Collections-based organizations (CBOs) can play a crucial role in addressing sustainable development (SD), but their aspiration to become more sustainable, as seen policies and guidelines, is confronted with several challenges practice. To facilitate sustainability transition, this process of change needs be managed adequate tools adopted implemented. Many exist support transition; however, sca...

BACKGROUND Uveal melanoma (UM) is a disease that affects approximately five people per million in the United States. This disease metastasises predominantly to the liver, and treatment options following the clinical detection of these sequelae are limited. Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) is the primary activator of tumour angiogenesis and functions by binding to VEGF-Receptor 2 (V...

A plasma–catalyst hybrid system has been developed for the direct conversion of methane to C2+ hydrocarbons in dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma. TiO2 presented highest yield 11.63% among different materials when integrated with DBD plasma, which made us concentrate on TiO2-based catalyst. It was demonstrated that MnTi catalyst showed best coupling performance 27.29% 150 V applied volta...

We compare the dynamic range of OCT/OCM instruments configured with unbalanced interferometers, e.g., Michelson interferometers, with that of instruments utilizing balanced interferometers and balanced photodetection. We define the dynamic range (DR) as the ratio of the maximum fringe amplitude achieved with a highly reflecting surface to the rootmean-square (rms) noise. Balanced systems achiev...

The OCM (Objects, Components, Models) group of the computer science department at Ecole des Mines de Nantes is interested in Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). This report is a collection of three short articles presenting work in progress at our lab. We focus on two approaches: AOP from a monitoring perspective (articles 1 and 2) and different approaches to achieve AOP weaving (article 3). Whe...

1— The non-fragmentable nature of Ethernet data frames, as well as operation of the priority oriented packet schedulers in the Optical Network Units (ONUs) along with heavy network load conditions and the lack of detailed knowledge about the queues composition at the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) level, result in the creation of upstream channel slot remainders. Non-preemptive packet schedulers a...

The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) performance over Na-W-Mn/SiO2 at elevated pressures has been simulated by adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) using reaction data gathered in an isothermal fixed bed microreactor. In the designed neuro fuzzy models, three important parameters such as methane to oxygen ratio, gas hourly space velocity (GHSV), and reaction temperature were conside...