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Over the past few decades, the literature on agency autonomy has increased rapidly. It still struggles, however, to find solid evidence for specific factors explaining variations in autonomy. This paper argues that a reason for this is basic assumptions in this line of research, and more specifically the tendency to focus on factors on the collective level. Using the distinction between methodolog

Recent results have shown that denoising an image with the Rudin, Osher and Fatemi (ROF) total variation model can be accomplished by solving a series of binary optimization problems. We observe that this fact can be used in the other direction. The procedure is applied to the two-phase, piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional, where an image is approximated with a function taking only two valu

Ligands for the benzodiazepine-binding site of the GABAA receptor can belong to structurally diverse classes of compounds including, in spite of the name of the binding site, many non-benzodiazepine structures. The GABAA receptor is a ligand-gated ion channel assembled of five subunits from eight different classes with multiple isoforms. The physiological effect elicited by benzodiazepines is beli

We explore numerically different aspects of periodic traveling-wave solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation. in particular, the time evolution of some recently found new traveling-wave solutions and the interaction of peaked and cusped waves is studied.

The enzymatic synthesis of PC with decanoic acid in the sn-1 and hexanoic acid in the sn-2 position is described. The procedure comprises the following enzymatic steps: (i) treatment of egg yolk with phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) to hydrolyze egg yolk PC to 1-acyl lysophosphaticlylcholine (LPC) (ii) esterification of I-acyl LPC with hexanoic acid catalyzed by PLA(2) to yield PC with hexanoic acid in

In this work properties of a vacuum phototriode (VPT) and preamplifier unit designed for the electromagnetic calorimeter of the PANDA experiment being built at FAIR are investigated. With the use of lead tungstate and lanthanium bromide scintillators the VPT properties are studied at low photon energies, from tens of key in the lanthanium bromide measurements and between 10 MeV and 60 MeV in the l

The impact of the main contaminants usually present in the gas generated during gasification of biomass was studied on a Pt-Rh/MgAl(O) reforming catalyst, which was exposed to solutions of K2SO4, KCl, and ZnCl2 and also to a leached solution of biomass fly ash by aerosol technology on a laboratory scale. The catalyst was exposed to a product gas of a bench-scale downdraft gasifier as well. Untreat

Procedural generation as a concept is as old as computer graphics. It is usually defined as a method for creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually. Work in this area often revolves around noise functions and large degrees of randomness, which works well for chaotic structures and for generating natural environments, but it does not always suit more sophisticated and coherent environment

Existing models which describe crowd movement are running out of time and are failing to take the change of people’s characteristics into account. The purpose of this study is to determine the “state-of- the-art” regarding the research within the field of crowd movement and identify parameters that influence crowd movement. To do this, a scoping review was conducted and the articles that were foun

In this work, we intend to employ nanowires for the realisation of an artificial neuron which can be used to design a neural network that will guide the new generation of non-von Neumann architectures such as Neuromorphic Computing. Possible applications are strongly related to Neuromorphic architectures and artificial intelligence, such as high-performance computers, robotics hardware and autonom

The aim of this project is to design a solution to a payment system for people that have a diagnosis of intellectual disorder. This target group has problems with today’s payment system because it becomes successively more digital. With the digital solutions will the target group be excluded. I have been thinking of the question “What would happen if cash was removed as a payment system?”. I have

This thesis focuses on the techniques involved in analysing the substructure of products resulting from the decay of new particles. These particles are postulated to exist in models used to describe undetectable matter whose influence can be observed within the cosmos. The models are termed 'Dark Sector models' and they attempt to describe Dark Matter; theorised to exist and account for ab