cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Integrating Humorous Video Tasks into English Language Instruction on EFL Learners' Task Motivation and Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Performance
Creators: name: Kabooha, Raniah
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: Task motivation
Receptive vocabulary
Productive vocabulary
Humorous video tasks
Long-term memory
Self-efficacy
Relatedness

description:  This thesis investigated the effect of humorous video tasks (HVTs) on English language students' receptive and productive vocabulary performance and task motivation. Several task motivation variables were examined: intrinsic value, utility value, anxiety (emotional cost), task difficulty (effort cost), self-efficacy, and relatedness. A few studies examined the impact of HVTs on vocabulary performance and task motivation. Previous research, however, primarily focused on the short-term rather than the long-term effect of HVTs on language performance. Earlier studies on HVTs investigated a few motivational variables influencing students' task motivation; thus, the impact of HVTs on task motivation was not fully understood. This research sought to address the aforementioned gaps in the literature by examining the short- and long-term effects of HVTs on vocabulary performance and exploring a wide range of motivational factors, many of which were overlooked in previous studies on HVTs. This study comprised 229 female tertiary English language students at the elementary level, who were divided into three groups: a humorous group (HG), a non-humorous group (NHG), and a control group (CG). The study employed an experimental mixed-methods research design. Several data collection methods were utilised: a vocabulary pre-test, an immediate post-test, a delayed post-test, a survey, and semi-structured interviews. The current investigation was conducted in a virtual environment.The findings indicate that HVTs could have a long-term effect on productive vocabulary performance; however, the results showed that HVTs did not impact receptive vocabulary performance. The findings suggest that HVTs appear to yield a more pronounced favourable effect on students' task motivation than standard textbook tasks that lack multimedia videos, but it may not be superior to non-HVTs in improving task motivation. The only task motivation factor in which the HG outperformed the NHG was reported anxiety, suggesting that HVTs may be a potentially effective strategy for alleviating language anxiety. 
Kambodschas Sprachenlandschaft
Creators: name: Heinze, Hendrik
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Thomas Clayton, Language choice in a nation under transition: English language spread in Cambodia. Springer, 2006 (= Language Policy, 5). ISBN 0-387-31193-9.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
The application of high sensitivity molecular methods to identify and quantify pathogens that cause sepsis
Creators: name: Evans, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: PCR
subject: Molecular diagnostics
subject: Metrology
subject: DNA Sequencing
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Diagnosis of severe acute infections, like sepsis, requires timely identification of etiological agent to select correct treatment and improve patient outcomes. As culture-based diagnostic methods are too slow for such situations, faster molecular tools are increasingly being developed. However, the lack of reference methods and materials (collectively termed reference measurement system) hinders determination of accuracy of molecular approaches. This means tests may be performed with limited knowledge of their accuracy, potentially resulting in patient misdiagnosis leading to poorer patient prognosis. This project investigated the performance of techniques as reference methods for the measurement of pathogen materials, with the aim to build on existing reference measurement systems via the development of a live cell reference material. The Escherichia coli model showed that molecular methods were capable of more precise quantification than conventional approaches. Use of materials was assessed in the evaluation of host DNA depletion, essential as part of metagenomic analysis of patient samples. The use of accurately quantified materials demonstrated that host depletion methods increased the relative bacterial DNA content, but that bacterial DNA loss precluded their use for sepsis where pathogen concentrations are low. In an alternative model (COVID-19) a reference measurement system was used to determine clinical reference ranges of pathogen nucleic acids targeted by molecular diagnostic methods. This work also described when to use different units and discovered the novel concept of differential sensitivity where clinical diagnostic performance may differ with incidence.This work demonstrated the application of different reference measurement systems for molecular testing of infectious disease. Accurate reference methods can be applied to value assign control materials that can be used to evaluate protocol performance or define reference ranges and guide test requirements. Such reference measurements can aid in evaluating accuracy when exploring improvements to pathogen identification in conditions like sepsis.
Aufbruch zu neuen Gewässern – Kambodschas Sprachenlandschaft ist in Bewegung
Creators: name: Heinze, Hendrik
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: In einem kambodschanischen Sprichwort wird das Lernen fremder Sprachen eher skeptisch gesehen: »Wer in einer fremden Sprache spricht, wird seine Herkunft, seine Religion und seine Bräuche vergessen wie ein Krokodil, das den Weg zu seinem Gewässer vergisst«. Dessen ungeachtet wollen immer mehr Kambodschaner Englisch lernen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Milestone 3.1 Implementation Plan Mid-scale Pilot
Creators: name: Boiten, Jan-Willem
name: Belien, Jeroen
name: Tellería-Orriols, Carlos
name: Dekker, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: data quality
mid-scale pilot
EHDS
quality label

description: The Horizon Europe funded QUANTUM project aims at providing guidance on a quality and utility label, out of the testing of a data quality, utility and maturity labelling mechanism in a substantive number of data holders. Ideally, this labelling mechanism could be adopted in HealthData@EU as foreseen in the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation (article 78) for secondary use. The project has been kicked off in the beginning of 2024 and is focusing on the following objectives:

1. Conceptualise and develop a data quality and utility label in the context of a data holder maturity model (WP1);

2. Design, develop and test the labelling of the data sets’ quality and utility, and data holders’ maturity (WP2/WP3);

3. Analyse the implementation challenges with a view to enabling the transferability and sustainability of the labelling mechanism as part of HealthData@EU (WP4);

4. Develop a capacity building and outreach program that allows a broad engagement of the data quality professional community (WP5).

This milestone report, pertaining to WP3, provides the implementation plan for the so-called midscale test of the quality & utility labels being proposed (WP1) and implemented (WP2) within QUANTUM. The mid-scale test will be run between April 2025 and December 2025. 
description: Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
LLMTrajQuery: A natural-language-based semantic trajectory query approach using large language models
Creators: name: junnan, liu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370402
subject: Earth and space science informatics
classificationCode: 460208
subject: Natural language processing

description: Semantic trajectory query is essential for effectively managing large-scale trajectory data to meet various requirements. Natural language has become the preferred way to express complex query requirements and intentions. To provide an intelligent and user-friendly query experience, we propose a natural-language-based semantic trajectory query approach using large language models (LLMTrajQuery). This approach first designs a trajectory textualization method to convert the time sequence of trajectory points into semantic descriptions by segmenting trajectories, extracting semantics, and constructing trajectory documents. Then, the semantic trajectory query method is crafted to retrieve trajectories through natural language queries and provide more accurate retrieval results and natural language answers, thus aligning numerical trajectory data with natural language queries. Finally, comparative experiments and human study were conducted with semantic trajectory queries, highlighting the advantages of our approach. Additionally, we conducted an ablation study to illustrate the significant contributions of each module within our framework. It can demonstrate that our method effectively bridges the gap between numerical trajectory data and natural language query intent, offering an intuitive, user-friendly, and accessible for domain experts and novices.
The serotonin transporter promoter variant, stress, and attentional biases in middle childhood
Creators: name: Kotelnikova, Yuliya
name: LeMoult, Joelle
name: Mackrell, Sarah V. M.
name: Sheikh, Haroon I.
name: Singh, Shiva M.
name: Joormann, Jutta
name: Gotlib, Ian H.
name: Hayden, Elizabeth P.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: Although evidence suggests that 5-HTTLPR variants may shape risk for depression, the influence is likely complex, and involves effects on endophenotypes. We examined associations between 5-HTTLPR and biases in attention to affective stimuli in a sample of girls and a sample of both boys and girls. Children with at least one short (S) variant of the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism had lower positive attentional bias scores in both samples. This association was qualified by an interaction with stress in one sample, such that links between the S allele and decreased positive attentional bias was significant only when life stress was elevated. This difference in findings between the two samples was explained by sex differences in samples; the GXE interaction was significant only in boys. Findings are discussed in the context of sex differences in GXE.
Die Rückkopplungseffekte – Oder wie sich positive Impulse vorteilhaft auf die politisch-diplomatische Ebene auswirken können
Creators: name: Weiß, Raimund
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Kambodscha zeigt, dass Menschenrechts- und Demokratiepolitik im Rahmen der Außenwirtschafts- und Entwicklungspolitik der EU möglich ist. Dies gilt insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund ihres nur eingeschränkten außenpolitischen Handlungsspielraums.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Evaluation of the effects of oncolytic vaccinia virus on colorectal liver metastases in cell lines and in organotypic cultures.
Creators: name: Kostalas, Marcos
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Vaccinia virus is one of several live viruses currently being evaluated in clinical trials as cancer therapies. One oncolytic virus, T-VEC, is already in clinical use and is NICE approved for the treatment of melanoma. We have investigated a genetically modified, Copenhagen strain vaccinia virus encoding the fusion suicide gene (FCU1) that is able to convert non-toxic fluorocytosine into the active compound fluorouracil. The mode of cell death attributed to vaccinia virus is variable and multiple modes have been implicated based on tumour type. Through our work with colorectal cancer cell lines we have established that this form of oncolytic vaccinia virus induces cell death through a predominant picture of apoptosis. Furthermore, assessment of its immunogenicity has found there to be an increase in markers of immunogenic cell death following infection with the virus. We have developed an organotypic culture system in our laboratory which enables us to assess oncolytic viruses on ex vivo tissue. Treatment of organotypic cultures from colorectal liver metastases have shown that vaccinia virus successfully infects and replicates in the tumour tissue. A dose-response relationship was observed with the highest doses of virus exerting the most effect on tumour tissue. Assessment of the pro-drug activation system through the conversion of 5-fluorocytosine to 5-fluorouracil in supernatant showed a high percentage conversion, whilst immunohistochemical staining did show evidence of an improved effect with the pro-drug system compared with virus alone. We have evaluated the combination of cavitational ultrasound and sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles to enhance infection with oncolytic virus. Our results have shown that this method enhances infection of organotypic cultures treated with oncolytic vaccinia virus. This has enabled the use of a lower dose of virus whilst maintaining the same effects in tissue as that of virus at higher doses. This finding has translational implications that may enhance the efficacy of systemically administered oncolytic vaccinia virus.
Made in Cambodia: Vom (un)freien Textilhandel Kambodschas mit der Europäischen Union
Creators: name: Wagener, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Chancen, Probleme und Herausforderungen der globalen Handelsliberalisierung für arme Länder zeigt ein Blick auf den Textilhandel zwischen der EU und Kambodscha.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
The case of the immortal detective: Sherlock Holmes and his enduring appeal
Creators: name: Burke, Liam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Sherlock Holmes has been the subject of more screen adaptations than any other literary character, with 75 different actors donning the deerstalker since 1900. But, as Benedict Cumberbatch prepares to return to 221B Baker Street for a Sherlock Christmas Special, the greatest mystery remains: what is the source of the detective's enduring appeal?
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
The Resilience of Parents with Eating Disorders
Creators: name: HODGSON-KING, HOPE ALEXANDRA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: Objective: Being a parent with an eating disorder (ED) creates unique challenges e.g., child feeding, transmission fears, parent responsibilities, and low self-efficacy. Despite significant concerns, there is limited evidence regarding healthcare support for parents with ED, and limited understanding of the protective factors and mechanisms that help parents with ED to cope and manage these unique challenges. This qualitative study aimed to explore parents with ED experiences of mental health services and their coping mechanisms. Method: Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with six mothers with lived experiences of ED. Open-ended questionnaires were further completed by 34 parents who reported a history of ED. The interview transcripts and open-ended questionnaires were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Three themes were constructed from the data: The complexity of coping, self-discovery through parenting and striving for support. Discussion: These themes highlighted the resilience of parents with ED, providing important insight into how parents with ED have adapted to the challenges of parenting and managed their ED, despite the unique challenges highlighted for this population. The inclusion of an open-ended questionnaire was found to be an appropriate method to allow greater participation through increased accessibility for parents with ED and has been recommended for future research. The researcher proposed future support for parents with ED should adopt a strength-based approach which draws on their resilience, coping resources, and identity as a parent to aid ED recovery.
title: Advancements in strict hierarchical impedance control of robots
Creators: name: Yan, Yicheng
name: Manzardo, Matteo
name: Corves, Burkhard
name: Hüsing, Mathias
name: Vidoni, Renato
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Impedance control is an approach to specify a desired second order dynamics during physical interactions with an envi-ronment, which compared to position and or force control makes the relations between the kinematic and kinetic varia-bles explicit. Further, compliance controllers do not specify a desired inertia, useful for achieving better robustness and stability properties. With respect to the task space definitions, it may be freely chosen under the condition that it has some kinematics mapping. As the tasks may not be of equal importance, a strict hierarchy can be enforced by modifying the robot jacobian with dynamically consistent nullspace projections. The resulting task space dynamics are inertially decoupled and do not permit task forces of lower priorities to disturb accelerations of higher priorities in a minimum-kinetic-energy sense. This general framework has been applied to diverse robots as well as extended upon in several works. This paper serves to summarize and give an overview of these recent developments.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 202511. IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2025: 20./21. Februar 2025, FH Kärnten, Villach
Impact of COVID-19 on the host lipidome and metabolome by mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Spick, Matt
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: This thesis details the investigation by mass spectrometry and ‘omics-based data science of the impact on human hosts of CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), an illness that has levied a heavy cost across the globe in terms of both health and life. The work described herein, which was produced through the pandemic stages of the illness, analyses the impact of COVID-19 on a set of biofluids obtained from hospitalised participants recruited with the assistance of the NHS Frimley Health Foundation Trust in the UK.

description:

description: The results of the work undertaken are presented in this thesis as four published journal articles. The first of these presents a pilot study for the potential for diagnosis of COVID-19 by skin swabs, using mass spectrometry to differentiate the sebum lipidomes of infected individuals from controls. This approach was initially seen as promising but as of today has been overtaken by the rapid rollout of other testing regimes. The second article presents a systematic review and meta-analysis of the overall progress of the scientific community in finding new diagnostic methods for COVID-19 by mass spectrometry. At the time of publication, proteomic analysis by mass spectrometry offered the most promise, with sensitivity and specificity approaching target product specifications for diagnostic tests. In the UK, however, as of the time of writing of this thesis, no mass spectrometry based technique has met clinical requirements for diagnosis or prognosis. The third article presents an interrogation of the relationships between saliva, sebum and serum metabolites and lipids in infected individuals, to identify correlations between them. In this part of the work, sebum lipids showed relationships with certain serum lipids and immune-system related metabolites, illustrating the whole-body nature of COVID-19 infection. The fourth article provides an integrated analysis of the proteomic and metabolomic mechanism of action of glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone on those infected with severe COVID-19. Whilst the benefits of glucocorticoid treatment are well-described in severely affected patients, the pleiotropic effects of the drug are suggestive that in mild cases there may be no overall benefit to treatment, or even a cost.
Propaganda im 21. Jahrhundert – Wie eine englischsprachige Tageszeitung in Laos den »richtigen« Kurs suggeriert
Creators: name: Billig, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Man stelle sich das Land als einen Konzern und die laotische Regierung als dessen Führung vor. In so einem Fall wäre die englischsprachige Tageszeitung Vientiane Times eine Art Kundenzeitung. Gemacht von einer Kommunikationsagentur, die in unserem Beispiel das Ministerium für Information und Kultur darstellt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
BIO-IMPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY EXPOSED MALTED PRODUCTS (CANNED AND PLASTIC MALTINA) ON BIOCHEMICAL INDICES OF ALBINO-RATS
Creators: name: Ahmed, Mariam Glory
name: Olajide, Joseph Eniola
Publisher: name: ZAP JOURNALS
Year: 2025
Subjects: liver marker, proximate, vitamin, environment, mineral, malting

description: Environmentally exposed carbonated drinks have no biological value; rather, they have, a long-term damaging effect when accumulated in tissues, as discovered in this work. This research was conducted to investigate the biochemical effect of exposing non-alcoholic drinks to direct sunlight or adverse environmental conditions. The experimental set up was made up of malting products consisting of the exposed (Canned and plastic) sample to sunlight for a period of 15 days alongside the unexposed sample as a control. Proximate analysis was performed on the malting samples. The effect of environmental exposure on the product was investigated in an animal model experiment. Twenty-four (24) male rats of wistar strain weighing 120-140g divided into four (4) groups of six rats each, Assessment of liver marker enzymatic; alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alkali phosphatase (ALP); and non-enzymatic (albumin and bilirubin) parameters were investigated. The proximate analysis and vitamin, and mineral evaluation showed a decrease in the protein, vitamins and calcium content upon exposure. Assessment of liver function in rat’s serum of the experimental groups showed a significant increase (p < 0.05) in ALP, AST, ALT, and bilirubin and decrease in albumin levels compared with the control unexposed malting sample groups. The findings showed that environmentally exposed malting elicits adverse biochemical and physical changes and therefore portends greater long-term toxicological effects with deleterious action.
Sex-specific effects of LiCl treatment on preservation of renal function and extended life-span in murine models of SLE: perspective on insights into the potential basis for survivorship in NZB/W female mice
Creators: name: Hart, David A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Considerable research effort has been invested in attempting to understand immune dysregulation leading to autoimmunity and target organ damage. In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), patients can develop a systemic disease with a number of organs involved. One of the major target organs is the kidney, but patients vary in the progression of the end-organ targeting of this organ. Some patients develop glomerulonephritis only, while others develop rapidly progressive end organ failure. In murine models of SLE, renal involvement can also occur. Studies performed over the past several years have indicated that treatment with LiCl of females, but not males of the NZB/W model, at an early age during the onset of disease, can prevent development of end-stage renal disease in a significant percentage of the animals. While on Li treatment, up to 80 % of the females can exhibit long-term survival with evidence of mild glomerulonephritis which does not progress to renal failure in spite of on-going autoimmunity. Stopping the treatment led to a reactivation of the disease and renal failure. Li treatment of other murine models of SLE was less effective and decreased survivorship in male BxSB mice, exhibited little effect on male MRL-lpr mice, and only modestly improved survivorship in female MRL-lpr mice. This perspective piece discusses the findings of several related studies which support the concept that protecting target organs such as the kidney, even in the face of continued immune insults and some inflammation, can lead to prolonged survival with retention of organ function. Some possible mechanisms for the effectiveness of Li treatment in this context are also discussed. However, the detailed mechanistic basis for the sex-specific effects of LiCl treatment particularly in the NZB/W model remains to be elucidated. Elucidating such details may provide important clues for development of effective treatment for patients with SLE, ~90 % of which are females.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Low earth orbit (LEO) mega constellations - satellite and terrestrial integrated communication networks.
Creators: name: Yang, Xin
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: With the recent rapid development of satellite technologies and satellite launching vehicle, constructing a LEO mega constellation (i.e. with hundreds or even thousands of satellites) to provide high-performance Internet access with global coverage becomes a reality. Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a type of self-configuring wireless network with high flexibility and high mobility. Thus, the combination of satellite networks (particularly LEO mega constellations) and MANETs will be able to provide a comprehensive Internet access service to anyone in anywhere at anytime. The focus of this thesis is to explore the potential of the proposed fully-integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and to meet the technical challenges with required performance, which has been rarely discussed before. The main contributions of this thesis include: Firstly, a novel Mobile Ad hoc Network routing protocol (AOMDV-SIR) optimised for internetworking with satellite networks is proposed. This protocol specifically takes satellite communication characteristics into account to make traditional terrestrial MANETs ready for the integration by dynamically balancing traffic among satellite gateways while providing competitive or even better performance than other MANET routing protocols. Secondly, a novel routing scheme (HAMS) for inter-satellite routing in Satellite Ad hoc Network (SANET) is proposed. It provides an autonomous routing solution for LEO mega constellations without ground stations’ involvement. According to simulations, it can offer better network performance especially in long-distance communication scenarios. Thirdly, a coherent routing scheme for the satellite and terrestrial integrated network is proposed. Unlike current satellite-terrestrial integration approaches, the proposed scheme is designed for a fully-integrated network (i.e. terrestrial network and satellite network share the same priority). Compare to currently available techniques, the proposed network structure and routing scheme can greatly expand communication network application area and can achieve better service quality.
Wohnst Du schon? Boarding Houses im Großraum Ho Chi Minh City – Eine Antwort auf die Wohnbedürfnisse von Arbeitsmigranten
Creators: name: Waibel, Michael
name: Gravert, Andreas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Der Großraum Ho Chi Minh City ist der Hauptmotor des wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs in Vietnam. Die Entstehung von Industriegebieten zieht dabei Arbeitsmigranten im großen Stil aus ländlichen Provinzen an. Auf der Suche nach günstigem Wohnraum finden sie häufig Unterkunft in so genannten Boarding Houses.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
A Study of The Natural Gas Market: 'Price Forecast & Measuring Residential Demand'.
Creators: name: Dikko, Faisal M.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: The growing concern for security of energy supply and climate change has prompted this study. The thesis attempts to study the predictive power of global crude oil price on the natural gas price in the UK. Using quarterly price series of both energy commodities, the sample utilises data from 1988Q1-2015Q2 to accurately predict wholesale NBP gas price up to 7 – steps ahead. Using the most recent tools of comparing predictive ability of competing forecasting models, findings suggest that the benchmark price of Brent oil is able to predict natural gas price with minimum forecast error. Furthermore, the 4-model exogenous variable model is not encompassed by the bivariate 3-model forecast combination and offers gains in forecasting accuracy. The thesis also considers the residential demand for gas. Utilising microdata from the UK Living Costs and Food Survey 2013–2016, an attempt is made to estimate the household demand for gas and to determine the significance of government energy and climate change policies. Fitting the data to the model, a tobit censored regression model is employed to estimate residential gas demand. In addition to policy effects, seasonal, socioeconomic, dwelling type, tenure and heating equipment type effects are considered in the model. It is discovered that price elasticity ranges from -0.246 to –0.327 for the restricted model and -0.422 to -0.491 for the unrestricted model. The increase in consumer response to price changes can be attributed to government policy. Finally, it can be concluded that over the short to medium term gas prices are set to remain oil indexed and driven by shocks in the global oil market. Domestically, it is important to identify the different variations in seasonality, housing characteristics, family and income demographics that determine consumer behaviour to better understand the impact of government energy & climate change policies.
Krisenregion
Creators: name: Gödde, Heinz
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchrezension: Michael Waibel/Rolf Jordan/Helmut Schneider (Hg.), Krisenregion Südostasien – Alte Konflikte und neue Kriege. Horlemann Verlag, 2006 (= Pazifik Forum 11).
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Der Kunst-Treff: Südostasiatisch-europäischer Austausch von Künstlern
Creators: name: Wiratanaya, Eva
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Vor zehn Jahren wurde die ASEF, eine Stiftung, die den Dialog vor allem auf kultureller Ebene unterstützt, in Singapur gegründet.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Requiem für einen Wassertraum – Europas Versorgungskonzerne waren nicht in der Lage, Asiens Wasserkrise aus der Welt zu schaffen
Creators: name: Schnabel, Peter
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Im Oktober 2006 verkündete Harry Roels, Vorstandschef des Essener RWE-Konzerns, das endgültige Aus für die Wasserträume seines ambitionierten Amtsvorgängers Dietmar Kuhnt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Machtpolitische Architektur – Die ASEAN-Staaten und die Europäische Union
Creators: name: Schmidt, Frithjof
name: Köhler, Martin
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die führenden Eliten in Regierungen und Wirtschaftszentralen der ASEAN-Staaten sehen ihre Zusammenarbeit in einem Regionalblock immer bewusster als Antwort auf die Veränderungen der internationalen machtpolitischen Architektur durch die Globalisierung.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2007): Der fremde Freund – Südostasien und Europa
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien
Modelling and control of a flexible soft robotic uterine elevator.
Creators: name: Mustaza, Seri Mastura
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Current laparoscopic techniques for achieving a safe hysterectomy rely heavily on manipulating and stabilizing the uterus using a transvaginal uterine elevator. Commercially available uterine manipulators are rigid in design and lack attributes like flexibility for pose control, force sensing or ease of adaptability. The current technique in using uterine elevator is to have an assistant manually reposition the uterus in response to the surgeon's command. Inefficient response to these commands, lack of experience, poor commands by the surgeon or fatigue are some of the issues arising from the use of the current manipulation technique. Furthermore, the manipulation of a rigid and stiff uterine elevator could potentially damage the uterine wall. A flexible uterine manipulator which can be controlled remotely whilst the surgeon is sitting at the operating console would be a big step forward in advancing robotic gynaecological surgery. These issues motivate this research on the development of an innovative flexible uterine elevator. This research was aimed at developing pneumatically controlled, octopus inspired robotic exible uterine manipulator, GENTLER (Gynaecological ENdoscopic uTerine eLEvatoR), based on soft continuum mechanism with integrated force and pose sensors. The use of soft robotics technology for practical applications requires modelling of the shape, movement and dynamics of the robot. Based on the literature, efforts in modelling the behaviour of this manipulator have focused mainly on kinematic modelling, while dynamics of the system is poorly studied which restricts the full potential of the technology. Another aspect that remains open is robust or stiffness control design of this pneumatically driven soft tube. Variable stiffness control is of prime importance to achieve the accuracy required to satisfy the desired position and force commands. Therefore, this research focused on the development of material-based dynamic modelling, a novel approach to embody the inherent nonlinearity exhibited by soft continuum manipulator as well as the design of real-time tunable stiffness control. Semi-empirical approach was used, which combined both theoretical modelling and experimental analysis of data obtained in laboratory to develop the model and the control architecture. Finally, the proposed modelling approach and control architecture were implemented into the prototype of GENTLER. The working prototype was validated in real-time using ex-vivo testing.
Synthesis and Evaluation of Ciprofloxacin-Nitroxide Conjugates as Anti-Biofilm Agents
Creators: name: Verderosa, Anthony D.
name: Mansour, Sarah C.
name: De La Fuente-Núñez, César
name: Hancock, R. E. W. (Robert E. W.)
name: Fairfull-Smith, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: As bacterial biofilms are often refractory to conventional antimicrobials, the need for alternative and/or novel strategies for the treatment of biofilm related infections has become of paramount importance. Herein, we report the synthesis of novel hybrid molecules comprised of two different hindered nitroxides linked to the piperazinyl secondary amine of ciprofloxacin via a tertiary amine linker achieved utilising reductive amination. The corresponding methoxyamine derivatives were prepared alongside their radical-containing counterparts as controls. Subsequent biological evaluation of the hybrid compounds on preformed P. aeruginosa flow cell biofilms divulged significant dispersal and eradication abilities for ciprofloxacin-nitroxide hybrid compound 10 (up to 95% eradication of mature biofilms at 40 μM). Importantly, these hybrids represent the first dual-action antimicrobial-nitroxide agents, which harness the dispersal properties of the nitroxide moiety to circumvent the well-known resistance of biofilms to treatment with antimicrobial agents.
Asienhaus-Bibliothek: Neueingänge
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien
Hardware-in-the-loop for automotive applications.
Creators: name: Vacca, Fabio
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: The research of this thesis focuses on the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) assessment of proof-of-concept automotive systems. Two main applications are investigated: i) hybridised drivetrains; and ii) novel wheel slip controllers for anti-lock braking systems (ABS) applications. The activities related to the assessment of proof-of-concept transmissions involve preliminary simulations and experimental evaluation of novel transmission prototypes for high performance passenger cars. A model-based approach is used to analyse the main power loss contributions of a baseline case study transmission. The newly developed hybridised transmission offers comparable performance (i.e. smooth acceleration profile during gearshift events), addressing comfort requirements. The experimental activity showed the efficiency improvements due to the mechanical layout of the new hybridised transmission. The benefits deriving by the hybridisation are also assessed through simulations carried out considering alternative proof-of-concept transmission layouts and an on-line implementable energy management strategy (A-ECMS). Other examples of hybridization layouts are also reported, i.e., the very recently developed hybrid rear axle module (HRAM). Furthermore, because of its “modular” nature, the device can be equipped with advanced mechanical systems which allow a left-to-right torque distribution. The wheel slip controller assessment on a HIL test rig setup involves an electro-hydraulic braking (EHB) unit. Because of their decoupled nature, EHBs offer independent and continuous modulation of the pressure levels at the four corners of the vehicle. For this test case, the HIL methodology is employed to quantify the performance benefits deriving from a PID-based wheel slip controller and a more advanced control strategy such as an explicit non-linear model predictive controller (eNMPC). The eNMPC performs better with respect the PID-based wheel slip controller on different test case scenarios. The results obtained during the development process have proven the effectiveness of the presented devices.
Neues aus dem Asienhaus
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien
Nachhaltig und nachvollziehbar — Ein Plädoyer für ein "Mehrwegsystem" bei Daten der Energieforschung
Creators: name: Boelter, Sarah
name: Meyer, Romy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Forschungsdatenmanagement
FDM
RET.Con 2025
Mehrwegsystem
Forschungsdaten
Datenmanagement
FAIR-Prinzipien
Nachnutzung
Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis
Datenpublikation
Datenmanagementplan
DMP

description: Dieser Beitrag wirbt für die Idee eines „Mehrwegsystems“ von Forschungsdaten der Energie(system)forschung, welches im Sinne einer Kreislaufwirtschaft auf eine effiziente und nachhaltige Nutzung von Daten abzielt. Ein durchdachtes Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) ermöglicht gut strukturierte Daten, was die Chancen für deren Nachnutzung erhöht, sofern die Daten im Sinne der FAIR-Prinzipien veröffentlicht werden. Die Wiederverwendung vorhandener Forschungsdaten folgt dem Primat der Da-tensparsamkeit und schont damit Energie und Ressourcen. Auch interdisziplinäre Vorhaben können von den Daten der Energie(system)forschung profitieren, da an und mit ihnen neue Forschungsfragen entwickelt werden können. Damit die Daten nachhaltig und nachnutzbar sind, bedarf es einer voraus-schauenden Planung und sorgfältigen Dokumentation der Daten. Ein Blick auf verschiedene Aspekte des FDM soll Lösungsansätze liefern.

Diese Präsentation wurde bei der 8. Regenerative Energietechnik Konferenz in Nordhausen (RET.Con 2025) am 14. Februar 2025 gehalten. Der gleichnamige Artikel wurde im Konferenzband veröffentlicht.

Das Projekt FDM-HAWK (Förderkennzeichen 16FDFH107A-D) ist vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefördert und von der Europäsischen Union NextGenerationEU finanziert.
Lesen, Abonnieren, Zustiften – Helfen Sie der Zeitschrift und der Stiftung!
Creators: name: Fritsche, Klaus
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Seit nun schon 23 Jahren stellt die Zeitschrift südostasien Hintergründe über Entwicklungen in Südostasien bereit. Sie informiert über soziale und ökologische Entwicklungen, tritt ein für die Stärkung der Menschenrechte und macht bei uns sonst kaum gehörte Stimmen aus Asien bekannt. Wie andere Zeitschriften, die einen Beitrag für mehr internationale Gerechtigkeit leisten wollen, kämpft auch die südostasien mit zurückgehenden Abonnentenzahlen und finanziellen Engpässen. Sie können durch Abonnentenwerbung oder eine Zustiftung helfen, die Situation zu stabilisieren.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien
Nachhaltig und nachvollziehbar — Ein Plädoyer für ein "Mehrwegsystem" bei Daten der Energieforschung
Creators: name: Boelter, Sarah
name: Meyer, Romy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Forschungsdatenmanagement
FDM
RET.Con 2025
Mehrwegsystem
Forschungsdaten
Datenmanagement
FAIR-Prinzipien
Nachnutzung
Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis
Datenpublikation
Datenmanagementplan
DMP

description: Dieser Beitrag wirbt für die Idee eines „Mehrwegsystems“ von Forschungsdaten der Energie(system)forschung, welches im Sinne einer Kreislaufwirtschaft auf eine effiziente und nachhaltige Nutzung von Daten abzielt. Ein durchdachtes Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) ermöglicht gut strukturierte Daten, was die Chancen für deren Nachnutzung erhöht, sofern die Daten im Sinne der FAIR-Prinzipien veröffentlicht werden. Die Wiederverwendung vorhandener Forschungsdaten folgt dem Primat der Da-tensparsamkeit und schont damit Energie und Ressourcen. Auch interdisziplinäre Vorhaben können von den Daten der Energie(system)forschung profitieren, da an und mit ihnen neue Forschungsfragen entwickelt werden können. Damit die Daten nachhaltig und nachnutzbar sind, bedarf es einer voraus-schauenden Planung und sorgfältigen Dokumentation der Daten. Ein Blick auf verschiedene Aspekte des FDM soll Lösungsansätze liefern.

Diese Präsentation wurde bei der 8. Regenerative Energietechnik Konferenz in Nordhausen (RET.Con 2025) am 14. Februar 2025 gehalten. Der gleichnamige Artikel wurde im Konferenzband veröffentlicht.

Das Projekt FDM-HAWK (Förderkennzeichen 16FDFH107A-D) ist vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefördert und von der Europäsischen Union NextGenerationEU finanziert.

 

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Hat Alexander Horstmann meinen Artikel gelesen?
Creators: name: Nelson, Michael H.
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Es ist aus zwei Gründen schwierig für mich, auf Horstmanns Leserbrief zu antworten. Erstens bezieht er sich überwiegend gar nicht auf meinen Beitrag, sondern versucht, seine eigene Kompetenz zu diesem Thema in ein gutes Licht zu rücken. Zweitens stellt er eine Reihe ganz offenkundig unzutreffender Behauptungen über meinen Artikel auf, zum Beispiel die, dass Muslime als »amorphe, undifferenzierte Masse« erschienen, dass ich die Muslime »entmenschlicht« darstellte, dass ich die Muslime »in die Linie des 9/11 -Diskurses als Ungeheuer« aufbaute (dies ist nicht nur unzutreffend, sondern erfüllt den Tatbestand des groben Unfugs), oder dass ich die »malaiischen Opfer fast vollständig« ausblendete.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien
Zur Blindheit gegenüber der malaiischen Zivilgesellschaft
Creators: name: Horstmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: In der letzten Ausgabe unserer Zeitschrift (südostasien 1/2007) haben wir unter dem Titel »Das ›Feuer‹ im Süden. Thailands militante Islamisten töten weiter« einen Artikel von Michael Nelson zu den gewaltsamen Auseinandersetzungen im Süden Thailands veröffentlicht, der innerhalb des Asienhauses auf Kritik gestoßen ist. In einem Schreiben an die Redaktion formulierte Niklas Reese, derzeit im Vorstand des Philippinenbüros, eine Reihe von Kritikpunkten gegenüber den Positionen und Argumentationen von Michael Nelson. Dies nahm schließlich Alexander Horstmann, langjähriges Vorstandsmitglied der Südostasien Informationsstelle und aus eigener Forschungstätigkeit mit der Situation in Südthailand gut vertraut, zum Anlass, in einem Leserbrief an die Redaktion auf die Kritik von Niklas Resse und einige Positionen von Michael Nelson einzugehen. Wir dokumentieren im Folgenden den Leserbrief von Alexander Horstmann und die Antwort des Autors, Michael Nelson. Die Redaktion möchte sich auf jeden Fall entschuldigen, dass sie eine für den Artikel unsägliche Karikatur genommen hat.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien
"Translation from Ptolemaeus" - ink holograph, unpublished
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Authorship
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822442
subject: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/882393
subject: Literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/999953
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794

description: "Translation from Ptolemaeus", unpublished. This envelope was addressed to Elkin Mathews but had evidently been utilized by Pound. The stamp on the envelope is dated [May 4, 09] on the recto top of the envelope, "Pound Personae" is scrawled across the top in another hand. Recto: a translation of the poem copied from J. W. Mackails's translation, with one slight omission. See Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (London, Longman, Green & Co., 1906), p. 188. Verso: the poem in Greek cited as "Ptolemaeus". [Perhaps the inspiration to the epigraph of Exultations?]
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Schmidt, Verena
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (2007): Es geht heiß her! Klimawandel und Südostasien