Volume 81, no. 11, p. 4081-4090, 2013. "Bordetella pertussis 18323" should be replaced with "Bordetella pertussis Tohama I" throughout.We recently became aware that since 2008, our laboratory has used a Bordetella pertussis strain that was erroneously labeled and referred to in this publication as Bordetella pertussis 18323. Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis and determination of the draft genome sequence of the strain performed by Dr. Harris at the Sanger Institute revealed that we have been working with the B. pertussis Tohama I strain. The genome sequence data for this strain (assembled sequence contigs) from the study named "Sequencing Czech Bordetella pertussis wP vaccine strains" can be downloaded from the ENA under study accession number ERP003836, using the following link: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/SAMEA2177726.In all future experiments and publications, we will refer to this strain as "B. pertussis Tohama I." We sincerely apologize to all colleagues for any confusion that may have arisen from the unfortunate error that, however, has no effect whatsoever on the validity of the published data obtained with a reference B. pertussis strain and mutants derived thereof.
Measurements of test antennas are performed on antenna ranges. The operated microwave far-field outdoor range was built-up in 1970's and therefore it was not appropriate for the today measurements. Thus, it was decided to perform the complete reconstruction and testing. Some results of new ample measurement campaign are just given. The optimization of antenna range using merely measurement is very inefficient, and therefore that is done by numerical simulations. Consequently the paper surveys briefly electromagnetic wave propagation over irregular terrain. The physical optics approximation of vector problem was chosen. That allows the comparison of selected numerical simulations and measurements for the reconstructed far-field range. A possibility of antenna range optimizing by using numerical simulation considering various constraints is verified.
Transitioning to a decarbonized economy is a crucial part of climate change mitigation, with the phasing-out of coal, as the most significant source of carbon dioxide emissions, being the centerpiece of this effort. In the European context, the increasing pressures exerted especially on the basis of the European Union’s energy and climate policy, coupled with the inherent uncertainty of the transition process, encourage various struggles among the involved policy actors over the setting of specific transition pathways. One site of such contestation is media discourse, which may facilitate or limit policy change through agenda-setting, framing, and other processes. Importantly, discursive struggles also include industry incumbents, who have a vested interest in preserving the existing sociotechnical regime. This article focuses on the position of incumbents in terms of their relationship with governing political parties and the discursive strategies they employ. It explores the policy debate on coal mining expansion which took place in 2015 in the Czech Republic, a post-communist country with a coal-dependent economy, a skeptical position on energy transition, and a powerful energy industry. The research employs discourse network analysis to examine a corpus compiled from daily newspapers and applies block modeling techniques to analyze patterns of relationships within and between actor groups. The results show that incumbents successfully prevented policy change in the direction of rapid coal phase-out by exploiting discourse alignment with governing parties and efficiently employing discursive strategies based primarily on securitization of socioeconomic issues.
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