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Tallinn University of Technology
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About: Tallinn University of Technology is a education organization based out in Tallinn, Estonia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: European union & Oil shale. The organization has 3688 authors who have published 10313 publications receiving 145058 citations. The organization is also known as: Tallinn Technical University & Tallinna Tehnikaülikool.
Topics: European union, Oil shale, Thin film, Nonlinear system, Microstructure
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the prevalence and determinants of unreported employment in the three Baltic countries in 1998 and 2002 using a hitherto little used data set and found that the gain for individuals undertaking unsolicited employment is modest or non-existent, in particular among individuals who engage regularly in such activities.
Abstract: This paper compares the prevalence and determinants of unreported employment in the three Baltic countries in 1998 and 2002 using a hitherto little used data set. The prevalence of unreported employment varies substantially across the three countries and across the two sampling years. Microeconometric estimations show that firm-related characteristics, such as sectoral activity, firm size and employment changes, are important determinants of unreported employment in all three countries. The impact of socio-demographic factors, such as gender, age and education, is generally less important and varies across countries and time. Only a small part of the changes in unreported employment between 1998 and 2002 can be accounted for by changes in firm-specific factors and socio-demographic characteristics. Exploratory calculations suggest that the gain for individuals undertaking unreported employment is modest or non-existent, in particular among individuals who engage regularly in such activities. This suggests that the many of the recipients of envelope wages may have few alternatives to accepting unreported employment.
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TL;DR: The identification of the PARTING DANCERS (PTD) gene, as a gene with an elevated expression level in meiocytes, raises the possibility that PTD may present a previously unknown function conserved in divergent eukaryotic organisms.
Abstract: Recent studies of meiotic recombination in the budding yeast and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana indicate that meiotic crossovers (COs) occur through two genetic pathways: the interference-sensitive pathway and the interference-insensitive pathway. However, few genes have been identified in either pathway. Here, we describe the identification of the PARTING DANCERS (PTD) gene, as a gene with an elevated expression level in meiocytes. Analysis of two independently generated transferred DNA insertional lines in PTD showed that the mutants had reduced fertility. Further cytological analysis of male meiosis in the ptd mutants revealed defects in meiosis, including reduced formation of chiasmata, the cytological appearance of COs. The residual chiasmata in the mutants were distributed randomly, indicating that the ptd mutants are defective for CO formation in the interference-sensitive pathway. In addition, transmission electron microscopic analysis of the mutants detected no obvious abnormality of synaptonemal complexes and apparently normal late recombination nodules at the pachytene stage, suggesting that the mutant's defects in bivalent formation were postsynaptic. Comparison to other genes with limited sequence similarity raises the possibility that PTD may present a previously unknown function conserved in divergent eukaryotic organisms.
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TL;DR: In this paper, gypsum, steel slag, and water were mixed, compaction-shaped, and carbonation-cured as a means of improving the strength of the steel slags.
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TL;DR: In this article, a reconstruction of the changing Baltic Sea ecosystem during the period 1850-2008 was performed using a coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean circulation model, and the authors found that the decadal to centennial changes in eutrophication and hypoxia were mainly caused by changing riverborne nutrient loads and atmospheric deposition.
Abstract: In the Baltic Sea hypoxia has been increased considerably since the first oxygen measurements became available in 1898. In 2016 the annual maximum extent of hypoxia covered an area of the sea bottom of about 70,000 km2, comparable with the size of Ireland, whereas 150 years ago hypoxia was presumably not existent or at least very small. The general view is that the increase in hypoxia was caused by eutrophication due to anthropogenic riverborne nutrient loads. However, the role of changing climate, e.g. warming, is less clear. In this study, different causes of expanding hypoxia were investigated. A reconstruction of the changing Baltic Sea ecosystem during the period 1850–2008 was performed using a coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean circulation model. To disentangle the drivers of eutrophication and hypoxia a series of sensitivity experiments was carried out. We found that the decadal to centennial changes in eutrophication and hypoxia were mainly caused by changing riverborne nutrient loads and atmospheric deposition. The impacts of other drivers like observed warming and eustatic sea level rise were comparatively smaller but still important depending on the selected ecosystem indicator. Further, (1) fictively combined changes in air temperature, cloudiness and mixed layer depth chosen from 1904, (2) exaggerated increases in nutrient concentrations in the North Sea and (3) high-end scenarios of future sea level rise may have an important impact. However, during the past 150 years hypoxia would not have been developed if nutrient conditions had remained at pristine levels.
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TL;DR: This is the first example where 3-chloroxoindoles 1 have been used as nucleophiles in a highly stereoselective organocatalytic reaction.
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James Chapman | 82 | 483 | 36468 |
Alexandre Alexakis | 67 | 540 | 17247 |
Bernard Waeber | 56 | 370 | 35335 |
Peter A. Andrekson | 54 | 573 | 12042 |
Charles S. Peirce | 51 | 167 | 11998 |
Lars M. Blank | 49 | 301 | 8011 |
Fushuan Wen | 49 | 465 | 9189 |
Mati Karelson | 48 | 207 | 10210 |
Ago Samoson | 46 | 119 | 8807 |
Zebo Peng | 45 | 359 | 7312 |
Petru Eles | 44 | 300 | 6749 |
Vijai Kumar Gupta | 43 | 301 | 6901 |
Eero Vasar | 43 | 263 | 6930 |
Rik Ossenkoppele | 42 | 192 | 6839 |
Tõnis Timmusk | 41 | 105 | 11056 |