cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Organizational Justice and Rational Decision Making
Creators: name: Alsayed, Zainab Abdulrahman P
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE
DECISION MAKING

description: The concept of organizational justice has been thoroughly researched for half a century, with attention given to three specific components: distributive justice (concerning outcome allocations), procedural justice (concerning the process followed to reach specific outcomes), and interactional justice (concerning how people are treated during the decision-making process (Colquitt, Greenberg & Zapata-Phelan, 2005). Despite this extensive research, little analysis has been conducted on the temporal evolution of the effect(s) of organizational justice and whether such effect(s) can transfer to variables outside the current employment, extending into the next job. Moreover, organizational justice has not been examined through the lens of the consequences of rational decision-making for individuals and the rationality of justice perceptions.This thesis aims to fill this research gap by exploring the effects of justice over time and linking them to the concept of rationality. We start with a brief outline in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 explores the effects of past organizational justice and its impact on the rationality of job search: We explore what we mean by more vs. less rational and how this data is correlated, and we confirm with an experiment that shows us that lower levels of past organizational justice lead to less rationality in search. In Chapter 3, we turn our attention to the development of a scale that gauges individual readiness for rational decision-making. Our aim is to ensure that the scale is applicable to many contexts and types of choice, making it relevant for researchers in fields within and outside of the justice literature. In Chapter 4, we look at the rationality of justice perceptions. It might be assumed that it is the actions and outcomes of events that drive the perceptions of event justice. However, this fails to take into account the characteristics of the individual deciding upon the action.Those characteristics may exert an influence on justice perceptions above and beyond the action- and outcomes-based criteria of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice. Thus, in Chapter 4 we explore the question of how agent characteristics may matter. Agent morality affects perceived event justice through dimensional justice perceptions and controlling for dimensional justice. Again, our findings open novel avenues for future research. Chapter five summarizes the findings of this thesis and concludes.
Predictor characteristics necessary for building a clinically useful risk prediction model: a simulation study
Creators: name: Schummers, Laura
name: Himes, Katherine P
name: Bodnar, Lisa M
name: Hutcheon, Jennifer A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Compelled by the intuitive appeal of predicting each individual patient’s risk of an outcome, there is a growing interest in risk prediction models. While the statistical methods used to build prediction models are increasingly well understood, the literature offers little insight to researchers seeking to gauge a priori whether a prediction model is likely to perform well for their particular research question. The objective of this study was to inform the development of new risk prediction models by evaluating model performance under a wide range of predictor characteristics. Methods: Data from all births to overweight or obese women in British Columbia, Canada from 2004 to 2012 (n = 75,225) were used to build a risk prediction model for preeclampsia. The data were then augmented with simulated predictors of the outcome with pre-set prevalence values and univariable odds ratios. We built 120 risk prediction models that included known demographic and clinical predictors, and one, three, or five of the simulated variables. Finally, we evaluated standard model performance criteria (discrimination, risk stratification capacity, calibration, and Nagelkerke’s r2) for each model. Results: Findings from our models built with simulated predictors demonstrated the predictor characteristics required for a risk prediction model to adequately discriminate cases from non-cases and to adequately classify patients into clinically distinct risk groups. Several predictor characteristics can yield well performing risk prediction models; however, these characteristics are not typical of predictor-outcome relationships in many population-based or clinical data sets. Novel predictors must be both strongly associated with the outcome and prevalent in the population to be useful for clinical prediction modeling (e.g., one predictor with prevalence ≥20 % and odds ratio ≥8, or 3 predictors with prevalence ≥10 % and odds ratios ≥4). Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values of >0.8 were necessary to achieve reasonable risk stratification capacity. Conclusions: Our findings provide a guide for researchers to estimate the expected performance of a prediction model before a model has been built based on the characteristics of available predictors.
Ginásios e Health Clubs em Portugal: Estaremos perante uma República das Bananas?
Creators: name: Teixeira, Diogo
name: Monteiro, Diogo
name: Rodrigues, Filipe
name: Sousa, Ana
name: Chaves, César
name: Cid, Luis
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2020

description: A prática profissional dos agentes relacionados com os ginásios e health clubs nacionais tem vindo a evidenciar várias fraquezas, limitações, e preocupações que carecem de ações concretas de reflexão e ação. O presente artigo visa evidenciar algumas problemáticas identificadas no decurso profissional dos autores, relevando pontos fulcrais de premente reflexão, apontando lacunas concretas, destacando problemas de cariz moral e deontológico, e tentando deixar linhas de reflexão sobre futuros passos na procura da elevação da qualidade profissional nestes espaços de prática, assim como a dignificação de toda uma área profissional que é cada vez mais necessária à sociedade portuguesa. Expõem-se ao longo do trabalho situações de reflexão concretas associadas à necessidade de definição de um perfil profissional adequado a essas práticas, à desregulação da qualidade do produto apresentado à sociedade, às inconsistências comportamentais do diretor técnico e técnico de exercício físico face ao postulado e aceite do ponto de vista moral, deontológico e legislativo, e por fim na necessidade premente de regulamentação adicional nas ações certificadas promovidas por entidades de formação nacionais.
description: Motricidade, vol. 16 n.º 1 (2020): Motricidade
Robust Control of the Transmon Qubit for Quantum Information Processing
Creators: name: Cykiert, Max Maurice
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Quantum computers have the ability to perform some problems that would be intractable on a classical computer. The fundamental building block of quantum computers is the qubit, which is continuous as opposed to classical bits. These qubits become intrinsically sensitive to the environments, and parameter drift makes them lose some of their performance.

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description: This thesis is focused on the robust control of transmon qubits, a superconducting qubit architecture, which is one of the leading choices of qubits for implementing quantum computation. These systems are naturally many-level systems and need to be controlled in a way that prevents detrimental effects of these other levels.
description: Robust solutions can offer protection against some effects that impede the high performance required of a qubit to perform quantum computation.
description: In this pursuit, pulses robust to different sources of error, such as a detuning error or a control amplitude error, are presented.
description: This thesis treats single-qubit and two-qubit gates and analyses the control landscape by exploring possible solutions, and investigates the optimisation traps which prevent obtaining high-fidelity solutions. Also, an exploration of penalty functions which are used to encourage different beneficial properties of the pulse. For instance, penalising the populating of higher energy levels in the qubit.

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description: Furthermore, these numerical solutions, which have higher complexity than other control techniques, are tuned in hardware on the IBM qubits. A scheme was used to ensure the control performs as expected without implementation errors.

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description: The experimental results also verify the model's validity and show high performance.

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description: Addressing problems in qubit control has applications in scaling quantum computers and extracting more performance from current hardware.
Asia Monitor Resource Center
Creators: name: Hagenkamp, Stefanie
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Workers Assistance Center
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Von Zollverein zu Goethe. Die Zukunft der Asienhaus-Bibliothek liegt in Frankfurt
Creators: name: Seeberger, Fritz
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Asienhaus in Köln: Aufbruch zu neuen Ufern
Creators: name: Fritsche, Klaus
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Barth, Jessica
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Therapeutic potential of the mycobacterial exotoxin mycolactone on human enveloped viruses
Creators: name: Eke, Lucy
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Many enveloped viruses are considered as medically important human pathogens and at present many of these viruses lack efficient antiviral treatments. The membranes of enveloped viruses contain embedded virus-encoded glycoproteins that are essential for viral infectivity, making them ideal antiviral drug targets. Enveloped viruses are known to exploit the host cell secretory pathway for the transportation of these glycoproteins to the site of viral envelopment. Prior to trafficking through the secretory pathway, the Sec61 translocon is hypothesized to mediate the translocation of these virus-encoded glycoproteins into the ER membrane. Here I utilise mycolactone, an exotoxin that has previously been identified as a potent Sec61 inhibitor, and has been shown to block the translocation of many secretory and transmembrane proteins, to assess the potential of the Sec61 translocon to act as a broad-spectrum antiviral drug target.

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description: Ultimately, this project has demonstrated the ability of mycolactone to inhibit the production of infectious herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), zika virus (ZIKV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza A virus (IAV) and severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) particles. I have also shown that the expression of a range of virus-encoded type I and II transmembrane proteins is dependent upon the Sec61 translocon, as the expression of these proteins was inhibited in mycolactone treated cells under non-viral and viral conditions. In addition, I have utilised in vitro translocation assays to show that the translocation of virus-encoded type I and II proteins is blocked in the presence of mycolactone, thus indicating that these viral proteins are translocated into the ER membrane via a Sec61-dependent mechanism. By contrast, mycolactone generally had little to no effect on the expression or translocation of a range of virus-encoded type III and polytopic proteins, thus indicating that these viral proteins are translocated into the ER membrane via a Sec61-independent mechanism. However, interestingly, the ZIKV and SARS-CoV-2 polyproteins were shown to have different susceptibilities to mycolactone. While mycolactone inhibited the expression of multiple components of the ZIKV polyprotein, it had no effect on SARS-CoV-2 genome replication, indicating that the SARS-CoV-2 polyprotein was still produced in the presence of mycolactone.
Hanjins Stützpunkt in Subic Bay – Ein koreanischer Schiffsbaukonzern und seine Geschäfte in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Schober, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die viertgrößte Werft der Welt befindet sich auf einem ehemaligen US-Navy-Stützpunkt in den Philippinen. Der Betreiber ist ein koreanisches Konglomerat, das durch schwere Arbeitsrechtsverstöße jüngst für Kontroversen sorgte. Tausende Arbeitsplätze sind in der koreanischen Hafenstadt Pusan am Verschwinden, während in der Freihandelszone in Subic Bay die größtenteils prekarisierte Belegschaft weiter vergrößert wird.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Arbeitsnetzwerk Familie – Der Einfluss der Familie auf die Arbeitswelt
Creators: name: Kaelin, Lukas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Arbeit ist nicht gleich Arbeit. Arbeitswelten können ganz verschieden ausgeprägt sein. Das Gegenstück der Arbeit, die Arbeitslosigkeit, kann ebenso unterschiedlich sein, und die Faktoren, die dagegen schützen, sind ebenso verschieden. Ich gehe hier auf einen ganz bestimmten Aspekt der Arbeit in den Philippinen ein: die Bedeutung der Familie für die Arbeit.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Pueblos prendados de fantasmas: Cioran en España, yo en Rumanía
Creators: name: Pérez Caballero, Jesús
Publisher: name: Frontera d. Revista digital
Year: 2014
Subjects: Emil Cioran
España
Rumanía
filosofía
literatura

description: "¿Por qué la cercanía entre Cioran y Don Quijote? ¡Oh Bartleby, oh humanidad!, que diría Melville. ¡Oh, identidad!, añadimos. Ambos son personajes desdoblados. Cioran vivió en reclusión tras momentos de pasión exaltada. Desde su piso irradiaba no sólo libros, sino vidas hipotéticas, clones fantasmales de sí mismo que se acercaban a los antiguos y a los modernos; polemizaba con los personajes de ficción con saña y buscaba hacerlos sangrar; repasaba anécdotas de la literatura y reflexionaba sobre la nada como si fuera un trozo de cal viva.

¿Y Don Quijote? El hidalgo vivió en reclusión de polvo y libros durante un momento de su vida, pero salió de casa y vivió lo que había teorizado: No necesitó clones fantasmas, salvo los que Cervantes le ponía por el camino para apuntalar su figura, pero sí irradió libros, y más, y más y más libros, hasta que se convirtió en uno. Por tanto, comparte con Cioran ese vivir en la ficción, ese culto abrasivo a la imaginación. Cioran encontró París y nunca más salió a deshacer entuertos. Si alguna vez vio gigantes los vio pudrirse tras su ventana. Cioran era un escritor: Podía regresar siempre de su locura. Don Quijote quizá quiso serlo, pero se sumergió en su locura y allí se quedó.

Ambos ilustran, en un espejo deformado, las virtudes y los defectos no sólo del hombre, sino de sus naciones. Los encarnaron, Cioran con fiereza, enseñando los colmillos a lo rumano, pero representándolo a su pesar; Don Quijote sin saberlo, haciendo camino al andar, pero con idéntica representatividad".
description: Ensayo publicado en la revista digital Frontera d.
Arbeit in Hungersnot – Diskrepanzen und Herausforderungen philippinischer ArbeiterInnen
Creators: name: Oledan, Radzini
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Der philippinische Arbeitsmarkt bringt viele Unsicherheiten mit sich wie die Hoffnung auf eine feste Anstellung trotz hoher Arbeitslosenrate, die oft unzureichenden Arbeitsbedingungen und geringe Entlohnung trotz Überstunden bis hin zur Missachtung der Grundrechte.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Fluch der Arbeit – Beschäftigungslage und der informelle Sektor
Creators: name: Reese, Niklas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Philippinen sind ein Billiglohnland. Der Mindestlohn liegt zwischen 204 Peso in der Region Bicol auf dem Land und 404 Peso im Ballungsraum Manila, also zwischen vier und knapp acht Euro - am Tag.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Groß, Stefanie
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Knowledge Management Practices in DevOps
Creators: name: Solouki, Soha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: DevOps
Knowledge management
Practice perspective
Agile

description: DevOps, a portmanteau of Development and Operations, is the collection of principles and practices that try to improve cooperation between IT Development and IT Operations teams in the software development domain. The DevOps paradigm, thus, promises to overcome the traditional boundaries between development and operations teams and to improve collaboration across teams through a culture that is conducive to shared goals and accountability. Responding to the recent call for a better understanding of DevOps Knowledge Management (KM), this study aims to explore the role of knowledge management in advancing DevOps performance outcomes. Toward this, the study adopts a practice perspective of KM, and aims to answer the following research questions: 1) What are the enablers of KM practices in DevOps teams? 2) What are the distinctive characteristics of KM practices that underpin positive DevOps performance outcomes? Using an inductive research design and qualitative data collection and analysis procedures, this study followed a multiple case study approach, and collected and analyzed data from nine in-depth interviews with DevOps professionals across three organizations. Using grounded theory coding procedures, an emergent theoretical model of DevOps KM is presented and discussed, along with various propositions that outline how DevOps teams acquire, capture, share and apply knowledge, and how their KM practices can drive positive DevOps performance. Key insights from this study indicate that technology leaders need to foster greater awareness about the significance of KM in DevOps teams. This can be done by highlighting challenges associated with a lack of effective KM practices, and best practices followed by other companies. Furthermore, DevOps teams should adopt a mix of people-centered and technology-centered KM practices that enable effective personalization and codification of knowledge. Lastly, DevOps managers need to encourage alternative-bridging KM practices through regular use of KM tools and features within DevOps technologies while investing in dedicated knowledge sharing platforms. Through a discussion of the enablers of KM practices in DevOps; typical configuration of people-centered, technology-centered, and alternative-bridging KM practices in DevOps; and the linkages between KM practices and DevOps performance outcomes, this study aims to contribute to the extant research literature on DevOps KM, and provide practical guidelines for institutionalizing KM practices that can support the fast-paced nature of DevOps teams.
Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Grubauer, Ariane
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
FURQATNING HAYOT–FAOLIYATI VA ADABIY MEROSI
Creators: name: Boirova, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Oʼzbek xalqining zabardast shoiri, publist, gʼazalnavs shoir, elshunos olim, mutarjimi. Bir qancha asarlari sheʼrlari va publistika yoʼnalishidagi ilmiy asarlari bilan xalqimiz qalbidan joy olgan shoir. Oʼz zamonasining buyuklari qatoridan joy olgan shoir. Yoshligidanoq Muqimiy, Muhyi, Zavqiy, Nisbat, Muhayyir kabi shoirlarning zamondoshi. Oʼziga ularni ustoz deb bilgan.
Characterization of new Muscodor padawan and Muscodor sarawak, isolated from Sarawak, Malaysia: evaluation of their potential as a biological control agent for Ganoderma boninense, a pathogenic fungus of Elaeis guineensis
Creators: name: Mahidi, Noreha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dr. Mahidi’s did her research on fungi that produce gaseous compounds that could kill the Ganoderma boninense, a mushroom that causes the stems of oil palms to rot. Two new species of fungi that grow inside the tissues of the leaves of the cinnamon tree, were discovered from this research. These two fungi produce anti-Ganoderma compounds that could kill the Ganoderma boninense. The fungi show potential as biological control agent as they did not cause destructive impact to the growth rate of oil palm seedlings and were also able to kill Ganoderma boninense.
Vom Bauern zum Minenarbeiter – Bauxitbergbau in West Kalimantan
Creators: name: Nurdiansyah, Deny
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: lm Namen von Entwicklung und Wachstum findet in West Kalimantan gerade ein »Land Grabbing«- Rausch statt. Er wird von 359 Plantagenunternehmen angeführt, die mittlerweile 6,3 Millionen Hektar an sich gerissen haben. Dicht dahinter sind 624 Bergbauunternehmen, die für 4,7 Millionen Hektar Bergbaulizenzen (sog. Ijin Usaha Pertambangan (IUP)) erteilt bekommen haben. Der Staat ermöglicht diese Ankäufe durch private Unternehmen und ist über staatliche Unternehmen selbst an dieser Entwicklung beteiligt. Dieses kapitalintensive Entwicklungsmodel hat den Landbesitz von vielen Gemeinschaften und Kleinbauern, die Wanderfeld bau und Subsistenzwirtschaft betreiben, auf eine kleine Zahl von Unternehmen übertragen. Der ein hergehende Verlust von landbasierten Lebensweisen zwingt viele der Enteigneten dann für diese Unternehmen zu arbeiten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Neue Stimmen von der Basis – Strategien der ArbeiterInnenbewegung Indonesiens
Creators: name: Duile, Timo
name: Radjawali, Irendra
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Ein Interview mit Anwar Sastro Ma'ruf. Sastro war als Arbeiteraktivist gegen das Suhartoregime aktiv und danach Vorsitzender der einflussreichen Föderation unabhängiger Gewerkschaften KASBI. Heute ist er Vorsitzender der Konfederasi Pergerakan Rakyat Indonesia, einem Bündnis von Kleinbauernorganisationen, Frauenorganisationen, Basisgewerkschaften, Fischerinnenorganisationen und Indigenenorganisationen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Die ArbeiterInnenbewegung in Indonesien
Creators: name: Rudiono, Danu
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nach ihrer blutigen Unterdrückung durch das Suharto Regime ebnete die ArbeiterInnenbewegung Indonesiens den Weg für den Sturz des Diktators. Doch im neoliberalen Kontext der Reformasi Ära sind neue Herausforderungen entstanden, denen sie sich erst langsam zu stellen beginnt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
Design of Highly Efficient Electromagnetic Metasurface for Terahertz Applications
Creators: name: Behboudi Amlashi, Salman
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023
Subjects: Terahertz sensor
Terahertz spectroscopy
Graphene
Localized surface plasmon
Electromagnetic surface wave
Metasurface
Reflecting surface
transmission metasurface
Bloch impedance
Terahertz antenna
Continuous-wave photoconductive antenna
Photomixer
Efficiency

description: Metasurfaces and terahertz spectrum are promising parts of future communication
description: ecosystems. Nevertheless, studies have shown that reported metasurfaces in this part of
description: the spectrum are not sufficiently efficient. In this research, three different applications
description: at the THz spectrum which are based on metasurface structures are studied as the main
description: topics of research. First, a novel terahertz (THz) spectroscopy system is proposed which
description: is based on a graphene-based metasurface. The proposed sensor operates in reflection
description: mode over a broad range of frequency bands (0.2 − 6 THz) and can detect relative
description: permittivity of up to 4 with a resolution of 0.1 and a thickness ranging from 5 μm to
description: 600 μm with a resolution of 0.5μm. The proposed spectroscopy technique utilizes some
description: unique spectral features of a broadband reflection wave including Accumulated Spectral
description: power (ASP) and Averaged Group Delay (AGD), which are independent of resonance
description: frequencies and can operate over a broad range of the spectrum. Following this, an
description: efficient terahertz (THz) photoconductive antenna (PCA) are proposed. The antenna
description: is designed for THz continuous wave (CW) applications in the frequency range of 0.5-3
description: THz. Owing to plasmonic excitation, the optical-to-electrical efficiency of photomixer
description: is increased by a factor of 100 while there is a 4-fold reduction in size compared to those
description: with similar radiation features. Finally, a novel metasurface design is proposed for the
description: first time ever which has addressed some fundamental challenges in metasurface design
description: and has introduced dense metasurface for the first time. In this chapter, an algorithm
description: is proposed for the design of metasurface which exploited Delta-Sigma concept from
description: temporal domain to spatial domain to increase the spatial sampling of the incident
description: wave in reflecting/transmission metasurfaces. In this algorithm, the design procedure
description: considers real-world response of the structure instead of conventional analysis of meta-
description: surfaces. The proposed algorithm brings about to achieve very efficient beam-forming of
description: reflecting/transmission metasurface. It is shown that the proposed technique improved
description: the efficiency of metasurface design significantly and can enhance the control over the
description: metasurface design unprecedentedly.
Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (2012): Arbeitswelten: Alltag und Kämpfe in den Werkstätten der Globalisierung
A concept-based clustering approach to clinical information retrieval
Creators: name: Vong, Wan Tze
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dr. Vong studied the use of medical literature to answer clinical questions with the best available research evidence. She investigated how to determine the quality of clinical evidence and how to extract the most useful knowledge from medical documents. She developed a novel approach to cluster and visualize a collection of documents for supporting the information search process. The approach can be applied to develop a question answering system for answering clinical questions at the point of care and for facilitating the integration of research evidence into clinical decision making.
A thesis of clinical research and practice: Part A: The effectiveness of imagery rescripting interventions for military veterans with nightmares and sleep disturbances: a systematic review and meta-analysis; Part B: Military veterans’ experiences of trust in the therapeutic relationship: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; Part C; Summary of clinical practice and assessments
Creators: name: Hicks, Marya Abigail
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Military veterans can face unique challenges to their mental health, which may be related to
description: stressful working environments, long periods of time away from loved ones, and the
description: difficulty transitioning to civilian life. Awareness and understanding of military veterans’
description: mental health is increasing in the United Kingdom, and specialist mental health services for
description: veterans in the National Health Service and third sector organisations have been developed.
description: This thesis aimed to review the effectiveness of a psychological intervention for military
description: veterans, and to explore veterans’ experiences of therapy with civilian therapists. Part A of
description: this portfolio presents a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of imagery
description: rescripting interventions for military veterans with nightmares and sleep disturbances. The
description: findings suggest that imagery rescripting interventions can be effective in improving
description: nightmare frequency, sleep quality and PTSD symptoms. However, the review also
description: highlighted the need for further research using larger samples of veterans from a broader
description: range of sources. Part B presents an empirical paper that investigated veterans’ experiences
description: and perceptions of trust in the therapeutic relationship with civilian therapists. Interpretative
description: Phenomenological analysis found that veterans identified as uniquely different to civilians
description: which impacted their views on the therapist’s ability to understand and help them. The
description: importance of working with veterans as individuals rather than protocols was highlighted,
description: and the influence of the therapeutic relationship on veterans’ ability to be vulnerable and open
description: up was discussed. Part C presents a summary of clinical practice and assessments undertaken
description: during training.
Gebraucht, aber nicht Gewollt – Zur Situation von Haushaltsarbeiterinnen in Singapur
Creators: name: Bach, Yvonne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Immer mehr Migrantinnen übernehmen die Reproduktionsarbeit von Mittelschichtsfamilien in Singapur. Dafür erhalten sie keinen Dank, sondern eher Schikane. Sie werden explizit vom Beschäftigungsgesetz ausgenommen.
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Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Wieczorek, Nina
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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Mogok! Arbeitswelten der Palmölindustrie
Creators: name: Pye, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Superprofite der Palmölindustrie basieren auf einem prekarisierten Ausbeutungssystem. Doch die Arbeiterinnen fangen an, sich zu wehren.
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Proposal of a Mix Design Method for Low Cement Fiber Reinforced Concrete
Creators: name: Eid, Mohd Nabil
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mix design
Sustainability
Particle packing models
Fiber reinforced concrete
Flowability
VeBe time
Rheology
Binder intensity
Interparticle Separation Distance
Maximum Paste Thickness
Fiber Factor

description: Concrete, the second most used material in the world, presents great performance and economic benefits. Yet, it is often characterized by a brittle behaviour, low tensile strength, and toughness. Fibers are usually added to concrete to counteract its brittle behaviour, increasing ductility and toughness, controlling crack propagation and delaying concrete failure. However, their addition significantly worsens the fresh state performance of the material. To improve fresh state of the so-called Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), conventional mix-design methods recommend the use of high paste content, which results in a significant increase of Portland cement (PC) content and raises the carbon footprint of the material. The latter is responsible for 8% of the global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) anthropogenic emissions. Given the current worldwide concerns on global warming, the construction industry is in a need to lessen the demand, and thus production of PC. Recent studies have been focusing on the use of advanced mix-design techniques (i.e. particle packing models- PPMs) along with Inert Fillers (IF) as an alternative to reduce PC content in concrete. However, the latter was not applied to conventional FRC. In this work, advanced mix design techniques (i.e. PPMs) are used to overcome the aforementioned issues and mix-proportion eco-efficient FRC with low cement content (< 300 kg/m3). Fresh (i.e. VeBe time, slump, rheological behaviour) and hardened (i.e. compressive strength, and flexural behaviour) state tests were performed on the proposed mixtures and compared with control high PC content (375 kg/m3) FRC mixes. Results show that PPM designed mixes presented higher minimum torque (yield stress) but quite comparable apparent viscositiy when compared to conventionally designed mixtures. Moreover, the flowability (i.e. VeBe time, and slump) tends to decrease as fiber content, length, and/or as the amount of fillers increase in the mixtures. In addition, PPM mixes exhibited a shear thinning behaviour following the Herschel-Bulkley model, which enables the design of FRC PPM mix-proportioned mixtures for applications requiring high torque regimes such as vibrated and/or pumped concrete. Finally, results show that the use of PPMs to mix proportion eco-efficient low cement FRC mixtures produced improved hardened (i.e. compressive strength, and flexural performance) state behaviour with lower environmental impact than conventional ACI designed FRC mixtures.
Developing a Novel Martelloscope for Assessing Biodiversity and Growing Stock Volume with the aid of a Digital Twin.
Creators: name: Giannetti, Francesca
name: Urbinati, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Sustainable Forest Management
Digitalisation
Ecosystem Services
biodiversity
nature management

description:  Monitoring and quantifying biodiversity variation through silvicultural choices made with the marteloscope adds significant value to sustainable forest management, enhancing ecosystem services and production aspects.
Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Hesse, Lisa
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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Interaction-Aware Planning Under Uncertainty for Autonomous Driving
Creators: name: Arbabi, Salar
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023
Subjects: Autonomous driving
driver behaviour modelling
motion prediction
decision making under uncertainty
Monte Carlo tree search

description: Vehicle autonomy has the potential to bring many social benefits, such as improved
description: traffic safety and increased productivity. Modern autonomous vehicles are able to sense
description: their local environment, recognise relevant objects, and make driving decisions that obey
description: traffic rules. Nevertheless, many situations encountered during daily driving continue
description: to be challenging for autonomous vehicles, holding back the commercial deployment
description: of autonomous driving technology. In particular, motion planning in environments
description: that involve interactions with human drivers requires the design of algorithms that
description: can reason about the uncertain motion of other vehicles while relying on noisy and
description: incomplete sensor measurements. Given the stochasticity in human driving behaviour
description: and sensor limitations, effective handling of uncertainty is of paramount importance
description: for ensuring system safety and robustness.

description:

description: This thesis makes several contributions towards enabling self-driving vehicles to
description: reason about the uncertain behaviour of other drivers and utilise this reasoning capability for planning. As our use case, we focus on the complex task of merging into
description: moving traffic where uncertainty can emanate from the behaviour of other drivers
description: and imperfect sensor measurements. We exploit the power of deep neural networks
description: in learning complex correlations from data for developing driver behaviour models.
description: We use these models for planning on two levels of abstraction: high-level, discrete
description: decisions that help the autonomous vehicle reach its destination safely and in a timely
description: manner, and low-level continuous actions that directly influence the vehicle’s dynamics.
description: For high-level planning, we propose an original driver model that combines domain
description: knowledge with modern deep learning, offering greater interpretability than black-box
description: models while producing predictions that maintain long-term accuracy. Further, we
description: use the model for planning via Monte Carlo tree search, where the long-term future
description: consequences of decisions are taken into consideration. For low-level planning, we
description: propose a sampling-based, model-predictive approach. Other contributions are made
description: towards learning strategies that improve the models’ predictive accuracy.
Die thailändischen Beerenpflücker – Ausbeutung und Menschenhandel in der skandinavischen Beerenindustrie
Creators: name: Yimprasert, Junya
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Früher war Beerenpflücken für Schweden und Finnen eine Freizeitbeschäftigung des Sommers, für viele auch eine willkommene Nebenbeschäftigung. Doch die Kommerzialisierung und Konzentration der skandinavischen Wildbeerenindustrie im Zuge der Globalisierung hat zu einem grundlegenden Wandel geführt. Eine Handvoll Firmen kontrolliert heute die Industrie. Um die Preise ihrer Exportprodukte zu drücken, holen sie jedes Jahr tausende von Arbeiterinnen aus dem Nordosten Thailands, die in die weiten Wälder zum Pflücken von Blau beeren, Preiselbeeren und Moltebeeren geschickt werden. In den letzten Jahren stieg die Zahl dieser transnationalen Wanderarbeiterinnen rapide an, bis sie 2009 10,000 erreichte und damit fast 80 Prozent der Arbeitskräfte dieser Industrie ausmachte.
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The genetic and epigenetic landscapes of the epithelium in asthma
Creators: name: Moheimani, Fatemeh
name: Hsu, Alan C.
name: Reid, Andrew T.
name: Williams, Teresa
name: Kicic, Anthony
name: Stick, Stephen M.
name: Hansbro, Philip M.
name: Wark, Peter A.
name: Knight, Darryl
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Asthma is a global health problem with increasing prevalence. The airway epithelium is the initial barrier against inhaled noxious agents or aeroallergens. In asthma, the airway epithelium suffers from structural and functional abnormalities and as such, is more susceptible to normally innocuous environmental stimuli. The epithelial structural and functional impairments are now recognised as a significant contributing factor to asthma pathogenesis. Both genetic and environmental risk factors play important roles in the development of asthma with an increasing number of genes associated with asthma susceptibility being expressed in airway epithelium. Epigenetic factors that regulate airway epithelial structure and function are also an attractive area for assessment of susceptibility to asthma. In this review we provide a comprehensive discussion on genetic factors; from using linkage designs and candidate gene association studies to genome-wide association studies and whole genome sequencing, and epigenetic factors; DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs (especially microRNAs), in airway epithelial cells that are functionally associated with asthma pathogenesis. Our aims were to introduce potential predictors or therapeutic targets for asthma in airway epithelium. Overall, we found very small overlap in asthma susceptibility genes identified with different technologies. Some potential biomarkers are IRAKM, PCDH1, ORMDL3/GSDMB, IL-33, CDHR3 and CST1 in airway epithelial cells. Recent studies on epigenetic regulatory factors have further provided novel insights to the field, particularly their effect on regulation of some of the asthma susceptibility genes (e.g. methylation of ADAM33). Among the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, microRNA networks have been shown to regulate a major portion of post-transcriptional gene regulation. Particularly, miR-19a may have some therapeutic potential.
Flexibility of the Home and Psychological Wellbeing
Creators: name: Jagannath, Sadhana
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Flexibility in the design of our homes can greatly support our varied and changing
description: needs and functions but its ability to support our psychological wellbeing at home has not
description: been empirically examined or established. In exploring the same in this thesis, Flexibility was
description: conceptualised as the architectural design of the home (Architectural Flexibility) but also
description: residents’ behaviour of making changes to the home (Behavioural Flexibility) which was
description: found to be lacking in the literature. Residents’ hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing were
description: measured using two newly developed and validated scales. In an online mixed-method
description: survey, Study 1 (N = 187) established a positive association between Flexibility of the home
description: and residents’ Hedonic and Eudaimonic wellbeing. Qualitative data analyses provided
description: insights into features of the home and modifications made to home, which were used to
description: measure Flexibility more objectively in studies 2 and 3. In an online survey (N = 212), Study
description: 2 found that Behavioural Flexibility substantially mediated the relationship between
description: Architectural Flexibility of the home and residents’ Hedonic and Eudaimonic wellbeing. In
description: an online survey, Study 3 further confirmed the mediating effect of behaviour of making
description: modifications to home on the relationship between Architectural Flexibility and Eudaimonic
description: wellbeing using a nationally representative sample (N = 300). The study also found that the
description: residents’ personal factors of capabilities and motivations substantially contribute to the
description: model. An additional experimental part of Study 3 suggested that there may exist a causal
description: relationship between Architectural Flexibility of the home and residents’ wellbeing. Overall,
description: findings from this thesis suggest that Architectural and Behavioural Flexibility of the home
description: have varied but positive influence on residents’ Hedonic and Eudaimonic wellbeing at home.
description: This relationship is substantially influenced by residents’ capabilities and motivations, and
description: may need to be considered when designing homes or developing housing policies in the UK.
Mehr als verdient – Neuer Mindestlohn in Thailand
Creators: name: Jochim, Steffi
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Thailands neugewählte Regierung hat zum 1. April 2012 ihr Wahlversprechen einer Anhebung des Mindestlohns von durchschnittlich 175 Thai Bäht (circa 4,30 Euro) auf 300 Thai Baht (circa 7,50 Euro) in den sieben reichsten von Thailands 76 Provinzen umgesetzt - eine Ausweitung auf den Rest des Landes ist für den 1. Januar 2013 vorgesehen.
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Solidarische Unterwäsche – Ein Interview mit der Try Arm Kooperative in Thailand
Creators: name: Chankham, Siriprapa
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Jittra Cotchadet ist Gewerkschaftsaktivistin und führte einen Kampf thailändischer Arbeiterinnen an, die gegen ihre Massenentlassung durch die deutsche Firma Triumph protestierten.
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Artigos aceitos- Revisão Sistemática Embriogênese somática em mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz): uma revisão sistemática
Creators: name: Simone Sacramento dos Santos Silva, Antônio da Silva Souza, Karen Cristina Fialho dos Santos, Carlos Alberto da Silva Ledo.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Este artigo é uma revisão sistemática dos estudos realizados nos últimos 20 anos sobre embriogênese somática em diferentes genótipos de mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz).
Im Takt der Märkte – Arbeitswelten birmanischer Migrantlnnen in Mae Sot, Thailand
Creators: name: Weiß, Luise
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Ein Leben in der Grenzstadt Mae Sot ist für viele MigrantInnen aus Myanmar ersehnter Wunsch, die Stadt lockt mit den Versprechen nach Geld und Wohlstand. Doch der Alltag hält nichts von diesen Versprechen.
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