Structural development of a battery test bed's management software for long-term measurements

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol Sanal ◽  
Tobias Gola ◽  
Philip Dost ◽  
Constantinos Sourkounis
Keyword(s):  
Structural Development ◽  
Management Software

Effects of agricultural management on dermosols in northern Tasmania

Soil Research ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Cotching ◽  
J. Cooper ◽  
L. A. Sparrow ◽  
B. E. McCorkell ◽  
W. Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Microbial Biomass Carbon ◽  
Aggregate Stability ◽  
Infiltration Rate ◽  
Penetration Resistance ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Laboratory Techniques ◽  
Carbon Concentrations

Attributes of 15 Tasmanian dermosols were assessed using field and laboratory techniques to determine changes associated with 3 typical forms of agricultural management: long-term pasture, cropping with shallow tillage using discs and tines, and cropping (including potatoes) with more rigorous and deeper tillage including deep ripping and powered implements. Soil organic carbon in the surface 75 mm was 7.0% under long-term pasture compared with 4.3% and 4.2% in cropped paddocks. Microbial biomass carbon concentrations were 217 mg/kg, 161 mg/kg, and 139 mg/kg, respectively. These differences were negatively correlated with the number of years cropped. Greater bulk densities were found in the surface layer of cropped paddocks but these were not associated with increased penetration resistance or decreased infiltration rate and are unlikely to impede root growth. Long-term pasture paddocks showed stronger structural development and had smaller clods than cropped paddocks. Vane shear strength and penetration resistance were lower in cropped paddocks than under long-term pasture. Many soil attributes showed no significant differences associated with management. Including potatoes in the rotation did not appear to affect these dermosols, which indicates a degree of robustness in these soils. clay loams, organic carbon, soil strength, aggregate stability, land management, cropping.

scholarly journals Can Selection Thinning Convert Even-Age Douglas-Fir Stands to Uneven-Age Structures?

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Miller ◽  
Bill Emmingham
Keyword(s):  
Douglas Fir ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Good Growth ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Growing Stock ◽  
Harvest Frequency ◽  
Reconstruction Methods ◽  
Understory Trees ◽  
Long Term Experience

Abstract Uneven-age management of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) stands can be used to address aesthetic, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and sustainability concerns, but there has been little long-term experience with this type of management. To develop timely information on converting even-age stands to uneven-age forests, we used retrospective stand reconstruction methods to document harvest frequency, intensity, and stand structural development at four sites in western Oregon. We studied stands managed by selection thinning and identified strategies for creating and managing uneven-age forests. Selection thinning benefited mid- and understory trees and stimulated natural regeneration. Although stand growth was less than expected from low thinning, growth per unit of growing stock was similar to that in unmanaged stands. Douglas-fir often dominated regeneration and had satisfactory vigor at stocking levels about half that considered full stocking for even-age management, but good growth of regeneration may require even lower overstory stocking. Shade-tolerant grand fir and western hemlock, however, were more abundant at higher stocking levels. Selection thinning of young Douglas-fir stands can sometimes be effective in promoting viable regeneration while providing regular income and biodiversity. Because this was a retrospective study only, further, long-term testing is necessary. West. J. Appl. For. 16(1):35–43.

scholarly journals Renewed talent management: more productive development teams with digitalization supported HR tools

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Antonis Vatousios ◽  
Ari Happonen
Keyword(s):  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Team Members ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
People Skills ◽  
Project Data ◽  
The Right

In most companies and organizations, performance is related to talent management and skills to analyze what and why people are working on. However, many companies do fail to implement a long-term strategy for the performance enhancement activities, considering the talents they have recruited. In this article, we propose a tool for HR work, in context of talent management and how to utilize people skills and productivity analytics to improve team performance and related KPIs. A project data-based case study is illustrated, in which a set of devel-oper and content marketers were analyzed as core team members. In practice, the presented framework makes an important contribution to decision-making activities, where people analytics and proper software tools are used to build new novel knowledge into talent pool of the team. With the framework-based analysis, it is possible to analytically compare team members’ performance and enhance the team’s skill and structural development which means that we can employ analytics to find best performers and set their roles for more optimally working teams. Our research supports the concept of using the right framework can make a big positive difference in team analytics.  

scholarly journals Role of long-term supplementation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 on laying hen bone 3-dimensional structural development

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
pp. 5771-5782
Author(s):  
C. Chen ◽  
B. Turner ◽  
T.J. Applegate ◽  
Gilberto Litta ◽  
W.K. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Laying Hen ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
3 Dimensional

Long-Term Morpho-Structural Development of Major Normal Fault Zones, Gran Sasso Area, Central Apennines (Italy)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Ortner ◽  
Diethard Sanders ◽  
Hannah Pomella
Keyword(s):  
Normal Fault ◽  
Fault Zones ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Central Apennines

scholarly journals Clove Oil Delays Rather Than Prevents Scur/Horn Growth in Dairy Cattle

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mhairi Sutherland ◽  
Alan Julian ◽  
Frances Huddart
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen ◽  
Dairy Calves ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Clove Oil ◽  
Horn Growth ◽  
Horn Development

The objective of this study was to evaluate if administration of clove oil prevents scur/horn growth in dairy cattle long term. At approximately 4 days of age, calves had one of four treatments assigned to each horn bud: (1) clove oil administered subcutaneously under the horn bud (CLOV, n = 132); (2) cautery disbudded and the horn bud removed (BUDOFF, n = 126); (3) cautery disbudded and the horn bud tissue left intact (BUDON, n = 129); (4) a liquid nitrogen filled probe applied to the horn bud area (CRYO, n = 131). At approximately 16 months of age, all cattle were checked for scur or horn development. A sub-set of scurs/horns from the CLOV cattle were removed to evaluate tissue and structural development. In total, 5% of CLOV buds developed into horns and 63% into scurs; 10% of the scurs looked like normally developed horns but they were not attached to the skull. Cautery disbudding prevented scur and horn development in cattle when the horn bud tissue was removed, but some scur growth was observed in the BUDON treatment. CRYO was 100% ineffective at preventing scur/horn growth. Injecting clove oil under the horn bud appeared to delay horn development, but not prevent it, when administered to 4 day old dairy calves.

scholarly journals Paleoseismic patterns of Quaternary tectonic and magmatic surface deformation in the eastern Basin and Range, USA

Geosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 435-455
Author(s):  
T.A. Stahl ◽  
N.A. Niemi ◽  
M.P. Bunds ◽  
J. Andreini ◽  
J.D. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Basin And Range ◽  
Normal Faults ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Quaternary Volcanism ◽  
Continental Extension ◽  
Exposure Dating ◽  
Late Pleistocene To Holocene ◽  
Sevier Desert

Abstract The competing contributions of tectonic and magmatic processes in accommodating continental extension are commonly obscured by a lack of on-fault paleoseismic information. This is especially true of the Sevier Desert, located at the eastern margin of the Basin and Range in central Utah (USA), where surface-rupturing faults are spatially associated with both regional detachment faults and Quaternary volcanism. Here, we use high-resolution topographic surveys (terrestrial lidar scans and real-time kinematic GPS), terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (10Be and 3He) exposure dating, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, and new neotectonic mapping to distinguish between modes of faulting and extension in a transect across the Sevier Desert. In the western Sevier Desert, the House Range and Cricket Mountains faults each have evidence of a single surface-rupturing earthquake in the last 20–30 k.y. and have time-integrated slip and extension rates of <0.1 and ∼0.05 mm yr−1, respectively, since ca. 15–30 ka. These rates are similar to near-negligible modern geodetic extension estimates. Despite relatively low geologic, paleoseismic, and modern extension rates, both faults show evidence of contributing to the long-term growth of topographic relief and the structural development of the region. In the eastern Sevier Desert, the intrabasin Tabernacle, Pavant, and Deseret fault systems show markedly different surface expressions and behavior from the range-bounding normal faults farther west. Pleistocene to Holocene extension rates on faults in the eastern Sevier Desert are >10× higher than those on their western counterparts. Faults here are co-located with Late Pleistocene to Holocene volcanic centers, have events temporally clustered around the timing of Pleistocene volcanism in at least one instance, and have accommodated extension ∼2×–10× above geodetic and long-term geologic rates. We propose a model whereby Pliocene to recent extension in the Sevier Desert is spatially partitioned into an eastern magma-assisted rifting domain, characterized by transient episodes of higher extension rates during volcanism, and a western tectonic-dominated domain, characterized by slower-paced faulting in the Cricket Mountains and House Range and more typical of the “Basin and Range style” that continues westward into Nevada. The Sevier Desert, with near-complete exposure and the opportunity to utilize a range of geophysical instrumentation, provides a globally significant laboratory for understanding the different modes of faulting in regions of continental extension.

Community-level functional interactions with fire track long-term structural development and fire adaptation

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Brussel ◽  
Thomas A. Minckley ◽  
Simon C. Brewer ◽  
Colin J. Long
Keyword(s):  
Community Level ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Functional Interactions ◽  
Fire Adaptation

scholarly journals Long-term effects of oil pollution in mangrove forests (Baixada Santista, Southeast Brazil) detected using a GIS-based multitemporal analysis of aerial photographs

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Cavalcanti Maia Santos ◽  
Marília Cunha-Lignon ◽  
Yara Schaeffer-Novelli ◽  
Gilberto Cintrón-Molero
Keyword(s):  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Residual Effects ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Mangrove Vegetation ◽  
Multitemporal Analysis

Oil spills are potential threats to the integrity of highly productive coastal wetlands, such as mangrove forests. In October 1983, a mangrove area of nearly 300 ha located on the southeastern coast of Brazil was impacted by a 3.5 million liter crude oil spill released by a broken pipeline. In order to assess the long-term effects of oil pollution on mangrove vegetation, we carried out a GIS-based multitemporal analysis of aerial photographs of the years 1962, 1994, 2000 and 2003. Photointerpretation, visual classification, class quantification, ground-truth and vegetation structure data were combined to evaluate the oil impact. Before the spill, the mangroves exhibited a homogeneous canopy and well-developed stands. More than ten years after the spill, the mangrove vegetation exhibited three distinct zones reflecting the long-term effects of the oil pollution. The most impacted zone (10.5 ha) presented dead trees, exposed substrate and recovering stands with reduced structural development. We suggest that the distinct impact and recovery zones reflect the spatial variability of oil removal rates in the mangrove forest. This study identifies the multitemporal analysis of aerial photographs as a useful tool for assessing a system's capacity for recovery and monitoring the long-term residual effects of pollutants on vegetation dynamics, thus giving support to mangrove forest management and conservation.

Long-term spatial and structural dynamics in Acadian mixedwood stands managed under various silvicultural systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike R. Saunders ◽  
Robert G. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Precommercial Thinning ◽  
Clear Cutting ◽  
Single Tree Selection ◽  
Individual Trees

Using inventory data from a long-term silviculture experiment in east-central Maine, spatial models were developed to analyze 28 years (1974–2002) of stand structural dynamics. Differences in spatial pattern, species mingling, height differentiation, and relative stand complexity index (rSCI) were compared among five treatments: commercial clear-cutting, fixed diameter-limit, 5 year single-tree selection, three-stage shelterwood (both with and without precommercial thinning), and unharvested natural areas. Regardless of treatment, regeneration events (whether induced by natural breakup of the overstory or by harvesting) increased aggregation in spatial pattern and reduced species mingling, more so in the commercial clearcut and fixed diameter-limit treatments where hardwood densities were highest. Regular spatial patterns were rare. Height differentiation values for individual trees and stand-level mean rSCI were generally highest in untreated natural areas and 5 year selection treatments, intermediate in commercial clearcut and fixed diameter-limit treatments, and lowest in three-stage shelterwood treatments. After a brief adjustment period, precommercial thinning in a shelterwood treated stand generally increased species mingling, height differentiation, and rSCI. Two untreated natural areas exhibited divergent pathways of structural development. Dynamics in uneven-aged selection treatments more closely resembled that of the untreated natural areas than did the shelterwood, commercial clearcut, or fixed diameter-limit treatments.

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