The principal aim of the Expedition was to continue and complete certain aspects of the detailed glaciological survey of the Roslin glacier carried out by the Cambridge Staunings Expedition of 1970, namely: To locate and re-establish the August 1970 stake patterns on the upper Roslin glacier, and to fix their new positions by theodolite triangulation. To map by plane table the lower 2 kilometres of the Roslin glacier. To measure the conductivity of the ice...

Teacher professional development and coaching in low-income countries: Overarching considerations for the use of technology in education

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This report describes a number of experiments on the characterisation (i.e. extraction of the ‘significant characteristics’) of JPEG2000 files. The objective of these experiments is twofold: first, the experiments serve to assess the performance of existing characterisation tools with JPEG2000 files. Second, the characterisation results provide information that can be used to verify the behaviour of tools that are used for the creation and processing of JPEG2000 files. The used methodology is very simple: starting...

News outlets in Mexico are reporting contradictory stories about whether the Jalisco and Sinaloa Cartels are friends, enemies or something in between. This News Analysis will try to answer to the question if the Mexico's two most powerful cartels are collaborating or readying themselves for yet another battle in the country's bloody drug war.

Vehicle emissions contribute substantially to worldwide pollutant emissions and poor local air quality. How people drive influences their car’s pollutant emissions. However, the relationship between driving behaviour and emissions is also dependent on the vehicle. Detailed emission data is necessary to describe this relationship. The Horizon 2020 project uCARe has developed a standard to publish and share detailed emission measurement data. A range of different partners active in passenger car testing have already shared measurement...

CODECHECK Certificate 2020-003 See file codecheck.pdf for the CODECHECK report. Files relating to this certificate can be found in https://github.com/codecheckers/Hopfield-1982.

CENICS, les presenta la segunda comunicación corta, basada en evidencia científica y analizando el comportamiento social de nuestra población panameña. Donde el distanciamiento social juega un papel clave en la disminución de casos positivos de COVID-19. Es por esto, que este comunicado ejemplifica el número de contactos o interacciones que tenemos al salir de casa. ¡Quédate en casa!, es la mejor forma de ayudar para detener este virus.

Abstract On 2 August 2019, the eve of the 5th anniversary of the attacks on Sinjar by the Islamic State (IS), RASHID International, Yazda and the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa Project (EAMENA) released the results of their investigation into cultural heritage destruction during the genocide against the Yazidis, in a report entitled ‘Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis: Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State’s Genocide against the Yazidis’. Out...

CODECHECK certificate for paper: Neuronlike adaptive elements that can solve difficult learning control problems Repository: https://github.com/codecheckers/Barto-Sutton-Anderson-1983

This document contains Chapter 2.2 of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Methodology for building spatio-temporal databases of settlement development and territorial divisions

For years, pan European research infrastructures (RIs) and large-scale national facilities have contributed to the excellence of the Union’s science base. In European programmes, they were firmly nested in the Pillar dedicated to scientific excellence and supported though a dedicated work programme. In addition, they have contributed to training, innovation, and partly also to the other pillars of the programme, such as the one addressing societal challenges. ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures,...

The report is a part of the efforts of CERIC-ERIC, a distributed research infrastructure in the field of materials characterisation and modification, to produce its Research and Infrastructure Roadmap. General Assembly has in 2019 approved a pilot action on Batteries, in order to identify the bottlenecks and needs for upgrades of CERIC-ERIC in this domain. To this end, an expert group consisting of Antonella Iadecola, Lorenzo Stievano and Benedetto Bozzini was contracted and the group...

This document contains Chapter 5 of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Several incidents in the last few weeks have raised additional doubts over how Mexico's soldiers are approaching the so-called "drug war." Not only are there questions over how appropriately the security forces react in confrontations with civilians, but the importance of the military itself in Mexico's democracy may yet come under scrutiny.

In the competitive and ever-changing environment of Mexico's drug trade, groups like the CJNG and the Knights Templar have kept their position by adopting a regional strategy, rather than expanding across the country. The fact that the CJNG is still growing highlights its adaptability, and willingness to adopt a vigilante discourse when necessary.

Objective: to explore seamounts of the Azorean archipelago to better understand the distribution patterns of VMEs and commercial fish species. A special interest was placed in exploring deep-sea areas along the Mid Atlantic Ridge and close to islands of the central group. The device used in this survey corresponds to the low-cost drift-cam video platform designed and developed at IMAR. Vessel: N/I Arquipélago Chief scientist: Telmo Morato Scientific team: Telmo Morato, Carlos Dominguez-Carrió, Sérgio Gomes,...

This report contains an evaluation of 5 file format identification tools: • DROID 6.0
• Fido 0.9
• Unix File tool
• FITS 0.5
• JHOVE2

This report addresses the suitability of the EPUB format for archival preservation. Chapter 2 gives a brief introduction to EPUB. It presents a simple example that illustrates the general structure of an EPUB file. Chapters 3 and 4 go more in-depth, focusing on Core Media Types and the Package and Navigation Documents. Chapter 5 discusses the functionality that is provided by EPUB. In particular, it covers layout and appearance, and the support for multimedia and...

Deze notitie gaat in op de geschiktheid van de softwaretools Unix File en Apache Tika voor het automatisch identificeren van bestandsformaten in het Digitaal Magazijn van de KB. De notitie begint met een overzicht van de belangrijkste kenmerken van beide tools: Welke formaten worden geïdentificeerd? Welke output krijg je, en hoe gedetailleerd is die? Op welke informatie is de identificatie gebaseerd? Wat gebeurt er als een formaat niet wordt herkend? Hoe kun je de tool...

The founder of Mexico's notorious and now defunct Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero, has been linked to two recent events that have raised alarm among authorities three years after a controversial court ruling freed the veteran drug lord and current fugitive from prison. Sorting out fact from fiction is rarely easy when it comes to matters of organized crime. But if the central government's intelligence is true to its name, it does appear that Caro...

The REACH repository of good practices related to social participation in cultural heritage is a fundamental component of the Social Platform established by the REACH project. Carried out with the contribution of several project partners, this collection currently comprises 120 records of European and extra European participatory activities in the field of cultural heritage, with an emphasis on small-scale, localised interventions, but also including examples of larger collaborative projects and global or distributed online initiatives....

The REACH repository of good practices related to social participation in cultural heritage is a fundamental component of the Social Platform established by the REACH project. Carried out with the contribution of several project partners, this collection currently comprises 120 records of European and extra European participatory activities in the field of cultural heritage, with an emphasis on small-scale, localised interventions, but also including examples of larger collaborative projects and global or distributed online initiatives....

ABSTRACT Recently, There were much hype about an alleged SARS-like coronavirus being found in samples of Malayan pangolins (Manis Javanica) possessing nearly identical RBD to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Prominent journals cite the alleged discovery to claim that pangolins may be one of a possible intermediate host for the zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans. Here, we report that all databases used to support such a claim, upon which metagenomic analysis was possible, contained unexpected reads...