cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Central nervous system delivery of antibodies and their single-domain antibodies and variable fragment derivatives with focus on intranasal nose to brain administration
Creators: name: Soleimanizadeh, Arghavan
name: Dinter, Heiko
name: Schindowski, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: intranasal delivery
subject: scaffolds
subject: VHH
subject: VNAR
subject: Fc receptor
subject: mucosal transport
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Immunoglobulin G
subject: Antibodies
subject: Single-chain antibodies
subject: Receptors, Fc
subject: Immunglobulin G
subject: Antikörper
subject: FC-Rezeptor

description: IgG antibodies are some of the most important biopharmaceutical molecules with a high market volume. In spite of the fact that clinical therapies with antibodies are broadly utilized in oncology, immunology and hematology, their delivery strategies and biodistribution need improvement, their limitations being due to their size and poor ability to penetrate into tissues. In view of their small size, there is a rising interest in derivatives, such as single-domain antibodies and single-chain variable fragments, for clinical diagnostic but also therapeutic applications. Smaller antibody formats combine several benefits for clinical applications and can be manufactured at reduced production costs compared with full-length IgGs. Moreover, such formats have a relevant potential for targeted drug delivery that directs drug cargo to a specific tissue or across the blood–brain barrier. In this review, we give an overview of the challenges for antibody drug delivery in general and focus on intranasal delivery to the central nervous system with antibody formats of different sizes.
title: Col :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Kale
Group identity.

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Fiche d'inventaire - Objet n° 7155 - Fragments d'or
Creators: name: École Française D'Extrême-Orient
name: Conservation D'Angkor
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Or

description: Source: FCA/3/2
description: Relation: JFCA, tome 14, p. 41, 12
description: IIIF manifest
description: created: 1950/1970
Fiche d'inventaire - Objet n° 7336 - Crochet de litière (triple)
Creators: name: École Française D'Extrême-Orient
name: Conservation D'Angkor
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fer

description: Source: FCA/3/2
description: Relation: Double de 7336
description: IIIF manifest
description: created: 1950/1970
Polymer-assisted TEM specimen preparation method for oxidation-sensitive 2D materials
Creators: name: Köster, Janis
name: Liang, Baokun
name: Storm, Alexander
name: Kaiser, Ute
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 2D material
subject: HRTEM
subject: TMPT
subject: TMD
subject: oxidation-sensitive
subject: specimen preparation
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Two-dimensional materials
subject: Specimens
subject: Electrons
subject: Titanium
subject: Oxides
subject: Zweidimensionales Material
subject: Myoarthropathie

description: By structural and analytical TEM and scanning electron microscopy experiments we show thatatomically-resolved structural characterization of oxidation-sensitive two-dimensional material isstrongly hindered when thefinal step of the preparation process, the transfer to the TEM grid, isperformed with a wet etching method involving bases or acids, interacting with the highlyreactive sample surface. Here we present an alternative polymer-assisted and mechanical-exfoliation-based sample preparation method and demonstrate it on selected oxidation-sensitivetransition metal phosphorus trisulfides and transition metal dichalcogenides. The analysis,obtained from the samples prepared with both of the methods clearly show that oxidation is theorigin of discrepancy, the oxidation during thefinal preparation step is strongly reduced onlywhen the new method is applied, and atomically-resolved structural characterization of thepristine structures is now possible.
Fiche d'inventaire - Objet n° 7337 - Socle ? (double)
Creators: name: École Française D'Extrême-Orient
name: Conservation D'Angkor
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bronze

description: Source: FCA/3/2
description: Relation: Double de 7337
description: Relation: JFCA, tome 23, p. 196
description: IIIF manifest
description: created: 1950/1970
Additional file 3 of Prognostic marker CD27 and its micro-environmental in multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Wang, Xinya
name: Luo, Keyang
name: Xu, Qiuting
name: Chi, Liqun
name: Guo, Yiwei
name: Jia, Chuiming
name: Quan, Lina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Designed primers for RT-qPCR.
Fiche d'inventaire - Objet n° 6604 - About de timon
Creators: name: École Française D'Extrême-Orient
name: Conservation D'Angkor
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bronze

description: Source: FCA/3/2
description: IIIF manifest
description: created: 1950/1970
Simple things: the Alzheimer's space
Creators: name: STOTLAR, JIM
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Modem medicine, science, and technology have created a world where people are living longer and fuller lives. But the price tag for this 'time in a bottle' might be greater than we had imagined. As more of the population enters their 'Golden years' they are confronting with serious diseases such as stroke, late onset diabetes, arthritis, and the most sinister of all, Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease causes an erosion of cognitive ability, which ultimately results in death. Due to the fact that there is currently no cure for the disease, treatment focuses on symptoms and maintaining the general health of the sufferer. As the mind looses footing in its battle with the disease, it becomes increasingly important that other outside sources pick up the lost slack.

The struggle of those stricken with Alzheimer's disease warrants an exploration in to how space and spatial qualities can be manipulated to create an environment that will, in tandem with treatment, boost the well being of the resident.

The seriousness of Alzheimer's disease places a great demand and responsibility on the shoulders of architects and designers to become more enlightened and informed. By understanding the nature of Alzheimer's disease and its symptoms, a design response can be developed that will greatly benefit those living with dementia.

The aim of this Masters candidature is to explore and create design projects, in the context of the interior environment, which will provide the Alzheimer's sufferer with the support and stimulation needed to live a dignified life in the face of their ever-changing, ever- unfolding disease.
Fiche d'inventaire - Objet n° 7305 - Fragment de triśūla
Creators: name: École Française D'Extrême-Orient
name: Conservation D'Angkor
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bronze

description: Source: FCA/3/2
description: Relation: JFCA, tome 14, p. 24, 15
description: IIIF manifest
description: created: 1950/1970
VHDL-Komplexitätsanalyse
Creators: name: Menhorn, Benjamin
name: Slomka, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Aufwandsberechnung
subject: Digitale Hardware
subject: Entwurfsentropie
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Very high speed integrated circuits
subject: Informatik
subject: Komplexität
subject: VHDL

description: Diese Arbeit stellt ein Werkzeug vor, um die Komplexität und die Entwurfsgröße eines in VHDL gegebenen Entwurfs automatisiert berechnen zu können. Als Metrik hierfür wird die Entwurfsentropie eingesetzt, welche auf der Nachrichtentechnik beruht.
Additional file 4 of Prognostic marker CD27 and its micro-environmental in multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Wang, Xinya
name: Luo, Keyang
name: Xu, Qiuting
name: Chi, Liqun
name: Guo, Yiwei
name: Jia, Chuiming
name: Quan, Lina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. Basic clinical characteristics of 82 MM patients.
Synthesis, structural and morphological characterizations of nano-Ru-based perovskites/RGO composites
Creators: name: Galal, Ahmed
name: Hassan, Hagar K.
name: Atta, Nada F.
name: Abdel-Mageed, Ali M.
name: Jacob, Timo
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials chemistry
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Graphene
subject: Nanoparticles
subject: Graphen
subject: Nanopartikel

description: Highly-dispersed Ru-based perovskites supported on reduced graphene oxide (A-RG) nanocomposites are prepared using different A-metal salts (Sr(NO3)2, Ba(NO3)2 and Ca(NO3)2). The procedure is based on a redox reaction between the metal precursors and graphene oxide (GO) using two different routes of reaction initiation: through thermal heating or by microwave-assisted heating. The resulting nanocomposites do not require further calcination, making this method less energy-demanding. In addition, no additional chemical reagents are required for either the GO reduction or the metal precursor oxidation, leading to an overall simple and direct synthesis method. The structure and morphology of the as-prepared A-RG (non-calcined) nanocomposites are characterized using various structural analyses including XRD, XPS, SEM/EDX and HR-TEM. Changing metal A in the perovskite as well as the “activation method” resulted in significant structural and morphological changes of the formed composites. SrRuO3 and BaRuO3 in combination with RuO2 are obtained using a conventional combustion method, while SrRuO3 (~1 nm size) in combination with Ru nanoparticles are successfully prepared using microwave irradiation. For the first time, a microwave-assisted synthesis method (without calcination) was used to form crystalline nano-CaRuO3.
Energy & economic assessment of façade-integrated solar thermal systems combined with ultra-low temperature district-heating
Creators: name: Garay, Roberto
name: Mugaguren, Mikel Lumbreras
name: Basque Research And Technology Alliance
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ultra-Low temperature
district heating
ULTDH
DH networks
ultra-low temperature
energy efficiency

description: Authors: Roberto Garay, project coordinator of RELaTED and Mikel Lumbreras, researcher at TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA). This paper, published in the journal Renewable Energy (Volume 159, October 2020, Pages 1000-1014), conducts an energy and economic assessment of District Heating (DH) integrated Solar Thermal (ST) systems. An implementation with building-integrated ST collectors coupled to a Low Temperature District Heating (LTDH) system is studied, with special focus on unglazed collectors. ST heat is exploited in the building through direct use, while excess heat is delivered to the network. A novel control strategy for heat flows in the system is proposed. A meta-analysis of several DH configurations, interconnection schemes and installed ST capacity is performed in three different climates: Sevilla (Spain), Bordeaux (France) & Copenhagen (Denmark). Heat loads corresponding to buildings with various insulation levels and domestic hot water loads are assessed in hourly simulations. The proposed interconnection concept provides a variety of connection modes to the DH network, allowing up to a 50% increase in the provision of solar heat compared to an isolated ST system. Positive Return of Investment (ROI) for such a setup is achieved in 22% of the studied cases. The DH network is found to be a suitable heat sink in up to 25% of the buildings with ST systems installed.
Growth Differentiation Factor-15 as a Potent Predictor of Long-Term Mortality among Subjects with Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Arnold, Natalie
name: Rehm, Martin
name: Büchele, Gisela
name: Peter, Raphael Simon
name: Brenner, Rolf Erwin
name: Günther, Klaus-Peter
name: Brenner, Hermann
name: Koenig, Wolfgang
name: Rothenbacher, Dietrich
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Total mortality
subject: Prognosis
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Cardiovascular diseases
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Mortality
subject: Arthrosis deformans
subject: Kardiovaskuläre Krankheit
subject: Growth-differentiation Factor 15
subject: Biomarker
subject: Sterblichkeit
subject: Prognose

description: Background: Subjects with osteoarthritis (OA) are at increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) and all-cause mortality. Whether biomarkers improve outcome prediction in these patients remains to be elucidated. We investigated the association between growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15), a novel stress-responsive cytokine, and long-term all-cause mortality among OA patients. Methods: Within the Ulm Osteoarthritis Study, GDF-15 has been measured in the serum of 636 subjects, who underwent hip or knee arthroplasty between 1995 and 1996 (median age 65 years). Results: During a median follow-up of 19.7 years, a total of 402 deaths occurred. GDF-15 was inversely associated with walking distance. Compared to the bottom quartile (Q), subjects within the top quartile of GDF-15 demonstrated a 2.69-fold increased risk of dying (hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval (CI)) 2.69 (1.82–3.96) adjusted for age, sex, BMI, smoking status, localization of OA, diabetes, maximum walking distance, total cholesterol, and cystatin C. Further adjustment for NT-proBNP, troponin I, and hs-C-reactive protein did not change the results appreciably (HR (95%CI) 1.56 (1.07–2.28); 1.75 (1.21–2.55); 2.32 (1.55–3.47) for Q2, Q3, and Q4 respectively, p for trend < 0.001). Conclusions: In subjects with OA, GDF-15 represents a potent predictor of decreased survival over >20 years, independently of conventional CV risk factors, renal, cardiac, and inflammatory biomarkers as well as walking disability, previously associated with increased mortality and lower extremity OA.
Additional file 5 of Prognostic marker CD27 and its micro-environmental in multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Wang, Xinya
name: Luo, Keyang
name: Xu, Qiuting
name: Chi, Liqun
name: Guo, Yiwei
name: Jia, Chuiming
name: Quan, Lina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 5.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 259 (33. Jg.), Februar 2003
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Additional file 1 of Refining shape and size of silver nanoparticles using ion irradiation for enhanced and homogeneous SERS activity
Creators: name: Sherpa, Laden
name: Nimmala, Arun
name: Rao, S. V. S. Nageswara
name: Khan, S. A.
name: Pathak, Anand P.
name: Tripathi, Ajay
name: Tiwari, Archana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary file 1 (pdf 4568 KB)
Lancaster University - Case Study In Funding Research Data Management
Creators: name: Donaldson, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research Data Management (RDM)
Funder requirements for RDM
sustainability

description: This case study was written by Mary Donaldson as part of the Funder Requirements for Research Data project. This project was funded by JISC as part of the wider Research Data Management Business Case and Costings (RDM-BCC) project.

The case study examines how the Lancaster University supports RDM, how their service sustainability is achieved, and how other RDM activities are paid for.
The Role of Kinetics in Advanced Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
Creators: name: Jackson, Alex
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: Liquid/liquid extraction processes have been designed to selectively partition actinides with especially long-lived radiotoxicity from nuclear fuel waste streams. Uranium and plutonium partitioning has been possible through application of the PUREX and Advanced PUREX processes historically using TBP. Furthermore, the technology for the fabrication of nuclear fuel using mixed actinide salt precursors relies heavily on the availability of the i-SANEX and EUROGANEX processes which utilise the tendency of the organic ligand TODGA to extract trivalent lanthanides and actinides from nitric acid. As such, key properties and behaviours of TBP and TODGA have been the object of my research at Lancaster University. Using a Rotating Diffusion Cell (RDC), it is possible to interrogate the various chemical kinetic and diffusive contributions to actinide extraction by tracking the transfer of solutes over a fixed area membrane between the compartmentalised phases of nitric acid, containing dissolved metal ions, and TBP- or TODGA-loaded solvent. Furthermore, via manipulation of the rotation speed of the RDC several regimes of mass transfer may be reproduced, from low shear diffusion limiting conditions to high shear chemical kinetic control. The rate of extraction of the metal ions investigated is determined by UV-visible light absorbance spectroscopy. An analytical model coded in gPROMS has been developed for parameter estimation purposes, for example to obtain values for kinetic rate constants, based on the experimental extraction rates found. Parameters such as these, as well as insight into the dominant mechanisms of transfer, are fundamental in building the safety case for state of the art reprocessing and partitioning plants.
Additional file 1 of Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species
Creators: name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Currea, John P.
name: Franke-Gerth, Franziska A.
name: Palavalli-Nettimi, Ravindra
name: Bodey, Andrew J.
name: Rau, Christoph
name: Samadi, Nazanin
name: Gstöhl, Stefan J.
name: Schlepütz, Christian M.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Theobald, Jamie
name: Kittelmann, Maike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Drosophila natural strains used in this publication.
Resistance through transformation: a transitional approach for sustainable peri-urban environments
Creators: name: Pham, Viet Tuan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Urbanization is a global process, especially in developing countries. This process has changed urban landscape significantly particularly in the peri-urban zones of cities. These peri-urban areas are in transition from productive landscapes into urbanised fields. This research investigates the impacts of the urbanization process on agricultural production and local inhabitants’ livelihood in the peri-urban zones of two cities: the city of Hanoi, capital of Vietnam and the city of Melbourne, Australia. The research asks: Can the existing farming community and industry be transformed and integrated with the new urban developments in the peri-urban zone to resist their total displacement. The research aims at drawing out a “Transitional Approach” with strategies for architecture and urban planning. It closely examines contemporary agriculture, food production and consumption processes in relation to population growth and urban sprawl. It also locates itself in the current discourse of architecture and urban agriculture. The transitional approach is defined as an approach taking into account the process of changes over time spatially and programmatically, occurring in the peri-urban environment. By speculating possible future changes, it chooses to act or intervene before developments take place in order to maintain productive landscapes and their infrastructures. Furthermore, the proposed architectural and infrastructural interventions can create new models of public spaces for the peri-urban communities. These interventions, combined as a network, have a regional impact and create a more sustainable living environment for local inhabitant as well as explore alternative ways of thinking about the development of cities.
Analysis of professional practice: Sista Girl: an Indigenous woman’s perspective on being a producer / director / curator / creative manager in the Koori community
Creators: name: Thompson, Kimba
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Story-telling is central to the work I do. I use various forms of media to document stories from within our Indigenous community including film/video, audio-recordings, digital stories, art, sound scapes and on-line journals. My research question was: In what ways can multi-media enrich the telling of stories from an Indigenous point of view? Other important examinations of this research are: • Analysis of the process of previous projects, and the effect these have had on participants—why have past approaches not been effective? How can this project learn from those mistakes? • How can a researcher facilitate consultation and create community engagement within Aboriginal communities? • What are the outcomes of ‘Pitcha This’? How can a community utilize the outcomes of the project? Within the Indigenous language there is an adaptation to the English language, this language is not recognised as a dialect but I am writing this exegesis with the colloquial idiom commonly used in speech within my mob, meaning my Indigenous community. This particularly applies to the language used to describe the process I adopted for the Pitcha This project.
Cortico-efferent tract involvement in primary lateral sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a two-centre tract of interest-based DTI analysis
Creators: name: Müller, Hans-Peter
name: Agosta, Federica
name: Gorges, Martin
name: Kassubek, Rebecca
name: Spinelli, Edoardo Gioele
name: Riva, Nilo
name: Ludolph, Albert C.
name: Filippi, Massimo
name: Kassubek, Jan Rainer
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Primary lateral sclerosis
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Diffusion tensor imaging
subject: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
subject: Motor neuron disease
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Myatrophische Lateralsklerose
subject: Kernspintomografie

description: Background: After the demonstration of a corticoefferent propagation pattern in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by neuropathological studies, this concept has been used for in vivo staging of individual patients by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) techniques, both in `classical` ALS and in restricted phenotypes such as primary lateral sclerosis (PLS). Objective: The study was designed to investigate that microstructural changes according to the neuropathologically defined ALS alteration pattern in PLS patients could be confirmed to be identical to ´classical´ ALS patients. The novelty in this approach is that the results were independent of the subject samples and the data acquisition parameters (as was validated in two samples from two different centres). That way, reproducibility across (international) centres in addition to harmonisation/standardisation of data analysis has been addressed, for the possible use of MRI-based staging to stratify patients in clinical trials. Methods: Tractwise analysis of fractional anisotropy (FA) maps according to the ALS-staging pattern was applied to DTI data (pooled from two ALS centres) of 88 PLS patients and 88 ALS patients with a ‘classical’ phenotype in comparison to 88 matched controls in order to identify white matter integrity alterations. Results: In the tract-specific analysis, alterations were identical for PLS and ALS in the tract systems corresponding to the ALS staging pattern, independent of the subject samples and the data acquisition parameters. The individual categorisation into ALS stages did not differ between PLS and ALS patients. Conclusions: This DTI study in a two-centre setting demonstrated that the neuropathological stages can be mapped in vivo in PLS with high reproducibility and that PLS-associated cerebral propagation, although showing the same corticofugal patterns as ALS, might have a different time course of neuropathology, in analogy to its much slower clinical progression rates.
Infothek : Zeitung der Universitätsbibliothek Ulm, Nr. 6, 1991
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bibliothekszeitung
subject: Infothek
subject: kiz Ulm
subject: DDC 020 / Library & information sciences
subject: Libraries; Germany; Ulm
subject: Kommunikations- und Informationszentrum
subject: Universitätsbibliothek

description: Sechste Ausgabe der im Jahr 1991 veröffentlichten und von den Bibliotheksmitarbeitern in Eigenregie erstellten Zeitung der Universitätsbibliothek Ulm (heute kiz)
Canonical and perturbed quantum potential-well problems: a universal function approach
Creators: name: Ahmed, Istiaque
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The limits of the current micro-scale electronics technology have been approaching rapidly. At nano-scale, however, the physical phenomena involved are fundamentally different than in micro-scale. Classical and semi-classical physical principles are no longer powerful enough or even valid to describe the phenomena involved. The rich and powerful concepts in quantum mechanics have become indispensable. There are several commercial software packages already available for modeling and simulation of the electrical, magnetic, and mechanical characteristics and properties of the nano-scale devices. However, our objective here is to go one step further and create a physics-based problem-adapted solution methodology. We carry out computation for eigenfunctions of canonical and the associated perturbed quantum systems and utilize them as co-ordinate functions for solving more complex problems. We have profoundly worked with the infinite quantum potential-well problem, since they have closed-form solutions and therefore are analytically known eigenfunctions. Perturbation of the infinite quantum potential-well was done through a single box function, multiple box functions, and with a triangular function. The proposed solution concept utilizes the notion of 'Universal Functions' previously introduced for solving complex engineering boundary value problems. Upon formulating our methodology we were able to generate numerical solutions of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for our one and two dimensional perturbed problems. We were also able to tune the added potential and this illuminates the fact that, by creating arbitrary potentials, we succeeded in controlling the distribution of eigenvalue to a definite level and thu s achieved a certain degree of localization.
Neural response during the activation of the attachment system in patients with borderline personality disorder: An fMRI study
Creators: name: Buchheim, Anna
name: Erk, Susanne
name: George, Carol
name: Kächele, Horst
name: Martius, Philipp
name: Pokorny, Dan
name: Spitzer, Manfred
name: Walter, Henrik
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Attachment system
subject: Functional MRI
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Borderline personality disorder
subject: Emotional regulation
subject: Amygdala
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung
subject: Emotionsregulation
subject: Corpus amygdaloideum
subject: Funktionelle Kernspintomografie

description: Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are characterized by emotional instability, impaired emotion regulation and unresolved attachment patterns associated with abusive childhood experiences. We investigated the neural response during the activation of the attachment system in BPD patients compared to healthy controls using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Eleven female patients with BPD without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 17 healthy female controls matched for age and education were telling stories in the scanner in response to the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), an eight-picture set assessment of adult attachment. The picture set includes theoretically-derived attachment scenes, such as separation, death, threat and potential abuse. The picture presentation order is designed to gradually increase the activation of the attachment system. Each picture stimulus was presented for 2 min. Analyses examine group differences in attachment classifications and neural activation patterns over the course of the task. Unresolved attachment was associated with increasing amygdala activation over the course of the attachment task in patients as well as controls. Unresolved controls, but not patients, showed activation in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the rostral cingulate zone (RCZ). We interpret this as a neural signature of BPD patients’ inability to exert top-down control under conditions of attachment distress. These findings point to possible neural mechanisms for underlying affective dysregulation in BPD in the context of attachment trauma and fear.
Synthesising end-to-end security schemes through endorsement intermediaries
Creators: name: Thevathayan, Charles
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Composing secure interaction protocols dynamically for e-commerce continue to pose a number of challenges, such as lack of standard notations for expressing requirements and the difficulty involved in enforcing them. Furthermore, interaction with unknown entities may require finding common trusted intermediaries. Securing messages sent through such intermediaries require schemes that provide end-to-end security guarantees. In the past, e-commerce protocols such as SET were created to provide such end-to-end guarantees. However, such complex hand crafted protocols proved difficult to model check. This thesis addresses the end-to-end problems in an open dynamic setting where trust relationships evolve, and requirements of interacting entities change over time. Before interaction protocols can be synthesised, a number of research questions must be addressed. Firstly, to meet end-to-end security requirements, the security level along the message path must be made to reflect the requirements. Secondly, the type of endorsement intermediaries must reflect the message category. Thirdly, intermediaries must be made liable for their endorsements. This thesis proposes a number of solutions to address the research problems. End-to-end security requirements were arrived by aggregating security requirements of all interacting parties. These requirements were enforced by interleaving and composing basic schemes derived from challenge-response mechanisms. The institutional trust promoting mechanism devised allowed all vital data to be endorsed by authorised category specific intermediaries. Intermediaries were made accountable for their endorsements by being required to discharge or transfer proof obligations placed on them. The techniques devised for aggregating and enforcing security requirements allow dynamic creation of end-to-end security schemes. The novel interleaving technique devised allows creation of provably secure multiparty schemes for any number of recipients. The structured technique combining compositional approach with appropriate invariants and preconditions makes model checking of synthesised schemes unnecessary. The proposed framework combining endorsement trust with schemes making intermediaries accountable provides a way to alleviate distrust between previously unknown e-commerce entities.
The relation between human values and perceived situation characteristics in everyday life
Creators: name: Kesberg, Rebekka
name: Keller, Johannes
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: human values
subject: situation perception
subject: 8 DIAMONDS
subject: day reconstruction method
subject: daily life
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Values
subject: Wertorientierung
subject: Wert

description: Values refer to abstract beliefs which serve as guidelines in peoples’ life and affect the way people and events are evaluated. Simultaneously, unlike attitudes, values transcend specific actions, and situations. While recent research showed that values are related to the attention and interpretation of situational information in standardized laboratory settings, up to date hardly any empirical work investigated how values relate to situation perception in daily life. In our study, we assessed the relation between the endorsement of human values and situation characteristics (i.e., the 8 DIAMONDS). Using the Day Reconstruction Method in two samples (German and US-American), we found that especially variance in the experience of negatively connoted situation characteristics were due to individual differences. Power was related to experiencing more deceptive situations, while the reversed pattern emerged for universalism and benevolence. Tradition was related to experiencing more aversive situations while self-direction was related to experiencing less situations high in adversity. Although, our results might provide some initial evidence for a relation between personal values and subjective situations experiences in everyday life, no clear pattern emerged and further investigation of the relation is necessary.
title: Les développements technologiques au service des suivis scientifiques dans les aires protégées / J3
Publisher: name: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Year: 2024

description: Bioacoustique, télédétection, ADN, pièges photographiques... ces domaines ont récemment connu d'importants développements qui révolutionnent les suivis de la biodiversité. Ces rencontres étaient destinées à faire le point sur ces technologies qui peuvent décupler la puissance des suivis, faciliter le travail des gestionnaires, mais aussi inquiéter ou décevoir…
Best practice in the regulation of payment services
Creators: name: Bollen, Rhys
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Payment services are, at their simplest, services for moving money around the economy. These services carry risks for the provider and the customer, from credit and insolvency risk, through to fraud and ‘mere’ errors. Different societies deal with, manage and allocate these risks differently. There are a number of similarities in how these services are regulated, and the careful observer can identify patterns and themes.

As the economy continues to be heavily reliant on payment services for its efficient operation, commentators and governments have taken a keen interest in these services. This paper examines the six key regulatory risks for payment services: credit risk, efficiency risk, product mis-match, product failure, transactional failure and privacy.

Previous articles have considered recent industry and technological developments in the payments industry, many of which post-date the existing regulatory regime in most jurisdictions. This paper draws conclusions about how a best practice regime might address recent innovations such as mobile payments, online payment services and ‘stored value’ cards. While there is significant commonality between regulatory regimes, there is not yet a common approach to many payment services issues. The goal of this project (and this paper) is to develop a better or best practice framework for the regulation of payment services, drawing on the strengths and weaknesses of the existing regimes.

A best practice regime is identified – including both the elements or building blocks, and how and when they should be applied. The elements, based on analysis of key national regimes, are fair play rules, systemic stability, an active supervisor, broad scope, licensing, disclosure, obligations of the parties, liability, dispute resolution and privacy. The paper also explains how these elements can be combined to construct a coherent overall regime.
The result is a recommended best practice model involving licensing, disclosure, conduct and redress standards in a three-tiered structure (thus providing a lighter-touch regime for low value products and a more intensive regime for more substantial banking-style products).
Farm safety: what a lifesaver
Creators: name: Blake, Michael
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The implementation of a sound farm safety plan can reduce injuries and save lives on Australian farms. This project sets out to show that Bally Glunin Park is a good model for demonstrating the implementation of an effective farm safety system. It also provides the basis for presenting Bally Glunin Park’s farm safety system to the wider agricultural community for evaluation and implementation.

The overriding objective of this project is to change attitudes towards farm safety particularly of farmers who have a great reluctance to change. Some farmers are unsure of their abilities to handle change and, in some cases they will react in a negative way to change. I come out of this same environment but recognize that for economic and social survival this industry must take on the challenges of changes, especially as they relate to farm safety.

It is acknowledged that this work has a practical rather than academic focus. Sadly, it seems that from time to time there is some mutual lack of respect between both groups. It is argued that my influence as a farmer practising farm safety will be enhanced by being awarded an academic qualification. My credibility with government at all levels, rural employers and colleagues will also be enhanced. This will assist me in achieving my ultimate goal of reducing deaths and injury on farms. It is this goal that drives me to succeed.

One of the challenges of this work was to develop a credible association with the various government agencies as well as the media. Agricultural media and associated media, such as hobby farm magazines and safety booklets, play a critical role in communication about farm safety.

This exegesis will show the how, why, when and what has been achieved. The ‘how’ will incorporate the methodology used in developing my work. The ‘why’ will explain my commitment to this work. The ‘when’ will unfold the years from childhood learning through to my working career and the major time frames in the development of Bally Glunin Park’s farm safety policies. The ‘what’ will summarize the practical outcomes.

This Project will incorporate some of the work that I have done on farm safety in the past through my working organization and, indirectly, through my work with kindred organizations. This work will add to the primary data and information based on farm safety. On completion it is suggested that the project will raise awareness of the major problem of deaths and injuries on farms.
Influence of Ramp Timing Dither on Modulation-Based Radar Target Simulators
Creators: name: Schoeder, Pirmin
name: Janoudi, Vinzenz
name: Grebner, Timo
name: Martin, Arne
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: automotive radar
subject: chirp-sequence modulation
subject: FMCW radar
subject: radar target simulator
subject: system modeling
subject: Radar
subject: FMCW-Radar

description: With modulation-based radar target simulators, complex traffic scenarios can be simulated for automotive radars at low costs. Yet the simulation principle relies on the timings of the chirp-sequence frequency modulated continous waveform. Since small timing variations can be purposely introduced on the radar's waveform e.g. for interference mitigation techniques, the assumption of ideal timings could be violated. Therefore, this paper investigates the influences of ramp timing deviations on the target simulation. A signal model for radar timing variations for modulation-based simulators is presented. Furthermore, the influence of ramp timings on the resulting signal-to-noise ratio of simulated target responses is derived and verified by measurements.
The importance of teachers in integrating ICT into science teaching in intermediate schools in Saudi Arabia: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Al Sulaimani, Abdulellah
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Curriculum reform is central to the aspirations of many developing countries as they strive to deliver a quality education to their citizens. In Saudi Arabia, with its remarkable achievement of a high literacy rate in a few decades, the next step is bringing its resources to bear on providing a quality education so that Saudis may take their places in the global labour force.

This study concerns the integration of information and communications technologies (ICT) into the science curriculum of intermediate schools for boys and girls in the educational district of Jeddah, and the training and development requirements of science teachers in this regard. A mixed methodology was employed to obtain qualitative data from six policymakers within the Ministry of Education in Riyadh and Jeddah, and quantitative data from a questionnaire for which 311 replies were received from intermediate schools’ science teachers in Jeddah.
The findings confirm those reported in the literature that inefficient central project management and inadequate resources influence the integration of ICT in the science curriculum. Further, qualitative and quantitative findings confirm that teachers’ access to training is affected by time constraints, ineffective ICT course material, and in the specialised case of an Islamic country, inadequate access of women teachers to external training. However, this study does not support the majority of researchers which finds teachers’ negative attitude to ICT. Whilst the policy makers interviewed in this study perceived the teachers as having a negative attitude toward ICT integration in the science curriculum, quantitative data from the teachers pointed to a high interest (90 per cent) in ICT integration, and their willingness to pursue further professional development in the effective use of ICT in the intermediate science curriculum.
title: Les développements technologiques au service des suivis scientifiques dans les aires protégées / J2
Publisher: name: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Year: 2024

description: Bioacoustique, télédétection, ADN, pièges photographiques... ces domaines ont récemment connu d'importants développements qui révolutionnent les suivis de la biodiversité. Ces rencontres étaient destinées à faire le point sur ces technologies qui peuvent décupler la puissance des suivis, faciliter le travail des gestionnaires, mais aussi inquiéter ou décevoir…
Can high-dimensional questionnaires resolve the ipsativity issue of forced-choice response formats?
Creators: name: Schulte, Niklas
name: Holling, Heinz
name: Bürkner, Paul-Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: forced-choice format
subject: Thurstonian IRT model
subject: ipsative data
subject: multidimensional IRT
subject: PERSONALITY
subject: IRT
subject: LIMITATIONS
subject: PREFERENCE
subject: VALIDITY
subject: STYLES
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 510 / Mathematics
subject: Personality assessment
subject: Psychological measurement
subject: Psychometrics
subject: Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik
subject: Skalierung
subject: Psychometrie

description: Forced-choice questionnaires can prevent faking and other response biases typically associated with rating scales. However, the derived trait scores are often unreliable and ipsative, making interindividual comparisons in high-stakes situations impossible. Several studies suggest that these problems vanish if the number of measured traits is high. To determine the necessary number of traits under varying sample sizes, factor loadings, and intertrait correlations, simulations were performed for the two most widely used scoring methods, namely the classical (ipsative) approach and Thurstonian item response theory (IRT) models. Results demonstrate that while especially Thurstonian IRT models perform well under ideal conditions, both methods yield insufficient reliabilities in most conditions resembling applied contexts. Moreover, not only the classical estimates but also the Thurstonian IRT estimates for questionnaires with equally keyed items remain (partially) ipsative, even when the number of traits is very high (i.e., 30). This result not only questions earlier assumptions regarding the use of classical scores in high-dimensional questionnaires, but it also raises doubts about many validation studies on Thurstonian IRT models because correlations of (partially) ipsative scores with external criteria cannot be interpreted in a usual way.
Additional file 8 of Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species
Creators: name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Currea, John P.
name: Franke-Gerth, Franziska A.
name: Palavalli-Nettimi, Ravindra
name: Bodey, Andrew J.
name: Rau, Christoph
name: Samadi, Nazanin
name: Gstöhl, Stefan J.
name: Schlepütz, Christian M.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Theobald, Jamie
name: Kittelmann, Maike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S2. Parameters of the linear regression models of the allometries of optical parameters with respect to eye surface area. Each outcome was modelled as a linear combination of eye area and species (dummy-coded) with a constant intercept using ordinary least squares regression. The coefficient of determination (R2) and F-statistic are provided as measurements of goodness-of-fit with asterisks indicating the significance according to the key at the bottom of the table. The intercept and slope are the resulting coefficients of the regression model. D. mauritiana RED3 – D. simulans M3 is the pairwise difference of means after accounting for differences in eye size, such that values < 0 imply that D. simulans M3 values were greater than D. mauritiana RED3 relative to eye size. The significance of these statistics (F, intercept, slope, and D. mauritiana RED3 – D. simulans M3) is signified by the number of asterisks next to these values according to the key at the bottom of the table.