cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Exogenous melatonin alleviates PEG-induced short-term water deficiency in maize by increasing hydraulic conductance
Creators: name: Qiao, Yujie
name: Ren, Jianhong
name: Yin, Lina
name: Liu, Yijian
name: Deng, Xiping
name: Liu, Peng
name: Wang, Shiwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Effects of melatonin (MEL) application and water deficiency stress (PEG) on the dry weight of maize seedlings in hydroponic culture. Figure S2. Effects of melatonin (MEL) application and drought stress on transpiration rate of maize seedlings in hydroponic culture.
5G Handover using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Yajnanarayana, Vijaya
name: Rydén, Henrik
name: Hévizi, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In typical wireless cellular systems, the handover mechanism involves reassigning an ongoing session handled by one cell into another. In order to support increased capacity requirement and to enable newer use cases, the next generation wireless systems will have a very dense deployment with advanced beam-forming capability. In such systems, providing a better mobility along with enhanced throughput performance requires an improved handover strategy. In this paper, we will detail a novel method for handover optimization in a 5G cellular network using reinforcement learning (RL). In contrast to the conventional method, we propose to control the handovers between base-stations (BSs) using a centralized RL agent. This agent handles the radio measurement reports from the UEs and choose appropriate handover actions in accordance with the RL framework to maximize a long-term utility. We show that the handover mechanism can be posed as a contextual multi-armed bandit problem and solve it using Q-learning method. We analyze the performance of the methods using different propagation and deployment environment and compare the results with the state-of-the-art algorithms. Results indicate a link-beam performance gain of about 0.3 to 0.7 dB for practical propagation environments.
description: 6 Pages, Accepted for publication in IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF) 2020 Conference
NATURAL GAS HYDRATES UP CLOSE: A COMPARISON OF GRAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF SAMPLES FROM MARINE AND PERMAFROST ENVIRONMENTS AS REVEALED BY CRYOGENIC SEM
Creators: name: Stern, Laura A.
name: Kirby, Stephen H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Using cryogenic SEM, we investigated the physical states of gas-hydrate-bearing samples recovered by drill core from several localities including the SE India margin (NGHP Expedition 01), Cascadia margin (IODP Leg 311), Gulf of Mexico (RV Marion Dufresne 2002), and Mackenzie River Delta (Mallik site, well 5L-38). Core material with a significant fraction of preserved hydrate has only been obtained for cryogenic SEM investigation from relatively few sites worldwide to date, yet certain consistent textural characteristics, as well as some clear differences between sites have been observed. Gas hydrate in cores recovered from Cascadia, Gulf of Mexico, and Mallik often occurs as a dense substrate with typical grain size of 30 to as large as 200 μm. The hydrate often contains a significant fraction of isolated macropores that are typically 5–100 μm in diameter and occupy 10-30 vol. % of the domain. In fine-grained sediment sections of marine samples, gas hydrate commonly forms small pods or lenses with clay platelets oriented sub-parallel around them, or as thin veins 50 to several hundred microns in thickness. In some sections, hydrate grains are delineated by a NaCl-bearing selvage that forms thin rinds along hydrate grain exteriors, presumably produced by salt exclusion during original hydrate formation. Preliminary assessment of India NGHP-01 samples shows some regions consistent with the observations described above, as well as other regions dominated by highly faceted crystals that line the walls or interior of cavities where the hydrate grows unimpeded. Here, we focus on gas hydrate grain morphology and microstructures, pore characteristics and distribution, and the nature of the hydrate/sediment grain contacts of the recovered samples, comparing them to each other and to laboratory-produced gas hydrates grown under known conditions.
title: Current-induced forces in mesoscopic systems
title: a scattering-matrix approach
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bode, Niels
name: Kusminskiy, Silvia Viola
name: Egger, Reinhold
name: Oppen, Felix Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: current-induced forces
subject: electronic transport theory
subject: nanoelectromechanical systems
subject: scattering matrix
subject: S-matrix
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: Nanoelectromechanical systems are characterized by an intimate connection between electronic and mechanical degrees of freedom. Due to the nanoscopic scale, current flowing through the system noticeably impacts upons the vibrational dynamics of the device, complementing the effect of the vibrational modes on the electronic dynamics. We employ the scattering-matrix approach to quantum transport in order to develop a unified theory of nanoelectromechanical systems out of equilibrium. For a slow mechanical mode the current can be obtained from the Landauer–Büttiker formula in the strictly adiabatic limit. The leading correction to the adiabatic limit reduces to Brouwer’s formula for the current of a quantum pump in the absence of a bias voltage. The principal results of the present paper are the scattering-matrix expressions for the current-induced forces acting on the mechanical degrees of freedom. These forces control the Langevin dynamics of the mechanical modes. Specifically, we derive expressions for the (typically nonconservative) mean force, for the (possibly negative) damping force, an effective “Lorentz” force that exists even for time-reversal-invariant systems, and the fluctuating Langevin force originating from Nyquist and shot noise of the current flow. We apply our general formalism to several simple models that illustrate the peculiar nature of the current-induced forces. Specifically, we find that in out-of-equilibrium situations the current-induced forces can destabilize the mechanical vibrations and cause limit-cycle dynamics.
Enhancing Spiritual Awareness Among Undergraduate Students: Improving Physiological Reactivity to and Recovery from Everyday Stressors
Creators: Anderson, Micheline R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: College students--Psychology
Psychophysiology
College students--Mental health
Stress (Psychology)
Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Psychological aspects
Spiritual life
Mind and body therapies

description: Chronic stress contributes to a global burden of disease that include mental illness, cardiovascular disease and early mortality. One pathway linking stress responses to health outcomes involves cardiovascular response to psychological stress. Specifically, vagal response as indexed by heart rate variability (HRV) can be used to examine autonomic processes, dysfunction of which can predict cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The competitive academic climate on undergraduate campuses and insufficient time for recreation, rest and study, combined with inadequate coping skills can equate to consistent stressors that lead to subsequent stress and psychopathology among college students. Research demonstrates that reduced HRV can be observed among students during exam time, whereas increased HRV is observed in times of rest, suggesting that academic stress contributes to real-time physiological changes that, when prolonged, can be pathogenic in nature. Interventions aimed at influencing these processes via relaxation or other mind-body approaches have shown that enhancing meta-cognitive skills and other coping strategies have proven helpful in both improving perceived stress and psychological distress as well as improving HRV when compared with controls. This study investigates potential positive physiological effects of an eight-week Spiritual-Mind-Body (SMB) intervention, Awakened Awareness for Adolescents (AA-A), for undergraduate students. Specifically, we explore changes in HRV during resting, stress and recovery phases before and after the eight-week intervention. Additionally, we examine the association between change in self-report on measures of personal spirituality and psychological variables (pre-post AA-A), and changes across a host of HRV indices. Results include improvements in HRV recovery from stress and that a process of spiritual recovery is associated with these changes. SMB interventions that aim to improve spiritual and psychological functioning may promote psychophysiological resilience from stress.
Causal orders, quantum circuits and spacetime: distinguishing between definite and superposed causal orders
Creators: name: Paunkovic, Nikola
name: Vojinovic, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the notion of causal orders for the cases of (classical and quantum) circuits and spacetime events. We show that every circuit can be immersed into a classical spacetime, preserving the compatibility between the two causal structures. Using the process matrix formalism, we analyse the realisations of the quantum switch using 4 and 3 spacetime events in classical spacetimes with fixed causal orders, and the realisation of a gravitational switch with only 2 spacetime events that features superpositions of different gravitational field configurations and their respective causal orders. We show that the current quantum switch experimental implementations do not feature superpositions of causal orders between spacetime events, and that these superpositions can only occur in the context of superposed gravitational fields. We also discuss a recently introduced operational notion of an event, which does allow for superpositions of respective causal orders in flat spacetime quantum switch implementations. We construct two observables that can distinguish between the quantum switch realisations in classical spacetimes, and gravitational switch implementations in superposed spacetimes. Finally, we discuss our results in the light of the modern relational approach to physics.
description: 18 pages + Appendices
VLBI Observations of Water Masers in the Circumstellar Envelope of IRC+60169
Creators: name: Sudou, H.
name: Omodaka, T.
name: Imai, H.
name: Sasao, T.
name: Takaba, H.
name: Nishio, M.
name: Hasegawa, W.
name: Nakajima, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Water masers around an AGB star, IRC+60169, were observed at four epochs using the Japanese VLBI networks. The distribution of the maser features is limited in a thick-shell region, which has inner and outer expansion velocities of 7 km/s and 14 km/s at radii of 25 mas and 120 mas, respectively. The distribution of the red-shifted features exhibits a ring-like structure, the diameter of which is 30 mas, and corresponds to the inner radius of the maser shell. This implies that dense gas around the star obscures red-shifted emission. Although a position--radial velocity diagram for the maser features is consistent with a spherical shell model, the relative proper motions do not indicate an expansion motion of the shell. A remarkable property has been found that is a possible periodic change of the alignment pattern of water maser spots.
description: 9 pages including 7 figures, to appear in PASJ, Vol. 54, No. 5
Enhancing the Interpretation of Sites on the Silk Roads: A Study of Shaanxi Province
Creators: Zhang, Xuechun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Historic preservation
Cultural property
Heritage tourism

description: As the initial section of the Silk Roads, Chang¡¯an-Tianshan Corridor, being inscribed as World Heritage in 2014, the interpretation issue of its associated properties has been more and more pressing because of the predictable growing number of tourists both domestic and overseas. Since the future visitors are not likely to travel the entirety of the extremely broad roads network, it is of great importance that a given site conveys the connection between the individual sites and the larger routes network, helping audiences construct a deeper understanding of the invaluable Silk Roads heritage. However, it is observed that some obvious deficiencies do exist in the current interpretive scheme so that the underlying connections can not be perceived by visitors completely and effectively. Recognizing these issues, the intent of this thesis is to analyze the existing problems thoroughly and find out the possible interventions to enhance the interpretation of relevant sites on the Silk Roads. In light of the large scale of the Silk Roads, the research mainly focuses on its eastern starting points, Shaanxi Province (the ancient Chang¡¯an City and its surrounding area) and its seven inscribed properties, which include two sites of ancient palace, four religious sites, and one tomb. Through documentation and assessment, their current conditions of interpretation are investigated and discussed. In addition, the three case studies of different categories are selected; surveys and interviews were conducted for further data collection. Based on the results of field research, a synthesized analysis of Shaanxi Silk Roads sites is generated and a regional interpretation framework is developed. To better illustrate the feasible interventions for each site, the specific proposals for the three case studies are presented and elaborated in detail to be served as references for other sites on the Silk Roads.
Adsorption mechanism and valency of catechol-functionalized hyperbranched polyglycerols
Creators: name: Krysiak, Stefanie
name: Wei, Qiang
name: Rischka, Klaus
name: Hartwig, Andreas
name: Haag, Rainer
name: Hugel, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: adhesion
subject: atomic force microscopy
subject: catechol
subject: hyperbranched polyglycerols
subject: valency
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie

description: Nature often serves as a model system for developing new adhesives. In aqueous environments, mussel-inspired adhesives are promising candidates. Understanding the mechanism of the extraordinarily strong adhesive bonds of the catechol group will likely aid in the development of adhesives. With this aim, we study the adhesion of catechol-based adhesives to metal oxides on the molecular level using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The comparison of single catechols (dopamine) with multiple catechols on hyperbranched polyglycerols (hPG) at various pH and dwell times allowed us to further increase our understanding. In particular, we were able to elucidate how to achieve strong bonds of different valency. It was concluded that hyperbranched polyglycerols with added catechol end groups are promising candidates for durable surface coatings.
title: Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
title: Zwerg-Alpenrose (Rhodothamnus chamaecistus)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 3 Bilder der Zwerg-Alpenrose.
Brulleia latiannulata
Creators: name: Braet, Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Brulleia
Brulleia latiannulata

description: Brulleia latiannulata (Cameron, 1911)
 Cenocoellius latiannulatus Cameron, 1911: 236 – Shenefelt 1970: 181.
 Brulleia latiannulata van Achterberg 1980: 211 – 1983: 294.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED — Female (IRSNB), Papua New Guinea. Papouasia-New-Guinea (Sic!), Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.732698,145.2556) 700 m, 08-09/11/2012, leg Keltim, Uma, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 2, understorey, Malaise, MAL-MW0700B-15/16-d15. Female (MNHN),Province Madang,Wanang 3 station (-5.22767,145.0797) 175 m, 13-14/09/2012,leg Basset,Plot 3,understorey;Malaise - MAL-WAN03-D07.
 DISTRIBUTION — Papua New Guinea. Previously known from Bivak Eiland (= Bivouac Island on the Undir River), Sarawaged Mountains (500 m), Laea Zdnag Road (200 m), Busu River (20 m), Gerit River (650 m).
 Brulleia melanocephala Szépligeti, 1904: 150 – Shenefelt 1970: 190.
 Cenocoelius annulicornis Cameron, 1911: 245 – Shenefelt 1970: 180; van Achterberg 1980: 210, 1983: 293.
 Brulleia melanocephala Shenefelt, 1970: 190.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED — Female (IRSNB), Papua New Guinea. Papouasia-New-Guinea (Sic!), Province Madang, Wanang 3 station (-5.722767,145.0797) 175 m, 23-24/11/2012, leg Basset, Plot 1, understorey,Malaise, MAL-WAN01-D06 P4905 932 YPT.
 DISTRIBUTION — Papua New Guinea. Previously known from Bivak Eiland (= Bivouac Island on the Undir River), Baiyer River.
description: Published as part of Braet, Yves, 2016, New species and new records of Betylobraconinae, Braconinae, Cheloninae, Helconinae and Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Papua New Guinea, pp. 407-450 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 209 on pages 447-448
Topology of energy surfaces and existence of transversal Poincaré sections
Creators: name: Bolsinov, Alexey
name: Dullin, Holger R.
name: Wittek, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two questions on the topology of compact energy surfaces of natural two degrees of freedom Hamiltonian systems in a magnetic field are discussed. We show that the topology of this 3-manifold (if it is not a unit tangent bundle) is uniquely determined by the Euler characteristic of the accessible region in configuration space. In this class of 3-manifolds for most cases there does not exist a transverse and complete Poincaré section. We show that there are topological obstacles for its existence such that only in the cases of $S^1\times S^2$ and $T^3$ such a Poincaré section can exist.
description: 10 pages, LaTex
title: Loiseleuria procumbens
title: Gemsheide (Loiseleuria procumbens)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 8 Bilder der Gemsheide.
Enlargement of Filtration and the Strict Local Martingale Property in Stochastic Differential Equations
Creators: Dandapani, Aditi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Stochastic differential equations
subject: Martingales (Mathematics)
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this thesis, we study the strict local martingale property of solutions of various types of stochastic differential equations and the effect of an initial expansion of the filtration on this property. For the models we consider, we either use existing criteria or, in the case where the stochastic differential equation has jumps, develop new criteria that can can detect the presence of the strict local martingale property. We develop deterministic sufficient conditions on the drift and diffusion coefficient of the stochastic process such that an enlargement by initial expansion of the filtration can produce a strict local martingale from a true martingale. We also develop a way of characterizing the martingale property in stochastic volatility models where the local martingale has a general diffusion coefficient.
title: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
title: Immergrüne Bärentraube (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 5 Bilder der Immergrünen Bärentraube.
Minimality of the data in wavelet filters
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Palle E. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46L60, 47D25, 42A16, 43A65 (Primary); 33C45, 42C10, 94A12, 46L45, 42A65, 41A15 (Secondary)

description: Orthogonal wavelets, or wavelet frames, for L^2(R) are associated with quadrature mirror filters (QMF). The latter constitute a set of complex numbers which relate the dyadic scaling of functions on R to the Z-translates, and which satisfy the QMF-axioms. In this paper, we show that generically, the data in the QMF-systems of wavelets is minimal, in the sense that it cannot be nontrivially reduced. The minimality property is given a geometric formulation in the Hilbert space l^2(Z), and it is then shown that minimality corresponds to irreducibility of a wavelet representation of the algebra O_2; and so our result is that this family of representations of O_2 on the Hilbert space l^2(Z) is irreducible for a generic set of values of the parameters which label the wavelet representations.
description: LaTeX2e amsart class; 69 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures, 12 pages of plots (total 162 EPS graphics); full-resolution EPS graphics available at ftp://ftp.math.uiowa.edu/pub/jorgen/MinimalityWavelet Changes: correction in Theorem 5.9 and its proof; some added implications and clarifications; slightly more condensed, with an expanded introduction and more graphics in a smaller format. Accepted for publication in Advances in Mathematics
title: Sedum alpestre
title: Alpen-Mauerpfeffer (Sedum alpestre)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Alpen-Fetthenne
subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 10 Bilder des Alpen-Mauerpfeffers.
Noncanonical Quantization of Gravity. I. Foundations of Affine Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Klauder, John R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the classical canonical phase-space variables for gravity suggests that the associated quantum field operators should obey affine commutation relations rather than canonical commutation relations. Prior to the introduction of constraints, a primary kinematical representation is derived in the form of a reproducing kernel and its associated reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Constraints are introduced following the projection operator method which involves no gauge fixing, no complicated moduli space, nor any auxiliary fields. The result, which is only qualitatively sketched in the present paper, involves another reproducing kernel with which inner products are defined for the physical Hilbert space and which is obtained through a reduction of the original reproducing kernel. Several of the steps involved in this general analysis are illustrated by means of analogous steps applied to one-dimensional quantum mechanical models. These toy models help in motivating and understanding the analysis in the case of gravity.
description: minor changes, LaTeX, 37 pages, no figures
Internationalisierungsaktivitäten an der HSA FHNW. Handlungsfelder orientiert am Bedarf der Studierenden
Creators: name: Gawron, Marisa
name: Sibold, Judith
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Internationalisierungsaktivitäten
subject: Auslandssemester
subject: Studierendenmobilität
subject: Globalisierung
subject: Internationalisierung
subject: Studierendenperspektive
subject: Innovation
subject: 360 - Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

description: Die Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW betrachtet Internationalisierung als Chance, um neue Perspektiven und Handlungsansätze zu generieren und das International Office (IO) berät Studierende bzgl. Internationalisierungsaktivitäten. Da das Interesse an Auslandsmobilitäten bei den Studierenden bescheiden zu sein scheint, erteilte das Hochschulzentrum den Auftrag eine Ist-Analyse bei den Bachelorstudierenden durchzuführen. So wurden qualitative Fokusgruppengespräche mit Studierenden und eine standardisierte online-Umfrage mit einem Rücklauf von 30% durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse der Ist-Analyse zeigen, dass bei den Studierenden ein grösserer Bedarf besteht als bisher angenommen, sie aber bei der Realisierung eines Auslandssemesters verschiedene Hürden erleben. Auf der Grundlage der Ist-Analyse wurden in einem partizipativen Vorgehen drei Handlungsfelder (Kommunikation, Prozessbegleitung und Vernetzung sowie «Internationalization at Home») hergeleitet und abschliessend in einem von den Studierenden validierten Konzept festgehalten. Der vorliegende Bericht gibt Einblicke in die Perspektive der Studierenden und kann davon ausgehend dazu beitragen, Internationalisierungsaktivitäten an der HSA FHNW zu stärken.
Multiplicity among chemically peculiar stars II. Cool magnetic Ap stars
Creators: name: Carrier, F.
name: North, P.
name: Udry, S.
name: Babel, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new orbits for sixteen Ap spectroscopic binaries, four of which might in fact be Am stars, and give their orbital elements. Four of them are SB2 systems: HD 5550, HD 22128, HD 56495 and HD 98088. The twelve other stars are : HD 9996, HD 12288, HD 40711, HD 54908, HD 65339, HD 73709, HD 105680, HD 138426, HD 184471, HD 188854, HD 200405 and HD 216533. Rough estimates of the individual masses of the components of HD 65339 (53 Cam) are given, combining our radial velocities with the results of speckle interferometry and with Hipparcos parallaxes. Considering the mass functions of 74 spectroscopic binaries from this work and from the literature, we conclude that the distribution of the mass ratio is the same for cool Ap stars as for normal G dwarfs. Therefore, the only differences between binaries with normal stars and those hosting an Ap star lie in the period distribution: except for the case of HD 200405, all orbital periods are longer than (or equal to) 3 days. A consequence of this peculiar distribution is a deficit of null eccentricities. There is no indication that the secondary has a special nature, like e.g. a white dwarf.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures, A&A accepted
title: Exploring Aboriginal identity through Self- portraiture
Creators: name: Beetson, Bianca Renee
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Aboriginal identity
subject: Self-portraiture
subject: Kabi Kabi
subject: Wiradjuri
subject: Kuku Ylandji
subject: Pita Pita
subject: Aboriginal femininity

description: This exegesis examines my practice through my identity as a Kabi Kabi, Wiradjuri, Kuku Ylandji and Pita Pita woman with English, Scottish and Romany Gypsy heritage. It contextualises the development of my practice from 1997 to 2017, which is the period immediately following my graduation from an undergraduate degree until now. The major focus of the exegesis, however, is on works from the last decade, when self-portraiture became a prominent part of my practice, which I explore through a variety of media: photography, performance, painting, drawing, and sculpture. To contextualise my practice, I also examine contemporary artists who utilise Indigenous frameworks to disrupt the traditions of Western portraiture. My own work uses humour and ideas of performativity as tools to positively intervene into debates about Aboriginal identity. For example, my use of the colour pink can be understood as candy coating a difficult conversation around colonisation. I also reclaim the language of the coloniser through serial portraiture and challenge ideas of Aboriginal femininity. Contributing to identity politics art, I refuse the idea of an essential self through the idea of a performative self-portrait. One of my aims is to reclaim Aboriginal agency and to decolonise the idea of the self.
Dimensionality and heat transport in Si-Ge superlattices
Creators: name: Savić, Ivana
name: Donadio, Davide
name: Gygi, Francois
name: Galli, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated how dimensionality affects heat transport in Si-Ge superlattices by computing the thermal conductivity of planar superlattices and arrays of Ge nanowires and nanodots embedded in Si. We studied superlattices with $\sim$10 nm periods using a fully atomistic Monte Carlo solution of the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation. We found that for periods larger than 4 nm, the room temperature cross-plane conductivity of planar superlattices with equally thick Si and Ge layers is larger than that of their nanowire and dot counterparts of similar sizes (up to 100\%), while the trend is reversed below 4 nm.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Jannya van Achterberg 1995
Creators: name: Braet, Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Jannya

description: Genus JANNYA van Achterberg, 1995a
 Jannya van Achterberg, 1995a: 43.
 Type species. Jannya brevitarsus van Achterberg, 1995.
description: Published as part of Braet, Yves, 2016, New species and new records of Betylobraconinae, Braconinae, Cheloninae, Helconinae and Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Papua New Guinea, pp. 407-450 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 209 on page 448
Bibliotheken 2000-2008
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Bibliotheksstatistik
subject: Freie Universität Berlin
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften

description: Inhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort 1 TABELLENTEIL Erläuterungen zu den Tabellen der Bibliotheksstatistik 6 Bestand und Ausstattung der FU-Bibliotheken Universitätsbibliothek 7 Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin (ehem. FB Humanmedizin) 8 FB Veterinärmedizin 23 FB Rechtswissenschaft 24 FB Wirtschaftswissenschaft 29 FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie 30 FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften 31 FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften 51 FB Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften 55 FB Mathematik und Informatik 65 FB Physik 66 FB Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie 67 FB Geowissenschaften 70 ZI Osteuropa-Institut 72 ZI John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien 73 ZI Lateinamerika-Institut 74 ZE zur Förderung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 75 ZE Botanischer Garten / Botanisches Museum 76 Studienkolleg für Ausländische Studierende 77 Statistische Übersichten über die Entwicklung des Bibliotheks- systems der Freien Universität Berlin seit 1985 78 Anhang 1a und 1b: Buchbestand und -zugang 1985-2008 nach FB, ZI, ZE 79 Anhang 2a und 2b: Mikromaterialienbestand und -zugang 1990-2008 nach FB, ZI, ZE 83 Anhang 3: Zeitschriftenbestand 1985-2008 nach FB, ZI, ZE 87 Anhang 4: Veränderungen im Zeitschriftenbestand 1991-2008 nach FB, ZI, ZE 89 Anhang 5: Erwerbungsetat 1985-2008 nach FB, ZI und ZE 93 Anhang 6: Bibliotheksgrößen 1985-2008 im Bibliothekssystem der Freien Universität 97 Anhang 7: Personalausstattung 1989-2008 a) Gesamtausstattung 101 b) Höherer Dienst 104 c) Gehobener Dienst 106 d) Mittlerer Dienst 108 e) Sonstige Angestellte 110 f) Studentische Hilfskräfte 112
description: Statistische Unterlagen zur Entwicklung der Bibliotheken der Freien Universität Berlin
Phenomenological Quantum Thermodynamics of Closed Bipartite Schottky Systems
Creators: name: Muschik, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How to introduce thermodynamics to quantum mechanics ? Among from numerous possibilities of solving this task, the simple choice is here: The conventional von Neumann equation deals with a density operator whose probability weights are time independent. Because there is no reason apart from the reversible quantum mechanics that these weights have to be time independent, this constraint is waived, thus making possible to introduce thermodynamical concepts to quantum mechanics. %\textcolor{green}{ This procedure is similar to that of Lindblad's equation, but different on principle. %\textcolor{red}{ But beyond this simple starting-point, the applied thermodynamical concepts of discrete systems may perform a "source theory" for other versions of phenomenological quantum thermodynamics.
description: 37 pages, Research paper, Peer revised version
Additional file 1 of Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist versus pressure support ventilation: a randomized controlled feasibility trial performed in patients at risk of prolonged mechanical ventilation
Creators: name: Hadfield, Daniel J.
name: Rose, Louise
name: Reid, Fiona
name: Cornelius, Victoria
name: Hart, Nicholas
name: Finney, Clare
name: Penhaligon, Bethany
name: Molai, Jasmine
name: Harris, Clair
name: Saha, Sian
name: Noble, Harriet
name: Clarey, Emma
name: Thompson, Leah
name: Smith, John
name: Johnson, Lucy
name: Hopkins, Phillip A.
name: Rafferty, Gerrard F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Additional methods information.
Integer Lattice Gases
Creators: name: Boghosian, Bruce M.
name: Yepez, Jeffrey
name: Alexander, Francis J.
name: Margolus, Norman H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the hydrodynamic lattice gas model to include arbitrary numbers of particles moving in each lattice direction. For this generalization we derive the equilibrium distribution function and the hydrodynamic equations, including the equation of state and the prefactor of the inertial term that arises from the breaking of galilean invariance in these models. We show that this prefactor can be set to unity in the generalized model, therby effectively restoring galilean invariance. Moreover, we derive an expression for the kinematic viscosity, and show that it tends to decrease with the maximum number of particles allowed in each direction, so that higher Reynolds numbers may be achieved. Finally, we derive expressions for the statistical noise and the Boltzmann entropy of these models.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX with six PostScript figures included using epsf
title: Therapeutic Targeting of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Creators: name: Das, Indrajit
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Endoplasmic reticulum stress
subject: Inflammatory bowel diseases
subject: Chemical chaperones
subject: Anti-inflammatory agents

description: Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress occurs when proteins misfold during biosynthesis in the ER. ER stress in intestinal secretory cells has been implicated in the aetiology of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and intestinal inflammation in mice. Intestinal secretory cells are susceptible to ER stress due to high rates of protein synthesis, and ER stress in these cells results in reduced production of cell surface and secreted proteins leading to thinner mucus with a lower anti-microbial content, allowing penetration by luminal microbes, leading to inflammation. Cells experiencing ER stress attempt to restore homeostasis via the unfolded protein response (UPR), which enables the cells to increase the protein folding capacity of the ER. The primary focus of this thesis is to examine whether the drugs that are efficacious in IBD treatment modulate goblet cell function and ER homeostasis, and whether drugs that modulate ER stress can suppress intestinal inflammation and restore intestinal homeostasis.
Maximum Entropy-Regularized Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Zhao, Rui
name: Sun, Xudong
name: Tresp, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning, an agent learns to achieve multiple goals with a goal-conditioned policy. During learning, the agent first collects the trajectories into a replay buffer, and later these trajectories are selected randomly for replay. However, the achieved goals in the replay buffer are often biased towards the behavior policies. From a Bayesian perspective, when there is no prior knowledge about the target goal distribution, the agent should learn uniformly from diverse achieved goals. Therefore, we first propose a novel multi-goal RL objective based on weighted entropy. This objective encourages the agent to maximize the expected return, as well as to achieve more diverse goals. Secondly, we developed a maximum entropy-based prioritization framework to optimize the proposed objective. For evaluation of this framework, we combine it with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient, both with or without Hindsight Experience Replay. On a set of multi-goal robotic tasks of OpenAI Gym, we compare our method with other baselines and show promising improvements in both performance and sample-efficiency.
description: Published in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), Long Beach, USA. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.08039
title:  Gradient-Based Tradeoff Design for Engineering Applications
Creators: name: Royster, Lena Alexis
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This research presents a formal method for gradient based tradeoff design including methods that extend to cases with singularities and cases with more performance characteristics then design variables. The goal is to find revised design variables that can achieve the targeted performance characteristics and remove any violations to the constraint functions. The tradeoff design problem is formulation in the framework of the Sequential Quadratic Programming and is solved using the gradient based method. The optimal solution is the search direction, s, which represents the most effective way to reduce the current objective and correct the current violation. In this research the search direction is broken up into two parts, 𝒔1 and 𝒔2. Where 𝒔1 can reduce the objective function or functions without changing the value of the constraints and 𝒔2 is responsible to reduce the constraint violations. Additionally, a scalar factor 𝛼 is introduced in the search direction to produce a search direction that can achieve the targeted change in the objective function. This paper presents a new method to calculate alpha to adjust the cost function instead of reducing the penalized objective function. The details of the mathematical formulation are presented and discussed here, along with three design examples. The first demonstrative example is the design of a cubic box, the second is a control problem with three targeted eigenvalues, and the third is the design of an I-beam. The design examples demonstrate and validate the use of single objective approach, the constraint only approach and the multi-objective approach. These examples also show that smaller changes produce better results, an iterative process can achieve more accurate results, additional performance characteristics can be added during the design process, methods for handle cases with linearly dependent constraint functions, and, finally, methods for handling cases with more performance characteristics then design variables. Additionally, the third example includes the use of a finite element method demonstrating that this method can be extended to finite element applications.
Upper critical fields in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal trilayers
Creators: name: Robbins, Kelsey B.
name: Sedai, Pukar
name: Howzen, Alexandra J.
name: Klaes, Robert M.
name: Loloee, Reza
name: Birge, Norman O.
name: Satchell, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of spin orbit interaction in superconducting proximity effect is an area of intense research effort. Recent theoretical and experimental works investigate the possible role of spin-orbit interaction in generating spin-triplet pair correlations. In this work, we present an experimental survey of thin normal metal-superconductor-normal metal trilayers with Nb superconductor and Al, Ti, Cu, Pt, Ta, and Au normal metals, along with single layers of Nb as reference. We aim to probe the role of spin-orbit interaction and resistivity on the normal metal proximity effect through measurements of the upper critical field. We find that the upper critical fields of the trilayers are lower than that of a single layer Nb reference sample, and that the trilayers with higher resistivity metals, Ti, Pt, and Ta, behave as 2-dimensional superconductors. At low applied in-plane magnetic fields and temperatures close to the zero field transition temperature, we find a possible deviation from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional behavior in the Ti and Pt trilayers. We also find that compared to single layer Nb films, all of our trilayers show a greater suppression of critical temperature during rotation from an in-plane to an out-of-plane applied magnetic field, with the greatest suppression observed in trilayers with Au or Al. This suppression of the critical temperature under field rotation might appear analogous to the colossal spin valve effect that can be achieved in systems with ferromagnetic materials; however, in our trilayers, only conventional orbital screening contributions to the suppression are present and the additional suppression is not present in the absence of applied magnetic field.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
title: Income in Jeopardy
title: How Losing Employment Affects the Willingness to Take Risks
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hetschko, Clemens
name: Preuss, Malte
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in previous hourly wage, begins to manifest itself as soon as an employee perceives the threat of job loss and is of a transitory nature. The change in stated risk attitude matches observable job finding behaviour, confirming the behavioural validity of our results.
title: Biochar Characteristics and Effects on Phosphorus Availability and Dynamics in Tropical Soils
Creators: name: Zhang, Hanzhi
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Phosphorus
subject: Biochar
subject: Peanut shell as biochar
subject: Sugarcane as biochar
subject: Soils, Tropical areas

description: Phosphorus (P) is a limiting nutrient for crops in many parts of the world, especially in the tropics, due to low P availability in soils. Biochar has attracted increasing attention as a potential soil conditioner, due to its ability to increase P availability in soils. However, how biochar contributes to P availability and influences P transformation in soils is largely unknown. This PhD research project (a) investigated changes in biochar characteristics as a function of feedstock type and pyrolysis temperature, including biochar chemical composition and structures; (b) assessed P availability in four biochar thermosequences and P transformation during pyrolysis using a sequential extraction scheme in combination with 31P NMR studies; (c) assessed the ability of different biochars to retain phosphate and investigated corresponding retention mechanisms, and (d) investigated effects of biochar amendments on P availability and transformation in tropical soils under precisely-controlled laboratory conditions, over a short time period (12 weeks), and under field conditions over a longer time period (≥1 years).
Structural insights into the light-driven auto-assembly process of the water- oxidizing Mn4CaO5-cluster in photosystem II
Creators: name: Zhang, Miao
name: Bommer, Martin
name: Chatterjee, Ruchira
name: Hussein, Rana
name: Yano, Junko
name: Dau, Holger
name: Kern, Jan
name: Dobbek, Holger
name: Zouni, Athina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::500 Naturwissenschaften

description: In plants, algae and cyanobacteria, Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the light- driven splitting of water at a protein-bound Mn4CaO5-cluster, the water- oxidizing complex (WOC). In the photosynthetic organisms, the light-driven formation of the WOC from dissolved metal ions is a key process because it is essential in both initial activation and continuous repair of PSII. Structural information is required for understanding of this chaperone-free metal-cluster assembly. For the first time, we obtained a structure of PSII from Thermosynechococcus elongatus without the Mn4CaO5-cluster. Surprisingly, cluster-removal leaves the positions of all coordinating amino acid residues and most nearby water molecules largely unaffected, resulting in a pre- organized ligand shell for kinetically competent and error-free photo-assembly of the Mn4CaO5-cluster. First experiments initiating (i) partial disassembly and (ii) partial re-assembly after complete depletion of the Mn4CaO5-cluster agree with a specific bi-manganese cluster, likely a di-µ-oxo bridged pair of Mn(III) ions, as an assembly intermediate.
title: ‘Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation’
title: Using a Mixed-Methods Approach to Explore Changes in Adolescent Well-Being across Several European Countries
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Cosma, Alina
name: Belic, Jelisaveta
name: Blecha, Ondrej
name: Fenski, Friederike
name: Lo, Man Y.
name: Murar, Filip
name: Petrovic, Darija
name: Stella, Maria T.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: adolescence
subject: mental well-being
subject: time trends
subject: mixed methods study
subject: HBSC
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: The promotion of positive mental health is a becoming priority worldwide. Despite all the efforts invested in preventive and curative work, it is estimated that one in four persons will experience a mental health condition at some point in their lives. Even more worrying is the fact that up to a half of all mental health problems have their onset before the age of 14. Recent statistics (national and international surveys, meta-analyses, international reports) point out to the fact that child and adolescent mental health problems are on the rise. The present study will try to corroborate these results and further explore their meaning, by employing a sequential mixed methods research design (quantitative–qualitative). The quantitative part will analyze time trends using Health Behaviors in School-aged Children data (four survey cycles: 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) on mental well-being from four European countries (the Czechia, Germany, Italy, and United Kingdom). The qualitative part will rely on focus groups to explore the perspectives of 13- and 15-year- old boys and girls on gender differences and on the changes in adolescent mental well-being over time, as well as measures through which these issues could be addressed. Thematic analysis will be employed to analyze qualitative data. The results of this study could make a major contribution to our understanding of the current trends in adolescent mental well-being, as well as the ways in which existing data could be linked to international and national health policies.