A coral reefs carbonate budget strongly influences reef structural complexity and net reef growth potential, and thus is increasingly recognized as a key “health” metric. Despite this, understanding of habitat specific budget states, how these scale across reef platforms, and our ability to quantify both framework and sediment production values remains limited. Here, we use in-situ census data ...

Current human biologics are most commonly produced by mammalian cell culture-based fermentation technologies. However, its limited scalability and high cost prevent this platform from meeting the ever increasing global demand. Plants offer a novel alternative system for the production of pharmaceutical proteins that is more scalable, cost-effective, and safer than current expression paradigms. ...

This report describes the development of a test platform and a self study course for the process automation system DeltaV. Sandvik started using this process automation system in 2004. In order to educate personnel in the system without having to disrupt any production lines an educational test platform was needed. The test platform that was developed in this project made use of the same produc...

Gartner’s vision for web services and SOA solutions involved the ‘Four-Platform Framework’. This comprised of a web services producer platform, a web services provider platform, a web services consumer platform and a web services management platform. A recent article published by Schmelzer and Bloomberg ii offered the ‘SOA Implementation Framework’ concept. This is much closer to today’s SOA re...

BACKGROUND Since volatile and rising cost factors such as energy, raw materials and market competitiveness have a significant impact on the economic efficiency of biotechnological bulk productions, industrial processes need to be steadily improved and optimized. Thereby the current production hosts can undergo various limitations. To overcome those limitations and in addition increase the diver...

We introduce platform studies, a family of approaches to digital media. In platform studies, close consideration is given to the detailed technical workings of computing systems. This allows the connections between platform technologies and creative production to be investigated. Two short studies of the Atari VCS (2600) and the Nintendo Wii show how close consideration of this sort can inform ...