We study tracking control for a nonlinear moving water tank system modelled by the linearized Saint-Venant equations, where output is given position of and input force acting on it. For reference signal, objective that error evolves within pre-specified performance funnel. Exploiting recent results in funnel control, this can be achieved showing inter alia system's internal dynamics are bounded...

The morphology and infraciliature of two pleurostomatid ciliates, Amphileptus aeschtae nov. spec. and Amphileptus eigneri nov. spec., collected from shrimp-culturing ponds of the Bohai Sea, China, were investigated using live observations and the protargol impregnation method. The new species A. aeschtae is identified by the presence of 200-300 macronuclear nodules and several contractile vacuo...

Paenibacillus larvae is the etiological agent of American foulbrood (AFB) in honeybees. Recently, different genotypes of P. larvae (ERIC I to ERIC IV) were defined, and it was shown that these genotypes differ inter alia in their virulence on the larval level. On the colony level, bees mitigate AFB through the hygienic behavior of nurse bees. Therefore, we investigated how the hygienic behavior...

In this paper we study the relationship between communication and ”transparency of information” and governance by exploring the link between social media and natural resource governance. Using a cross-country analysis, we document a robust and statistically significant positive relationship between Facebook penetration (a proxy for social media) and natural resource governance. It follows that ...

Background Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are the most widely used host for large scale production of recombinant therapeutic proteins. A combination of several gene editing approaches applied to Novartis proprietary CHO cell line resulted in a superior cell line with a significant increase of titer and improved product quality. Inter alia we have surprisingly identified a key protease respo...

Inter alia, Lebesgue-style integration plays a major role in advanced probability. We formalize a significant part of its theory in Higher Order Logic using the generic interactive theorem prover Isabelle/Isar. This involves concepts of elementary measure theory, real-valued random variables as Borelmeasurable functions, and a stepwise inductive definition of the integral itself. Building on pr...

2. The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Fort Lauderdale, 1994) adopted Resolution Conf. 9.17 on the Status of International Trade in Shark Species (Annex 1) in response to growing concern that some shark species are being over-exploited to meet an international demand for sharks and shark products. Resolution Conf. 9.17, inter alia, directs the Animals Committee to review informa...

Semantic accounts of the definite article have tended to fall into two general classes: ‘uniqueness’ accounts (Russell, 1905), and ‘familiarity’ accounts (Heim, 1982; see also Abbott, 2004, inter alia). It is also generally known that there are instances of definite descriptions that are resistant to such analyses, and are difficult to subsume under either treatment, or even a combination of bo...

In this paper we develop a model of a multi-sector multi-factor small open economy with involuntary unemployment due to fair wages. The model is used inter alia to analyse the labour market effects of changes in unemployment benefits and the domestic labour supply. Our analysis covers both the case where factor prices do not react to endowment changes – as in the Heckscher-Ohlin model – and the...

Given potential abuse, conflicts of interest, and other issues, why do companies routinely pay for their managers to entertain the managers of other firms and allow their own managers to be so entertained? An answer that such practices facilitate inter-firm cooperation is incomplete because it fails to address why companies can’t or don’t induce such cooperation directly via their own incentive...