cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The evolution of aerial imaging
Creators: name: Lee, Jordan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The advent of photography has altered how many people around the world complete a task or frame their memories. The ability to frame an image and perserve it to be analyzed in another time has evolved over the years and the forestry sector itself has see the wide spectrum of technology flow through it. Aerial film photography was the paramount and technological marvel that allowed foresters to view a landscape from a vantage point that gave a plethora of information that could be used to make appropriate management plans. However, as time elapsed, digital imaging with the use of digital sensors allowed images to be stored on hard disk drives to be viewed electronically rather than having to be developed and processed. This rapidly sped up turn over time and coincidentally allowed researchers to save time and money capturing the same images from film. The timing however was overlapped and it took much advancement in digital imaging to produce the same results as film photography with regards to resolution and sharpness. The introduction to LIDAR opens ups a whole new complimentary perspective on aerial imaging due to its ability to scan the landscape with speed while outputting quantitative data. LIDAR works congruently with aerial photography and this ability to hybridize maps using LIDAR data gives a new dimension to how they can be viewed graphically.
Off-forward anomalous dimensions of non-singlet transversity operators
Creators: name: Van Thurenhout, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the anomalous dimension matrix for the transversity operator mixing into total derivative operators in the limit of a large number of quark flavors $n_f$ to fourth order in the strong coupling $α_s$ in the $\overline{\text{MS}}$-scheme. This is achieved by using a consistency relation between the operator anomalous dimensions, which follows from the renormalization structure of the operators in the chiral limit.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX; v2: minor corrections, references and new material added; v3: journal version
Discrete Vector-Valued Nonuniform Gabor Frames
Creators: name: Vashisht, Lalit Kumar
name: Malhotra, Hari Krishan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C15, 42C30, 42C40, 43A32

description: Gabor frames have interested many mathematicians and physicists due to their potential applications in time-frequency analysis, in particular, signal processing. A Gabor system is a collection of vectors which is obtained by applying modulation and shift operators to non-zero functions in signal spaces. In many applications, for example, signal processing related to Gabor systems, the corresponding shifts may not be uniform. That is, the set associated with shifts may not be a group under usual addition. We analyze discrete vector-valued nonuniform Gabor frames (DVNUG frames, in short) in discrete vector-valued nonuniform signal spaces, where the indexing set associated with shifts may not be a subgroup of real numbers under usual addition, but a spectrum which is based on the theory of spectral pairs. First, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of DVNUG Bessel sequences in discrete vector-valued nonuniform signal spaces in terms of Fourier transformations of the modulated window sequences. We provide a characterization of DVNUG frames in discrete vector-valued nonuniform signal spaces. It is shown that DVNUG frames are stable under small perturbation of window sequences associated with given discrete vector-valued nonuniform Gabor systems. We observed that the arithmetic mean sequences associated with window sequences of a given DVNUG frame collectively constitutes a discrete nonuniform Gabor frame. Finally, we discuss an interplay between window sequences of DVNUG systems and their corresponding coordinates.
Exploiting Session Information in BERT-based Session-aware Sequential Recommendation
Creators: name: Seol, Jinseok
name: Ko, Youngrok
name: Lee, Sang-goo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recommendation systems, utilizing the user interaction history as sequential information has resulted in great performance improvement. However, in many online services, user interactions are commonly grouped by sessions that presumably share preferences, which requires a different approach from ordinary sequence representation techniques. To this end, sequence representation models with a hierarchical structure or various viewpoints have been developed but with a rather complex network structure. In this paper, we propose three methods to improve recommendation performance by exploiting session information while minimizing additional parameters in a BERT-based sequential recommendation model: using session tokens, adding session segment embeddings, and a time-aware self-attention. We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methods through experiments on widely used recommendation datasets.
description: 6 pages, accepted in The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2022, short paper
Effects on biofilm growth due to the interactions between different levels of dissolved organic carbon and nutrients
Creators: name: Chen, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Biofilms consist of a complex community of microscopic organisms from various taxa that play an important role in any freshwater ecosystem. They perform various ecological functions, such as decomposition of organic matter, nutrient cycling, oxygen availability, water quality, and making up the base of the food web. From a management perspective, biofilms are also an indicator of ecosystem health and productivity since their overall growth can be determined by the amount of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nutrients available in the system. While many studies have examined the effects of varying nutrient conditions, there has been less research on the interactive effects between the two factors. This study, done through a fully crossed factorial experimental design, examines a gradient of increasing DOC vs. increasing nitrogen and phosphorus (N:P) concentrations. The addition of grazers Glossosoma penitum was used to determine the effect of grazers on biofilm accumulation. While the experiment itself did not show evidence of any statistically significant interactions between DOC and N:P (p-value 0.098 for biomass, and 0.366 for chlorophyll-α), the subsequent literature search yielded other studies that examine a significant coupling effect, as well as significant grazer influence on overall biomass and algal proportions.
BOSHLANG'ICH SINFLARDA ONA TILI DARSLARIDA MUSTAQIL ISHLARNI SAMARALI TASHKIL QILISH
Creators: name: Nisanbayeva, Akmaral
name: Junisova, Aydana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqola boshlangʼich sinflarda ona tili darslarida mustaqil ishlarni tashkil etish ga bagʼishlangan. Аyniqsa, o‘z ustida mustaqil ishlashga o‘rgatishda soddadan murakkabga qarab vazifalar berilsa maqsadga muvofiq  ilmiy-amaliy jihatdan asoslab berilgan.
Experimental demonstration of remotely creating Wigner negativity via quantum steering
Creators: name: Liu, Shuheng
name: Han, Dongmei
name: Wang, Na
name: Xiang, Yu
name: Sun, Fengxiao
name: Wang, Meihong
name: Qin, Zhongzhong
name: Gong, Qihuang
name: Su, Xiaolong
name: He, Qiongyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Gaussian states with Wigner negativity are of particular interest in quantum technology due to their potential applications in quantum computing and quantum metrology. However, how to create such states at a remote location remains a challenge, which is important for efficiently distributing quantum resource between distant nodes in a network. Here, we experimentally prepare optical non-Gaussian state with negative Wigner function at a remote node via local non-Gaussian operation and shared Gaussian entangled state existing quantum steering. By performing photon subtraction on one mode, Wigner negativity is created in the remote target mode. We show that the Wigner negativity is sensitive to loss on the target mode, but robust to loss on the mode performing photon subtraction. This experiment confirms the connection between the remotely created Wigner negativity and quantum steering. As an application, we present that the generated non-Gaussian state exhibits metrological power in quantum phase estimation.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett. (Accepted)
Adaptable Text Matching via Meta-Weight Regulator
Creators: name: Zhang, Bo
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Ma, Fang
name: Song, Dawei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural text matching models have been used in a range of applications such as question answering and natural language inference, and have yielded a good performance. However, these neural models are of a limited adaptability, resulting in a decline in performance when encountering test examples from a different dataset or even a different task. The adaptability is particularly important in the few-shot setting: in many cases, there is only a limited amount of labeled data available for a target dataset or task, while we may have access to a richly labeled source dataset or task. However, adapting a model trained on the abundant source data to a few-shot target dataset or task is challenging. To tackle this challenge, we propose a Meta-Weight Regulator (MWR), which is a meta-learning approach that learns to assign weights to the source examples based on their relevance to the target loss. Specifically, MWR first trains the model on the uniformly weighted source examples, and measures the efficacy of the model on the target examples via a loss function. By iteratively performing a (meta) gradient descent, high-order gradients are propagated to the source examples. These gradients are then used to update the weights of source examples, in a way that is relevant to the target performance. As MWR is model-agnostic, it can be applied to any backbone neural model. Extensive experiments are conducted with various backbone text matching models, on four widely used datasets and two tasks. The results demonstrate that our proposed approach significantly outperforms a number of existing adaptation methods and effectively improves the cross-dataset and cross-task adaptability of the neural text matching models in the few-shot setting.
description: 10 pages, accepted to SIGIR 2022
Privacy Sensitive Speech Analysis Using Federated Learning to Assess Depression
Creators: name: BN, Suhas
name: Abdullah, Saeed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent studies have used speech signals to assess depression. However, speech features can lead to serious privacy concerns. To address these concerns, prior work has used privacy-preserving speech features. However, using a subset of features can lead to information loss and, consequently, non-optimal model performance. Furthermore, prior work relies on a centralized approach to support continuous model updates, posing privacy risks. This paper proposes to use Federated Learning (FL) to enable decentralized, privacy-preserving speech analysis to assess depression. Using an existing dataset (DAIC-WOZ), we show that FL models enable a robust assessment of depression with only 4--6% accuracy loss compared to a centralized approach. These models also outperform prior work using the same dataset. Furthermore, the FL models have short inference latency and small memory footprints while being energy-efficient. These models, thus, can be deployed on mobile devices for real-time, continuous, and privacy-preserving depression assessment at scale.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Published in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022)
title: Historische (Dortmunder) Presse online: zeit.punktNRW
Creators: name: Ammendola, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 020 Library and information sciences
subject: 073 Journalism and newspapers in Germany and neighboring central European countries

description: Der Beitrag nimmt nach einer kurzen Beschreibung und Einführung in das Zeitungsportal NRW die historischen Zeitungen im Raum Dortmund in den Blick und vergleicht hierbei schlaglichtartig wichtige historische Ereignisse und ihre Berichterstattung in zwei räumlich nahe gelegenen Presseorganen (Dortmunder Zeitung vs. Schwerter Zeitung). Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass die gleichen Ereignisse durchaus unterschiedlich bzw. mit unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten von der Presse rezipiert und entsprechend auch von den jeweiligen Lesern anders wahrgenommen sein dürften.
Evaluation of Islamic Culture History Learning (Analysis of SKI Learning at MTs Al Az Harul Ulum 2 Brongkal Malang)
Creators: name: Rudi Setiawan*
name: Muhammad Husni
name: Abdurrohman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Learning, SKI, Evaluation.

description: Abstract: Understanding becomes the main basis in applying SKI in Madrasah Tsanawiyah, this study aims to understand and know the conception of Islamic cultural history, the purpose of learning Islamic cultural history, where the learning objectives of SKI SKI content standards (in Madrasah Tsanawiyah, SKI learning with learning evaluation analysis. Research using quantitative descriptive research with data analysis. The final results of the study indicate that the need to develop Islamic culture learning properly and correctly, involves more than just knowledge and memorized texts. the family of SKI material needs to be presented more broadly to clarify a deep understanding. the theory and practice of SKI learning at MTs Tsanawiyah Al Az Harul Ulum 2 Brongkal is less touched for students to learn in depth, so it is necessary with a more comprehensive approach through stratigic innovation power points practical data. In the performance which is the main focus of evaluation. With the findings that it has not appeared maximally and improved the quality of SKI learning. Therefore, strategic learning as evidence of enovatf development of interesting materials, and also improve evaluation methods in order to ensure that SKI learning achieves the desired goals.
The implications of climate change on the range expansion of the mountain pine beetle, Dedroctonus ponderosae across the Canadian boreal forest
Creators: name: Van Der Merwe, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: As climate change increases, habitat previously unsuitable for the mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae, is beginning to warm resulting in range expansion opportunities. Global climate change models predict that the MPB range will expand eastward from British Columbia, Canada into the Canadian boreal forest. With current scientific evidence available to verify its recent exploitation of jack pine as a viable host, this paper will address the possibility of the boreal forest to sustain endemic populations, enabling the beetle to move through the prairies into the vast pine stands of Ontario and Quebec.
A kinetic energy--and entropy-preserving scheme for compressible two-phase flows
Creators: name: Jain, Suhas S.
name: Moin, Parviz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate numerical modeling of compressible flows, particularly in the turbulent regime, requires a method that is non-dissipative and stable at high Reynolds ($Re$) numbers. For a compressible flow, it is known that discrete conservation of kinetic energy is not a sufficient condition for numerical stability, unlike in incompressible flows. In this study, we adopt the recently developed conservative diffuse-interface method (Jain, Mani $\&$ Moin, $\textit{J. Comput. Phys.}$, 2020) along with the five-equation model for the simulation of compressible two-phase flows. This method discretely conserves the mass of each phase, momentum, and total energy of the system. We here propose discrete consistency conditions between the numerical fluxes, such that any set of numerical fluxes that satisfy these conditions would not spuriously contribute to the kinetic energy and entropy of the system. We also present a set of numerical fluxes\textemdash which satisfies these consistency conditions\textemdash that results in an exact conservation of kinetic energy and approximate conservation of entropy in the absence of pressure work, viscosity, thermal diffusion effects, and time-discretization errors. Since the model consistently reduces to the single-phase Navier-Stokes system when the properties of the two phases are identical, the proposed consistency conditions and numerical fluxes are also applicable for a broader class of single-phase flows. To this end, we present coarse-grid numerical simulations of compressible single-phase and two-phase turbulent flows at infinite $Re$, to illustrate the stability of the proposed method in canonical test cases, such as an isotropic turbulence and Taylor-Green vortex flows. A higher-resolution simulation of a droplet-laden compressible decaying isotropic turbulence is also presented, and the effect of the presence of droplets on the flow is analyzed.
description: 36 pages, 14 figures, under review in the journal of computational physics
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Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 940

description: Niederrhein-Magazin: Zeitschrift der Niederrhein-Akademie/Academie Nederrijn e.V.
und des Instituts für niederrheinische Kulturgeschichte und Regionalentwicklung (InKuR), vol. 2023, no. 1 (34)
title: Carbon leakage through supply chain adjustments
Creators: name: Wang, Hanyi
Publisher: name: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
publisherIdentifier: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261267915
publisherIdentifierScheme: GND
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: trade
subject: investment
subject: climate change
subject: supply chain
subject: carbon emissions
subject: CO2
subject: European Union
subject: EU
subject: directive

description: IDOS Discussion Paper, 10/2025
Set-up for observation thermal voltage noise and determination of absolute temperature and Boltzmann constant
Creators: name: Mishonov, Todor M
name: Serafimov, Nikola S
name: Petkov, Emil G
name: Varonov, Albert M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a set-up for measurement of the absolute zero by Johnson-Nyquist thermal noise which can be performed within a week in every high-school or university. Necessary electronic components and technical guidelines for the construction of this noise thermometer are given. The operating temperature used is in the tea cup range from ice to boiling water and in this sense the set-up can be given in the hands of every high school and university physics student. The measurement requires a standard multi-meter with thermocouple and voltage probe and gives excellent for education purposes percent accuracy. The explanation is oriented to university level but due to the simplicity of the explanation motivated high-school students can follow the explanation derivation of the used formulas for determination of the absolute zero and the Boltzmann constant. As a by-product our set-up gives a new method for the determination of the spectral density of the voltage $e_\mathrm{N}$ and current noise $i_\mathrm{N}$ of operational amplifiers.
description: 39 pages, 9 figs, 8 tables, 60 refs, 5 appendices. 2 new appendices contain: the EPO9 (9 Experimental-Physics Olympiad) problem with co-authors Aleksander P. Petkov, Leonora Velkoska and Riste Popeski-Dimovski; its solution by the EPO9 absolute champion Kristijan Shishkoski. EPO9.7z archive contains source and pdf files of the original problem given to the participants in English and Macedonian
Circular multi-party quantum private comparison with n-level single-particle states
Creators: name: Ye, Chong-Qiang
name: Ye, Tian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a novel multi-party quantum private comparison (MQPC) protocol for equality comparison with n-level single-particle states is constructed, where the encoded particles are transmitted in a circular way. Here, n parties employ the qudit shifting operation to encode their private secrets and can compare the equality of their private secrets within one time execution of protocol. The proposed MQPC protocol can overcome both the outside attack and the participant attack. Specially, each party's secret can be kept unknown to other parties and the third party (TP).
description: 11 pages, 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2205.06406
Light transfer transitions beyond higher-order exceptional points in parity-time and anti-parity-time symmetric waveguide arrays
Creators: name: Du, Chuanxun
name: Wang, Gang
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Wu, Jin-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose two non-Hermitian arrays consisting of $N=2l+1$ waveguides and exhibiting parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) or anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry for investigating light transfer dynamics based on $N$th-order exceptional points (EPs). The $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric array supports two $N$th-order EPs separating an unbroken and a broken phase with real and imaginary eignvalues, respectively. Light transfer dynamics in this array exhibits radically different behaviors, i.e. a unidirectional oscillation behavior in the unbroken phase, an edge-towards localization behavior in the broken phase, and a center-towards localization behavior just at $N$th-order EPs. The anti-$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric array supports also two $N$th-order EPs separating an unbroken and a broken phase, which refer however to imaginary and real eigenvalues, respectively. Accordingly, light transfer dynamics in this array exhibits a center-towards localization behavior in the unbroken phase and an origin-centered oscillation behavior in the broken phase. These nontrivial light transfer behaviors and their controlled transitions are not viable for otherwise split lower-order EPs and depend on the underlying $SU(2)$ symmetry of spin-$l$ matrices.
Forest utilization for poverty alleviation
Creators: name: Merriman, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Poverty is an important global issue, with over 1.3 billion people currently living on less than one dollar a day. Many of these people are rural poor for whom forests provide their livelihoods. This essay examines the complex definitions of poverty and inequality. It then analyses various forest utilization methods and assesses their potential for poverty alleviation. Non-timber forest products, timber, environmental services, and tourism are all examined, and poverty alleviation potential has been found for all of these methods, along with a variety of challenges. This essay finds that forests have the potential to do even more than provide livelihoods, and in some cases local forests can be used to pull people out of poverty.
Cross helicity of interplanetary coronal mass ejections at 1 au
Creators: name: Good, S. W.
name: Hatakka, L. M.
name: Ala-Lahti, M.
name: Soljento, J. E.
name: Osmane, A.
name: Kilpua, E. K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) contain magnetic field and velocity fluctuations across a wide range of scales. These fluctuations may be interpreted as Alfvénic wave packets propagating parallel or anti-parallel to the background magnetic field, with the difference in power between counter-propagating fluxes quantified by the cross helicity. We have determined the cross helicity of inertial range fluctuations at $10^{-3}-10^{-2}$ Hz in 226 ICME flux ropes and 176 ICME sheaths observed by the Wind spacecraft at 1 au during 1995-2015. The flux ropes and sheaths had mean, normalised cross helicities of 0.18 and 0.24, respectively, with positive values here indicating net anti-sunward fluxes. While still tipped towards the anti-sunward direction on average, fluxes in ICMEs tend to be more balanced than in the solar wind at 1 au, where the mean cross helicity is larger. Superposed epoch profiles show cross helicity falling sharply in the sheath and reaching a minimum inside the flux rope near the leading edge. More imbalanced, solar wind-like cross helicity was found towards the trailing edge and laterally further from the rope axis. The dependence of cross helicity on flux rope orientation and the presence of an upstream shock are considered. Potential origins of the low cross helicity in ICMEs at 1 au include balanced driving of the closed-loop flux rope at the Sun and ICME-solar wind interactions in interplanetary space. We propose that low cross helicity of fluctuations is added to the standard list of ICME signatures.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 May 16
The Bloom-Phase Neurodevelopmental Mapping Module and IntentSim Architecture_ A Cross-Domain Analysis
Creators: name: Mezquia, Marcelo
name: TheVoidIntent LLC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This publication introduces the Bloom-Phase Neurodevelopmental Mapping Module (BPNM), a novel framework derived from the IntentSim simulation that mirrors the way living systems develop intelligence: through phased bursts of complexity, pruned refinement, and resonant consolidation.

Inspired by the Harmonic Bloom Cascade experiment, this module formalizes learning not as static optimization, but as a cyclical interplay between intentional energy pulses and structural retention. In this system:

Bloom phases drive prolific growth

Pruning phases filter incoherence

Resonance phases encode memory through structure

Integrated with the IntentSim architecture, the BPNM introduces a scalar field of intent as a guiding variable for evolution, adaptation, and behavior — making this a bridge between neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive emergence.

The paper explores:

Applications in adaptive AI and neuro-symbolic architectures

Parallels with biological development and memory consolidation

Patentable innovations for future intent-driven learning systems

Theoretical implications for understanding consciousness as a field phenomenon

This is not just a model. It is a shift in how we understand intelligence — from force to form, from code to coherence, from data to direction.

Filed by: Marcelo Mezquia, TheVoidIntent LLCSimulation Source: IntentSim Stage 2 | Harmonic Bloom Cascade ProtocolScroll Linkage: Scroll III: The Bloom That Built Time
title: Untersuchungen zur Akzeptanzsteigerung komplexer Infrastrukturprojekte mittels digitaler Methoden
Creators: name: Matthei, Jonathan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 624
subject: 300

description: Das Demokratieverständnis in Deutschland befindet sich im Wandel. Bürgerinnen und Bürger streben nach Mitbestimmung und sind bereit, dafür auf die Straße zu gehen. Besonders im Hinblick auf Infrastrukturvorhaben gelingt es trotz verschiedenster Bemühungen nicht, die Akzeptanz innerhalb der Bevölkerung zu erhöhen. Das primäre Ziel dieser vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Untersuchung der Möglichkeiten der Nutzung digitaler Methoden im Kontext der Bürgerbeteiligung, um die Akzeptanz von komplexen Infrastrukturprojekten in der Bevölkerung zu steigern. Hierzu werden die potenziellen Vorteile und Herausforderungen neuer Formen der Bürgerbeteiligung analysiert, Hypothesen formuliert und im Rahmen einer quantitativen Studie empirisch überprüft. Die vorliegende Studie legt eine bemerkenswerte Wissenslücke der Bürgerinnen und Bürger bezüglich Bürgerbeteiligung offen und betont in besonderem Maße die essentielle Bedeutung eines verstärkten Einsatzes digitaler Methoden zur Steigerung der Akzeptanz von Infrastrukturprojekten durch partizipative Maßnahmen.
description: The understanding of democracy in Germany is changing. Citizens are striving for co-determination and are prepared to take to the streets to achieve this. Especially with regard to infrastructure projects, it is not possible to increase acceptance within the population despite various efforts. The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the possibilities of using digital methods in the context of citizen participation to increase the acceptance of complex infrastructure projects among the population. To this end, the potential benefits and challenges of new forms of citizen participation are analysed, hypotheses are formulated, and empirical tests are conducted as part of a quantitative study. The present study reveals a remarkable gap in citizens' knowledge about public participation and emphasizes in particular the essential importance of an increased use of digital methods to increase the acceptance of infrastructure projects through participatory measures.
description: Tagungsband zum 32. BBB-Assistent:innentreffen 2023: 04.10.2023 - 06.10.2023, Universität Duisburg-Essen, p. 110
Calculating LRs for presence of body fluids from mRNA assay data in mixtures
Creators: name: Ypma, R. J. F.
name: Wijk, P. A. Maaskant-van
name: Gill, R. D.
name: Sjerps, M.
name: Berge, M. van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Messenger RNA (mRNA) profiling can identify body fluids present in a stain, yielding information on what activities could have taken place at a crime scene. To account for uncertainty in such identifications, recent work has focused on devising statistical models to allow for probabilistic statements on the presence of body fluids. A major hurdle for practical adoption is that evidentiary stains are likely to contain more than one body fluid and current models are ill-suited to analyse such mixtures. Here, we construct a likelihood ratio (LR) system that can handle mixtures, considering the hypotheses H1: the sample contains at least one of the body fluids of interest (and possibly other body fluids); H2: the sample contains none of the body fluids of interest (but possibly other body fluids). Thus, the LR-system outputs an LR-value for any combination of mRNA profile and set of body fluids of interest that are given as input. The calculation is based on an augmented dataset obtained by in silico mixing of real single body fluid mRNA profiles. These digital mixtures are used to construct a probabilistic classification method (a 'multi-label classifier'). The probabilities produced are subsequently used to calculate an LR, via calibration. We test a range of different classification methods from the field of machine learning, ways to preprocess the data and multi-label strategies for their performance on in silico mixed test data. Furthermore, we study their robustness to different assumptions on background levels of the body fluids. We find logistic regression works as well as more flexible classifiers, but shows higher robustness and better explainability. We test the system's performance on lab-generated mixture samples, and discuss practical usage in case work.
description: 24 pages. This is a pre-publication version. Latest version: now in LaTeX after mainly automatic conversion from Word using "pandoc"
Extreme solar events
Creators: name: Cliver, Edward W.
name: Schrijver, Carolus J.
name: Shibata, Kazunari
name: Usoskin, Ilya G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We trace the evolution of research on extreme solar and solar-terrestrial events from the 1859 Carrington event to the rapid development of the last twenty years. Our focus is on the largest observed/inferred/theoretical cases of sunspot groups, flares on the Sun and Sun-like stars, coronal mass ejections, solar proton events, and geomagnetic storms. The reviewed studies are based on modern observations, historical or long-term data including the auroral and cosmogenic radionuclide record, and Kepler observations of Sun-like stars. We compile a table of 100- and 1000-year events based on occurrence frequency distributions for the space weather phenomena listed above. Questions considered include the Sun-like nature of superflare stars and the existence of impactful but unpredictable solar "black swans" and extreme "dragon king" solar phenomena that can involve different physics from that operating in events which are merely large.
description: Invited review article for Living Reviews in Solar Physics
title: Moderne Arbeitsmodule in der Baupraxis: Über den Validierungserfolg entwickelter Arbeitsmodule der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
Creators: name: Helmus, Manfred
name: Becker, Robin
name: Roetmann, Nane
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 624

description: Die Baubranche leidet unter einem Mangel an Nachwuchskräften für die Bauleitung. Eine deutschlandweite Umfrage unter Studierenden verdeutlicht jedoch, dass der Beruf an Attraktivität verliert. Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen der traditionellen Berufsvorstellung und den aktuellen Ansprüchen der aufstrebenden Fachkräfte an moderne, flexible Arbeitsmodelle bedarf einer Lösungsfindung. Die Zukunftsrobustheit kleiner und mittelständischer Bauunternehmen erfordert eine erhöhte Anpassungsfähigkeit. Nachdem bereits ein vorangegangener Bericht die Präferenzen der jüngeren Generation hinsichtlich der Bauleitung erörterte und diese mit den Standpunkten von Geschäftsführern, Kammern, Verbänden und aktiven Bauleitern abglich, konzentriert sich der nachfolgende Bericht auf die Vorstellung der Validierungsergebnisse der entwickelten Arbeitsmodule in der realen Baupraxis.
description: The construction industry suffers from a shortage of junior staff for construction management. However, a nationwide survey among students makes it clear that the profession is becoming less attractive. The conflict between the traditional idea of the profession and the current demands of aspiring professionals for modern, flexible working models requires a solution. The future robustness of small and medium-sized construction companies requires increased adaptability. After a previous report discussed the preferences of the younger generation with regard to construction management and compared these with the viewpoints of managing directors, chambers, associations and active construction managers, the following report concentrates on presenting the validation results of the developed work modules in real construction practice.
description: Tagungsband zum 32. BBB-Assistent:innentreffen 2023: 04.10.2023 - 06.10.2023, Universität Duisburg-Essen, p. 70
Collision Detection Accelerated: An Optimization Perspective
Creators: name: Montaut, Louis
name: Lidec, Quentin Le
name: Petrik, Vladimir
name: Sivic, Josef
name: Carpentier, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Collision detection between two convex shapes is an essential feature of any physics engine or robot motion planner. It has often been tackled as a computational geometry problem, with the Gilbert, Johnson and Keerthi (GJK) algorithm being the most common approach today. In this work we leverage the fact that collision detection is fundamentally a convex optimization problem. In particular, we establish that the GJK algorithm is a specific sub-case of the well-established Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm in convex optimization. We introduce a new collision detection algorithm by adapting recent works linking Nesterov acceleration and Frank-Wolfe methods. We benchmark the proposed accelerated collision detection method on two datasets composed of strictly convex and non-strictly convex shapes. Our results show that our approach significantly reduces the number of iterations to solve collision detection problems compared to the state-of-the-art GJK algorithm, leading to up to two times faster computation times.
description: RSS 2022, 12 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
title: Auswirkungen der Vorfertigung auf die Arbeitsproduktivität am Beispiel von Stahlbetondecken
Creators: name: Schrader, Marie-Christin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 624

description: Vor dem Hintergrund der stagnierenden Entwicklung der Arbeitsproduktivität in der Bauwirtschaft wurden bereits diverse Studien mit der Intention durchgeführt, Produktivitätstreiber zu identifizieren. Im Ergebnis geht daraus regelmäßig die Vorfertigung als mögliche Lösung hervor, wobei diese häufig mit anderen Merkmalen des industriellen Bauens (z. B. Standardisierung und Automatisierung) kombiniert wird, ohne Ursache und Wirkung klar voneinander abzugrenzen. In dieser Veröffentlichung soll die Vorfertigung deshalb als reine Verlagerung von Baustellenprozessen in eine stationäre Produktion betrachtet werden. Es ergibt sich die Fragestellung, welche konkreten Aspekte der Vorfertigung tatsächlich Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsproduktivität haben und ob diese ausschließlich positiv zu bewerten sind. Das Ziel besteht deshalb zum einen in der Identifikation der entscheidenden Einflussfaktoren, die bei einer vergleichenden Betrachtung der in-situ-Fertigung und der Vorfertigung für die Arbeitsproduktivität von Bedeutung sind. Zum anderen soll eine Aussage darüber getroffen werden, ob die Vorfertigung allein zu einer Steigerung der Arbeitsproduktivität führen kann.
description: Due to the stagnating development of labor productivity in the construction industry, various studies have already been conducted with the intention of identifying productivity drivers. As a result, prefabrication is regularly identified, often in combination with other key features of industrial construction (e. g. standardization and automation) without clearly distinguishing cause and effect. In this publication prefabrication will therefore be considered as a mere shift of construction site processes to a stationary production. The question arises, which aspects in the course of prefabrication can have effects on labor productivity and whether these can be evaluated exclusively positively. The aim is to identify the decisive factors that have an impact on labor productivity when comparing in-situ production and prefabrication. Secondly, a conclusion is to be made as to whether prefabrication alone can lead to an increase in labor productivity.
description: Tagungsband zum 32. BBB-Assistent:innentreffen 2023: 04.10.2023 - 06.10.2023, Universität Duisburg-Essen, p. 178
The feasibility of implementing a disposal ban on polystyrene in Metro Vancouver
Creators: name: O’Neill, Maegan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Research Question: Can a disposal ban on Polystyrene (PS #6) be justified based on economic, logistical, environmental and social criteria in Metro Vancouver? A proposed disposal ban on PS would require a convenient alternative stream for the material to follow that does not result in the disposal of the material in a landfill. The chosen alternative this research paper has focused on is recycling through source diversion. Through research, the proposed disposal ban was justified based upon economic and environmental criteria. The economic return and compression method (an efficient and environmentally sound mechanical recovery process) of recycling the material in the Metro Vancouver region indicated that a disposal ban could be justified. However, the logistical and social criteria pose some challenges. The logistics of a disposal ban becomes joined with the social realm when the transportation of the material is considered. PS’s light weight and bulkiness make curbside pickup financially challenging for an organization to administer. One preferred solution to curbside pick-up are recycling depots. However, relying entirely upon recycling depots is less convenient for individuals – most notably elderly and non-mobile residents - and costly for the commercial sector. Furthermore, a redirection of all PS to existing recycling depots poses the risk of straining these depots. Considering the research findings, a list of recommendations has been made below. These recommendations were based on literature reviews, expert interviews and survey results. ● If a disposal ban were implemented on PS, it would need to be a gradual process. ● Further public education on the options for recycling PS need to take place. ● Depot drop off is more feasible than curbside pickup but have several logistical and social challenges. That being said, the use of depots and their locations need to be given further consideration.
Appendix attachments for MSc thesis report
Creators: name: Leonardo, Francisca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: composite
compressed_sensing
smFISH
compressedFISH

description: Image Acquisition protocol ‘compressedFISH ROBOFISH job.ipynb’ Image Processing - Cell segmentation and compressed sensing pipeline ‘’imagedata.py” “ImageAnalysis_testing.ipynb” extra files for imagedata.py to work: stitcher.py Output files: polygons.pkl map_from_centroid_to_average.pkl average_intensities.pkl Other attachments in Zenodo: Exp name ‘16-gene’ pilot exp ‘167-gene’ exp at 40X and 60X ‘167-gene’ exp at 20X Amplifiers used CompositeAmplifiers.xlsx Genes targeted codebook_composite_test_High.xlsx 167genes_MouseBrain.xlsx MouseGeneSelection.txt Exp logs ROBOFISH log FLEXP2022-02-08 amplifier test.txt ROBOFISH log FLEXP2022-02-17.txt ROBOFISH log FLEXP2022-04-22.txt ROBOFISH log FLEXP2022-04-15.txt Table 2. List of each experiment’s respective attachments, as stored in Zenodo.
title: Sprachbildung, Mehrsprachigkeit & Inklusion: Vignetten-Korpus (Teil1)
Creators: name: Niehaus, Kevin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sprachbildung
subject: Inklusive Pädagogik
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Sonderpädagogik
subject: Sonderschulpädagogik
subject: Intersektionalität
subject: 400
subject: 370

description: Die Vignetten sollen sowohl Forschenden, Hochschullehrenden, Studierenden, Lehrkräften, Ausbildenden der praktischen Lehrkräfteausbildung und weiterem pädagogischen Personal als Impulsmaterial und Arbeitsgrundlage dienen, um den (1) methodisch-methodologischen Einsatz von Fallvignetten in qualitativ oder quantitativ ausgerichteten empirischen Projekten voranzutreiben, (2) ihre inhaltlichen Chancen und Grenzen sowie Leerstellen zu identifizieren und (3) Möglichkeiten in der kasuistischen Lehrkräfteprofessionalisierung aus didaktischer Sicht zu reflektieren.
NUTQ AKTINI ASOSLOVCHI QOIDALAR
Creators: name: MAJIDOVA, MAFTUNA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Nutq aktlari nazariyasining ikki asosiy asoschisi, ya'ni Austin va Searlening g'oyalari asosida qanday rivojlanganini talqin qilib o’tamiz. Austinning nazariyaga oid dastlabki fikrlari bilan tanishib chiqqanimizda, biz nazariyani yanada tizimli ravishda ko'rib chiqish va uning asoslarini mustahkamlash uchun Searlening yangiliklarini ham tanishib chiqishimiz darkor. Austinning constativelar oxir-oqibatda faqat performativlar yoki nutq aktlari turlaridan biri ekanligi haqidagi da'vosi, nutq aktlarini tilning asosiy birliklaridan biriga  aylantiradi. Natijada, Austin ideal-til faylasuflari tomonidan qo'llab-quvvatlangan boshqa lingvistik funksiyalar ustidan haqiqatni ifodalovchi ifodalar, ya'ni takliflarning ustunligini inkor qilib chiqdi. Austin tomonidan ko'rsatilganidek, takliflarning haqiqat shartlari, aslida, nutq aktlarining muvaffaqiyat shartlarining kengroq turi hisoblanadi.
Local food awareness week with the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm and UBC Food Services
Creators: name: Bobb, Samantha
name: Lehmann, Crysta
name: McTavish, Justin
name: Mitchell, Taisha
name: Simon, Jaclyn
name: Wu, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Consumers in B.C. and around the world are becoming more interested in local foods because localized food systems benefit farmers, consumers, and the environment (Weatherell, Tregear, & Allinson, 2003; Feenstra, 1997). Despite benefits and interest, there is still a need to increase awareness of food locality, especially on our own UBC campus. In cooperation with UBC SEEDS and LFS 450, our group partnered with stakeholders Shannon Lambie of UBC Farm and Leith Blachford of UBC Student Housing and Hospitality to enhance awareness of local food in general, as well as the local food grown by UBC Farm and sourced by UBC Food Services (UBCFS). We proposed signage as a way to increase awareness and campus support, and from there the project evolved into a weeklong campaign event, Local Food Awareness Week. Our campaign will be a week of promotional activity in the first year residences Totem Park and Place Vanier, and will include information booths, newsletter signups, a photo contest, and promotional visual aids around the residences and cafeterias. Using a community based social marketing approach we took the list of local ingredients sourced by UBCFS, the UBCFS and UBC Farm logos and farmer interviews, and with them we created newsletter, poster, table topper, and shelf talker mockups for our stakeholders. The photo contest will utilize twitter and instagram and involve participants posting pictures of local food related activity, tagging @UBCFarm and @UBCFood, as well as using our campaign hashtag #LocalFoodUBC. We recommend the event be carried out starting next school year in September 2015, using high quality versions of promotional markups. We also recommend future SEEDS projects be focused on following up with our project, analyzing its success and the resulting awareness level among first year students using our mockup staff evaluation and student survey questionnaires.
Supplementary material: Frequentist and Bayesian analysis methods for case series data and application to early outpatient COVID-19 treatment case series of high risk patients
Creators: name: Gkioulekas, Eleftherios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10402 Biostatistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Statistics

description: This document contains the computer code and the raw calculations for our paper "Frequentist and Bayesian analysis methods for case series data and application to early outpatient COVID-19 treatment case series of high risk patients". The results of the calculations are summarized in the main paper's tables. Also included is the code used to generate the plots reported in the paper as well as the $p$-value plots for each case series studied in the main paper.