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- Bleken, Bjørn Tore L., et al.
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Unit cell thick nanosheets of zeolite H-ZSM-5 : Structure and activity
- 2013
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In: Topics in catalysis. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1022-5528 .- 1572-9028. ; 56:9-10, s. 558-566
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- nosheets of zeolite H-ZSM-5 were synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), N2- physisorption, FT-IR spectroscopy, 27Al and 29Si MAS NMR spectroscopy in addition to catalytic testing in conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons (MTH). It was found that Rietveld analysis, involving anisotropic broadening parameters, gave average crystallite dimensions in good agreement with TEM images. The selectivities in MTH is intact in the mesoporous nanosheet H-ZSM-5 with the largest difference being a higher C3/C2 ratio compared to regular H-ZSM-5.
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- Koettgen, Anna, et al.
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Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations
- 2013
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In: Nature Genetics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1061-4036 .- 1546-1718. ; 45:2, s. 145-154
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Elevated serum urate concentrations can cause gout, a prevalent and painful inflammatory arthritis. By combining data from >140,000 individuals of European ancestry within the Global Urate Genetics Consortium (GUGC), we identified and replicated 28 genome-wide significant loci in association with serum urate concentrations (18 new regions in or near TRIM46, INHBB, SEMBT1, TMEM171, VEGFA, BAZ1B, PRKAG2, STC1, HNF4G, A1CF, ATXN2, UBE2Q2, IGF1R, NFAT5, MAF, HLF, ACVR1B-ACVRL1 and B3GNT4). Associations for many of the loci were of similar magnitude in individuals of non-European ancestry. We further characterized these loci for associations with gout, transcript expression and the fractional excretion of urate. Network analyses implicate the inhibins-activins signaling pathways and glucose metabolism in systemic urate control. New candidate genes for serum urate concentration highlight the importance of metabolic control of urate production and excretion, which may have implications for the treatment and prevention of gout.
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- Stefanova, Silvia, et al.
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Optimizing Unbound-property Queries to RDF Views of RelationalDatabases
- 2011
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- SAQ (Semantic Archive and Query) is a system for querying and long-term preservation of relational data in terms of RDF. In SAQ relational data in a back-end DBMS is exposed as an RDF view, called the RD-view. SAQ can process arbitrary SPARQL queries to the RD-view. In addition long-term preservation as RDF of selected parts of a relational database is specified by SPARQL queries to the RD-view. Such queries usually select sets of RDF properties and thus in the query definition a property p is unknown. We call such queries unbound-property queries. This class of queries is also present in the SPARQL benchmarks. We optimize unbound-property queries by introducing a query transformation algorithm called Group Common Terms, GCT. It pulls out from a DNF normalized query those common terms that can be translated to SQL predicates accessing the relational database. Our experiments using the Berlin SPARQL benchmark show that GCT improves substantially the query execution time to a back-end commercial relational DBMS for both selective and unselective unbound-property queries. We compared the performance of our approach with the performance of other systems processing SPARQL queries over views of relational databases and showed that GCT improves scalability compared to the approaches used by the other systems.
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- Stefanova, Silvia, 1972-
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Scalable Preservation, Reconstruction, and Querying of Databases in terms of Semantic Web Representations
- 2013
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This Thesis addresses how Semantic Web representations, in particular RDF, can enable flexible and scalable preservation, recreation, and querying of databases.An approach has been developed for selective scalable long-term archival of relational databases (RDBs) as RDF, implemented in the SAQ (Semantic Archive and Query) system. The archival of user-specified parts of an RDB is specified using an extension of SPARQL, A-SPARQL. SAQ automatically generates an RDF view of the RDB, the RD-view. The result of an archival query is RDF triples stored in: i) a data archive file containing the preserved RDB content, and ii) a schema archive file containing sufficient meta-data to reconstruct the archived database. To achieve scalable data preservation and recreation, SAQ uses special query rewriting optimizations for the archival queries. It was experimentally shown that they improve query execution and archival time compared with naïve processing. The performance of SAQ was compared with that of other systems supporting SPARQL queries to views of existing RDBs.When an archived RDB is to be recreated, the reloader module of SAQ first reads the schema archive file and executes a schema reconstruction algorithm to automatically construct the RDB schema. The thus created RDB is populated by reading the data archive and converting the read data into relational attribute values. For scalable recreation of RDF archived data we have developed the Triple Bulk Load (TBL) approach where the relational data is reconstructed by using the bulk load facility of the RDBMS. Our experiments show that the TBL approach is substantially faster than the naïve Insert Attribute Value (IAV) approach, despite the added sorting and post-processing.To view and query semi-structured Topic Maps data as RDF the prototype system TM-Viewer was implemented. A declarative RDF view of Topic Maps, the TM-view, is automatically generated by the TM-viewer using a developed conceptual schema for the Topic Maps data model. To achieve efficient query processing of SPARQL queries to the TM-view query rewrite transformations were developed and evaluated. It was shown that they significantly improve the query execution time.
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- Stefanova, Silvia, et al.
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SPARQL queries to RDFS views of Topic Maps
- 2010
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In: International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO). - : Inderscience. - 1744-2621. ; 5:1, s. 1-16
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Zhu, Minpeng, et al.
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Scalable Numerical SPARQL Queries over Relational Databases
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present an approach for scalable processing of SPARQL queries to RDF views of numerical data stored in relational databases (RDBs). Such queries include numerical expressions, inequalities, comparisons, etc. inside FILTERs. We call such FILTERs numerical expressions and the queries - numerical SPARQL queries. For scalable execution of numerical SPARQL queries over RDBs, numerical operators should be pushed into SQL rather than executing the filters as post-processing outside the RDB; otherwise the query execution is slowed down, since a lot of data is transported from the RDB server and furthermore indexes on the server are not utilized. The NUMTranslator algorithm converts numerical expressions in numerical SPARQL queries into corresponding SQL expressions. We show that NUMTranslator improves substantially the scalability of SPARQL queries based on a benchmark that analyses numerical logs stored in an RDB. We compared the performance of our approach with the performance of other systems processing SPARQL queries to RDF views of RDBs and show that NUMTranslator improves substantially the scalability of numerical queries compared to the other systems’ approaches.
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