cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamic pseudonym management for privacy preservation in vehicular communication systems.
Creators: name: Bao, Shihan
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Research into the established area of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is still evolving and fast-moving fuelled in part by rapid changes in vehicular technologies and mobile communication network. A practical challenge is that many vehicular communication applications and services make use of the Basic Safety Messages that contain the vehicle location and other personal data. A popular way of dealing with this privacy issue is to utilise a pseudonym change scheme to protect the vehicle’s identity and location. However, many such schemes suffer from poor scalability and the certificate management difficulty raises with the number of pseudonyms generated and stored in the ITS system, casting doubt of the economic feasibility of such approaches. In this thesis, firstly, Cooperative Pseudonym Change Scheme (CPCS) for VCS is proposed for providing high level of anonymity. In this model, the Road Side Units (RSUs) is the key factor by storing generated pseudonym sets from the Trusted Authority (TA), then delivering sets of pseudonyms to vehicles which has similar context. Secondly a Decentralised Pseudonym Management System (DPMS) Using Distributed Ledger Technology is proposed to overcome limits that CPCS and most other pseudonym change schemes of low scalability and high cost of managing large numbers of pseudonym certificates in ITS. This scheme consists of pseudonym distribution and a shuffle operation, allowing the re-distribution and re-usage of existing pseudonyms by different vehicles. The results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves a better degree of anonymity and low request delay at a lower cost than existing schemes. Thirdly a Distributed Pseudonym Certificate Revocation Scheme (DPCRS) for VCS is proposed based on the framework that DPMS introduced. The proposed scheme embeds part of the certificate revocation functions within the security and privacy applications, aiming to reduce the communication overhead and shorten the processing time cost. Extensive simulations and analysis show the effectiveness and efficiency of the three proposed schemes.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Arnez, Monika
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Eocomoseris Melnikova, Roniewicz & Loeser 1993
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Comoseriidae
Eocomoseris

description: Genus Eocomoseris Melnikova, Roniewicz & Loeser, 1993
TYPE SPECIES. — Eocomoseris gurumdyensis (nom. nov. pro Eocomoseris ramosa Melnikova, Roniewicz & Loeser, 1993, non Frech 1890: 5, pl. I: 1-3).
REMARK
Roniewicz (2011) introduced Eocomoseris gurumdyensis as a new species name to replace E. ramosa Melnikova, 1993, a junior secondary homonym of Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) ramosa Frech, 1890, assigned to Eocomoseris in the same publication (we emit a doubt about this decision, according to the fact that calices seem very poorly defined in the original figure).
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1203, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Selective adjustment of rotationally-asymmetric neuron sigma-widths
Creators: name: Rose, Nathan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Radial Basis Networks are a reliable and efficient tool for performing classification tasks. In networks that include a Gaussian output transform within the Pattern Layer neurons, the method of setting the σ-width of the Gaussian curve is critical to obtaining accurate classification. Many existing methods perform poorly in regions of the problem space between examples of differing classes, or when there is overlap between classes in the data set. A method is proposed to produce unique σ values for each weight of every neuron, resulting in each neuron having its own Gaussian 'coverage' area within problem space. This method achieves better results than the alternatives on data sets with a significant amount of overlap and when the data is unscaled.
Ein Haus aus Glas
Creators: name: Geske-Scholz, Brigitte
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Haus aus Glas. Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef, 2003. ISBN 3-89502-168-7.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Paarlauf: Zur Novellierung der Wahlgesetze
Creators: name: Diederich, Mathias
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die letzten Parlamentswahlen im Jahr 1999 waren die ersten freien Wahlen seit 1955. Die Durchführung, nur ein Jahr nach dem Ende der Suharto-Ära, konnte als Erfolg gewertet werden. Auch internationale Beobachter stellten fest, dass der Urnengang angesichts der Umwälzungen, die ihm vorausgegangen waren, erstaunlich fair und demokratisch verlaufen war. Dennoch gab es Defizite, die zu einer Novellierung der Wahlgesetze unter Präsidentin Megawati Soekarnoputri geführt haben. Die wichtigsten Veränderungen für die nationalen Parlaments- und Präsidentschaftswahlen sollen hier in Kürze dargestellt werden.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Brief aus ... Indonesien
Creators: name: Ellwein, Warsito
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Wenn man in Indonesien ist, fällt es schwer sich vorzustellen, dass das tägliche Leben so normal weiter läuft, während das Land gerade von einer schweren wirtschaftlichen Krise und gleichzeitig von einer schweren Krise der politischen Führung betroffen ist.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Investigating the physiological and behavioural impact of time-restricted eating in healthy human volunteers
Creators: name: Jefcoate, Paul William
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Background: Humans exhibit eating windows ranging between 12-15 hours daily. Extensive eating windows may promote excess energy consumption leading to weight gain and poor cardiometabolic health. Time restricted eating is a behavioural intervention positioning all eating occasions within a shorter timeframe < 12 hours to aid weight loss and metabolism.

description:

description: Methods: A proof-of-concept questionnaire [Study 1] explored public opinion on implementing a 3h restriction to habitual eating windows. [Trial 2.1] investigated the physiological effects of time-restricted eating consisting of a symmetrical 1.5 h delay and advance to first and last eating occasions. The impact after 5-weeks of time-restricted eating on appetite hormones, subjective appetite and preoccupation with food was measured in [Trial 2.2]. [Study 2.3] involved qualitative interviews to assess participant experiences following time-restricted eating, along with identifying some of the social and behavioural factors affecting adherence.

description:

description: Results: Most respondents had an eating window between 10-14 h on workdays and free days [Study 1]. For workdays (n=132/221) and free days (n=125/223), participants with an eating window > 12 h indicated favourability towards reducing their eating window by 3 h [Chapter 2]. Trial 2.1 did not reveal any significant changes to body anthropometrics, blood pressure or fasted blood glucose, cholesterol, or insulin after 5-weeks [Chapter 4]. In Trial 2.2, there were no significant differences to fasted ghrelin, leptin, subjective appetite, and preoccupation with food [Chapter 5]. Adherence to the protocol was ~63% in [Study 2.3]. Barriers to adopting TRE included work schedules, social events, and family life [Chapter 6].

description:

description: Conclusion: Time-restricted eating is a well-received alternative to calorie restricted diets targeting weight loss. Social and behavioural factors may restrict the efficacy of time-restricted eating in the free-living environment, however. The development of personalised and flexible time-restricted eating protocols may help to navigate the barriers to adherence leading to improved health related outcomes.
A feasibility, randomised controlled trial evaluating a brief, online group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy intervention for adults distressed by their food allergy
Creators: name: EDGECUMBE, REBECCA SHEENA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Background:
description: Food allergy (FA) is increasingly prevalent and can adversely impact quality of life (QoL). Avoidance of allergens and self-management is essential. However, some individuals may overcompensate to keep safe, leading to hypervigilance and distress. Research suggests that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) may lessen the negative emotional impact of FA in children and parents of children with FA; however, no research has explored the impact of CBT on adults with FA.
description: Objective:
description: A feasibility Randomised Control Trial aimed to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and provide a signal of efficacy for a brief online CBT group for adults with FA with associated self-reported distress. Method: Participants (N = 44) were randomised using a web-based system into a CBT (N = 22) or a control group (N = 22). CBT consisted of two three-hour online workshops. The control group received self-help materials. Acceptability and feasibility were investigated through recruitment, retention and outcome measure response rates, goal-based outcomes and a feedback form. Measures of QoL, worry, anxiety, depression, stress, coping and self-care were collected at baseline, one-month and three-months post-intervention.
description: Results:
description: The retention rate for both groups was 82% (N = 36) at three-month follow-up and 91% of participants attended at least one intervention session. Quantitative and qualitative feedback supported this intervention’s acceptability and feasibility. The intervention group had greater reduction in impairment compared with the control group on the QoL measure at both follow-up points. Additionally, a treatment effect was found for the intervention group for depression at three-month follow-up. Furthermore, the intervention group utilised more problem-focused coping at one-month follow-up. Participants made progress towards their subjective goal ratings three-months post CBT.
description: Conclusion:
description: This brief CBT intervention and research was deemed feasible and acceptable to participants. A signal of efficacy was also found for QoL. A powered RCT and longer-term follow-up is recommended.
An investigation of the implications for effectuation of social interaction enabled by the use of microblogging
Creators: name: Reuber, A. Rebecca
name: Fischer, Eileen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Social interaction plays a central role in effectuation processes, yet we know little about the implications for effectuation when an entrepreneur interacts via particular channels such as social media. To address this gap, our paper uses an inductive, theory-building methodology to develop propositions regarding how effectuation processes are impacted when entrepreneurs adopt Twitter. We posit that Twitter based interaction can trigger effectual cognitions, but that high levels of interaction via this medium can lead to effectual churn. Implications for our understanding of effectuation, of social interaction, and of the impact of social media on entrepreneurial firms are discussed.
Trocharea cupuloides Fischer 1969
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Comoseriidae
Trocharea
Trocharea cupuloides

description: Trocharea cf. cupuloides Fischer, 1969
(Fig. 10)
Trocharea cupuloides Fischer, 1969: 58, pl. 6, fig. 4-6.
Trocharea sp. 1 – Vasseur 2018: 357-358, fig. 3.101.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: MNHN.F.R50397; paratype: MNHN.F.R50396. TYPE HORIZON. — Bathonian. TYPE LOCALITY. — Rumigny, Ardennes, France. STUDIED SAMPLES. — Two specimens: CPUN AM16132-3, CPUN AM16178-3. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Amellagou (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Solitary discoid coral, circular in outline, fixed to its substratum (bivalve shell in this case) by its lower face, which morphology seems to have been governed by physical constraints sustained by the organism: in longitudinal radial section, one side is more elevated and laterally packed than the opposite one. Septa pennular, perforate, straight, free or joined with continuous horizontal meniana on lateral faces. Distal edge ornamented with small regular teeth. Axial zone with a restricted fossa and probably trabecular projections of septa in depth. The lower face of the corallum is layered by an epitheca s.l. of unknown nature. Endotheca made of rare dissepiments in depth. Synapticulae abundant. No bilateral nor hexameral symmetry observed.
Calicular diameter: 19.3 mm – Septal density: 16 for 5 mm – Estimated number of septa> 136.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1206, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Fabry-Perot sensors: microfluidic channels and transparent membranes
Creators: name: Crawford, Russell
name: Trocha, Philipp
name: Buividas, Richard
name: Day, Daniel J.
name: Scheer, Elke
name: Leiderer, Paul
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present two realizations of a highly sensitive platform useful in environmental sensing and diagnostics - a Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer - (i) a pair of semi-transparent mirrors integrated into a microfluidic channel and (ii) a silicon membrane of sub-micrometer thickness. Simple way to make microfluidic channels by (i) hot-embossing into a sheet of technical grade PMMA and (ii) double-sided tape fixed glass with Au-coated mirrors are presented. By changing the thickness of the Au coating, the roughness and porosity of mirror surface is controlled. In turn, this provides a method to tune finesse of the FP cavity to monitor solutions flowwing between the FP-mirrors. In case of silicon, the FP cavity is formed by coating two sides of a Si-membrane. These two different approaches to harness a high sensitivity of the FP interferometry are proposed: changes of FP cavity caused by materials in the channel can be monitored, while the coated membrane is used to monitor the effects which are induced by membrane's ambiance. The finesse of the FP cavity is optimized for the maximum spectral sensitivity at the cost of transmitted light intensity in case of microfluidic channel and silicon membrane. Via optimization of the finesse (in the range 2-5) and overall transmission of a FP-pair (20-60%) practical solutions are proposed for spectral sensing of (i) refractive index and mechanical channel width's changes in a microfluidic channel as well as (ii) temperature changes of membrane's environment. Asymmetric thickness of the FP mirrors can be used to optimize sensitivity.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Bigalke, Nina
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
On Resource Efficient Transfer Learning via End Task Aware Training
Creators: name: Dery, Lucio Mwinmaarong
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified

description:  Transfer learning is a machine learning (ML) paradigm where performance on a desired end task is improved by exploiting ”knowledge” from other tasks. The technique has become a critical workhorse driving many of the advances on the envelope of capabilities of machine learning models. The current formula is relatively simple – train a large model on large amounts of data from the transfer task(s); then apply the learned model either zero-shot or adapted to the desired downstream task(s). 
This thesis recognizes that these powerful models are not developed in-vacuo but rather require non-trivial resources to train and deploy. As such, there are a wide range of salient problems and communities of researchers that the status-quo leaves behind. In the first part of this thesis, we will focus on the training time problem of data-efficient transfer learning. We will begin by making a case for exploiting advanced knowledge of the desired downstream task(s) – which is commonly the case in many ML settings – to inform different dimensions of transfer learning. We dub this end task aware transfer learning. Next, we will present a set of novel end task aware optimization algorithms that bias the learning trajectory towards data-efficient solutions with strong generalization on the end task. We will close this part by providing an automated approach to constructing and searching over task-relevant transfer objectives when only end task data is available and in limited amounts. 
For the second section of this thesis, we will develop algorithms for compute and memory efficient transfer learning. Our goal will be to deliver a small and efficient yet performant task specific model for deployment seeded from a large, generalist model that has already been pre-trained on a transfer task (or set of tasks). Focusing on structured pruning as the technique for making models smaller, we will investigate pruning under two resource constrained settings: (1) limited task data, where we will exploit extra transfer tasks to learn pruning structures that, at the same task performance, lead to more compute and memory efficient models (2) settings of limited memory, where many of the classical pruning techniques break down because they require gradient-based optimization which can have prohibitive memory overhead. 
This thesis concludes by presenting more avenues for future work on resource efficient transfer learning by building on our past work and suggesting novel branches of investigation.
Calliope unbound: culture and the idea of epic from the eighteenth century to the present
Creators: name: Taylor, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020
Subjects: epic; epic poetry; genre; mode; eighteenth-century epic; eighteenth-century poetry; mock-epic; mock-heroic; neoclassical literature

description: This thesis contributes to a vein of scholarship that has begun to challenge the assumption that the ubiquitous extra-literary use of ‘epic’ in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has severed the word from its original literary meaning and rendered it meaningless. While it does not deny that epic now frequently connotes little more than size, length or grandeur, this study also demonstrates that, in the greater number of cases, epic has been appropriated in order to associate new referents with ideas or qualities that were considered characteristic of the epic poem in the early modern period, such as fable, compositional unity, sublimity, genius and encyclopaedism. Part philological study, part cultural history, it traces epic’s origins as an extra-literary term to the eighteenth century, and explores how eighteenth-century phenomena, including the loosening of prescriptive criteria for literary genres and the emergence of mock-epic, precipitated a variety of different meanings and extra-literary uses of epic to flourish. Using examples sourced from a range of digital resources now available to map cultural discourse across this period, including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, British Periodicals, Britain’s parliamentary Hansard and the United States Congressional Record, it illuminates the persistence of these meanings and uses of epic in cultural contexts as diverse as visual art, political propaganda, extreme sport, environmental conservation and software design, and, in the process, recovers the idea of epic as an important and understudied influence upon Anglo-American culture from 1700 to the present. Furthermore, the study reveals not only that extra-literary use of epic has consistently been motivated by the desire to invoke the ideas and ideals that (re)shaped definitions of the epic during the eighteenth century, but that such deployments of epic have also, with remarkable frequency, continued to perform the cultural functions of the epic poem: championing a particular culture and determining and shaping its history.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Kupfer, Kristin
name: Tavassolie, Babak
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Performance of Hybrid Reinforced Concrete Beam Column Joint: A Critical Review
Creators: name: Kabir, Md Rashedul
name: Alam, M. Shahria
name: Said, Aly M.
name: Ayad, Achraf
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Large residual strain in reinforced concrete structures after a seismic event is a major concern for structural safety and serviceability. Alternative reinforcement materials like fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) have been widely used to mitigate corrosion problems associated with steel. Low modulus of elasticity and brittle behavior compared to steel has made the use of FRP unsuitable in seismic resistant strictures. A combination of steel-FRP reinforcement configuration can address the problem of corrosion. Therefore, introducing a material that shows strong post elastic behavior without any decay due to corrosion is in demand. Shape memory alloy (SMA), a novel material, is highly corrosion resistive and shows super elastic property. Coupling SMA with FRP or steel in the plastic hinge region allows the structure to undergo large deformations, but regains its original shape upon unloading. In this study, the performance characteristics of four previously tested beam-column joints reinforced with different configurations (steel, SMA/steel, glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) and SMA/FRP) are compared to assess their capacity to endure extreme loading. Experimental results are scrutinized to compare the behavior of these specimens in terms of load-story drift and energy dissipation capacity. SMA/FRP and SMA/Steel couples have been found to be an acceptable approach to reduce residual deformation in beam-column joints with adequate energy dissipation capacity. However, SMA/FRP is superior to SMA/Steel concerning to the corrosion issue in steel.
Autonomous driving and stability control of over-actuated vehicles at the limits of handling.
Creators: name: Zanchetta, Mattia
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023
Subjects: Autonomous driving
path planning
path tracking
yaw rate control
torque vectoring

description: In the last decades autonomous vehicles have been at the centre of the research in both the academic and the industrial fields, but not without difficulties. In particular, the problem of path planning and tracking at the limit of the handling capabilities of a vehicle poses many challenges from a control perspective, and it is yet to be understood whether the integration with stability controllers can improve the cornering performance of autonomous vehicles as much as it does for human drivers. This thesis aims to provide insights on these topics. The first part of the work is dedicated to the planning and tracking layers of an autonomous vehicle driving on racetracks. The analysis covers the offline optimisation of the trajectory and the description of a re-planning algorithm for the avoidance of obstacles. A comparison among several path tracking controllers is then provided, to understand whether the gain in performance obtained from advanced controllers justifies the design complexity. In the second part, the thesis highlights the benefits of yaw rate control on the behaviour of over-actuated vehicles. An algorithm for yaw rate control is introduced and implemented in a torque vectoring controller, and the proof of asymptotic stability of the system is provided. Several application examples are presented, with simulation and experimental results that demonstrate the potential and versatility of yaw rate control. Finally, the integration of torque vectoring and path tracking control in an autonomous racing vehicle is presented and assessed with a simulation study along obstacle avoidance tests. The results of the thesis show that: i) including road preview information in path tracking controllers improves the control action, resulting in better vehicle behaviour, and ii) torque vectoring control always improves the vehicle performance, and it also enhances the system robustness to variations in the tyre-road friction coefficient.
Seasonal Microbial Population Shifts in a Bioremediation System Treating Metal and Sulfate-Rich Seepage
Creators: name: Baldwin, Susan A.
name: Mattes, Al
name: Rezadehbashi, Maryam
name: Taylor, Jon
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Biochemical reactors (BCRs) using complex organics for bioremediation of mine-influenced water must operate successfully year round. In cold climates, where many mines in Canada are located, survival of the important microorganisms through the winter months is a concern. In this work, broad phylogenetic surveys, using metagenomics, of the microbial populations in pulp mill biosolids used to remediate metal leachate containing As, Zn, Cd and sulfate were performed to see if the types of microorganisms present changed over the seasons of one year (August 2008 to July 2009). Despite temperature variations between 0 and 17 °C the overall structure of the microbial population was fairly consistent. A cyclical pattern in relative abundance was detected in certain taxa. These included fermenter-related groups, which were out of phase with other taxa such as Desulfobulbus that represented potential consumers of fermentation byproducts. Sulfate-reducers in the BCR biosolids were closely related to psychrotolerant species. Temperature was not a factor that shaped the microbial population structure within the BCR biosolids. Kinetics of organic matter degradation by these microbes and the rate of supply of organic carbon to sulfate-reducers would likely affect the metal removal rates at different temperatures.
Eine gelungene kritische Analyse
Creators: name: Helbardt, Sascha
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Michael Kelly Connors, Democracy and National Identity in Thailand. New York und London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Trocharea Etallon 1864
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Comoseriidae
Trocharea

description: Genus Trocharea Etallon in Thurmann & Etallon, 1864
SPECIES ORIGINALLY INCLUDED. — Trocharea actiniformis Etallon in Thurmann & Etallon, 1864.
TYPE SPECIES. — Trocharea actiniformis Etallon in Thurmann & Etallon, 1864 (Thurmann & Etallon 1864: 411, pl. 58, fig. 4), by monotypy.
REMARKS
The nature of the relationship between Trocharea and Trochoplegma Gregory, 1900 is a question which is not completely resolved. One important reason is that the type material of Trocharaea (T. actiniformis Etallon, 1864) is lost. For Trochoplegma the type material is housed in Calcutta and has not been revised but we have some ideas of the genus on the basis of topotypes studied by Beauvais (1978) or by Pandey & Fürsich (1993). Alloiteau (1957) and Fischer (1969) remarked that Trochoplegma differs from Trocharea by its tendency of compactness in septa of first order. They very probably did not see the type material or even topotypes and we cannot confirm their criteria. On the basis of topotypes of Trochoplegma tenuilamellosa Gregory, 1900, the type species of the genus, Beauvais (1978) distinguished the genera with help of two characters: the wall and the epitheca. In Trochoplegma the wall would be absent and the epitheca present, when in Trocharea the wall would be a synapticulotheca and the epitheca would be absent. We are not certain to be able to differentiate the two character states especially when the notion of pennular envelope (Gill 1967) was not taken into account. Pandey & Fürsich (1993) maintained the distinction between the genera Trochoplegma and Trocharea underlining the tendency to become colonial in Trochoplegma. In fact they maintained the two genera because the species are quite distinct in the Bathonian of Kachchh. We are not certain of the independence of these genera and we note that several german authors have put the type species of Trochoplegma or other species of the same genus within the genus Trocharea (see Geyer 1955; Flügel 1966; Nose 1995; Nose & Leinfelder 1997). The smaller size of trabeculae in Trochoplegma, the slightly dipping outward meniana, the exsert character of septa, the tendency toward intracalicular budding, the wavy aspect of septa in distal view are other possible criteria but it seems that all these characters do not always vary together in the same direction (mosaic variation) and could correspond to a variation at the scale of species.
Chomatoseris Thomas, 1935 is free living and shows a downward growth, Trochoplegmopsis Roniewicz, 1976 has subcompact septa and has a papillose columella.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1206, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Stratification of Surfactants and Colloidal Particles in Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
Creators: name: Palmer, Toby Robert
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) adhere to nearly any surface under the application
description: of light pressure, with applications including tapes, labels, and aircraft joints.
description: Understanding surfactant and colloidal particle depth distribution during and after
description: the drying of waterborne PSAs is key to controlling adhesive properties.

description:

description: Surfactant can have negative effects on appearance, wetting and adhesion, so there
description: is a desire to reduce them on PSA surfaces. I investigated the effects of particle
description: deformation and evaporation rate on surfactant stratification using a combination of
description: ion beam analysis and atomic force microscopy. Surfactant stratified at the surface
description: in layers ca. 150 nm thick for films with particles partially deformed via capillary
description: action. Stratification in this regime increased with evaporation rate. Films of nondeformable
description: or coalesced particles showed very little surfactant stratification, with
description: a coalesced particle barrier inhibiting stratification, especially at faster evaporation
description: rates.

description:

description: Additionally, I investigated the effect of colloidal stratification on adhesion. To
description: achieve good adhesion of PSAs, there needs to be a balance of polymer viscosity
description: and elasticity. There is evidence in the literature that two-layered PSAs can lead to
description: superior properties, achieved through successive depositions. Unfortunately, this
description: process can be time consuming and expensive for manufacturers. To achieve a layered
description: structure in a single step, I stratified mixtures of adhesive particles and smaller
description: poly(butyl acrylate) particles in a colloidal dispersion. During film formation, small
description: particles stratified at the top surface, with layers up to 1 μm thick, according to ion
description: beam analysis. Stratification increased with evaporation rate, with films dried slowest
description: exhibiting no stratification. Adhesive properties were shown to transition from
description: brittle and solid-like to viscoelastic and tacky when elastic particles stratified at the
description: surface.

description:

description: The ability to exert control over surfactant and particle stratification in PSAs will aid
description: in the design of new high-performance, multi-layered films, whilst avoiding detrimental
description: effects from surface stratified surfactant.
Investigating Origin and Distribution of Tetrodotoxin in British Bivalve Shellfish and Its Impact on Food Safety
Creators: name: Dhanji Rapkova, Monika
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: The potent and heat-stable toxin, tetrodotoxin (TTX), well known to accumulate in pufferfish from tropical and subtropical regions, causes potentially fatal food poisoning. The recent discovery of TTX in bivalve shellfish from temperate seas, including those surrounding the United Kingdom (UK), has raised concerns over food safety. The de novo origin of TTX appears unclear, although several bacterial genera including Vibrio, have been implicated. Significant knowledge gaps exist on the prevalence, risk to public and factors that affect TTX accumulation in shellfish. This study used a holistic approach to investigate various aspects of TTX accumulation in British shellfish. Prevalence and seasonality were assessed in a large systematic screening study using > 3,500 samples collected from around the British coast, while a single field site in southern England was used to assess TTX production against a range of environmental and biological factors. The influencing role of sea surface temperature (SST) on the accumulation of TTX in June and July was apparent in both screening and field studies, where satellite-derived temperature data were used for the first time. Neither phytoplankton nor bacteria could be identified as the biological source of TTX in Pacific oysters, however the preferential accumulation of TTX in their digestive glands pointed at trophic transfer. TTX prevalence in British shellfish in 2016 was 1.1%, indicating on overall low risk to the shellfish consumer. However, TTX-positive bivalves were almost exclusively recovered from shallow intertidal environments in southern England with large annual SST variability and sustained daily mean SST above 16 °C. Although a pattern in seasonal and spatial distribution of TTX could be observed, aiding the identification of higher-risk locations, variable TTX levels above the proposed regulatory limit and the potential future geographical expansion of TTX due to global warming, should not be underestimated.
Chance gehabt – Chance genutzt: APEC 2003 und seine Bedeutung für Thailand
Creators: name: Ziltener, Patrick
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die thailändische Regierung war fest entschlossen, die mit dem APEC 2003 Jahr verbundenen Chancen zu nutzen. Dazu gehörten nicht nur Handelsdiplomatie, Wirtschaftskontakte und die Selbstdarstellung vor einer internationalen Öffentlichkeit, sondern auch eine verstärkte Kontrolle der thailändischen Gesellschaft auf allen Ebenen.
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Development of a novel gamma-ray detection system for decay data measurement and beta-delayed spectroscopy of primary fission fragments at N~82.
Creators: name: Shearman, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: The work presented in this thesis details three aspects of determining absolute properties of nuclear decay data. The first facet is the design and commissioning of the NAtional Nuclear Array (NANA) for the use of primary standardisation of gamma-cascade emitting nuclides, and to be used more widely as a gamma-ray coincidence spectrometer. Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations were created to characterise possible designs, which were subsequently validated by comparing the response of the constructed array with the model. The simulation was also used to provide correction factors for the absolute standardisation of 60Co. The second strand concerns the determination of absolute emission probabilities of several gamma rays of the medically relevant radioisotope 153Gd. Measurements of these values were made using highly characterised HPGe detectors at the National Physical Laboratory. The absolute gamma-ray emission probability of the 97.4~keV transition was found to be 30.15 (3) %, providing a new standard and correcting a possible discrepancy within the nuclear data of 153Gd reported by the Bureau Interntionale de Poids et Measures (BIPM) international reference system (SIR). The final branch of the thesis presents analyses of beta minus decays of neutron-rich primary fission products created at the RIKEN Research Institute, Tokyo Japan. Absolute beta-delayed gamma-ray emission probabilities and related limits of the beta-delayed neutron emission probabilities have been deduced for 120-124Rh decays to Palladium isotopes and astrophysically important N=82 isotone, 129Ag to states in 128,129Cd. Preliminary beta-delayed level schemes are presented for the daughter nuclei 120,122,124Pd as well as for the N=81, neutron-hole nucleus 129Cd.
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Creators: name: Müller, Michaela
name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
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»Drugs and Conflict«
Creators: name: Bey, Ulrike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Mit dem Projekt »Drugs and Conflict in Burma / Myanmar << wollten TNI und BCN die Auswirkungen des Opiumbanns untersuchen. Bei der gleichnamigen Konferenz am 14. und 15. Dezember 2003 wurden erste Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen präsentiert.
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Ölmulti unschuldig
Creators: name: Mansar, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Im Prozess gegen den kalifornischen Ölkonzern UNOCAL ist das Urteil gefallen, das man durchaus als endgültig betrachten kann: Das Bundesgericht in Los Angeles hat am 23. Januar 2004 die Klage verschiedener Menschenrechtsorganisationen abgewiesen, nach der UNOCAL für Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Burma zur Verantwortung gezogen werden sollte.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Der Stachel im Fleisch der ASEAN – Burma: Das umstrittene Mitglied
Creators: name: Wagener, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Am 30. Mai kam es beim Besuch von Aung San Suu Kyi in der nordburmesischen Stadt Ye-U zu von der Junta inszenierten blutigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Anhängern der USDA, dem politischen Arm des Regimes, und Anhängern der NLD. Die internationalen Reaktionen auf diese Vorfälle fielen diesmal ungewöhnlich deutlich und heftig aus: Überraschend kam jedoch die Reaktion der ASEAN, deren umstrittenes Mitglied Burma seit 1997 ist.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Patient and system factors of mortality after hip fracture: a scoping review
Creators: name: Sheehan, K. J.
name: Sobolev, Boris
name: Chudyk, A.
name: Stephens, T.
name: Guy, Pierre
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Several patient and health system factors were associated with the risk of death among patients with hip fracture. However, without knowledge of underlying mechanisms interventions to improve survival post hip fracture can only be designed on the basis of the found statistical associations. Methods: We used the framework developed by Arksey and O’Malley and Levac et al. for synthesis of factors and mechanisms of mortality post low energy hip fracture in adults over the age of 50 years, published in English, between September 1, 2009 and October 1, 2014 and indexed in MEDLINE. Proposed mechanisms for reported associations were extracted from the discussion sections. Results: We synthesized the evidence from 56 articles that reported on 35 patient and 9 system factors of mortality post hip fracture. For 21 factors we found proposed biological mechanisms for their association with mortality which included complications, comorbidity, cardiorespiratory function, immune function, bone remodeling and glycemic control. Conclusions: The majority of patient and system factors of mortality post hip fracture were reported by only one or two articles and with no proposed mechanisms for their effects on mortality. Where reported, underlying mechanisms are often based on a single article and should be confirmed with further study. Therefore, one cannot be certain whether intervening on such factors may produce expected results.
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Creators: name: Schepers, Stephan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
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Die große Hoffnung: Kambodschas Regierung auf dem internationalen Parkett der WTO
Creators: name: Weiss, Raimund
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Kambodschas Regierung unter Premierminister Hun Sen kann sich freuen. Beim WTO-Gipfel in Cancun am 11. September 2003 wurde das Beitrittsprotokoll für eine Aufnahme in die WTO unterzeichnet. Premierminister Hun Sen sieht sich und seine Partei (CPP-Cambodian People Party) bestätigt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Trocharea undefined-1
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Comoseriidae
Trocharea
Trocharea undefined-1

description: Trocharea sp. 1
(Fig. 11)
Trocharea sp. 2 – Vasseur 2018: 359-360, fig. 3.102.
STUDIED SAMPLES. — Two specimens: CPUN AM16160-6, CPUN AM16178-5. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Amellagou (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Solitary fungiform coral, circular in outline, fixed to its substratum by a lower face reduced in diameter forming a peduncle. Septa pennular, perforate, straight, free or joined with discontinuous meniana on lateral faces. Distal edge ornamented with small regular teeth. Axial zone with a restricted fossa and probably trabecular projections of septa in depth. The lower face of the corallum is covered by an epitheca s.l. of unknown nature. Endotheca made of rare dissepiments in depth. Synapticulae abundant. No bilateral nor hexameral symmetry observed.
Calicular diameter: 20.1 mm – Septal density: 14 to 15 par 5 mm – Number of septa (extrapolated from ¼): 160.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Differs from Trocharea cupuloides Fischer, 1969 by its fungiform, pedunculate shape.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on pages 1206-1207, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
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Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
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Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (2004): Bi-, Tri-, Multilateral: ASEAN, ASEM und andere Bündnisse in Südostasien
Von den Tigern lernen? Regionale Leitbilder im Industrialisierungsprozess Vietnams
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
name: Waibel, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Vietnam verzeichnet seit den 90er Jahren exorbitant hohe wirtschaftliche Wachstumsraten. Zum wesentlichen Teil ist dieses Wachstum auf ausländische Direktinvestitionen der Tigerstaaten der ersten Generation sowie Japans zurückzuführen. Dabei erfolgt insbesondere beim Ausbau exportorientierter Industrien die Übertragung bereits bestehender und als > erfolgreich wahrgenommener Entwicklungsmodelle dieser Länder auf Vietnam.
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Trocharea undefined-2
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Comoseriidae
Trocharea
Trocharea undefined-2

description: Trocharea sp. 2
(Fig. 12)
Trocharea sp. 3 – Vasseur 2018: 361-362, fig. 3.103.
STUDIED SAMPLE. — CPUN CDAm10. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Amellagou (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Subcylindrical solitary coral, subcircular and slightly bilobate in outline. Septa pennular, perforate, straight, free or joined with discontinuous meniana on lateral faces. Distal edge ornamented with small regular trabecular teeth. Axial zone with a restricted fossa and maybe trabecular projections of septa in depth. The corallum is wrapped into an epitheca s.l. of unknown nature. Endotheca made of rare dissepiments. Synapticulae present. No bilateral nor hexameral symmetry observed.
Calicular diameter: 12 mm – Number of septa: approximately 96 – Septal density: 8 per 2 mm.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Trocharea sp. 2 differs from T. cupuloides Fischer, 1969 and T. sp. 1 by its smaller dimensions and its higher septal density.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1207, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379