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In 2001 management of red and fallow deer in the Deelerwoud was stopped by Natuurmonumenten. Management of roe deer had already been stopped earlier. This experiment served the purpose of developing an ecosystem that was as complete and natural as possible and in which held opportunities for the development of a natural life style of these animals. Also, the experiment aimed to improve visibility of these animals to the public visiting the ...

© 2017 Governmental pressure and an industrially competitive climate force chemical companies to strive for a sustainable design and operation. Model-based optimization has been proven to be an indispensable tool to achieve these goals. For the development and maintenance of process models, experimental data with a high information content are required. Model-based optimal experiment design techniques have been developed to obtain experiments ...

In 2009, the PROTEIN experiment was run on board of the Columbus module of the International Space Station to investigate the crystallization of proteins in microgravity using the Protein Crystallization Diagnostics Facility. This instrument was designed to allow almost real time modification of remote-operated space experiments on request by the Science Team. The complexity of the experiments and the expected high volume of raw scientific data ...

Thousands of machine learning research papers contain extensive experimental comparisons. However, the details of those experiments are often lost after publication, making it impossible to reuse these experiments in further research, or reproduce them to verify the claims made. In this paper, we present a collaboration framework designed to easily share machine learning experiments with the community, and automatically organize them in public ...

Context - During the last two decades, functional biodiversity research has provided strong support for the hypothesis that more biodiverse ecosystems have the potential to deliver more and better services. However, most empirical support for this hypothesis comes from simple structured communities that are relatively easy to manipulate. The impact of forest biodiversity on forest ecosystem functioning has been far less studied. Experiment ...

We propose a free, easy-to-use computer program to generate and run experiments which does not requires prior knowledge of computer programming. The FM Experiments Builder Suite is designed for building and conducting Functional Measurement (FM) experiments but can also be applied for non-FM experiments that necessitate randomized, single or multi-factorial designs. The program is highly configurable, allowing multi-lingual use and a wide range ...

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Dynamic experiments that yield as much information as possible are highly valuable for estimating parameters in nonlinear dynamic processes. Techniques for model-based optimal experiment design enable to systematically design such experiments. However, these experiments depend on the current best estimate of the parameters, which are not necessarily the true values. Consequently, in real experiments (i) the information ...

© 2014 IEEE. Experiments that yield as much information as possible are highly valuable for estimating parameters in nonlinear dynamic processes. Techniques for model based optimal experiment design enable the design of such experiments. However, these experiments depend on the current best estimate of the parameters, which are not necessarily the true values. Consequently, in real experiments (i) the information content can be lower than ...

This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work experience in similar jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. A statistical examination of our experimental dataset shows that in general we cannot reject that employers are indifferent to whether job candidates gained their experience in a ...