cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Expression and purification of mouse TLR9 in HEK293F cells for use in a biosensor to detect viral and bacterial DNA
Creators: name: Mahey, Amita
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Although microbes are ubiquitous in our environments and often play crucial roles in human health, our current ability to detect them quickly and efficiently in different environments is lacking. For example, bacterial contamination of water supplies, blood platelets, and food can have serious health consequences and can even lead to death. Current strategies to detect bacterial contamination in these environments take at least 24 hours, leading to a lag time in response to the contamination. In order to more efficiently detect bacteria in these environments, we propose a biosensor to detect microbes. This biosensor will use mouse toll like receptor 9 (mTLR9), which dimerizes in the presence of bacterial and viral DNA, and can be used in setting such as hospitals, the food industry, or in homes. We will look for two signals of mTLR9 dimerization: a FRET signal from fluorophores attached to mTLR9 monomers, and electrochemical signals from redox species attached to the mTLR9 monomer via a single stranded DNA arm. The presence of these two signals will indicate a true binding event, indicative of mTLR9 dimerization, thus indicating the presence of bacteria or viruses in the tested sample. The aim of this thesis was to express and purify modified mTLR9 from HEK293F cells as a first step towards building a biosensor to detect bacterial and viral DNA. mTLR9 expression was optimized in this cell line, but mTLR9 could not be purified, as it localized to the insoluble fraction of the cell culture lysate. Future work should be aimed at expressing mTLR9 with an appropriate signal peptide and potentially expressing the protein in insect cell lines.
Agrisys Tanzania 2021 Insect Pests on Key Crops
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Marion
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 70105 Agricultural Systems Analysis and Modelling
subject: 70301 Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: Description of key insect pests on crops grown in the Agrisys Tanzania study landscape. In English and in Swahili
Disaster management capability of disaster risk reduction and management council in selected areas in Pangasinan: Basis for a capability enhancement program
Creators: name: Valdez, Holden Kirby Mandapat
name: JOSTE, Indexing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150205 Investment and Risk Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract
This descriptive study determined the disaster management capabilities of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (DRRMC) in Pangasinan in which validated questionnaire was utilized as the data gathering instrument. Specifically, it determined the respondents; disaster management capabilities as to their knowledge and practices on prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response, and rehabilitation and recovery. Statistical Tools used were mean percentage score for the knowledge of the respondents, average weighted mean for the practices of the respondents, and chi-square test for the difference of the knowledge and practices when grouped as to their profiles. Findings revealed that majority of the respondents belong to early adulthood, dominated by married female who are college graduate with a length of service of more than a decade and are from Urdaneta City. The respondents are knowledgeable and always practicing the key activities on disaster management as to prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response and rehabilitation and recovery. Moreover, the profile of the respondents as to age, educational attainment, civil status and length of service established a difference on the knowledge, practice and factors affecting their disaster management. In line with these, it is recommended to provide relevant seminars and extension program to enhance the disaster management capability of the DRRMC.
S/W PRESERVATION AND LEGACY ISSUES AT LEP
Creators: name: JAMIE, SHIERS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: FAIR SOFTWARE CERNLIB LEGACY PRESERVATION

description: This document started off as a summary of software preservation and legacy issues at LEP for WOSSS19 and was subsequently expanded to address the possibility / appropriateness of applying FAIR[1] principles to software. It should be understood that memories of this era are now as dusty as the card decks that preceded it. (But not us?)

[1] See https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples.
title: The marine sediment archives of Himalayan erosion
Creators: name: Najman, Yani
name: Blum, Mike
name: Mark, Chris
name: Zhuang, Guangsheng
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Marine sediment archives provide invaluable records of continental erosion and dynamics, important for understanding both crustal deformation and climatic processes. Yet these archives are influenced by autogenic and allogenic processes. Rigorous interpretation of these records therefore requires unravelling of these various intertwined factors, and a good understanding of source-to-sink.

The Bengal Fan is the largest marine sedimentary fan in the world. It, and its smaller “sister” the Indus Fan, as well as the Nicobar Fan, archive the erosional history of the Himalayas, the largest mountain belt in the world.  Various IODP, and previously DSDP expeditions have cored the fans, and the material extensively studied to elucidate the history of the fans’ hinterland tectonics, source to sink dispersal patterns, and climatic variations through time, with an emphasis on the response to the Asian monsoons. Yet unravelling the competing influences on the sediment archives in this tectonically active region is challenging.

In this talk I will provide an overview on the use of isotopic provenance studies to discuss aspects of the progress made in using the archives to determine Himalayan tectonics, as well as in deconvolving autogenic versus allogenic influences and in our understanding of source-to-sink.
title: Arts and the University
title: Institutional logics in the developing world and beyond
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Balme, Christopher
Publisher: name: Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
Year: 2021

description: This paper discusses the emergence of arts education at universities and associated institutions of higher learning in the developing world after 1945. In the first part, the question of the university as an institution will be discussed from the point of view of neoinstitutionaltheory and especially the processes of isomorphism that have been frequently described in this theoretical approach. The second section examines the emergence of arts education in the Global South between 1950 and 1970, i.e. at the height of the Cold War. The third section proposes a topology of arts education and the differential realisation of these models in different parts of the world. The final section shows how in one country in the Global South, New Zealand, concrete steps have been taken at universities to realise a decolonial epistemology through the creation of culturally specific spaces which adhere to the cultural exigencies of the host cultures.
Introduction
Creators: name: Fernández, Beatriz
Publisher: name: Collectif Inventer le Grand Paris
Year: 2021

description: Cette séance à pour objectif d'examiner un certain nombre d’appellations génériques appliquées au Grand Paris : métropole, capitale; région parisienne ou région-capitale… Comment nomme-t-on et finalement conceptualise-t-on, parfois de manière très ordinaire ou implicite cette entité ? L’approche sera très ouverte, chronologiquement : nous allons balayer plus d’un demi-millénaire « géo-historique », depuis le Moyen-âge, jusqu'aux temps contemporains. Si ces derniers constituent habituellement le champ privilégiés de nos .travaux, les notions ne sont pas pour autant mieux fixées que par le passé, comme l'a rappelé la réémergence de lanotion même de Grand Paris au détriment de "région parisienne" il y a un...
title: Speed, Quality, and the Optimal Timing of Complex Decisions: Field Evidence
Creators: name: Strittmatter, Anthony
name: Sunde, Uwe
name: Zegners, Dainis
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real-world setting of cognitively-demanding decisions in which the timing of decisions is endogenous: professional chess. Move-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise information about decision times and decision quality, based on a comparison of actual decisions to a computational benchmark of best moves constructed using the artificial intelligence of a chess engine. The results reveal that faster decisions are associated with better performance. The findings are consistent with the predictions of procedural decision models like drift-diffusion-models in which decision makers sequentially acquire information about decision alternatives with uncertain valuations.
Nurturing Early Learners in the Digital World: A Parental Perspective
Creators: name: Tay, Adeline
name: Jiow, Hee Jhee
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2024

description: Young children of today are raised in the omnipresence of media. Normatively, children of 4 to 6 years old are expected to reach a plethora of developmental milestones, which are typically classified under the domains of Aesthetics and Creative Expression (1), Discovery of the World (2), Language and Literacy (3), Motor Skills Development (4), Numeracy (5), and Social and Emotional Development (6). Through qualitative interviews with 21 parents, this study investigated how parents wielded digital devices to foster children’s development in these key domains, but deliberately ring-fenced them from pernicious use.The study uncovered that parents intentionally utilised digital devices to facilitate children’s learning. YouTube videos were astronomically employed to nurture development in domains like dance (1), vocabulary (3), self-help skills (4), and numbers (5). Moreover, a parent cultivated her children’s delayed gratification by wielding digital devices as incentives (6). Additionally, numerous children were permitted to consume from age-appropriate content like YouTube Kids, consequently stimulating children’s self-discovery (2), which some parents viewed sublimely. For instance, a child after consuming age-appropriate content – discovered a new scientific word which translated into an interest in volcanic science.Furthermore, this study divulged favourable secondary and multiplier effects of digital use. For example, some children who watched cartoons on digital devices, petitioned for their parents to purchase related toys for them to play with their siblings; unequivocally, nurturing their motor skills (playing of toys) and social and emotional development (interacting with siblings). Some parents also found that watching popular children programmes graced their children with conversational topics with their peers in school, which in turn developed their language.Surprisingly, while many studies have cautioned the unbridled digital media use for young children, this study found that parents were generally cognisant of such dangers; they had intentionally, and successfully employed digital devices to develop their child.
Capitales et métropoles dans l'Occident médiéval
Creators: name: Menjot, Denis
Publisher: name: Collectif Inventer le Grand Paris
Year: 2021

description: Cet ensemble de réflexions sur les capitales et métropoles dans l'Occident médiéval est issu pour l'essentiel un travail mené avec Patrick Boucheron et Pierre Monnet, et publié en 2005[1]. Je partirai de la définition de capitale qui figure dans tous les dictionnaires ordinaires. À la différence de très nombreuses notions forgées par les historiens modernistes et par les géographes, qui empruntent souvent aux sciences sociales, la langue médiévale latine ou vernaculaire connait bien l'emploi de ville-tête, -chef, royale, supérieure, caput regni, sedes regia. On en retrouve des occurrences dans toutes les régions occidentales et on les a considérées comme des...
ΝEWABC_WP2_T2-3_Development-of-a-best-practice-benchmark_20230512_v1
Creators: name: Savva, Stefania
name: Heracleous, Dora
name: Kateva, Golfo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This dataset contains all relevant data for a literature review on PAR-based case studies of pilot actions focusing on integration and education with a focus on the countries of the pilot partners. This dataset relies on information about selected best practices, collected in NEW ABC partners’ countries (i.e. Italy, Cyprus, the UK, Finland, France, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, and Spain) and in other EU countries outside the partnership. Content of the files: file ΝEWABC_WP2_T2-3_Development-of-a-best-practice-benchmark_20230512_v1.csv contains information collected on: (1) Category and General Information about the selected best practices, including type of document, geographical coverage, level of practice, type of initiative, implementation partners, etc; (2) Contents of the best practices, including context of practice, main goals, target groups, beneficiaries, needs of participants, methodological approach, achieved results, impact on participants, innovativeness and success factors, relevance, adaptability to other contexts, constraints, lessons learned, replicability; (3) Limitations influencing disparities in PAR-based educations practices and research; (4) Scoring of selected best practices according to selection criteria, including added value, co-creation, comprehensiveness, effectiveness and feasibility, gender and diversity issues, technical feasibility, adaptability and scalability, level of evidence. file README_ΝEWABC_WP2_T2-3_Development-of-a-best-practice-benchmark_20230512_v1.rtf contains basic information on the dataset uploaded.
Additional file 1 of Leptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador
Creators: name: Miller, Erin
name: Barragan, Veronica
name: Chiriboga, Jorge
name: Weddell, Chad
name: Luna, Ligia
name: Jiménez, Dulce J.
name: Aleman, John
name: Mihaljevic, Joseph R.
name: Sonora Olivas
name: Marks, Jane
name: Izurieta, Ricardo
name: Nieto, Nathan
name: Keim, Paul
name: Trueba, Gabriel
name: J. Gregory Caporaso
name: Talima Pearson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1 Fig. S1. Map of study site.
Additional file 2 of Leptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador
Creators: name: Miller, Erin
name: Barragan, Veronica
name: Chiriboga, Jorge
name: Weddell, Chad
name: Luna, Ligia
name: Jiménez, Dulce J.
name: Aleman, John
name: Mihaljevic, Joseph R.
name: Sonora Olivas
name: Marks, Jane
name: Izurieta, Ricardo
name: Nieto, Nathan
name: Keim, Paul
name: Trueba, Gabriel
name: J. Gregory Caporaso
name: Talima Pearson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2 S1 File. Sapro assay design and validation.
振りのタイミングを評価するダンス練習システ ムに関する研究
Creators: name: 杉浦磨矢
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Dance
openpose
Timing

description: 昨今,ダンスは体育の必修科目となっており,最近ではプロのダンスリーグも 始まるなどメジャーなスポーツになりつつある.しかし,新型コロナウイルス感 染症の影響により外出ができない,都市部から離れていて有名な先生のレッスン が受ける事ができないという問題がある.また,地方にはダンススタジオや能力 の高い先生は少なく,誰しもがダンスを十分に学べる場があるとは言えない. そのため,1 人でもダンスの学習を支援するシステムの開発や研究がなされてい る.しかし,学習するうえで必要になってくる自分の姿を確認するという重要な 項目が抜けていたり,学習者が振り付けを学ぶとき振り付けの形があっているか, 間違っているかだけで振り付けのタイミングは指摘しないシステムが散見される. また,体の骨格の違いだったり手がまっすぐに伸びない人もいる.そのような人 は形を合わせたくても合わせられないことがある.更に,振り付けの形はある程 度合わせる事は出来るが,タイミングがずれてしまうといった問題を抱える人も 見受けられる.形がそろっていてもダンスを作品として見たときにタイミングが バラバラだと揃っては見えない,しかし,タイミングさえそろって言えば,ダン スが揃って見える.その為,形を合わせることよりも,タイミングを合わせると いうことはより重要になる. 本研究は,振り付けの形ではなく,振り付けのタイミングを重視した指摘をフィー ドバックとして,自分の踊りを評価してもらえる機能を搭載した 1 人でもダンス レッスンを実現するシステムを提案する.フィードバックは,openpose という姿 勢推定技術を用いて、撮影した動画データを元に各フレームに分けて,体の関節 ii 24 個のポイントの座標データを記録する.そして,事前に準備してある見本の姿 勢データと各フレームの類似度を測り,前後 20 フレームのうち一番高い類似度の フレームを振り付けを行ったタイミングとして記録して,そのズレが大きければ 間違っているとフィードバックされる. 評価実験は,システムのタイミングを判定する機能の評価を行った.被験者二 人に協力してもらい,タイミングが間違っている場合の再現率・適合率を求めた. 結果は,被験者 1 は再現率 0.8,適合率が 0.153 となり,被験者 2 は再現率 0.965, 適合率 0.267 となり再現率が適合率より高く,間違っている部分を正確に網羅でき ているといえる結果になった.しかし,カメラとの距離,角度に違いが出ると再 現率・適合率の値が下がってしまうことが課題として残されている.
A IMPORTÂNCIA DA ESCOLA MILITAR PARA A SOCIEDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA
Creators: name: Sousa, Rodger Roberto Alves de
Publisher: name: Vistacien
Year: 2023
Subjects: Escolas Militares
Educação de Qualidade
Liderança
Cidadania
Valores Cívicos

description: Este artigo examinou a importância das escolas militares na sociedade contemporânea, destacando sua contribuição para a formação de líderes, cidadãos responsáveis e a promoção de valores cívicos. A pesquisa se concentrou em exemplos notáveis de escolas militares bem-sucedidas no Brasil, como a Escola Preparatória de Cadetes do Exército (EsPCEx), a Escola Naval (EN) e a Academia da Força Aérea (AFA). A metodologia incluiu uma pesquisa bibliográfica em bases de dados acadêmicos e consultas a documentos oficiais. Os resultados revelaram que essas instituições desempenham um papel fundamental na educação de qualidade, no desenvolvimento de liderança e na promoção de valores cívicos sólidos. A valorização contínua das escolas militares é essencial para garantir seu impacto positivo na sociedade. O estudo destaca a importância de apoiar e fortalecer essas instituições, reconhecendo seu papel na formação de cidadãos responsáveis e na segurança nacional.
Berlin en 2020 : capitale, métropole, ville-globale ?
Creators: name: Laporte, Antoine
Publisher: name: Collectif Inventer le Grand Paris
Year: 2021

description: Berlin comme contrepoint du Grand Paris ? Comment peut-on parler pour cette ville en termes de capitale, de métropole ou de ville globale à l'époque contemporaine. En introduction, je ferai trois détours en passant par Bonn, par le Berlin d'avant 1989 et par la question du régime fédéral en Allemagne. L'exemple de Bonn Bonn, petite ville allemande, est surtout connue pour avoir été capitale de la République Fédérale Allemande de 1949 à 1990 de manière officielle, et jusqu'en 1999 de manière effective. Elle a choisi en 2009 un logo municipal qu'il m'a semblé intéressant d'analyser. Celui-ci est basé sur...
An Evaluation on the Changing Educational Policies and Sociopolitical Rituals in Turkey
Creators: name: Giorgetti, Filiz Meşeci
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the sociopolitical rituals such as national festivals and the student pledge have changed in the Turkish Republic primary schools within the last twenty years. Method: The data used to achieve this purpose was collected from three different sources; the applicable legislation, statements of policymakers and primary school class teachers. Findings: As a result, it can be said that changes in politics have affected both the daily life and the special occasions in primary schools considerably. Abrogating the Student Pledge in can be regarded as the most important alteration in the everyday life of the school. The most important change of special occasions in primary schools was made in 2012 to free the national festivals from their militaristic framework. However, this change was also perceived as having created a lack of enthusiasm for the festivals. After the failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016, Turkey announced 15th July the Democracy and National Unity Day. During the first week of the school year, activities are carried out for this day. However, it can be said that some teachers are having difficulties understanding and accepting 15th July.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 18 No 1 (2019): National Holidays and other Socio-Political Rituals in Schools
title: The financing of economic growth and development in Botswana : 1973-1994
Creators: name: Matsheka, Thapelo C
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis studies the financing of economic growth and development in Botswana. The aim is to assess the extent to which alternative resources, other than mineral income, can be mobilised to fund economic growth and development in Botswana. Economic growth can be financed from domestic and / or external resources. With regard to domestic resources the distinction is made between private and public resources. External resources refer to foreign capital inflows. The thesis is divided into four main areas. Firstly, resource mobilisation from the private sector is studied in the context of the McKinnon and Shaw model of financial liberalisation. Secondly, the role of fiscal policy in mobilising resources is studied by estimating elasticities and buoyancies of the Botswana tax system. Thirdly, the thesis assesses the impact of foreign capital inflows on saving, investment and economic growth in the economy of Botswana. Finally, our study fits the balance of payments constrained growth model to Botswana data in order to assess the extent to which the growth rate of income is constrained by the necessity to maintain equilibrium in the current account of the balance of payments. Our study makes a number of findings. Firstly, that high real interest rates will not necessarily promote saving, investment, and economic growth. The major constraint to increased investment is found to lie in the failure of the financial system to transform financial resources into productive investment. Secondly, the policy of reduced taxes, the broadening of tax bases, and fiscal restraint seems to be justified because of the limited options for increasing revenues. The structure of government revenues is still dominated by proceeds from the mining sector. However, it is likely that as the private sector develops, the structure will be reversed in favour of non mining income. Thirdly, the effect of capital inflows, especially foreign direct investment, has been to promote capital formation in the economy of Botswana. Finally, the long run growth rate of income in Botswana is found to be approximated by the ratio of the growth rate of exports and the income elasticity of demand for imports.
Beyond the String Genus
Creators: name: Alvarez, Orlando
name: Singer, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an earlier work we used a path integral analysis to propose a higher genus generalization of the elliptic genus. We found a cobordism invariant parametrized by Teichmuller space. Here we simplify the formula and study the behavior of our invariant under the action of the mapping class group of the Riemann surface. We find that our invariant is a modular function with multiplier just as in genus one.
description: 40 pages, 1 figure
What is... a G_2 manifold?
Creators: name: Karigiannis, Spiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C26

description: This is a very short and elementary introduction to G_2 manifolds. We stress the similarities and the differences with Kähler manifolds in general and with Calabi-Yau manifolds in particular.
description: 3 pages, no figures. Published in the April 2011 issue of the Notices of the AMS
Temps de discussion 1
Creators: name: Collectif IGP
Publisher: name: Collectif Inventer le Grand Paris
Year: 2021

description: Intervenant non identifié : Vous dites que la ville de Bonn a un complexe lié à sa petitesse. Pouvez-vous préciser de qui émane ce discours ? Antoine Laporte : En présentant le logo de Bonn, c’est en vue d’en faire une lecture a posteriori du marketing territorial qui a conduit à créer ce logo. Il est une émanation de la municipalité, ce quipeut traduire ce complexe. En 1949, quand elle devient capitale, c'est une toute petite ville qui compte 100 000 habitants, surnommée par les visiteurs internationaux et le personnel politiques qui y vivaient « le village ». Elle avait deux surnoms : le...
In a tight spot, spin and charge separate
Creators: name: Fiete, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photons (bosons) confined in a hollow waveguide containing an atomic gas could show spin-charge separation, which is more commonly associated with one-dimensional fermions.
description: 5 pages
Additional file 3 of Leptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador
Creators: name: Miller, Erin
name: Barragan, Veronica
name: Chiriboga, Jorge
name: Weddell, Chad
name: Luna, Ligia
name: Jiménez, Dulce J.
name: Aleman, John
name: Mihaljevic, Joseph R.
name: Sonora Olivas
name: Marks, Jane
name: Izurieta, Ricardo
name: Nieto, Nathan
name: Keim, Paul
name: Trueba, Gabriel
name: J. Gregory Caporaso
name: Talima Pearson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3 Table S5. Median values of abiotic river water measurements.
title: Tessenow in Hellerau : the materialisation of space
Creators: name: Adler, Gerald
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2004

description: Germany’s first Garden City was founded at Hellerau in 1908; it represented different aspects of the Reform movement, and was a remarkable coincidence of progressive manufacturing (Karl Schmidt’s Deutsche Werkstätten furniture factory), housing and urban design (masterplanned by Richard Riemerschmid with significant contributions from Hermann Muthesius and Heinrich Tessenow) and cultural innovation (the Festspielhaus, promoted by the patron Wolf Dohrn who commissioned Tessenow) where the Swiss musical pedagogue Emile Jaques-Dalcroze established his school of eurhythmy. Tessenow’s work, in the form of executed buildings, drawings, and writings, forms an architectural corpus which concludes many nineteenth-century concerns and lays the foundations for much of the technical and aesthetic agenda of the Neues Bauen of the 1920s and beyond. His nineteenth-century inheritance is emphasised by considering his work as a series of dialectical pairings representing the fundamental ‘spirit’ and ‘matter’ discourse of that era. The focus on ‘space’ and ‘matter’ of the late 1800s becomes the theoretical engine of the analysis of Tessenow’s work: in terms of ‘light’ (the ‘light box’ of the Festspielhaus) and ‘fabric’ (the aesthetics of flatness aided by Tessenow’s patented wall construction); ‘the grid’, where his work is related to contemporaneous concerns of Behrens and Lauweriks, and ‘the everyday’, which concludes with the parallel of his ‘ordinary’ designs with Muthesius’s encouragement of ‘the type’. Tessenow’s architecture is interpreted as a critical development of Gottfried Semper’s ‘Four Elements’, and it is here that the overly simplistic dialectic of ‘spirit’ and ‘matter’ is found wanting, particulary as concerns the Semperian ‘hearth’ element. The thesis concludes by charting Tessenow’s changing critical reception throughout the twentieth century against its key architectural staging posts, and suggests that the lesson we might learn from him is to adopt a Humanist outlook incorporating an ethos both materialist and ‘spiritual’ in outlook.
Effect of local habitat and landscape attributes on bird species richness and community completeness in shade coffee plantations in Colombia
Creators: name: Gonzalez Prieto, Catalina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The loss of tropical forest for agriculture is a principal cause of declines in species diversity in the Neotropics. Shade-grown coffee plantations, where coffee plants grow under a canopy of trees, have been found to support a higher diversity of both Neotropical migrant and tropical resident birds compared to agroecosystems without trees. However, how local and landscape factors interact to affect avian biodiversity remains poorly understood. I studied the influence and interaction of local and landscape attributes on bird richness and community completeness in 160 shade coffee plantations in two regions of Colombia differing in extent of regional forest: Antioquia, where forest covered 20% of the study area and Cauca, where only 1% of forest remained. By using generalized linear models, I determined how species richness and community completeness were influenced by the local scale structure and composition of shade-grown coffee plantations (i.e., tree richness, tree abundance, and coffee density) and landscape variables surrounding the plantation (i.e., plantation distance to forest, cover by intact forest, forest-agriculture mosaic, or the combination of the two). My findings suggest that the extent of regional forest cover affects the landscape-level contribution to bird richness and community completeness within plantations. In Antioquia, richness of bird communities increased with the proportion of all forest elements within the surrounding landscape. Community completeness was influenced by the interaction between the local and landscape scales; tree richness enhanced community completeness only when the forest-agriculture mosaic cover at the landscape scale was greater than 73%. In Cauca, higher richness and abundance of trees at the local scale were associated with greater bird richness and community completeness, while there were no landscape-scale effects. Within highly deforested regions, birds are most likely to benefit in the near-term from increasing the diversity of shade trees within farms. However, reforestation efforts at the landscape scale should be considered as a long-term strategy to provide critical resources that support more complete communities of birds in coffee plantations. In more forested regions, bird communities could benefit by protecting and/or increasing the forest cover in the landscape and increasing the diversity of trees within plantations.
title: Digital methods for the planning and construction of geothermal plants
Creators: name: Kaiser, Holger
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Digitalisation helps to improve planning, make processes more transparent, save resources and counteract the staff shortages that will become even greater in the future.

BAUER Resources GmbH has been using the BIM methodology for over a decade, and for some years now processes in construction site operations and planning have been digitally supported.

With the help of drones, apps on mobile devices and sensors, linked with intelligent systems, execution and planning are being taken to a new level of detail, transparency and speed.

The detailed planning and execution of geothermal projects including geologie and hydrologie with digital support will be presented. Implementations in BIM with automation and other digital techniques (including real-time data from the construction site) which leads to a digital twin will be presented.
title: Экономико-математические методы и модели в социально-экономических исследованиях
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Эр Медиа
Year: 2018

description: Учебно-методический комплекс «Экономико-математические методы и модели в социально-экономических исследованиях» учитывает программные требования к подготовке бакалавров экономического профиля высших учебных заведений. Предназначен для студентов вузов по направлению подготовки 38.03.02 «Менеджмент», профиль «Логистика». Может быть использован в средних учебных заведениях, а также на курсах повышения квалификации.
Examining the transport to school patterns of New Zealand adolescents by home-to-school distance and settlement types
Creators: name: Mandic, Sandra
name: Garcia Bengoechea, Enrique
name: Hopkins, Debbie
name: Coppell, Kirsten
name: Smith, Melody
name: Moore, Antoni
name: Keall, Michael
name: Ergler, Christina
name: Sandretto, Susan
name: Wilson, Gordon
name: Kidd, Gavin
name: Flaherty, Charlotte
name: S. Mindell, Jennifer
name: Stephenson, Janet
name: King, Kimberley
name: C. Spence, John
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Scholarship on active transport to school has largely focused on children, (large) urban areas, the umbrella term of “active transport” which considered walking and cycling together and without taking into account walking and/or cycling distance. This research examined adolescents’ patterns of transport to school in diverse settlement types and in relation to home-to-school distance in the Otago region of Aotearoa New Zealand. Methods: Patterns of transport to school by home-to-school distance, and across school locations, are described for a sample of 2,403 adolescents (age: 15.1 ± 1.4 years; 55% females) attending 23 out of 27 schools in large urban areas (n = 1,309; 11 schools), medium urban areas (n = 265; three schools), small urban areas (n = 652; four schools) and rural settings (n = 177; five schools). Empirical data were collected through an online survey, in which adolescents reported ociodemographic characteristics, travel to school, and perceptions of walking and cycling. Home-to-school distance was measured on the shortest route determined using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based network analysis. Results: Transport to school patterns differed significantly by home-to-school distance and across settlement types. Profiles of different transport user groups showed significant variability in sociodemographic characteristics, family factors, average distance to school, self-reported physical activity, and perceived health. Conclusions: Initiatives to promote active transport and reduce reliance on car transport to school, whether to improve health and the environment or to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, need to pay closer attention to the settlement types, distance to school, and characteristics of different transport user modes.
title: Responsible Geosciences, or Geoscience Literacy for Urbanites
Creators: name: Bohle, Martin
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Urbanites, i.e., people living in urban environments, should be geoscience-literate. Them living under a ‘veil of geo-ignorance’ is not a valid option for responsible geosciences.

The urban realm is a social-ecological system on a planetary scale.  Its complex-adaptive dynamics couple human practices and the geosphere1 2 (e.g., buildings, mines, shipping), causing massive fluxes (e.g., energy, water, materials), implies extensive civil-engineering works (e.g., housing, transport, infrastructure), and applies geoscience expertise. (e.g., foundations, drainage, position) A well-functioning urban realm requires professionals, who design, build and govern it, to apply geoscience expertise.

Urban environments emphasise socio-economic interactions of people sheltered from everyday geosphere phenomena (e.g., weather, climate, slope-stability) and many disasters (e.g. floods, storms, heatwaves). However, most people have little insight into how much urban lifestyles depend on geosphere functions. That ignorance is a systemic risk for modern societies, which geoscience professionals should mitigate3, and meteorology gives an example of ‘how’.

Modern meteorologists combine weather forecasts with information on meteorological phenomena, climate change, and impacts on economic and social activities. They show how forecasts determine people's work and life, demonstrating the wealth of geoscientific information and professional practices.

The yet-to-answere question: How to do alike?

1.         Otto, I. M. et al. Human agency in the Anthropocene. Ecol. Econ. 167, 106463 (2020).

2.        Rosol, C., Nelson, S. & Renn, J. Introduction: In the machine room of the Anthropocene. Anthr. Rev. 4, 2–8 (2017).

3.        Bohle, M., Sibilla, A. & Casals I Graells, R. A Concept of Society-Earth-Centric Narratives. Ann. Geophys. 60, (2017).
Additional file 1 of Barriers and facilitators for scaling up mental health and psychosocial support interventions in low- and middle-income countries for populations affected by humanitarian crises: a systematic review
Creators: name: Troup, Jordan
name: Fuhr, Daniela C.
name: Woodward, Aniek
name: Sondorp, Egbert
name: Bayard Roberts
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. PRISMA Checklist. Appendix S2. Full Search Strategy for MedLine. Appendix S3. Scale Up Types and Activities, Evaluation Methods and Outcomes. Appendix S4. Full Table of Reported Barriers and Facilitators. Appendix S5. Quality Appraisal of Included Studies using the Mixed Methods Quality Appraisal Tool (MMAT)
A mixed basis approach in the SGP-limit
Creators: name: Nordin, Matias
name: Jacobi, Martin Nilsson
name: Nydén, Magnus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A perturbation method for computing quick estimates of the echo decay in pulsed spin echo gradient NMR diffusion experiments in the short gradient pulse limit is presented. The perturbation basis involves (relatively few) dipole distributions on the boundaries generating a small perturbation matrix in O(s^2) time, where s denotes the number of boundary elements. Several approximate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions to the diffusion operator are retrieved. The method is applied to 1-D and 2-D systems with Neumann boundary conditions.
description: preprint submitted to JMR
Band structure and reflectance for a nonlinear one-dimensional photonic crystal
Creators: name: Gutiérrez-López, Sergio
name: Castellanos-Moreno, Arnulfo
name: Corella-Madueño, Adalberto
name: Rosas-Burgos, Rodrigo
name: Reyes, Juan Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a model for a one-dimensional photonic crystal formed by a succession of Kerr-type equidistant spaceless interfaces immersed in a linear medium. We calculate the band structure and reflectance of this structure as a function of the incident wave intensity, and find two main behaviors: the appearance of prohibited bands, and the separation and narrowing of these bands. A system with these features is obtained by alternating very thin slabs of a soft matter material with thicker solid films, which can be used to design a device to control light propagation for specific wavelength intervals and light intensities.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
A sensitivity analysis for the network connectivity index (NCI) using discrete fracture networks (DFN)
Creators: name: Fogel, Yaniv
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The characterization and classification of rock mass structures is a key step in any rock engineering operation. The commonly used methods today, such as Rock Quality Designation (RQD), Rock Mass Rating (RMR), Tunneling Quality Index (Q-System), and Geological Strength Index (GSI) are based on empirical correlations and the subjective judgment of the user. Geotechnical projects are becoming larger and much more complex than when these methods were first developed, some 40 years ago. The development of new methods should focus on taking advantage of recent advances in mapping, remote sensing, and automation to reduce bias and errors. (Elmo, Yang, et al., 2021) proposed the Network Connectivity Index (NCI) as an alternative rock mass quality indicator. With the potential of being utilized fully using only remote sensing methods, this approach is further evaluated. Using Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) models, a sensitivity analysis was performed to assess the impact of structural properties and window sampling procedures on the variability of NCI results. The DFN methodology was reviewed, and input parameters were defined for generating a set of base case models. An additional set of models, based on DFN input parameters from existing projects was also generated. 2D sections were extracted from each model as analogs for rock exposures. A Python algorithm incorporated grid-based and random-based window sampling of the 2D sections, and an NCI value was calculated for each window. The impact of input rock mass structural properties on the variability of NCI values was evaluated, focusing on fracture size distributions, mean fracture size, and trace length data. The impact of the sampling procedures was also investigated, focusing on the sampling window pattern, size, shape, and rotation. The potential to correlate between NCI results and volumetric fracture intensity (P₃₂) values were also checked. The analysis showed that NCI is scale-dependent. As sampling windows increase in size, NCI values increase. The variability of NCI results is sensitive to the persistence of features in the rock exposure, with longer features having a larger impact and resulting in higher NCI values. Finally, a correlation between NCI and P₃₂ could not be established.
Additional file 1 of Metapristone (RU486-derivative) inhibits endometrial cancer cell progress through regulating miR-492/Klf5/Nrf1 axis
Creators: name: Chang, Yue
name: Hao, Min
name: Jia, Ru
name: Yihui Zhao
name: Yixuan Cai
name: Liu, Yun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. The IC50 concentration of metapristone for different cell lines. Figure 2. The different miRNAs relative expression in RL95-2 cells and ISK cells Table 1. The sequences of miR-492, Si-miR-492, Nrf1, Klf5 and GAPDH.
Supersymmetric States in Large N Chern-Simons-Matter Theories
Creators: name: Minwalla, Shiraz
name: Narayan, Prithvi
name: Sharma, Tarun
name: Umesh, V.
name: Yin, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the spectrum of BPS operators/states in N=2 superconformal U(N) Chern-Simons-matter theories with adjoint chiral matter fields, with and without superpotential. The superconformal indices and conjectures on the full supersymmetric spectrum of the theories in the large N limit with up to two adjoint matter fields are presented. Our results suggest that some of these theories may have supergravity duals at strong coupling, while some others may be dual to higher spin theories of gravity at strong coupling. For the N=2 theory with no superpotential, we study the renormalization of R-charge at finite 't Hooft coupling using "Z-minimization". A particularly intriguing result is found in the case of one adjoint matter.
description: 53 pages, 18 figures. v2: improved numerics, additional comments added
6Party Bus Toronto
Creators: name: 6Party Bus Toronto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

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title: Correlation of Neoproterozoic glacial diamictites in southern Namibia
Creators: name: Zieger-Hofmann, Mandy
name: Zieger, Johannes
name: Gärtner, Andreas
name: Gerdes, Axel
name: Linnemann, Ulf
name: Albert, Richard
name: Marko, Linda
name: Sagawe, Anja
name: Mende, Katja
name: Haschke, Jessica
name: Mhopjeni, Kombada
name: Mocke, Helke
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
This talk presents a multi-method approach to construct a conclusive new correlation model for Neoproterozoic glacial units of southern Namibia. Therefore, ten different sections and a variety of samples were studied and analysed with respect to field relationships, whole-rock geochemistry, zircon U-Pb dating and Th-U ratios, Hf isotope measurements and zircon grain size analyses, combined with LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of cap carbonates.

Our analyses show that (1) sediments deposited during four Neoproterozoic glacial events in southern Namibia all have very similar detrital zircon characteristics, allowing the interpretation of continuous recycling of the same material over the most part of the Neoproterozoic, which is also supported by the whole-rock geochemical analyses, (2) cap carbonates can be analysed for their U-Pb isotope ratios and provide valuable age determinations, if reset and overprinted areas are recognised and avoided for laser ablation, (3) proving the Sturtian and the Marinoan age for the Numees Fm and the Namaskluft Mbr by U-Pb dating their overlying carbonate sequences was finally possible, (4) the Witvlei Grp sedimentation ends at 579 ± 52 Ma, which is the age of the stromatolites of the Okambara Mbr, representing the uppermost deposits of the Witvlei Grp, and this leads to (5) the onset of the Nama Grp sedimentation for southern Namibia is no earlier than 579 ± 52 Ma.
Additional file 1 of The antiphospholipid syndrome may induce non-thrombotic internal jugular vein stenosis: two cases report
Creators: name: Si-Ying Song
name: Rajah, Gary
name: Ding, Yu-Chuan
name: Xun-Ming Ji
name: Meng, Ran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Parameters of jugular ultrasound in case 1. Table 2. The results of blood and cerebral spinal fluid examination of Case 2 on admissions.