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Energy consumption model of aerial urban logistic infrastructures
2021
In the last decade, logistic systems based on small aerial vehicles (drones) have become attractive for urban delivery operations as a sustainable alternative to ground vehicles because they are not affected by the congestion of the road network, thus allowing for faster and more reliable services. Aerial logistic systems, however, require a substantially different approach to operations management and need specifically designed supportive infrastructures. While the research on urban aerial delivery mostly focuses on the optimization vehicle operations, the appropriate design of supportive infrastructures is seldom considered. This paper focuses on the energy efficiency of aerial logistic s…
Pricing of Forwards and Options in a Multivariate Non-Gaussian Stochastic Volatility Model for Energy Markets
2013
In Benth and Vos (2013) we introduced a multivariate spot price model with stochastic volatility for energy markets which captures characteristic features, such as price spikes, mean reversion, stochastic volatility, and inverse leverage effect as well as dependencies between commodities. In this paper we derive the forward price dynamics based on our multivariate spot price model, providing a very flexible structure for the forward curves, including contango, backwardation, and hump shape. Moreover, a Fourier transform-based method to price options on the forward is described.
Chronology for the Cueva Victoria fossil site (SE Spain): Evidence for Early Pleistocene Afro-Iberian dispersals
2014
Cueva Victoria has provided remains of more than 90 species of fossil vertebrates, including a hominin phalanx, and the only specimens of the African cercopithecid Theropithecus oswaldi in Europe. To constrain the age of the vertebrate remains we used paleomagnetism, vertebrate biostratigraphy and (230)Th/U dating. Normal polarity was identified in the non-fossiliferous lowest and highest stratigraphic units (red clay and capping flowstones) while reverse polarity was found in the intermediate stratigraphic unit (fossiliferous breccia). A lower polarity change occurred during the deposition of the decalcification clay, when the cave was closed and karstification was active. A second polarit…
Culturomic and quantitative real‐time ‐ polymerase chain reaction analyses for early contamination of abutments with different surfaces: A randomized…
2021
Background Rough and/or plasma-activated abutments seem to be able to increase soft tissue adhesion and stability; however, limited evidence is available about bacterial contamination differences. Purpose The aim was to investigate the oral microbiota on four dental abutments with different surfaces by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and culturomic approach. Methods Forty patients needing a single implant rehabilitation were involved in the study. Forty healing abutments, especially designed for the study, were divided into four groups according to the surface topography (1. machined [MAC], 2. machined plasma of argon treated [plasmaMAC], 3. ultrathin threaded mic…
Influence of the evolutionary optimization parameters on the optimal topology
2016
Topological optimization can be considered as one of the most general types of structural optimization. Between all known topological optimization techniques, the Evolutionary Structural Optimization represents one of the most efficient and easy to implement approaches. Evolutionary topological optimization is based on a heuristic general principle which states that, by gradually removing portions of inefficient material from an assigned domain, the resulting structure will evolve towards an optimal configuration. Usually, the initial continuum domain is divided into finite elements that may or may not be removed according to the chosen efficiency criteria and other parameters like the spee…
Branch-and-Price-and-Cut for the Active-Passive Vehicle-Routing Problem
2018
This paper presents a branch-and-price-and-cut algorithm for the exact solution of the active-passive vehicle-routing problem (APVRP). The APVRP covers a range of logistics applications where pickup-and-delivery requests necessitate a joint operation of active vehicles (e.g., trucks) and passive vehicles (e.g., loading devices such as containers or swap bodies). The objective is to minimize a weighted sum of the total distance traveled, the total completion time of the routes, and the number of unserved requests. To this end, the problem supports a flexible coupling and decoupling of active and passive vehicles at customer locations. Accordingly, the operations of the vehicles have to be s…
Web 2.0 and the collective intelligence
2008
In this paper, I describe a new form of collective intelligence (CI) on the Internet. It is project-like self-organization of masses of ordinary people on the Internet. These crowds emerge, define the collective problem or task by themselves, solve it, and vanish as entities. I have coined this phenomena to netcrowd ('verkkovoima' in Finnish). I compare netcrowd to other forms of CI and suggest a typology for CI types.
Estudio, mendiante electroscopía electrónica de barrido, de 16 especies del género Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria: Hidrozoa)
2013
El género Oswaldella Stechow (1919) es el género de hidrozoos antárticos más diverso y uno de los géneros de invertebrados más abundante de los fondos oceánicos del sur de nuestro planeta. En este estudio se emplea la microscopía electrónica de barrido (MEB) para detallar numerosas características morfológicas de este género hasta ahora poco conocidas. En concreto, el número de nematotecas axilares, la forma de las nematotecas caulinares y de las hidrotecas adquieren un nuevo significado a través de este instrumento. En concreto, observamos que estas caracteríticas morfológicas parece variar mucho más de lo que en anteriores estudios con microscopía óptica se había observado. Se hace, ademá…
Caracterización proteómica de la interacción y la inserción de proteínas de membrana
2019
Las proteínas de membrana tienen funciones muy diversas en la célula, desde controlar el tráfico molecular hasta facilitar la transducción de señales. Sin embargo, el estudio de estas proteínas supone todo un reto por sus particulares características fisico-químicas. Su naturaleza hidrofóbica requiere un elevado control durante su síntesis. Uno de los pasos críticos en esta síntesis es la inserción en la bicapa lipídica. Generalmente, este proceso se produce a través de un mecanismo (co-traduccional) acoplado al proceso de traducción. Esta vía co-traduccional ha sido ampliamente estudiada y la maquinaria implicada en el proceso se conoce con bastante profundidad. Sin embargo, algunas proteí…
The Relationship Between the Stomatognathic System and Body Posture
2009
In recent years, many researchers have investigated the various factors that can influence body posture: mood states, anxiety, head and neck positions, oral functions (respiration, swallowing), oculomotor and visual systems, and the inner ear. Recent studies indicate a role for trigeminal afferents on body posture, but this has not yet been demonstrated conclusively. The present study aims to review the papers that have shown a relationship between the stomatognathic system and body posture. These studies suggest that tension in the stomatognathic system can contribute to impaired neural control of posture. Numerous anatomical connections between the stomatognathic system’s proprioceptive i…