong, Executive Director, U.S. Global Change Research Program Today, in conjunction with a series of landmark steps announced by the Obama Administration to unleash troves of useful data from the vaults of government, the interagency US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) launched a new online tool that promises to accelerate research relating to climate change and human health-the Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health, or "MATCH." The Administration announcements made today include an Executive Order signed by the President declaring that information is a valuable national resource and strategic asset, and a new government-wide Open Data Policy requiring that, going forward, data generated by the government shall be made available in open, machine-readable formats. The move will make troves of previously inaccessible or unmanageable data more readily available to entrepreneurs, researchers, and others who can use open data as fuel for innovation, businesses and new services and tools.
Risk Insights Gained from Fire Incidents
There now exist close to 20 years of history in the application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) for the analysis of fire risk at nuclear power plants. The current methods are based on various assumptions regarding fire phenomena, the impact of fire on equipment and operator response, and the overall progression of a fire event from initiation through final resolution. Over this same time period, a number of significant fire incidents have occurred at nuclear power plants around the world. Insights gained from US experience have been used in US studies as the statistical basis for establishing fire initiation frequencies both as a function of the plant area and the initiating fire source.To a lesser extent, the fire experience has also been used to assess the general severity and duration of fires. However, aside from these statistical analyses, the incidents have rarely been scrutinized in detail to verify the underlying assumptions of fire PRAs. This paper discusses an effort, under which a set of fire incidents are being reviewed in order to gain insights directly relevant to the methods, data, and assumptions that form the basis for current fire PRAs. The paper focuses on the objectives of the effort, the specific fire events being reviews methodology, and anticipated follow-on activities.
Kazarians, Mardy; Nowlen, Steven P.
Insights into Spring 2008 Gasoline Prices
Insights into Spring 2008 Gasoline Prices Insights into Spring 2008 Gasoline Prices Insights into Spring 2008 Gasoline Prices EIA released a new analytical report entitled Motor Gasoline Market Spring 2007 and Implications for Spring 2008. It includes a discussion of scheduled refinery outages in 2008 prepared in accordance with Section 804 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, which requires EIA to review and analyze information on such outages from commercial reporting services and assess to their expected effects on the price and supply of gasoline. Changes in wholesale gasoline prices relative to crude oil are determined by the tightness between gasoline supply (production and net imports) and demand. Expectations for U.S. gasoline supply relative to demand are for a more favorable situation in January through May 2008 than was the case in the comparable 2007 period. Demand growth, which varies seasonally and depends on economic factors, is expected to slow. New gasoline supply is affected by refinery outages, refinery run decisions, and import variations. Planned refinery outages for January through May 2008 are lower than for the same period in 2007. Given lower planned outages and assuming the return of unplanned outages to more typical levels, including the return of BP's Texas City refinery to full operation, gasoline production could increase between 100 and 200 thousand barrels per day over last year's level, depending on the market incentives. In addition, ethanol use, which adds to gasoline supply, is expected to continue to increase. Considering the uncertainty in all the gasoline supply components, there is little likelihood of events combining in 2008 to lead to the kind of tight supply downstream from crude oil markets seen in spring 2007. In summary, refinery outage and import impacts should contribute less to gasoline price increases in 2008 than in 2007. If all of the low-range estimates for supply occurred, total gasoline supply would increase about 200 thousand barrels per day (Figure S1). However, record crude oil prices are nonetheless pushing current and expected gasoline prices to record levels.
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The ADVANCE project: Insights and achievments
ADVANCE [Advanced Driver and Vehicle Advisory Navigation ConcEpt] was a public/private partnership conceived and developed by four founding parties. The founding parties include the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University operating together under the auspices of the Illinois Universities Transportation Research Consortium (IUTRC), and Motorola, Inc. The major responsibilities of each party are fully described in the Project agreement. Subsequently, these four were joined on the Steering Committee by the American Automobile Association (AAA). This unique blending of public sector, private sector and university interests, augmented by more than two dozen other private sector participants, provided a strong set of resources for ADVANCE. The ADVANCE test area covered over 300 square miles including portions of the City of Chicago and 40 northwest suburban communities. The Project encompasses the high growth areas adjacent to O`Hare International Airport, the Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates office and retail complexes, and the Lake-Cook Road development corridor. It also includes major sports and entertainment complexes such as the Arlington International Racecourse and the Rosemont Horizon. The population in the area is more than 750,000. The Insights and Perspectives Compendium is intended to provide useful information to project managers, system developers, and system integrators of future similar ITS implementations. It is intended for those that are technically interested in the ADVANCE Project and have a basic understanding of the project.
Insights from the downhole dynamometer database
The Downhole Dynamometer Database is a compilation of test data collected with a set of five downhole tools built by Albert Engineering under contract to Sandia National Laboratories. The downhole dynamometer tools are memory tools deployed in the sucker rod string with sensors to measure pressure, temperature, load, and acceleration. The acceleration data is processed to yield position, so that a load vs. position dynagraph can be generated using data collected downhole. With five tools in the hole at one time, all measured data and computed dynagraphs from five different positions in the rod string are available. The purpose of the Database is to provide industry with a complete and high quality measurement of downhole sucker rod pumping dynamics. To facilitate use of the database, Sandia has developed a Microsoft Windows-based interface that functions as a visualizer and browser to the more than 40 MBytes of data. The interface also includes a data export feature to allow users to extract data from the database for use in their own programs. Following a brief description of the downhole dynamometer tools, data collection program, and database content, this paper will illustrate a few of the interesting and unique insights gained from the downhole data.
Waggoner, J.R.
Indonesia's Macroeconomic and Trade Performance
This paper investigates the links between Indonesia's growth, debt, and trade performances from 1970 to 1990, and it compares Indonesia's performance with countries that have similar characteristics. This descriptive analysis points to the strong influence of oil revenue fluctuations, open capital markets, and exchange rate management on Indonesia's economy. A decomposition analysis of Indonesia's uses of external debt indicates that the financing of current account deficits cannot explain large proportions of rapid debt accumulation after 1970. Finally, Indonesia's real manufactured export growth of at least 28 percent per year during the 1980s rivalled its regional neighbors. Indonesia's experience demonstrates that despite severe external shocks, sensible policy reforms can help developing countries to achieve impressive economic performances. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is an Assistant Professor at the College of William and
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Essays on finance and macroeconomics
This thesis studies the role of the financial system in the amplification and propagation of business cycles. Chapter 1 studies the origin and propagation of balance sheet recessions. I first show that in standard models ...
Di Tella, Sebastian T. (Sebastian Tariacuri)
Essays in macroeconomics and finance
The first chapter proposes a model of booms and busts in housing and non-housing consumption driven by the interplay between relatively low interest rates and an expansion of credit, triggered by further decline in interest ...
Mohsenzadeh Kermani, Amir Reza
Atomistic insights into aqueous corrosion of copper.
Corrosion is a fundamental problem in electrochemistry and represents a mode of failure of technologically important materials. Understanding the basic mechanism of aqueous corrosion of metals such as Cu in presence of halide ions is hence essential. Using molecular dynamics simulations incorporating reactive force-field (ReaxFF), the interaction of copper substrates and chlorine under aqueous conditions has been investigated. These simulations incorporate effects of proton transfer in the aqueous media and are suitable for modeling the bond formation and bond breakage phenomenon that is associated with complex aqueous corrosion phenomena. Systematic investigation of the corrosion process has been carried out by simulating different chlorine concentration and solution states. The structural and morphological differences associated with metal dissolution in the presence of chloride ions are evaluated using dynamical correlation functions. The simulated atomic trajectories are used to analyze the charged states, molecular structure and ion density distribution which are utilized to understand the atomic scale mechanism of corrosion of copper substrates under aqueous conditions. Increased concentration of chlorine and higher ambient temperature were found to expedite the corrosion of copper. In order to study the effect of solution states on the corrosion resistance of Cu, partial fractions of proton or hydroxide in water were configured, and higher corrosion rate at partial fraction hydroxide environment was observed. When the Cl{sup -} concentration is low, oxygen or hydroxide ion adsorption onto Cu surface has been confirmed in partial fraction hydroxide environment. Our study provides new atomic scale insights into the early stages of aqueous corrosion of metals such as copper.
Jeon, B.; Sankaranarayanan, S. K. R. S.; van Duin, A. C. T.; Ramanathan, S. (Center for Nanoscale Materials); (Harvard Univ.); (Penn State Univ.)
Decision insight into stakeholder conflict for ERN.
Participatory modeling has become an important tool in facilitating resource decision making and dispute resolution. Approaches to modeling that are commonly used in this context often do not adequately account for important human factors. Current techniques provide insights into how certain human activities and variables affect resource outcomes; however, they do not directly simulate the complex variables that shape how, why, and under what conditions different human agents behave in ways that affect resources and human interactions related to them. Current approaches also do not adequately reveal how the effects of individual decisions scale up to have systemic level effects in complex resource systems. This lack of integration prevents the development of more robust models to support decision making and dispute resolution processes. Development of integrated tools is further hampered by the fact that collection of primary data for decision-making modeling is costly and time consuming. This project seeks to develop a new approach to resource modeling that incorporates both technical and behavioral modeling techniques into a single decision-making architecture. The modeling platform is enhanced by use of traditional and advanced processes and tools for expedited data capture. Specific objectives of the project are: (1) Develop a proof of concept for a new technical approach to resource modeling that combines the computational techniques of system dynamics and agent based modeling, (2) Develop an iterative, participatory modeling process supported with traditional and advance data capture techniques that may be utilized to facilitate decision making, dispute resolution, and collaborative learning processes, and (3) Examine potential applications of this technology and process. The development of this decision support architecture included both the engineering of the technology and the development of a participatory method to build and apply the technology. Stakeholder interaction with the model and associated data capture was facilitated through two very different modes of engagement, one a standard interface involving radio buttons, slider bars, graphs and plots, while the other utilized an immersive serious gaming interface. The decision support architecture developed through this project was piloted in the Middle Rio Grande Basin to examine how these tools might be utilized to promote enhanced understanding and decision-making in the context of complex water resource management issues. Potential applications of this architecture and its capacity to lead to enhanced understanding and decision-making was assessed through qualitative interviews with study participants who represented key stakeholders in the basin.
Siirola, John; Tidwell, Vincent Carroll; Benz, Zachary O.; Stansbury, Melanie; Richards, Elizabeth H.; Turnley, Jessica Glicken (Galisteo Consulting); Warrender, Christina E.; Morrow, James Dan
Technical Insights for Saltstone PA Maintenance
The Cementitious Barriers Partnership (CBP) is a collaborative program sponsored by the US DOE Office of Waste Processing. The objective of the CBP is to develop a set of computational tools to improve understanding and prediction of the long-term structural, hydraulic, and chemical performance of cementitious barriers and waste forms used in nuclear applications. CBP tools are expected to better characterize and reduce the uncertainties of current methodologies for assessing cementitious barrier performance and increase the consistency and transparency of the assessment process, as the five-year program progresses. In September 2009, entering its second year of funded effort, the CBP sought opportunities to provide near-term tangible support to DOE Performance Assessments (PAs). The Savannah River Saltstone Disposal Facility (SDF) was selected for the initial PA support effort because (1) cementitious waste forms and barriers play a prominent role in the performance of the facility, (2) certain important long-term behaviors of cementitious materials composing the facility are uncertain, (3) review of the SDF PA by external stakeholders is ongoing, and (4) the DOE contractor responsible for the SDF PA is open to receiving technical assistance from the CBP. A review of the current (SRR Closure & Waste Disposal Authority 2009) and prior Saltstone PAs (e.g., Cook et al. 2005) suggested five potential opportunities for improving predictions. The candidate topics considered were (1) concrete degradation from external sulfate attack, (2) impact of atmospheric exposure to concrete and grout before closure, such as accelerated slag and Tc-99 oxidation, (3) mechanistic prediction of geochemical conditions, (4) concrete degradation from rebar corrosion due to carbonation, and (5) early age cracking from drying and/or thermal shrinkage. The candidate topics were down-selected considering the feasibility of addressing each issue within approximately six months, and compatibility with existing CBP expertise and already-planned activities. Based on these criteria, the five original topics were down-selected to two: external sulfate attack and mechanistic geochemical prediction. For each of the selected topics, the CBP communicated with the PA analysts and subject matter experts at Savannah River to acquire input data specific to the Saltstone facility and related laboratory experiments. Simulations and analyses were performed for both topics using STADIUM (SIMCO 2008), LeachXS/ORCHESTRA (ECN 2007, Meeussen 2003), and other software tools. These supplemental CBP analyses produced valuable technical insights that can be used to strengthen the Saltstone PA using the ongoing PA maintenance process. This report in part summarizes key information gleaned from more comprehensive documents prepared by Sarkar et al. (2010), Samson (2010), and Sarkar (2010).
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Neutrons' view of hydrogen yields insight into HIV drug design...
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Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print XPD helicase is an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix; it is one component of an essential repair mechanism...
Bioscience Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print XPD helicase is an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix; it is one component of an essential repair...
Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency: Key Insights from...
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People are Strange: Current Behavioral Insights into Energy Usage
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Voices of Experience: Insights on Smart Grid Customer Engagement (July
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Fuel Panics - insights from spatial agent-based simulation
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Working Papers in Economics Fuel Panics insights from spatial agent-based simulation Eben Upton and William J. Nuttall CWPE 1309 Fuel Panics insights from spatial agent-based simulation EPRG... Working Paper 1305 Cambridge Working Paper in Economics 1309 Eben Upton and William J. Nuttall Abstract The United Kingdom has twice suffered major disruption as a result of fuel panics first in September 2000 coincident with a wave...
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Real-time spatio-temporal analytics using Microsoft StreamInsight
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Mohamed Ali; Badrish Chandramouli; Balan S. Raman; Ed Katibah
An extensible test framework for the Microsoft StreamInsight query processor
Microsoft StreamInsight (StreamInsight, for brevity) is a platform for developing and deploying streaming applications. StreamInsight adopts a deterministic stream model that leverages a temporal algebra as the underlying basis for processing ... Keywords: SQL server, StreamInsight, data streaming, testing, verification
Alex Raizman; Asvin Ananthanarayan; Anton Kirilov; Badrish Chandramouli; Mohamed Ali
Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency: Key Insights from
Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency: Key Insights from Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency: Key Insights from International Energy Agency (IEA) Indicator Analysis in Support of the Group of Eight (G8) Plan of Action Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency: Key Insights from International Energy Agency (IEA) Indicator Analysis in Support of the Group of Eight (G8) Plan of Action Focus Area: Power Plant Efficiency Topics: Potentials & Scenarios Website: www.iea.org/papers/2008/indicators_2008.pdf Equivalent URI: cleanenergysolutions.org/content/worldwide-trends-energy-use-and-effic Language: English Policies: "Regulations,Deployment Programs" is not in the list of possible values (Deployment Programs, Financial Incentives, Regulations) for this property.
Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print XPD helicase is an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix; it is one component of an essential repair mechanism that maintains the integrity of DNA. XPD is unique, however, in that pinpoint mutations of this single protein are responsible for three different human diseases: in xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), extreme sensitivity to sunlight promotes cancer; Cockayne syndrome (CS) involves stunted growth and premature aging; trichothiodystrophy (TTD), characterized by brittle hair and scaly skin, is another form of greatly accelerated aging. At the ALS, researchers from Berkeley Lab and The Scripps Research Institute recently solved the structure of XPD. The structure gives novel insight into the processes of aging and cancer by revealing how discrete flaws-as seemingly insignificant as a change in either of two adjacent amino acid residues-can lead to diseases with completely different physical manifestations.
Proteins' Amazing Origami Powers: Insight for Potential Disease Treatments
Proteins' Amazing Origami Powers: Insight for Potential Disease Proteins' Amazing Origami Powers: Insight for Potential Disease Treatments Proteins' Amazing Origami Powers: Insight for Potential Disease Treatments October 4, 2011 - 12:46pm Addthis This is a visualization of drug molecules ("parade day-like balloons") in a simulated attack of the ribbon-like protein fibrils that are believed to be the cause of Alzheimerâs disease. Click here to see more amazing supercomputer simulations. | Image courtesy of ORNL. This is a visualization of drug molecules ("parade day-like balloons") in a simulated attack of the ribbon-like protein fibrils that are believed to be the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Click here to see more amazing
Bob Jaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Insights from the Energy
Bob Jaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Insights from the Bob Jaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Insights from the Energy Critical Elements Policy Study by the American Physical Society and Material Research Society Bob Jaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Insights from the Energy Critical Elements Policy Study by the American Physical Society and Material Research Society Session_A5_Jaffe_MIT.pdf More Documents & Publications Trans-Atlantic Workshop on Rare Earth Elements and Other Critical Materials for a Clean Energy Future Steve Duclos, Chief Scientist, GE Global Research, Research Priorities for More Efficient Use of Critical Materials from a U.S. Corporate Perspective Michael Heine, SGL Group - The Carbon Company, Carbon Fibers in Lightweight Systems for Wind Energy and Automotive Applications: Availability and
Nuclear magnetic resonance offers new insights into Pu 239
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Industry insight Energy and utilities In a nutshell
in highly specific areas within the oil and gas, waste management, recycling and renewable energies sectors1 Industry insight Energy and utilities In a nutshell The UK's energy and utilities industry management; renewable energy industries; energy conservation organisations. The industry employs around 530
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and are assessed an additional $50 late fee. For more information on paying fees, see "Billing." Mandatory Medical as a voluntary option on the BAR statement and is in addition to the amount due each term. To request MIP, academic or enrollment verification (official, each copy) 5.00 Transcripts -- additional services/fees Same
V-016: HP Performance Insight Bugs with Sybase Database Let Remote...
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New imaging technique provides improved insight into controlling the plasma
New imaging technique provides improved insight into controlling the plasma New imaging technique provides improved insight into controlling the plasma in fusion experiments By John Greenwald December 9, 2013 Tweet Widget Facebook Like Google Plus One Graphic representation of 2D images of fluctuating electron temperatures in a cross-section of a confined fusion plasma. Graphic representation of 2D images of fluctuating electron temperatures in a cross-section of a confined fusion plasma. A key issue for the development of fusion energy to generate electricity is the ability to confine the superhot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions in magnetic devices called tokamaks. This gas is subject to instabilities that cause it to leak from the magnetic fields and halt fusion reactions. Now a recently developed imaging technique can help researchers improve
Microsoft Word - EXT-00102-Insight Final Report-Printformat.doc
0102 0102 March 2002 Field Operations Program - Honda Insight Hybrid Electric Vehicle Performance Characterization Report J. Francfort N. Nguyen J. Phung J. Smith M. Wehrey INEEL/EXT-02-00102 Field Operations Program - Honda Insight Hybrid Electric Vehicle Performance Characterization Report J. Francfort 1 N. Nguyen 2 J. Phung 2 J. Smith 2 M. Wehrey 2 Published March 2002 Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Transportation Technology and Infrastructure Department Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415 Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Under DOE Idaho Operations Office Contract No. DE-AC07-99ID13727 1 INEEL/Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC. 2 Southern California Edison iii
Water an Unusual Liquid; LCLS Provides New Insights | Stanford Synchrotron
Water an Unusual Liquid; LCLS Provides New Insights Water an Unusual Liquid; LCLS Provides New Insights Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 3:00pm SLAC, Redtail Hawk Conference Room 108A Anders Nilsson, SUNCAT The anomalous physical properties of water are responsible for sustaining much of life on earth; for example, water displays a higher heat capacity than common liquids and expands upon freezing. Some of these anomalous physical properties become dramatically enhanced upon supercooling below the freezing point. In particular, extrapolations of the thermal expansion coefficient, isothermal compressibility, heat capacity and correlation length can all be fitted with a power law divergence with the same apparent singularity temperature of about 228 K. Experiments on pure bulk water below about ~240 K have so far been difficult: water crystallization occurs
Bioscience Bioscience Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print XPD helicase is an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix; it is one component of an essential repair mechanism that maintains the integrity of DNA. XPD is unique, however, in that pinpoint mutations of this single protein are responsible for three different human diseases: in xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), extreme sensitivity to sunlight promotes cancer; Cockayne syndrome (CS) involves stunted growth and premature aging; trichothiodystrophy (TTD), characterized by brittle hair and scaly skin, is another form of greatly accelerated aging. At the ALS, researchers from Berkeley Lab and The Scripps Research Institute recently solved the structure of XPD. The structure gives novel insight into the processes of aging and cancer by revealing how discrete flaws-as seemingly insignificant as a change in either of two adjacent amino acid residues-can lead to diseases with completely different physical manifestations.
High Rise Fire Study Provides Insight Into Deadly Wind-Driven ...
High Rise Fire Study Provides Insight Into Deadly Wind-Driven Fires. From NIST Tech Beat: May 5, 2009. ...
Enzyme Structure Provides Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging Print Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:00 XPD helicase is an enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix; it is one component of an essential repair mechanism that maintains the integrity of DNA. XPD is unique, however, in that pinpoint mutations of this single protein are responsible for three different human diseases: in xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), extreme sensitivity to sunlight promotes cancer; Cockayne syndrome (CS) involves stunted growth and premature aging; trichothiodystrophy (TTD), characterized by brittle hair and scaly skin, is another form of greatly accelerated aging. At the ALS, researchers from Berkeley Lab and The Scripps Research Institute recently solved the structure of XPD. The structure gives novel insight into the processes of aging and cancer by revealing how discrete flaws-as seemingly insignificant as a change in either of two adjacent amino acid residues-can lead to diseases with completely different physical manifestations.
Model year 2010 Honda insight level-1 testing report.
As a part of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), a model year 2010 Honda Insight was procured by eTec (Phoenix, AZ) and sent to ANL's Advanced Powertrain Research Facility for the purposes of vehicle-level testing in support of the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA). Data was acquired during testing using non-intrusive sensors, vehicle network information, and facilities equipment (emissions and dynamometer data). Standard drive cycles, performance cycles, steady-state cycles and A/C usage cycles were tested. Much of this data is openly available for download in ANL's Downloadable Dynamometer Database (D3). The major results are shown here in this report. Given the preliminary nature of this assessment, the majority of the testing was done over standard regulatory cycles and seeks to obtain a general overview of how the vehicle performs. These cycles include the US FTP cycle (Urban) and Highway Fuel Economy Test cycle as well as the US06, a more aggressive supplemental regulatory cycle. Data collection for this testing was kept at a fairly high level and includes emissions and fuel measurements from an exhaust emissions bench, high-voltage and accessory current and voltage from a DC power analyzer, and CAN bus data such as engine speed, engine load, and electric machine operation when available. The following sections will seek to explain some of the basic operating characteristics of the MY2010 Insight and provide insight into unique features of its operation and design.
Rask, E.; Bocci, D.; Duoba, M.; Lohse-Busch, H. (Energy Systems)
Short-Term Energy Outlook - U.S. Energy Information Administration ...
Macroeconomic projections are based on Global Insight Model of the U.S. Economy. Weather projections from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Winter Fuels Outlook: 2004-2005 - Energy Information Administration
... heating oil, propane and ... day forecasts from the National Oceanographic and ... DOE/EIA-0035. Macroeconomic projections are based on Global Insight Model of ...
Structures for Three Membrane Transport Proteins Yield Functional Insights
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SunShot Initiative: Physics of Reliability: Evaluating Design Insights for
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V-016: HP Performance Insight Bugs with Sybase Database Let Remote Users
6: HP Performance Insight Bugs with Sybase Database Let Remote 6: HP Performance Insight Bugs with Sybase Database Let Remote Users Deny Service and Take Full Control of the Target System V-016: HP Performance Insight Bugs with Sybase Database Let Remote Users Deny Service and Take Full Control of the Target System November 5, 2012 - 6:00am Addthis PROBLEM: HP Performance Insight Bugs with Sybase Database Let Remote Users Deny Service and Take Full Control of the Target System PLATFORM: HP Performance Insight v5.31, v5.40 and v5.41 running on HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows and using Sybase as the database ABSTRACT: Two vulnerabilities were reported in HP Performance Insight. REFERENCE LINKS: HP Support Document ID: c03555488 SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1027719 CVE-2012-3269 CVE-2012-3270 IMPACT ASSESSMENT: High DISCUSSION:
Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system
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DOE Joint Genome Institute: Peach Genome Offers Insights into Breeding
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Public Versus Private: Does It Matter for Water Conservation? Insights from California
It Matter for Water Conservation? Insights from Californiaand man- dated water conservation, as well as to pricehands or private. Keywords Water conservation � Droughts �
Kallis, Giorgos; Ray, Isha; Fulton, Julian; McMahon, James E.
Modelling the global distribution of fungal species: new insights into microbial cosmopolitanism
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Bruns, Tom
Insights On The Thermal History Of The Valles Caldera, New Mexico...
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Essays on frictions in financial macroeconomics
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Kay, Benjamin S.
Macroeconomic Implications of the Zero Lower Bound
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is large. In addition the quantity of oil supplied mustequal the quantity of oil demanded, X(t) = X F (t) + X H (t)
Oil price shocks: Testing a macroeconomic model
The main research objective was to answer the following question: Will Consumer Price Index forecast models utilizing computer oil-consumption ratios have better predictive capability as indicated by lower numerical differences from actual results than a model utilizing oil prices as the energy-related variable Multiple linear regressions were run on the components of the United States CPI to reduce them to a kernel set with meaningful predictive capability. New linear regressions were run with this kernel set and crude oil prices during the 1973 to 1984 time period. Crude oil prices were rationalized with a 1972 = 100 based index of GNP base petroleum consumption, the index of net energy imports, and the index of petroleum imports to create new oil substitute constructs to be used in multiple regressions with the CPI. Predictions obtained from the model were compared with actual results in the 1985-1987 time period to determine which model version showed the greatest predictive power. Results of the model tests show that oil prices are strongly related to the CPI, but neither the use of oil prices or the index of GNP-based petroleum consumption produced results that closely predict future prices.
Williams, D.D.
Essays on Monetary Policy and International Macroeconomics
stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictionsstochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with search and matching frictions
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published before and since the pair of essays in which Clio, the muse of History, was coupled that Schumpeter's gale of `creative destruction' is blowing continuously at full force, through every niche, nook
Tesfatsion, Leigh
Essays in macroeconomics : information and financial markets
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Iovino, Luigi
Essays on the macroeconomics of economic development
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Peters, Michael
Macroeconomic Conditions, Firm Characteristics, and ... - Springer
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Mestieri, Mart� (Mestieri Ferre)
Global pattern of earthquakes and seismic energy distributions: Insights for the mechanisms of plate tectonics
�?�? �? �?�?�? �? �?�? Global pattern of earthquakes and seismic energy distributions: Insights energy distributions: insights for the mechanisms of plate tectonics P. Vargaa , F. Krummb , F. Riguzzic In this paper, we analyse the distributions of number of events (N) and seismic energy (E) on the Earth
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PRA insights applicable to the design of the Broad Applications Test Reactor
Design insights applicable to the design of a new Broad Applications Test Reactor (BATR), being studied at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, are summarized. Sources of design insights include past probabilistic risk assessments and related studies for department of Energy-owned Class A reactors and for commercial reactors. The report includes a preliminary risk allocation scheme for the BATR.
Khericha, S.T.; Reilly, H.J.
EM Gains Insight from Germany on Salt-Based Repositories | Department of
Gains Insight from Germany on Salt-Based Repositories Gains Insight from Germany on Salt-Based Repositories EM Gains Insight from Germany on Salt-Based Repositories December 14, 2011 - 12:00pm Addthis Participants in the workshops in Germany toured Asse II, one of Germanyâs two salt-based repositories, to gain insights into that facilityâs technical challenges and proposed solutions. Pictured, left to right, are an Asse II employee, Bernhard Kienzler of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, CBFO Chief Scientist Roger Nelson, CBFO International Programs Manager Dr. Abraham Van Luik, and Andrew Wolfsberg, Acting Deputy Division Leader for Earth and Environmental Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Participants in the workshops in Germany toured Asse II, one of Germany's two salt-based repositories, to gain insights into that facility's
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Energy metabolism in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: insights from transcriptome analysis
Sulphate-reducing bacteria are important players in the global sulphur and carbon cycles, with considerable economical and ecological impact. However, the process of sulphate respiration is still incompletely understood. Several mechanisms of energy conservation have been proposed, but it is unclear how the different strategies contribute to the overall process. In order to obtain a deeper insight into the energy metabolism of sulphate-reducers whole-genome microarrays were used to compare the transcriptional response of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough grown with hydrogen/sulphate, pyruvate/sulphate, pyruvate with limiting sulphate, and lactate/thiosulphate, relative to growth in lactate/sulphate. Growth with hydrogen/sulphate showed the largest number of differentially expressed genes and the largest changes in transcript levels. In this condition the most up-regulated energy metabolism genes were those coding for the periplasmic [NiFeSe]hydrogenase, followed by the Ech hydrogenase. The results also provide evidence for the involvement of formate cycling and the recently proposed ethanol pathway during growth in hydrogen. The pathway involving CO cycling is relevant during growth on lactate and pyruvate, but not during growth in hydrogen as the most down-regulated genes were those coding for the CO-induced hydrogenase. Growth on lactate/thiosulphate reveals a down-regulation of several energymetabolism genes similar to what was observed in the presence of nitrite. This study identifies the role of several proteins involved in the energy metabolism of D. vulgaris and highlights several novel genes related to this process, revealing a more complex bioenergetic metabolism than previously considered.
Pereira, Patricia M.; He, Qiang; Valente, Filipa M.A.; Xavier, Antonio V.; Zhou, Jizhong; Pereira, Ines A.C.; Louro, Ricardo O.
Scientific Insights from Four Generations of Lagrangian Smart Balloons in Atmospheric Research
This paper provides an overview of the trials and successes in the development of an autonomous balloon instrument platform (smart balloon) and reviews scientific insights gained through its employment as a marker in a Lagrangian strategy during ...
S. Businger; R. Johnson; R. Talbot
Complexity within the Air Force acquisition system gaining insight from a theory of collapse
Joseph Tainter's theory of societal collapse is applied in an examination of the U.S. Air Force's aircraft acquisition system in order to gain insight into the enterprise's lagging performance. Theories of collapse at both ...
Marticello, Daniel Nicholas, Jr
Global pattern of earthquakes and seismic energy distributions: Insights for the mechanisms October 2011 Keywords: Global seismicity Declustered catalogue Earthquake energy distribution Plate tectonics In this paper, we analyse the distributions of number of events (N) and seismic energy (E
Doglioni, Carlo
Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico
4, 2013 Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico USGS technicians Eric Moore and Jenny White deploy instruments at the start of a seismic survey to explore...
Effects of Cloud Seeding in West Texas: Additional Results and New Insights
Additional results and new insights have been obtained regarding the effect of randomized dynamic seeding of supercooled convective clouds in west Texas. These have resulted in a revised conceptual model that aids in understanding the new results ...
Daniel Rosenfeld; William L. Woodley
Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico |
Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico Expedition Provides New Insight on Gas Hydrates in Gulf of Mexico May 14, 2013 - 10:00am Addthis USGS technicians Eric Moore and Jenny White deploy instruments at the start of a seismic survey to explore gas hydrates in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from April to May 2013 | Photo courtesy of USGS USGS technicians Eric Moore and Jenny White deploy instruments at the start of a seismic survey to explore gas hydrates in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from April to May 2013 | Photo courtesy of USGS Washington, DC - A joint-federal-agency 15-day research expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico yielded innovative high-resolution seismic data and imagery that will help refine characterizations of large methane
Closer to HIV vaccine goal with new insight into viral factors
Closer to HIV vaccine goal with new insight into viral factors Closer to HIV vaccine goal with new insight into viral factors New insight into viral factors that facilitate HIV transmission Understanding viral factors that facilitate transmission of HIV infection is critical to developing vaccines. February 14, 2012 Scientists work at the National Stable Isotope Resource LANL scientists found that the infected donor's predominant virus subpopulation in the genital tract differed from that in the blood. Comparing the HIV sequence population in each newly infected partner with that in the genital tract of the transmitting partner revealed that the transmitted variant was genetically distinct from the donor's predominant genital-tract variants. The results imply that a selective process, rather than a random one, determines the transmitted or founder virus.
Fundamental New Insight Into Material for Optical-Switching | U.S. DOE
Fundamental New Insight Into Material for Optical-Switching Fundamental New Insight Into Material for Optical-Switching Basic Energy Sciences (BES) BES Home About Research Facilities Science Highlights Benefits of BES Funding Opportunities Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) News & Resources Contact Information Basic Energy Sciences U.S. Department of Energy SC-22/Germantown Building 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20585 P: (301) 903-3081 F: (301) 903-6594 E: firstname.lastname@example.com More Information » September 2013 Fundamental New Insight Into Material for Optical-Switching A triple point, where three different atomic structures coexist simultaneously, has been uncovered in vanadium dioxide. Print Text Size: A A A Subscribe FeedbackShare Page Click to enlarge photo. Enlarge Photo Image courtesy of David H Cobden
A new hydrothermal scenario for the 2006 Lusi eruption, Indonesia. Insights from gas geochemistry
acquired a wide set of data of molecular and isotopic composition of gas sampled in several Lusi vents, in the surrounding mud volcanoes, in the closest natural gas field (Wunut), and in the hydrothermal ventsA new hydrothermal scenario for the 2006 Lusi eruption, Indonesia. Insights from gas geochemistry
Mazzini, Adriano
When mud volcanoes sleep: Insight from seep geochemistry at the Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan
When mud volcanoes sleep: Insight from seep geochemistry at the Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan A Petroleum Research, Oslo Research Park, 0349 Oslo, Norway c Geology Institute Azerbaijan, Husein Avenue 29A, Baku, Azerbaijan d Moscow State University, Faculty of Geology, Vorobjevy Gory, Moscow 119992, Russia e
Turtle phylogeny: insights from a novel nuclear intron Matthew K. Fujita,a,1
selection, and lineage sorting often require additional nuclear data to test mitochon- drial DNA (mtTurtle phylogeny: insights from a novel nuclear intron Matthew K. Fujita,a,1 Tag N. Engstrom,b,2. However, no primers exist for a nuclear intron that amplifies across all turtles. Available data from
Grether, Gregory
Carbon Footprint and the Management of Supply Chains: Insights from Simple Models
Carbon Footprint and the Management of Supply Chains: Insights from Simple Models Saif Benjaafar1, we illustrate how carbon emission concerns could be integrated into operational decision-making with regard to procurement, production, and inventory management. We show how, by associating carbon emission
Benjaafar, Saifallah
Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry
Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry Gilbert Wondracek1 , Thorsten Introduction "The Internet is for Porn" is the title of a satirical song that has been viewed several million at work. With a total worth of more than 97 billion USD in 2006 [14], the Internet porn industry yields
Kruegel, Christopher
Effective Supply Chain Management Strategy for Food Products: An Insight to Linked Partnerships
This paper explores and extends the supply chain management strategy for food products effectively and efficiently through analysis of insights to linked partnerships within the supply chain due to the possibility of a global food crisis. The required ... Keywords: Food Crisis Resolution, Logistics Management, Strategic Partnership, Supply Chain Management Strategy, Supply Chain Strategy, Supply Chain for Agricultural Products
Witaya Krajaysri
Voices of Experience: New Guide Offers Utilities� Insights on Engaging with Smart Grid Customers
Energy.gov (U.S. Department of Energy (DOE))
The Voices of Experience | Insights on Smart Grid Customer Engagement guide builds on the knowledge shared during a series of DOE-sponsored regional peer-to-peer workshops during which utilities discussed compelling smart grid topics and issues. The guide offers practical advice and lessons learned, and showcases creative, high-impact approaches.
: INSIGHTS FROM THE BOWIE COAL MINES, SOUTHERN PICEANCE BASIN, WESTERN COLORADO by Eric D. Robeck A thesis-INDUCED STRESS ANISOTROPY ON FRACTURING, FOLDING AND SILL EMPLACEMENT: INSIGHTS FROM THE BOWIE COAL MINES. The Bowie underground coal mines of western Colorado expose a reverse-reactivated growth fault
Seamons, Kent E.
GI12-Paper - DR in AS Markets 20121115 Final
8E 8E Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services A Comparison of Opportunities and Challenges in the US Wholesale Markets Jason MacDonald Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Peter Cappers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Duncan Callaway University of California, Berkeley Sila Kiliccote Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory November 2012 Presented at Grid-Interop 2012, Irving, TX, December 3-6, 2012, and published in the Proceedings DISCLAIMER This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor The Regents of the University of California, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes
Reduction of Utility Usage in a Glyphosate Intermediate (GI) Unit
In 1991, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) introduced �Eco- Efficiency� as a management strategy to link financial and environmental performance to create more value with less ecological impact. Based on this strategy, CETAC-WEST (Canadian Environmental Technology Advancement Corporation - West), in mid-2000, introduced a practical approach to eco-efficiency to Western Canada's upstream oil and gas sector. The CETAC-WEST Eco-Efficiency Program, focused primarily on sour gas processing facilities, has developed methods and programs to identify opportunities for energy conservation and GHG reductions. The program outlined in this paper consists of four interrelated phases that are used to identify and track efficiency opportunities as well as promote the use of energy efficient methodologies and technologies. If, as program results suggest, 15% to 20% of the gas that is now consumed at by plant operations can be saved through efficiencies, it would save $500 to $700 million worth of gas for sale on the market. Although this small Pilot Program in the gas processing sector has surfaced major opportunities, there are significantly greater opportunities in other sectors with high GHG emissions intensity, such as sweet gas processing, conventional oil, heavy oil and oil sands. Capturing these opportunities will require a carefully considered strategy. This strategy should include, in addition to commitments for expanding the scope of the current Program, sustained leadership by industry champions and by governments - all aimed at changing the operating mode and improving the culture in the oil and gas industry.
Sander, M. L.
... integrate and dump filter has a rectangular impulse response with a length of T ... packet inter- arrival times for the WLAN, with an offered load of 50%. ...
6E Deploying Systems Interoperability and Customer Choice within Smart Grid Girish Ghatikar Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ed Koch AkuacomHoneywell November 2012 Presented...
Analysis of an open non-Markovian GI -- (GI| ?)K queueing network with high-rate renewal arrival process
We analyze an open non-Markovian queueing network with high-rate renewal arrival process, Markovian routing, arbitrary service policy, and unlimited number of servers at nodes. We obtain mean values for the number of busy servers at nodes of the queueing ...
A. A. Nazarov; A. N. Moiseev
A note on comparing response times in the M/GI/1/FB and M/GI/1/PS queues
-digit subtracters are denoted SDS1 through SDS4. One multiplication cycle consists of a sequence of four radix-4 number in SD format to be used as input to SDS1. Part of the primary rank of the double rank register to SDS1. Secondary rank for the US register. Secondary rank for the UM register. The primary rank
Insights On The Thermal History Of The Valles Caldera, New Mexico- Evidence
source source History View New Pages Recent Changes All Special Pages Semantic Search/Querying Get Involved Help Apps Datasets Community Login | Sign Up Search Page Edit History Facebook icon Twitter icon » Insights On The Thermal History Of The Valles Caldera, New Mexico- Evidence From Zircon Fission-Track Analysis Jump to: navigation, search GEOTHERMAL ENERGYGeothermal Home Journal Article: Insights On The Thermal History Of The Valles Caldera, New Mexico- Evidence From Zircon Fission-Track Analysis Details Activities (2) Areas (1) Regions (0) Abstract: The zircon fission-track dating method was applied to the VC-2B core obtained from the active hydrothermal system at Sulphur Springs, Valles caldera, New Mexico. Four samples were analyzed to obtain both zircon ages and track length data from Permian strata to Precambrian quartz
Section 1603 Treasury Grant Expiration: Industry Insight on Financing and Market Implications
§1603 Treasury Grant §1603 Treasury Grant Expiration: Industry Insight on Financing and Market Implications Michael Mendelsohn National Renewable Energy Laboratory John Harper Birch Tree Capital, LLC Technical Report NREL/TP-6A20-53720 June 2012 NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. National Renewable Energy Laboratory 15013 Denver West Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401 303-275-3000 * www.nrel.gov Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 §1603 Treasury Grant Expiration: Industry Insight on Financing and Market Implications Michael Mendelsohn National Renewable Energy Laboratory John Harper Birch Tree Capital, LLC
Mobilizing Public Markets to Finance Renewable Energy Projects: Insights from Expert Stakeholders
Mobilizing Public Markets to Mobilizing Public Markets to Finance Renewable Energy Projects: Insights from Expert Stakeholders Paul Schwabe and Michael Mendelsohn National Renewable Energy Laboratory Felix Mormann Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance Stanford University Douglas J. Arent Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis Technical Report NREL/TP-6A20-55021 June 2012 NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. National Renewable Energy Laboratory 15013 Denver West Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401 303-275-3000 * www.nrel.gov Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 Mobilizing Public Markets to Finance Renewable Energy Projects: Insights from Expert
MMCR Spectra-based Hydrometeor Phase Classifier: Evaluation & New Insights
MMCR Spectra-based Hydrometeor Phase Classifier: Evaluation & New Insights MMCR Spectra-based Hydrometeor Phase Classifier: Evaluation & New Insights Edward Luke 1 , Pavlos Kollias 1 , Matthew Shupe 2 1. Brookhaven National Laboratory 2. CIRES/NOAA/ETL Predicting HSRL depolarization with MMCR classifier Actual Depolarization Predicted Depolarization How accurately can combined HSRL, MMCR, MWR, and radiosonde generate the "golden" phase retrievals needed to train an MMCR-only classifier? For further discussion see Shupe, 2007. How well can the MMCR-only classifier predict the phase of "golden" retrievals it has not been trained on? We focus here on this second question. KEY EVALUATION QUESTIONS Classifier Sensitivity to Certain Input Parameters Probability Distributions of Certain Input Parameters Probability of Correct Phase Classification
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Social Contagion and Information Technology Diffusion: The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in U.S. Hospitals (p. 1219) Corey M. Angst, Ritu Agarwal, V. ...
Michael F. Gorman
Insights into Industrial Energy Auditing from the EADC Program: An Academic Perspective
Energy auditing as a tool for energy conservation is discussed using insights gained from data gathered from the DOE EADC program over a ten year period. Details about the contents of the database, procedures for it access and sample "products" are presented. It is shown that careful analysis of the data can provide answers to difficult questions which support general notions in some cases and differ significantly in others.
Muller, M. R.; Polomski, P. P.
Cross-sector policy research: insights from the UK energy and transport sectors
-Cross-Sector Policy Research: Insights from the UK energy and transport sectors Stephen Robert Peake Darwin College, Cambridge UNIVERSITY I ltBRARY J CAMBRIDGE A dissertation submitted to the University of Cambridge for the Degree of Doctor... which led to the subsequent development of a more explicit structural analogy between the two sectors. Chapter 4 reflects the exploratory analysis which resulted in the identification of three specific comparative themes which are .J' developed...
Peake, Stephen Robert
�valuation des dimensions cognitives de l'insight aupr�s d'individus souffrant d'un trouble obsessionnel-compulsif.
??Il est convenu que l'individu souffre d'un trouble obsessionnel-compulsif (TOC) avec faible insight lorsqu'il ne reconna�t pas, � un moment durant l'�volution de son trouble,� (more)
Grenier, S�bastien
Prioritizing asbestos removal from various facilities using the insight II+ expert system. Research paper
Use of the INSIGHT II+ expert system in conjunction with the Priasbes knowledge base is recommended for use by facility managers or owners faced with a few or many locations of asbestos-containing material (ACM) throughout their facilities. The Priasbes knowledge base will recommend control measures to be taken for each location of ACM and will also assign a criticality index to the ACM location. This criticality index can then be compared with that of other ACM locations to prioritize the criticality of these locations to determine which locations should be controlled first.
Disher, S.L.
Development of Sulfur and Carbon Tolerant Reforming Alloy Catalysts Aided by Fundamental Atomistics Insights
Current hydrocarbon reforming catalysts suffer from rapid carbon and sulfur poisoning. Even though there is a tremendous incentive to develop more efficient catalysts, these materials are currently formulated using inefficient trial and error experimental approaches. We have utilized a novel hybrid experimental/theoretical approach, combining quantum Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations and various state-of-the-art experimental tools, to formulate carbon tolerant reforming catalysts. We have employed DFT calculations to develop molecular insights into the elementary chemical transformations that lead to carbon poisoning of Ni catalysts. Based on the obtained molecular insights, we have identified, using DFT quantum calculation, Sn/Ni alloy as a potential carbon tolerant reforming catalyst. Sn/Ni alloy was synthesized and tested in steam reforming of methane, propane, and isooctane. We demonstrated that the alloy catalyst is carbon-tolerant under nearly stoichiometric steam-to-carbon ratios. Under these conditions, monometallic Ni is rapidly poisoned by sp2 carbon deposits. The research approach is distinguished by a few characteristics: (a) Knowledge-based, bottom-up approach, compared to the traditional trial and error approach, allows for a more efficient and systematic discovery of improved catalysts. (b) The focus is on exploring alloy materials which have been largely unexplored as potential reforming catalysts.
Suljo Linic
Development of Sulfur and Carbon Tolerant Reforming Alloy Catalysts Aided Fundamental Atomistic Insights
Current hydrocarbon reforming catalysts suffer from rapid carbon and sulfur poisoning. Even though there is a tremendous incentive to develop more efficient catalysts, these materials are currently formulated using inefficient trial and error experimental approaches. We have utilized a hybrid experimental/theoretical approach, combining quantum Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations and various state-of-the-art experimental tools, to formulate carbon tolerant reforming catalysts. We have employed DFT calculations to develop molecular insights into the elementary chemical transformations that lead to carbon poisoning of Ni catalysts. Based on the obtained molecular insights, we have identified, using DFT quantum calculation, various Ni alloy catalysts as potential carbon tolerant reforming catalysts. The alloy catalysts were synthesized and tested in steam reforming and partial oxidation of methane, propane, and isooctane. We demonstrated that the alloy catalysts are much more carbon-tolerant than monometallic Ni catalysts under nearly stoichiometric steam-to-carbon ratios. Under these conditions, monometallic Ni is rapidly poisoned by sp2 carbon deposits. The research approach is distinguished by two characteristics: (a) knowledge-based, bottomup approach, compared to the traditional trial and error approach, allows for a more efficient and systematic discovery of improved catalysts. (b) the focus is on exploring alloy materials which have been largely unexplored as potential reforming catalysts.
The Structure of Ions near Carbon Nanotubes: New Insights into Carbon
The Structure of Ions near Carbon Nanotubes: New Insights into The Structure of Ions near Carbon Nanotubes: New Insights into Carbon Surface Chemistry and Implications for Water Purification Carbon-based materials have long been used for a variety of water purification operations. Researchers have investigated carbon materials as adsorbents for decades, but only limited information on the precise details of aqueous ion interactions with carbon surfaces has been uncovered. It is empirically known that the affinity of activated carbon for various hydrated ions depends critically on how the material is processed. Processing influences the types of chemical groups and the structure of the carbon surface, which in turn influences the strength of interaction between hydrated ions and the carbon surface. It is also believed that many of the puzzling properties of impurity-free carbon, such as ferromagnetism, are governed by specific modifications of the carbon surface. However, very little is known about the local structure of the carbon surface that is responsible for its aqueous ion affinity.
Structural Insight into the Regulation of the SNARE Assembly by the Cell
Insight into the Regulation of Insight into the Regulation of the SNARE Assembly by the Cell Polarity Protein Sro7 The cells that comprise many tissues are polarized, meaning that they have distinct 'sides' with different membrane identities. For example, in the cells that line the intestine, the membrane that faces the space in the gut has special proteins responsible for uptake of nutrients, whereas the sides that contact neighboring cells have different proteins on their surfaces. Cell polarity is fundamental to many aspects of cell and developmental biology and it is implicated in differentiation, proliferation and morphogenesis in both unicellular and multi-cellular organisms. Loss of cell polarity can lead to uncontrolled tissue growth and cancers. To generate and maintain this polarized structure, specific proteins and lipids must be delivered to particular locations on the cell membrane. This process involves active transport of membrane-enclosed vesicles containing specific cargo to a target site, where the vesicle and target membranes then fuse to deliver the cargo. Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor activating protein receptor (SNARE) proteins in the vesicle membrane and target membrane form a complex that mediates membrane fusion. The process by which SNARE-mediated membrane fusion is coordinated with the machinery that transports the vesicle to the correct location is poorly understood.
NETL: News Release - Computer Program Provides Insight into "Fire Ice"
April 13, 2006 April 13, 2006 Computer Program Provides Insight Into "Fire Ice" Model Used by Researchers Evaluates Production Potential of Methane Hydrates WASHINGTON, DC - An innovative simulation program developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is helping identify future energy supplies. The first publicly available simulator of its kind, the TOUGH-Fx/Hydrate program is helping researchers and industry partners better understand an emerging natural gas resource: methane hydrates. MORE INFO TOUGH-Fx/Hydrate Project As U.S. demand for natural gas continues to rise, so does our dependence on foreign imports and our need for alternative energy resources. Early studies have shown researchers that methane hydrates-frozen compounds of flammable methane gas trapped inside water molecules-could be the fuel of
Financing renewable energy projects in the United States can be a complex process. Most equity investment in new renewable power production facilities is supported by tax credits and accelerated depreciation benefits, and is constrained by the pool of potential investors that can fully use these tax benefits and are willing to engage in complex financial structures. For debt financing, non-government lending has largely been provided by foreign banks that may be under future lending constraints due to economic and regulatory conditions. To discuss renewable energy financing challenges and to identify new sources of capital to the U.S. market, two roundtable discussions were held with renewable energy and financing experts in April 2012. This report summarizes the key messages of those discussions and is designed to provide insights to the U.S. market and inform the international conversation on renewable energy financing innovations.
Schwabe, P.; Mendelsohn, M.; Mormann, F.; Arent, D. J.
Development of Integrated Motor Assist Hybrid System: Development of the 'Insight', a Personal Hybrid Coupe
This paper presents the technical approach used to design and develop the powerplant for the Honda Insight, a new motor assist hybrid vehicle with an overall development objective of just half the fuel consumption of the current Civic over a wide range of driving conditions. Fuel consumption of 35km/L (Japanese 10-15 mode), and 3.4L/100km (98/69/EC) was realized. To achieve this, a new Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid power plant system was developed, incorporating many new technologies for packaging and integrating the motor assist system and for improving engine thermal efficiency. This was developed in combination with a new lightweight aluminum body with low aerodynamic resistance. Environmental performance goals also included the simultaneous achievement of low emissions (half the Japanese year 2000 standards, and half the EU2000 standards), high efficiency, and recyclability. Full consideration was also given to key consumer attributes, including crash safety performance, handling, and driving performance.
Kaoru Aoki; Shigetaka Kuroda; Shigemasa Kajiwara; Hiromitsu Sato; Yoshio Yamamoto
2010 Honda Insight VIN 0141 Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Test Results
The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity Program consists of vehicle, battery, and infrastructure testing on advanced technology related to transportation. The activity includes tests on hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), including testing the HEV batteries when both the vehicles and batteries are new and at the conclusion of 160,000 miles of on road fleet testing. This report documents battery testing performed for the 2010 Honda Insight HEV (VIN: JHMZE2H78AS010141). Battery testing was performed by the Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation dba ECOtality North America. The Idaho National Laboratory and ECOtality North America collaborate on the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity for the Vehicle Technologies Program of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Tyler Gray
2010 Honda Insight VIN 1748 Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Test Results
The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity Program consists of vehicle, battery, and infrastructure testing on advanced technology related to transportation. The activity includes tests on hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), including testing the HEV batteries when both the vehicles and batteries are new and at the conclusion of 160,000 miles of on road fleet testing. This report documents battery testing performed for the 2010 Honda Insight HEV (VIN: JHMZE2H59AS011748). Battery testing was performed by the Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation dba ECOtality North America. The Idaho National Laboratory and ECOtality North America collaborate on the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity for the Vehicle Technologies Program of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Tyler Gray; Matthew Shirk
Oil Price Shocks, Inventories, and Macroeconomic Dynamics,� mimeo
This paper employs disaggregated manufacturing data to investigate the causes of the time delay between an increase in oil prices and the following slowdown in economic activity. VAR results show that, unlike aggregate GDP, the effect of an oil price shock on new motor vehicles production shows up immediately and is statistically significantly. After one quarter, similar patterns are observed for industries that are oil-intensive or for which motor vehicles constitute a demand-shifter. The continuing fall in manufacturing production then leads the economy into a recession. The paper then estimates a modified linear-quadratic inventory model and shows that this description of the oil price dynamics is consistent with rational behavior by firms. An increase in oil prices leads to a decline in manufacturing sales; partly because the shock catches manufacturers by surprise and partly because of their desire to balance the accelerator and production smoothing motives, manufacturers deviate from the target level of inventories and spread the decline in production over various quarters. Moreover, the dynamics entailed by the structural estimates capture two stylized facts about inventory behavior: procyclicality and persistence.
Ana Mar�a Herrera
Labor Market Frictions, Interest Rates, and Macroeconomic Policies
endogenous separation rate increases, that is the ?ow intoinduces higher real interest rate, increases the demand forendogenous separation rate increases. We assume match-speci?
Zhang, Ji
Revolution and Evolution in Twentieth-Century Macroeconomics Michael Woodford
, chain of causation with a complexity to rival a Rube Goldberg cartoon. They were intended to render
Macroeconomic Analysis of Malware Vaibhav Garg, L. Jean Camp
can instead leverage public-private partnerships; for example, the German anti-botnet initiative where
Camp, L. Jean
Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and the Exchange Rates of Emerging Economies
The Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on U.S. Foreign Debt."Performance, and the Exchange Rates of Emerging Economies*volatility, exchange-rate regimes, institutions,
Obstfeld, Maurice
Macroeconomic Dynamics and Credit Risk: A Global Perspective
(1999)). The literature on modeling LGD (sometimes called loss severity) is not nearly as rich as it is for PD. Most of the work has been strictly empirical (Altman and Kishore (1996), Gupton, Gates and Carty (2000), Van de Castle, Keisman and Yang (2000... single country or region. By estimating a cointe- grating model for each country/region separately, we are also able to allow for endow- ment and institutional heterogeneities that exist across the different countries in our modeling strategy. Accordingly...
Pesaran, M Hashem; Schuermann, Til; Treutler, Bjorn-Jakob; Weiner, Scott M
Introduction to Macroeconomic Dynamics Special Issue on Oil Price Shocks
, as director of the National Economic Council, stated that "if energy prices will trend higher, you invest one, in which global real economic activity and real oil prices share a common stochastic trend, they ...nd way; if energy prices will be lower, you invest a di¤erent way. But if you don't know what prices
Garousi, Vahid
Essays on the macroeconomic effects of energy price shocks.
??In the first chapter I study the effects of oil price shocks on economic activity at the U.S. state-level, an innovative feature of this dissertation.� (more)
Melichar, Mark Alan
facilitates continuity in model development by providing documentation from which energy analysts can ... Business spending includes nine fixed investment categories for
Uncertainty quantification and validation of combined hydrological and macroeconomic analyses.
Changes in climate can lead to instabilities in physical and economic systems, particularly in regions with marginal resources. Global climate models indicate increasing global mean temperatures over the decades to come and uncertainty in the local to national impacts means perceived risks will drive planning decisions. Agent-based models provide one of the few ways to evaluate the potential changes in behavior in coupled social-physical systems and to quantify and compare risks. The current generation of climate impact analyses provides estimates of the economic cost of climate change for a limited set of climate scenarios that account for a small subset of the dynamics and uncertainties. To better understand the risk to national security, the next generation of risk assessment models must represent global stresses, population vulnerability to those stresses, and the uncertainty in population responses and outcomes that could have a significant impact on U.S. national security.
Hernandez, Jacquelynne; Parks, Mancel Jordan; Jennings, Barbara Joan; Kaplan, Paul Garry; Brown, Theresa Jean; Conrad, Stephen Hamilton
Essays on the stock market's reaction to macroeconomic news
R. C. Green, and V. Naik, 1999, Optimal investment, growthGreen, and Naik (1999) develop a rational partial equilibrium model of individual ?rms� investment
Cenesizoglu, Tolga
A New Comparative Approach to Macroeconomic Modeling and Policy Analysis
such as output, inflation and nominal interest rates. Models should also be able to provide answers to typical such as a central bank. We do not need to throw out our DSGE and asset-pricing models: rather we need to develop titled "Reflections on the nature of monetary policy non-standard measures and finance theory" by Jean
households' interestbearing financial assets and nominal interest rates; Germany, data from 1951 to 1998 Building Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1.2 Objectives to the present model . . . . . . . . 76 2.2 Empirical results of the influence of both income growth rates
Emergent Macroeconomics An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations
________________________________________________________________________ DOMENICO DELLI GATTI Catholic University of Milan, Italy EDOARDO GAFFEO University of Trento, Italy MAURO GALLEGATI Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy GIANFRANCO GIULIONI University "G. D'Annunzio", Pescara, Italy ANTONIO PALESTRINI University of Teramo, Italy August 2006 #12;To
Essays in macroeconomics, corporate finance, and social learning
(cont.) the release of information until the long-term results of the firm are realized. In equilibrium, when the belief about the aggregate state is high, managers will be given short-term incentives, delaying the release ...
Hertzberg, Andrew C. P., 1974-
Wind of change: new insights on the ecology and evolution of pollination and mating in wind-pollinated plants
REVIEW Wind of change: new insights on the ecology and evolution of pollination and mating in wind- pollinated plants. At least 10 % of angiosperms are wind pollinated, and this mode of pollination has evolved. Here, the evolution and functional ecology of pollination and mating in wind-pollinated plants
Barrett, Spencer C.H.
One-Dimensional Barrier-Preserving Free-Energy Projections of a -sheet Miniprotein: New Insights into the Folding Process
One-Dimensional Barrier-Preserving Free-Energy Projections of a -sheet Miniprotein: New Insights simulations for a total of 20 µs. The resulting one-dimensional free-energy profiles (FEPs) provide a detailed description of the free-energy basins and barriers for the folding reaction. The similarity of the FEPs
Caflisch, Amedeo
Firm Size and Industry Structure Under Human Capital Intensity: Insights from the Evolution of the Global Advertising Industry
Although existing literature assumes that the human capital intensity of professional services leads to small and flimsy firms, several professional services feature large, long-lived firms. To develop insights about firm size and industry structure ... Keywords: advertising agencies, financial intermediation, human capital, industry evolution, industry structure, professional services, vertical differentiation
Andrew von Nordenflycht
Hydration, Swelling, Interlayer Structure, and Hydrogen Bonding in Organolayered Double Hydroxides: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Citrate-Intercalated
citrate, C6H5O7 3- , as the charge balancing interlayer anion provides new molecular scale insight hydration levels, in contrast to the preferred low hydration states of most LDHs intercalated with small. Introduction Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), also known as hydro- talcite-like compounds, form an important
Kalinichev, Andrey G.
Battery Usage and Thermal Performance of the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight for Various Chassis Dynamometer Test Procedures: Preprint
This study describes the results from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) chassis dynamometer testing of a 2000 model year Honda Insight and 2001 model year Toyota Prius. The tests were conducted for the purpose of evaluating the battery thermal performance, assessing the impact of air conditioning on fuel economy and emissions, and providing information for NREL's Advanced Vehicle Simulator (ADVISOR).
Kelly, K. J.; Mihalic, M.; Zolot, M.
SUBJECT: Insights and Implications of Steam Generator Operating, Inspecting and Maintenance Experience
The steam generator tube failure event at Indian Point Unit 2 and the potential issues surrounding the in-situ pressure testing of selected tubes and test specimens at Arkansas Nuclear One Unit 2, prompted industry to evaluate its generic steam generator guidelines, plant experiences, and insights gained from the periodic steam generator program review visits conducted by the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). The purpose of this letter is to share with the NRC staff the industry conclusions and actions taken. As the NRC staff is well aware, the operation, inspection, and maintenance of steam generators are a high industry priority. Given the critical role of the steam generator in providing safe, reliable, and economic power production, steam generator performance has received broad industry attention for years. Generic industry activities, managed by EPRI, have been underway continuously since 1978. NRC staff is familiar with those efforts based on past briefings on the activities of the EPRI Steam Generator Management Program (SGMP) and attendance at selected SGMP workshops. More recently, other industry support organizations, such as NEI, INPO, and NSSS Owners Groups, have played important roles as well. Industry data indicates continual improvement in steam generator performance since the initiation of these efforts.
David J. Modeen; Dr. Brian; W. Sheron
In the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crises, tax equity investors largely withdrew from the market, resulting in stagnation of project development. In response, Congress established the Treasury grant program pursuant to Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (..Section..1603 Program) to offer a cash payment in lieu of a production and investment tax credit. This study addresses the likely project financing and market impacts from the expiration of the ..Section..1603 Program. The authors assembled an array of insights offered by financial executives active in the renewable energy (RE) market during conference panel discussions and in presentations, direct interviews, and email correspondences. This analysis found that the ..Section..1603 Program alleviated the need to monetize the tax credit incentives through specialized investors, helped lower the transaction and financing costs associated with renewable electricity projects, and generally supported an extensive build-out of renewable power generation capacity. With the expiration of the ..Section..1603 Program, smaller or less-established renewable power developers will have more difficulty attracting needed financial capital and completing their projects, development of projects relying on newer or 'innovative' technologies will likely slow as traditional tax equity investors are known to be highly averse to technology risk in the projects they fund, and, finally, projects relying on tax equity may be more expensive to develop due to higher transaction costs and potentially higher yields required to attract tax equity.
Mendelsohn, M.; Harper, J.
Electric Dipole Polarizability in ${}^{208}$Pb: insights from the Droplet Model
We study the electric dipole polarizability $\\alpha_D$ in ${}^{208}$Pb based on the predictions of a large and representative set of relativistic and non-relativistic nuclear mean field models. We adopt the droplet model as a guide to better understand the correlations between $\\alpha_D$ and other isovector observables. Insights from the droplet model suggest that the product of $\\alpha_D$ and the nuclear symmetry energy at saturation density $J$ is much better correlated with the neutron skin thickness $\\Delta r_{np}$ of ${}^{208}$Pb than the polarizability alone. Correlations of $\\alpha_D J$ with $\\Delta r_{np}$ and with the symmetry energy slope parameter $L$ suggest that $\\alpha_D J$ is a strong isovector indicator. Hence, we explore the possibility of constraining the isovector sector of thenuclear energy density functional by comparing our theoretical predictions against measurements of both $\\alpha_D$ and the parity-violating asymmetry in ${}^{208}$Pb. We find that the recent experimental determination of $\\alpha_D$ in ${}^{208}$Pb in combination with the range for the symmetry energy at saturation density $J=[31\\pm (2)_{\\rm est.}]$\\,MeV suggests $\\Delta r_{np}({}^{208}{\\rm Pb}) = 0.165 \\pm (0.009)_{\\rm exp.} \\pm (0.013)_{\\rm theo.} \\pm (0.021)_{\\rm est.} {\\rm fm}$ and $L= 43 \\pm(6)_{\\rm exp.} \\pm (8)_{\\rm theo.}\\pm(12)_{\\rm est.}$ MeV.
X. Roca-Maza; M. Centelles; X. Vi�as; M. Brenna; G. Col�; B. K. Agrawal; N. Paar; J. Piekarewicz; D. Vretenar
An Insight into the Pharmacophores of Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitors from Synthetic and Crystal Structural Studies
Selective inhibitors of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) have been used as drugs for treatment of male erectile dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension. An insight into the pharmacophores of PDE5 inhibitors is essential for development of second generation of PDE5 inhibitors, but has not been completely illustrated. Here we report the synthesis of a new class of the sildenafil derivatives and a crystal structure of the PDE5 catalytic domain in complex with 5-(2-ethoxy-5-(sulfamoyl)-3-thienyl)-1-methyl-3-propyl-1, 6-dihydro-7H-pyrazolo[4, 3-d]pyrimidin-7-one (12). Inhibitor 12 induces conformational change of the H-loop (residues 660-683), which is different from any of the known PDE5 structures. The pyrazolopyrimidinone groups of 12 and sildenafil are well superimposed, but their sulfonamide groups show a positional difference of as much as 1.5 Angstroms . The structure-activity analysis suggests that a small hydrophobic pocket and the H-loop of PDE5 are important for the inhibitor affinity, in addition to two common elements for binding of almost all the PDE inhibitors: the stack against the phenylalanine and the hydrogen bond with the invariant glutamine. However, the PDE5-12 structure does not provide a full explanation to affinity changes of the inhibitors. Thus alternatives such as conformational change of the M-loop are open and further structural study is required.
Chen,G.; Wang, H.; Robinson, H.; Cai, J.; Wan, Y.; Ke, H.
Insights From Laboratory Experiments On Simulated Faults With Application To Fracture Evolution In Geothermal Systems
Laboratory experiments provide a wealth of information related to mechanics of fracture initiation, fracture propagation processes, factors influencing fault strength, and spatio-temporal evolution of fracture properties. Much of the existing literature reports on laboratory studies involving a coupling of thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, and/or chemical processes. As these processes operate within subsurface environments exploited for their energy resource, laboratory results provide insights into factors influencing the mechanical and hydraulic properties of geothermal systems. I report on laboratory observations of strength and fluid transport properties during deformation of simulated faults. The results show systematic trends that vary with stress state, deformation rate, thermal conditions, fluid content, and rock composition. When related to geophysical and geologic measurements obtained from engineered geothermal systems (e.g. microseismicity, wellbore studies, tracer analysis), laboratory results provide a means by which the evolving thermal reservoir can be interpreted in terms of physico-chemical processes. For example, estimates of energy release and microearthquake locations from seismic moment tensor analysis can be related to strength variations observed from friction experiments. Such correlations between laboratory and field data allow for better interpretations about the evolving mechanical and fluid transport properties in the geothermal reservoir � ultimately leading to improvements in managing the resource.
Stephen L. Karner, Ph.D
Hybrid Electric Vehicle End-of-life Testing on Honda Insights, Honda Gen I Civics, and Toyota Gen I Priuses
262 262 U.S. Department of Energy FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program Hybrid Electric Vehicle End-of-Life Testing On Honda Insights, Honda Gen I Civics and Toyota Gen I Priuses TECHNICAL REPORT James Francfort Donald Karner Ryan Harkins Joseph Tardiolo February 2006 Idaho National Laboratory Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance INL/EXT-06-01262 U.S. Department of Energy FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program Hybrid Electric Vehicle End-of-Life Testing On Honda Insights, Honda Gen I Civics and Toyota Gen I Priuses James Francfort i Donald Karner and Ryan Harkins ii Joseph Tardiolo iii February 2006 Idaho National Laboratory Transportation Technology Department Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415 Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy
Insights into proton-coupled electron transfer mechanisms of electrocatalytic H2 oxidation and production
The design of molecular electrocatalysts for H2 oxidation and production is important for the development of alternative renewable energy sources that are abundant, inexpensive, and environmentally benign. Recently nickel-based molecular electrocatalysts with pendant amines that act as proton relays for the nickel center were shown to effectively catalyze H2 oxidation and production. We developed a quantum mechanical approach for studying proton-coupled electron transfer processes in these types of molecular electrocatalysts. This theoretical approach is applied to a nickel-based catalyst in which phosphorous atoms are directly bonded to the nickel center and nitrogen atoms of the ligand rings act as proton relays. The cataly c step of interest involves electron transfer between the nickel complex and the electrode as well as intramolecular proton transfer between the nickel and nitrogen atoms. This process can occur sequentially, with either the electron or proton transferring first, or concertedly, with the electron and proton transferring simultaneously without a stable intermediate. The heterogeneous rate constants are calculated as functions of overpotential for the concerted electron-proton transfer reaction and the two electron transfer reactions in the sequential mechanisms. Our calculations illustrate that the concerted electron-proton transfer standard rate constant will increase as the equilibrium distance between the nickel and nitrogen atoms decreases and as the nitrogen atoms become more mobile to facilitate the contraction of this distance. This approach assists in the identification of the favored mechanisms under various experimental conditions and provides insight into the qualitative impact of substituents on the nitrogen and phosphorous atoms. This research was supported as part of the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under FWP 56073.
Horvath, Samantha; Fernandez, Laura; Soudackov, Alexander V.; Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon
The nature of fire-cracked rock: new insights from ethnoarchaeological and laboratory experiments
Fire-cracked rock (FCR) is the archaeological by-product of the systemic use of hot rocks for cooking and heating purposes. As a record of various cooking and heating facilities, FCR has substantial potential for addressing research questions on past settlement and subsistence systems. To be able to address these questions requires reliable methods that can identify or infer how a given FCR was used. A series of ethnoarchaeological replication experiments are conducted in order to improve the understanding of the geothennodynamics of FCR production. FCR from two experimental data sets are cut to expose flat surfaces that are inspected for thermal-weathering characteristics under low-power magnification. Analytical results indicate that rock structure and the length of heat application have the most control over thermal weathering. The five most important rock structure characteristics are (1) strength of the bond between grains/crystals, (2) degree of porosity, (3) grain/crystal mineralogy, (4) presence of discontinuities, and (5) grain size; thin section analysis can identify these characteristics for any rock sample. The length of heat application varies dependent on the type of cooking or heating facility, for instance, a typical earth oven remains hot for a longer duration than a typical stone-boil facility; multiple uses of a rock in a facility also increases the sum total of heat application. In broad terms, experimental tests indicate igneous rock types withstand thermal weathering better than metamorphic or sedimentary rock types. Ethnoarchaeological results are applied to six archaeological FCR features, and provide new insights on the use-history of five of the features. Microscopic observations of archaeological FCR also all for the re-evaluation of the current model which explains the occurrence of various FCR shape types within features.
Jackson, Michael A
Insights on Psittacine Nutrition through the Study of Free-living Chicks
The Psittacidae is one of the most endangered families of birds in the world. Knowledge of its nutrition is important for understanding their survival and productivity in the wild, as well as for their adequate husbandry in captivity. Hand-rearing is a common practice for this group. However, research on their requirements is limited. Analysis of the crop content of chicks can provide new insights into psittacine nutrition, but it is limited by the small sizes of samples which can be obtained. We sampled the crops from free-living chicks of scarlet macaws and red-and-green macaws from southeastern Peru, Cuban parrots from the Bahamas, lilac-crowned parrots from northwestern Mexico, and thick-billed parrots from northern Mexico. The predicted metabolizable energy, protein, fat, minerals, profile of essential amino acids and profile of fatty acids of the crop samples, as well as from 15 commercial hand-rearing formulas, were analyzed and contrasted. Near Infrared Spectroscopy was shown to be a valid technique for the nondestructive, low cost prediction of a variety of nutritional attributes of crop samples as small as 0.5 g dry weight, expanding the possibilities of wild animal nutrition research. The diets of the five studied species presented remarkable similarities and common patterns. The predicted dietary metabolizable energy and fat concentrations were particularly similar among species, the thick-billed parrot being the one with the most unique nutrient profile. The fatty acid profile of the crop contents differed markedly among genera, with the thick-billed parrot closer to the macaws than to the parrots. In comparison with the crop samples, the hand feeding formulas presented lower fat, Mg, arginine, and valine concentrations. The wide variation in nutrients suggests that there is not yet a consensus among manufacturers concerning the correct nutrition for growing psittacines. It is suggested that a single formulation could be used to hand-rear macaws and parrots from half its nesting time to fledging, and further research should focus on their nutrition during the first half. Our results suggest that manufacturers should evaluate if increasing the concentrations of crude fat, Mg, arginine, and valine in commercial formulas enhances psittacine chick growth and health.
Cornejo, Juan
Basic Science Simulations Provide New Insights to Aid Hydrogen Gas Turbine Development (Fact Sheet), NREL Highlights, Science
Massive first-principles simulation provides insight into flame anchoring in a hydrogen-rich jet in cross-flow. When gas turbine designers want to use gasified biomass for stationary power generation, they are faced with a challenge: bio-derived syngas typically contains significant amounts of hydrogen, which is far more reactive than the methane that is the traditional gas turbine fuel. This reactivity leads to a safety design issue, because with hydrogen-rich fuels a flame may anchor in the fuel injection section of the combustor instead of the downstream design point. In collaboration with Jacqueline Chen of Sandia National Laboratories and Andrea Gruber of SINTEF, a Norwegian energy think tank, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is carrying out fundamental simulations to provide new insight into the physics of flame anchoring in canonical 'jet in cross-flow' configurations using hydrogen-rich fuels. To deal with the large amount and complexity of the data, the combustion scientists also teamed up with computer scientists from across the U.S. Department of Energy's laboratories to develop novel ways to analyze the data. These simulations have shown that fine-scale turbulence structures formed at the jet boundary provide particularly intense mixing between the fuel and air, which then enters a quiescent region formed downstream of the jet in a separate, larger turbulent structure. This insight explains the effect that reducing the wall-normal velocity of the fuel jet causes the flame to blow off; with the aid of the simulation, we now understand this counterintuitive result because reducing the wall-normal velocity would reduce the intensity of the mixing as well as move the quiescent region farther downstream. NREL and its research partners are conducting simulations that provide new insight into the physics of flame anchoring in canonical 'jet in cross-flow' configurations using hydrogen-rich fuels. Simulation results explain the mechanism behind flame blow-off occurring when a component in the cross-flow direction is progressively added to the jet velocity vector, thereby reducing the relative impact of its wall-normal velocity component. Understanding the mechanism for flame anchoring aids the design of fuel injection nozzles that meet safety requirements when using hydrogen-rich fuels.
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Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption Insights from an Integrated Program of Engineering and Economic Research
82 82 Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption - Insights from an Integrated Program of Engineering and Economic Research Robert J. Thomas, Timothy D. Mount, Richard Schuler, William Schulze, Ray Zimmerman, Fernando Alvarado, Bernard C. Lesieutre, Philip N. Overholt, and Joseph H. Eto Preprint version of paper Electricity Journal Energy Analysis Department Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 90R4000 Berkeley CA 94720-8136 Environmental Energy Technologies Division January 2008 http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/EMS/EMS_pubs.html The work described in this report was coordinated by the Consortium for Electric Reliability, Technology Solutions and was funded under the Office of Electricity
Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption --Insights from an Integrated Program of Engineering and EconomicResearch
In 2005, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) began discussing regulatory policy for reactive-power procurement and pricing in competitive electricity markets. This paper summarizes findings from a unique, interdisciplinary program of public-interest research that lays a formal foundation for evaluating aspects of FERC staff recommendations and offers early insights that should be useful in guiding policy implementation, specifically by: (1) clarifying the consumers and economic characteristics of reactive power as a basis for creating incentives to appropriately price it, (2) defining specific challenges in creating a competitive market for reactive power as well as new tools needed to help ensure such a market functions efficiently, and (3) demonstrating the importance of accounting for the physical characteristics of the transmission network in planning for reactive power and avoiding the exercise of market power by suppliers.
Thomas, Robert J.; Mount, Timothy D.; Schuler, Richard; Schulze,William; Zimmerman, Ray; Alvarado, Fernando; Lesieutre, Bernard C.; Overholt, Philip N.; Eto, Joseph H.
A Critical Examination of the Adaptive Response for Cytogenetic Damagein Human Cells, and Insights into the Adaptive Response Mechanism
Critical Examination of the Adaptive Response for Cytogenetic Damage Critical Examination of the Adaptive Response for Cytogenetic Damage in Human Cells, and Insights into the Adaptive Response Mechanism Björn E. Rydberg, Torsten Groesser, Antoine Snijders, Kelly Trego, Ju Han, Do Yup Lee, Bahram Parvin, Trent Northen, Andrew J. Wyrobek, and Priscilla K. Cooper Berkeley Lab SFA P.I.: Gary Karpen Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 Goal: Task 1 of the Berkeley Lab SFA is designed to identify adaptive response (AR) mechanisms that may affect risk of developing radiation-induced cancer and to assess the linearity with dose of processes that influence mammary gland carcinogenesis. We use both in vitro and in vivo experimental systems in a parallelogram strategy. Our human cell culture
The synthesis and origin of the pectic polysaccharide rhamnogalacturonan II insights from nucleotide sugar formation and diversity
ARTICLE ARTICLE published: 11 May 2012 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00092 The synthesis and origin of the pectic polysaccharide rhamnogalacturonan II - insights from nucleotide sugar formation and diversity Maor Bar-Peled 1 *, Breeanna R. Urbanowicz 2 and Malcolm A. O'Neill 2 1 Department of Plant Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 2 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Edited by: Seth DeBolt, University of Kentucky, USA Reviewed by: Henrik Scheller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Jesper Harholt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *Correspondence: Maor Bar-Peled , Department of Plant Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA. e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com There is compelling evidence showing that the structurally
An updated astronomical timescale for the Plio-Pleistocene deposits from South China Sea and new insights into Asian monsoon evolution
insights into Asian monsoon evolution Hong Ao a,b,*, Mark J. Dekkers c , Li Qin d , Guoqiao Xiao e a State Asian monsoon Pliocene Pleistocene a b s t r a c t Here we present an improved astronomical timescale Asian summer monsoon record (hematite to goethite content ratio, Hm/Gt) and a parallel benthic d18 O
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Insights into Structure and Stratigraphy of the Northern Gulf of Mexico from 2D Pre-Stack Depth Migration Imaging of
Insights into Structure and Stratigraphy of the Northern Gulf of Mexico from 2D Pre-Stack Depth water of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and displays distinct, large-scale structural styles and salt established in the northern Gulf of Mexico that substantial deformation in the form of linked proxi- mal
Connors, Christopher D.
Hybrid Electric Vehicle End-Of-Life Testing On Honda Insights, Gen I Civics And Toyota Gen I Priuses
This technical report details the end-of-life fuel efficiency and battery testing on two model year 2001 Honda Insight hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), two model year 2003 Honda Civic HEVs, and two model year 2002 Toyota Prius HEVs. The end-of-life testing was conducted after each vehicle has been operated for approximately 160,000 miles. This testing was conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy�s (DOE) Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA). The AVTA is part of DOE�s FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program. SAE J1634 fuel efficiency testing was performed on the six HEVs with the air conditioning (AC) on and off. The AC on and off test results are compared to new vehicle AC on and off fuel efficiencies for each HEV model. The six HEVs were all end-of-life tested using new-vehicle coast down coefficients. In addition, one of each HEV model was also subjected to fuel efficiency testing using coast down coefficients obtained when the vehicles completed 160,000 miles of fleet testing. Traction battery pack capacity and power tests were also performed on all six HEVs during the end-of-life testing in accordance with the FreedomCAR Battery Test Manual For Power-Assist Hybrid Electric Vehicles procedures. When using the new-vehicle coast down coefficients (Phase I testing), 11 of 12 HEV tests (each HEV was tested once with the AC on and once with the AC off) had increases in fuel efficiencies compared to the new vehicle test results. The end-of-life fuel efficiency tests using the end-of-life coast down coefficients (Phase II testing) show decreases in fuel economies in five of six tests (three with the AC on and three with it off). All six HEVs experienced decreases in battery capacities, with the two Insights having the highest remaining capacities and the two Priuses having the lowest remaining capacities. The AVTA�s end-of-life testing activities discussed in this report were conducted by the Idaho National Laboratory; the AVTA testing partner Electric Transportation Applications, and by Exponent Failure Analysis Associates.
James Francfort; Donald Karner; Ryan Harkins; Joseph Tardiolo
Risk perception & strategic decision making :general insights, a framework, and specific application to electricity generation using nuclear energy.
The objective of this report is to promote increased understanding of decision making processes and hopefully to enable improved decision making regarding high-consequence, highly sophisticated technological systems. This report brings together insights regarding risk perception and decision making across domains ranging from nuclear power technology safety, cognitive psychology, economics, science education, public policy, and neural science (to name a few). It forms them into a unique, coherent, concise framework, and list of strategies to aid in decision making. It is suggested that all decision makers, whether ordinary citizens, academics, or political leaders, ought to cultivate their abilities to separate the wheat from the chaff in these types of decision making instances. The wheat includes proper data sources and helpful human decision making heuristics; these should be sought. The chaff includes ''unhelpful biases'' that hinder proper interpretation of available data and lead people unwittingly toward inappropriate decision making ''strategies''; obviously, these should be avoided. It is further proposed that successfully accomplishing the wheat vs. chaff separation is very difficult, yet tenable. This report hopes to expose and facilitate navigation away from decision-making traps which often ensnare the unwary. Furthermore, it is emphasized that one's personal decision making biases can be examined, and tools can be provided allowing better means to generate, evaluate, and select among decision options. Many examples in this report are tailored to the energy domain (esp. nuclear power for electricity generation). The decision making framework and approach presented here are applicable to any high-consequence, highly sophisticated technological system.
Brewer, Jeffrey D.
Cross-study and cross-omics comparisons of three nephrotoxic compounds reveal mechanistic insights and new candidate biomarkers
The European InnoMed-PredTox project was a collaborative effort between 15 pharmaceutical companies, 2 small and mid-sized enterprises, and 3 universities with the goal of delivering deeper insights into the molecular mechanisms of kidney and liver toxicity and to identify mechanism-linked diagnostic or prognostic safety biomarker candidates by combining conventional toxicological parameters with 'omics' data. Mechanistic toxicity studies with 16 different compounds, 2 dose levels, and 3 time points were performed in male Crl: WI(Han) rats. Three of the 16 investigated compounds, BI-3 (FP007SE), Gentamicin (FP009SF), and IMM125 (FP013NO), induced kidney proximal tubule damage (PTD). In addition to histopathology and clinical chemistry, transcriptomics microarray and proteomics 2D-DIGE analysis were performed. Data from the three PTD studies were combined for a cross-study and cross-omics meta-analysis of the target organ. The mechanistic interpretation of kidney PTD-associated deregulated transcripts revealed, in addition to previously described kidney damage transcript biomarkers such as KIM-1, CLU and TIMP-1, a number of additional deregulated pathways congruent with histopathology observations on a single animal basis, including a specific effect on the complement system. The identification of new, more specific biomarker candidates for PTD was most successful when transcriptomics data were used. Combining transcriptomics data with proteomics data added extra value.
Matheis, Katja A., E-mail: email@example.com [Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH and Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss (Germany); Com, Emmanuelle [Sanofi-Aventis, Paris (France); High-Throughput Proteomics Core Facility OUEST-genopole (registered) , Rennes (France); Gautier, Jean-Charles [Sanofi-Aventis, Paris (France); Guerreiro, Nelson [Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Basel (Switzerland); Brandenburg, Arnd; Gmuender, Hans [GeneData AG, Basel (Switzerland); Sposny, Alexandra; Hewitt, Philip [Merck KGaA, Darmstadt (Germany); Amberg, Alexander [Sanofi-Aventis, Frankfurt (Germany); Boernsen, Olaf [Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Basel (Switzerland); Riefke, Bjoern [Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin (Germany); Hoffmann, Dana; Mally, Angela [Department of Toxicology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg (Germany); Kalkuhl, Arno [Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH and Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss (Germany); Suter, Laura [F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Basel (Switzerland); Dieterle, Frank; Staedtler, Frank [Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Basel (Switzerland)
Insight into the Properties of the UK Power Consumption Using a Linear Regression and Wavelet Transform Approach
In this paper, the relationship between the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), air temperature variations and power consumption is evaluated using the linear regression and Wavelet Coherence (WTC) approach on a 1971-2011 time series for the United Kingdom (UK). The results based on the linear regression approach indicate that some 66% variability of the UK electricity demand can be explained by the quarterly GDP variations, while only 11% of the quarterly changes of the UK electricity demand are caused by seasonal air temperature variations. WTC however, can detect the period of time when GDP and air temperature significantly correlate with electricity demand and the results of the wavelet correlation at different time scales indicate that a significant correlation is to be found on a long-term basis for GDP and on an annual basis for seasonal air-temperature variations. This approach provides an insight into the properties of the impact of the main factors on power consumption on the basis of which the power syst...
Avdakovic, Samir; Nuhanovic, Amir
Multi-scale Detection of Organic and Inorganic Signatures Provides Insights into Gas Shale Properties and Evolution
Organic geochemical analyses, including solvent extraction or pyrolysis, followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, are generally conducted on bulk gas shale samples to evaluate their source and reservoir properties. While organic petrology has been directed at unravelling the matrix composition and textures of these economically important unconventional resources, their spatial variability in chemistry and structure is still poorly documented at the sub-micrometre scale. Here, a combination of techniques including transmission electron microscopy and a synchrotron-based microscopy tool, scanning transmission X-ray microscopy, have been used to characterize at a multiple length scale an overmature organic-rich calcareous mudstone from northern Germany. We document multi-scale chemical and mineralogical heterogeneities within the sample, from the millimetre down to the nanometre-scale. From the detection of different types of bitumen and authigenic minerals associated with the organic matter, we show that the multi-scale approach used in this study may provide new insights into gaseous hydrocarbon generation/retention processes occurring within gas shales and may shed new light on their thermal history.
Bernard, S.; Horsfield, B; Schultz, H; Schreiber, A; Wirth, R; Thi AnhVu, T; Perssen, F; Konitzer, S; Volk, H; et. al.
Neural Network Based Approaches, Solving Haplotype Reconstruction in MEC and MEC/GI Models
SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) are different variant positions (1% of DNA sequence) of human genomes which their mutation is associated with complex genetic diseases. As a consequence, obtaining all SNPs from human populations is one of the primary ... Keywords: Bioinformatics, biology and genomics, haplotype reconstruction, SNP fragments, clustering, genotype information, haplotype, reconstruction rate, unsupervised neural network
M-Hossein Moeinzadeh; Ehsan Asgarian; Sara Sharifian-R; Amir Najafi-Ardabili; Javad Mohammadzadeh
"GiGa": the Billion Galaxy HI Survey -- Tracing Galaxy Assembly from Reionization to the Present
In this paper, we review the Billion Galaxy Survey that will be carried out at radio--optical wavelengths to micro--nanoJansky levels with the telescopes of the next decades. These are the Low-Frequency Array, the Square Kilometer Array and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope as survey telescopes, and the Thirty Meter class Telescopes for high spectral resolution+AO, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for high spatial resolution near--mid IR follow-up. With these facilities, we will be addressing fundamental questions like how galaxies assemble with super-massive black-holes inside from the epoch of First Light until the present, how these objects started and finished the reionization of the universe, and how the processes of star-formation, stellar evolution, and metal enrichment of the IGM proceeded over cosmic time. We also summarize the high-resolution science that has been done thus far on high redshift galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Faint galaxies have steadily decreasing sizes at fainter fluxes and higher redshifts, reflecting the hierarchical formation of galaxies over cosmic time. HST has imaged this process in great structural detail to zsub-clumps. Finally, we summarize how the 6.5 meter James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will measure first light, reionization, and galaxy assembly in the near--mid-IR.
R. A. Windhorst; S. H. Cohen; N. P. Hathi; R. A. Jansen; R. E. Ryan Jr
Base isolation: Fresh insight
The objective of the research is a further development of the engineering concept of seismic isolation. Neglecting the transient stage of seismic loading results in a widespread misjudgement: The force of resistance associated with velocity is mostly conceived as a source of damping vibrations, though it is an active force at the same time, during an earthquake type excitation. For very pliant systems such as base isolated structures with relatively low bearing stiffness and with artificially added heavy damping mechanism, the so called `damping`` force may occur even the main pushing force at an earthquake. Thus, one of the two basic pillars of the common seismic isolation philosophy, namely, the doctrine of usefulness and necessity of a strong damping mechanism, is turning out to be a self-deception, sometimes even jeopardizing the safety of structures and discrediting the very idea of seismic isolation. There is a way out: breaking with damping dependancy.
Shustov, V.
IPEEE Seismic Insights
This report compiles and summarizes results of the seismic portion of the Individual Plant Examination for External Events (IPEEE) conducted for each U.S. nuclear plant. Utilities can use trends developed from these results -- together with their individual plant-specific results -- to address future seismic issues on a risk-informed basis.
Revisiting Insights from Three Mile Island Unit 2 Postaccident Examinations and Evaluations in View of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) accident, which occurred on March 28, 1979, led industry and regulators to enhance strategies to protect against severe accidents in commercial nuclear power plants. Investigations in the years after the accident concluded that at least 45% of the core had melted and that nearly 19 tonnes of the core material had relocated to the lower head. Postaccident examinations indicate that about half of that material formed a solid layer near the lower head and above it was a layer of fragmented rubble. As discussed in this paper, numerous insights related to pressurized water reactor accident progression were gained from postaccident evaluations of debris, reactor pressure vessel (RPV) specimens, and nozzles taken from the RPV. In addition, information gleaned from TMI-2 specimen evaluations and available data from plant instrumentation were used to improve severe accident simulation models that form the technical basis for reactor safety evaluations. Finally, the TMI-2 accident led the nuclear community to dedicate considerable effort toward understanding severe accident phenomenology as well as the potential for containment failure. Because available data suggest that significant amounts of fuel heated to temperatures near melting, the events at Fukushima Daiichi Units 1, 2, and 3 offer an unexpected opportunity to gain similar understanding about boiling water reactor accident progression. To increase the international benefit from such an endeavor, we recommend that an international effort be initiated to (a) prioritize data needs; (b) identify techniques, samples, and sample evaluations needed to address each information need; and (c) help finance acquisition of the required data and conduct of the analyses.
Joy Rempe; Mitchell Farmer; Michael Corradini; Larry Ott; Randall Gauntt; Dana Powers
Star clusters are known to have smaller intrinsic metallicity spreads than dwarf galaxies due to their shorter star formation timescales. Here we use individual spectroscopic [Fe/H] measurements of stars in 19 Local Group dwarf galaxies, 13 Galactic open clusters, and 49 globular clusters to show that star cluster and dwarf galaxy linear metallicity distributions are binomial in form, with all objects showing strong correlations between their mean linear metallicity Z-bar and intrinsic spread in metallicity {sigma}(Z){sup 2}. A plot of {sigma}(Z){sup 2} versus Z-bar shows that the correlated relationships are offset for the dwarf galaxies from the star clusters. The common binomial nature of these linear metallicity distributions can be explained with a simple inhomogeneous chemical evolution model, where the star cluster and dwarf galaxy behavior in the {sigma}(Z){sup 2}- Z-bar diagram is reproduced in terms of the number of enrichment events, covering fraction, and intrinsic size of the enriched regions. The inhomogeneity of the self-enrichment sets the slope for the observed dwarf galaxy {sigma}(Z){sup 2}- Z-bar correlation. The offset of the star cluster sequence from that of the dwarf galaxies is due to pre-enrichment, and the slope of the star cluster sequence represents the remnant signature of the self-enriched history of their host galaxies. The offset can be used to separate star clusters from dwarf galaxies without a priori knowledge of their luminosity or dynamical mass. The application of the inhomogeneous model to the {sigma}(Z){sup 2}- Z-bar relationship provides a numerical formalism to connect the self-enrichment and pre-enrichment between star clusters and dwarf galaxies using physically motivated chemical enrichment parameters. Therefore we suggest that the {sigma}(Z){sup 2}- Z-bar relationship can provide insight into what drives the efficiency of star formation and chemical evolution in galaxies, and is an important prediction for galaxy simulation models to reproduce.
Leaman, Ryan, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com [Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 1A1 (Canada)
Insights into Stress Corrosion Cracking Mechanisms from High-Resolution Measurements of Crack-Tip Structures and Compositions
The fundamental basis for mechanistic understanding and modeling of SCC remains in question for many systems. Specific mechanisms controlling SCC can vary with changes in alloy characteristics, applied/residual stress or environmental conditions. The local crack electrochemistry, crack-tip mechanics and material metallurgy are the main factors controlling crack growth. These localized properties are difficult or impossible to measure in active cracks. Nevertheless, it is essential to quantitatively interrogate these crack-tip conditions if mechanistic understanding is to be obtained. A major recent advance has been the ability to investigate SCC cracks and crack tips using high-resolution ATEM techniques. ATEM enables the characterization of SCC cracks including trapped tip solution chemistries, corrosion product/film compositions and structures, and elemental composition gradients and defect microstructures along the crack walls and at the crack tip. A wide variety of methods for imaging and analyses at resolutions down to the atomic level can be used to examine the crack and corrosion film characteristics. Surface films and reaction layers have been examined by cross-sectional TEM techniques, but little work had been conducted on environmentally induced internal cracks until that of Lewis and co-workers [1-3] and the current authors [4-17]. This capability combined with modern ATEM techniques has enabled exciting new insights into corrosion processes occurring at buried interfaces and is being used to identify mechanisms controlling IGSCC in boiling water reactor (BWR) and pressurized water reactor (PWR) components. The objective of this paper is to summarize certain results focused on IGSCC of Fe- base and Ni-base stainless alloys in high-temperature water environments. Representative crack-tip examples will be shown to illustrate specific aspects that are characteristic of SCC in the material/environment combinations. Differences and similarities in crack-tip structures- chemistries will be highlighted comparing Fe-base 316/304SS to Ni-base alloy 600/182 and for tests in oxidizing versus hydrogenated water environments.
Bruemmer, Stephen M.; Thomas, Larry E.
Short-Term Energy Outlook - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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Oil Shocks and Aggregate Macroeconomic Behavior: The Role of Monetary Policy
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Poverty and Social Impact Analysis�Linking Macroeconomic Policies to Poverty Outcomes: Summary of Early Experiences
The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. The objective of this paper is to present some early experiences of poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) from the PRGF-supported programs in the African Department. The paper illustrates that many staff country reports have taken a first step toward PSIA by making more explicit the links between poverty and policies. Various examples highlight that even though relationships can be complex and analysis, as a result, may not be definitive, it is possible to assess some of the potential poverty effects even in countries with limited data, and therefore contribute to a more informed policy debate and design. The paper concludes that PSIA can help design policies that are more propoor, better define compensatory and complementary measures where appropriate, and support country ownership of reforms by promoting a public debate on trade-offs between policy choices. In light of this, the paper suggests that PRGF policy advice would benefit from more systematic PSIA and that staff country reports could report more on the potential policy trade-offs and poverty
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Federal Reserve Bank of DallasTime-Varying Oil Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Aggregates
We illustrate the theoretical relation among output, consumption, investment, and oil price volatility in a real business cycle model. The model incorporates demand for oil by a firm, as an intermediate input, and by a household, used in conjunction with a durable good. We estimate a stochastic volatility process for the real price of oil over the period 1986-2011 and utilize the estimated process in a non-linear approximation of the model. For realistic calibrations, an increase in oil price volatility produces a temporary decrease in durable spending, while precautionary savings motives lead investment and real GDP to rise. Irreversible capital and durable investment decisions do not overturn this result.
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Essays in Applied Macroeconomics: Asymmetric Price Adjustment, Exchange Rate and Treatment Effect
This dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the possible asymmetric response of gasoline prices to crude oil price changes using an error correction model with GARCH errors. Recent papers have looked at this issue. Some of these papers estimate a form of error correction model, but none of them accounts for autoregressive heteroskedasticity in estimation and testing for asymmetry and none of them takes the response of crude oil price into consideration. We find that time-varying volatility of gasoline price disturbances is an important feature of the data, and when we allow for asymmetric GARCH errors and investigate the system wide impulse response function, we find evidence of asymmetric adjustment to crude oil price changes in weekly retail gasoline prices Chapter III discusses the relationship between fiscal deficit and exchange rate. Economic theory predicts that fiscal deficits can significantly affect real exchange rate movements, but existing empirical evidence reports only a weak impact of fiscal deficits on exchange rates. Based on US dollar-based real exchange rates in G5 countries and a flexible varying coefficient model, we show that the previously documented weak relationship between fiscal deficits and exchange rates may be the result of additive specifications, and that the relationship is stronger if we allow fiscal deficits to impact real exchange rates non-additively as well as nonlinearly. We find that the speed of exchange rate adjustment toward equilibrium depends on the state of the fiscal deficit; a fiscal contraction in the US can lead to less persistence in the deviation of exchange rates from fundamentals, and faster mean reversion to the equilibrium. Chapter IV proposes a kernel method to deal with the nonparametric regression model with only discrete covariates as regressors. This new approach is based on recently developed least squares cross-validation kernel smoothing method. It can not only automatically smooth the irrelevant variables out of the nonparametric regression model, but also avoid the problem of loss of efficiency related to the traditional nonparametric frequency-based method and the problem of misspecification based on parametric model.
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Macroeconomic policy, investment, and urban unemployment in less-developed countries
The two-sector Harris-Todaro model, extended to include a government sector and aggregate demand, is used to analyze the effects on output, prices, and employment of policies designed to mitigate urban unemployment. An increase in aggregate demand will be inflationary even though output will increase. Government job creation will be inflationary, will stimulate manufacturing output, but may result in a decrease in agricultural output. Investment in agriculture will increase agricultural output, decrease manufacturing output, and decrease price level. Investment in manufacturing results in an increase in manufacturing output, and agricultural output and employment will decline and prices will fall. 16 references.
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The Business Cycle, Macroeconomic Shocks and the Cross Section: The Growth of UK Quoted Companies.
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The macroeconomic effect of the information and communication technology in Hungary
It was not until the beginning of the 1990s that the effects of information and communication technology on economic growth as well as on the profitability of enterprises raised the interest of researchers. After giving a general description on the relationship between a more intense use of ICT devices and dynamic economic growth, the author identified and explained those four channels that had a robust influence on economic growth and productivity. When comparing the use of information technonology devices in developed as well as in developing countries, the author highlighted the importance of the available additional human capital and the elimination of organizational inflexibilities in the attempt of narrowing the productivity gap between the developed and developing nations. By processing a large quantitiy of information gained from Hungarian enterprises operating in several economic sectors, the author made an attempt to find a strong correlation between the development level of using ICT devices and pr...
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Evaluation of the DRI quarterly macroeconomic model's response to energy and environmental cost shocks
During the 1970's two major energy price shocks occurred. Each was accompanied by cost shocks for industrial environmental control technology and reductions in the rate of growth of the money supply. Each was followed by a recession. A third energy-price shock and contractions of monetary growth occurred when President Reagan took office. The present recession followed. The DRI macromodel was used to evaluate the impacts of various impacts of various environmental regulations over the 1982 to 1987 period, under different assumptions about energy-price shocks and money-supply growth. The simulation results are critically evaluated in light of the historical evidence of the 1970's.
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Macroeconomic Models and the Yield Curve: An assessment of the Fit
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An Updated Macroeconomic Analysis of Recent California Climate Action Team Strategies
Through Executive Order S-3-05, Governor Schwarzenegger established new greenhouse gas reduction goals for California and initiated a process to develop plans for meeting these new targets. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) mandates reductions in future California greenhouse gas emissions so that 1990 levels are reached by 2020. Many key aspects of the policies California intends to implement to meet the near term mandate and long goals remain unclear. This report provides an an...
Insights on radiological risks of US Department of Energy radioactive waste management alternatives in the Environmental Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
A Facility Accident Analysis (1) was performed in support of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). It used an integrated risk-based approach (2) to allow risk comparisons of EM PEIS strategies for consolidating the storage and treatment of wastes at different DOE sites throughout the country. This approach was developed in accordance with the latest National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) compliance guidance from DOE (3), which calls for consideration of a spectrum of accident scenarios that could occur in implementing the various actions evaluated in the EM PEIS. This paper discusses our insights with respect to the likely importance of the relative treatment technologies, waste management facilities and operations, and waste consolidation strategies considered in the EM PEIS.
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On EPR-type Entanglement in the Experiments of Scully et Al. II. Insight in the Real Random Delayed-choice Erasure Experiment
It was pointed out in the first part of this study that EPR-type entanglement is defined by the possibility of performing any of two mutually incompatible distant, i. e.,direct-interaction-free, measurements. They go together under the term 'EPR-type disentanglement'. In this second part, quantum-mechanical insight is gained in the real random delayed-choice erasure experiment of Kim et al. [Kim et al.: Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1-5 (2000)] by a relative-reality-of- unitarily-evolving-state (RRUES) approach (explained in the first part). Finally, it is shown that this remarkable experiment, which performs, by random choice, two incompatible measurements at the same time, is actually an EPR-type disentanglement experiment, closely related to the micromaser experiment discussed in the first part.
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Building a foundation for structure-based cellulosome design for cellulosic ethanol: Insight into cohesin-dockerin complexation from computer simulation
Foundation for Structure-Based Cellulosome Design for Foundation for Structure-Based Cellulosome Design for Cellulosic Ethanol: Insight into Cohesin-Dockerin Complexation from Computer Simulation Jiancong Xu, 1,3 Michael Crowley, 2,3 and Jeremy C. Smith 1,3 1 Center for Molecular Biophysics, Building 6011, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA. 2 Chemical and Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd, Golden, CO, 80401-3393, USA 3 BioEnergy Science Center Corresponding author. Jiancong Xu, Building 6011, MS6309, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA; E-mail: email@example.com; Phone: 865-241-9111; Fax: 865-576-7651. Running title. Computer simulation of cohesin-dockerin complexes. Manuscript pages: 29 Supplementary material pages: 4
Conversion for Avicel and AFEX pretreated corn stover by Clostridium thermocellum and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation: Insights into microbial conversion of pretreated cellulosic biomass
for for Avicel and AFEX pretreated corn stover by Clostridium thermocellum and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation: Insights into microbial conversion of pretreated cellulosic biomass Xiongjun Shao a , Mingjie Jin b,c , Anna Guseva a , Chaogang Liu d , Venkatesh Balan b,c , David Hogsett d , Bruce E. Dale b,c , Lee Lynd a,d,⇑ a Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, 8000 Cummings Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA b Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory (BCRL), Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, MBI Building, 3900 Collins Road, Lansing, MI 48910, USA c Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA d Mascoma Corporation, 67 Etna Road, Suite 300, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 8 March 2011 Received in revised form 6 May 2011 Accepted
The Past as Prologue? Business Cycles and Forecasting since the 1960s
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Stress corrosion cracking: New experiments, new insights M I T E N E R G Y I N I T I AT I V E A U T U M N 2 0 1 2
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In this work, we present a comprehensive observation and modeling analysis of the 2010 June 13 extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wave observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Due to extreme advances in cadence, resolution, and bandpass coverage in the EUV regime, the AIA instrument offers an unprecedented ability to observe the dynamics of large-scale coronal wave-like transients known as EUV waves. To provide a physical analysis and further complement observational insight, we conduct a three-dimensional, time-dependent thermodynamic MHD simulation of the eruption and associated EUV wave, and employ forward modeling of EUV observables to compare the results directly observations. We focus on two main aspects: (1) the interpretation of the stark thermodynamic signatures in the multi-filter AIA data within the propagating EUV wave front, and (2) an in-depth analysis of the simulation results and their implication with respect to EUV wave theories. Multiple aspects, including the relative phases of perturbed variables, suggest that the outer, propagating component of the EUV transient exhibits the behavior of a fast-mode wave. We also find that this component becomes decoupled from the evolving structures associated with the coronal mass ejection that are also visible, providing a clear distinction between wave and non-wave mechanisms at play.
Downs, Cooper; Roussev, Ilia I.; Lugaz, Noe [Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, at Manoa, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822 (United States); Van der Holst, Bart; Sokolov, Igor V., E-mail: email@example.com [Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
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Further insights into the "$??$ puzzle"
Based on a systematic investigation of $J/\\psi(\\psi^\\prime)\\to VP$, where $V$ and $P$ stand for light vector and pseudoscalar mesons, we identify the role played by the electromagnetic (EM) transitions and intermediate meson loop transitions, which are essential ingredients for understanding the $J/\\psi$ and $\\psi^\\prime$ couplings to $VP$. We show that on the one hand, the EM transitions have relatively larger interferences in $\\psi^\\prime\\to \\rho\\pi$ and $K^*\\bar{K}+c.c.$ as explicitly shown by vector meson dominance (VMD). On the other hand, the strong decay of $\\psi^\\prime$ receives relatively larger destructive interferences from the intermediate meson loop transitions. By identifying these mechanisms in an overall study of $J/\\psi(\\psi^\\prime)\\to VP$, we provide a coherent understanding of the so-called "$\\rho\\pi$ puzzle".
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Insights gained from aging research
The US NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research has implemented hardware-oriented engineering research programs to identify and resolve technical issues related to the aging of systems, structures, and components (SSCs) in operating nuclear power plants. This report provides a summary of those research results which have been compiled and published in NUREGS and related technical reports. The systems, components and structures that have been studied are organized by alphabetical order. The research results summary on the SSCs is followed by an assessment guide to emphasize inspection techniques which may be useful for detecting aging degradation in nuclear power plants. This report will be updated periodically to reflect new research results on these or other SSCs.
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Structural Insights into the Functional Role of the Hcn Sub-domain of the Receptor-Binding Domain of the Botulinum Neurotoxin Mosaic Serotype C/D
Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), the causative agent of the deadly neuroparalytic disease botulism, is the most poisonous protein known for humans. Produced by different strains of the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum, BoNT effects cellular intoxication via a multistep mechanism executed by the three modules of the activated protein. Endocytosis, the first step of cellular intoxication, is triggered by the ~50 kDa, heavy-chain receptor-binding module (HCR) that is specific for a ganglioside and a protein receptor on neuronal cell surfaces. This dual receptor recognition mechanism between BoNT and the host cell�s membrane is well documented and occurs via specific intermolecular interactions with the C-terminal sub-domain, Hcc, of BoNT-HCR. The N-terminal sub-domain of BoNT-HCR, Hcn, comprises ~50% of BoNT-HCR and adopts a B-sheet jelly roll fold. While suspected in assisting cell surface recognition, no unambiguous function for the Hcn sub-domain in BoNT has been indentified. To obtain insights into the potential function of the Hcn sub-domain in BoNT, the first crystal structure of a BoNT with an organic ligand bound to the Hcn sub-domain has been obtained. Here, we describe the crystal structure of BoNT/CD-HCR determined at 1.70 � resolution with a tetraethylene glycol (PG4) molecule bound in an hydrophobic cleft between B-strands in the B-sheet jelly fold roll of the Hcn sub-domain. The molecule is completely engulfed in the cleft, making numerous hydrophobic (Y932, S959, W966, and D1042) and hydrophilic (S935, W977, L979, N1013, and I1066) contacts with the protein�s side chain and backbone that may mimic in vivo interactions with the phospholipid membranes on neuronal cell surfaces. A sulfate ion was also observed bound to residues T1176, D1177, K1196, and R1243 in the Hcc sub-domain of BoNT/CD-HCR. In the crystal structure of a similar protein, BoNT/D-HCR, a sialic acid
Zhang, Yanfeng; Gardberg, Anna; Edwards, Tom E.; Sankaran, Banumathi; Robinson, Howard; Varnum, Susan M.; Buchko, Garry W.
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Query-Driven Visualization Accelerates Scientific Insight
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HEV Fleet Testing - 2000 Honda Insight Hybrid
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Ford Fusion Hybrid Electric Vehicle Accelerated Testing - May 2012 Two model year 2010 Ford Fusion hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) entered Accelerated testing during August 2009 in...
Mazda 3 Micro Hybrid Vehicle Accelerated Testing - December 2012 Two Mazda 3 European Micro Hybrid Vehicles (MHVs) entered accelerated testing during November 2010 in a fleet in...
Volkswagen Golf Micro Hybrid Vehicle Accelerated Testing - December 2012 Two Volkswagen Golf European Micro Hybrid Vehicle (MHVs) entered accelerated testing during October 2010 in...
Hybrid Electric Vehicle Accelerated Testing (Model Year 2004) - October 2007 Two (Model Year 2004) Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) entered accelerated testing in a...
Smart fortwo Micro Hybrid Vehicle Accelerated Testing - December 2012 Three Smart fortwo European Micro Hybrid Vehicles (MHVs) entered accelerated testing during October 2010 in a...
GLEANing Scientific Insights More Quickly | Argonne Leadership...
data movement between the compute, analysis, and storage resources of high-performance computing systems. This speeds the computer's ability to read and write data, also...
Genomic insights into the pathogenesis of Leptospira
Leptospira inadai" serovar lyme) isolated from human skin."fainei BUT6 T and L. inadai Lyme T as described previously (fainei BUT6 T and L. inadai Lyme T as well as L. interrogans
Ricaldi Camahuali, Jessica Nancy
Gen III Prius HEV Accelerated Testing - May 2012 Two model year 2010 Toyota Generation III Prius hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) entered Accelerated testing during July 2009 in a...
Insights From EPRI Maintenance Rule Projects
The new NRC Maintenance Rule poses numerous challenges and opportunities for utilities due to its risk- and performance-based approach. This report provides many examples of problems and their solutions in the implementation of this regulation at several nuclear power plants. A comprehensive treatment of the technical basis for three troublesome areas of the rule--risk significance measures, performance criteria, and the balance between reliability and availability--is also provided to increase utility c...
Comprehensible Knowledge Discovery: Gaining Insight from Data
uranium from South Africa. A total of 1500 tons were delivered. In 1980, the US refused to sell grain with the above two examples: #12;If an English speaking democracy that imports oil threatens a country in the Northern Hemisphere that has a strong economic health and exports weapons, then the sanction will fail
Pazzani, Michael J.
Rethinking hydrogen fueling insights from delivery modeling.
Over the past century gasoline fueling has evolved from being performed by a variety of informal, diverse methods to being performed through the use of a standardized, highly automated system that exploits the fuel's benefits and mitigates its hazards. Any effort to transition to another fuel with different properties--with both advantages and disadvantages--must make similar adjustments. This paper discusses the existing gasoline refueling infrastructure and its evolution. It then describes the hydrogen delivery scenario analysis model, an Excel-based tool that calculates the levelized cost of delivering hydrogen from a central production facility to a vehicle by the use of currently available technologies and a typical profile of vehicle use and fueling demand. The results are shown for a status quo, or gasoline-centric case, in which demand reflects the current gasoline-based system and supply responds accordingly, and a hydrogen-centric case, in which some of those patterns are altered. The paper highlights fueling requirements that are particularly problematic for hydrogen and concludes with a discussion of alternative fueling paradigms.
Mintz, M.; Elgowainy, A.; Gardiner, M.; Energy Systems; U. S. DOE
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence
May 2013. For Everything There Is a Season, and a Time for Every Purpose. ... It has been a thrill and a privilege to serve in this role for 18 years. ...
Farm to School Efforts: Innovations and Insights
Centerpiece for a Healthy School Environment. Re- trievedCFPA (n.d. ). ).REAL School Initia- tive. Retrieved from:more: Scaling up for farm to school programs. Community Food
Galarneau, Tim; Millward, Suzanne; Laird, Megan
Civic CNG Accelerated Testing - June 2013 Four model year 2013 Honda Civic compressed natural gas (CNGs) entered Accelerated testing during November 2012 in a fleet in Arizona....
Supercomputer Provides Molecular Insight into Cellulose (Fact...
cellulose, which is a fundamental step in biomass conversion technolo- gies for biofuels production. NREL used the new high-performance supercomputer Red Mesa to conduct...
Industry insight -Engineering In a nutshell
, energy, chemicals and more. Post-recession forecasts for engineering are good. The engineering, IT and telecommunications, construction, energy, utilities and water companies all expected their graduate recruitment; IT support; logistics; management and administration; sales. The following profiles are examples of key
Insights Gained from Testing Alternate Cell Designs
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has been researching the application of solid-oxide electrolysis cell for large-scale hydrogen production from steam over a temperature range of 800 to 900�C. The INL has been testing various solid oxide cell designs to characterize their electrolytic performance operating in the electrolysis mode for hydrogen production. Some results presented in this report were obtained from cells, initially developed by the Forschungszentrum J�lich and now manufactured by the French ceramics firm St. Gobain. These cells have an active area of 16 cm2 per cell. They were initially developed as fuel cells, but are being tested as electrolytic cells in the INL test stands. The electrolysis cells are electrode-supported, with ~10 �m thick yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolytes, ~1400 �m thick nickel-YSZ steam-hydrogen electrodes, and manganite (LSM) air-oxygen electrodes. The experiments were performed over a range of steam inlet mole fractions (0.1 to 0.6), gas flow rates, and current densities (0 to 0.6 A/cm2). Steam consumption rates associated with electrolysis were measured directly using inlet and outlet dewpoint instrumentation. On a molar basis, the steam consumption rate is equal to the hydrogen production rate. Cell performance was evaluated by performing DC potential sweeps at 800, 850, and 900�C. The voltage-current characteristics are presented, along with values of area-specific resistance as a function of current density. Long-term cell performance is also assessed to evaluate cell degradation. Details of the custom single-cell test apparatus developed for these experiments are also presented. NASA, in conjunction with the University of Toledo, has developed another fuel cell concept with the goals of reduced weight and high power density. The NASA cell is structurally symmetrical, with both electrodes supporting the thin electrolyte and containing micro-channels for gas diffusion. This configuration is called a bi-electrode supported cell or BSC. The electrodes are made by freeze-casting, a modified tape casting technique which creates the many micro-channels in the YSZ electrode green tape. This report presents results of the INL�s testing of this new solid oxide cell design as an electrolyzer. Gas composition, operating voltage, and other parameters were varied during testing. Results to date show the NASA cell to be a promising design for both high power-to-weight fuel cell and electrolyzer applications.
J. E. O'Brien; C. M. Stoots; J. S. Herring; G. K. Housley; M. S. Sohal; D. G. Milobar; Thomas Cable
Bioinformatic Insights from Metagenomics through Visualization
Cutting-edge biological and bioinformatics research seeks a systems perspective through the analysis of multiple types of high-throughput and other experimental data for the same sample. Systems-level analysis requires the integration and fusion of such ... Keywords: bioinformatics, visualization, metagenomics, categorical, nominal
Susan L. Havre; Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson; Anuj Shah; Christian Posse; Banu Gopalan; Fred J. Brockman
Volt EREV Accelerated Testing - June 2013 Four model year 2013 Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicles (EREVs) entered Accelerated testing during November 2012 in a fleet...
Chevrolet Volt EREV Accelerated Testing - June 2013 Two model year 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicles (EREVs) entered Accelerated testing during March 2011 in a...
HEV Fleet Testing - Honda Insight - Maintenance Sheet
35.96 672002 44,130 Four wheel brake service 177.78 8202002 53,249 Replace 12 volt accessory battery 70.00 11152002 58,228 60,000 mile service and replace 2 tires...
Sandia National Laboratories: Global Insight, Inc ...
Annual Report; Economic Impact; ... 2013. Month: DOL: Factor: December, '13: 2.1%: 2.0%: November, '13: 1.9%: 1.95%: ... 2012. Month: DOL: Factor: ...
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12262001 22,768 Replace front tires. Original equipment tires ordered by Discount Tire Company 141.59 1262002 27,426 Change oil 21.97 542002 32,853 Change oil 35.96 ...
Van Scoyoc Associates Insights on the
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weighted data Page 27 Source: University of Texas at Austin Energy Poll Energy Efficient Light Bulbs March 2013 Base: 2113. All results based on weighted data 48% 44% 0% 10% 20%...
Arizona. Each Leaf will be operated for 60,000 miles, at which point their traction batteries will be tested before they are retired (one battery is also tested when new)....
Each Malibu will be operated for 195,000 miles, at which point their traction batteries will be tested before they are retired (their traction batteries are also tested...
Each Sonata will be operated for 160,000 miles, at which point their traction batteries will be tested before they are retired (their traction batteries are also tested...
Arizona. Each CRZ will be operated for 160,000 miles, at which point their traction batteries will be tested before they are retired (their traction batteries are also tested...
Evaluation of the Genetic and Nutritional Control of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in a Novel Mouse Model on Chromosome 7: An Insight into Insulin Signaling and Glucose Homeostasis
Obesity is the main cause of type 2 diabetes, accounting for 90-95% of all diabetes cases in the US. Human obesity is a complex trait and can be studied using appropriate mouse models. A novel polygenic mouse model for studying the genetic and environmental contributions to and the physiological ramifications of obesity and related phenotypes is found in specific lines of mice bred and maintained at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Heterozygous mice with a maternally inherited copy of two radiation-induced deletions in the p region of mouse chromosome 7, p23DFioD and p30PUb, have significantly greater body fat and show hyperinsulinemia compared to the wild-type. A single gene, Atp10c, maps to this critical region and codes for a putative aminophospholipid translocase. Biochemical and molecular studies were initiated to gain insight into obesity and glucose homeostasis in these animals and to study the biological role of Atp10c in creating these phenotypes. Glucose and insulin tolerance tests were standardized for the heterozygous p23DFioD and control mice on a custom-made diet containing 20% protein, 70% carbohydrate, and 10% fat (kcal). Atp10c expression profiles were also generated using Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). Heterozygous p23DFioD animals showed insulin resistance after receiving a dose of either 0.375 or 0.75 U/kg Illetin R insulin. RT-PCR data also shows differences in Atp10c expression in the mutants versus control mice. Using these standardized biochemical assays, future studies will further the understanding of genetic and nutritional controls of glucose homeostasis and obesity in animal models and subsequently in human populations.
Nelson, S.; Dhar, M.
New Insights into the Crystal and Electronic Structures of Li[subscript 1+x]V[subscript 1?x]O[subscript 2] from Solid State NMR, Pair Distribution Function Analyses, and First Principles Calculations
Pair distribution function (PDF) analyses of synchrotron data obtained for the anode materials Li{sub 1+x}V{sub 1-x}O{sub 2} (0 {le} x {le} 0.1) have been performed to characterize the short to medium range structural ordering. The data show clear evidence for the magnetically-induced distortion of the V sublattice to form trimers, the distortion persisting at even the highest excess Li content considered of x = 0.1. At least three distinct local environments were observed for the stoichiometric material LiVO{sub 2} in {sup 6}Li nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the environments becoming progressively more disordered as the Li content increases. A two-dimensional Li-Li correlation NMR experiment (POST-C7) was used to identify the resonances corresponding to Li within the same layers. NMR spectra were acquired as a function of the state of charge, a distinct environment for Li in Li{sub 2}VO{sub 2} being observed. The results suggest that disorder within the Li layers (in addition to the presence of Li within the V layers as proposed by Armstrong et al. Nat. Mater.2011, 10, 223-229) may aid the insertion of Li into the Li{sub 1+x}V{sub 1-x}O{sub 2} phase. The previously little-studied Li{sub 2}VO{sub 2} phase was also investigated by hybrid density functional theory (DFT) calculations, providing insights into magnetic interactions, spin-lattice coupling, and Li hyperfine parameters.
Pourpoint, Fr�d�rique; Hua, Xiao; Middlemiss, Derek S.; Adamson, Paul; Wang, Da; Bruce, Peter G.; Grey, Clare P. (SBU); (Cambridge); (St Andrews)
Vol. 3, 2010-26 |September 24, 2010 | http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2010-26 Credit Money and Macroeconomic Instability
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Why has Greece not defaulted, yet? - A macroeconomic and historical institutionalist perspective on why Greece has not followed in Argentine footsteps and defaulted.
??This projects sets out to explore the reasons why Greece, in the light of the current sovereign debt crisis, has not done as Argentina did� (more)
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Do Motor-Vehicle Users in the US Pay Their Way?
change or the macroeconomic costs of oil disruptions. 2 1.3.the macroeconomic costs of oil disrup- tions. Incorporationof Persian-Gulf oil by MVs Annualized cost of the Strategic
Delucchi, Mark
New insights into strobe reactions: An intriguing oscillatory combustion phenomenon.
??Strobes are self-sustained oscillatory combustions that have various applications in the fireworks industry and also in the military area (signaling, missile decoys and crowd control).� (more)
Corbel, J.M.L.
Structural Insights into RNA Recognition by RIG-I
Intracellular RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs, including RIG-I, MDA-5, and LGP2) recognize viral RNAs as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and initiate an antiviral immune response. To understand the molecular basis of this process, we determined the crystal structure of RIG-I in complex with double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). The dsRNA is sheathed within a network of protein domains that include a conserved 'helicase' domain (regions HEL1 and HEL2), a specialized insertion domain (HEL2i), and a C-terminal regulatory domain (CTD). A V-shaped pincer connects HEL2 and the CTD by gripping an {alpha}-helical shaft that extends from HEL1. In this way, the pincer coordinates functions of all the domains and couples RNA binding with ATP hydrolysis. RIG-I falls within the Dicer-RIG-I clade of the superfamily 2 helicases, and this structure reveals complex interplay between motor domains, accessory mechanical domains, and RNA that has implications for understanding the nanomechanical function of this protein family and other ATPases more broadly.
Luo, Dahai; Ding, Steve C.; Vela, Adriana; Kohlway, Andrew; Lindenbach, Brett D.; Pyle, Anna Marie (Yale)
Tools protecting stakeholders against hackers and crackers: an insight review
The internet is considered as an effective tool that ensures communications globally. However, this has been hindered by hackers and crackers continuously. In doing so, a multitude of network-facilitated tools such as firewalls, virtual private networks ... Keywords: VPN, antivirus software, computer hacking, cracking, data matching, electronic security, firewalls, hackers, internet, network security, training, virtual private networks, vulnerability analysis
Hossein Jahankani; Branko Antonijevic; Terry H. Walcott
A New Insight into Plasticity of MAX-Phase Materials
Definite: A CD-only volume ... Solid Solutions (TiC1-xNx)nTiAl1-ySny (n = 1, 2, 3) � Synthesis, Crystal Growth and Characterization � Synthesis and�...
Strategies for aluminum recycling : insights from material system optimization
The dramatic increase in aluminum consumption over the past decades necessitates a societal effort to recycle and reuse these materials to promote true sustainability and energy savings in aluminum production. However, the ...
Li, Preston Pui-Chuen
Further insights into the "$\\rho\\pi$ puzzle"
Zhao, Qiang; Chang, Chao-Hsi
New insights on geomagnetic storms from observations and modeling
Understanding the response at Earth of the Sun's varying energy output and forecasting geomagnetic activity is of central interest to space science, since intense geomagnetic storms may cause severe damages on technological systems and affect communications. Episodes of southward (Bz Jordanova, Vania K [Los Alamos National Laboratory 2009-01-01T23:59:59.000Z
Jordanova, Vania K [Los Alamos National Laboratory
New insight on global QCD fits using Regge theory
In global QCD fits, one has to choose an initial parton distribution at Q{sup 2} = Q{sub 0}{sup 2}. I shall argue that the initial condition chosen in usual standard sets is inconsistent with analytic S-matrix theory. I shall show how one can combine these two approaches, leading to a Regge-compatible next-to-leading order global QCD fit. This allows one to extend the parametrisation in the low-Q2 region. Finally, I shall discuss how it it possible to use the Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) equation to obtain information on Regge models at high Q2.
Soyez, G. [CEA Saclay, Service de Physique Theorique, Orme des Merisiers Bat 774, F-91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette (France)
Molecular insights into the niche of harmful brown tides
Recurrent brown tide blooms caused by the harmful alga Alureococcus anophagefferens have decimated coastal ecosystems and shellfisheries along the Eastern U.S and South Africa. The exact mechanisms controlling bloom ...
Wurch, Louie L. (Louie Lorne)
Convective Mixing near the Tropical Tropopause: Insights from Seasonal Variations
It has been suggested that convection remains important in the budget of water vapor up to the tropical tropopause or even higher. But observed seasonal variations of CO2 and water vapor in the lower stratosphere, and their timing, call the ...
Steven C. Sherwood; Andrew E. Dessler
Insights into protein function from evolutionary and conformational dynamics
The volume of protein structure data has grown rapidly over the past 30 years, leaving a wake of facts that still require explanation. We endeavored to answer a few open questions on the structure-function relationship of ...
Bransford, Philip W
New imaging technique provides improved insight into controlling...
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Nanotwins in Nanocrystalline Mg Alloys: An Insight from High ...
Characterisation of Nano-scaled Precipitates in a Peak Aged Mg-8Gd-2Dy Alloy ... of Nanostructured AZ91D Magnesium Alloy Under Oil-Lubricated Conditions.
Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity: Honda Insight Fleet and Accelerated...
Fact sheets and maintenance logs for these vehicles give detailed information such as miles driven, fuel economy, operations and maintenance requirements, operating costs,...
POLICY INSIGHT No. 24 Can Central Banks Go Broke?
The Federal Reserve System has recently accepted exposure to a considerable amount of private sector credit risk, partly on its balance sheet, through the riskier collateral it now accepts at its discount window and in
Willem Buiter
Vertebrate Membrane Proteins: Structure, Function, and Insights from Biophysical Approaches
produce multiple products used in signaling such as inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate, diacylglycerol and cardiovascular diseases are proinflammatory products of arachidonic acid de- rived from oxidation by 5 bond (45 kcal/mol), but these minor fluctuations can lead to productive catalytic events (Vendruscolo
Palczewski, Krzysztof
Supercomputer Provides Molecular Insight into Cellulose (Fact Sheet)
Groundbreaking research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has used supercomputing simulations to calculate the work that enzymes must do to deconstruct cellulose, which is a fundamental step in biomass conversion technologies for biofuels production. NREL used the new high-performance supercomputer Red Mesa to conduct several million central processing unit (CPU) hours of simulation.
Understanding the response at Earth of the Sun's varying energy output and forecasting geomagnetic activity is of central interest to space science, since intense geomagnetic storms may cause severe damages on technological systems and affect communications. Episodes of southward (Bzgeomagnetic conditions are associated either with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and possess long and continuous negative IMF Bz excursions, or with high speed solar wind streams (HSS) whose geoeffectiveness is due to IMF Bz profiles fluctuating about zero with various amplitudes and duration. We show examples of ring current simulations during two geomagnetic storms representative of each interplanetary condition with our kinetic ring current atmosphere interactions model (RAM), and investigate the mechanisms responsible for trapping particles and for causing their loss. We find that periods of increased magnetospheric convection coinciding with enhancements of plasma sheet density are needed for strong ring current buildup. During the HSS-driven storm the convection potential is highly variable and causes small sporadic injections into the ring current. The long period of enhanced convection during the CME-driven storm causes a continuous ring current injection penetrating to lower L shells and stronger ring current buildup.
RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Strengthening insights into host responses to
) and the Department of Computer Sci- ence at UBC for their kind technical support. I am particularly grateful to Dave Brent, Michael Sanderson, Teresa Gomez-D´iaz, Chris Majewski, Eric Schost, and Pierre Lafon. I would
Synchrotron plus Mass Spectrometer equals New Insights Into Combustion...
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Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence January ...
... Slowing the annual growth rate of health care costs by 1.5 percentage points would increase GDP by over 2% in 2020 and nearly 8% in 2030.The ...
Mouse Work: New Insights on a Fundamental DNA Repair ...
... of chemistry that keeps living cells alive, a team of researchers from the University of Vermont (UVM), the University of Utah, Vanderbilt University ...
Field Operations Program - Honda Insight Hybrid Electric Vehicle...
both Urban and Freeway drive cycles, each conducted at four operating scenarios that mix minimum and maximum payloads with different auxiliary (e.g., lights, air conditioning)...
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... in a world of digital-information overload ... in an ever-changing and frequently uncertain market environment that ... in shipping, tariff, or energy costs, for ...
... I called the bank the day before the maturity date and asked that the money be transferred to my checking account on the next day. ...
... The Senate faces three challenges: lack of respect, the corrupting influence of money, and the disregard for fact. Kerry spoke ...
100 Hospitals CEO Insights: Adoption Rates of Select Baldrige ...
... of major shifts in technology, markets, healthcare services ... identify business opportunities, improve marketing efforts, and grow market share. ...
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... Increasing market penetration. ... Expanding your markets. ... This may be accomplished by developing a storefront presence or a Web marketing site, ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence March 2011
... They may be very successful in a stable market. ... leaders who are always zoomed out, always thinking about the future and possible future markets? ...
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... It is an energy-rich experience. ... Integration has meant that the components of organizational ... are being managed as an interconnected system. ...
Public Interest Litigation: Insights from Theory and Practice
For those seeking social impact through law, the challengeways that maximize social impact. 187. See generally Robertand their likely social impact. A deeper under- standing of
Cummings, Scott L; Rhode, Deborah L.
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence April 2011
... to a heightened level of understanding for me this year: the value of high ... was totally new this year (at least in my key take-home messages) was the ...
INSIGHT: a distributed monitoring system for tracking continuous queries
A distributed monitoring framework can serve as an important building block for constructing large-scale data aggregation and continuous event monitoring applications, such as IP traffic monitoring (DDoS attacks), network anomaly detection ...
Navendu Jain; Praveen Yalagandula; Mike Dahlin; Yin Zhang
The ICSI SSL Notary: Lesssons and Insights from a Large ...
... Top ciphers Google TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 ... Comodo: certificates for google, mozilla, live.com, login.yahoo.com www.google.com ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence September ...
... The second trigger was a story I read about Google's communications with employees, which included one-page updates/information sheets ...
Innovation pathways in technology intensive government organizations : insights from NASA
Despite a rich legacy of impressive technological accomplishments (e.g., project Apollo, the Hubble Space Telescope) in recent years, the ability of government space agencies to deliver on their promises has increasingly ...
Szajnfarber, Zoe
Building Energy Software Tools Directory: ecoInsight Energy Audit...
Tools by Country Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany India Ireland Israel Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand...
Local control stations: Human engineering issues and insights
The objective of this research project was to evaluate current human engineering at local control stations (LCSs) in nuclear power plants, and to identify good human engineering practices relevant to the design of these operator interfaces. General literature and reports of operating experience were reviewed to determine the extent and type of human engineering deficiencies at LCSs in nuclear power plants. In-plant assessments were made of human engineering at single-function as well as multifunction LCSs. Besides confirming the existence of human engineering deficiencies at LCSs, the in-plant assessments provided information about the human engineering upgrades that have been made at nuclear power plants. Upgrades were typically the result of any of three influences regulatory activity, broad industry initiatives such as INPO, and specific in-plant programs (e.g. activities related to training). It is concluded that the quality of LCSs is quite variable and might be improved if there were greater awareness of good practices and existing human engineering guidance relevant to these operator interfaces, which is available from a variety of sources. To make such human engineering guidance more readily accessible, guidelines were compiled from such sources and included in the report as an appendix.
Brown, W.S.; Higgins, J.C.; O`Hara, J.M. [Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence May 2012
... You need to have them on board because they will be partners in the generation and consumption of your innovations. ...
Insights on Ag and Cs Diffusion in SiC
CASL: The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors: A U.S. ... Strategies for Studying High Dose Irradiation Effects in Reactor Components.
On the Scientific Contributions and Insight of Professor Yale Mintz
Professor Yale Mintz's contributions in combining theory, diagnostic analysis, and modeling in scientific studies across a broad range of interests over more than four decades are reviewed. His studies include diagnostic analysis of the general ...
Donald R. Johnson; Akio Arakawa
Genomic insights into salt adaptation in a desert poplar
Despite the high economic and ecological importance of forests, our knowledge of the genomic evolution of trees under salt stress remains very limited. Here we report the genome sequence of the desert poplar, Populus euphratica, which exhibits high tolerance to sa lt stress. Its genome is very similar and collinear to that of the closely related mesophytic congener, P trichocarpa. However, we find that several gene families likely to be involved in tolerance to salt stress contain significantly more gene copies within the P euphratica lineage. Furthermore, genes showing evidence of positive selection are significantly enriched in functional categories related to salt stress. Some of these genes, and others within the same categories, are significantly upregulated under salt stress relative to their expression in another salt-sensitive poplar. Our results provide an important background for understanding tree adaptation to salt stress and facilitating the genetic improvement of cultivated poplars for saline soils.
Ma, Tao [Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences] [Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wang, Junyi [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Zhou, Gongke [Key laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Instit] [Key laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Instit; Yue, Zhen [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Hu, Quanjun [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Chen, Yan [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Liu, Bingbing [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Qiu, Qiang [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Wang, Zhuo [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Zhang, Jian [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Wang, Kun [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Jaing, Dechun [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Gou, Caiyun [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Yu, Lili [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Zhan, Dongliang [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Zhou, Ran [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Luo, Wenchun [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Ma, Hui [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Yang, Yongzhi [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Pan, Shengkai [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Fang, Dongming [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Luo, Yadan [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Wang, Xia [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Wang, Gaini [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Wang, Juan [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Wang, Qian [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Lu, Xu [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Chen, Zhe [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Liu, Jinchao [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Lu, Yao [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Yin, Ye [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Yang, Huanming [BGI-Shenzhen, China] [BGI-Shenzhen, China; Abbott, Richard [School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK] [School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK; Wu, Yuxia [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Wan, Dongshi [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University; Li, Jia [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University] [State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Lanzhou University
Exhumation Of The Peruvian Andes; Insights From Mineral Chronometers
display different source rocks, elevations and relief withinfor detrital sources, the metamorphic basement rocks of themagmatic arc rocks were primary sources for RM07-5, a
Michalak, Melanie
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence June/July ...
... According to a report from InSite Consulting released in June of this year, 80% of American companies use Facebook, 45% have Twitter accounts ...
... In her article, Leslie Gaines-Ross makes the point that anyone with a personal computer and access to blogs, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube can ...
Tongan Kinship Terminology: Insights from an Algebraic Analysis
terminology to atomic terms without gender or age attributesatomic and the compound terms, and their distribution according to the attributes gender and ageage (older and younger) as well as our distinction between an atomic
Bennardo, Giovanni; Read, Dwight W
Embedded Atom Method Insight into the Phase Stability of Alloys
Atomistic modeling of thermodynamic properties of Pu-Ga alloys based on the Invar ... Resources for the selection and use of interatomic potentials in atomistic �...
Anthropological Insights in the Delivery of Health Services in Nepal
. The impact of environment and genetic factors are further additive one which complicate the situation. Some of the studies done by some anthropologists also reveal that non-availability of safe drinking water, proper sanitation and hygiene coupled... micronutrients (such as iron, vitamin A, calcium and iodine) as well as the inadequate intake of calories and proteins remain important reasons for the lack of better health. Environmental factors are barriers in achieving better health, It is estimated that only...
Regmi, Rishikeshab Raj
New Tool Provides Insights into How Materials Transfer Heat
Posted on: 05/27/2013. Researchers from the University Toronto and Carnegie Mellon University recently investigated a new tool to measure the thermal and�...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence October 2011
... with cheese stuck in his nose; soon after this, the company's stock lost 10 ... Only when you take a step back and get the 30,000-foot-high view do you ...
??The lowering of rates for consumers and the continuing reliability of service were two of the major goals that the New York Public Service Commission� (more)
Videbaek, Steen
Voices of Experience: New Guide Offers Utilities' Insights on...
vendors, regulators, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders from across the electricity industry, utilities discussed their experiences with creating effective...
New Insight into Gridded Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion Devices
Alternate Concepts & Magnets / Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2)
G. L. Kulcinski et al.
Insights from reconstructing cellular networks in transcription, stress, and cancer
M. & Ghosh, S. Crosstalk in NF-kB signaling pathways. Natcomprehensive characterization of NF-kB family DNA binding.12 CHAPTER 1 NF-kB
Ke, Eugene Yunghung; Ke, Eugene Yunghung
Estuarine Boundary Layer Mixing Processes: Insights from Dye Experiments
A series of dye releases in the Hudson River estuary elucidated diapycnal mixing rates and temporal variability over tidal and fortnightly time scales. Dye was injected in the bottom boundary layer for each of four releases during different ...
Robert J. Chant; Wayne R. Geyer; Robert Houghton; Elias Hunter; James Lerczak
... How does your strategic planning process address ... (2) Strategy Considerations How do you ensure that strategic planning addresses the ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence October 2010
... A name�Juliet explains�does not change ... covering everything from leadership, strategic planning, and knowledge ... who we are and what we do. ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence May 2011
... that this kind of focused assessment does not allow ... Do a full self-assessment against all the ... Use the feedback in your strategic planning process. ...
Using Smart Meter Data to Develop Customer Insights
Smart meter deployment in the United States has grown steadily in recent years, and market penetration will continue to increase. Globally, smart meters are evolving into a huge market. This flood of smart meter deployments has introduced a new quantitya significantly large amount of meter data, which could possibly be the single largest volume of data collected and managed by utilities. The potential benefits are significant, but many utilities are assessing methods to manage the volume of data being co...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence November ...
... Will this partnership build capacity for all partners? Synergy. ... You need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view the PDF file. ...
Strategic Insights on Security, Quality, Reliability, and Availability
This report provides security criteria and performance metrics for assessing the electric power system. It is part of a larger project on the strategy for managing security, quality, reliability, and availability (SQRA) performance of electric power systems. The main focus of this update is measurement of the security component. It also addresses emerging North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) operating and planning standards and their roles in managing SQRA performance. This report is intend...
Molecular Cell Mechanistic Insight into Site-Restricted
; . . . ; sng). Additional notation is introduced as needed. 3. Repelling inequalities and limiting properties
Babu, M. Madan
Can we trust the transgenic mouse? insights from computer simulations
Over the past several decades, the mouse has gained prominence in the cardiac electrophysiology literature as the animal model of choice. Using computer models of the mouse and human ECG, this paper is a step toward understanding when themouse succeeds ...
Joseph Tranquillo; Adhira Sunkara
... Atmospheric ethanol has been receiving increased attention due to its use as a biofuel or fuel additive and because of the alcohol's potential impact ...
Estimation of Persistence Lengths of Semiflexible Polymers: Insight from Simulations
The persistence length of macromolecules is one of their basic characteristics, describing their intrinsic local stiffness. However, it is difficult to extract this length from physical properties of the polymers, different recipes may give answers that disagree with each other. Monte Carlo simulations are used to elucidate this problem, giving a comparative discussion of two lattice models, the self-avoiding walk model extended by a bond bending energy, and bottle-brush polymers described by the bond fluctuation model. The conditions are discussed under which a description of such macromolecules by Kratky-Porod worm-like chains holds, and the question to what extent the persistence length depends on external conditions (such as solvent quality) is considered. The scattering function of semiflexible polymers is discussed in detail, a comparison to various analytic treatments is given, and an outlook to experimental work is presented.
Hsiao-Ping Hsu; Wolfgang Paul; Kurt Binder
WNGSR provides insight into natural gas markets and the broader ...
EIA's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR) measures how much natural gas is available for withdrawal�working natural gas�in the Nation's underground storage ...
The Interpretation of XPS Spectra: Insights Into Materials Properties
We review basic and advanced concepts needed for the correct analysis of XPS features. We place these concepts on rigorous foundations and explore their physical and chemical meanings without stressing the derivation of the mathematical formulations, which can be found in the cited literature. The significance and value of combining theory and experiment is demonstrated by discussions of the physical and chemical origins of the main and satellite XPS features for a variety of molecular and condensed phase materials.
Bagus, Paul S.; Ilton, Eugene S.; Nelin, Constance J.
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence March 2012
... They convey positive energy. ... A few years after the program started, we added learning to our definition of performance excellence. ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence May 2013
... senior leadership commitment is to organizational sustainability, balancing short-term financial needs with longer-term investment for sustainability ...
Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists
suggests that a group�s SNS should have important effects onshift in the overall group SNS towards reduced interaction (SNT involves analyses of how SNS influences flow, e.g. , of
Sih, Andrew; Hanser, Sean F.; McHugh, Katherine A.
Continuous Opinion Dynamics: Insights through Interactive Markov Chains
We reformulate the agent-based opinion dynamics models of Weisbuch-Deffuant and Hegselmann-Krause as interactive Markov chains. So we switch the scope from a finite number of n agents to a finite number of n opinion classes. Thus, we will look at an infinite population distributed to opinion classes instead of agents with real number opinions. The interactive Markov chains show similar dynamical behavior as the agent-based models: stabilization and clustering. Our framework leads to a discrete bifurcation diagram for each model which gives a good view on the driving forces and the attractive states of the system. The analysis shows that the emergence of minor clusters in the Weisbuch-Deffuant model and of meta-stable states with very slow convergence to consensus in the Hegselmann Krause model are intrinsic to the dynamical behavior.
Lorenz, Jan
Cross-cultural insights into climate change skepticism
With an eye towards developing more effective climate change education, social scientists have attempted to diagnose the reasons for lingering public skepticism of anthropogenic climate change. But rarely is the question addressed with the benefit of ...
Peter Rudiak-Gould
Wet oxidation of stainless steels: New insights into hydrogen ingress
detrimental effect. However, the complexities of tracking hydrogen in these materials have prevented the direct profiling of hydrogen ingress needed to understand these phenomena. Here we report hydrogen profiles in industrially-relevant alumina- and chromia-forming steels correlated with the local oxidemetal nano/microstructure by use of SIMS D2O tracer studies and experimental protocols to optimize D retention. The D profiles unexpectedly varied markedly among the alloys examined, which indicates mechanistic complexity but also the potential to mitigate detrimental water vapor effects by manipulation of alloy chemistry.
Brady, Michael P [ORNL; Fayek, Mostafa [University of Manitoba, Canada; Keiser, James R [ORNL; Meyer III, Harry M [ORNL; More, Karren Leslie [ORNL; Anovitz, Lawrence {Larry} M [ORNL; Wesolowski, David J [ORNL; Cole, David R [ORNL
Bir Umm Fawakhir: Insights into Ancient Egyptian Mining
In particular, no written evidence has yet been recovered from the site aside from the dipinti, which are dockets painted in red on the shoulders of wine jars.
Tritiated Amorphous Silicon: Insights into the Staebler-Wronski Mechanism
Hydrogen, though essential for device-quality amorphous silicon, likely contributes to the light-induced degradation process (Staebler-Wronski effect) that reduces the solar cell efficiency by about 4 absolute percent. We are testing the role of hydrogen by using its isotope tritium. When tritium bonded to Si spontaneously decays into inert helium-3, it should leave behind the Si dangling bond defect. We have studied degradation due to tritium and note its resemblance to the Staebler-Wronski effect. Surprisingly, 100x fewer defects are created than expected from the tritium decay rate, suggesting a mechanism that heals most of the defects, even at temperatures down to 4 K. We consider different mechanisms for the thermal and athermal healing processes (e.g. motion of hydrogen, effect of beta-electrons, decay of hydrogen-tritium molecules). Our findings shed new light on the degradation mechanism in a Si:H and help reveal the role of hydrogen and structural rearrangements near a newly created defect.
Stradins, P.; Branz, H. M.; Whitaker, J.; Viner, J.; Taylor, P. C.; Johnson, E.; Kherani, N.; Zukotynski, S.
Arica Elbow (18 S). ???? McLaughlin, D.H. , 1924. Geologyv. 99, p. 13941-13956. McLaughlin, D.H. ,1984. Geology andSoc. 168, 1079�1092. McLaughlin, D.H. ,1984. Geology and
Technology Insights and Perspectives for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Concepts
The following report provides a rich resource of information for exploring fuel cycle characteristics. The most noteworthy trends can be traced back to the utilization efficiency of natural uranium resources. By definition, complete uranium utilization occurs only when all of the natural uranium resource can be introduced into the nuclear reactor long enough for all of it to undergo fission. Achieving near complete uranium utilization requires technologies that can achieve full recycle or at least nearly full recycle of the initial natural uranium consumed from the Earth. Greater than 99% of all natural uranium is fertile, and thus is not conducive to fission. This fact requires the fuel cycle to convert large quantities of non-fissile material into fissile transuranics. Step increases in waste benefits are closely related to the step increase in uranium utilization going from non-breeding fuel cycles to breeding fuel cycles. The amount of mass requiring a disposal path is tightly coupled to the quantity of actinides in the waste stream. Complete uranium utilization by definition means that zero (practically, near zero) actinide mass is present in the waste stream. Therefore, fuel cycles with complete (uranium and transuranic) recycle discharge predominately fission products with some actinide process losses. Fuel cycles without complete recycle discharge a much more massive waste stream because only a fraction of the initial actinide mass is burned prior to disposal. In a nuclear growth scenario, the relevant acceptable frequency for core damage events in nuclear reactors is inversely proportional to the number of reactors deployed in a fuel cycle. For ten times the reactors in a fleet, it should be expected that the fleet-average core damage frequency be decreased by a factor of ten. The relevant proliferation resistance of a fuel cycle system is enhanced with: decreasing reliance on domestic fuel cycle services, decreasing adaptability for technology misuse, enablement of material accountability, and decreasing material attractiveness.
S. Bays; S. Piet; N. Soelberg; M. Lineberry; B. Dixon
Converting Methane to Methanol: Structural Insight into the Reaction...
Biology, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA. Methane-oxidizing bacteria (methanotrophs) are extremely attractive from a chemist's...
Insight into Cluster Strengthening in a Nb-Microalloyed High ...
Contributions of Atom Probe Tomography to the Understanding of Steels � Control of p-n ... Relationships in a Series of Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni-Al High Entropy Alloys.
... Cost and variety will drive the need for ... and availability and at the same time to support ... and reduce the waste and energy consumption associated ...
long-term Collaborators: Y. Ageon (Insight Finance, France)
;36 SYNCHRONISATION AND COLLECTIVE EFFECTS IN EXTENDED STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS Fireflies Miltenberger et al. (1993) #12
employee productivity, communicate the value of energy efficiency upgrades, and increase sales. Computer Platform Web-based solution works with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence July 2010
... enough to have a list of values and an ethics policy; you must ... We need to spend more energy on celebrating successes, even interim milestones, to ...
Insight into Clustering in Poly(ethylene oxide) Solutions
... Introduction Poly(ethylene oxide) is one of the most ... other systems such as polyelectrolyte solutions, clay dispersions, living ... J. Colloid Interface Sci. ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence March 2013
... phase may be network performance measurement ... providing any discriminating power between normal ... consequences, such as loss of employee or ...
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence August 2012
... strategic decisions. Will you use contract research, or will you do research in-house for your next-generation product? Will ...
Behavioral impulsivity and hallucinations : insights from Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age-related degenerative disease of the brain, characterized by motor, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. Neurologists and neuroscientists now understand that several symptoms of the disease, ...
Ashourian, Paymon
Insights into PEMFC Performance Degradation from HCl in Air
The performance degradation of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is studied in the presence of HCl in the air stream. The cathode employing carbon-supported platinum nanoparticles (Pt/C) was exposed to 4 ppm HCl in air while the cell voltage was held at 0.6 V. The HCl poisoning results in generation of chloride and chloroplatinate ions on the surface of Pt/C catalyst as determined by a combination of electrochemical tests and ex-situ chlorine K-edge X-Ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. The chloride ions inhibit the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and likely affect the wetting properties of diffusion media/catalyst layer, while the chloroplatinate ions are responsible for enhanced platinum particle growth most likely due to platinum dissolution-redeposition. The chloride ions can cause corrosion of the Pt nanoparticles in the presence of aqueous HCl in air even if no potential is applied. Although the majority of chloride ions are desorbed from the Pt surface by hydrogen treatment of the cathode, they partially remain in the system and re-adsorb on platinum at cell voltages of 0.5-0.9 V. Chloride ions are removed from the system and fuel cell performance at 0.5-0.7 V is restored by multiple exposures to low potentials.
O Baturina; A Epshteyn; P Northrup; K Swider-Lyons
'Insights of the Decade' Enabled by NERSC - NERSC Center News...
in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Computational Research Division (CRD). In their...
Wastewater treatment: New insight provided by interactive multiobjective optimization
In this paper, we describe a new interactive tool developed for wastewater treatment plant design. The tool is aimed at supporting the designer in designing new wastewater treatment plants as well as optimizing the performance of already available plants. ... Keywords: Decision support, IND-NIMBUS, Interactive methods, Multicriteria optimization, Simulation-based optimization, Wastewater treatment planning
Jussi Hakanen; Kaisa Miettinen; Kristian Sahlstedt
Observing the Gal�pagos�EUC Interaction: Insights and Challenges
Although sustained observations yield a description of the mean equatorial current system from the western Pacific to the eastern terminus of the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array, a comprehensive observational dataset suitable for describing ...
Kristopher B. Karnauskas; Raghu Murtugudde; Antonio J. Busalacchi
New Insights into Particle Detection with Superheated Liquids
We report new results obtained in calibrations of superheated liquid droplet detectors used in dark matter searches with different radiation sources (n,$\\alpha$,$\\gamma$). In particular, detectors were spiked with alpha-emitters located inside and outside the droplets. It is shown that the responses are different, depending on whether alpha particles or recoil nuclei create the signals. The energy thresholds for $\\alpha$-emitters are compared with test beam measurements using mono-energetic neutrons, as well as with theoretical predictions. Finally a model is presented which describes how the observed intensities of particle induced acoustic signals can be related to the dynamics of bubble growth in superheated liquids. An improved understanding of the bubble dynamics is an important first step in obtaining better discrimination between particle types interacting in detectors of this kind.
S. Archambault; F. Aubin; M. Auger; M. Beleshi; E. Behnke; J. Behnke; B. Beltran; K. Clark; X. Dai; A. Davour; F. Debris. J. Farine; M. -H. Genest; G. Giroux; R. Gornea; R. Faust; H. Hinnefeld; A. Kamaha; C. B. Krauss; M. Lafreni�re; M. Laurin; I. Lawson; C. Leroy; C. L�vy; L. Lessard; I. Levine; J. -P. Martin; S. Kumaratunga; R. MacDonald; R. Nadeau; A. Noble; M. -C. Piro; S. Pospisil; N. Starinski; I. Stekl; N. Vander Werf; U. Wichoski; V. Zacek
HEV Fleet testing maintenance sheet for Honda insight hybrid...
Hybrid VIN JHMZE14701T002688 Date Mileage Description Cost 272002 7,473 Changed oil, rotated tires 27.00 4122002 14,946 Changed oil, rotated tires 27.00 4172002...
HEV America - 2001 Honda Insight Hybrid Electric Vehicle
t H y b r i d E l e c t r i c V e h i c l e HEVAMERICA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ADVANCED VEHICLE TESTING ACTIVITY PERFORMANCE STATISTICS Acceleration 0-50 mph At 100% SOC: 11.3...
New Insights into Solar Wind Physics from SOHO
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was launched in December 1995 with a suite of instruments designed to answer long-standing questions about the Sun's internal structure, its extensive outer atmosphere, and the solar wind. This paper reviews the new understanding of the physical processes responsible for the solar wind that have come from the past 8 years of SOHO observations, analysis, and theoretical work. For example, the UVCS instrument on SOHO has revealed the acceleration region of the fast solar wind to be far from simple thermal equilibrium. Evidence for preferential acceleration of ions, 100 million K ion temperatures, and marked departures from Maxwellian velocity distributions all point to specific types of collisionless heating processes. The slow solar wind, typically associated with bright helmet streamers, has been found to share some of the nonthermal characteristics of the fast wind. Abundance measurements from spectroscopy and visible-light coronagraphic movies from LASCO have led to a better census of the plasma components making up the slow wind. The origins of the solar wind in the photosphere and chromosphere have been better elucidated with disk spectroscopy from the SUMER and CDS instruments. Finally, the impact of the solar wind on spacecraft systems, ground-based technology, and astronauts has been greatly aided by having continuous solar observations at the Earth-Sun L1 point, and SOHO has set a strong precedent for future studies of space weather.
Steven R. Cranmer
Pioneering work, economic factors provide insights into Russian drilling technology
In Russia and America, individual ingenuity and economic forces have produced a variety of drilling technologies, resulting in the development of disparate drilling systems. Endeavors by the US Department of Energy, the Gas Research Institute, Sandia Laboratories, and private industry have promoted exchanges of knowledge since the 1980s, and now that the barriers to technology transfer are being lifted, engineers from both countries have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and incorporate the best of both. The Russian drilling industry, like the Russian space program, has achieved tremendous success in implementing product and process innovations including the first directional (1940s), horizontal (1950s), and multilateral (1950s) wells. In addition, Russian engineers built the first turbodrills, electrodrills, novel drills (lasers, explosives), aluminum drill pipe, downhole electric submersible pumps, and mud hammers. This first part of a two-part series describes the achievements of Russian engineers in horizontal and multilateral drilling technologies followed by a discussion of the economic differences that led Russian and American drillers to develop dissimilar drilling systems. The second part describes a variety of innovative Russian technologies and provides details on the technical advantages they offer for the drilling process.
Gaddy, D.E.
Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence April 2012
... with multiple hospitals and many additional service offerings (Henry Ford Health System), a customer-owned health cooperative serving many ...
Computing Enables New Insights into Generating Power Like the...
powers stars like our Sun, the world could have an inexhaustible energy source. In theory, scientists could produce a steady stream of fusion energy on Earth by heating up two...
Insights and Early Results from the Pecan Street Consortium's...
members of its University of Texas-based consortium have conducted nationally significant smart grid field trials focused on consumer products. Through these field trials, the...
Michael Cheung, MD Clopidogrel with or without Omeprazle in Coronary Artery Disease
with stent placement. Primary GI endpoint was first occurrence of upper GI bleeding, occult GI bleed, hgb and occult) was statistically reduced with ompprazole compared to placebo. Cardiovascular endpoints
Content-Based Video Copy Detection: PRISMA at TRECVID ...
... ?(Gi,Gj) = w1 � ?1(Gi,Gj) + w2 � ?2(Gi,Gj) We defined ? as L1 (Manhattan) distance for EHD, GH and CH vectors: L1(x, y) = d ? i=0 |xi ? yi| ...
Sector trends and driving forces of global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions: focus in industry and buildings
Disaggregation of sectoral energy use and greenhouse gas emissions trends reveals striking differences between sectors and regions of the world. Understanding key driving forces in the energy end-use sectors provides insights for development of projections of future greenhouse gas emissions. This report examines global and regional historical trends in energy use and carbon emissions in the industrial, buildings, transport, and agriculture sectors, with a more detailed focus on industry and buildings. Activity and economic drivers as well as trends in energy and carbon intensity are evaluated. The authors show that macro-economic indicators, such as GDP, are insufficient for comprehending trends and driving forces at the sectoral level. These indicators need to be supplemented with sector-specific information for a more complete understanding of future energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Price, Lynn; Worrell, Ernst; Khrushch, Marta
Annual Energy Outlook 2013 - Energy Information Administration
Other Emissions Prices Macroeconomic International Efficiency Publication Chapter Market Trends Issues in Focus Legislation & Regulations Comparison Appendices Annual Energy...
The Fifth Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference: Intellect, Initiatives, Insight, and Innovations: Intellect, Initiatives, Insight, and Innovations
We're honored to welcome you to the fifth Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, and our first event in the Pacific Northwest. Your involvement is critical to the success of the conference, and we encourage you to attend the ...
Nina Berry
who _______ negative colonoscopy 1st degree relative ______ Occult GI bleeding with ______ Abnormal, x-ray or CT ______ Occult GI bleeding (attach report) ______ Hematochezia ______ Nausea and
Viola, Ronald
Calnuc plays a role in dynamic distribution of G alpha i but not G beta subunits and modulates ACTH secretion in AtT-20 neuroendocrine secretory cells.
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Lin, Ping; Fischer, Thierry; Lavoie, Christine; Huang, Haining; Farquhar, Marilyn
ImSET 3.1: Impact of Sector Energy Technologies Model Description and User's Guide
This 3.1 version of the Impact of Sector Energy Technologies (ImSET) model represents the next generation of the previously-built ImSET model (ImSET 2.0) that was developed in 2005 to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of energy-efficient technology in buildings. In particular, a special-purpose version of the Benchmark National Input-Output (I-O) model was designed specifically to estimate the national employment and income effects of the deployment of Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)�developed energy-saving technologies. In comparison with the previous versions of the model, this version features the use of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis 2002 national input-output table and the central processing code has been moved from the FORTRAN legacy operating environment to a modern C++ code. ImSET is also easier to use than extant macroeconomic simulation models and incorporates information developed by each of the EERE offices as part of the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act. While it does not include the ability to model certain dynamic features of markets for labor and other factors of production featured in the more complex models, for most purposes these excluded features are not critical. The analysis is credible as long as the assumption is made that relative prices in the economy would not be substantially affected by energy efficiency investments. In most cases, the expected scale of these investments is small enough that neither labor markets nor production cost relationships should seriously affect national prices as the investments are made. The exact timing of impacts on gross product, employment, and national wage income from energy efficiency investments is not well-enough understood that much special insight can be gained from the additional dynamic sophistication of a macroeconomic simulation model. Thus, we believe that this version of ImSET is a cost-effective solution to estimating the economic impacts of the development of energy-efficient technologies.
Scott, Michael J.; Livingston, Olga V.; Balducci, Patrick J.; Roop, Joseph M.; Schultz, Robert W.
The Gut Microbiota: Ecology and Function
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is teeming with an extremely abundant and diverse microbial community. The members of this community have coevolved along with their hosts over millennia. Until recently, the gut ecosystem was viewed as black box with little knowledge of who or what was there or their specific functions. Over the past decade, however, this ecosystem has become one of fastest growing research areas of focus in microbial ecology and human and animal physiology. This increased interest is largely in response to studies tying microbes in the gut to important diseases afflicting modern society, including obesity, allergies, inflammatory bowel diseases, and diabetes. Although the importance of a resident community of microorganisms in health was first hypothesized by Pasteur over a century ago (Sears, 2005), the multiplicity of physiological changes induced by commensal bacteria has only recently been recognized (Hooper et al., 2001). The term 'ecological development' was recently coined to support the idea that development of the GI tract is a product of the genetics of the host and the host's interactions with resident microbes (Hooper, 2004). The search for new therapeutic targets and disease biomarkers has escalated the need to understand the identities and functions of the microorganisms inhabiting the gut. Recent studies have revealed new insights into the membership of the gut microbial community, interactions within that community, as well as mechanisms of interaction with the host. This chapter focuses on the microbial ecology of the gut, with an emphasis on information gleaned from recent molecular studies.
Willing, B.P.; Jansson, J.K.
Does "Paper Oil" Matter? Executive Summary
analysis establishes that, after controlling for macroeconomic and energy- market fundamentals, variations in the composition of the energy futures open interest help explain...
Financial distortions and the distribution of global volatility.
??In this thesis, I study the interactions between various aspects of the financial system and macroeconomic volatility in a globally integrated environment. In Chapter 1,� (more)
Eden, Maya Rachel
An econometric analysis of the real demand for money in South Africa : 1990-2007.
??A stable money demand function plays a vital role in the analysis of macroeconomics, especially in the planning and implementation of monetary policy. With the� (more)
Niyimbanira, Ferdinand.
Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2009
(EIEA2008), the biofuel provisions of the Food, ... and raw materials in each of 21 industries, subject to the delivered prices of energy and macroeconomic
The California Economy: The Long Term Outlook
1996. First, we cover the outlook for the main macroeconomicin the two economies. The outlook calls for moderate growthunderlies the macroeconomic outlook. Good jobs offer high
Kimbell, Larry J
NREL: Energy Analysis - Data Analysis and Visualization Staff
solar water-heating experience Primary research interests Macroeconomic energy-impact analysis Wind-power market modeling Transient power system modeling Building performance...
Oil Markets After the Hurricanes: Reversion to the Mean or ...
Oil Markets After the Hurricanes: Reversion to the Mean or Return to Recent Trend? Macroeconomic Advisers Quarterly Meeting December 2005 Oil Markets After the ...
An Updated Annual Energy Outlook 2009 Reference Case Reflecting Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Recent Changes in the Economic Outlook
This report updates the Reference Case presented in the Annual Energy Outlook 2009 based on recently enacted legislation and the changing macroeconomic environment.
Alan Beamon
SHORT-TERM - Energy Information Administration
Analysis and Forecasting Division (202/586-5382). Macroeconomic Forecast: Energy Product Prices: ... scenario, it is assumed that, after the first
Financial liberalisation in Sri Lanka: an econometric analysis.
??This study examines the impact of financial liberalisation on macroeconomic issues such as saving, investment, financial performance, financial sector widening, gross domestic product, and the� (more)
Paudel, Ramsh Chandra
Crime and Punishment with Habit Formation
of Macroeconomic Policies on Crime� Economics Bulletin, v.1,Public attitudes toward crime and the penal system. British4] Becker, G. (1968) �Crime and Punishment: An Economic
Kuhl Teles, Vladimir; Andrade, Joaquim Pinto
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells - Refining the Message Initiating a National Dialogue and Educational Agenda
D. , Tishchishyna, N. �Costs of Oil Dependence : A 2000from ORNL ii titled the �Cost of Oil Dependence�. David andneoclassical macroeconomics a cost of oil dependency to the
Eggert, Anthony; Kurani, Kenneth S; Turrentine, Tom; Ogden, Joan M; Sperling, Dan; Winston, Emily
Efficient Inverse Modeling of Barotropic Ocean Tides
A computationally efficient relocatable system for generalized inverse (GI) modeling of barotropic ocean tides is described. The GI penalty functional is minimized using a representer method, which requires repeated solution of the forward and ...
Gary D. Egbert; Svetlana Y. Erofeeva
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in Anisotropic MHD Turbulence AU: Ng, CNg, C EM: email@example.com AF: Geophysical Institute
Ng, Chung-Sang
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@gi.alaska.edu AF: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States AU: Ng, CNg
Gina Vald�s. Comiendo lumbre. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Maize Press, 1986. 62 pages.
Los Angeles GiNA Vald�s. Comiendo lumbre. ColoradoSprings, Colorado: Maize Press, 1986. 62 pages. The Gina
Sherno, Sylvia R.
Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook
Macroeconomic Macroeconomic Activity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 International Energy Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Household Expenditures Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Residential Demand Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Commercial Demand Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Industrial Demand Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Transportation Demand Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Electricity Market Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Oil and Gas Supply Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Petroleum Market Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Coal Market Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Renewable Fuels Module . . . . . . . . . . .
The Regional Incidence of a National Greenhouse Gas Emission Limit: Title VII of the American Clean Energy and Security Act
The Regional Incidence of a National Greenhouse Gas Emission Limit: Title VII of the American the macroeconomic costs of greenhouse gas emission reductions under Title VII of the American Clean Energy limits on domestic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This paper analyzes the macroeconomic costs
Wing, Ian Sue
Simultaneous activation of multiple memory systems during learning : insights from electrophysiology and modeling
Parallel cortico-basal ganglia loops are thought to give rise to a diverse set of limbic, associative and motor functions, but little is known about how these loops operate and how their neural activities evolve during ...
Thorn, Catherine A. (Catherine Ann), 1980-
Motivating Private Precaution with Public Programs: Insights from a Local Earthquake Mitigation Ordinance
relates to coordinating disaster response and relief effortstransition from a disaster response mode to recoverymore towards preparing for disaster response. It is thus no
Rabinovici, Sharyl Jean Marie
Dynamics of Transformation Insights from an Exploratory Review of Rice Farming in the Kpong Irrigation Project
policy solutions to sustainably end hunger and malnutrition and reduce poverty. The Institute conducts research, communicates results, optimizes partnerships, and builds capacity to ensure sustainable food production, promote healthy food systems, improve markets and trade, transform agriculture, build resilience, and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is considered in all of the Institute�s work. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world, including development implementers, public institutions, the private sector, and farmers � organizations, to ensure that local, national, regional, and global food policies are based on evidence. IFPRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium.
Hiroyuki Takeshima; Kipo Jimah; Shashidhara Kolavalli; Xinshen Diao; Rebecca Lee Funk
Structural Insights into Ion Selectivity and Calcium Blockage in Cyclic Nucleotide Gated Channels.
??Cyclic nucleotides-gated (CNG) channels play an essential role in the visual and olfactory sensory systems and are ubiquitously expressed in a variety of neuronal and� (more)
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The FASEB Journal Research Communication Structural insight into acute intermittent porphyria
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Structural Biology Center, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne of action of PBGD at the molecular level and could aid the development of potential drugs for the up, constipation, and tachycardia. Exposure to other precipitating factors, such as starvation, drugs, hormones
Zhijie, Liu
XPD Helicase Structures And Activities: Insights Into the Cancer And Aging Phenotypes From XPD Mutations
Mutations in XPD helicase, required for nucleotide excision repair (NER) as part of the transcription/repair complex TFIIH, cause three distinct phenotypes: cancer-prone xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), or aging disorders Cockayne syndrome (CS), and trichothiodystrophy (TTD). To clarify molecular differences underlying these diseases, we determined crystal structures of the XPD catalytic core from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and measured mutant enzyme activities. Substrate-binding grooves separate adjacent Rad51/RecA-like helicase domains (HD1, HD2) and an arch formed by 4FeS and Arch domains. XP mutations map along the HD1 ATP-binding edge and HD2 DNA-binding channel and impair helicase activity essential for NER. XP/CS mutations both impair helicase activity and likely affect HD2 functional movement. TTD mutants lose or retain helicase activity but map to sites in all four domains expected to cause framework defects impacting TFIIH integrity. These results provide a foundation for understanding disease consequences of mutations in XPD and related 4Fe-4S helicases including FancJ.
Fan, L.; Fuss, J.O.; Cheng, Q.J.; Arvai, A.S.; Hammel, M.; Roberts, V.A.; Cooper, P.K.; Tainer, J.A.
XPD Helicase Structures and Activities: Insights into the Cancer and Aging Phenotypes from XPD Mutations
protein BACH1 is a DNA helicase targeted by clinicallyby a superfamily-2 helicase. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 14,and Yang, W. (2006). UvrD helicase unwinds DNA one base pair
Fan, Li
Insights into the Architecture of the Replicative Helicase from the Structure of an Archaeal MCM Homolog
The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins, members of the AAA+ (ATPase associated with diverse cellular activities) superfamily, are believed to constitute the replicative helicase in eukaryotic and archaeal species. Here, we present the 1.9 {angstrom} resolution crystal structure of a monomeric MCM homolog from Methanopyrus kandleri, the first crystallographic structure of a full-length MCM. We also present an 18 {angstrom} cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of the hexameric MCM from Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus, and fit the atomic resolution crystal structure into the reconstruction in order to generate an atomic model for the oligomeric assembly. These structural data reveal a distinct active site topology consisting of a unique arrangement of critical determinants. The structures also provide a molecular framework for understanding the functional contributions of trans-acting elements that facilitate intersubunit crosstalk in response to DNA binding and ATP hydrolysis.
Bae, Brian; Chen, Yi-Hsing; Costa, Alessandro; Onesti, Silvia; Brunzelle, Joseph S.; Lin, Yuyen; Cann, Isaac K.O.; Nair, Satish K.; (UIUC); (NWU); (ICL)
Analysis of pluripotent mouse stem cell proteomes : insights into post- transcriptional regulation of pluripotency and differentiation
ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX24 D19Bwg1357e D19Bwg1357eof Probable ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX27 Nol10 NucleolarDdx18 ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX18 Nolc1 Plk1 Rrp12
O'Brien, Robert Norman
Tainer, John; Fan, Li; Fuss, Jill O.; Cheng, Quen J.; Arvai, Andrew S.; Hammel, Michal; Roberts, Victoria A.; Cooper, Priscilla K.; Tainer, John A.
A Korarchael Genome Reveals Insights into the Evolution of the Archaea
small subunit L ERCC4-like helicase L Rec8/ScpA/Scc1-likeDEAD/DEAH box helicase-like conserved hypothetical proteinbinding, OB-fold, tRNA/helicase-type aminotransferase, class
Elkins, James G.
Extracellular matrix control of mammary gland morphogenesis and tumorigenesis: insights from imaging
The extracellular matrix (ECM), once thought to solely provide physical support to a tissue, is a key component of a cell's microenvironment responsible for directing cell fate and maintaining tissue specificity. It stands to reason, then, that changes in the ECM itself or in how signals from the ECM are presented to or interpreted by cells can disrupt tissue organization; the latter is a necessary step for malignant progression. In this review, we elaborate on this concept using the mammary gland as an example. We describe how the ECM directs mammary gland formation and function, and discuss how a cell's inability to interpret these signals - whether as a result of genetic insults or physicochemical alterations in the ECM - disorganizes the gland and promotes malignancy. By restoring context and forcing cells to properly interpret these native signals, aberrant behavior can be quelled and organization re-established. Traditional imaging approaches have been a key complement to the standard biochemical, molecular, and cell biology approaches used in these studies. Utilizing imaging modalities with enhanced spatial resolution in live tissues may uncover additional means by which the ECM regulates tissue structure, on different length scales, through its pericellular organization (short-scale) and by biasing morphogenic and morphostatic gradients (long-scale).
Ghajar, Cyrus M; Bissell, Mina J
Turbulence Structure and Implications for Dispersion: Insights from Large-Eddy Simulations
We have presented two flows where detailed knowledge of the fluid mechanics would appear to be crucial for accurate dispersion modeling. We expect that Large-eddy simulations (LES) will complement traditional dispersion modeling by providing both the ability to discern between cases where traditional models work well and cases where more complicated characterizations are necessary, and a method to investigate potentially unique flow features and turbulence structure for specific flow problems.
Calhoun, R; Cederwall, R; Street, R
Understanding Hadley Cell Expansion versus Contraction: Insights from Simplified Models and Implications for Recent Observations
This study seeks a deeper understanding of the causes of Hadley Cell (HC) expansion, as projected under global warming, and HC contraction, as observed under El Ni�o. Using an idealized general circulation model, the authors show that a thermal ...
Neil F. Tandon; Edwin P. Gerber; Adam H. Sobel; Lorenzo M. Polvani
Chapter 3: Insights in the Hydrotreatment of Fast Pyrolysis Oil using a Ruthenium on Carbon Catalyst
pyrolysis oil and bio-liquids derived thereof. Fast pyrolysis oils can be obtained from biomass in yields up] Bridgwater, A.; Czernik, S.; Diebold, J.; Meier, D.; Oasmaa, A.; Peacocke, C,. Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass, I.A. Production of a Bio-Gasoline by Ugrading Biomass Flash Pyrolysis Liquids via Hydrogen
Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit
New insights on 3-D plates interaction near Taiwan from tomography and tectonic implications
the South China Sea prior to Pliocene. (5) The Southern Okinawa Trough rifted during the last 2 ^ 1 Ma
Demouchy, Sylvie
protein of unknown function DUF6, transmembrane hypotheticalprotein of unknown function DUF6, transmembrane Gene Nameprotein of unknown function DUF6, transmembrane hypothetical
Aircraft-Produced Ice Particles (APIPs): Additional Results and Further Insights
This paper presents new results from studies of aircraft-produced ice particles (APIPs) in supercooled fog and clouds. Nine aircraft, including a Beech King Air 200T cloud physics aircraft, a Piper Aztec, a Cessna 421-C, two North American T-28s, ...
William L. Woodley; Glenn Gordon; Thomas J. Henderson; Bernard Vonnegut; Daniel Rosenfeld; Andrew Detwiler
High pressure and temperature equations of state: A tool for insight into deep Earth systems
sector 16), Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne Nationalboth at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). This redundancy
Armentrout, Matthew Martin
Closer Look Reveals New Insights on Enzymatic Catalysts for H2 Production (Fact Sheet)
Researchers use spectroscopic tools to analyze H2 activation by [FeFe]-Hydrogenase HydA1 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
in the Songliao basin form a major part of the basin fill and are the important petroleum reservoir rocks volcanic rocks could be derived from metasomatized enriched MORB-like sources, but the Cretaceous rhyolites: geochemistry, Nd-Sr-Pb isotopes, Mesozoic, volcanic rock, Songliao basin plate in Mesozoic (e.g., Zhao et al
Svensen, Henrik
Forest fire management in Portugal : developing system insights through models of social and physical dynamics
Managing forest fires is a serious national problem in Portugal. Burned area has increased steadily over the past several decades, with particularly devastating years in 2003 and 2005. Ignitions also spike dramatically in ...
Collins, Ross D. (Ross Daniel)
and allows a deeper insight into structural rearrangements during the first isomerization step.
by Confined Acoustic Vibrations Tzu-Ming Liu, Hung-Pin Chen, Shih-Chia Yeh, Chih-Yu Wu, Chung-Hsiung Wang time of hydrogen bonding of water mol- ecules. If the surface to volume ratio of macromolecules is large, surrounding water molecules will overdamp the vibrations and smear the resonant absorp- tion
Oldenburg, Amy
2011 STEPS / NextSTEPS Symposium: Insights from STEPS & Introduction to NextSTEPS
, Mike Nicholas Dimensions of Sustainability: Mark Delucchi (GHG and Air Pollutant Emissions), Sonia Yeh Transitions in the Light Duty Sector: Joan Ogden Transportation Wedges (MARKAL): Sonia Yeh Panel Discussion (Land Use), Gouri Shankar Mishra (Water) Panel Discussion: Is there a clear winner for the near term
California at Davis, University of
Quasar Host Orientation and Polarization: Insights into the Type 1/Type 2 Dichotomy
We investigate correlations between the optical linear polarization position angle and the orientation of the host galaxy/extended emission of Type 1 and Type 2 Radio-Loud (RL) and Radio-Quiet (RQ) quasars. We have used high resolution Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data and deconvolution process to obtain a good determination of the host galaxy orientation. With these new measurements and a compilation of data from the literature, we find a significant correlation between the polarization position angle and the position angle of the major axis of the host galaxy/extended emission. The correlation appears different for Type 1 and Type 2 objects and depends on the redshift of the source. Interpretations in the framework of the unification model are discussed.
B. Borguet; D. Hutsem�kers; G. Letawe; Y. Letawe; P. Magain
Dynamics of obsidian ows inferred from microstructures: insights from microlite preferred orientations
orientations Jonathan Castro a;�? , Michael Manga b , Katharine Cashman c a Department of Geology, 52 W. Lorain and the type of flow across the surface. Microlite preferred orientations are used to investigate. Orientation distributions imply that radial spreading accompanied by flattening was the dominant mechanism
Manga, Michael
Water Vapor Variability Across Spatial Scales: Insights for Theory, Parameterization, and Model Assessment
flux is composed of solar radiation which is scattered outsunrise on Day 1, solar radiation warms the land surfacedecrease of incoming solar radiation and the efficiency with
Pressel, Kyle Gregory
Tomato-Potato Aphid Interactions: Insights into Plant Defense and the Aphid Pest
transcription factor genes in canola (Brassica napus L. ) inMangelsen et al. 2008) and canola (Brassica napus) (Yang ettranscription factor genes in canola (Brassica napus L. ) in
Atamian, Hagop Sarkis
A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea
detailed protocol. Genome Sequencing and Assembly. LibrarySupport for genome sequencing and assembly was provided byCell Preparation and Genome Sequencing. It was observed that
Insights into relationships among rodent lineages based on mitochondrial genome sequence data
This dissertation has two major sections. In Chapter II, complete mitochondrial (mt DNA) genome sequences were used to construct a hypothesis for affinities of most major lineages of rodents that arose quickly in the Eocene and were well established by the end of the Oligocene. Determining the relationships among extant members of such old lineages can be difficult. Two traditional schemes on subordinal classification of rodents have persisted for over a century, dividing rodents into either two or three suborders, with relationships among families or superfamilies remaining problematic. The mtDNA sequences for four new rodent taxa (Aplodontia, Cratogeomys, Erethizon, and Hystrix), along with previously published Euarchontoglires taxa, were analyzed under parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian criteria. Likelihood and Bayesian analyses of the protein-coding genes converged on a single topology that weakly supported rodent monophyly and was significantly better than the parsimony trees. Analysis of the tRNAs failed to recover a monophyletic Rodentia and did not reach convergence on a stationary distribution after fifty million generations. Most relationships hypothesized in the likelihood topology have support from previous data. Mt tRNAs have been largely ignored with respect to molecular evolution or phylogenetic utility. In Chapter III, the mt tRNAs from 141 mammals were used to refine secondary structure models and examine their molecular evolution. Both H- and L-encoded tRNAs are AT-rich with different %G and GC-skew and a difference in skew between H- and L-strand stems. Proportion of W-C pairs is higher in the H-strand and GU/UG pairs are higher in the L-strand, suggesting increased mismatch compensation in L-strand tRNAs. Among rodents, the number of variable stem base-pairs was nearly 75% of that observed across all mammals combined. Compensatory base changes were present only at divergences of 4% or greater. Neither loop reduction nor an accumulation of deleterious mutations, both suggestive of mutational meltdown (Muller's ratchet), was observed. Mutations associated with human pathologies are correlated only with the coding strand, with H-strand tRNAs being linked to substantially more of these mutations.
Frabotta, Laurence John
Masers and the Massive Star Formation Process: New Insights Through Infrared Observations
Our mid-infrared and near-infrared surveys over the last five years have helped to strengthen and clarify the relationships between water, methanol, and OH masers and the star formation process. Our surveys show that maser emission seems to be more closely associated with mid-infrared emission than cm radio continuum emission from UC HII regions. We find that masers of all molecular species surveyed trace a wide variety of phenomena and show a proclivity for linear distributions. The vast majority of these linear distributions can be explained by outflows or shocks, and in general do not appear to trace circumstellar disks as was previously thought. Some water and methanol masers that are not associated with radio continuum emission appear to trace infrared-bright hot cores, the earliest observable stage of massive stellar life before the onset of a UC HII region.
James M. De Buizer; James T. Radomski; Charles M. Telesco; Robert K. Pina
). Most recently, it has been hypothesized to be the spicules of a larger, armored bilaterian animal
Waggoner, Ben
Work in progress - using insights from non-engineers to help develop laboratory projects
A group from engineering programs at both four and two year colleges has been assembled to explore creating laboratory modules with an emphasis on activities and perspectives shown to be successful in technological literacy courses for nonengineering ... Keywords: engineering for all students, engineering for non-engineers, introduction to engineering, technological literacy
John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Scott VanderStoep
Capture barrier distributions: some insights and details Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (UMR 7178: CNRS/ULP),
to superheavy-element cre- ation by cold fusion, the concept of a distribution of ex- ternal Coulomb barriers nucleus (CN). This we refer to as "fusion". The CN will then cool by the emission of light parti- cles CN for- mation. Furthermore the CN itself may fission (fusion- fission; FF). Thus the experimental
Molecular insights on the solvent effect of methanol additive in glycine polymorph selection
In an effort to improve control and design in organic crystallization, the effect of solvent on polymorph selection has gained tremendous interest in recent years. In this thesis, molecular simulation techniques are used ...
Patala, Srikanth
the successful and cheap public-private partnership event ofor behavior in public or private institutions likeTotal Estimated Public Costs Private cost of completed
How learners use awareness cues about their peer's knowledge?: insights from synchronized eye-tracking data
In an empirical study, eye-gaze patterns of pairs of students were recorded and analyzed in a remote situation where they had to build a concept map collaboratively. They were provided (or not), with a knowledge awareness tool that provided learner A ...
Mirweis Sangin; Ga�lle Molinari; Marc-Antoine N�ssli; Pierre Dillenbourg
Dust-penetrated arm classes: insights from rising and falling rotation curves
Propulsion Labo- ratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space
Seigar, M S; Block, D L; Puerari, I; Chorney, N E; James, P A
Sensitivity of Arctic Climate Variability to Mean State: Insights from the Cretaceous
This study investigates Arctic climate variability during a period of extreme warmth using the CCSM3 coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. Four mid-Cretaceous simulations were completed with different CO2 levels (1x, 10x, and 16x pre-...
Christopher J. Poulsen; Jing Zhou
Genome sequence of the brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution
The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain. The sequence represents a high-quality 'draft' covering over 90 percent of the genome. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution. This first comprehensive analysis includes genes and proteins and their relation to human disease, repeated sequences, comparative genome-wide studies of mammalian orthologous chromosomal regions and rearrangement breakpoints, reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes and the events leading to existing species, rates of variation, and lineage-specific and lineage-independent evolutionary events such as expansion of gene families, orthology relations and protein evolution.
Gibbs, Richard A.; Weinstock, George M.; Metzker, Michael L.; Muzny, Donna M.; Sodergren, Erica J.; Scherer, Steven; Scott, Graham; Steffen, David; Worley, Kim C.; Burch, Paula E.; Okwuonu, Geoffrey; Hines, Sandra; Lewis, Lora; DeRamo, Christine; Delgado, Oliver; Dugan-Rocha, Shannon; Miner, George; Morgan, Margaret; Hawes, Alicia; Gill, Rachel; Holt, Robert A.; Adams, Mark D.; Amanatides, Peter G.; Baden-Tillson, Holly; Barnstead, Mary; Chin, Soo; Evans, Cheryl A.; Ferriera, Steven; Fosler, Carl; Glodek, Anna; Gu, Zhiping; Jennings, Don; Kraft, Cheryl L.; Nguyen, Trixie; Pfannkoch, Cynthia M.; Sitter, Cynthia; Sutton, Granger G.; Venter, J. Craig; Woodage, Trevor; Smith, Douglas; Lee, Hong-Maei; Gustafson, Erik; Cahill, Patrick; Kana, Arnold; Doucette-Stamm, Lynn; Weinstock, Keith; Fechtel, Kim; Weiss, Robert B.; Dunn, Diane M.; Green, Eric D.; Blakesley, Robert W.; Bouffard, Gerard G.; de Jong, Pieter J.; Osoegawa, Kazutoyo; Zhu, Baoli; Marra, Marco; Schein, Jacqueline; Bosdet, Ian; Fjell, Chris; Jones, Steven; Krzywinski, Martin; Mathewson, Carrie; Siddiqui, Asim; Wye, Natasja; McPherson, John; Zhao, Shaying; Fraser, Claire M.; Shetty, Jyoti; Shatsman, Sofiya; Geer, Keita; Chen, Yixin; Abramzon, Sofyia; Nierman, William C.; Havlak, Paul H.; Chen, Rui; Durbin, K. James; Egan, Amy; Ren, Yanru; Song, Xing-Zhi; Li, Bingshan; Liu, Yue; Qin, Xiang; Cawley, Simon; Cooney, A.J.; D'Souza, Lisa M.; Martin, Kirt; Wu, Jia Qian; Gonzalez-Garay, Manuel L.; Jackson, Andrew R.; Kalafus, Kenneth J.; McLeod, Michael P.; Milosavljevic, Aleksandar; Virk, Davinder; Volkov, Andrei; Wheeler, David A.; Zhang, Zhengdong; Bailey, Jeffrey A.; Eichler, Evan E.; Tuzun, Eray; Birney, Ewan; Mongin, Emmanuel; Ureta-Vidal, Abel; Woodwark, Cara; Zdobnov, Evgeny; Bork, Peer; Suyama, Mikita; Torrents, David; Alexandersson, Marina; Trask, Barbara J.; Young, Janet M.; et al.
Russia�s R&D for Low Energy Buildings: Insights for Cooperation with Russia
Russian buildings, Russian buildings sector energy consumption. Russian government has made R&D investment a priority again. The government and private sector both invest in a range of building energy technologies. In particular, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, district heating, building envelope, and lighting have active technology research projects and programs in Russia.
Schaaf, Rebecca E.; Evans, Meredydd
Molecular Chemistry to the Fore: New Insights into the Fascinating World of Photoactive Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals possess unique properties that are unmatched by other chromophores such as organic dyes or transition-metal complexes. These versatile building blocks have generated much scientific interest and found applications in bioimaging, tracking, lighting, lasing, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, thermoelectrics, and spintronics. Despite these advances, important challenges remain, notably how to produce semiconductor nanostructures with predetermined architecture, how to produce metastable semiconductor nanostructures that are hard to isolate by conventional syntheses, and how to control the degree of surface loading or valence per nanocrystal. Molecular chemists are very familiar with these issues and can use their expertise to help solve these challenges. In this Perspective, we present our group�s recent work on bottom-up molecular control of nanoscale composition and morphology, low-temperature photochemical routes to semiconductor heterostructures and metastable phases, solar-to-chemical energy conversion with semiconductor-based photocatalysts, and controlled surface modification of colloidal semiconductors that bypasses ligand exchange.
Vela-Becerra, Javier [Ames Laboratory
Circuit Breaker Component and Subsystem Performance Maintenance Insights for Pumps and Compressors
This technical update presents initial results of investigations of issues concerning transmission-class circuit breaker pump and compressor maintenance and possible improvements in materials and practices that could improve maintenance effectiveness.The life-cycle performance of a high-voltage circuit breaker is, to a large degree, determined by the performance of the materials and components that make up the complete breaker. The rates of deterioration of components such as compressors ...