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- Rader, Romina, et al.
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Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination.
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - 1091-6490 .- 0027-8424. ; 113:1, s. 146-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been little explored despite their potential to contribute to crop production and stability in the face of environmental change. Non-bee pollinators include flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, among others. Here we focus on non-bee insects and synthesize 39 field studies from five continents that directly measured the crop pollination services provided by non-bees, honey bees, and other bees to compare the relative contributions of these taxa. Non-bees performed 25-50% of the total number of flower visits. Although non-bees were less effective pollinators than bees per flower visit, they made more visits; thus these two factors compensated for each other, resulting in pollination services rendered by non-bees that were similar to those provided by bees. In the subset of studies that measured fruit set, fruit set increased with non-bee insect visits independently of bee visitation rates, indicating that non-bee insects provide a unique benefit that is not provided by bees. We also show that non-bee insects are not as reliant as bees on the presence of remnant natural or seminatural habitat in the surrounding landscape. These results strongly suggest that non-bee insect pollinators play a significant role in global crop production and respond differently than bees to landscape structure, probably making their crop pollination services more robust to changes in land use. Non-bee insects provide a valuable service and provide potential insurance against bee population declines.
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- Aydogdu, Canan, 1978, et al.
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Radar Interference Mitigation through Active Coordination
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Ingår i: IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings. - : IEEE. - 1097-5659. ; 2021-May, s. 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Intelligent transportation is heavily reliant on radar, which have unique robustness under heavy rain/fog/snow and poor light conditions. With the rapid increase of the number of radars used on modern vehicles, most operating in the same frequency band, the risk of radar interference becomes an important issue. As in radio communication, interference can be mitigated through coordination. We present and evaluate two approaches for radar interference coordination, one for FMCW and one for OFDM, and highlight their challenges and opportunities.
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- Babushkin, O., et al.
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Morphological effect of Al2O3 additives on sinterability of wear-resistant AlN ceramics
- 1990
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Ingår i: Structural ceramics processing, microstructure and properties. - Roskilde : Risø National Laboratory. - 8755016626 ; , s. 175-180
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the present study on AlN-based ceramic materials, an attempt was made to show the morphological influence of the precursors on the phase relationships during sintering as well as the microstructural development of the material. An investigation has been done of the phase transformations during pressureless sintering of wear-resistant ceramics based on the AlN-Al2O3-Y2O3 system in the AlN-rich field as well as a study of the effect of different precursors, such as Al2O3, AlCl3 and Al(NO3)3, on the sequence of phase transitions in the low temperature field (800-1400°C). The peculiarities of phase transitions in dynamic and isothermal schedules have also been discussed.
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- Bielecki, T.R., et al.
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Dynamic Modeling of Portfolio Credit Risk with Common Shocks
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We consider a bottom-up Markovian model of portfolio credit risk where dependence among credit names stems from the possibility of simultaneous defaults. A common shocks interpretation of the model is possible so that efficient convolution recursion procedures are available for pricing and hedging CDO tranches, conditionally on any given state of the Markov model. Calibration of marginals and dependence parameters can be performed separately using a two-steps procedure, much like in a standard static copula set-up. As a result this model allows us to hedge CDO tranches using single- name CDS-s in a theoretically sound and practically convenient way. To illustrate this we calibrate the model against market data on CDO tranches and the underlying single- name CDS-s. We then study the loss distributions as well as the min-variance hedging strategies in the calibrated portfolios.
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- Herbertsson, H, et al.
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Role of platelets and the arachidonic acid pathway in the regulation of neutrophil oxidase activity
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0036-5513 .- 1502-7686. ; 61:8, s. 641-649
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The intercellular mechanisms involved in platelet-mediated regulation of neutrophil function remain incompletely understood. This study investigated the role of the arachidonic acid pathway in the modulation of chemoattractant-induced production of oxygen metabolites, measured as luminol-amplified chemiluminescence (CL). We demonstrate that platelets dose-dependently inhibit the CL response in neutrophils stimulated with N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP). Incubation with eicosatetrayonic acid (ETYA), a combined cyclooxygenase and lipooxygenase inhibitor, dramatically decreased the fMLP-induced CL response in neutrophils, an effect that was further enhanced in the presence of platelets. The separate effects of eicosatriyonic acid (ETI) and indomethacin, specific inhibitors of lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase, respectively, were significantly lower compared to the action of ETYA. On the contrary, impediment of arachidonic acid release with the phospholipase A2 inhibitor arachidonyl trifluoromethyl ketone (ATK) markedly increased the production of oxygen radicals triggered by fMLP. The addition of exogenous arachidonic acid clearly decreased the fMLP-induced CL response in neutrophils, which further strengthens a downregulating effect of arachidonic acid on oxidase activity. This inhibitory action of arachidonic acid, however, was reversed upon co-incubation with platelets. In conclusion, this study suggests that an accumulation of arachidonic acid, following chemotactic peptide stimulation, turns off neutrophil oxidase activity. Furthermore, platelets may support the synthesis of reactive arachidonic acid metabolites, which modulate oxygen radical production in neutrophils.
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- Herbertsson, Lina, et al.
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Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes
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Ingår i: Plant Ecology and Evolution. - : Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique. - 2032-3913 .- 2032-3921. ; 154:3, s. 341-350
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background and aims: Agricultural intensification and loss of farmland heterogeneity have contributed to population declines of wild bees and other pollinators, which may have caused subsequent declines in insect-pollinated wild plants.Material and methods: Using data from 37 studies on 22 pollinator-dependent wild plant species across Europe, we investigated whether flower visitation and seed set of insect-pollinated plants decline with an increasing proportion of arable land within 1 km.Key results: Seed set increased with increasing flower visitation by bees, most of which were wild bees, but not with increasing flower visitation by other insects. Increasing proportion of arable land had a strongly variable effect on seed set and flower visitation by bees across studies.Conclusion:Factors such as landscape configuration, local habitat quality, and temporally changing resource availability (e.g. due to mass-flowering crops or honey bee hives) could have modified the effect of arable land on pollination. While our results highlight that the persistence of wild bees is crucial to maintain plant diversity, we also show that pollen limitation due to declining bee populations in homogenized agricultural landscapes is not a universal driver causing parallel losses of bees and insect-pollinated plants.
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