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This deliverable presents a method to provide the researchers with a consistent software environment across multiple computing facilities. The consistency is achieved by constructing a set of build scripts that will install the software tools with the same configurations and versions with the same set of dependencies. EasyBuild was selected as the framework to install and configure the software from source code, optimised for the underlying system and expose them as software-modules with uniform naming across systems. This way the researchers can bring their analysis pipelines and run on any of the systems just by loading the same set of modules. ; The EOSC-Nordic project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857652. This deliverable is EC submitted, not approved.

This book is about digital humanities laboratories, places where the humanities take up new digital and computational technologies for teaching and research, which often grow out of—or turn into—other contemporary labs configurations: research software engineering labs, digital heritage labs, feminist labs, and social labs. In this introduction, the editors present the goal of the volume, which is to discuss the concept of a laboratory in digital humanities from a broad range of perspectives: epistemological, infrastructural, technological, and socio-cultural. This book offers a reflection on how to interrogate the organisational structures of digital humanities, how to reimagine a "critical laboratory" with great sensitivity towards racial, gender, and indigenous issues, and what can be offered to other humanities fields interested in laboratories (e.g., science and technology studies, media studies, and cultural heritage studies). Laboratories have become an important lens for investigating the development of the field of digital humanities and its connections with science, technology, industry, and society, drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from science and technology studies, infrastructure studies, philosophy of technology, feminism, postcolonial studies, and critical digital pedagogy. This collection aims to pave the way toward "laboratory studies" as a new research direction in digital humanities.

This second edition is fully updated to address all aspects of the forensic investigation of clandestine laboratories. Coverage looks at domestic clandestine manufacture of contraband substances in addition to expanding the scope to investigating the clandestine manufacture of explosives.

AbstractThe notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the significance of these spaces of experimentation in urban contexts. Based on this overview of laboratory studies, we argue that urban laboratories and experimentation involve three key achievements — situatedness, change‐orientation and contingency — that are useful for evaluating and critiquing those practices that claim to be urban laboratories. We conclude by considering some future directions of research on urban laboratories.

The problem of the existence of illegal drug production laboratories in the world was recorded as early as in the mid-twentieth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, this global problem affected Serbia, too, when the first clandestine drug production laboratories, whose production capacities exceeded the demands of the Serbian drug market, were uncovered. The aim of this paper is to determine the characteristics of illegal laboratories for the production of narcotics in the Republic of Serbia and how widespread they are. On the basis of the data provided by the Department of Analytics at the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia, data relating to all illegal laboratories uncovered in Serbia (excluding Kosovo and Metohija) in the period from 2003 to 2019 was used. An exploratory research has been conducted analyzing 147 uncovered laboratories in which 245 illegal manufacturers were imprisoned. The production of marijuana took place in 92.5% of the laboratories, in 6.8% of cases synthetic drugs were produced, while hallucinogenic mushrooms were grown in one laboratory. A cartographic representation of how widespread the laboratories are and their basic characteristics in terms of location, production capacity and the type of installed equipment has also been provided.

▪ Abstract  As laboratories, states are faced with a new agenda of social experimentation. This article first considers state elections and parties, including state realignment, party endorsements and primary elections, uncontested seats, and campaign finance. A second topic is the governorship, including governors' careers, changes in power, party leadership, and legislative programs and tactics used in negotiating with legislators. A third section considers the state legislatures, including term limits, professionalism, leadership, committees, roll-call voting, and representation. Another subject closely related to all aspects is the variety and organization of interest groups, their power, and whom they represent. The conclusion is that the states as laboratories are now equipped to handle the social experimentation that devolution has handed down to them.

As laboratories, states are faced with a new agenda of social experimentation. This article first considers state elections & parties, including state realignment, party endorsements & primary elections, uncontested seats, & campaign finance. A second topic is the governorship, including governors' careers, changes in power, party leadership, & legislative programs & tactics used in negotiating with legislators. A third section considers the state legislatures, including term limits, professionalism, leadership, committees, roll-call voting, & representation. Another subject closely related to all aspects is the variety & organization of interest groups, their power, & whom they represent. The conclusion is that the states as laboratories are now equipped to handle the social experimentation that devolution has handed down to them. 84 References. Adapted from the source document.

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge laboratories

"The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) conducted its first assessment of state public health laboratories' (SPHL) all-hazards preparedness in 2007. Since then SPHLs have made incremental progress in building and maintaining new partnerships, hiring and training new personnel, conducting outreach to build statewide laboratory networks, providing training to other laboratories and partners, and implementing formal exercises and drills to assess gaps in planning, testing capability and capacity. However, in this era of budget deficits, increasing expectations and evolving threats, the ability of state public health laboratories to sustain core preparedness functions is in jeopardy. APHL conducted data collection for its second All-Hazards Laboratory Preparedness Survey in fall 2008 to document both the improvements that laboratories have made and the challenges that they face. Participants reported on laboratory capability and capacity for biological, chemical and radiological terrorism preparedness for a period of 12 months from August 31, 2007 to August 30, 2008, representing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Cooperative Agreement Fiscal Year 2007 (FY 07), also known as Budget Period 8. The 2008 survey was sent to the 50 states, the District of Columbia (DC) and Puerto Rico. Fifty-one responses were received, representing all states and the District of Columbia for a response rate of 98%. Despite notable improvements, serious gaps in workforce and real-time electronic data messaging still remain. The area most impacted by funding cuts is workforce, the core of a laboratory's ability to respond. Many laboratories are being forced to combine positions, such as scientists and training coordinators, when both jobs are necessary for an effective response. Not only is the ability to respond to an event compromised with fewer staff, but so is the ability to take on mounting responsibilities, such as training partners and adding new detection methods. " - p. 5 ; Introduction -- The Laboratory Response Network Structure -- Background -- Methods -- Results -- -- Funding for Laboratory Preparedness Activities -- Biological terrorism laboratory preparedness funding -- Chemical threat laboratory preparedness funding -- Radiological laboratory preparedness funding -- Influenza laboratory funding -- Food safety laboratory coordination and funding support -- -- Workforce Sample Receipt and Analyses -- Planning, Partnerning, Exercising and Responding -- Conclusions ; "March 2009." ; Title from title caption (viewed on April 22, 2010). ; Mode of access: World Wide Web. ; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Text in PDF format. ; This APHL Report was supported under Cooperative Agreement #U60/CCU303019 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response, Laboratory Response Branch, and the National Center for Environmental Health and the Association of Public Health Laboratories.