Objectives and Methodology. The objectives of this project are to utilize developed protocols to enter information on archeological specimens into a web-accessible catalog linked to centralized scientific data repositories, and enter data into the Interior Collections Management System (ICMS) for submission to the National Catalog. An estimated 10,000 archeological specimens will be cataloged, labeled, and entered into ICMS and the web- accessible catalog. Jointly developed protocols for archeological specimens will be evaluated and refined continuously to improve efficiency. In addition, protocols will be developed for processing natural history specimens using Bandelier and Chiricahua National Monuments as test parks. A traveling exhibit appropriate for schools and science fairs will be developed for use by parks. This joint effort will be directed in the following areas:
Objectives and Methodology. Chapters 2 and 4 have set out the key favourable safety characteristics of fusion, in particular, the limited inventories of energies and powers able to drive accidents, and the low radiotoxic inventories. They open up the prospects of: achieving low consequences of worst-case accidents; achieving this without taking credit for the operation of active safety systems or operator actions. Figure 8 displays the overall logic of the physics of fusion safety and of the accident analysis, showing the factors that limit potential doses to low levels. Based on this logic, two main principles were followed. • Firstly: to ensure that the design and material choices were such that temperature excursions would be moderate even in the most severe accidents. • Secondly, to choose confinement arrangements which ensure that confinement integrity is maintained in all cases. Moderate temperature excursions eliminate all possibility of a whole spectrum of accident sequences associated with melting of structural or confinement components that dominate in the safety analysis of fission reactors, and they guarantee the avoidance of significant mobilisation of activation products. Confinement integrity ensures that releases of internally mobilised material are low, and that the maximum possible resulting doses are very low. Low radio-toxic inventories Low accident temperatures in the Limit effects of chemical and magnet energies No melting Coolant energies The SEAFP studies focused their efforts on worst-case accidents, in order to make sure that overriding safety principles were satisfied. However, this does not, of course, exhaust the safety issues. In addition, commercial fusion power stations must be designed so as to lower the consequences and frequencies of lesser accidents. Some of these issues were addressed in the SEAFP studies but are not reported here: they have been thoroughly and successfully addressed in the ITER safety studies [6,7]. Low decay heat Low mobilisation core No confinement failure Protected confinement No evacuation (by a large margin) Very low doses Figure 8: Overview of the physics of fusion’s inherent safety characteristics
Objectives and Methodology. The objective of this report is to present the detailed design of the software platform to be used by the DSOs (namely the RESOLVD platform), presenting its architectural elements and the detailed design of their components. It addresses mostly technical staff (e.g. software architects, software developers) who are interested in understanding the design of the individual subsystems and their interoperation and will serve as a guideline during the implementation phase. The design analysis presented herein will be realized in the context of the tasks T4.1 “Enterprise Service Bus” and T4.2 “Data Analytics Platform” and is highly related to previous work of the project. More specifically with D1.1 “Use cases definition”, which provides the definition of the Use Cases (UCs) of the project and the business and technical actors, as well as with D1.2 “Functional and operational requirements” [1], which provides the list of components to be developed or integrated in the project and their functional and non-functional requirements. It also relates to D1.3 “Interoperability and Integration Analysis and Requirements” [2], which presents the integration aspects of the project and its conceptual architecture and finally to D1.4 “Information Security requirements”, which tackles the issues related information security. The adopted methodology involved initially the modelling of the high-level design of each system using the constraints identified as guidelines. This high-level decomposition was followed by a more detailed design of the individual sub-systems. Unified Modelling Language notation [3], was utilized where possible, for describing static and/or dynamic behaviour and internal logic during the detailed design process. The design of external software interfaces and user interfaces, as well as the design of the main data structures stored or exchanged is also presented.
Objectives and Methodology. The objectives have been to establish the impact, the benefits and the risks of a transition to electronic exchange. The methodology has been to undertake analyses of specific use cases and thereby provide evidence. Two companies from aerospace and one company from the power generation sector have participated in the exercise and delivered real-life use cases.
Objectives and Methodology. The objectives have been to engage the engineering materials and the information engineering communities in the development of technologies for engineering materials data with a view (1) to undertake the development of the technologies in co-operation with an organization with experience of undertaking prenormative work in the engineering materials sector; (2) to secure the long term ownership and maintenance of the technologies; and (3) to promote adoption of said technologies by the end-user community. The methodology has been to frame the development of the technologies for engineering materials data firmly in the Standards setting environment, which simultaneously addresses the second and third objectives.
Objectives and Methodology. This document describes the overall security requirements for the RESOLVD architecture and its components. It contains an in detail revised threat model of RESOLVD solution, covering both novel components of the project as well as legacy equipment, which serves as basis for the security requirements; and a survey of constraints for each system component. Each resulting threat (except for the not applicable ones) was subsequently countered with a mitigation strategy that, in consequence, poses a security requirement for the respective system component.
Objectives and Methodology. The focus of this deliverable is on the quantification of the relative merits of enhanced horizontal resolution and improved physical parameterizations (hereafter, IP) in the representation of the climate over key areas of the Earth, including the North Atlantic, North Pacific, Arctic and tropical regions in the PRIMAVERA models ensemble. The influence of horizontal resolution (stand-alone) has been extensively documented in D2.1 and D2.2, addressing the role of the ocean and atmospheric model resolution, respectively, using both results from WP6 Stream 1 and a set of prototype simulations (the so-called “pre- PRIMAVERA” experiments) following no specific common protocol. The impact of improved physics, on the other hand, is the subject of ongoing work in WP3, and advances have been reported in milestone MS7 (Deliver recommendation and model configuration with improved physics for Stream 2 of the core integrations) and deliverable D3.1 (Quantification of robustness of aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions across models and resolution). Here, an additional effort is aimed at quantifying the relative importance of enhanced model resolution as compared to the use of improved model physics. In order to address this challenge, a minimum experimental set is required where a given model configuration is run at i) its standard resolution (LR), ii) an enhanced horizontal resolution configuration (HR), using the same physical parameterizations as in the standard version, and iii) an “improved physics” configuration of the model run at standard resolution (LRIP). The cross-comparison between i) and ii) (impact of resolution) and between i) and iii) (impact of improved physical parameterizations) allows us to address the scientific question targeted by D2.3 in a single- model framework. Optionally, the LR, LRIP and HR triplet can be further expanded to include a fourth experiment consisting in iv) a high-resolution configuration with improved physics (HRIP). The latter makes possible to account for any possible non-linear interplay between spatial resolution and improved physical parameterization (i.e., does the efficacy of a given physical scheme improvement depend on model resolution?). Table 3.1.1 provides a sketch of the typical experimental setup adopted for the analyses presented in this report.
Objectives and Methodology. This young scientist contract will aim to assess the role of communities of micro-organisms and invertebrates in the decomposition of various litters, to evaluate functional redundancy among species and assess the resilience of communities to quantitative and qualitative changes in inputs of allochthonous organic matter. The study of these processes will require collaborations with research units of the federative research institute IFR110 (Xxxxx) and other laboratories of the Universities of Xxxxxxxx, Toulouse and Quito (Ecuador). The first objective will be to determine the trophic relationships within various ecosystems (ponds vs. streams) located on forest watershed and to determine the functions of biological organisms constituting the food chains. The first steps will be based on collection and identification of organisms. Trophic relationships will be assessed by analysis of stable isotopes of nitrogen (15N/14N) and carbon (13C/12C). This will allow us to determine the functional redundancy existing within food webs, to isolate the key species (without redundancy with other species) and to assess the degree of simplification and the fragility of food webs. The second objective will be to assess the degree of specialization of macro-invertebrates according to the heterogeneity of forests (forest species, productivity, practices of management). To do this, various ponds will be selected based on the forest cover of their watershed. Ponds will be selected in order to present a qualitative (C/N) and quantitative diversity of allochthonous organic matter. By comparison with results obtained in stream, our study will allow us to identify invertebrate taxa adapted to the nature and richness of allochthonous inputs. The degree of divergence between the food webs will provide us estimation of the organism adaptability to qualitative or quantitative changes of forest cover. Then, from the results obtained in the previous step, we will quantify the ability of microorganisms and invertebrates to adapt to a qualitative and quantitative change of allochthonous matter inputs. For this purpose, litterbags will be used and the decomposition kinetics will be evaluated (Xxxxxxx et al., 1993; Xxxxxxx et al., 2004). The use of organic matter enriched in stable isotopes will allow us to determine the fate and the utilization of nutrients in the food webs. These results will allow us to determine, for the various taxa, the tolerable magnitude of quantitative and qualitati...
Objectives and Methodology. The recommended TURBINE Best Practices (‘TURBINE Best Practices’ or ‘Best Practices’) address the use of biometric data in the specific context of identity management systems (‘IdM’ systems). The aim of the Best Practices is to formulate guidelines to reconciliate as much as possible the use of biometric characteristics of individuals in IdM systems with their fundamental rights to respect for privacy and data protection. In biometric IdM systems, biometric data are used for enhanced authentication of the individuals who attempt to access a system or a designated area (security purposes). The biometric data are deployed to verify whether the person who is presenting him or herself is enrolled and is actually the person who he or she claims to be.4 The scenario’s in which such verification is meaningful, are plenty. Typical examples are physical and online access control systems which restrict access to authorized individuals only, for example officials of the government, specific personnel members of a company, members of a liberal profession (e.g., physicians), citizens intending to access their personal file with the government, travellers crossing borders, etc. The use of biometric data, however, involves many privacy risks for the data subjects involved.5 For this reason, the use of biometric data may not be proportional with the benefits sought by the data controller. If the privacy risks however can be mitigated to some extent, this will have a positive effect on the evaluation of the proportionality of the use of biometric data in an identity management system. The Best Practices in fact suggest methods for the processing of biometric data and the use of technologies which exclude or at least mitigate some important privacy risks which have been identified. The TURBINE Best Practices do not purport to be a comprehensive set of guidelines to be a substitute for law or to summarize the laws that may apply. Other initiatives have been taken in this respect, not at least by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, the EDPS and the national data protection authorities, and by the consultative committee of the Council of Europe. They point to the difficulties in the interpretation of the applicable data protection legislation and various compliance issues. We refer to these and other initiatives explicitly, and have built further on this work. The methodology used for establishing these Best Practices was as follows. As already explained, previous re...
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