cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving measurement of harms from others’ drinking: Using item-response theory to scale harms from others’ heavy drinking in 10 countries
Creators: name: Grittner, Ulrike
name: Bloomfield, Kim
name: Kuntsche, Sandra
name: Callinan, Sarah
name: Stanesby, Oliver
name: Gmel, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: alcohol
subject: harms to others
subject: scaling
subject: item response theory
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction: The heavy drinking of others may negatively affect an individual on several dimensions of life. Until now, there is scarce research about how to judge the severity of various experiences of such harms. This study aims to empirically scale the severity of such harm items and to determine who is at most risk of these harms. Methods: We used population-based survey data from 10 countries of the GENAHTO project (Gender and Alcohol's Harms to Others, data collection: 2011-2016). Questions about harms from others' drinking asked about verbal and physical harm, damage of belongings, traffic accidents, harassment, threatening behaviour, family and financial problems. We used item response theory methods (IRT) to scale severity of the aforementioned items. To acknowledge culturally based variations in different countries, we assessed 'differential item functioning'. Results: The items 'family problems', 'financial problems' and 'clothes and property damage' as well as 'physical harm' were scaled as more severe in most countries compared to other items. Substantial differential item functioning was present in more than half of the country pairings. The item 'financial problems' was most often differentially scaled. Younger people who drank more, as well as women (compared to men), reported more harm. Discussion and conclusions: Using IRT, we were able to evaluate grades of severity in harms from others' drinking. IRT scaling yielded in similar rankings of items as reported from other studies. However, empirical scaling allows for more differentiated severity scaling than simple summary scores and is more sensitive to cultural differences.
title: Visual color and field line recognition and exploitation for the RoboCup Standard Platform League
title: Οπτική αναγνώριση και αξιοποίηση χρωμάτων και διαγράμμισης γηπέδου για το Πρωτάθλημα Standard Platform του RoboCup
Creators: name: Λιβεριος-Μαρινος Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: In order to complete complex tasks, both humans and robots are bound by one of the most important senses, the visual sense, which helps them perceive the state of the environment that surrounds them. Robotic soccer, known as RoboCup, represents a complex, stochastic, real-time, multi-agent, competitive domain for autonomous robots. In such domains, the ability to understand the environment is critical for the accomplishment of the assigned task and is required for a range of activities, such as locomotion, coordination, and decision making. This thesis focuses on two specific aspects of robot visual perception, color and field line recognition, in order to complement prior work on this problem by our RoboCup team Kouretes. In RoboCup, the objects of interest are characterized by unique colors (orange ball, green field, yellow goalposts, white lines) and their recognition relies on the correct identification of image areas corresponding to the same color. However, the problem of color recognition is highly affected by the environment illumination conditions, as well as the robot's camera settings. In this thesis, we propose a new approach to color recognition, which relies on modeling on-line the signatures of the target colors in the color space under different illuminations using density estimation with Gaussian distributions and dynamically identifying and using the correct models by exploiting a metric on the most common color in the RoboCup environment (green). On the problem of field line recognition, we focus on identifying a variety of field line landmarks (straight lines, center circle, corners, T-lines), which are useful for localization. This is accomplished by searching for white pixels in the camera images, selectively keeping those that can be part of a line, and then identifying each type of line using curve fitting techniques. For each recognized line landmark, we use geometry and projection techniques to estimate its distance and bearing with respect to the robot. Our work contributes an on-line tool for color recognition and a real-time module for field line recognition appropriate for on-board execution on the Aldebaran Nao humanoid robots. The proposed methods perform reliably in most cases, failing only in extreme cases, which are typically infrequent during RoboCup games.
title: Video traffic modeling by exploiting inter-frame correlation coefficients
Creators: name: Καλαμπογια Αθηνα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: The explosive growth of multimedia applications renders the efficiency network resource allocation a problem of major importance. The burstiness of video traffic, in particular, calls for innovative ideas that will help prevent significant packet losses that could cause bad Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) to users. In this work, we analyze the traffic characteristics of H.264 encoded video and we propose and evaluate the accuracy of a H.264 video traffic model that predicts the size of B-frames. B-frame prediction can be used in order to reduce bandwidth requirements and smoothen the encoded video stream, by selective B-frame dropping, when the model predicts larger B-frame traffic than the network can handle. We implement three prediction models and after comparing them against each other we conclude which model offers the highest accuracy. It will be shown that our approach clearly outperforms another model recently proposed in the literature, and provides a highly accurate prediction for a wide variety of video traces with different GOP patterns and different qualities. We also show that the third implemented model, which in a previous work in the literature was shown to underperform for MPEG-4 traffic, also produces highly accurate results for H.264 traces.
Microtubules stained in Alexa 647 and incubated in 1 uM of Nocodazole for 20 min
Creators: name: SINGH, Manish
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: shareloc.xyz
shareloc.xyz:dataset
U2OS
microtubule
nocodazole
dstorm
Alexa Fluor 647
smlm

description: Open in Shareloc.XYZ
description: Alpha-tubulin immuno-labeled with Alexa 647 in U2OS cells treated with 1 um of Nocodazole for 20 min (Uploaded via https://shareloc.xyz)
title: Revenue and irritation-based call admission control using road maps over wireless cellular networks
Creators: name: Δημητριου Κωνσταντινα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: Bandwidth remains the most valuable commodity in wireless networks, even more so today, as new bandwidth-hungry multimedia applications emerge constantly and their users have high Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Hence, the ability of a wireless network to efficiently allocate its bandwidth resources is crucial.
In this thesis, we propose a new mechanism which controls the admission of users moving from cell to cell in a wireless cellular network. The Call Admission Control (CAC) mechanism is defined  as a sequence of activities that are realized from the network in order to check if a user’s request, to use a specific service of the network, can be admitted or not. This request will be admitted if the desirable level of QoS can be accomplished without causing violation on the QoS that existing users enjoy. The design and simulation of the CAC mechanism were realized for the simultaneous use of the channel both from voice and e-mail users and video users downloading movies encoded with MPEG-4. The CAC mechanism aims to maximize channel throughput without allowing network congestion which would lead to the violation of the users’ QoS requirements. This is difficult to achieve because of the contradictory nature of the different types of traffic. Our work is one of the first in the relevant literature, to the best of our knowledge, to simultaneously consider both the provider revenue and user irritation in making its admission decisions.
Our results show the resource allocation efficiency of the proposed mechanism in two different implementations regarding the degradation/upgrades of video users. Our CAC mechanism is shown to provide voice and video users long term satisfaction with the QoS they receive, even for very high traffic loads, while at the same time allowing the provider to increase its profit.
title: Distributed event detection using the Storm System
Creators: name: Μανικακη Βασιλικη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: Distributed event detection is the process of identifying specific occurrences of interest in incoming data available at a number of distributed nodes. The traditional approach for detecting events implies central collection and processing of data, which is impractical for a number of reasons. Firstly, since the number of nodes might be large, collecting information centrally is not always possible or efficient. This happens because the amount of information to be transmitted may be huge and the available bandwidth insufficient to accommodate the transmission. Secondly, in some networks such as sensor networks, transmitting information draws additional power, which is not desirable because usually the sensors have limited battery power and their power source may be irreplaceable. Subsequently, it is not recommended to send all available information to a central node because this transmission will consume a substantial amount of power. For these reasons, one of the most significant limitations of sensor networks is the need to reduce energy consumption. The geometric method was proposed relatively recently and allows a network to monitor in a distributed way if the value of a complex function, even nonlinear, calculated using incoming data is over or under a specific threshold value. Thus, composite events can be distributely detected if they are expressed as a threshold monitoring function. The geometric method imposes a set of local constraints on each node and manages to reduce the need for communication between the nodes as long as the constraints are satisfied.
In this work, the geometric method is implemented, using the real-time distributed computation framework named Storm, for distributed event detection. A topology implementing the geometric method has been constructed using the components provided by the Storm framework, allowing scalable processing of data acquired from nodes and monitoring of certain functions. Finally, the system also allows runtime addition of new functions that can be monitored.
Impact of double reading on NI-RADS diagnostic accuracy in reporting oral squamous cell carcinoma surveillance imaging – a single-center study
Creators: name: Elsholtz, Fabian Henry Jürgen
name: Ro, Sa-Ra
name: Shnayien, Seyd
name: Dinkelborg, Patrick
name: Hamm, Bernd
name: Schaafs, Lars-Arne
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Head and neck cancer
subject: Squamous cell carcinoma
subject: Surveillance
subject: NI-RADS
subject: Education
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives: The Neck Imaging Reporting and Data System (NI-RADS) is an increasingly utilized risk stratification tool for imaging surveillance after treatment for head and neck cancer. This study aims to measure the impact of supervision by subspecialized radiologists on diagnostic accuracy of NI-RADS when initial reading is performed by residents. Methods: 150 CT and MRI datasets were initially read by two trained residents, and then supervised by two subspecialized radiologists. Recurrence rates by NI-RADS category were calculated, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted. After dichotomization of the NI-RADS system (category 1 vs categories 2 + 3+4 and categories 1 + 2 vs 3 + 4), sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value were calculated. Results: 26% of the reports were modified by the supervising radiologists. Area under the curve of ROC plots values of the supervision session were higher than those of the initial reading session for both the primary site (0.89 vs 0.86) and the neck (0.94 vs 0.91), but the difference was not statistically significant. For dichotomized NI-RADS category assignments, differences between the initial reading and the supervision session were statistically significant regarding specificity and PPV for the primary site (1 + 2 vs 3 + 4 and 1 vs 2 + 3+4) or even for both sites combined (1 vs 2 + 3+4). Conclusion: NI-RADS enables trained resident radiologists to report surveillance imaging in patients with treated oral squamous cell carcinoma with high discriminatory power. Additional supervision by a subspecialized head and neck radiologist particularly improves specificity of radiological reports.
TALABALARNI INNOVATSION TA'LIM MUHITIGA TAYYORLASH
Creators: name: Kadirova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Mazkur maqolada talabalarning kasbiy mahoratini shakllantirish, ularni innovatsion ta'lim muhitiga tayyorlash, ta'lim-tarbiya tizimiga innovatsion yondashuv ko'nikmalarini rivojlantirishning amaliy-metodik ahamiyati va tashkiliy-pedagogik asoslari haqida ilmiy farazlar bayon qilingan. Bundan tashqari ta'lim-tarbiya jarayonida innovatsion ta'lim texnologiyalarni qo'llashdagi muammolar, bu muammolarni yechimini topishga qaratilgan amaliy-metodik tavsiyalar berib o'tilgan.
title: Staatsorganisationsrecht
title: Klausur- und Examenswissen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Staatsorganisationsrecht
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::340 Recht::340 Recht

description: Dieses Lehrbuch, verfasst von universitären Mitarbeiter:innen, Dozent:innen und Referendar:innen aus ganz Deutschland, beinhaltet das gesamte Grundlagenwissen des Staatsorganisationsrechts und eignet sich sowohl für die Zwischenprüfung, als auch zur Vorbereitung auf das Examen. Dabei wird der prüfungsrelevante Stoff nachvollziehbar und durch zahlreiche Beispiele anschaulich aufbereitet. Ergänzt werden die Ausführungen durch Exkurse zu einzelnen Themen, soweit diese dem Verständnis dienen. Weiterhin berücksichtigt das Lehrbuch den internationalen Kontext mit Darstellungen zu europa- und völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen. Aufgrund der zahlreichen Hinweise, Fallbeispiele und dem weiterführenden Wissen dient das Lehrbuch auch Examenskandidat:innen zur effizienten Vorbereitung. Alle Kapitel lassen sich zudem auf einer digitalen Plattform kommentieren.
РОЛЬ ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ЕСТЕСТВЕННОНАУЧНОМ ОБРАЗОВАНИИ
Creators: name: Утемуратов, Рустам
name: Олламберганов, Файзулла
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Настоящая работа посвящена роли информационных технологий (ИТ), исследованию проблем внедрения, развития и использования современных ИТ в науке и образовании. Современные ИТ рассматриваются как активный инструмент и в образовательной сфере, и в сфере научных исследований, открывающий новые возможности и перспективы.
Etiology‐specific response to antiseizure medication in focal epilepsy
Creators: name: Doerrfuss, Jakob I.
name: Kowski, Alexander B.
name: Holtkamp, Martin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: drug load
subject: hippocampal sclerosis
subject: prognosis
subject: seizure freedom
subject: stroke
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: In focal epilepsy, data on the etiology-specific response to antiseizure medication (ASM) are surprisingly sparse. In this study, we sought to reappraise whether seizure outcome of pharmacological treatment is linked to the underlying etiology. Furthermore, we assessed ASM load with respect to the cause of epilepsy. Methods: Data were retrospectively obtained from the electronic database of the three sites of an academic adult epilepsy outpatient clinic. For each patient, presumed cause of epilepsy was categorized into one of nine etiological groups. Individual drug loads were calculated according to the 2020 World Health Organization Center for Drug Statistics Methodology ATC/DDD Index. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to explore the association between different etiologies and outcome regarding 12-month seizure freedom as well as ASM load. Results: A total of 591 patients with focal epilepsy were included in the final analysis. Ischemic stroke was the etiology with the highest rate of 12-month terminal seizure freedom (71.2%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 57.9-82.2) and, considering all etiological groups, was an independent predictor of seizure freedom (odds ratio = 2.093, 95% CI = 1.039-4.216). The lowest rates of seizure freedom were observed in patients with hippocampal sclerosis (28.2%, 95% CI = 15.0-44.9) and malformation of cortical development (16.7%, 95% CI = 2.1-48.4). In patients with ischemic stroke, median ASM load (1.0, interquartile range [IQR] = .5-1.8) was significantly lower compared to that in patients with hippocampal sclerosis (median = 1.8, IQR = 1.2-3.0, p = .008) and brain tumors (median = 1.7, IQR = .7-3.2, p = .049). Significance: Response to treatment with ASM is highly etiology-specific and best in patients with epilepsy due to ischemic stroke. Interestingly, this most favorable treatment outcome can be achieved by the lowest ASM load considering all etiological groups. In focal epilepsy, etiology should be taken into account when counseling patients about their expected seizure outcome with pharmacological treatment and when tailoring initial ASM doses.
Spectrum, rate and unmet needs of sociomedical interventions in outpatient psychotherapy
Creators: name: Schymainski, David
name: Solvie, Julia
name: Linden, Michael
name: Rose, Matthias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: bio-psycho-social treatment
subject: chronic mental disorders
subject: psychotherapy
subject: social medicine
subject: sociomedical interventions
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: Psychological disorders often take a long-term course, resulting in impairment in daily life and work. Treatment must therefore target not only symptoms of illness but also capacity limitations and context restrictions, as outlined in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). This includes sociomedical and interdisciplinary interventions like coordination with other specialists, contact to employers and employment agencies, social support agencies, debt counselling, self-help and leisure groups. There are no data on the spectrum, rate and unmet needs of sociomedical interventions in outpatient psychotherapy. Method: Following a semistructured interview schedule, 131 psychotherapists in private practice were asked to report on unselected patients. The interviewer assessed to what degree 38 predefined sociomedical interventions were applied so far or should be considered in the future. Result: Reports for 322 patients were gathered. All sociomedical interventions were applied, depending on the sick leave status and course of illness. Cognitive behaviour therapists used more sociomedical interventions than psychodynamic therapists. Conclusion: The data show that sociomedical interventions are a frequent part of psychotherapy. They are used preferably in patients with participation restrictions. Psychotherapeutic concepts and education should include sociomedical aspects.
Irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia in patients with eating disorders ‐ a systematic review
Creators: name: Hanel, Vivien
name: Schalla, Martha A.
name: Stengel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: anorexia nervosa
subject: binge eating disorder
subject: bulimia nervosa
subject: dyspepsia
subject: irritable bowel syndrome
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives: The prevalence of eating disorders is rising worldwide. The low body weight in anorexia nervosa as well as the increase in body mass index due to binge eating disorder are contributing to a strikingly high morbidity and mortality. In a similar pattern, the prevalence and burden of the disease of functional gastrointestinal disorders such as functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome is increasing. As gastrointestinal complaints are commonly reported by patients with eating disorders, the question arose whether there is a relationship between eating disorders and functional gastrointestinal disorders. Methods: To address the need to better understand the interplay between eating disorders and functional gastrointestinal disorders as well as factors that might influence this connection, the data bases Medline, Web of Science and Embase were systematically searched. Results: After removal of duplicates the search yielded 388 studies which were screened manually. As a result, 36 publications were selected for inclusion in this systematic review. Conclusion: The occurrence of functional gastrointestinal disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia in patients with eating disorders is considerably high and often associated with psychological, hormonal and functional alterations. In the future, further research addressing the underlying mechanisms accounting for this relationship is required.
Postnatal myelination of the immature rat cingulum is regulated by GABAB receptor activity
Creators: name: Pudasaini, Samipa
name: Friedrich, Vivien
name: Bührer, Christoph
name: Endesfelder, Stefanie
name: Scheuer, Till
name: Schmitz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
subject: neonatal brain
subject: oligodendroglia
subject: myelination
subject: proliferation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Myelination of axons in the neonatal brain is a highly complex process primarily achieved by oligodendroglial cells (OLs). OLs express receptors for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) which is released from cortical interneurons on a basal level, while glial cells can be a source of GABA, too. We investigated GABA-induced oligodendroglial maturation, proliferation, apoptosis, and myelin production after pharmacological inhibition of GABA(A) and GABA(B) in the neonatal rat brain. Daily injections of the reverse GABA(A) receptor agonist (DMCM) and the GABA(B) receptor antagonist (CGP35348) were performed from postnatal day 6 (P6) to P11. MBP expression was examined by Western blots and immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, we determined the number of CC1(+)OLIG2(+) and CNP(+)OLIG2(+) cells to assess maturation, the number of PCNA(+)OLIG2(+) oligodendrocytes to assess proliferation, the number of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (PDGFR alpha(+)OLIG2(+)), and apoptosis of OLs (CASP3A(+)OLIG2(+)) as well as apoptotic cells in total (CASP3A(+)DAPI(+)) at P11 and P15. In addition, we analyzed the expression Pdgfr alpha and CNP. MBP expression was significantly reduced after CGP treatment at P15. In the same animal group, CNP expression and CNP(+)OLIG2(+) cells decreased temporarily at P11. At P15, the proliferation of PCNA(+)OLIG2(+) cells and the number of PDGFR alpha(+)OLIG2(+) cells increased after GABA(B) receptor antagonization whereas no significant differences were visible in the Pdgfr alpha gene expression. No changes in apoptotic cell death were observed. CGP treatment induced a transient maturational delay at P11 and deficits in myelin expression at P15 with increased oligodendroglial proliferation. Our in vivo study indicates GABA(B) receptor activity as a potential modulator of oligodendroglial development.
Prevalence and concentrations of new designer stimulants, synthetic opioids, benzodiazepines, and hallucinogens in postmortem hair samples: A 13‐year retrospective study
Creators: name: Niebel, André
name: Westendorf, Lena
name: Krumbiegel, Franziska
name: Hartwig, Sven
name: Parr, Maria Kristina
name: Tsokos, Michael
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: hair concentrations
subject: LC-MS/MS
subject: new psychoactive substances (NPS)
subject: postmortem hair analysis
subject: prevalence data
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Hair samples are frequently analyzed in order to characterize consumption patterns of drugs. However, the interpretation of new psychoactive substance (NPS) findings in hair remains difficult because of lacking data for comparison. In this study, selected postmortem hair samples (n = 1203) from 2008 to 2020 were reanalyzed for synthetic cathinones, piperazines, phenethylamines, hallucinogens, benzodiazepines and opioids to evaluate prevalence data and concentration ranges. Hair samples were extracted using a two-step extraction procedure and analyzed using a validated liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method. Overall NPSs were detected in 381 cases (31.6%). Many cases were tested positive for more than one NPS in the same time span. A variety of NPS with a large range of concentrations was observed. For better comparability and interpretation of positive cases in routine work, quantitation data for 13 NPS were calculated as percentiles. The most frequently detected NPS in this study were N-ethylamphetamine, alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone, mephedrone, benzedrone, metamfepramone, and 4-fluoroamphetamine. In conclusion, a high prevalence of these drugs was observed from postmortem hair samples. The results show a growing use of many different NPSs by mainly young drug-using adults. Consequently, NPS screening procedures should be included in forensic toxicology. Our quantitative data may support other toxicologists in their assessment of NPS hair concentrations.
agroBRIDGES "Why Am I Special?" Tool content
Creators: name: Pablo Morales Moya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this tool is to create a set of questions that lead to the identification of the producer's Unique Selling Points (USP). Once identified, a set of customisable communication materials (social media messages and key messages for website and advertisements) will be provided to the producer with those USPs. This will support producers in developing a brand, identity and market position through USPs, such as special varieties, and by understanding and responding to consumer demand. This tool will be useful for producers in the sense that they can improve their selling techniques thanks to the identification of these USPs and the possibility of using customised marketing material. This could have a direct impact on sales as the consumer could also have more information about SFSC product's value-added. In summary,  Why Am I Special? tool seeks to analyse and identify the Unique Selling Points (USPs) of the producers as well as to provide them with related communication materials that will help in developing a brand, identity and market position. 
The tool contains: (i) a self-assessment questionnaire for USP identification in a macro-enabled excel format and (ii) a guide for communications based on different USPs.  
The tool content is fully translated in 12 European languages, as indicated by the filenames below:

agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Denmark_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_English_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Finland_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_France_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Greece_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Italy_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Latvia_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Lithuania_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Netherlands_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Poland_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Spain_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Why_Am_I_Special_Turkey_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES "Support for food procurement" Tool content
Creators: name: Jeisel Goyanes
name: Carlos Garcia
name: María Jiménez Portaz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: For the "agroBRIDGES support for food procurement" tool, the aim is to achieve easily accessible contracts for producers, making it easier to implement tendering processes which support the local SFSCs, following up the principles from cooperative procurement. For public administration, awareness will be achieved through infographics and a video where legal and food education will be provided. Then, the training will facilitate the creation of a model format for SFSC public procurement tenders since working with smaller tenders is of crucial importance, i.e. dividing the contract into smaller more specialised lots in order to lower the threshold for smaller producers/entrepreneurs increasing the SME participation in public tenders. Impartial third party guaranteeing, and branding will be also considered as this appears to be very practical for providing evidence of value beyond costs,e.g. local organic label.
The tool contains (i) a guide for public bodies, (ii) an infographic for public bodies, (iii) a guide for farmers and producers, (iv) an infographic for farmers and producers. All 4 documents are fully translated in 12 European languages, as indicated in the filenames below:

agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Denmark_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_English_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Finland_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_France_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Greece_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Italy_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Latvia_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Lithuania_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Netherlands_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Poland_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Spain_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_Turkey_Tool_2022.09.01_v1
Also a video webinar on public food procurement procedures was developed and is available as:

agroBRIDGES_Support_Food_Procurement_video_2022.09.01_v1
title: Ανάλυση θερμοανακλαστικών υλικών στο δομημένο περιβάλλον
Creators: name: Κυριακοπουλος Αντωνιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως θέμα την ανάλυση θερμοανακλαστικών υλικών στο δομημένο περιβάλλον. Στα πλαίσια αυτής λοιπόν, εξετάζονται κάποια υλικά και ελέγχεται αν και κατά πόσον μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν σε κατασκευές ή επισκευές κτηρίων με σκοπό την εξοικονόμηση ενέργειας μέσω της ανάκλασης θερμότητας. Τα υλικά που εξετάζονται είναι δύο κατηγοριών: βαφές σε υγρή μορφή και χρωστικές σε μορφή πούδρας για σοβά ή μπετόν. Η μελέτη των υλικών περιλαμβάνει τον υπολογισμό του δείκτη ανάκλασης, τη μέτρηση επιφανειακών θερμοκρασιών κατά την έκθεση των υλικών στον ήλιο για μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα και την προσομοίωση – μοντελοποίηση της κατάστασης ενός κτηρίου σχετικά με την κατανάλωση ενέργειας, όταν χρησιμοποιηθούν τα υλικά ως τελική επίστρωση της οροφής του. Ο υπολογισμός του δείκτη ανάκλασης γίνεται μέσω μετρήσεων ποσοστιαίας ανακλαστικότητας σε φασματοφωτόμετρο (για φάσμα που εκτείνεται από το υπεριώδες έως το εγγύς υπέρυθρο) και με χρήση κατάλληλου προτύπου. Για τη μέτρηση των επιφανειακών θερμοκρασιών των δειγμάτων χρησιμοποιούνται ένα καταγραφικό θερμοκρασιών (datalogger) με θερμοζεύγη και μια θερμική κάμερα. Η προαναφερόμενη προσομοίωση γίνεται με τη βοήθεια ηλεκτρονικού υπολογιστή και αφορά μόνο τα απαιτούμενα φορτία για τη θέρμανση και την ψύξη του εξεταζόμενου κτηρίου, που είναι το κτήριο Κ1 του Τμήματος Μηχανικών Περιβάλλοντος του Πολυτεχνείου Κρήτης. Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας έδειξαν ότι κάποια από τα υλικά, που εδώ να σημειώσουμε ότι, ως επί το πλείστον, περιείχαν μόνο φυσικής προέλευσης συστατικά, μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν ως θερμοανακλαστικά, αφού η χρήση τους οδηγεί σε σημαντική μείωση των μελετώμενων ενεργειακών φορτίων, η οποία μπορεί να φτάσει συνολικά ακόμη και στο 8,5 %. Από τη συνολική μελέτη των αποτελεσμάτων, φαίνεται επίσης ότι πολύ σημαντικό ρόλο για το αν ένα υλικό μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ως θερμοανακλαστικό παίζει ο δείκτης ανάκλασης, χωρίς όμως να είναι ο μόνος, αφού πρέπει να συνεκτιμώνται και η χημική σύσταση του εκάστοτε υλικού, το χρώμα του και άλλα στοιχεία.
The Hidden Problem: Sexual Harassment and Violence in German Higher Education
Creators: name: Pantelmann, Heike
name: Wälty, Tanja
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sexual harassment and violence
subject: universities
subject: hierarchies
subject: androcentrism
subject: neoliberalism
subject: gender-equality policies
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste::360 Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände

description: Sexual harassment and violence are taboo topics at German universities. Accordingly, there is a large gap in research on the prevalence and functioning of sexual harassment and assault in higher education as well as on social, cultural, and organizational conditions that foster and reproduce gender-based violence at universities. Previous research and our own data suggest that there is a perception among students, faculty and staff that normalizes, trivializes, and even legitimizes the problem. Based on a quantitative survey with students on the prevalence of sexual harassment and violence as well as the results of our analysis of how German universities deal with the issue, we relate this perception to the organizational structures of the higher-education system and discuss historically evolved hierarchies and androcentric structures as well as their reformulation in the wake of neoliberalization as causal for the tabooing and hiding of sexual harassment at German universities.
title: Καταγραφή και ψηφιοποίηση μέσω GIS γεωργικών εκτάσεων με φωτοβολταϊκά στο νομό Χανίων. Αξιολόγηση επένδυσης φωτοβολταϊκών ως προς τις γεωργικές καλλιέργειες και την ισχύουσα νομοθεσία
Creators: name: Γιατρακης Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Η απότομη ανάπτυξη των φωτοβολταϊκών συστημάτων στο νομό Χανίων από το 2007 και μετά, καθώς και η αντικατάσταση πολλών παραδοσιακών καλλιεργειών με φωτοβολταϊκά πάρκα έδωσαν ώθηση στην εκπόνηση της παρούσας διπλωματικής. Η εργασία έχει αρχικά ως στόχο την καταγραφή και ψηφιοποίηση όλων των φωτοβολταικών πάρκων που βρίσκονται σε εκτάσεις στις οποίες θα μπορούσε να γίνει η ανάπτυξη καλλιεργειών για διατροφή. Επιπρόσθετα  προσπαθεί να αξιολογήσει από οικονομική σκοπιά την επένδυση των φωτοβολταικών πάρκων σε γεωργικές εκτάσεις συγκρίνοντας τα έσοδα και τα έξοδα που έχει ένας ιδιώτης ανάλογα με ποιον από τους δύο τρόπους επιλέγει να αξιοποιήσει τη γη του.
	Για την περάτωση του πρώτου στόχου της εργασίας μελετήθηκαν τα βασικά στοιχεία του ArcGIS, του βασικού προγράμματος που χρησιμοποιήθηκε. Για το δεύτερο μέρος αναλύθηκε το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο των δύο μερών της οικονομικής σύγκρισης, δηλαδή των φωτοβολταικών συστημάτων και των πιο διαδεδομένων καλλιεργειών του νομού. Επίσης προσεγγίζεται το ισχύον σχετικό νομοθετικό πλαίσιο και εξετάζεται η συμβολή του αφενός στην ανάπτυξη των φωτοβολταικών συστημάτων έναντι των παραδοσιακών καλλιεργειών, και αφετέρου στον τρόπο που αυτό επηρέασε την οικονομική σύγκριση. Τέλος παρουσιάζονται οι τελικοί χάρτες των γεωργικών εκτάσεων με φωτοβολταϊκά και γίνεται εξαγωγή των απαραίτητων συμπερασμάτων για την κατάσταση που επικρατεί στο νομό.
description: The sudden development of photovoltaic systems in the Chania prefecture since 2007 and on, as well as the replacement of many traditional crops with photovoltaic parks,  gave the propulsion to create this thesis. Its initial goal is the recording and digitization of the photovoltaic parks located in areas that could be used for crop cultivation. Furthermore, the thesis tries to determine the investment of photovoltaic parks on farmlands from an economical standpoint, while comparing revenues and expenses as an individual, according to which of two ways he chooses to harness  his/her land.

	For the completion of the first goal of the thesis, basic data of ArcGIS was studied, which is the main program that was used. For the second part, the theoretical background of the two parts of the economical comparison was studied - those are the photovoltaic systems and most widespread county crops. Reference was also made to the legal framework and its contribution to the development of photovoltaic systems at the expense of traditional crops, as well as the effect it had on the economical comparison. Lastly, the final maps of the agricultural photovoltaic units were presented, after which the necessary conclusions were made for the situation in the area.
Network and storage stack specialisation for performance
Creators: name: Marinos, Ilias
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Operating Systems
Network Stacks
Storage Stacks
Kernel-bypass
Performance
Networking
TCP/IP
NVME
Library OS
Exokernel

description: In order to serve hundreds of millions of users, contemporary content providers employ tens of thousands of servers to scale their systems. The system software in these environments, however, is struggling to keep up with the increase in demand: contemporary network and storage stacks, as well as related APIs (e.g., BSD socket API) follow a `one-size-fits-all' design, heavily emphasising generality and feature richness at the cost of performance, leaving crucial hardware resources unexploited. Despite considerable prior research in improving I/O performance for conventional stacks, substantial hardware potential still remains unexploited because most of these proposals are fundamentally limited in their scope and effectiveness, as they still have to fit in a general-purpose design. In this dissertation, I argue that specialisation and microarchitectural awareness are necessary in system software design to effectively exploit hardware capabilities, and scale I/O performance. In particular, I argue that trading off generality and compatibility, allows us to radically re-architect the stack emphasising application-specific optimisations and efficient data movement throughout the hardware to improve performance. I first demonstrate that conventional general-purpose stacks fail to effectively utilise contemporary hardware while serving critical Internet workloads, and show why modern microarchitectural properties play a critical role in scaling I/O performance. I then identify core decisions in Operating Systems design that, although they were originally introduced to optimise performance, are now proven redundant or even detrimental. I propose clean-slate, specialised architectures for network and storage stacks designed to exploit modern hardware properties, and application domain-specific knowledge in order to sidestep historical bottlenecks in systems I/O performance, and achieve great scalability. With thorough evaluation of my systems, I illustrate how specialisation and greater microarchitectural awareness could lead to dramatic performance improvements, which could ultimately translate to improved scalability and reduced capital expenditure simultaneously.
description: - Google PhD Fellowship in Systems and Networking. - NetApp NFF research grant.
Modeling of cutting forces in trochoidal milling with respect to wear-dependent topographic changes
Creators: name: Bergmann, Jim A.
name: Potthoff, Nils
name: Rickhoff, Tobias
name: Wiederkehr, Petra
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric modeling
subject: Tool wear
subject: Topographies
subject: Inconel
subject: 004
subject: Geometrische Modellierung
subject: Werkzeugverschleiß
subject: Topografie
subject: Inconel

description: The aerospace industry utilizes nickel-based super-alloys due to its high level of strength and corrosion resistance. To evaluate milling strategies regarding tool wear, the prediction of forces during these cutting operations is essential. This comprises the determination of the undeformed chip thickness. Due to the complex interdependencies of tool engagements, the determination of these thicknesses is challenging. A geometric physically-based simulation system was extended by a novel time-discrete envelope model to increase the precision of the calculated undeformed chip thicknesses. In order to take tool wear into account, digitized topographies of cutting inserts in different states of tool wear were modelled.
description: Production engineering;Vol. 15. 2021, pp 761–769
Matching study using health and police datasets for characterising interpersonal violence in the community of Khayelitsha, South Africa 2013-2015.
Creators: name: Jabar, Ardil
name: Oni, Tolu
name: London, Leslie
name: Cois, Annibale
name: Matzopoulos, Richard
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Public health
1506
1724
public health
accident & emergency medicine
epidemiology

description: Peer reviewed: True
description: OBJECTIVES: The Cardiff Model of data sharing for violence prevention is premised on the idea that the majority of injury cases presenting at health facilities as a result of interpersonal violence will not be reported to the police. The aim of this study was to determine the concordance between violent crimes reported to the police with violence-related injuries presenting at health facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of secondary cross-sectional health and police data, from three health facilities and three police stations in the community of Khayelitsha, Cape Town. 781 cases of injuries arising from interpersonal violence seen at health facilities were compared with 739 violence-related crimes reported at police stations over five separate week-long sampling periods from 2013 to 2015. Personal identifiers, name and surname, were used to match cases. RESULTS: Of the 708 cases presenting at health facilities, 104 (14.7%) were matched with police records. The addition of non-reported cases of violence-related injuries from the health dataset to the police-reported crime statistics resulted in an 81.7% increase in potential total violent crimes over the reporting period. Compared with incidents reported to the police, those not reported were more likely to involve male patients (difference: +47.0%; p<0.001) and sharp object injuries (difference: +24.7%; p<0.001). Push/kick/punch injuries were more frequent among reporting than non-reporting patients (difference: +17.5%; p<0.001). CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that the majority of injuries arising from interpersonal violence presenting at health facilities in Khayelitsha are not reported to the police. A data-sharing model between health services and the police should be implemented to inform violence surveillance and reduction.
Eddy covariance CO2 flux gap-filling for long data gaps: A novel scheme based on machine learning approaches and time series decomposition
Creators: name: Gao, dx
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Greenhouse gas inventories and fluxes

description: Eddy covariance CO2 flux gap-filling for long data gaps: A novel scheme based on machine learning approaches and time series decomposition
On the stochastic vehicle routing problem with time windows, correlated travel times, and time dependency
Creators: name: Bomboi, Federica
name: Buchheim, Christoph
name: Pruente, Jonas
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Stochastic VRP
subject: Time windows
subject: Correlated travel times
subject: Dynamic travel times Chance constraints
subject: Chance constraints
subject: 520

description: Most state-of-the-art algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem, such as Branch-and-Price algorithms or meta heuristics, rely on a fast feasibility test for a given route. We devise the first approach to approximately check feasibility in the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with time windows, where travel times are correlated and depend on the time of the day. Assuming jointly normally distributed travel times, we use a chance constraint approach to model feasibility, where two different application scenarios are considered, depending on whether missing a customer makes the rest of the route infeasible or not. The former case may arise, e.g., in drayage applications or in the pickup-and-delivery VRP. In addition, we present an adaptive sampling algorithm that is tailored for our setting and is much faster than standard sampling techniques. We use a case study for both scenarios, based on instances with realistic travel times, to illustrate that taking correlations and time dependencies into account significantly improves the quality of the solutions, i.e., the precision of the feasibility decision. In particular, the nonconsideration of correlations often leads to solutions containing infeasible routes.
description: 4OR;Vol 19. 2021, Art. No 476
D2.2.11 Update of plans for 18-48 months of WP covering sustainability of data transfer and analytical needs to obtain satisfactory compositional data
Creators: name: TTZ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
EuroFIR

description: Objectives

Specify standard procedures for the calculation of the composition of prepared and composite foods from their ingredients or intermediate products, including the application of yield and nutrient retention factors, and formulate standard sets of factors.

Investigate the general availability of composition data on food industry products, explore options for improving information flow between industry and database compilers, identify specific activities to enhance the quality and timeliness of composition data, and define industry requirements and guidelines for the effective incorporation of industry data into databank systems.

Strengthen and consolidate concepts for industrial consultation and provide further harmonisation support for collation at the European level, ensuring integration of the work package (WP) into WP2.1.

Initiate functional and efficient data transfer units at the national level through data transfer showcases, and generate branded and industrial composite food data within these showcases.
title: Μοντελοποίηση βιοαντιδραστήρα προσκολλημένης βιομάζας για την επεξεργασία υγρών αποβλήτων υψηλής αλατότητας
Creators: name: Λεδακη Ευτυχια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Οι Υδατοκαλλιέργειες μπορούν να είναι μία ιδιαίτερα επιζήμια δραστηριότητα για το περιβάλλον, αν συνδυαστούν με υπερεκμετάλλευση των φυσικών πόρων, κακή διαχείριση της διαδικασίας και απουσία συστημάτων επεξεργασίας των αποβλήτων τους. Στην παρούσα εργασία, έγινε μοντελοποίηση ενός βιοαντιδραστήρα προσκολλημένης βιομάζας ως προς τη δυνατότητά του να επεξεργαστεί υγρά απόβλητα υψηλής αλατότητας. Το μαθηματικό μοντέλο αναπτύχθηκε σε περιβάλλον MATLAB® και περιγράφει τη δυναμική των διεργασιών απομάκρυνσης της οργανικής ύλης και των θρεπτικών συστατικών στον υπό μελέτη βιοαντιδραστήρα, για διαφορετικές οργανικές φορτίσεις αποβλήτου. Στη συνέχεια, τροποποιώντας το μοντέλο έγινε διερεύνηση της απόδοσης του συστήματος επεξεργασίας υπό συνεχή τροφοδοσία φρέσκου αποβλήτου, έτσι ώστε να, εκτιμηθεί η καταλληλότητα εφαρμογής του σε πραγματική χερσαία μονάδας υδατοκαλλιέργειας.