cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Does the office design effect the occupant’s productivity?
Creators: name: Preining, Christopher
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Workplace design
subject: New ways of Working
subject: Work satisfaction
subject: Occupant’s Productivity
subject: Workplace design
subject: New ways of Working
subject: Work satisfaction
subject: Occupant’s Productivity

description: In this master thesis, the influence of the office environment and how that influences the employees satisfaction and productivity of an Austrian public company. To collect appropriate data several experts from the company were interviewed, which work in different office types. The data extracted from the survey was evaluated with qualitative content analysis. The results of the study were linked and compared to existing literature. The aim was to find similarities and differences between the test persons and the literature. The survey shows that the majority of the results correspond with different researches. It is proven, that the office environment impacts the occupants productivity. The case study demonstrates, that a well-designed office environment increases the user`s productivity. The most important factors are: physical factors such as air quality, temperature, acoustics, lighting, and social areas. According to the literature the company under investigation, is owned by public. Such companies have a stricter structure than private companies. The job satisfaction and productivity of employees depends to a large extent on physical and social factors. Wishes for improvements were implemented in the paper to increase productivity of the workers in the future.
description: In this master thesis, the influence of the office environment and how that influences the employees satisfaction and productivity of an Austrian public company. To collect appropriate data several experts from the company were interviewed, which work in different office types. The data extracted from the survey was evaluated with qualitative content analysis. The results of the study were linked and compared to existing literature. The aim was to find similarities and differences between the test persons and the literature. The survey shows that the majority of the results correspond with different researches. It is proven, that the office environment impacts the occupants productivity. The case study demonstrates, that a well-designed office environment increases the user`s productivity. The most important factors are: physical factors such as air quality, temperature, acoustics, lighting, and social areas. According to the literature the company under investigation, is owned by public. Such companies have a stricter structure than private companies. The job satisfaction and productivity of employees depends to a large extent on physical and social factors. Wishes for improvements were implemented in the paper to increase productivity of the workers in the future.
Removal of closed time-like curves by supertube domain walls
Creators: name: Drukker, Nadav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how closed time-like curves can be eliminated from certain supergravity backgrounds by inclusion of domain-walls made of supertubes. Special emphasis is given to the mechanism by which the supertubes spread into domain walls, which is similar to the enhanceon mechanism. Lecture notes from my talk at the RTN meeting in Kolymbari, Crete, September 2004.
description: 5 pages, uses w-art.cls. Lecture notes from the RTN Workshop on the Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions, Kolymbari, Crete, Sep 2004
title: Solving a weighted set covering problem for improving algorithms for cutting stock problems with setup costs by solution merging
Creators: name: Klocker, Benedikt
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Set Covering problem
subject: Cutting stock problem
subject: Metaheuristiken
subject: ganzzahlige lineare Programmierung
subject: Set covering problem
subject: cutting stock problem
subject: metaheuristics
subject: integer linear programming

description: Cutting stock problems occur in many industrial applications where parts have to be cut out of raw materials. Most of the algorithms for solving such problems involve producing many cutting patterns during their execution. We propose a set cover approach which makes use of those produced patterns and searches for the best combination of a subset of them to cover all demands. To solve the problem we propose four methods: an integer linear program (ILP) model, a greedy construction heuristic, a PILOT approach, and a beam search procedure. These algorithms are relatively independent from many specifics of the concrete variant of cutting stock problem to be solved. Furthermore, we propose a hybrid combination of the greedy set cover approach and a problem dependent construction heuristic. The methods work especially well on problems with setup costs, which are costs for each type of used pattern. In cases with setup costs it is enough to have a problem specific algorithm which ignores pattern setup costs. The set cover approach then optimizes the solution with regard to the pattern setup costs. We test our approaches for the K-staged two-dimensional cutting stock problem with variable sheet size and pattern setup costs. As a result of the testing, we can statistically significantly conclude that the ILP model works best on small instances, the greedy and the hybrid algorithms work best on large instances and the PILOT and beam search approach work better than the greedy and hybrid on small and medium-sized instances. Furthermore, the algorithms can improve over 50% of the tested solutions given by a problem specific algorithm if pattern setup costs are active.
Additional file 1 of Saccadic reaction time and ocular findings in phenylketonuria
Creators: name: Hopf, Susanne
name: Nowak, Caroline
name: Hennermann, Julia B.
name: Schmidtmann, Irene
name: Pfeiffer, Norbert
name: Pitz, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Artefacts in saccadic detection (Figures A, B, and C).
Fine-Grain Few-Shot Vision via Domain Knowledge as Hyperspherical Priors
Creators: name: Haney, Bijan
name: Lavin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Prototypical networks have been shown to perform well at few-shot learning tasks in computer vision. Yet these networks struggle when classes are very similar to each other (fine-grain classification) and currently have no way of taking into account prior knowledge (through the use of tabular data). Using a spherical latent space to encode prototypes, we can achieve few-shot fine-grain classification by maximally separating the classes while incorporating domain knowledge as informative priors. We describe how to construct a hypersphere of prototypes that embed a-priori domain information, and demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach on challenging benchmark datasets for fine-grain classification, with top results for one-shot classification and 5x speedups in training time.
Additional file 6 of Immediate newborn care and breastfeeding: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Aniqa Tasnim Hossain
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Khan, Jasmin
name: Shabani, Josephine
name: KC, Ashish
name: Mazumder, Tapas
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Agbessi Amouzou
name: Lincetto, Ornella
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional File 6. STROBE Checklist.
Anisotropic flow of charged and identified hadrons in the quark-gluon string model for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV
Creators: name: Burau, G.
name: Bleibel, J.
name: Fuchs, C.
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Bravina, L. V.
name: Zabrodin, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pseudorapidity behaviour of the azimuthal anisotropy parameters v_1 and v_2 of inclusive charged hadrons and their dependence on the centrality has been studied in Au+Au collisions at full RHIC energy of sqrt(s) = 200 GeV within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. The QGSM simulation results for the directed flow v_1 show antiflow alignment within the pseudorapidity range |eta| < 2 in a fair agreement with the experimental v_1(eta) data, but cannot reproduce the further development of the antiflow up to |eta| around 3.5. The eta dependence of the elliptic flow v_2 extracted from the simulations agrees well with the experimental data in the whole pseudorapidity range for different centrality classes. The centrality dependence of the integrated elliptic flow of charged hadrons in the QGSM almost coincides with the PHOBOS experimental distribution. The transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow of identified and inclusive charged hadrons is studied also. The model reproduces quantitatively the low p_T part of the distributions rather good, but underestimates the measured elliptic flow for transverse momenta p_T > 1 GeV/c. Qualitatively, however, the model is able to reproduce the saturation of the v_2(p_T) spectra with rising p_T as well as the crossing of the elliptic flow for mesons and baryons.
description: REVTeX, 10 pages, 10 figures, v2: extended discussion of the model results, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Institutions and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence for a Cross-National Analysis
Creators: name: Vijayaraghavan, Maya
name: Ward, William A.
name: Vijayaraghavan, Maya
name: Ward, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: International Development

description: The relationship between institutional infrastructure and economic growth rates across 43 nations between the years 1975-90 is examined. Within the framework of the neoclassical growth model, this study integrates a broad set of institutional variables which together proxy for the overall institutional infrastructure of an economy. Security of property rights, governance, political freedom and size of government are the indicators used in the study, facilitating identification of the most important institutions that account for the observed variations in economic growth rates among nations. Results indicate that security of property rights and size of government are the most significant institutions that explain the variations in economic growth rates.
Dark matter to dark energy transition in k-essence cosmologies
Creators: name: Chimento, L. P.
name: Forte, Mónica
name: Lazkoz, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We implement the transition from dark matter to dark energy in k-essence cosmologies for a very large set of kinetic functions $F$, in a way alternative to recent proposals which use generalized Chaplygin gas and transient models. Here we require that the pressure admits a power-law expansion around some value of the kinetic energy where the pressure vanishes. In addition, for suitable values of the parameters of the model, the speed of sound of the dark matter will be low. We first present the discussion in fairly general terms, and later consider for illustration two examples.
description: 5 pages, revtex
Distribution Functions, Loop Formation Probabilities and Force-Extension Relations in a Model for Short Double-Stranded DNA Molecules
Creators: name: Ranjith, P.
name: Kumar, P. B. Sunil
name: Menon, Gautam I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We obtain, using transfer matrix methods, the distribution function $P(R)$ of the end-to-end distance, the loop formation probability and force-extension relations in a model for short double-stranded DNA molecules. Accounting for the appearance of ``bubbles'', localized regions of enhanced flexibility associated with the opening of a few base pairs of double-stranded DNA in thermal equilibrium, leads to dramatic changes in $P(R)$ and unusual force-extension curves. An analytic formula for the loop formation probability in the presence of bubbles is proposed. For short {\em heterogeneous} chains, we demonstrate a strong dependence of loop formation probabilities on sequence, as seen in recent experiments.
description: 10 pages
The Quest for Purchasing Power Parity with a Series-specific Unit Root Test Using Panel Data
Creators: name: Breuer, Janice B.
name: McNown, Robert
name: Wallace, Myles
name: Breuer, Janice B.
name: McNown, Robert
name: Wallace, Myles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A unit root testing procedure is presented that exploits the well-established power advantages of panel estimation while rectifying a deficiency in other panel unit root tests. This procedure, which takes into account contemporaneous cross-correlation and heterogeneous serial correlation of the regression residuals, allows determination of which members of the panel reject the null hypothesis of a unit root and which do not. Applying the procedure to real exchange rates yields results that are in broad agreement with those obtained from single-equation unit root tests. There is little evidence that a unit root can be rejected in dollar-based real exchange rates for the floating rate period.
Additional file 2 of Epigenetic deregulation of lamina-associated domains in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
Creators: name: Köhler, Florian
name: Bormann, Felix
name: Raddatz, Günter
name: Gutekunst, Julian
name: Corless, Samuel
name: Musch, Tanja
name: Lonsdorf, Anke S.
name: Erhardt, Sylvia
name: Lyko, Frank
name: Rodríguez-Paredes, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Original uncropped Western blots.
title: Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, 2025,05 (12.02.2025)
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: BTU  Cottbus - Senftenberg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke

description: Satzung zur Einrichtung eines externen Beratungsgremiums für die Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus–Senftenberg vom 17. Oktober 2024
description: Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg; 2025, H. 05
Toward a More Efficient Healthcare System Using Modelling Approach
Creators: name: Nõmm, Ebe
Publisher: name: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy
Year: 2024

description: This scientific article aims to identify the most optimal healthcare financing model suitable for a country's unique healthcare context while focusing on overcoming the fragmented and costly way in which healthcare is traditionally delivered. The tasks set for this research include evaluating and benchmarking different countries and environments to identify the most efficient model, reducing transaction costs, and analysing the agents and their motivations and decision situations using agent theory and game theory.
To achieve the goal and tasks, the author conducted a comprehensive study based on the transaction cost theory, which explains how inefficient contracts can lead to an inefficient healthcare system. Additionally, the author used agent theory to understand the motivations of various stakeholders involved in healthcare financing and game theory to analyse decision-making processes leading to socially and individually beneficial outcomes. The empirical segment of the research utilised data from the OECD annual healthcare database for 2016-2019.
A range of analytical tools, including descriptive analysis, data visualization, correlation analysis, and hypothesis testing were employed to examine the dataset for this study. The analysis results revealed four healthcare financial models with various indicators with different levels of influence. This research provides valuable insights for senior healthcare managers and policymakers to make informed decisions and lead their organisations toward more efficient and effective healthcare financing models.
In conclusion, this study fills the research gap and addresses the central research question by comprehensively analysing healthcare financing models. The results emphasize the importance of reducing transaction costs and understanding the motivations of different stakeholders for achieving more efficient and effective healthcare outcomes. Countries can move towards a more integrated and cost-effective healthcare system by implementing the most efficient model identified in this study
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol. 31 No. 1-2 (2023)
Sauna kogemustest Eestis, Balti riikides ja Põhjamaades
Creators: name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy
Year: 2024

description: The article gives a brief overview of the history of sauna use and the personal saunas of the undersigned and development of sauna use: examples are brought from sauna use in Nordic and Baltic countries and international sauna use practices.
The author's saunas and personal sauna experience in Estonia and outside Estonia is separately described. A brief overview of the construction of own smoke sauna and its use is given.
As 2023 is the Year of Sauna in Estonia, the main events of the year are listed, incl. the essence of the Estonian sauna map. Estonian saunas, whisking and the art of making sauna whisks are described and recommendations are provided for the selection of stones for the sauna heater. Hints about information on old sauna customs and traditions are given to the reader. The Estonian smoke sauna tradition has been included in the UNESCO List of Cultural Heritage of the Humanity since 2014.
The article dwells on the ISA (International Sauna Association) membership (Estonia is a member as well).
A new type of Estonia sauna is described – the sumesauna. Annexes contain information about the Estonian sauna capital Kadrina and the respective developments. A brief overview is given starting from the historical Estonian sauna architecture until today (incl. the modern and industrially produced saunas). A statement about regular sauna use and good health.
Examples of modern saunas in Helsinki, Finland, and Sweden are provided. For conclusion, the text of the Declaration of Sauna Peace is presented. A long list of literature used and recommended is included. The article has been illustrated with 30 colour photos.


The full text of the paper has been published in Estonian as different aspects of sauna are mainly
familiar to Estonia and the Baltic and Nordic countries (although many countries know their own
“traditional sauna”). For instance, in English and German the sauna culture should already be
described/explained in a thick book to enable people from other nationalities to understand and
experience all these different aspects. The literature sources used in the full paper are mainly in
Estonian and useful for those who would like to have even more thorough information but those
who cannot read Estonian would probably not translate them into their native language


 
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol. 31 No. 1-2 (2023)
Additional file 7 of Immediate newborn care and breastfeeding: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Aniqa Tasnim Hossain
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Khan, Jasmin
name: Shabani, Josephine
name: KC, Ashish
name: Mazumder, Tapas
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Agbessi Amouzou
name: Lincetto, Ornella
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional File 7. Ethical approval by institutional review boards, EN-BIRTH Study.
Crystalline and magnetic structure of Ba2CuO3+δ investigated by x-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Creators: name: Fumagalli, Roberto
name: Nag, Abhishek
name: Agrestini, Stefano
name: Garcia-Fernandez, Mirian
name: Walters, Andrew C.
name: Betto, Davide
name: Brookes, Nicholas B.
name: Braicovich, Lucio
name: Zhou, Ke-Jin
name: Ghiringhelli, Giacomo
name: Sala, Marco Moretti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent synthesis of Ba$_2$CuO$_{3+δ}$ (BCO), a high temperature superconducting cuprate with putative $d_{3z^2-r^2}$ ground state symmetry, we investigated its electronic structure by means of Cu $L_3$ x-ray absorption (XAS) and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Cu $L_3$ edge on a polycrystalline sample. We show that the XAS profile of BCO is characterised by two peaks associated to inequivalent Cu sites, and that its RIXS response features a single, sharp peak associated to crystal-field excitations. We argue that these observations are only partially compatible with the previously proposed crystal structure of BCO. Based on our spectroscopic results and on previously published powder diffraction measurements, we propose a crystalline structure characterized by two inequivalent Cu sites located at alternated planes along the $c$ axis: nominally trivalent Cu(1) belonging to very short Cu-O chains, and divalent Cu(2) in the oxygen deficient CuO$_ {1.5}$ planes. We also analyze the low-energy region of the RIXS spectra to estimate the magnitude of the magnetic interactions in BCO and find that in-plane nearest neighbor superexchange exceeds 120~meV, similarly to that of other layered cuprates. Although these results do not support the pure $d_{3z^2-r^2}$ ground state scenario, they hint at a significant departure from the common quasi-2D electronic structure of superconducting cuprates of pure $d_{x^2-y^2}$ symmetry.
Sand-Filler Structural Material with Low Content of Polyethylene Binder
Creators: name: Yi, Haozhe
name: Oh, Kiwon
name: Kou, Rui
name: Qiao, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Currently, most of the waste plastics cannot be recycled, causing serious environmental concerns. In this research, we investigated a compaction formation technology to fabricate structural materials with thermoplastic binders. When the compaction pressure was 70~100 MPa, with only ~10 wt% polyethylene binder, the flexural strength was greater than that of typical steel-reinforced concrete, suitable to many construction applications. Because construction materials are tolerant to impurities, our work may provide a promising opportunity to recycle waste plastics and to reduce the portland cement production.
Quantum Networks for Generating Arbitrary Quantum States
Creators: name: Kaye, Phillip
name: Mosca, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum protocols often require the generation of specific quantum states. We describe a quantum algorithm for generating any prescribed quantum state. For an important subclass of states, including pure symmetric states, this algorithm is efficient.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures. This paper previously appeared in: Proceedings, International Conference on Quantum Information (ICQI). Rochester, New York, USA, 2001
title: ActiveDICOM - enhancing static medical images with interaction
Creators: name: Mistelbauer, Florian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: DICOM
subject: medical imaging
subject: DICOM
subject: Bildgebende Verfahren

description: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a well-establish standard in medical imaging, consisting not only of image data, but sensitive data such as patient and examination information. Although having a large variety of advanced rendering techniques available, DICOM images are nowadays still generated and sent to the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). These images are then fetched by the medical doctor from a workstation and used for medical reporting. The user has no other possibilities than being able to change the windowing function for displaying the DICOM images. If a certain region is of special interest, either images of the whole data set are generated or have to be specifically requested. Both approaches consume a considerable amount of time. First, one has to inspect the whole data and has to constantly focus on a particular region without being distracted. Secondly, the image generation on demand remains pending until done by the responsible assistant. Despite supporting a broad range of features and being widely applied, DICOM images remain static. Currently, and to the best of our knowledge, there are no means to enhance these static images with interactive capabilities. Providing the opportunity to interact with an image would, inevitably, enhance the medical reporting procedure. In this thesis, we propose a visualization mapping language, called Active DICOM Script (ADICT), which enhances conventional DICOM images with interactive elements. This language acts as an abstraction layer to provide a transparent interface between heterogeneous data, interaction, and visualization. Since these images are becoming active, we refer to them as Active Digital Imaging and Communications inMedicine (ActiveDICOM). Within this thesis we describe how interactions will be encoded into the image while retaining compatibility to common DICOM viewers. Furthermore with the help of ActiveDICOM we can even introduce Visual Analytics to DICOM. We demonstrate our interaction-to-visualizationmapping on a client-server web-based viewer, as this would aid integration within the clinical environment and on mobile devices such as tablets or smart phones.
A new inverse method for stellar population synthesis and error analysis
Creators: name: Moultaka, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stellar population synthesis in unresolved composite objects is a very tricky problem. Indeed, it is a degenerate problem since many parameters affect the observables. The stellar population synthesis issue thus deserves a deep and rigourous analysis. In this paper we present a method of inversion which uses as observables the intensities at each pixel of a galactic spectrum and provides the stellar contribution to luminosity of all stars considered in a database. The main contribution of this paper to the synthesis problem is that it provides an analytical computation of the uncertainties accompanying a solution. This constitutes an important improvement relative to previous methods which do not provide such infomation except in the method described by Pelat (1997) and Moultaka & Pelat (2000). The latter uses the equivalent widths and intensities of stellar spectra in order to reproduce the equivalent widths of a galactic spectrum. The novelty of this work relative to the previous one is that the dust emission present in the IR spectra can be modeled as well as the velocity dispersion of stars that broadens the lines of a galactic spectrum. Tests are also performed in order to estimate the reliability of the method and the influence on the results of an additive continuum present in a studied spectrum, for example in the case of AGNs.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables. In press in A&A
Additional file 8 of Immediate newborn care and breastfeeding: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Tazeen Tahsina
name: Aniqa Tasnim Hossain
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Khan, Jasmin
name: Shabani, Josephine
name: KC, Ashish
name: Mazumder, Tapas
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Shafiqul Ameen
name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Agbessi Amouzou
name: Lincetto, Ornella
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional File 8. Hospital register design and completion approaches by site, EN-BIRTH study (n = 6548).
Additional file 1 of Epigenetic deregulation of lamina-associated domains in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
Creators: name: Köhler, Florian
name: Bormann, Felix
name: Raddatz, Günter
name: Gutekunst, Julian
name: Corless, Samuel
name: Musch, Tanja
name: Lonsdorf, Anke S.
name: Erhardt, Sylvia
name: Lyko, Frank
name: Rodríguez-Paredes, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary tables and figures for the manuscript.
Sordid aggression or humanitarian intervention? : why the Kosovo intervention divided so many international relations and international legal scholars
Creators: name: Richmond, Sean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the scholarly debate over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) military action against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 with a view to better understanding why it generated such intellectual polarization and fundamental disagreements amongst international relations and international legal scholars. Employing a method of comparative literature review, this investigation focuses on constructivist, neo-Marxist, liberal, and international legal accounts of the Kosovo intervention. It finds that the Kosovo intervention proved divisive because it speaks to substantive differences in the meta-views of scholars regarding the source and nature of legitimacy, sovereignty, and hegemony, and the values they ascribe to the international community. Many of the disagreements depend on whether a scholar prioritizes freedom and justice or equality and fairness and whether they emphasize the natural and universal moral foundations of international law and legitimacy or base these foundations more procedurally on state consent and sovereign equality. Finally, scholarly disagreement about the Kosovo intervention stems from differing views on the existence and desirability of larger global trends - such as "imperial sovereignty" and "Empire" - post- Cold War. As this study aims to have policy-level and theoretical relevance, the implications for both elements are briefly considered in the conclusion.
title: Roadmap for the development of a sustainable IBISBA infrastructure
Creators: name: Debeche, Sonia
name: Tukiainen, Paulina
name: O'Donohue, Michael
Publisher: name: IBISBA
Year: 2022

description: Addressing a gap in European industrial biotechnology, IBISBA’s mission is to provide world-class cutting-edge research infrastructure services enabling the development of industrial biotechnology as a technological cornerstone of the circular bioeconomy. In this regard, IBISBA aims to contribute to the delivery of Europe’s ambition to be the first climate neutral continent in 2050. To fulfil its mission, IBISBA is building an interoperable network involving some of Europe’s most significant, public-operated research infrastructures and the deployment of advanced digital networking tools. Belonging to IBISBA endows facilities with unprecedented collaborative capabilities that seamlessly link individual facility services and data assets within service workflows supporting whole R&D project life cycles. This means that IBISBA is uniquely geared to deliver translational research services, organizing the uptake and sharing of fundamental knowledge from different scientific disciplines to define new bioprocess concepts, build and test prototypes and perform pilot scale demonstrations. Since its origins in 2014, IBISBA has steadily grown in terms of numbers of partners involved, community maturity and organization. IBISBA’s progress has been significantly boosted by funding received in the framework of two European Horizon 2020 projects (IBISBA 1.0 and PREP-IBISBA, grant agreement numbers 730976 and 871118 respectively) and by enhanced recognition following its inclusion in 2018 the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures’ roadmap. Presently, IBISBA is pursuing its progress towards a fully operational research infrastructure following a process that involves numerous preparative actions. Considering achievements so far, this report is a non-scientific action plan that outlines 25 vital actions that must be successfully accomplished to deliver IBISBA’s ambition, launching a legal entity before 2025 to achieve this. Some of these actions have already been reached, while other actions are ongoing or planned.
Ballistic spin currents in mesoscopic metal/In(Ga)As/metal junctions
Creators: name: Lee, Minchul
name: Choi, Mahn-Soo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ballistic spin transport through a two-dimensional mesoscopic metal/semiconductor/metal double junctions in the presence of spin-orbit interactions. It is shown that \emph{real} longitudinal and/or transverse spin currents can flow in the presence of the Rashba and Dresselhaus terms.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
title: A Robust Methodology for the Reconstruction of the Vertical Pedestrian-Induced Load from the Registered Body Motion
Creators: name: Van Nimmen, Katrien
name: Zhao, Guoping
name: Seyfarth, André
name: Van den Broeck, Peter
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: This paper proposes a methodology to reconstruct the vertical GRFs from the registered body motion that is reasonably robust against measurement noise. The vertical GRFs are reconstructed from the experimentally identified time-variant pacing rate and a generalised single-step load model available in the literature. The proposed methodology only requires accurately capturing the body motion within the frequency range 1–10 Hz and does not rely on the exact magnitude of the registered signal. The methodology can therefore also be applied when low-cost sensors are used and to minimize the impact of soft-tissue artefacts. In addition, the proposed procedure can be applied regardless of the position of the sensor on the human body, as long as the recorded body motion allows for identifying the time of a nominally identical event in successive walking cycles. The methodology is illustrated by a numerical example and applied to an experimental dataset where the ground reaction forces and the body motion were registered simultaneously. The results show that the proposed methodology allows for arriving at a good estimate of the vertical ground reaction forces. When the impact of soft-tissue artefacts is low, a comparable estimate can be obtained using Newton’s second law of motion.
Additional file 1 of Probing contacts of inhibitor locked in transition states in the catalytic triad of DENV2 type serine protease and its mutants by 1H, 19F and 15 N NMR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Agback, Peter
name: Woestenenk, Esmeralda
name: Agback, Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional File 1: Fig. S1. Superposition of 19F spectra of (IV) with adding NS2B:NS3pro. Fig. S2: Extensions of 19F spectra of (II). Fig. S3: Superposition of the 1H-15N TROSY spectrum and 2D plane 1H-15N of 3D experiment of (a) 15N13C2H labeled NS2B:NS3pro with (I) and of (b) 15N13C2H labeled NS3pro unlabeled NS2B with (IV). Fig. S4: CSP between the amide resonances of NS3pro of the complexes with (I) and (II). Fig. S5: Superposition of the 1H-15N TROSY spectra of the NS2B:NS3pro with selectively labelled 15N-His’s of apo , and in complex with(I) and with (II). Fig. S6: The superposition of 19F spectra of the complex NS2B:NS3pro with (II) at different pH. Fig. S7: 1H-15N TROSY spectrum of the apo forms of the 15N13C labeled S135A-mutant of NS2B:NS3pro with spectrum of the NS2B:NS3pro apo . Fig. S8a: Superposition of the 1H-15 N TROSY spectrum of the apo forms of the 15N13C labeled S135A-mutant of NS2B:NS3pro and in complex with (I) and (II). Fig. S8b: Superposition of19F spectra of (II). Fig. S9a: 1H-15N TROSY spectrum of the apo forms of the 15N13C labeled H51N-mutant of NS2B:NS3pro overlies with spectrum of the wild type NS2B:NS3pro apo. Fig. S9b: Superposition of the 1H-15N TROSY spectra of the apo forms of the 15N13C labeled S135A vs H51N-mutant of NS2B:NS3pro. Fig. S10a: Superposition of 19F spectra of (II). Fig. S10b: Superposition of the 1H-15N TROSY spectra of the 15N13C labeled H51N-mutant with (II) and following addition of (I). Fig. S10c: Superposition of the 1H-15N TROSY spectra of mixture of the 15N13C labelled H51N-mutant with (II) and following addition of (I) vs apo form. Fig. S11: 19F -1H Hoesy spectrum of the complex NS2B:NS3pro with(IV).
Nonlinear mixed effects models with dropout and missing covariates when the dropout depends on the random effects
Creators: name: Song, Shijun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Nonlinear mixed effects models (NLMEs) are very popular in many longitudinal studies such as HIV viral dynamic studies, pharmacokinetics analyses, and studies of growth and decay. In these studies, however, missing data problems often arise, which make some statistical analyses complicated. In this thesis, we proposed an exact method and an approximate method for NLMEs with random-effects based informative dropouts and missing covariates, and propose methods for simultaneous inference. Monte Carlo E M algorithms are used in both methods. The approximate method, which is based on a Taylor series expansion, avoids sampling the random effects in the E-step and thus reduces the computation burden substantially. To illustrate the proposed methods, we analyze two real datasets. The exact method is applied to a dataset with covariates and a dataset without covariates. The approximate method is applied to the dataset without covariates. The result shows that, for both datasets, dropouts may be correlated with individual random effects. Ignoring the missingness or assuming ignorable missingness may lead to unreliable inferences. A simulation study is performed to evaluate the two proposed methods under various situations.
title: Structure-Property Relationships in Shape Memory Metallic Glass Composites
Creators: name: Şopu, Daniel
name: Yuan, Xudong
name: Moitzi, Franco
name: Stoica, Mihai
name: Eckert, Jürgen
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Metallic glass composites with shape memory crystals show enhanced plasticity and work-hardening capability. We investigate the influence of various critical structural aspects such as, the density of crystalline precipitates, their distribution and size, and the structural features and intrinsic properties of the phase on the deformation behavior of metallic amorphous Cu₆₄Zr₃₆ composites with B2 CuZr inclusions using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that a low density of small B2 inclusions with spacing smaller than the critical shear band length controls the formation and distribution of plastic zones in the composite and hinders the formation of critical shear bands. When the free path for shearing allows the formation of mature shear bands a high volume fraction of large B2 precipitates is necessary to stabilize the shear flow and avoid runaway instability. Additionally, we also investigate the deformation mechanism of composites with pure copper crystals for comparison, in order to understand the superior mechanical properties of metallic glass composites with shape memory crystals in more detail. The complex and competing mechanisms of deformation occurring in shape memory metallic glass composites allow this class of materials to sustain large tensile deformation, even though only a low-volume fraction of crystalline inclusions is present.
Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD for electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes
Creators: name: Davoudi, Zohreh
name: Detmold, William
name: Orginos, Kostas
name: Parreño, Assumpta
name: Savage, Martin J.
name: Shanahan, Phiala
name: Wagman, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last decade, numerical solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using the technique of lattice QCD have developed to a point where they are beginning to connect fundamental aspects of nuclear physics to the underlying degrees of freedom of the Standard Model. In this review, the progress of lattice QCD studies of nuclear matrix elements of electroweak currents and beyond-Standard-Model operators is summarized, and connections with effective field theories and nuclear models are outlined. Lattice QCD calculations of nuclear matrix elements can provide guidance for low-energy nuclear reactions in astrophysics, dark matter direct detection experiments, and experimental searches for violations of the symmetries of the Standard Model, including searches for additional CP violation in the hadronic and leptonic sectors, baryon-number violation, and lepton-number or flavor violation. Similarly, important inputs to neutrino experiments seeking to determine the neutrino-mass hierarchy and oscillation parameters, as well as other electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes can be determined. The phenomenological implications of existing studies of electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model matrix elements in light nuclear systems are discussed, and future prospects for the field toward precision studies of these matrix elements are outlined.
Microcanonical studies on isoscaling
Creators: name: Raduta, Ad. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exponential scaling of isotopic yields is investigated for sources of different sizes over a broad range of excitation energies and freeze-out volumes, in both primary and asymptotic stages of the decay in the framework of a microcanonical multifragmentation model. It was found that the scaling parameters have a strong dependence on the considered pair of equilibrated sources and excitation energy and are affected by the secondary particle emission of the break-up fragments. No significant influence of the freeze-out volume on the considered isotopic ratios has been observed. Deviations of microcanonical results from grandcanonical expectations are discussed.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
Preferences, trust and willingness to pay for food information: An analysis of the Italian Market
Creators: name: Nocella, Giuseppe
name: Stefani, Gianluca
name: Romano, Donato
name: Nocella, Giuseppe
name: Stefani, Gianluca
name: Romano, Donato
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food information
subject: trust
subject: preference heterogeneity
subject: segmentation
subject: Italy

description: Lack of consumer trust and communication strategies are probably the main determinants of information failure in modern food markets. This study attempts to tackle these aspects affecting the quality of food information by investigating questions related to what topics are more relevant to consumers, who should disseminate trustful food information, and how communication should be conveyed. Primary data were collected both through qualitative (in depth interviews and focus groups) and quantitative research. Quantitative research was conducted by means of a questionnaire administered in 2006-2007 to a sample of Italian respondents using both a web and a traditional mail survey. Reading preferences, willingness to pay and trust towards public and private sources conveying information through a hypothetical food magazine were assessed combining factor analysis, choice modelling and a criterion-based market segmentation. The study shows that reading preferences of Italian consumers can be summarized along three dimensions: agro-food system, enjoyment and wellness. Furthermore, willingness to pay for receiving food-related information is influenced by trust towards the type of publisher, which plays also a key role in market segmentation together with socio-demographic and economic variables such as gender, age, presence of children and income. Policy implications of these findings are discussed.
How the Liquid-Liquid Transition Affects Hydrophobic Hydration in Deeply Supercooled Water
Creators: name: Paschek, Dietmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the phase diagram of liquid supercooled water by extensive computer simulations using the TIP5P-E model [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 120}, 6085 (2004)]. We find that the transformation of water into a low density liquid in the supercooled range strongly enhances the solubility of hydrophobic particles. The transformation of water into a tetrahedrally structured liquid is accompanied by a minimum in the hydration entropy and enthalpy. The corresponding change in sign of the solvation heat capacity indicates a loss of one characteristic signature of hydrophobic hydration. The observed behavior is found to be qualitatively in accordance with the predictions of the information theory model of Garde et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 4966 (1996)].
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, twocolumn Revtex, modified text applied changes to figure 1, 2d, 3, 4