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- Brütt, Katharina, et al.
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Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs
- 2023
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS. - : National Academy of Sciences. - 1091-6490 .- 0027-8424. ; 120:23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it has been tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive empirical evidence. A potential source of ambivalent empirical results on the same hypothesis is design heterogeneity-variation in true effect sizes across various reasonable experimental research protocols. To provide further evidence on whether competition affects moral behavior and to examine whether the generalizability of a single experimental study is jeopardized by design heterogeneity, we invited independent research teams to contribute experimental designs to a crowd-sourced project. In a large-scale online data collection, 18,123 experimental participants were randomly allocated to 45 randomly selected experimental designs out of 95 submitted designs. We find a small adverse effect of competition on moral behavior in a meta-analysis of the pooled data. The crowd-sourced design of our study allows for a clean identification and estimation of the variation in effect sizes above and beyond what could be expected due to sampling variance. We find substantial design heterogeneity-estimated to be about 1.6 times as large as the average standard error of effect size estimates of the 45 research designs-indicating that the informativeness and generalizability of results based on a single experimental design are limited. Drawing strong conclusions about the underlying hypotheses in the presence of substantive design heterogeneity requires moving toward much larger data collections on various experimental designs testing the same hypothesis.
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- Bandelt, HJ, et al.
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Quasi-median graphs from sets of partitions
- 2002
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Ingår i: Discrete Applied Mathematics. - 0166-218X .- 1872-6771. ; 122:23-35, s. 23-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- In studies of molecular evolution, one is typically confronted with the task of inferring a phylogenetic tree from a set X of sequences of length n over a finite alphabet Lambda. For studies that invoke parsimony, it has been found helpful to consider the quasi-median graph generated by X in the Hamming graph Lambda(n). Although a great deal is already known about quasi-median graphs (and their algebraic counterparts), little is known about the quasi-median generation in Lambda(n) starting from a set X of vertices. We describe the vertices of the quasi-median graph generated by X in terms of the coordinatewise partitions of X. In particular, we clarify when the generated quasi-median graph is the so-called relation graph associated with X. This immediately characterizes the instances where either a block graph or the total Hamming graph is generated.
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- Cieslik, D, et al.
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Connectivity calculus
- 2003
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Ingår i: Applied Mathematics Letters. - 0893-9659 .- 1873-5452. ; 16:3, s. 395-399
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Given a finite hypergraph H = (V, E) and, for each e E E, a collection of nonempty subsets pi(e) of e, Mobius inversion is used to establish a recursive formula for the number of connected components of the hypergraph H = (V, boolean OR(eis an element ofE)pi(e)). As shown elsewhere, this formula is an essential ingredient in the context of a certain divide-and-conquer strategy that allows us to define a dynamical programming scheme solving Steiner's problem for graphs in linear time (however, with a constant depending hyperexponentially on their tree width).
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- Dress, Andreas, et al.
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Hereditarily Optimal Realizations of Consistent Metrics.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 10:1, s. 63-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the main problems in phylogenetics is to find good approximations of metrics by weighted trees. As an aid to solving this problem, it could be tempting to consider optimal realizations of metrics—the guiding principle being that, the (necessarily unique) optimal realization of a tree metric is the weighted tree that realizes this metric. And, although optimal realizations of arbitrary metrics are, in general, not trees, but rather weighted networks, one could still hope to obtain a phylogenetically informative representation of a given metric, maybe even more informative than the best approximating tree. However, optimal realizations are not only difficult to compute, they may also be non-unique. Here we focus on one possible way out of this dilemma: hereditarily optimal realizations. These are essentially unique, and can be described in a rather explicit way. In this paper, we recall what a hereditarily optimal realization of a metric is and how it is related to the 1-skeleton of the tight span of that metric, and we investigate under what conditions it coincides with this 1-skeleton. As a consequence, we will show that hereditarily optimal realizations for consistent metrics, a large class of phylogentically relevant metrics, can be computed in a straight-forward fashion.
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- Dress, A., et al.
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Six points suffice : How to check for metric consistency
- 2001
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Ingår i: European journal of combinatorics (Print). - : Elsevier BV. - 0195-6698 .- 1095-9971. ; 22:4, s. 465-474
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In many areas of data analysis, it is desirable to have tools at hand for analyzing the structure of distance tables-or, in more mathematical terms, of finite metric spaces. One such tool, known as split decomposition theory has proven particularly useful in this respect. Tbe class of so-called totally decomposable metrics forms a cornerstone for this theory, and much work has been devoted to their study. Recently, it has become apparent that a particular subclass of these metrics, the consistent metrics, are also of fundamental importance. In this paper, we give a six-point characterization of consistent metrics amongst the totally decomposable ones.
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- Grünig, Marc, et al.
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A harmonized database of European forest simulations under climate change
- 2024
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Ingår i: Data in Brief. - 2352-3409. ; 54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Process-based forest models combine biological, physical, and chemical process understanding to simulate forest dynamics as an emergent property of the system. As such, they are valuable tools to investigate the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. Specifically, they allow testing of hypotheses regarding long-term ecosystem dynamics and provide means to assess the impacts of climate scenarios on future forest development. As a consequence, numerous local-scale simulation studies have been conducted over the past decades to assess the impacts of climate change on forests. These studies apply the best available models tailored to local conditions, parameterized and evaluated by local experts. However, this treasure trove of knowledge on climate change responses remains underexplored to date, as a consistent and harmonized dataset of local model simulations is missing. Here, our objectives were (i) to compile existing local simulations on forest development under climate change in Europe in a common database, (ii) to harmonize them to a common suite of output variables, and (iii) to provide a standardized vector of auxiliary environmental variables for each simulated location to aid subsequent investigations. Our dataset of European stand- and landscape-level forest simulations contains over 1.1 million simulation runs representing 135 million simulation years for more than 13,000 unique locations spread across Europe. The data were harmonized to consistently describe forest development in terms of stand structure (dominant height), composition (dominant species, admixed species), and functioning (leaf area index). Auxiliary variables provided include consistent daily climate information (temperature, precipitation, radiation, vapor pressure deficit) as well as information on local site conditions (soil depth, soil physical properties, soil water holding capacity, plant-available nitrogen). The present dataset facilitates analyses across models and locations, with the aim to better harness the valuable information contained in local simulations for large-scale policy support, and for fostering a deeper understanding of the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems in Europe.
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- Hochstöger, Daniel, et al.
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Experiences from commissioning and first operation of a 1 mw demonstration-scale dual fluidized bed gasification plant
- 2023
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Ingår i: European biomass conference and exhibition proceedings. - : ETA-Florence Renewable Energies. ; , s. 594-599
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of biomass, whether wood or waste materials, represents an opportunity to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Using dual fluidized bed (DFB) steam gasification technology for conversion of biomass, biogenic residues and waste is a possible approach to exploit this potential. A demonstration-scale 1 MW gasification plant with subsequent product gas and flue gas cleaning has been constructed at the Syngas Platform Vienna. The performance of this plant during its first continuous operation was evaluated in this study by analyzing temperature and pressure profiles recorded over a period of nearly 6 hours of continuous operation and by evaluating various performance indicators, such as steam-to-fuel ratio, gasification temperatures, and product gas composition. The resulting data sets were compared with existing results from the 100 kW pilot plant at TU Wien. The discrepancies found and their avoidance is discussed. In addition, this paper highlights the mechanical challenges encountered during commissioning, such as high temperatures at the fabric filter and additional condensate drain in steam supply pipes, and identifies potential challenges during the installation and operation of future gasification plants.
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- Huber, Katharina T, et al.
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Pruned median networks : A technique for reducing the complexity of median networks
- 2001
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Ingår i: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. - : Elsevier BV. - 1055-7903 .- 1095-9513. ; 19:2, s. 302-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Observations from molecular marker studies on recently diverged species indicate that substitution patterns in DNA sequences can often be complex and poorly described by tree-like bifurcating evolutionary models. These observations might result from processes of-species diversification and/or processes of sequence evolution that are not tree-like. In these Cases, bifurcating tree representations provide poor visualization of phylogenetic signals in sequence data. In this paper, we use median networks to study DNA sequence substitution patterns in plant nuclear and chloroplast markers. We describe how to prune median networks to obtain so called pruned median networks. These simpler networks may help to provide a useful framework for investigating the phylogenetic complexity of recently diverged taxa with hybrid origins.
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