scholarly journals Editorial: Innovation for Global and Local Impact (August 2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Stoyan Tanev
Keyword(s):  
Local Impact ◽  
Global And Local

scholarly journals PreciPatch: A Dictionary-based Precipitation Downscaling Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengchao Xu ◽  
Qian Liu ◽  
Dexuan Sha ◽  
Manzhu Yu ◽  
Daniel Q. Duffy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Global Climate Models ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Downscaling Method ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Precipitation Events

Climate and weather data such as precipitation derived from Global Climate Models (GCMs) and satellite observations are essential for the global and local hydrological assessment. However, most climatic popular precipitation products (with spatial resolutions coarser than 10km) are too coarse for local impact studies and require “downscaling” to obtain higher resolutions. Traditional precipitation downscaling methods such as statistical and dynamic downscaling require an input of additional meteorological variables, and very few are applicable for downscaling hourly precipitation for higher spatial resolution. Based on dynamic dictionary learning, we propose a new downscaling method, PreciPatch, to address this challenge by producing spatially distributed higher resolution precipitation fields with only precipitation input from GCMs at hourly temporal resolution and a large geographical extent. Using aggregated Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of PreciPatch, in comparison with bicubic interpolation using RainFARM—a stochastic downscaling method, and DeepSD—a Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN) based downscaling method. PreciPatch demonstrates better performance than other methods for downscaling short-duration precipitation events (used historical data from 2014 to 2017 as the training set to estimate high-resolution hourly events in 2018).

Overview: Global and Local Impact of Antibiotic Resistance

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Watkins ◽  
Robert A. Bonomo
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Global And Local

The EU and Human Rights as Institutional Facts in the Finnish Political Discourse on Family Reunification

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-328
Author(s):  
Linda Hyökki
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Institutional Facts ◽  
Political Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
The Eu

This article analyses the Finnish political response to the refugee influx connected with the Syrian war and violent conflicts in its neighbouring states. In July 2016, a law amendment on the Finnish Aliens Act about a secured income prerequisite for family reunification applications came into force. Using argumentation schemes as outlined by Fairclough & Fairclough (2012), this article analyses the discursive framing of the law amendment in Parliament. The paper benefits from the social ontology of John Searle (1995; 2010) and utilises his concept of institutional facts. The analysis shows that, as normative sources for action, the institutional context of the EU, as well as the Human Rights, possess different degrees of deontic modality which in turn shapes the representation of social reality in the context of the refugee crisis and its global and local impact.

scholarly journals LCLS – Large Laser Infrastructure Development and Local Implications

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryszard S. Romaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Microwave Cavity ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Fifth Generation ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Linac Coherent Light Source ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Development State ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Design Construction

Abstract The most powerful now in the world, American Xray laser LCLS (Linac Coherent Light Source), has been working as a research and user facility since 2009. It is further developed to LCLS II machine at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC in Menlo Park CA. In a certain sense, LCLS II is a response to the EXFEL machine and a logical extension of LCLS. All these machines are light sources of the fifth generation. EXFEL is expected to open user facility in 2016, at a cost of over 1 mld Euro. LCLS II, which design started in 2010, will be operational in 2017. The lasers LCLS, LCLS II and EXFEL use SASE and SEED methods to generate light and are powered by electron linacs, LCLS by a warm one, and EXFEL by a cold one. The linacs have energies approaching 20 GeV, and are around 2 - 3 km in length. EXFEL linac uses SRF TESLA microwave cavity technology at 1,3GHz. A prototype of EXFEL was FLASH laser. SLAC Laboratory uses effectively over 50 years experience in research, building and exploitation of linear electron accelerators. In 2009, a part of the largest 3 km SLAC linac was used to build the LCLS machine. For the LCLS II machine a new infrastructure is build for two new laser beams and a number of experimental stations. A number of experts and young researchers from Poland participate in the design, construction and research of the biggest world linear and elliptical accelerators and FEL lasers like LCLS (Stanford), EXFEL (DESY) and CEBAF (JLab), and a few more. The paper concentrates on the development state-of-the-art of large laser infrastructure and its global and local impact, in the competitive world of R&D. LCLS infrastructure implications in Poland are considered.

TDOF model for evaluating the global and local impact response of steel-plate composite panels

2021 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 107879
Author(s):  
Lin Wang ◽  
Weiyi Zhao ◽  
Guotao Yang ◽  
Quanquan Guo
Keyword(s):  
Steel Plate ◽  
Impact Response ◽  
Composite Panels ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Global And Local

scholarly journals Enhanced European Coordination of Accelerator Research and Development – EuCARD2 – Global and Local Impact

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Ryszard S. Romaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Care Project ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Large Research ◽  
Young Researchers ◽  
High Technologies

Abstract Wide scale, European, infrastructural research projects on accelerator science and technology are under realization since 2003. CARE project was realized during the period 2003/4-2008, and next EuCARD during 2009-2013. Now during 2014-2017 there is successfully continued EuCARD2 - Enhanced European Coordination of Accelerator R&D. European accelerator R&D community prepares next continuation of the EuCARD inside the Horizon 2020. The paper presents the work developments of EuCARD. Several institutions from Poland are participating in EuCARD: NCNR in Świerk, IChTJ, technical Universites in Łódź, Wrocław and Warsaw. Realization of the project during the last 12 years gave numerable and valuable results combined with essential modernization of the European research infrastructures. From the point of view of domestic interests, where we do not have large research infrastructures, the considerable benefits are associated with the participation of young researchers from Poland - engineers and physicists, in building of the top research infrastructures. Due to such participation, high technologies are developed in several centres in the country. The EuCARD project organizes annual meetings summarizing periodically the R&D advances. The EuCARD AM2015 was held in Barcelona in April.

scholarly journals INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS’ ASSESSMENT THROUGH SDG TARGETS: TOWARDS a COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Mansell ◽  
Deney Van Rooyen ◽  
Simon Philbin ◽  
Luca Sabini
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Energy Education ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Global And Local

The achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is of paramount importance “for the peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and in the future” (United Nations, 2015; Økland, 2015). Important changes are needed in order to achieve these goals, and infrastructure projects (IP) are critical to facilitate these changes at local and global levels, across health, energy, education, transport, communication and other critical infrastructure needs. However, a gap exists in understanding how SDGs are applied below the global-national levels. In order to increase global and local impact of infrastructure investments, an improved understanding is needed at organisational and infrastructure project levels. In this context, the purpose of this research study is firstly to build on a comprehensive literature review to investigate the existing UN SDG targets in relation to IP, and secondly, to lay a foundation for a comprehensive framework to structure research systematically in this field. This approach can help further our understanding of the topic, thereby providing an important contribution for regulators, policymakers, academia and practitioners on how to align IP to SDGs objectives. This will deliver increased value from infrastructure investments and enable the project management community to generate local impact on global issues, for ‘people and the planet, now and in the future’.

Sunspot Groups as Tracers of Sub-Surface Processes

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
M. H. Gokhale
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Flux ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Surface Processes ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Sunspot Groups

AbstractData on sunspot groups have been quite useful for obtaining clues to several processes on global and local scales within the sun which lead to emergence of toroidal magnetic flux above the sun’s surface. I present here a report on such studies carried out at Indian Institute of Astrophysics during the last decade or so.

Establishing global and local coherence in discourse processing: Evidence from fMRI

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul van den Broek ◽  
Ben Seipel ◽  
Virginia Clinton ◽  
Edward J. O'Brien ◽  
Philip Burton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Local Coherence ◽  
Global And Local
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