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Literature survey
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Aarhus University1, University of Waikato2, University of Western Australia3, University of Oxford4, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency5, Oranim Academic College6, Dresden University of Technology7, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ8, University of Southern Denmark9, University of Toronto10, University of Oslo11, Norwegian Institute for Water Research12, Wageningen University and Research Centre13, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul14, Federal University of Alagoas15, University of Wisconsin-Madison16
TL;DR: A point of departure is communicated in the development of aquatic ecosystem models, namely a new community-based framework, which supports an enhanced and transparent union between the collective expertise that exists in the communities of traditional ecologists and model developers.
Abstract: Here, we communicate a point of departure in the development of aquatic ecosystem models, namely a new community-based framework, which supports an enhanced and transparent union between the collective expertise that exists in the communities of traditional ecologists and model developers. Through a literature survey, we document the growing importance of numerical aquatic ecosystem models while also noting the difficulties, up until now, of the aquatic scientific community to make significant advances in these models during the past two decades. Through a common forum for aquatic ecosystem modellers we aim to (i) advance collaboration within the aquatic ecosystem modelling community, (ii) enable increased use of models for research, policy and ecosystem-based management, (iii) facilitate a collective framework using common (standardised) code to ensure that model development is incremental, (iv) increase the transparency of model structure, assumptions and techniques, (v) achieve a greater understanding of aquatic ecosystem functioning, (vi) increase the reliability of predictions by aquatic ecosystem models, (vii) stimulate model inter-comparisons including differing model approaches, and (viii) avoid ‘re-inventing the wheel’, thus accelerating improvements to aquatic ecosystem models. We intend to achieve this as a community that fosters interactions amongst ecologists and model developers. Further, we outline scientific topics recently articulated by the scientific community, which lend themselves well to being addressed by integrative modelling approaches and serve to motivate the progress and implementation of an open source model framework.
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TL;DR: A wide range of clinical and other in vivo studies for many of the plant-based therapies utilized in the Ayurvedic system are found, contradicting the generally held notion that herbal remedies used in non-Western systems of botanical medicine have not been evaluated in human or in vivo trials.
Abstract: This paper reports on the results of a literature survey involving 166 different species of plants used in the Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia, based on a sampling of the literature available to us. We found a wide range of clinical and other in vivo studies for many of the plant-based therapies utilized in the Ayurvedic system. Of the 166 plants investigated, 72 (43%) had at least one or more human studies and 103 (62%) had one or more animal studies. These results appear to contradict the generally held notion that herbal remedies used in non-Western systems of botanical medicine have not been evaluated in human or in vivo trials. Some of these studies are not always as large or methodologically rigorous as clinical studies reported in major medical journals. Indeed, a critical assessment of the research according to the standards of evidence-based medicine would eliminate many of these studies for lack of rigor according to criteria of randomization, sample size, adequacy of controls, etc. However, the studies...
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TL;DR: This paper surveys technology management (TM) development using a literature review and classification of articles from 1995 to 2003 with keyword index to explore how TM methodologies and applications have developed in this period.
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TL;DR: The aim of the research was to identify the representations employed by industrial designers and engineering designers during NPD from a literature survey and to define and categorize these representations in the form of a taxonomy that is a systematic organization of VDRs that are presently dispersed in the literature.
Abstract: In the context of new product development (NPD), research has shown that not having a common understanding of visual design representations (VDRs) has affected collaboration between industrial designers and engineering designers. The aim of the research presented in this paper was two-fold. Firstly, to identify the representations employed by industrial designers and engineering designers during NPD from a literature survey. Secondly, to define and categorize these representations in the form of a taxonomy that is a systematic organization of VDRs that are presently dispersed in the literature. For the development of the taxonomy, four measures encompassing orthogonality, spanning, completeness and usability were employed. It resulted in four groups consisting of sketches, drawings, models and prototypes. Validation was undertaken by means of an interview survey and further, presenting the taxonomy at an international conference. The results showed that no issues were raised by the respondents con...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey on the stochastic economic lot scheduling problem (SELSP), which deals with the make-to-stock production of multiple standardized products on a single machine with limited capacity under random demands, possibly random setup times and possibly random production times.
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