Insights into the moisture-induced degradation mechanisms on field-deployed CIGS modules

Moisture ingress is known to be one of the most frequent and detrimental causes of photovoltaic (PV) modules degradation. In an original approach, the present work applies the full analytic capability of lab-scale equipment to characterize a commercial Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 (CIGS) module that degraded in the field due to moisture ingress. By...

Decision support model for effects estimation and proportionality assessment for targeting in cyber operations

A Computational Ontology for Cyber Operations

Due to the advancement of technology and continuing emergence of international conflict situations, wars are now also conducted into the official new battlefield: cyberspace. Although several incidents have been characterized in terms of cyber operations, there is an important gap in the existing body of knowledge concerning the definition of...

Assessment Methodology for Collateral Damage and Military (Dis)Advantage in Cyber Operations

Cyber Operations stopped being utopia or Sci-Fi based scenarios: they became reality. When planning and conducting them, military actors encounter difficulties since they lack methodologies and models that support their actions and assess their effects. To address these issues by tackling the underlying scientific and practical gap, this article...

Scenemash: Multimodal route summarization for city exploration

The potential of mining tourist information from social multimedia data gives rise to new applications offering much richer impressions of the city. In this paper we propose Scenemash, a system that generates multimodal summaries of multiple alternative routes between locations in a city. To get insight into the geographic areas on the route, we...

Cyber weapons: A profiling framework

In the last decades we witnessed the creation of a virtual world: cyberspace, which offers plenty of opportunities and challenges. Meanwhile, we are confronted with many conflict situations between different groups of people or countries. In the last years, several events have been described in terms of cyber warfare or the use of cyber weapons,...

Using MPEG DASH SRD for zoomable and navigable video

This paper presents a video streaming client implementation that makes use of the Spatial Relationship Description (SRD) feature of the MPEG-DASH standard, to provide a zoomable and navigable video to an end user. SRD allows a video streaming client to request spatial subparts of a particular video stream, which might be available in multiple...

Data concealing of supply chain transactions using the Distributed Trust Backbone

Secure and accurate transactions are vital to any large-scale business system in order to guarantee the reliability of the system to stakeholders in both the public and private sectors. In supply chain systems, however, a variety of information security shortcomings is currently occurring in several processes, for example, related to data...

Global monitoring of dynamic information systems a case study in the international supply chain

Global information systems are becoming more complex and dynamic everyday: huge amounts of data and messages through those systems show dynamically changing traffic patterns. Because of this, diagnosing when sub-systems are not working properly is difficult. System failures or errors in information exchange protocols sometimes happen and...

Multi-level access control in the data pipeline of the international supply chain system

The Seamless Integrated Data Pipeline system was proposed to the European Union in order to overcome the information quality shortcomings of the current international supply chain information exchange systems. Next to identification and authorization of stakeholders, secure access control needs to be considered at design time of the new data...

A platform for secure, safe, and sustainable logistics

In the current society, logistics is faced with at least two bigchallenges. The first challenge considers safety and security measurements dealing with terrorism, smuggling, and related security accidents with a high societal impact. The second challenge is to meet sustainability requirements implying optimal use of resources and physical...

Oil reporting for the FQD An assessment of effort needed

This study addresses part of the issues that are debated: it assesses the administrative burden and practical feasibility, and broadly explores the potential effects of the proposal on the EU refining sector. This study is based on literature research, combined with interviews with stakeholders and experts, and was commissioned by Transport &amp...

Creating a coherent set of indicators to monitor health across Europe: The Euro-REVES 2 project

The Euro-REVES 2 project, 'Setting up of a coherent set of health expectancies for the European Union', was begun in 1998 under the European Health Monitoring Programme with the aim of selecting a concise set of instruments to simultaneously monitor mortality and the different facets of health. An in-depth analysis of the current health survey...

National health interview surveys in Europe: An overview

Volksgezondheid Toekomst Verkenning 1997 III: Gezondheid en levensverwachting gewogen

Dit rapport gaat specifiek in op manieren om met gegevens over (on)gezondheid, ziekte en sterfte een algemene graadmeter voor de toestand van de volksgezondheid te berekenen. Het gepresenteerde materiaal moet inspireren bij het ontwikkelen van een lange-termijn visie op preventie en zorg in Nederland. Zo'n visie en het bijpassende beleid...

Liquid chromatography of organophosphorus acids

The applicability of different liquid chromatographic systems such as ion-exchange, ion-exclusion, reversed phase and ion-pair partition was studied for the analysis of a number of simple structurally related organophosphorus acids which lack a chromophoric group. Preliminary experiments based on these chromatographic systems were carried out on...

Butyrate stimulates tissue-type plasminogen-activator synthesis in cultured human endothelial cells

Incubation of cultured human endothelial cells with 5-mM-dibutyryl cyclic AMP led to an approx. 2-fold increase in tissue-type plasminogen-activator (t-PA) production over a 24 h incubation period. The stimulating effect of dibutyryl cyclic AMP could be explained by the slow liberation of butyrate, as the effect could be reproduced by addition...

Quantification of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) mRNA in human endothelial-cell cultures by hybridization with a t-PA cDNA probe

We describe the construction of a recombinant DNA plasmid, consisting of the vector pBR322 and full-length tissue-type plasminogen-activator (t-PA) cDNA, by using polyadenylated RNA from cultured Bowes melanoma cells as substrate. A 1280-base-pair Pstl restriction fragment, covering the 3' untranslated region and part of the coding region for...