cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Differences in health insurance, employment prospects and health service use
title: evidence from longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of U.S. legal permanent residents
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kibibi, Niclette Ilibagiza
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2023
Subjects: employment prospect
healthcare access
healthcare utilization
Immigration health
job skill
public abstract
Health Insurance

description: Compared to people born in the U.S., immigrants generally are employed in low quality and low paying jobs that do not offer health insurance. They are also known to not have a set place where they can get routine treatment. This is troubling because it suggests that immigrants are more likely to be poor and less likely to receive crucial preventative care to sustain long term health. However, some have backgrounds, such as high education, income, job trainings and legal documentation that help them overcome challenges in accessing good employment and healthcare. In this study, I wanted to know if differences in immigrants’ visa types affect their chance of getting health insurance, employment, and treatment from an inpatient or outpatient facility. I also wanted to know if immigrants doing jobs that require different skill levels have different chances of getting health insurance. I found that the type of visa an immigrant has can affect opportunities of getting insurance, employment and getting treated at both inpatient and outpatient centers. Health insurance was an important contributor to whether immigrants with different visas received treatment. Immigrants with the diversity visa were least likely to access these resources, thus, should be prioritized when intervening. Working in either medium or low skill jobs reduced chances of getting health insurance. This knowledge can help lawmakers better understand the immigrant population and their unique needs. Lawmakers can reference these results to decide whether to remove laws that prevent certain groups of immigrants from accessing healthcare and employment.
title: Selective or stepwise removal of deep caries in deciduous molars
title: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schwendicke, Falk
name: Schweigel, Hardy
name: Petrou, Marina Agathi
name: Santamaria, Ruth
name: Hopfenmüller, Werner
name: Finke, Christian
name: Paris, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background For treating deep caries lesions, selective or stepwise (one- and two-step) incomplete excavation seems advantageous compared with complete caries removal. However, current evidence regarding the success, as defined by not requiring any retreatments, or survival of teeth after different excavations is insufficient for definitive recommendation, especially when treating deciduous teeth. Moreover, restoration integrity has not been comparatively analyzed longitudinally, and neither patients’, dentists’ or parents’ preferences nor the clinical long-term costs emanating from both initial and retreatments have been reported yet. Methods/Design The planned study is a prospective multicenter, two-arm parallel group, randomized controlled clinical trial comparing selective and stepwise excavation in deciduous molars with deep, active caries lesions without pulpal symptoms. We will recruit 300 children aged between three and nine-years-old with a minimum of one such molar. Patients participating in another study, or those with systemic diseases, disabilities or known allergies to used materials as well patients with teeth expected to exfoliate within the next 18 months will be excluded. After inclusion, sequence generation will be performed. Initial treatment will follow dental routine. During excavation, leathery, moist and reasonably soft dentin will be left in proximity to the pulp followed by adhesive restoration of the cavity. Afterwards, patients’, dentists’ and parents’ subjective assessment of the treatment will be recorded using visual analogue or Likert scales. Re-examination will be performed after six months, and only then teeth will be allocated to one of the two interventions. Selectively excavated teeth will not be treated further, whilst for stepwise caries removal, a second excavation will be performed until only hard dentin remains. Clinical re-evaluations will be performed after 12, 24 and 36 months. Restorations will be reassessed using modified Ryge criteria. Objectively or subjectively required retreatments will determine success and survival. Retreatments will be evaluated both subjectively and regarding generated costs. Discussion Based on the results of the trial, decision-making for treating deep caries lesions in deciduous molars based on multiple criteria should be feasible.
3778676.pdf
Creators: name: Karimi, Ebrahim
name: Nejadsattari, Farshad
name: Zhang, Yingwen
name: Bouchard, Frederic
name: Larocque, Hugo
name: Sit, Alicia
name: Cohen, Eliahu
name: Fickler, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
title: Weiterentwicklung des Umweltzeichens Blauer Engel, Rahmenvorhaben 2014- 2018
title: Weiterentwicklung des Umweltzeichens Blauer Engel, Rahmenvorhaben 2014- 2018
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jepsen, Dirk
name: Spengler, Laura
name: Wirth, Olaf
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Produktkennzeichnung
subject: Umweltzeichen
subject: Blauer Engel
subject: Vergabekriterien
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Forschungsvorhabens unterstützten die Forschungsnehmer das Umweltbundesamt bei der Weiterentwicklung von Vergabegrundlagen für das Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel sowie bei der weiteren strategischen Ausrichtung des Blauer Engel Programms. Hierzu wurden von Ökopol und Hydrotox in insgesamt neun unterschiedlichen Bereichen bestehende Vergabegrundlagen überprüft oder die Machbarkeit neuer Umweltkennzeichnungen untersucht. Im Ergebnis wurde für "Rücknahmesysteme für Mobiltelefone" ein neues Umweltzeichen entwickelt und es erfolgten z. T. sehr grundlegende Überarbeitungen der Vergabegrundlagen für "Bürogeräte mit Druckfunktion", "Textilien", "biologisch abbaubare Schmierstoffe und Hydraulikflüssigkeiten", "Produkte aus Recycling-Kunststoffen" sowie für "Schuhe und Einlegesohlen". Darüber hinaus wurde eine Handreichung für Antragssteller zum Umweltzeichen "Druckerzeugnisse" entwickelt und die Machbarkeit eines Baukastenkonzeptes für den Blauen Engel untersucht. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Within the framework of the present research project, the consultants supported the Federal Environment Agency in the further development of the award criteria for the Blue Angel eco-label and in the further strategic orientation of the Blue Angel program. In a total of nine different areas, Ökopol and Hydrotox reviewed existing award criteria or examined the feasibility of new environmental labels. As a result, a new eco-label was developed for "Take-back systems for mobile phones" and some very fundamental revisions were made to the award criteria for "Office equipment with printing function", "Textiles", "Biodegradable lubricants and hydraulic fluids", "Products made of recycled plastics" and "shoes and insoles". In addition, a handbook for applicants for the eco-label "Printed matter" developed and the feasibility of a modular concept for the Blue Angel investigated. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Zur Entwicklung und Überarbeitung von Vergabekriterien für das Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel wurden von Ökopol und Hydrotox als Auftragnehmern verschiedene Produktgruppen untersucht. Die Vergabekriterien zu Rücknahmesystemen für Mobiltelefone wurden neu entwickelt. Darüber hinaus wurden folgende Vergabekriterien überarbeitet: Produkte aus Recyclingkunststoffen, Textilen, Bürogeräte mit Druckfunktion, biologisch abbaubare Schmierstoffe. Weiterhin wurde eine Handreichung zu Druckerzeugnissen und eine Machbarkeit für ein Baukastensystem beim Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel erarbeitet. Neben diesem Übersichtsband stehen die Hintergrundberichte für Produkte aus Recyclingkunststoffen, Textilen und Rücknahmesysteme für Mobiltelefone als eigene Veröffentlichung zur Verfügung.
National crime prevention strategies for Japan: Implications of scientific knowledge and international guidelines
Creators: name: Yoshioka, Takeko
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: This thesis identifies what Japan could do to implement effective crime prevention nationally. It analyzes (1) official reports and announcements from the government and mass media reports in Japan (Chapter 2); (2) scientific analyses of crime prevention programs and policing that have influenced governments and policies in other countries (Chapter 3 and 4); (3) international guidelines (Chapter 5), and (4) a preliminary assessment of the implementation of effective crime prevention in the United Kingdom (Chapter 6). It makes eight recommendations for Japan. The official crime reports in Japan have reported a rapid increase in overall crime rates. The government continues to use situational crime prevention and police. However, the causes of crime can only be tackled by social policy. Scientific evaluation in other countries emphasizes that a multi-sector approach is essential to tackle problems in family, school and community. Review of the effectiveness of policing particularly in the United Kingdom shows that modern policing does not reduce crime while partnership with other agencies and strong police leadership for reform would. Guidelines by the United Nations and the World Health Organization recommend a permanent national responsibility center for crime prevention and a systematic implementation cycle where there are 4 stages; analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Dynamic Support Culture of Murine Skeletal Muscle-Derived Stem Cells Improves Their Cardiogenic Potential In Vitro
Creators: name: Neef, Klaus
name: Treskes, Philipp
name: Xu, Guoxing
name: Drey, Florian
name: Srinivasan, Sureshkumar Perumal
name: Saric, Tomo
name: Nembo, Erastus
name: Semmler, Judith
name: Nguemo, Filomain
name: Stamm, Christof
name: Cowan, Douglas B.
name: Deppe, Antje-Christin
name: Scherner, Maximilian
name: Wittwer, Thorsten
name: Hescheler, Jürgen
name: Wahlers, Thorsten
name: Choi, Yeong-Hoon
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Ischemic heart disease is the main cause of death in western countries and its burden is increasing worldwide. It typically involves irreversible degeneration and loss of myocardial tissue leading to poor prognosis and fatal outcome. Autologous cells with the potential to regenerate damaged heart tissue would be an ideal source for cell therapeutic approaches. Here, we compared different methods of conditional culture for increasing the yield and cardiogenic potential of murine skeletal muscle-derived stem cells. A subpopulation of nonadherent cells was isolated from skeletal muscle by preplating and applying cell culture conditions differing in support of cluster formation. In contrast to static culture conditions, dynamic culture with or without previous hanging drop preculture led to significantly increased cluster diameters and the expression of cardiac specific markers on the protein and mRNA level. Whole-cell patch-clamp studies revealed similarities to pacemaker action potentials and responsiveness to cardiac specific pharmacological stimuli. This data indicates that skeletal muscle- derived stem cells are capable of adopting enhanced cardiac muscle cell-like properties by applying specific culture conditions. Choosing this route for the establishment of a sustainable, autologous source of cells for cardiac therapies holds the potential of being clinically more acceptable than transgenic manipulation of cells.
title: Thematischer Umweltatlas: Medienwirksame Aufbereitung von Umweltinformationen durch Verknüpfung von räumlichen Darstellungen, Umweltdaten und Fachbeiträgen
title: Thematischer Umweltatlas: Medienwirksame Aufbereitung von Umweltinformationen durch Verknüpfung von räumlichen Darstellungen, Umweltdaten und Fachbeiträgen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Andrian-Werburg, Stefan Von
name: Buth, Mareike
name: Eichhorn, Daniel
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Stickstoff
subject: Umweltatlas
subject: Umweltinformationen
subject: bauen
subject: wohnen
subject: Haushalte
subject: Karten
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Der Bericht stellt die Ergebnisse des Vorhabens "Thematischer Umweltatlas: Medienwirksame Aufbereitung von Umweltinformationen durch Verknüpfung von räumlichen Darstellungen, Umweltdaten und Fachbeiträgen" vor. Im Vorhaben wurde ein Rahmenkonzept für einen digitalen ⁠UBA⁠-Umweltatlas ausgearbeitet. Zudem wurden zwei Pilotbausteine zu den Themen "Reaktiver Stickstoff" und "Bauen, Wohnen, Haushalte" konzipiert und exemplarisch für die Nutzung in der Berichterstattung umgesetzt. Der Bericht beleuchtet die Vorgehensweise und Arbeitsschritte, die bei der Planung, Konzeption und Umsetzung des Umweltatlas bzw. der Pilotbausteine bedeutsam waren, und zeigt Perspektiven für die Weiterentwicklung auf.
3789460.pdf
Creators: name: Leshchenko, Vyacheslav
name: Jahn, Olga
name: Tzallas, Paraskevas
name: Kessel, Alexander
name: Krüger, Mathias
name: Münzer, Andreas
name: Trushin, Sergei
name: Tsakiris, George
name: Kahaly, Subhendu
name: Kormin, Dmitrii
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: technical details on the experimental setup, data evaluation and simulations
Kant dans la Krisis : analyse du rôle et de la critique de Kant dans le discours du dernier Husserl.
Creators: name: Lapointe, Sandra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: L'enjeux de cette recherche consiste a demontrer qu'une lecture veritablement rigoureuse de la Krisis de E. Husserl interdit que l'on y fasse de l'histoire un parametre de la demarche phenomenologique proprement dite. La critique husserlienne de l'histoire, et plus particulierement celle de la philosophie kantienne, n'est d'ailleurs pas une nouveaute dans l'oeuvre du dernier Husserl, et il est absolument faux de dire que la philosophie de l'histoire prend une importance primordiale ou qu'elle se substitue a l'investigation phenomenologique. Cette recherche a pour but de d'expliquer, a l'aide d'un examen serre de la critique husserlienne de Kant a differents moments de son oeuvre et principalement dans L'idee de la phenomenologie (1907), dans les lecons de Philosophie Premiere (Erste Philosophie 1923-24) et dans la Krisis (1936-37), en quoi consiste le modele husserlien de l'histoire et quelle est sa fonction par rapport a la methode de la reduction de maniere a distinguer ce qu'on pourrit appeler "le recit de la recouverte de la Lebenswelt" (Krisis II) de l'elaboration d'une ontologie de la Lebenswelt (Krisis III). Le dernier chapitre est consacre, a la lumiere des explications fournies, a une critique des theses de David Carr a cet endroit.
Phylogeny with introgression in Habronattus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
Creators: name: Leduc-Robert, Geneviève
name: Maddison, Wayne P
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Habronattus is a diverse clade of jumping spiders with complex courtship displays and repeated evolution of Y chromosomes. A well-resolved species phylogeny would provide an important framework to study these traits, but has not yet been achieved, in part because the few genes available in past studies gave conflicting signals. Such discordant gene trees could be the result of incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) in recently diverged parts of the phylogeny, but there are indications that introgression could be a source of conflict. Results: To infer Habronattus phylogeny and investigate the cause of gene tree discordance, we assembled transcriptomes for 34 Habronattus species and 2 outgroups. The concatenated 2.41 Mb of nuclear data (1877 loci) resolved phylogeny by Maximum Likelihood (ML) with high bootstrap support (95-100%) at most nodes, with some uncertainty surrounding the relationships of H. icenoglei, H. cambridgei, H. oregonensis, and Pellenes canadensis. Species tree analyses by ASTRAL and SVDQuartets gave almost completely congruent results. Several nodes in the ML phylogeny from 12.33 kb of mitochondrial data are incongruent with the nuclear phylogeny and indicate possible mitochondrial introgression: the internal relationships of the americanus and the coecatus groups, the relationship between the altanus, decorus, banksi, and americanus group, and between H. clypeatus and the coecatus group. To determine the relative contributions of ILS and introgression, we analyzed gene tree discordance for nuclear loci longer than 1 kb using Bayesian Concordance Analysis (BCA) for the americanus group (679 loci) and the VCCR clade (viridipes/clypeatus/coecatus/roberti groups) (517 loci) and found signals of introgression in both. Finally, we tested specifically for introgression in the concatenated nuclear matrix with Patterson’s D statistics and DFOIL. We found nuclear introgression resulting in substantial admixture between americanus group species, between H. roberti and the clypeatus group, and between the clypeatus and coecatus groups. Conclusions: Our results indicate that the phylogenetic history of Habronattus is predominantly a diverging tree, but that hybridization may have been common between phylogenetically distant species, especially in subgroups with complex courtship displays.
Bodenbewusstsein - darf es noch ein bisschen mehr sein?
Creators: name: Kruse, Klaus
name: Mathews, Jeanette
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bodenschutz
Kommunikation

description: Dieser Beitrag stellt die folgende Frage in dem Mittelpunkt: "Bodenbewusstsein - Darf es noch ein bisschen mehr sein?". Wir nehmen die Antwort gleich vorweg und sagen: Ja, es muss sogar. Aber wie kann uns das gelingen? In den vergangenen Jahren fanden zahlreiche Aktionen und Aktivitäten statt, die darauf abzielen, den Boden stärker in das Blickfeld der Gesellschaft zu rücken. Gelungen ist dies vor allem durch das große ungebrochene Engagement unzähliger Akteure an unterschiedlichsten Stellen. Demgegenüber steht die Tatsache, dass Politik und Öffentlichkeit die steigenden Bodenbelastungen und Bodengefährdungen immer noch unzureichend wahrnehmen. Das belegen aktuelle Zahlen zur Flächenneuinanspruchnahme und zur Bodendegradation. Wo stehen wir also heute im Ringen um mehr Bodenbewusstsein? Auf welche Erfahrungen können wir aufbauen? Welche in den letzten Jahren entstandenen Werkzeuge und Instrumente können uns unterstützen? Wo werden wichtige Ansatzpunkte für die weitere Arbeit gesehen? In diesem Beitrag stellen wir die aus unserer Sicht bewährten sieben Schlüssel zum Erfolg vor. Quelle: https://eprints.dbges.de/
Applicability of selected stable isotopes to study the hydrodynamics and contaminant transport within mining areas in Romania and Finland
Creators: name: Papp, Delia C.
name: Călin Baciu
name: Turunen, Kaisa
name: Kittilä, Anniina
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary data: Ore deposits at mining sites in Romania and Finland
Bayesian finite mixture regression models with cluster-specific variable selection
Creators: name: Wang, Zhen
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bayesian Mixture Models
Clustering
Finite Mixtures
Gibbs Sampler
Spike-and-slab Priors
Variable Selection
public abstract

description: It's common to encounter data from heterogeneous populations. In regression problems, subpopulations may exist and differ in terms of which sets of covariates (e.g. treatment) best predict the response, their effect sizes, as well as the distribution of these covariates. When the subpopulations were unidentified or potentially dependent on unobserved variables, clustering analysis is needed conjointly with the regression analysis, for which Bayesian mixture models provide a natural framework. So far, due to computing considerations, only certain infinite mixture models including the Dirichlet process mixture models have been used in this context, though they produce inconsistent estimation of the number of clusters.
description: Our work is a first in using Bayesian finite mixture models to analyze heterogeneous regression data. Specifically, we adopt a class of priors based on the Normalized Independent Finite Point Process (NIFPP), which includes the finite Dirichlet prior as a special case. In addition, by utilizing NIFPP priors with spike-and-slab base measures, we can construct mixture models that are capable of performing cluster-specific variable selection. We prove posterior consistency for the proposed models and develop and code new MCMC algorithms for them.
description: Various ways to do posterior inference are demonstrated, such as clustering, individual profiling, and prediction. Our empirical studies demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing Bayesian and non-Bayesian methods in terms of clustering, variable selection, and prediction. Finally, we apply our model to real-world datasets to showcase its practical applications.
Factors affecting bitumen recovery from oil sands.
Creators: name: O'Carroll, Josephine B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The oil sands deposits of northern Alberta are providing more than 15 percent of Canada's petroleum requirement. To meet this demand, the modified Clark Hot Water Extraction Process (HWEP) is used to recover bitumen from surface mineable oil sands. Several ore components that can potentially effect processability have been previously identified, namely ultra-fine clays and organic rich solids (ORS). In this thesis the use of ultra fines (<0.3 mum) and ORS to predict ore process problems has been explored. It was found that the ORS content of an ore is more appropriate for predicting absolute bitumen recoveries than the more commonly used fines and clay values. Critical ultra-fines and cation concentrations are shown to trigger the sludging process. However, these two components are difficult to measure and their use as a characterisation tool would probably be too expensive for general application. In view of this problem, a simple, inexpensive evaluation procedure was developed to identify anomalous ores. This involves using a jar test to provide a qualitative assessment of the segregating-non segregating boundary conditions for bitumen separation. More extensive characterisation and testing can then be performed on problem samples. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
THE REDMAPPER GALAXY CLUSTER CATALOG from des SCIENCE VERIFICATION DATA
Creators: name: Rykoff, E. S.
name: Rozo, E.
name: Hollowood, D.
name: Bermeo-Hernandez, A.
name: Jeltema, T.
name: Mayers, J.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Rooney, P.
name: Saro, A.
name: Cervantes, C. Vergara
name: Wechsler, R. H.
name: Wilcox, H.
name: Abbott, T. M C
name: Abdalla, F. B.
name: Allam, S.
name: Annis, J.
name: Benoit-Lévy, A.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Capozzi, D.
name: Rosell, A. Carnero
name: Kind, M. Carrasco
name: Castander, F. J.
name: Childress, M.
name: Collins, C. A.
name: Cunha, C. E.
name: D'Andrea, C. B.
name: Costa, L. N Da
name: Davis, T. M.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Dietrich, J. P.
name: Doel, P.
name: Evrard, A. E.
name: Finley, D. A.
name: Flaugher, B.
name: Fosalba, P.
name: Frieman, J.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Goldstein, D. A.
name: Gruen, D.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Gutierrez, G.
name: Hilton, M.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: Hoyle, B.
name: James, D. J.
name: Kay, S. T.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Lahav, O.
name: Lewis, G. F.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Lima, M.
name: Maia, M. A G
name: Mann, R. G.
name: Marshall, J. L.
name: Martini, P.
name: Melchior, P.
name: Miller, C. J.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Mohr, J. J.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Nord, B.
name: Ogando, R.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Reil, K.
name: Sahlén, M.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Santiago, B.
name: Scarpine, V.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Sevilla-Noarbe, I.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Stott, J. P.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Swanson, M. E C
name: Tarle, G.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Tucker, D.
name: Uddin, S.
name: Viana, P. T P
name: Vikram, V.
name: Walker, A. R.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We describe updates to the redMaPPer algorithm, a photometric red-sequence cluster finder specifically designed for large photometric surveys. The updated algorithm is applied to 150 deg2 of Science Verification (SV) data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 photometric data set. The DES SV catalog is locally volume limited and contains 786 clusters with richness l > 20 (roughly equivalent to M500c ≳ 1014 h70-1 M⊙) and 0.2 < z < 0.9. The DR8 catalog consists of 26,311 clusters with 0.08 < z < 0.6, with a sharply increasing richness threshold as a function of redshift for z ≳ 0.35. The photometric redshift performance of both catalogs is shown to be excellent, with photometric redshift uncertainties controlled at the σz (1 + z) ∼ 0.01 level for z ≲ 0.7, rising to ∼0.02 at z ∼ 0.9 in DES SV. We make use of Chandra and XMM X-ray and South Pole Telescope SunyaevZeldovich data to show that the centering performance and mass-richness scatter are consistent with expectations based on prior runs of redMaPPer on SDSS data. We also show how the redMaPPer photo-z and richness estimates are relatively insensitive to imperfect star/galaxy separation and small-scale star masks.
3790452.pdf
Creators: name: Tajiri, Takeyoshi
name: Takahashi, Shun
name: Ota, Yasutomo
name: Watanabe, Katsuyuki
name: Iwamoto, Satoshi
name: Arakawa, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document with red mark for showing revision parts
Auditory subliminals: Effects on the emotional tone of a writing task and on the subjects' mood.
Creators: name: Mibashan, David.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The effect of an auditory subliminal message upon the performance of a writing task and upon the mood of the participants was investigated in this study. One hundred and twenty-eight subjects (randomly assigned to eight conditions, each one comprising 16 subjects) were asked to create a children's story. One condition was exposed to a happy subliminal message (the word happy repeated every five seconds, 14 dB below ambient noise), one condition to a sad subliminal message, and another condition to a subliminal white noise tape. These three conditions received the message while writing the story. Three additional conditions (incubation) were exposed to the same tapes for twenty minutes before writing the story. In addition, there were two contrast conditions in which subjects were requested to write a happy (sad) children's story without being exposed to a subliminal message. The main dependent measures were: self-ratings of the subjects' mood on the axis of pleasure; judges' ratings of the happiness/sadness of the stories; and happy, sad, happy-related, sad-related, and total word counts. With regards to the task, the results indicated no effects for the no incubation conditions; a significant difference between the happy and sad conditions among the incubation conditions; and a significant difference between the two upon request conditions. With regards to the mood of the participants, there was a decrease in pleasure for the sad no incubation condition and a similar decrease for the happy incubation condition. The main conclusions drawn from the present experiment are: mood and task are affected in an independent fashion by the subliminal messages; the affective tone of the stories did not in turn affect the mood of the subjects in the subliminal conditions; the request to write a happy or a sad story did not give rise to mood change as observed with other supraliminal mood-induction techniques; and it appears that subliminal effects are different from supraliminal effects.
title: Flächenbelegungen und Flächennutzungsänderungen in der Ökobilanzierung: Eine Methode zur Wirkungsabschätzung
title: Flächenbelegungen und Flächennutzungsänderungen in der Ökobilanzierung: Eine Methode zur Wirkungsabschätzung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fehrenbach, Horst
name: Reißmann, Daniel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ökobilanz
Flächennutzung
Anthropogener Faktor
Elektrizitätserzeugung

description: Die Ökobilanz hat unter den in Anwendung befindlichen Umweltbewertungsmethoden einen besonderen Stellenwert und ist zwischenzeitlich bereits in einigen Gesetzen in Deutschland verankert. Für die Bewertung der Flächennutzung in Ökobilanzen ist eine allgemein anerkannte methodische Lösung bislang allerdings noch nicht vorhanden. Zwar gibt es erste Ansätze, doch wird dabei der Bedarf an methodischer Erweiterung und insbesondere die Verbesserung der Datengrundlagen herausgestellt. Dieser Beitrag thematisiert eine Methodenentwicklung am Umweltbundesamt zur Bewertung von temporärer Flächenbelegung und direkter sowie indirekter Flächennutzungsänderung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen im Rahmen der Ökobilanzierung1. Zentraler Bestandteil ist die qualitative Bewertung der Flächennutzung und ihrer Änderung anhand von Charakterisierungsfaktoren auf Basis eines erweiterten Hemerobieansatzes. Die bisher erarbeitete Methode wurde u. a. zur Bewertung des Energiesystems in Deutschland angewendet. Weitere Erprobungen erfolgen. Dieser Beitrag stellt den bisherigen Arbeitsstand vor. In: Flächennutzungsmonitoring. - 12. Flächennutzungsmonitoring XII : mit Beiträgen zum Monitoring von Ökosystemleistungen und SDGs / Gotthard Meinel [und drei weitere] (Hrsg.). - Berlin - (2020), Seite 117
Navigating the multi-stakeholder morass: The past, present and future of Internet governance
Creators: name: Disspain, Chris
name: Szyndler, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Although neither a forum focussed exclusively on "Internet governance" nor the
first discussion of the topic, WSIS marked the start of a global, decade-long debate on how the Internet is, and should be, managed. A decade later, the Internet has grown exponentially, bringing about massive cultural, social and economic change. And yet, many of the political and policy issues around its governance largely remain the same and are regularly debated in a wide range of fora. This article draws upon historical experiences in the Internet governance debate to explain and assess current discussions and to cast a wary eye into the future.
title: A picture’s worth
title: visual framing, social media, and protest perceptions
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ko, Hyein
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2025
Subjects: Black Lives Matter
Image as Data
Political Communication
Visual Framing
public abstract
Social Movements

description: From news coverage to social network services, political images are all around us. In short, images matter, whether it is about electoral campaigns, protests, or even wars. It is well-known that the media deliberately chooses and highlights certain aspects of events to shape our understanding -- a process known as framing or visual framing. However, previous studies have paid less attention to the photographic choices made behind the scenes as well as the role of individuals both creators and consumers of information especially in the context of social media.
description: To address these gaps, this study defines visual framing as a series of choices made by journalists and the public in everyday photography to influence viewers' responses. Then, it examines a large collection of tweets and associated images related to Black Lives Matter protests to understand how individuals make pictorial decisions and their relationship with text-based contents. Additionally, the study conducts a survey experiment to analyze how the public responds to different pieces of visual information. This study finds that individuals do make specific pictorial decisions based on their attitudes toward events, and image context and some photographic choices impact how viewers interpret political events. In essence, the current study shows that we take a photograph of a political event based on our perspectives, and images we consume can shape our understanding and attitudes of the portrayed political events.
Effect of building height on dynamic inelastic response of coupled walls.
Creators: name: Chaker, Driss.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Coupled wall structures when subjected to earthquakes possess both strength and deformation capacity beyond the elastic range. Although coupled wall systems have a long history of satisfactory use in stiffening multistory buildings, there is a need for information on the behavior of such structures under strong earthquake motions. Inelastic dynamic analysis was carried out in this research project to develop charts that show variation in ductility requirement with structure height when other structural and ground motion parameters are kept constant. Three structures with different building height, and the same overall geometry were selected for analysis. A total of 20 coupled wall structures were analyzed in this investigation. Each structure was analyzed with different levels of yield strength and two different levels of beam-to-wall strength ratio. The objective of the current study is to establish a relationship between height, strength and ductility requirement. An effort was made to express maximum wall and beam ductility requirement analytically for the coupled wall structures considered in this investigation.
Evaluation neuer Entwicklungen bei alternativen thermischen Abfallbehandlungsanlagen mit dem Schwerpunkt Verölungsverfahren
Creators: name: Pohl, Martin
name: Quicker, Peter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Altreifen
subject: Pyrolyse
subject: Verölungsverfahren
subject: katalytische Direktverölung
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Das Sachverständigengutachten gibt einen kurzen Überblick der aktuell angebotenen bzw. betriebenen Verölungs- und Pyrolyseverfahren in Deutschland. Außerdem wurde untersucht, inwieweit diese Verfahren zur Erzeugung von Sekundärressourcen geeignet sind und welche Abfälle (Art und Menge) hierbei zum Einsatz kommen können. Ausgewählt wurden zwei Verölungsverfahren (Dieselwest, Logoil) für Kunststoffabfälle sowie ein Pyrolyseverfahren (Reifen-Pyrolyse) für Altreifen. Auf Basis der vorliegenden Daten und den daraus gewonnenen Erkenntnissen erfolgt eine Einschätzung, ob die Verfahren künftig für die Abfallbehandlung von Bedeutung sein könnten und welche weiteren Schritte für eine mögliche großtechnische Umsetzung erforderlich sind.
A LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars: Average profiles, dispersion measures, flux densities, and spectra
Creators: name: Bilous, A. V.
name: Kondratiev, V. I.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Keane, Evan
name: Hessels, J. W.T.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Malofeev, V. M.
name: Sobey, C.
name: Breton, R. P.
name: Cooper, S.
name: Falcke, H.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: Michilli, D.
name: Oslowski, Stefan
name: Sanidas, S.
name: Ter Veen, S.
name: Van Leeuwen, J.
name: Verbiest, J. P.W.
name: Weltevrede, P.
name: Zarka, P.
name: Grießmeier, J. M.
name: Serylak, M.
name: Bell, M. E.
name: Broderick, J. W.
name: Eislöffel, J.
name: Markoff, S.
name: Rowlinson, A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present first results from a LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars. The census includes almost all such pulsars known (194 sources) at declinations Dec > 8 and Galactic latitudes jGbj > 3, regardless of their expected flux densities and scattering times. Each pulsar was observed for 20 min in the contiguous frequency range of 110-188 MHz. Full-Stokes data were recorded. We present the dispersion measures, flux densities, and calibrated total intensity profiles for the 158 pulsars detected in the sample. The median uncertainty in census dispersion measures (1:5 × 10-3 pc cm-3) is ten times smaller, on average, than in the ATNF pulsar catalogue. We combined census flux densities with those in the literature and fitted the resulting broadband spectra with single or broken power-law functions. For 48 census pulsars such fits are being published for the first time. Typically, the choice between single and broken power-laws, as well as the location of the spectral break, were highly influenced by the spectral coverage of the available flux density measurements. In particular, the inclusion of measurements below 100MHz appears essential for investigating the lowfrequency turnover in the spectra for most of the census pulsars. For several pulsars, we compared the spectral indices from different works and found the typical spread of values to be within 0.5-1.5, suggesting a prevailing underestimation of spectral index errors in the literature. The census observations yielded some unexpected individual source results, as we describe in the paper. Lastly, we will provide this unique sample of wide-band, low-frequency pulse profiles via the European Pulsar Network Database.
Quantum field theory in topology changing spacetimes
Creators: name: Bauer, Werner
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2006
Subjects: thesis
space-time
topology
Morse theory
causality
axiomatic field theory
operator: algebra
field theory: scalar
tensor: energy-momentum

description: Universität Hamburg, Diplomarbeit, 2006; 70 pp., (2006). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2007-007
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
title: Sequential decision-making in urban mobility and logistics
title: real-time optimization under uncertainty
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dieter, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Paderborn
Year: 2025

description: Diese Dissertation untersucht sequentielle Entscheidungsfindung in der urbanen Mobilität und Logistik mit besonderem Fokus auf Taxi Ride Sharing (TRS) und Last-Mile Delivery (LMD). Beide Bereiche stehen vor einer steigenden Nachfrage nach schnellen und kosteneffizienten Dienstleistungen, was eine Echtzeit-Optimierung unter Unsicherheit erfordert. Die Forschung wendet Methoden des Operations Research an, darunter heuristische Optimierung, die Integration von maschinellem Lernen und antizipatorische Entscheidungsfindung, um Effizienz und Servicequalität zu verbessern. Durch die Entwicklung neuer Verfahren für dynamische Fahrzeugroutenplanung, Auftragszuweisung und Passagierbündelung liefert diese Arbeit praxisrelevante Erkenntnisse für Dienstleister und trägt zu nachhaltigeren und effizienteren urbanen Transportsystemen bei.
description: This dissertation explores sequential decision-making in urban mobility and logistics, with a particular focus on Taxi Ride Sharing (TRS) and Last-Mile Delivery (LMD). Both domains face increasing demand for fast and cost-efficient services, requiring real-time optimization under uncertainty. The research applies operations research techniques, including heuristic optimization, machine learning integration, and anticipatory decision-making, to improve efficiency and service quality. By developing novel methods for dynamic vehicle routing, order assignment, and passenger aggregation, this work provides actionable insights for service providers, contributing to more sustainable and efficient urban transport systems.
Implementation of AMR Awareness Modules in Education and Training Programs in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis with High-Income Country Approaches
Creators: name: North American Academic Research
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where educational infrastructures often lack standardized AMR training. This review explores the current status of AMR awareness modules within education and training programs in Bangladesh, spanning medical, pharmacy, nursing, veterinary, agriculture, and public health sectors. A comparative analysis was conducted against established AMR educational frameworks and curricula in high-income countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Data were synthesized from curriculum documents, WHO guidance, and expert consultations. The results reveal significant disparities in competency integration, interprofessional education, and learner engagement. While high-income countries increasingly implement integrated, case-based, and One Health–aligned AMR training approaches, programs in Bangladesh remain fragmented and inconsistently applied. These findings underscore the urgent need for curriculum reform, policy alignment, and cross-sectoral collaboration to embed AMR education in all pre-service training. The insights generated through this study provide a foundation for the development of AMR curriculum assessment tools and support WHO-led global capacity-building initiatives.
title: Enhanced Fluorine-19 MRI Sensitivity using a Cryogenic Radiofrequency Probe
title: Technical Developments and Ex Vivo Demonstration in a Mouse Model of Neuroinflammation
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Waiczies, Sonia
name: Millward, Jason M.
name: Starke, Ludger
name: Delgado, Paula Ramos
name: Huelnhagen, Till
name: Prinz, Christian
name: Koch, Stefan P.
name: Boehm-Sturm, Philipp [U.A.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Experimental models of disease
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Neuroinflammation can be monitored using fluorine-19 (19F)-containing nanoparticles and 19F MRI. Previously we studied neuroinflammation in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) using room temperature (RT) 19F radiofrequency (RF) coils and low spatial resolution 19F MRI to overcome constraints in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This yielded an approximate localization of inflammatory lesions. Here we used a new 19F transceive cryogenic quadrature RF probe (19F-CRP) that provides the SNR necessary to acquire superior spatially-resolved 19F MRI. First we characterized the signal-transmission profile of the 19F-CRP. The 19F-CRP was then benchmarked against a RT 19F/1H RF coil. For SNR comparison we used reference compounds including 19F-nanoparticles and ex vivo brains from EAE mice administered with 19F-nanoparticles. The transmit/receive profile of the 19F-CRP diminished with increasing distance from the surface. This was counterbalanced by a substantial SNR gain compared to the RT coil. Intraparenchymal inflammation in the ex vivo EAE brains was more sharply defined when using 150 μm isotropic resolution with the 19F-CRP, and reflected the known distribution of EAE histopathology. At this spatial resolution, most 19F signals were undetectable using the RT coil. The 19F-CRP is a valuable tool that will allow us to study neuroinflammation with greater detail in future in vivo studies.
Evaluating natural and induced bias in detrital zircon geochronology from Jurassic-Cretaceous strata in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
Creators: name: Botha, Brandon
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2024
Subjects: Geochronology

description: The influence of natural and induced bias are unsolved problems in detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. This project evaluates natural bias that may result from hydraulic sorting in a depositional environment and induced bias that may result from sample disaggregation during mineral separation. In Mesozoic strata from the Black Hills, South Dakota, we conducted three experiments for natural bias. In the Hulett Member of the Jurassic Sundance Formation, which represents deposition in a shallow marine environment, we sampled beds with different sedimentary structures representing varying hydrodynamic conditions. In the Fuson Member of the Cretaceous Lakota Formation, multiple samples from different positions within two ancient barforms were sampled. In the Cretaceous Fall River Formation, we sampled the base and top of a fluvial channel and its associated crevasse splay deposits. We test for induced bias by running in parallel two aliquots of 300 grams from each sample. The first aliquot was mechanically disaggregated using a jaw crusher and disk mill and the second aliquot was processed using a SelFrag Electopulse Disaggregator, which disaggregates along grain boundaries using high voltage electrical fragmentation. We also collected grain size data for each aliquot to test for differences in the resulting mineral separates as well as age-grain-size correlations. For each test we use visual and statistical approaches to evaluate for biasing. Visual comparisons evaluate the presence or absence and relative abundance of age populations. Quantitative comparisons rely upon five statistical metrics: similarity, likeness, and cross-correlation of kernel density estimates (KDEs), and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) and Kuiper tests of cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) to compare data. Our results suggest that for our experiments, natural and induced biasing are not present and that, in terms of provenance, the samples from each unit would be interpreted as having the same sources. We also find, similar to previous studies, that the number of grains (n) dated greatly influences how statistical metrics are measured.
Improving Speech Recognition Error Prediction for Modern and Off-the-shelf Speech Recognizers
Creators: name: Serai, Prashant
name: Wang, Peidong
name: Fosler-Lussier, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modeling the errors of a speech recognizer can help simulate errorful recognized speech data from plain text, which has proven useful for tasks like discriminative language modeling, improving robustness of NLP systems, where limited or even no audio data is available at train time. Previous work typically considered replicating behavior of GMM-HMM based systems, but the behavior of more modern posterior-based neural network acoustic models is not the same and requires adjustments to the error prediction model. In this work, we extend a prior phonetic confusion based model for predicting speech recognition errors in two ways: first, we introduce a sampling-based paradigm that better simulates the behavior of a posterior-based acoustic model. Second, we investigate replacing the confusion matrix with a sequence-to-sequence model in order to introduce context dependency into the prediction. We evaluate the error predictors in two ways: first by predicting the errors made by a Switchboard ASR system on unseen data (Fisher), and then using that same predictor to estimate the behavior of an unrelated cloud-based ASR system on a novel task. Sampling greatly improves predictive accuracy within a 100-guess paradigm, while the sequence model performs similarly to the confusion matrix.