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deaR-Shiny: An Interactive Web App for Data Envelopment Analysis
2021
In this paper, we describe an interactive web application (deaR-shiny) to measure efficiency and productivity using data envelopment analysis (DEA). deaR-shiny aims to fill the gap that currently exists in the availability of online DEA software offering practitioners and researchers free access to a very wide variety of DEA models (both conventional and fuzzy models). We illustrate how to use the web app by replicating the main results obtained by Carlucci, Cirà and Coccorese in 2018, who investigate the efficiency and economic sustainability of Italian regional airport by using two conventional DEA models, and the results given by Kao and Liu in their papers published in 2000 and 2003, wh…
Active Learning on Trust and Reciprocity for Undergraduates
2019
We propose a teaching activity aimed at promoting social values, such as trust and reciprocity, among undergraduate students in economics and related degrees. We present our pilot experience of what we call RED&ndash
BVLOS UAS Operations in Highly-Turbulent Volcanic Plumes.
2020
Long-range, high-altitude Unoccupied Aerial System (UAS) operations now enable in-situ measurements of volcanic gas chemistry at globally-significant active volcanoes. However, the extreme environments encountered within volcanic plumes present significant challenges for both air frame development and in-flight control. As part of a multi-disciplinary field deployment in May 2019, we flew fixed wing UAS Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) over Manam volcano, Papua New Guinea, to measure real-time gas concentrations within the volcanic plume. By integrating aerial gas measurements with ground- and satellite-based sensors, our aim was to collect data that would constrain the emission rate of …
Self in NARS, an AGI System
2018
This article describes and discusses the self-related mechanisms of a general-purpose intelligent system, NARS. This system is designed to be adaptive and to work with insufficient knowledge and resources. The system’s various cognitive functions are uniformly carried out by a central reasoning-learning process following a “non-axiomatic” logic. This logic captures the regularities of human empirical reasoning, where all beliefs are revisable according to evidence, and the meaning of concepts are grounded in the system’s experience. NARS perceives its internal environment basically in the same way as how it perceives its external environment although the sensors involved are completely diff…
Environmental geology and geochemistry of lake sediments (Holzmaar, Eifwl, Germany)
2008
Quaternary sediments of the lake Holzmaar comprise a well laminated, undisturbed sequence of diatomaceous gyttja, silt, clay laminites and tuff layers. The annually deposited gyttja has been dated by varve chronology yielding a continuous high-resolution time sequence for the Holocene and early Pleistocene. These organic-rich sediments provide an unique paleolimnological record on climatic changes, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, and anthropogenic influences on the sediment composition. Volcanic activity produced thin tephra layers (Laacher See Tephra 11,200±120 radiocarbon yrs BP; Ulmener Maar Tephra 9435±70 radiocarbon yrs BP) in the sedimentary column which possess elevated Ba, Sr, Zr,…
Reconstruction of the Holocene palaeoenvironmental conditions accordingly to the multiproxy sedimentary records from Lake Pilvelis, Latvia
2015
Abstract Reconstruction of the Holocene palaeoenvironment conditions in Southeastern Latvia is based on multiproxy records from Lake Pilvelis: pollen, plant macrofossil and microfossil analysis; loss-on-ignition (LOI) measurements; 14 C dating; humic substances content; humification index; and elemental composition of gyttja organic mass. The data complex obtained in the result of multiproxy studies of sediments in Lake Pilvelis indicates significant changes in the depositional environment during the lake development. Data from Lake Pilvelis show that the start of organic-rich sediments formation before approximately 9750 cal BP, when birch–pine forest dominated in the surrounding landscape…
Changes in Drop Out Intentions: Implications of the Motivational Climate, Goal Orientations and Aspects of Self-Worth across a Youth Sport Season
2021
The main objective of this work was to study the motivational antecedents of the intention to drop out of youth sport from the postulates of the achievement goal theory (AGT), placing special emphasis on the motivational climate that coaches create in their teams. Specifically, we analyzed whether changes in the perception of the motivational climate between the beginning and the end of the season predicted changes in players’ goal orientations, whether these, in turn, predicted changes in self-esteem and contingent self-esteem, and finally, whether the latter predicted the intention to drop out. Participants in the study were 552 players (Mage = 11.23, SD = 1.14), who completed the questio…
Migrating ship waste management from India to Finland : analysis of opportunities and risks in an industrial symbiosis of sustainable ship recycling
2015
Environmental protection and social wellbeing are significant segments of economic development. Market demand, legal directives, competitor existence and NGO interest together influence to manufacture in a cleaner and safer way and to abandon the traditional, often lethal working processes. Ship breaking is one of the most perilous industries where powerful states subordinate those countries where regulations can be bypassed for profit maximization. The unfavorable dependence arises from economic and technological arrears, and it results in environmental pollution, human rights violation and non-conformity with environmental, health and safety regulations. To improve environmental, health a…
Holocēna veģetācijas izmaiņu liecības organogēnajos nogulumos Ziemeļvidzemē
2013
„Holocēna organogēnie nogulumi un to uzkrāšanās apstākļu izmaiņas purvos Ziemeļvidzemē”. Disertācijā analizēti piecu Ziemeļvidzemes purvu nogulumu pētījumu rezultāti, kas iegūti, izmantojot lauka un laboratorijas pētījumu metodes - augu makroskopisko atlieku, sporu un putekšņu, citu mikroskopisko atlieku, kūdras sadalīšanās pakāpes un botāniskā sastāva, nogulumu karsēšanas zudumu analīzi, kā arī nosakot nogul umu absolūto vecumu ar 14 C un AMS 14 C metodēm. Pētītajos ezeru un purvu nogulumos Ziemeļvidzemē atpazītas liecības pa r būtiskām nogulumu uzkrāšanās apstākļu izmaiņām visā holocēna laikā, kas ietekmējušas nogulumu sastāvu un raksturu, tai skaitā noskaidrot a aukstā 8200 notikuma un M…
Bacterial-mediated terrestrial carbon in the foodweb of humic lakes
2007
Sami Taipale tarkasteli tutkimuksessaan metaanin merkitystä humusjärvien ravintoketjussa. Suurin osa Suomen järvistä lukeutuu humusjärviin, jotka ovat väriltään ruskehtavia. Koska metaani on 21 kertaa tehokkaampi kasvihuonekaasu kuin hiilidioksidi, on sen kohtalolla järvissä sekä järvien ravintoketjussa suuri merkitys ilmastonmuutoksen kannalta. - Metaania hapettavilla bakteereilla on merkittävä rooli humusjärvien ravintoketjussa, mutta myös globaalisti, sillä ne estävät suurelta osin voimakkaan kasvihuonekaasun, metaanin, pääsyn ilmakehään. Metaania hapettavien bakteerien merkitys korostunee tulevaisuudessa ilmaston lämmetessä, Taipale täsmentää. Uudet tutkimusmenetelmät, kuten vakaiden is…