Label monitoring on document streams

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Informatik, Diss., 2012

Development of a new isogeometric finite element and its application for Lamb wave based structural health monitoring

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Maschinenbau, Diss., 2012

Electron Beam Welding In-Process Control and Monitoring

This work presents the results of an investigation of processes in the melting zone during Electron Beam Welding(EBW) through analysis of the secondary current in the plasma.The studies show that the spectrum of the secondary emission signal during steel welding has a pronounced periodic component at a frequency of around 15–25 kHz. The signal contains quasi-periodic sharp peaks (impulses). These impulses have stochastically varying amplitude and follow each other inseries, at random intervals between series. The impulses have a considerable current (up to 0.5 A). It was established that during electron-beam welding with the focal spot scanning these impulses follow each other almost periodically. It was shown that the probability of occurrence of these high-frequency perturbation increases with the concentration of energy in the interaction zone. The paper also presents hypotheses for the mechanism of the formation of the high-frequency oscillations in the secondary current signal in the plasma.

Serotonergic modulation of action monitoring and cognitive control

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Naturwiss., Diss., 2015

Understanding and monitoring attitudes of product properties over time

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Informatik, Diss., 2015

Improved cardiac gating and patient monitoring in high field magnetic resonance imaging by means of electrocardiogram signal processing

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Diss., 2015

Diversidade de Syrphidae (Diptera) em cinco áreas com situações florísticas distintas no Parque Estadual Vila Velha em Ponta Grossa, Paraná

Um inventariamento dos sifídeos foi realizado em cinco áreas com situações florísticas diferentes dentro do Parque Estadual Vila Velha, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, sul do Brasil. As áreas foram classificadas como Borda, Araucária, estágio inicial de sucessão (Fase 1), estágio intermediário de sucessão (Fase 2) e estágio avançado de sucessão (Fase 3). As coletas foram semanais durante o período de Setembro/1999 a Agosto/2000 utilizando-se armadilha Malaise. Aproximadamente 300.000 dípteros foram capturados nas áreas (apresentadas em ordem de abundância): Araucária (n=74.331 indivíduos, 25% do total), Fase 1 (73.782; 25%), Fase 3 (59.339; 20%), Fase 2 (53.623; 18%) e borda (38.796; 13%). Um total de 1.345 indivíduos de Syrphidae, de 97 espécies, foram identificados. As maiores abundância e riqueza de espécies foram encontradas na Borda (n=684 espécimes em 54 espécies), seguida pela Fase 1 (250; 51), Araucária (162; 34), Fase 3 (146; 31) e Fase 2 (103; 27). A abundância de Syrphidae não se correlacionou à de Diptera em nenhuma área. Syrphidae foi mais abundante na Borda e Diptera na área de Araucária. Syrphinae (82% de todos os sirfídeos coletados), Microdontinae e Eristalinae foram registrados nas cinco áreas. Dos três estágios de sucessão vegetal, a subfamília Syrphinae foi mais representativa na Fase 1, ocorrendo de forma similar nas outras duas áreas. As maiores abundância e riqueza de espécies ocorreram nas áreas mais perturbadas antropicamente (Borda e Fase 1), enquanto que as menos perturbadas apresentaram menores abundância e riqueza (Fase 2 e Fase 3). A análise de agrupamento mostrou que as áreas em sucessão vegetal avançadas são mais similares e a de borda a mais diferenciada.

Seasonal abundance of the shipworm Neoteredo reynei (Bivalvia, Teredinidae) in mangrove driftwood from a northern Brazilian beach

Shipworms are important decomposers of wood, especially in mangrove forests where productivity is high. However, little emphasis has been given to the activity of shipworms in relation to the export of nutrients from mangroves to adjacent coastal areas. As a first step to obtaining such information, the frequency of colonized mangrove driftwood as well as shipworm density and length were studied by collecting washed up logs during a year at Ajuruteua beach, state of Pará, northern Brazil. A single species, Neoteredo reynei (Bartsch, 1920), was found colonizing driftwood. Although large colonized logs were most common on the beach, shipworm density was higher in small logs, especially during the dry season. In general, however, density was higher during the wet season (January to April) and lowest in July. Overall shipworm mean length was 9.66cm. In large logs, mean length increased between the wet and dry seasons. However, there was no difference in length among log size categories. Mean shipworm length was similar throughout most of the year but tended to be greater in July. Although salinity varied between 10.9 and 40 during the year, no relationship was found between salinity and density or length. The results suggest that shipworm activity in driftwood logs is relatively constant throughout the year. Increased air humidity and rainfall may promote survival during the wet season. Large logs may take longer to colonize and thus have lower densities than small ones which are scarce probably because they are destroyed rapidly by shipworm activity. However, data on the disintegration of logs would be necessary to test this hypothesis. Larger size of shipworms in the dry season may be related to growth after an earlier recruitment period. Shipworms in large logs during the dry season may be better protected from dessication and high temperatures by the insulating properties of the larger volume of wood.

Temporal variability of benthic macrofauna on Cassino beach, southernmost Brazil

The temporal variability of benthic macrofauna on Cassino beach, southernmost Brazil, was studied for a period of one year (June 2004 to May 2005) based on monthly sampling. Three sites were selected distant 50m from each other. At each site, 3 transects were established, 2m equidistant from one another. Each transect extended from the base of the primary dunes to the inner surf zone at approximately 1m in depth, with 7 or 8 sampling levels. Within transects, the distance between the levels was 20m until the upper swash zone, from which distance was 10m until the 1-meter isobath. The temporal variation in the abundance of benthic macrofauna observed in the present study can be attributed to (1) the positive effects of the recruitment peaks and migration of particular species to the swash zone and (2) negative effects of the migration of some species to deeper waters, as well (3) as mortality through natural causes (stranding and action of predators) and (4) human causes (harvesting and vehicle transit). We attribute the expressive abundance increase of benthic macrofauna to recruitment. The stranding, that is, the trapping of the organisms on the upper parts of the beach, is likely the main cause of abrupt drops in benthic macrofauna abundance.

Metabolic profiles of countries and ecological distribution conflicts.

"Social metabolism" is a notion that links up the natural sciences and the social sciences, and also human history. Work has been done by some groups in Europe in order to operationalize the old idea of looking at the economy from the point of view of "social metabolism". This paper is an attempt to consider the links between each society’s characteristic metabolic profile and the ecological distribution conflicts, at different scales (international, national, regional).

Static diffusion models of the upper atmosphere with empirical temperature profiles.

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Optimal technology policy: subsidies versus monitoring

We analyze the optimal technology policy to solve a free-riding problem between the members of a RJV. We assume that when intervening the Government suffers an additional adverse selection problem because it is not able to distinguish the value of the potential innovation. Although subsidies and monitoring may be equivalent policy tools to solve firms' free-riding problem, they imply different social losses if the Government is not able to perfectly distinguish the value of the potential innovation. The supremacy of monitoring tools over subsidies is proved to depend on which type of information the Government is able to obtain about firms' R&D performance.