cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Überleben von Geweben nach dem Tode: Rechtsmedizinisch relevante Todeszeitbestimmung
Creators: name: Henßge, Claus
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Organfunktionen brechen bei vollständiger Unterbrechung der Durchblutung nach einer Latenzzeit im Minutenbereich zusammen. An die kurze Überlebenszeit der Organe bei normaler Körpertemperatur schließt sich eine etwas längere Phase an, in der die Organe durch Wiederdurchblutung (Reanimation) wiederbelebt werden können. Wesentlich länger zeigen Gewebe so genannte ‚supravitale’ Lebenszeichen nach irreversiblem Durchblutungs- stopp. Die supravitalen Reaktionen sind Bestandteil einer Komplexmethode zur Todeszeit- bestimmung, die in der rechtsmedizinischen Praxis am Fundort tot aufgefundener Menschen eingesetzt wird. Bei Tötungsdelikten werden die kriminalpolizeilichen Ermittlungen dadurch in manchen Fällen richtungsweisend unterstützt. In speziellen Fällen kann die rechts- medizinische Todeszeitbestimmung auch im Schwurgerichtsverfahren entscheidende Bedeutung zur Feststellung oder zum Ausschluss der Täterschaft eines Angeklagten erlangen.
description: Where there is total circulatory arrest and under normothermic conditions, functions of organs break down within a few minutes. This short survival period is followed by a somewhat longer period in which the organs can be resuscitated if they have been reperfused (reanimation). After irreversible circulatory arrest, tissues show ‘supravital’ signs of life for a much longer period. During the running down of metabolic activity, specific reactions can still be released by stimuli. If compared with the resuscitation period of organs, supravitality means the survival of tissues on a morphologically and functionally deeper level of organization. In skeletal muscles contractions may be elicited by electrical stim-uli even 22 hours post mortem, while the smooth iris muscle may react on pharmacological stimuli by miosis or mydriasis up to 56 hours post mortem. Unlike heart muscles which gain energy mainly from aerobic metabolism, skeletal muscles can also use energy delivered by anaerobic glycolytic metabolism of its glycogen content. The supravital reactions are part of a compound method of legal medical practice used at the scene of death to estimate the moment when the victim has died. In some cases of homicide, the investigations of the Criminal Investigation Department were successfully pointed in the right direction using these methods. In certain cases, the estimation of the time since a person’s death can provide evidence of perpetration in court.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 20
title: Hirntod: Die Bedeutung des Hirntods für den Sterbeprozess
Creators: name: Bingmann, Dieter
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Irreversible Schäden treten im Gehirn ein, wenn seine Versorgung für acht bis zehn Minuten unterbrochen ist. Da mit dem Verlust dieses Organs die Eigenschaften irreversibel verloren gehen, die den Menschen auszeichnen, wird mit dem Hirntod der Tod des Menschen festgestellt. Dass dieser Schluss von Angehörigen eines Hirntoten immer wieder bezweifelt wird, sollte ein Grund sein, sie möglichst detailliert aufzuklären und zu trösten.
description: The role of the brain in the co-ordination of vegetative functions like respiration and blood circulation and for higher functions like learning, memory, recognition, perception or planning of motor activity requires a highly complex system. The brain performs the tasks named above and many more, if it is continuously provided with a high amount of oxygen and glucose. As this organ has no energy reservoir, brain functions collapse within seconds when the energy supply is interrupted. The damage becomes irreversible when the supply of the brain stops for 8-10 minutes. In order to explain this susceptibility of the brain, the pres-ent text starts with a short survey on functional anatomy and the structure and function of nerve cells. In a further paragraph the energy demand of this organ is described. The last paragraph deals with the diagnosis of brain death. This irreversible loss of function of the brain is only a partial death if other organ functions survive in artificially ventilated patients treated with intensive care. The loss of brain functions, however, means the loss of all qualities characteristic of human beings. Therefore, there is widespread consensus that the death of the brain allows the conclusion that such a patient is dead. The patient’s relatives may doubt that his status is irreversible. These doubts should stimulate medical profession-als to explain with empathy what has happened to the patient.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 30
title: Zwischen Tod und Leben: Ein Plädoyer für die Organspende
Creators: name: Broelsch, Christoph
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Der Essener Transplantationsmediziner Christoph E. Broelsch plädiert für mehr Transplantationen in Deutschland und erklärt in diesem Artikel die Hintergründe der Diskrepanz von positiven Rückmeldungen transplantierter Patienten auf der einen und die nicht vorbehaltlose Akzeptanz der Organspende auf der Spenderseite.
description: According to public surveys, organ donations as well as organ transplantation enjoy a high degree of acceptance within Germany. Transplantation is seen as a victory over otherwise untreatable deadly diseases. Positive reports of transplant patients in the news and media form the basis for expectations of further successes of modern medicine. In contrast to the broad acceptance of organ transplantation, organ donation has not yielded unrestricted and unbiased recognition, irrespective of whether the discussion focuses on deceased or live organ donation. In Germany, detailed discussions about end of life decisions, the process of dying and the diagnosis of brain death remain controversial and thus prevent unan-imous acceptance of organ donation. Medical progress requires new definitions of previously unchallenged entities, such as life and death. Organ donation postulates a distinct division between still alive and already dead. Medical knowledge allows for a definite recognition of signs of death, exemplified through the definition of brain death at a certain point. Public acceptance of highly specialized medical achievements in a sensitive field can be difficult where traditional emotions and popular legend come up against scientific facts. The gap can be narrowed with the provision of early information, recognition of organ donation procedures in neighboring European countries and intensified networking amongst donor hospitals, which could result in a better implementation of organ donation.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 38
Design of Complex Nanostructures Based on Metallosupramolecular Assembly
Creators: name: Villarreal-Diaz, Jose
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401807
subject: Nanomaterials
classificationCode: 340303
subject: Nanochemistry
classificationCode: 401805
subject: Nanofabrication, growth and self assembly

description: Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
A pilot study of increment cores from young defoliated western hemlock on Haida Gwaii
Creators: name: Nethercut-Wells, Acacia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Increment cores from five stands on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia were measured to identify radial growth suppressions caused by western blackheaded budworm (Acleris gloverana) defoliation. Z-scores were calculated based on annual basal area to identify periods of suppression and to quantify the severity of the suppression. Comparisons between stands illustrated an association between certain stand characteristics (density and age) and indicators of defoliation severity (percent mortality of western hemlock, suppressions per tree, and length of time suppression lasted). Although this pilot study was not able to make conclusions about growth suppressions and their relation to defoliation, it played an integral role in the development of further studies that will be able to achieve this.
title: Das Leben im Blick: Sterben und Tod im Ersten Testament
Creators: name: Schmitz, Barbara
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 230

description: Barbara Schmitz schildert, wie die Themen Sterben und Tod in der alttestamentlichen Literatur reflektiert werden. Dabei wird im ersten Schritt nach jenen Konzeptionen gefragt, die nicht von der Auferstehungsvorstellung her denken, sondern das Sterben vor der Erfahrung erlebter Lebensfülle annehmen. Im zweiten Schritt werden Tod und Sterben im Kontext eines als ungerecht und unverdient erlebten Leidens am Beispiel des Buchs Ijob thematisiert, um abschließend auf die Vorstellung des Aufenthaltsorts der Toten im Alten Testament, der Scheol, zu sprechen zu kommen. Anhand dieser Beispiele wird deutlich, dass von Sterben und Tod im Alten Testament zu sprechen, bedeutet, vom Leben zu sprechen und dieses im Blick zu haben.
description: Barbara Schmitz deals with the ways in which the themes of death and dying are reflected in Old Testament literature. In the first section, she engages with a concept of death that springs not from a view of the Res-urrection, but rather from the perspective of death as the cut-off point of an incomplete life experience. In addition, she explores the themes of death and dying in the context of the experience of unearned and unjust levels of suffering, using the Book of Job as an example. This ultimately leads to a discussion about Sheol, the place of the dead in the Old Testament. In the light of these examples it becomes clear that speaking about death and dying in the Old Testament means speaking about life itself and keeping the experience of the living in mind.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 48
CPT-Boosted Wav2vec2.0: Towards Noise Robust Speech Recognition for Classroom Environments
Creators: name: Attia, Ahmed Adel
name: Demszky, Dorottya
name: Ogunremi, Tolulope
name: Liu, Jing
name: Espy-Wilson, Carol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Creating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that are robust and resilient to classroom conditions is paramount to the development of AI tools to aid teachers and students. In this work, we study the efficacy of continued pretraining (CPT) in adapting Wav2vec2.0 to the classroom domain. We show that CPT is a powerful tool in that regard and reduces the Word Error Rate (WER) of Wav2vec2.0-based models by upwards of 10%. More specifically, CPT improves the model's robustness to different noises, microphones and classroom conditions.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2405.13018
title: Tod, Wiedergeburt und Nirvana im Buddhismus: Was kommt nach dem „achtfachen Pfad“?
Creators: name: Neu, Rainer
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 230

description: Der Glaube an eine Wiedergeburt hat vor allem in Westeuropa und in den USA an Popularität gewonnen. Rainer Neu beleuchtet das Konzept der Wiedergeburt im Buddhismus auf der Grundlage der ältesten Überlieferungen.
description: When Buddha Gautama died of a digestive complaint, these were his final words: “All conditioned things are subject to decay. Attain perfection through diligence!” The Buddha mentioned neither rebirth nor nirvana, he just pointed to the eternal becoming and passing of life. His central insight was of the impermanence and interdependence of everything. This idea of continual change and universal causation led him to reject the idea of a permanent soul in the individual (ātman) and an eternal cosmic power (brāhman). Nevertheless, Gautama shared the Indian doctrine of reincarnation as a consequence of deeds in past lives. But for him, reincarnation did not mean personal rebirth as a continuation of individual characteristics. Early Buddhism taught reincarnation without transmigration of souls (the an-atman doctrine). There is no subject of rebirth. Karma is best understood as energy, and this energy leads to the continuation of becoming and ceasing and to the development of new life. Those who do not understand the law of karma are damned to continue the cycle of life (samsara). The enlightened ones, however, have learned to purify their minds and to act without greed or even intentions. In this way the enlightened ones will wipe out the effects of their past actions; they will no longer contribute to the contin-uation of life and fade away to the final liberation of nirvana.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 58
title: Der Tod als Trottel: Zum Dialog mit dem Tod in mittelalterlichen Texten
Creators: name: Miedema, Nine
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 400

description: Mit der Darstellung des Todes in mittelalterlichen Texten befasst sich Nine Miedemas Beitrag. Sie arbeitet vier unterschiedliche Typen des Dialogs mit dem personifiziertenTod heraus.
description: During the Middle Ages, the danse macabre was a popular way to imag-ine death. Intended as a warning for those unprepared to die, it person-ifies Death as a triumphant figure, drawing helpless and irrevocably doomed people into an involuntary round dance. An unsubstantial, transitional event is thus transformed into an anthropomorphic figure, able to speak with his victims. In the danse macabre, the dialogues between Death and the human beings he leads away reflect their asymmetrical relationship. Analyzed from a linguistic point of view, it becomes clear that Death dominates and commands his victims without mercy. There are, however, other types of medieval literary dialogues between Death and Man, which show different adaptations of the subject. A second type (represented for example by ‘Everyman’) leads Man to repentance and thus to redemption: the human figure discusses his life with Death and realizes his sins. Such dialogues are less asymmetrical, although even here, Death is superior to Man, who is persuaded by Death and finally subordinates himself. The third type (which in Germany is represented only by Johann von Tepl’s ‘Ackermann aus Böhmen’) shows Death and Man as equals in a rhetorically highly sophisticated disputation about the meaning of death. The fourth type shows Death as a simpleton. Several late-medieval texts, such as the anonymous ‘Historia von Sancto’ and a number of Meisterlieder by Hans Sachs, invert the traditional roles of Death and Man. Sanctus for example leaves Death unable to defend himself, helplessly captured on a tree and silenced by Sanctus’ sagacity. Such literary and verbal triumphs over Death should be interpreted in the context of the widespread notion that art can conquer Death. Not only within the text itself is Death as a literary character overruled, but the fact that Hans Sachs’ name is mentioned in his Meisterlieder as someone who will also be seized by Death, paradoxically grants immortality to the author as a text-external entity.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 66
title: Auferstehung des Fleisches: Eine christliche Überzeugung der Antike im Ringen gegenwärtiger Menschen um das Verständnis ihres eigenen Lebens und Sterbens
Creators: name: Miggelbrink, Ralf
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 230

description: Einer eher anthropologisch orientierten Reflexion des christlichen Selbstbildes vom körperlichen Tod (und Leben) geht Ralf Miggelbrink in seinem Beitrag nach.
description: The resurrection of the flesh is an eschatological idea which ancient theology used to argue against a Gnostic view of humans as purely intellectual beings. These days, it may gain a new importance for anthropology by rejecting a self-image of humans which is only formed by the idea of an intellectual and subjective dominance over the world. Although this idea of human dominance has also arisen from the bible, it is put into perspective by the attention which Christians pay to the realities of the body, its mortality and a fleshly concept of resurrection. Life is already deeply impacted by the experience of limits, as defined by the body. These experiences culminate in the reality of death. The confession to resurrection can keep the experience of death within the frame of being thinkable and thus extending relevance to the lives of people. The idea of the resurrection of the flesh thus keeps together intellectual and active life with the experiences of disempowerment and finally of death, without denying either.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 78
title: Das Reale und das Magische des Todes: Religionspädagogische Überlegungen zu Todesvorstellungen von Kindern
Creators: name: Hennecke, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 230

description: Bis zum Alter von etwa zwölf Jahren haben Kinder ihre eigenen Vorstellungen vom Tod, in denen sowohl realistische als auch magisch-mystische Momente eine Rolle spielen.
description: Up to the age of 12 in particular, children develop their own concept of death. In that context, both real-istic and magical/mystical elements of imagination can feature. Both elements play an important and help-ful role in the development of an adequate concept of death.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 88
title: Naturwissenschaftlich tot, religiös lebendig?: Der Personenkult um den verstorbenen Johannes Paul II.
Creators: name: Lutterbach, Hubertus
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 230

description: Die Tode von Papst Johannes Paul II. und Prinzessin Diana haben nicht zuletzt durch die Berichterstattung in den Medien zu einem modernen Totenkult beigetragen. Dieser Beitrag fragt: Wann betrachten wir Menschen als so genannte Gottesmenschen, wann als Heilige? Welche Eigenschaften schreiben wir den Heiligen zu? Hubertus Lutterbach kommt zu erstaunlichen Ergebnissen.
description: The deaths of Pope John Paul II and Princess Diana have contributed to a modern cult of the dead created and highlighted by the media. In his essay the author investigates the rituals as well as the forms of rever-ence and canonization evident in these modern interpretations. The discussion centers on the predominant questions: When does a human become a so-called „Vir Dei“, when a saint? Which positive – even ideal – traits do we ascribe to saints – and why? The search for traces of medieval beliefs and conceptions in these modern interpretations leads to astonishing new perspectives.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 35Natur-/Geisteswissenschaften: Sterben, Tod – und dann?, p. 88Das Reale und das Magische des Todes: Religionspädagogische Überlegungen zu Todesvorstellungen von Kindern, p. 100
Supplementary document for Design of the Quadrangular prism Beam Splitting Receiving System in MEMS-Based Scanning Lidar - 6137273.pdf
Creators: name: Xiaobao, Lee
name: Weilong, Zhou
name: Zhuomian, Huang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement document and some interpretation of the manuscript.
D3.1 Open Call documentation
Creators: name: García, Miguel
name: Martínez, Maria Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This deliverable contains all the documents created for the two Open Calls of NGI Sargasso: the General Open Call and the Open Call for Digital Credentials. The referenced documents include informational guidelines, flyers, registration forms, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the Open Calls.
Flattening Singular Values of Factorized Convolution for Medical Images
Publisher: name: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Year: 2024

description: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have long been the paradigm of choice for robust medical image processing (MIP). Therefore, it is crucial to effectively and efficiently deploy CNNs on devices with different computing capabil- ities to support computer-aided diagnosis. Many methods employ factorized convolutional layers to alleviate the bur- den of limited computational resources at the expense of expressiveness. To this end, given weak medical image- driven CNN model optimization, a Singular value equaliza- tion generalizer-induced Factorized Convolution (SFConv) is proposed to improve the expressive power of factorized convolutions in MIP models. We first decompose the weight matrix of convolutional filters into two low-rank matrices to achieve model reduction. Then minimize the KL divergence between the two low-rank weight matrices and the uniform distribution, thereby reducing the number of singular value directions with significant variance. Extensive experiments on fundus and OCTA datasets demonstrate that our SFConv yields competitive expressiveness over vanilla convolutions while reducing complexity.
Mitigating the mid-term timber supply gap : potential silvicultural solutions in the Prince George TSA
Creators: name: Rowan, Marco
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The current mountain pine beetle epidemic (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) (MPB) has affected 17.5 million hectares in British Columbia (BC). In response, the chief forester raised the annual allowable cut (AAC) in several Timber Supply Areas (TSAs) throughout the province, including the Prince George TSA. The AAC uplifts were designed to allow licensees to harvest MPB mortality which would otherwise be worthless if left standing. This had the unwanted consequence of creating a mid-term (11-50 years from now) timber supply gap that will result in lowered AAC’s and associated job loss and economic decline. This paper explores three silvicultural systems that could increase the volume of timber available for harvest in the mid-term. The three systems are: understory retention, pre-commercial thinning (PCT), and fertilization. To determine the potential of these systems to increase mid-term harvest volumes I conducted a literature review and used the Table Interpolation Program for Stand Yields modeling program (TIPSY). Understory retention has some potential to increase volumes, but only by a small amount. The benefits of understory retention are ecological in nature, and include increased biodiversity and forest resilience. PCT and fertilization, either separate or combined, have good potential to increase mid-term harvest volumes. For PCT and fertilization to be effective, it is critical to select appropriate stands. The minimum height requirements for what is considered suitable understory should be lowered. This will result in less stands being salvage harvested, and will increase the ecological diversity and resilience of pine-leading stands. There may also be some associated increases in mid-term harvest volumes. PCT and fertilization should be used in conjunction in stands that will benefit most from these treatments. This will increase available mid-term harvest volumes. If done properly, the risk associated with spending money on silvicultural treatments is acceptable.
Primordial neutrinos and new physics: novel approach to solving neutrino Boltzmann equation
Creators: name: Ovchynnikov, Maksym
name: Syvolap, Vsevolod
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding how new physics influences the dynamics of cosmic neutrinos during their decoupling is crucial in light of upcoming precise cosmological observations and the need to reconcile cosmological and laboratory probes. Existing approaches to solving the neutrino Boltzmann equation are often model-dependent, computationally inefficient, and yield contradictory results. To solve this problem, we introduce a novel method to comprehensively study neutrino dynamics. We apply this method to several case studies, resolving the discrepancy in the literature about the impact of non-thermal neutrinos on $N_{\rm eff}$ and providing important insights about the role of decaying new physics particles on MeV plasma.
description: Version accepted for the publication in PRL
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Loth, Wilfried
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 6
The effects of tropospheric ozone pollution on forests
Creators: name: Tsai, Tim
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Ozone is a significant risk factor to the health of the forest ecosystem. The level of this atmospheric oxidant has increased in regions of the US and Canada, highlighting the importance of understanding its impact on agricultural crops and forest tree health at large. However, the link between the occurrence of ozone and forest damage is not firmly established because of limited knowledge on the acclimation of growing trees to ozone. The insufficiency of knowledge stems from challenges in conducting accurate and thorough assessments of ozone injury on the forest. Evidence from experiments show that ozone can impose stress on trees, and it can affect forest tree metabolism by interfering with carbon dynamics, which are associated with photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon allocation. In this paper, the phytotoxic effects of ozone are described by first providing background information on the formation and calculation of ozone, followed by a discussion of the underlying mechanism and symptoms of ozone damage. Case studies from Southern California and Switzerland are also included to highlight the relationships between ozone concentration, drought, and tree species. Lastly, the difficulties in conducting ozone studies are detailed, along with the serious implications of ozone damage, such as the loss of genetic diversity within the forest.
title: Metropolen europäischer Kultur: eine Geschichte vierer Städte
Creators: name: Ziegler, Ruprecht
name: Cobet, Justus
name: Patzek, Barbara
name: Hauses, Regina
name: Scholten, Helga
name: Lehnen, Joachim
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Nicht nur das Wort „Metropolis“ stammt aus dem Altertum. Vier antike Städte – Babylon, Jerusalem, Athen und Rom – erfüllen zudem die Vorstellung von Metropolen auf besondere Weise. Deshalb sei hier nicht nur ihre je eigene Geschichte skizziert. Die Rede wird auch von dem virtuellen Dialog dieser vier Städte untereinander sein, dessen Spuren die Entwicklung der europäischen Kultur bis heute begleiten.
description: The Greek expression metropolis displays its own history in antiquity which still determines some of the associations of the modern word. Our article traces an accumulative discourse of metaphorical associations which developed in the course of ancient history between its dominant metropolitan centres: Babylon, Jerusalem, Athens and Rome. This discourse is about validity claims on leadership and intellect, domination and culture based on immanent and transcendent assumptions. In the European tradition, it is symbolically intertwined with the image of these four cities. As subtext, these metaphors are present in European cultural and political discourse. With the present papers we set out to reconstruct the original tales of these cities in order to recreate the changing historical contexts which led to the European metaphorical tale of the four cities. Being the narrator and the objective of history, it was Rome herself who ultimately reconstructed the narrative. Connecting the faith of Jerusalem to the intellect of Athens she could claim to have overcome the worldliness ofBabylon, thus adding a new justification to her universal aspirations. Of course she did not escape the strenuous polarity of empire and culture, and this polarity may still be actualized in the frequent comparisons of the United States with Imperial Rome. However, the narratives of our four cities originally constructed their tales in their own voices and to their own ends. Babylon was much less worldly than the narrative of Jerusalem would have us believe, and even Athens may have been less intellectual and Jerusalem at times less faithful than the widespread European discourse will have it. Nevertheless, their image as a meaningful quartet remains a point of reference and reflection in European tradition.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 8
title: Rezension zu Norman Kasper und Jochen Strobel (Hgg.): Praxis und Diskurs der Romantik 1800–1900
Creators: name: Kleßen, Patricia
name: Heimböckel, Hendrick
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Romantik
subject: 19. Jahrhundert
subject: transdisziplinär
subject: transkulturell
subject: komparatistisch
subject: Diskursanalyse
subject: 700
subject: 800

description: Patricia Kleßen und Hendrick Heimböckel rezensieren Norman Kaspers und Jochen Strobels (Hgg.) „Praxis und Diskurs der Romantik 1800–1900“ (Ferdinand Schöningh 2016).
description: Modell Romantik: Variation - Reichweite - Aktualität
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Schmid, Günter
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 500
subject: 610

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 6
title: Konstantinopel: Roms Tochter oder Schwester?: Zur Selbst- und Fremddeutung der Stadt Konstantins des Großen
Creators: name: Köhn, Rolf
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Konstantinopel wollte seit seiner Gründung an Rom gemessen werden. Unabhängig von der Antwort auf die Frage, ob die Stadt als Roms Schwester oder Tochter gelten konnte, war Konstantinopel bis 1453 das Zentrum der orthodoxen Christenheit und eine wichtige europäische Metropole.
description: In her long history from her enlargement and renaming by Constantine the Great in 324 to 1453 when she was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, the city of Constantinople rapidly became the most important residence of the rulers of the Roman Empire. This was especially so in the period after 476, the year of Rome’s downfall and the western half of the Roman Empire. During these fourteen centuries the ‘polis of Constantine’ became the successor and heiress of the old centre of this vast Empire. Right from her ambitious beginnings, Constantinople was comparing herself with Rome: she wanted to be more than just another residence of the Roman emperor or only one of many new imperial foundations within the Roman Empire. To be looked at as respected and dominant as Rome, Constantinople saw herself as the most important city of the Roman (later East Roman, then Byzantine) Empire and the centre of the orthodox Christianity. The ambition of Constantinople to be the rival of Rome is shown by two names: Soon some of her admirers (pagan as well as Christian authors) called her the ‚Second Rome‘, not much later even the ‚New Rome‘. As ‚Second Rome‘ Constantinople was willing to pay tribute to Rome and to recognize the superiority of the only capital of the Roman Empire; as ‚New Rome‘ she claimed to be the new capital, the only existing successor and heiress of old Rome. By quoting and analyzing mainly Greek sources from the fourth to the sixth century, this essay presents contemporary statements, how Constantinople liked to be seen by her admirers: as a daughter of Rome or as her sister. This comparison expressed the self-esteem of Constantinople as an imperial and Christian city, but also had a decisive disadvantage: it reflected and accepted the existence of ‚Constantine‘s polis‘ in the shadow of Rome.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 34
Additional file 1 of Implementation and costs of housing adaptations among older adults with different functional limitations in Japan
Creators: name: Tsuchiya-Ito, Rumiko
name: Hamada, Shota
name: Slaug, Björn
name: Ninomiya, Ayako
name: Uda, Kazuaki
name: Ishibashi, Tomoaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Information 1. The application of Japanese long-term care certification items to functional limitations related to housing accessibility. Supplementary Information 2. Timing of the implementation of housing adaptations during one year from care needs certification. Supplementary Information 3. The distribution of cost for housing adaptation during one year from care needs certification.
Registrare con il corpo: dalla riflessione fenomenologica alle metodologie audio-visuali di Jean Rouch e Steven Feld
Creators: name: Ferrarini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2011

description: L'articolo affronta specifiche tecniche e concezioni di registrazione sonora e filmica adottate da Jean Rouch e Steven Feld, connettendole con alcune riflessioni nel campo dell’antropologia su sensi ed esperienza.

In particolare, partendo da apporti alla teoria antropologica di ispirazione fenomenologica, risalenti agli anni Ottanta,  si vuole mostrare come, parallelamente all’utilizzo del corpo e dell’esperienza del ricercatore come metodo di indagine (Csordas 2003, Jackson 1983, Rouch 1973, Stoller 1989 e 1997), si possano utilizzare i media di registrazione per produrre etnografie, sonore o visuali, evocative dell’esperienza corporea. Questi lavori sono mirati a produrre una forma di conoscenza radicalmente diversa da quella veicolata da canali basati sul testo. Le tecniche di registrazione, basate sull’incorporazione degli strumenti, presuppongono allora una concezione della percezione di ispirazione fenomenologica, che si può far risalire a Merleau-Ponty e a James Gibson. Questi approcci aiutano a sottolineare la fondamentale differenza tra percezione e registrazione: dato che non basano la prima soprattutto su meccanismi di rappresentazione, acquisisce grande rilievo la mediazione tecnica necessaria alla seconda, che è una forma di rappresentazione, per evocare l’esperienza. Tali tecniche, per presupposti teorici e stili rappresentazionali, diventano una peculiare forma di pratica artistica sul campo. Lo scopo è, da una parte, collocare in un quadro teorico alcuni aspetti del lavoro di Rouch e Feld, dall’altra far dialogare pratiche e teorie per fornire i lineamenti di un approccio innovativo alla registrazione in antropologia visuale e del suono.
description: De Musica, 2011: XV
title: Neue Wege zu Nanoteilchen: Wie bringt man einzelne Moleküle dazu, sich zu Nanoteilchen zusammenzulagern?
Creators: name: Schmuck, Carsten
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Die Bildung von Nanoteilchen im Sinne eines „bottom-up“ Ansatzes durch die Selbstaggregation kleiner Bausteine ist in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Blickpunkt des Interesses gerückt. Neben den seit vielen Jahrzehnten bekannten klassischen Nanostrukturbildnern werden in letzter Zeit verstärkt kleine, niedermolekulare Bausteine als Ausgangspunkt für die Synthese von selbstassemblierten Nanoteilchen untersucht. Wir beschäftigen uns in unserer Forschung vor allem mit der Ionenpaar-vermittelten Selbstassemblierung kleiner Zwitterionen. Schaltbare Materialien, die auf ihre Umgebung reagieren, stellen interessante Ausgangspunkte für mögliche zukünftige Anwendungen zum Beispiel im Bereich des Wirkstofftransportes oder der Funktionsmaterialien dar.
description: Self-assembly of small building blocks can lead to the formation of large nanostructures in a so called “bottom-up” approach. Besides classical amphiphilic polymers or tensides, which have been known to form nanostructures in solution for a long time, recently new types of vesicle builders have been invented and have come more and more into focus. For example, we have developed a new class of self-complementary zwitterions which form stable ion paired aggregates, even in polar solution. Depending on the structure and chemical features of such zwitterions, we were able to obtain different types of nanostructures such as vesicles, nanospheres and linear supramolecular polymers with a length of up to 100 nm and more. The advantage of this supramolecular approach is that the formation of the nanostructures can be controlled externally. For example, our systems can be triggered by the pH of the solution. Nanostructures are formed only within a certain pH range; otherwise individual monomers are present in solution. Such switchable materials, which can correspond to changes in their surrounding, might be of interest for applications e.g. for drug delivery of functional materials.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 8
title: Quasi centrum Europae: warum es im mittelalterlichen deutschen Reich keine Hauptstadt gab
Creators: name: Fößel, Amalie
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Das deutsche Reich des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit hatte keine Hauptstadt. Anders als in Frankreich und England, wo Paris und London sich schon früh als Herrschaftszentren und nationale Hauptstädte herausbildeten und langfristig etablierten, verfügte das Alte Reich über keine entsprechende Zentralstadt. Erst in der Neuzeit entwickelte sich Berlin zur Hauptstadt Preußens und Deutschlands.
description: The German Empire of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times did not have any capital. Unlike France or England, where Paris and London became established as national capitals in the long term, a town or city with a similarly central function was missing in Germany. Rather, there were traditionally several important main cities like Aachen as the venue of the kings’ and queens’ coronations or Frankfurt/Main where the kings’ elections took place. Furthermore, there were a great number of capital-like places with changing significance in the course of the Medieval centuries. The reasons for this were complex. They resulted from the Medieval Empire’s structure of constitution, especially the absence of a central administration as well as the necessity of the king’s presence in the different parts of the realm and his ruling by travelling most of the time. Additionally, Germany remained an electoral monarchy with changing dynasties and a variety of main cities. A single capital could not be established in spite of corresponding demands. Only in modern times did Berlin attain the position of the Germans’ capital, founded by the Prussian rulers.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 46
Da Steven Feld, Suono e sentimento, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2009.
Creators: name: Feld, Steven
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2011

description: Quarto Capitolo di Suono e Sentimento, di Steven Feld, che pubblichiamo con l'autorizzazione de  Il Saggiatore.

Un ringraziamento a Luca Formenton per aver autorizzato la pubblicazione.
description: De Musica, 2011: XV
title: Wie fasst man Biomoleküle richtig an?: Maßgeschneiderte Nanomaterialien zur Beeinflussung biologischer Funktionen
Creators: name: Schrader, Thomas
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Alle fundamentalen Prozesse in der Biologie beruhen auf dem Phänomen der molekularen Erkennung; Biomoleküle falten beziehungsweise selbstorganisieren sich und erkennen ihre Reaktionspartner mit Hilfe von schwachen zwischenmolekularen Anziehungskräften. Eine gezielte Beeinflussung dieser Vorgänge von außen ist möglich, beschränkt sich bis heute aber im Wesentlichen auf kleine künstliche Liganden für Proteintaschen – wie die meisten Medikamente. Eine Erweiterung des Arsenals an biologischen Bindungsstellen ist dringend nötig – dazu muss man aber lernen, Proteinoberflächen, Nucleinsäurefurchen und Membranen mit maßgeschneiderten Rezeptormolekülen anzusteuern.
description: Molecular recognition is a fundamental aspect of all life processes. The phenomenon provides a handle to the chemist for selective interference, which medicinal chemistry intensively employs by drug binding into small protein pockets. However, 80% of all proteins thus remain beyond reach – and an extension towards specific recognition of protein surfaces, nucleic acid grooves and membranes by artificial drugs is desperately needed – a largely unexplored research area. In conjunction with international colleagues, our group is currently pursuing a new strategy: We are designing receptor molecules tailored for the prominent classes of biomolecules, which do not bind to protein active sites, but to protein surfaces, nucleic acid grooves and membranes. These synthetic gripping devices are subsequently used to modulate biological processes. Reversible enzyme inhibition has now been realized for the first time with amino acid selective polymers. New ligands for DNA’s major groove can read its base sequence and may one day shut down problematic genes. Finally, an artificial signal in form of a messenger compound can now be transmitted through a membrane by means of specifically designed transmembrane units. It is envisaged that one day it will counteract signaling disorders in the human body. The author foresees a wide-open door, requiring a close interdisciplinary collaboration between chemists, biologists and medical scientists.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 22
John Cage, Empty words. Parole scomposte, suoni concettuali
Creators: name: Bolis, Jacopo Leone
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2012

description: Il saggio intende esplorare i precipitati concettuali legati all’uso della voce in Empty Words di John Cage. L’opera è stata letta, in generale, soprattutto dal punto di vista di sociologia dell’ascolto e secondo le prospettive legate alla destrutturazione dei rapporti relazionali che da sempre dominano il nostro universo comunicativo ed estetico.  L’autore ne rilegge la struttura dal punto di vista di una interpretazione fenomenologica del rapporto suono silenzio all’interno di una analisi della complementarietà e dell’opposizione fra suono musicale e rumore.
description: De Musica, 2012: XVI
Additional file 1 of A bibliometric analysis of published research employing musculoskeletal imaging modalities to evaluate foot osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Molyneux, Prue
name: Stewart, Sarah
name: Bowen, Catherine
name: Ellis, Richard
name: Rome, Keith
name: Carroll, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: Rezension zu Laurie Ruth Johnson: Forgotten Dreams. Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog
Creators: name: Schreiber, Tilman
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Romantik
subject: Werner Herzog
subject: 791
subject: 800
subject: 830

description: Tilman Schreiber rezensiert Laurie Ruth Johnsons „Forgotten Dreams. Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog“ (Boydell & Brewer 2016).
description: Modell Romantik: Variation - Reichweite - Aktualität
title: Warum nicht Europa?: Erklärungsversuche für das französische „Nein“ mit Hilfe von Schulgeschichtsbüchern (1998 bis 2004)
Creators: name: Kuhn, Bärbel
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Schulgeschichtsbücher können sehr aufschlussreich sein, wenn es um die Erklärung von (zeit-)historischen Zusammenhängen geht. Dies beweist Bärbel Kuhn in ihrer Analyse zum französischen Volksentscheid von 2005 gegen den Vertrag über eine Verfassung für Europa.
description: In a referendum held in 2005, French voters rejected the treaty on a European constitution. The majority of the “nays” were young voters. The question therefore arises: which notions of the European Union influenced these young people when they went to the ballot box? Why was it that they obviously did not consider the advantages and the challenges posed by the treaty to relate to each other in a balanced and acceptable way? Based on a scrutiny of 15 French history textbooks used in schools between 1998 and 2004, which – among many other factors – have influenced the „nay“ generation in issues of European politics, this contribution investigates the degree to which these books have prepared young people for the central issues deserving their attention against a background of the draft of a European constitution. The results show that whereas the opportunities offered to the French nation by membership of the European Union are not denied, the problems and challenges are accentuated. Instead of stressing that European identity cannot replace but can complement national identity, there is a tendency in these textbooks to emphasize fears of losing national sovereignty and cultural heritage. They fail to convey the idea that it is not only a question of expanding French values in a European context but also of integrating European aspects into French identity.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 60
Additional file 1 of Incidence of Brucella infection in various livestock species raised under the pastoral production system in Isiolo County, Kenya
Creators: name: Njeru, Josiah
name: Nthiwa, Daniel
name: Akoko, James
name: Oyas, Harry
name: Bett, Bernard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.