cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An exploration of how the concept of the ‘well led’ hospital trust is defined and understood by NHS staff across a range of organisational managerial levels.
Creators: name: Chaffer, Denise
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Abstract The aim of this PhD study was to gain greater understanding of staff experience of being well led within a NHS Hospital Trust rated ‘well led’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), to better understand the potential contribution leaders could make to improve quality of patient care. A qualitative case study method was utilised to explore staff experiences in the ‘well led’ Trust. A theoretical framework was developed to underpin the methodological process, incorporating components of learning organisational theory (Argyris 1995 & Senge 1990) and an interpretive grounded theory approach was applied (Charmaz 2006). Four main themes were identified: • A sense of ‘family’, particularly a focus on shared values and behaviours that prioritised both patient and staff wellbeing. • A strong preference for a distributed leadership model that was balanced against a need for a hierarchical model. • A learning approach was balanced against a robust commitment to sanction behaviours outside the values of the organisation. • A clear ambition to build resilience and embed these values to sustain the ‘well led’ approach in the face of significant financial pressures and work force challenges. Many of the principles of learning organisation theory, identified by Argyris (1992) & Senge (1990), were visible across all four themes. However, there were also some important differences. In particular, there were challenges related to the organisational requirement to balance strategies to both promote staff commitment, as well as compliance. Furthermore, there were similar challenges linking parallel, but disparate models of distributed and hierarchical leadership. The findings identified both the features of a well led NHS Trust and also some challenges. These new insights contribute to our current understanding of ‘well led’ Trusts, which can be used to improve Trust level leadership more broadly in the NHS, and also provide a framework for further research in this area.
Vom Vater, dem Sohn und der Macht im Staate: Zum Amtswechsel in Singapur
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Singapur hat einen neuen Premierminister. Am 12. August 2004 wurde mit Lee Hsien Loong der bisher dritte Premierminister des Stadtstaats im Amt vereidigt. Er folgt Goh Chok Tong, der nach 13 Jahren in diesem Amt am 9. August — dem Nationalfeiertag — zurückgetreten ist.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Toward an evolutionary-predictive foundation for creativity
Creators: name: Gabora, Liane
name: Kauffman, Stuart
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2018

description: Dietrich and Haider (2014) justify their integrative framework for creativity founded on evolutionary theory and prediction research on the grounds that “theories and approaches guiding empirical research on creativity have not been supported by the neuroimaging evidence”. Although this justification is controversial, the general direction holds promise. This commentary clarifies points of disagreement and unresolved issues, and addresses misapplications of evolutionary theory that lead the authors to adopt a Darwinian (versus Lamarckian) approach. To say that creativity is Darwinian is not to say that it consists of variation plus selection—in the everyday sense of the term—as the authors imply; it is to say that evolution is occurring because selection is affecting the distribution of randomly generated heritable variation across generations. In creative thought the distribution of variants is not key, i.e., one is not inclined toward idea A because 60% of one’s candidate ideas are variants of A while only 40% are variants of B; one is inclined toward whichever seems best. The authors concede that creative variation is partly directed; however, the greater the extent to which variants are generated non-randomly, the greater the extent to which the distribution of variants can reflect not selection but the initial generation bias. Since each thought in a creative process can alter the selective criteria against which the next is evaluated, there is no demarcation into generations as assumed in a Darwinian model. We address the authors’ claim that reduced variability and individuality are more characteristic of Lamarckism than Darwinian evolution, and note that a Lamarckian approach to creativity has addressed the challenge of modeling the emergent features associated with insight.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Röttger, Britta
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Vom Hofhaus zum Reihenhaus
Creators: name: Schnepf-Orth, Marita
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz, Vom Hofhaus zum Reihenhaus. Das Shophouse im kolonialzeitlichen Penang, Malaysia. Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart, 2003.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
High Precision Measurements of Isomeric States in ⁹⁴,⁹⁶Pd and ⁹⁴Ru
Creators: name: Jazrawi, Shaheen
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: This thesis presents the first results using the FAst TIMing Array (FATIMA) spectrometer for electromagnetic transition rate measurements within the NuSTAR facility at GSI-FAIR phase-0. The Monte-Carlo simulated response for gamma-ray detection by FATIMA for exploitation within the the DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) experimental system at the FAIR Phase-0 facility at Darmstadt, Germany is presented. In this configuration, FATIMA consisted of 36 LaBr₃(Ce) detectors surrounding the AIDA, position sensitive charged-particle active stopper detection system. The decay of the Iπ = 8+ isomerically decaying cascade in ⁹⁶Pd was measured in the first DESPEC experiment at the FAIR-0 facility following the projectile fragmentation of a ¹²⁴Xe primary beam incident on a ⁹Be target and was used to validate the simulations. The experimental data yielded full energy peak efficiency values for FATIMA of 11.2(11)%, 6.8(7)%, 3.8(6)% and 2.1(5)% at 106 keV, 325 keV, 684 keV and 1415 keV respectively, consistent with the values derived from the simulated GEANT4 response. This thesis also reports on the scientific output of the first experiment of the DESPEC Phase-0 campaign at GSI, which focussed on the study of neutron-deficient nuclei approaching ¹⁰⁰Sn. Results are presented on electromagnetic transition rates associated with the decays from excited states populated following the formation of Iπ = 8+ proton ‘seniority isomer’ states in the N = 50 isotones ⁹⁴Ru and ⁹⁶Pd and the Iπ = 14+ isomer in ⁹⁴Pd. Direct half-life measurements via γ−γ coincidences using the FATIMA detector array have been used to determine the reduced matrix elements associated with decays between low-lying states in these semi-magic nuclei. The extracted half-lives for the yrast Iπ = 6+ and 6+ states in ⁹⁶Pd were measured to be 6.4(4) ns and 1.0(1) ns respectively with a prompt decay observed from the 2+ to ground state. Additionally, the 8+ and 6+ yrast states in ⁹⁴Ru were measured to posses half-lives of 64(1) µs and 63(4) ns respectively. These measurements are consistent with the published, highest-precision values for these nuclei. The data on ⁹⁴Pd provide the first measurement of the B(E2:8+ → 6+) for this N = 48 nucleus at 5.3(1)×10−3 e² b² for a half-life of 1.2(3) ns. The measured B(E2) value compare favourably with predictions from state-of-the-art shell model calculations using the Gross-Fenkel and JUN45 interactions assuming a closed 7638Sr38 core.
Anwar Ibrahim nach seiner Freilassung
Creators: name: Fulda, Andreas
name: Haars, Klaus
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Anwar Ibrahim ist im September 2004 nach sechsjähriger Haft entlassen worden. Andreas Fulda und Klaus Haars von amnesty international trafen ihn während seines Aufenthalts in München, wo er sich wegen einer medizinischen Behandlung aufhielt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Margarosmilia gemminata Beauvais 1986
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Margarophylliidae
Margarosmilia
Margarosmilia gemminata

description: Margarosmilia? gemminata Beauvais, 1986
(Fig. 37)
Margarosmilia? gemminata Beauvais, 1986: 27, pl. 6, fig. 3, and txt-fig. 17-18.
Margarosmilia? gemminata – Vasseur 2018: 234-235, fig. 3.53.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: MNHN.F.R11617, Beauvais 1986: 28, pl. 6, fig. 3 and txt-fig. 17-18. TYPE HORIZON. — Domerian (Upper Pliensbachian).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Beni Tadjit (Bou Dahar), Morocco. STUDIED SAMPLE. — Holotype MNHN.F.R11617. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Jebel Bou Dahar (Morocco).
DESCRIPTION (modified after Beauvais 1986)
Subdendroid corallum in the form of a cylinder holding three short branches that seem to have grown by parricidal intracalicular budding. One single corallite is well developed, the two others are abortive. The bigger corallite is subcylindrical as the parent-corallite and hold a deep infundibuliform calice with sharp calicular edges. The parent-corallite is covered by a thick wrinkled epitheca s.l., which is not the case for the offspring-corallites. The calicular fossa is small, deep, slightly elongated. Radial elements are compact, free, straight costosepta with a fusiform elongated shape in transverse section. The distal edge is smooth or finely granulated and the lateral faces hold thin granulae. No columella. Wall probably present, of undefined nature.
Calicular diameter: 9 to 26 mm – Number of septa: approximately 102 for the bigger of the 3 rejuvenescent calices – Septal density: 5 per 2 mm.
REMARK
We keep this species with doubt under the genus Margarosmilia, given that polished or thin sections would be necessary to exclude the possibility of a reallocation to the genus Coryphyllia Cuif, 1975 into the family of the Coryphylliidae.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on pages 1242-1244, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
South Asian-White health inequalities in Canada : Intersections with gender and immigrant status
Creators: name: Veenstra, Gerry
name: Patterson, Andrew C
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018

description: Objectives: We apply intersectionality theory to health inequalities in Canada by investigating whether South Asian-White health inequalities are conditioned by gender and immigrant status in a synergistic way. Design: Our dataset comprised 10 cycles (2001-2013) of the Canadian Community Health Survey. Using binary logistic regression modeling, we examined South Asian-White inequalities in self-rated health, diabetes, hypertension and asthma before and after controlling for potentially explanatory factors. Models were calculated separately in subsamples of native-born women, native-born men, immigrant women and immigrant men. Results: South Asian immigrants had higher odds of fair/poor self-rated health, diabetes and hypertension than White immigrants. Native-born South Asian men had higher odds of fair/poor self-rated health than native-born White men and native-born South Asian women had lower odds of hypertension than native-born White women. Education, household income, smoking, physical activity and body mass index did little to explain these associations. The three-way interaction between racial identity, gender and immigrant status approached statistical significance for hypertension but not for self-rated health and asthma. Conclusion: Our findings provide modest support for the principle that combinations of identities derived from race, gender and nationality constitute sui generis categories in the manifestation of health outcomes.
Overcoming Language Barrier in Open Repositories: A case of Sokoine University of Agriculture
Creators: name: Mushi, Gilbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: OR2020
Repositories
Swahili
Tanzania

description: This presentation covers —SUA Institutional Repository (SUAIR), where all publications are in English, and Mkulima Library Repository, —with content translated into Swahili language - —“Mkulima” is a Swahili word which means a “Farmer”. —Repositories are managed and maintained by the directorate of Sokoine National Agricultural Library (SNAL), which is both the University library and National library of agriculture in Tanzania. —Promoting Mkulima Library Repository, feedback from farmers, challenges and way forward are also presented.
Distichophyllia norica
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia
Distichophyllia norica

description: Distichophyllia cf. norica (Frech, 1890)
(Fig. 41)
Montlivaltia norica Frech, 1890: 39-40, pl. 3, fig. 9, pl. 10, figs 1-5, pl. 13, figs 1-7, pl. 18, fig. 17.
Montlivaltia cupuliformis – Reuss 1854: 74, 102, pl. 6, fig. 16-17.
Distichophyllia norica – Roniewicz 1989: 39, pl.6, fig.2-4 (cum syn.).
Distichophyllia sp. 2 – Vasseur 2018: 178-179, fig. 3.30.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Syntypes BSP AS X II 46, 48, Reuss 1854: 74, 102, pl. 6, fig. 16-17. TYPE HORIZON. — Zlambach beds, Triassic. TYPE LOCALITY. — Grosser Zlambach graben. Studied samples. — Two specimens: CPUN 2310 A2, AM16174-1. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Amellagou (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Solitary, probably conical corallum, elliptical in outline.Radial elements are costosepta slightly bicuneiform for the first orders, thin for the last ones, often in zigzag and organized in 3 or 4 size orders following a relatively strict hexameral symmetry. Septa are compact, free, ornamented with granules sometimes attenuated by stereomal layer deposits on lateral faces and have a more or less wavy zigzag midseptal line. No columella but an axial fossa elongated that defines a bilateral symmetry. Endotheca made of many peripheral vesicular dissepiments. Wall parathecal. An epicostal epitheca s.l. seems to cover the external parts of the corallum.
Calicular diameter: 19.9 × 25.9 – 20.5 × 24 – 17.4 × 23.8 mm – Number of septa: approximately 60 to 70 – Septal density: 2 to 3 per 2 mm – Ratio great calicular diameter (D) / length of fossa (f) (in distal part of the corallum) = approximately 2.5.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
This species differs from Distichophyllia pauciseptata n. sp. by a higher number of septa, a more pronounced bilateral symmetry and less bicuneiform first-order septa. The present species is distinguished from the typical D. norica by the high elongation of the fossa in distal part and also of the calice in the bilateral plan and also a strong hierarchy in thickness among the size orders of septa. The size of granules is also very low in the present form. The ratio D / f seems significant in the present state of our sampling but D. norica seems so variable that we renounced to the creation of a new species. The synonymy with M. cupuliformis is not certain that is why we prefer to keep the name of norica to describe this species despite the anteriority of M. cupuliformis.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1248, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Indoor scene understanding from visual analysis of human activity
Creators: name: Fowler, Sam
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020
Subjects: indoor scene understanding
human activity
visual analysis
computer vision

description: Visual scene understanding studies the task of representing a captured scene in a manner emulating human-like understanding of that space. Considering indoor scenes are designed for human use and are utilised everyday, attaining this understanding is crucial for applications such as robotic mapping and navigation, smart home and security systems, and home healthcare and assisted living. However, although we as humans utilise such spaces in our day-to-day lives, analysis of human activity is not commonly applied towards enhancing indoor scene-level understanding. As such, the work presented in this thesis investigates the benefits of including human activity information in indoor scene understanding challenges, aiming to demonstrate its potential contributions, applications, and versatility. The first contribution of this thesis utilises human activity to reveal scene regions occluded behind objects and clutter. Human poses recognised from a static sensor are projected into a top-down scene representation recording belief of human activity over time. This representation is applied to carve a volumetric scene map, initialised on captured depth, to expose the occupancy of hidden scene regions. An object detection approach exploits the revealed occluded scene occupancy to localise self-, partially-, and, significantly, fully-occluded objects. The second contribution extends the top-down activity representation to predict the functionality of major scene surfaces from human activity recognised in 360 degree video. A convolutional network is trained on simulated human activity to segment walkable, sittable, and interactable surfaces from the top-down perspective. This prediction is applied to construct a complete scene 3D approximation, with results showing scene structure and surface functionality are predicted well from human activity alone. Finally, this thesis investigates an association between the top-down functionality prediction and the captured visual scene. A new dataset capturing long-term human activity is introduced to train a model on combined activity and visual scene information. The model is trained to segment functional scene surfaces from the capture sensor perspective, with evaluation establishing that the introduction of human activity information can improve functional surface segmentation performance. Overall, the work presented in this thesis demonstrates that analysis of human activity can be applied to enhance indoor scene understanding across various challenges, sensors, and representations. Assorted datasets are introduced alongside the major contributions to motivate further investigation into its application.
Margarosmilia Volz 1896
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Margarophylliidae
Margarosmilia

description: Margarosmilia? sp.
(Fig. 38)
Margarosmilia? sp. 1 – Vasseur 2018: 236-237, fig. 3.54.
STUDIED SAMPLES. — Two specimens: CPUN DA2905E1-2, CPUN DA2905E2-1. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Dades Valley (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Phaceloid colony with huge subcircular calices often distorted by intracalicular budding. Radial elements are free, straight or curved, compact costosepta except in the most inner part of septa where septal trabeculae dissociate sometimes in the close elongated fossa but never produce a real columella. Lateral faces of septa hold pennula-like granules that alternate from one side to the other of one single septum, in accordance with the description of the genus Margarosmilia in Cuif (1975). A wavy mid-septal line seems to appear even if the poor preservation of the specimens does not allow a clear confirmation. Endotheca made of quite abundant thin vesicular dissepiments. Synapticulae not observed. An epicostal epitheca s.l. wraps the corallites.
Calicular diameter: 12 to 23 mm – Distance between calices centers: 25 to 40 mm – Septal density: 4 to 6 per 2 mm.
REMARKS
We place with doubt these specimens under the genus Margarosmilia because the poor preservation of the specimens does not allow to confirm the presence of a mid-septal line (even if some ghosts of these structures seem to exist) and because of the subcompact nature of the very inner edge of septa; however, this last character appears for us compatible with the structure described in Cuif (1975).
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1244, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Ein Interview mit dem Swimming Pool: Malaysia veranstaltet zum neunten Mal ein Filmfestival
Creators: name: Roelle, Anna
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Vom 10. bis zum 17. September 2004 fanden in Malaysia zum neunten Mal die Malaysian Video Awards (MVA) statt. Das jährliche Festival ist zwar nicht das einzige seiner Art in Südostasien, aber sehr populär, da neben den Preisen für lokale Künstler auch Preise für Filmemacher der gesamten ASEAN-Region vergeben werden. Außerdem ist der Award einer der wenigen in Malaysia, der nicht von der Regierung zensiert und reguliert wird und somit künstlerische Freiheit garantiert.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Measuring the performance of teams in one-day cricket
Creators: name: Allsopp, Paul
name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A method suggested by Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis to create a margin of victory in runs for the team batting second in one-day cricket matches using the par score is compared to a proposed fairer method using the projected score. The par score is shown to underestimate the margin of victory, whereas, estimates based on the projected score are essentially equivalent to those generated by the team batting first. If resources available to the team batting second are low the results show that any differences in the margins of victory using either method are marginal.
A multiscale study of structure and water transport in wood.
Creators: name: Adey-Johnson, Robin
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This thesis set out to understand the water dynamics in softwood using a lattice Boltzmann model description of sorption, with microstructural information derived from X-ray Computed Tomography experiments and experimental validation of water dynamics using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This is the first substantive use of a new lattice Boltzmann model that includes multiphase liquid/vapour fluid dynamics in lumen with sub-resolution effective media to model cell wall sorption. This is also the first time these three technologies have been combined to study the sorption behaviour of softwood. A software package—ProTG—-was written to generate tesselating arrays of realistic two-dimensional tracheids, including pits, suitable for use as a bounceback mask in the lattice Boltzmann model. ProTG tracheids are created based on a statistical distribution of values for each of a number of anatomical parameters. To ensure these are realistic, Norway spruce (Picea abies) juvenile wood was imaged using X-ray micro computed tomography at a voxel size of 2.5 µm and seven anatomical parameters were measured for 1511 complete tracheids. Statistical distributions were fitted to measurements of: tracheid length; radial and tangential lumen diameter and cell wall thickness; cell overlap; and linear intra-tracheid pit density. The latter two distributions are novel, as they required a number of CT volumes to be acquired and stitched together. Lattice Boltzmann sorption simulations were carried out on an array of tracheids where both relative humidity and pit state (open, closed and dynamic) were varied. Significant differences were seen between drying behaviour with pits open and closed, while dynamic pits behaved similarly to closed pits. Cell wall desorption took place at 35% RH but not 65% RH: in the latter case the wet cell walls prevented tracheids with closed pits from drying. Finally, NMR drying and rewetting experiments were performed on dried cubes and green discs to provide qualitative validation of the lattice Boltzmann simulations. The initial drying of green discs was found to proceed significantly differently to subsequent drying cycles, and initial rewetting also differed from subsequent rewetting.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Kupfer, Kristin
name: Tavassolie, Babak
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Distichophyllia pauciseptata Vasseur & Lathuilière 2021, n. sp.
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia
Distichophyllia pauciseptata

description: Distichophyllia pauciseptata n. sp.
(Fig. 42)
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 09CE1D0D-E0FA-473B-A598-9ED47CECA2E4
Distichophyllia sp. 1 – Vasseur 2018: 176-177, fig. 3.29.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: CPUN AM16179-4; paratypes: CPUN 2703 A3-4, CPUN CDAm2. STUDIED SAMPLES. — Three specimens: CPUN 2703 A3-4, CPUN AM16179-4, CPUN CDAm2. ETYMOLOGY. — Refers to the low number of septa among the specimens of this species. TYPE HORIZON. — Upper Pliensbachian. TYPE LOCALITY. — Amellagou, 31°57’25”N, 5°2’11”W, Morocco. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian from Amellagou (High Atlas, Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Solitary, conical corallum, subcircular to elliptical with varying apical angle. Radial elements are bicuneiform costosepta for the first order, thin for the last ones, often in zigzag and organized in 3 or 4 size orders following a relatively strict hexameral symmetry. Septa are compact, free, ornamented with granules sometimes attenuated by stereome layers on lateral faces. No columella but an axial fossa sometimes elongated defining a bilateral symmetry. Endotheca made of vesicular dissepiments. Wall parathecal, incomplete. An epicostal epitheca s.l. covers the external parts of the corallum.
Calicular diameter: 18.5 to 26 mm – Number of septa: 45 to 50 – Septal density: 2 to 3 per 2 mm.
REMARK
The present species has no equivalent among Triassic Distichophyllia in terms of number of septa and hierarchy of septal thickness.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on pages 1248-1249, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Study of Person-Environment Fit on Residential Satisfaction and Well-being in Urban Housing
Creators: name: Jagannath, Sadhana
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2018

description: This research aimed to study residential satisfaction and well-being at urban residences in the UK. The concept of person-environment fit was used to study this (N=107). Person-environment fit was calculated by studying and testing the similarities between the personalities of people and the physical characteristics of their homes. A good fit meant that the homes allowed and reflected the personality of a resident well. The extent to which making changes to a home in terms of personalisation and modification affects person-environment fit and overall satisfaction and well-being at homes was studied. It was found that feelings of satisfaction and positive affect at home was explained by person-environment fit. Residential satisfaction and well-being were also significantly influenced by personalisation of the living spaces and the resident’s perceived ability to make changes to their homes.
»Jetzt ist Zeit für Rache. Jetzt lernt Ihr die Hölle kennen«: Friedenszonen für Südthailand
Creators: name: Horstmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: ln unserer vorletzten Ausgabe (2/2004) wurde über die gewalttätigen Ausschreitungen in Südthailand berichtet. Inzwischen ist es schon zweimal zu einem Blutbad gekommen, in dem das thailändische Militär mit größter Brutalität jenseits aller Maßstäbe reagierte und zeigte, dass es kein Interesse an einer friedlichen Beilegung der Konflikte in Südthailand hat.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Distichophyllia Cuif 1975
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia

description: Genus Distichophyllia Cuif, 1975
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 9AFC2812-4FBF-4D3B-B7C7-70E2CF443C07
TYPE SPECIES. — Montlivaltia norica Frech, 1890: 39: pl. 3, fig. 8, 9, pl. 10, fig. 1-5, pl. 18, fig. 17, by original designation.
REMARK
The genus differs from Coryphyllia Cuif, 1975 by a midseptal line in zigzag, thick fibrous and laminar stereome deposits on lateral faces and the lack of lonsdaleoid septa.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1244, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
AI-Driven VNF Splitting in O-RAN for Enhancing Resource Allocation Efficiency
Creators: name: Amiri, Esmaeil
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: In this thesis, the focus is on addressing the challenges faced by Radio Access Networks (RANs) in adapting to dynamic demands without manual intervention. The Open RAN (O-RAN) architecture is introduced, which enables programmability, openness, virtualization, and disaggregation principles. The base station functions are implemented as Virtual Network Functions (VNF) and split across O-RAN nodes, including the Radio Unit (RU), Distributed Unit (DU), and Centralized Unit (CU).

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description: One of the main objectives of this thesis is to achieve load balance VNF splitting by intelligently distributing the workload across CUs and network links, thereby preventing network congestion and overload. This is addressed by proposing a heuristic algorithm. Additionally, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based methods are employed to intelligently manage resource allocation for dynamic VNF splitting with different objectives. These objectives are robust VNF splitting to minimize frequent VNF reconfigurations, energy-efficient VNF splitting, and edge-AI empowered dynamic VNF splitting for network slicing. These objectives are formulated mathematically and incorporated into Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and federated DRL frameworks, where reward functions are defined to guide the learning process.

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description: The thesis presents significant contributions in proposing diverse O-RAN system designs, and evaluating the proposed solutions using abstract and real network topologies. The simulation results demonstrate that the heuristic solution effectively achieves load balance, with a small gap of ≤ 2% compared to optimal solutions for small network scales. Moreover, by fine-tuning the AI hyperparameters, the performance gap of the edge-AI enabled solution can be reduced by 3% compared to the optimal solution. The proposed solution for robust dynamic VNF splitting reduces the overhead of VNF reconfigurations by up to 76%, with a minor increase of up to 23% in computational costs. Additionally, the solution for energy-efficient VNF splitting achieves noteworthy energy savings, with up to 56% reduction compared to non-VNF splitting solutions.
The immune response to live, attenuated peste des petits ruminants virus vaccines.
Creators: name: Hodgson, Sophia
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important disease of sheep and goats caused by infection with the morbillivirus, peste des petits rumiants virus (PPRV). The disease is characterised by high morbidity and mortality and is a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reportable disease. The OIE and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have agreed to globally eradicate PPR by 2030. Eradication of the disease will lead to improvements in food security and livelihood stability for millions of subsistence and nomadic farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries. Vaccination will play a key role in global eradication. Live, attenuated vaccines are available for PPRV and have a long safety and efficacy record, however, the mechanisms of protection are not known. There are four genetic lineages of PPRV, but only one serotype, to improve end-user confidence in the vaccines, vaccination/challenge experiments were performed with the two most widely used live, attenuated vaccines and challenging with representative PPRV strains from all genetic lineages. Both vaccines provided protection against all four genetic lineages. The mechanisms of vaccine-induced protection have not been investigated in detail for these vaccines, so serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) collected during the vaccination/challenge experiments were used to study the cellular and serological responses to vaccination. Both vaccines induce PPRV-neutralising antibodies and PPRV-specific proliferative responses and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) production. To investigate the role of CD8+ T cells in vaccine-induced protection goats were vaccinated, injected with the anti-CD8 mAb CC63 and challenged whilst their CD8+ cells were almost undetectable in peripheral blood. CD8-depleted goats did not develop signs of PPRV, but on post mortem some were found to have gut-specific pathology. Therefore, CD8+ T cells are not the primary source of vaccine-induced protection, but they may play a role in tissue-specific protection.
Analysis of TCP performance over hybrid 'fast fixed-to-slow wireless' buffered links
Creators: name: Mukhtar, Rami G.
name: Hanly, Stephen V.
name: Vu, Hai
name: Ivanovich, Milosh V.
name: Fitzpatrick, Paul G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate performance improvements through TCP window size optimisation achievable when TCP Reno is used over a highly heterogeneous network, such as an 802.11b Wireless LAN or a GPRS-based internet connection. Initially, our modelling focuses on a constant rate, buffered access link, based on a loss-less wireless channel and with a bandwidth at least one order of magnitude less than its fixed-network continuation into the core. We implement the model guidelines on Wireless LAN and GPRS access links, confirming that TCP throughput can be increased by optimising the TCP receiver window size to the link characteristics, and more significantly, that there exists a broad range of near-optimal awnd values.
Montien Boonma — Jenseits der materiellen Welt
Creators: name: Horstmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Wie kein anderer hat es Montien Boonma verstanden, die Seele Thailands in seinen wunderschönen und betörenden Skulpturen zu verkörpern.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
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Creators: name: Müller, Michaela
name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
(Keine) Perspektiven der Zusammenarbeit?
Creators: name: Wagener, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Am 22. September 2004 lud die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) nach Berlin, um über »Perspektiven der Zusammenarbeit« in Myanmar (Burma) zu diskutieren. Die anwesenden Gäste repräsentierten das breite Spektrum von Institutionen und Organisationen in Deutschland, die sich in und zu Burma engagieren.
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IMPROVING THE MENTAL WELL-BEING OF THE CHILDREN IN BURKE COUNTY BY INCREASING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
Creators: name: Diaz, Jhonatan; Lewis-Wesley, Shelia; Mbugua-Daisley, Nyambura; Safi, Roya; Serrano, Nelson; and Stalzer, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: This proposal outlines a comprehensive strategy for addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in Burke County. The focus is on upstream interventions that can lead to long-term, downstream improvements in community health. Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. The primary focus is on the social and community context as the main SDOH. Specifically, the concern is with the mental health of children aged 5-17 in Burke County. This proposal aims to recommend actionable strategies that Burke County can implement to address the identified SDOH. The content is based on a comprehensive analysis of current data, evidence-based practices, and expert consultations. This proposal synthesizes these findings and provides three transparent, actionable recommendations for the County Commissioners that will ultimately foster resilience, enhance access to care, and promote long-term health and well-being for children in Burke County.

Keywords: Social Determinants of Health, Mental Health, Mental Well-Being, Burke County
Machine learning for the exploitation of high throughput omics data : a case study on identifying circadian disruption from human blood transcriptomic data.
Creators: name: Alganmi, Nofe
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: The DNA microarray is a high throughput technology that is able to scan thousands of genes simultaneously and read their expression level. However, there are many challenges associated with data. One of the main opportunities is the curse of dimensionality which makes it difficult to learn without overfitting. Therefore, we proposed an unsupervised nonlinear machine learning framework to explore the circadian rhythmic features as a case study. Auto-encoder is capable of automatically learn the microarray data features and reveal knowledge that can help in designing the complex relations between the features for a circadian disorder in the future. Features derived from unsupervised algorithms can serve as input features to supervised learning, used to build discriminative markers, and directly used as functional modules. The constructed features are typically compressed representation of input data in a lower dimension. They maintain essential information in the input but are better organized than the input with less noise or artifacts. Therefore, it is easier to build classifiers on the summarized features than raw input data, and the success of a classifier heavily depends on the choice of data representation We proved our finding using machine learning classification framework. With our representation, we could enhance simple linear SVM accuracy from 63% to 75% We also proposed a novel machine learning approach to evaluating the circadian disruption using robust regression as a contextual anomaly detection method. The main aspect of novelty in this work is coming from applying a point anomaly detection technique with respect to a circadian rhythmicity context. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first which introduced the use of NR1D1/NR1D2 clock genes as prior knowledge to detect genes pathways involved in response to sleep disruption. In the Circadian Disruption Detection (CDD) model, we implemented and validated a model that successfully model the normal samples. While in anomalies samples i.e. samples with significant transcription effect under the circadian disruption, the model was acting poorly. Results of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test show the benefits of using our robust multi-regression errors as a biological biomarker to detect sleep deprivation using genes microarray data. we found that there was a significant difference between the error distribution for the normal sleep and the anomalies samples at the p<0.05 level. The model used to identify a quantitative measurement for sleep disruption in human regardless of the time of the day.
Comparative effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 99 reviews the comparative effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors. Conclusions: There is currently no convincing RCT evidence that one PPI is preferable to another for the management of GERD or PUD related symptoms or for endoscopically confirmed healing of esophagitis. The risk of bias assessment of the 63 included RCTs indicated a high risk of selection, reporting, performance and detection bias. There are no long-term, head-to-head comparative RCTs specifically designed to monitor adverse effects of PPIs. Observational studies suggest that long-term use of PPIs is associated with a number of serious adverse effects. The cost of different PPIs vary by over tenfold.
Kunst (um) zu leben — Ein Reise- und Ausstellungsbericht aus und zu Burma
Creators: name: Fleschenberg, Andrea
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Ein Bild geht mir seit Rangun nicht mehr aus dem Kopf, gravierte sich in meine Erinnerungen und Impressionen an Burma ein: Auf einer Berganhöhe steht eine Flüchtlingsfrau mit Kind, vielleicht ist sie Karen, vielleicht Kachin. Sie schaut mich an, weder drohend noch flehend und doch durchdringend und alles Leiden Burmas, seiner Menschen und Flüchtlinge verdeutlichend und gleichzeitig in die Feme, in ein Land jenseits von Repression, Krieg und Unterdrückung schauend.
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Distichophyllia norica
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia
Distichophyllia norica

description: Distichophyllia norica (Frech, 1890)
(Fig. 40)
Montlivaltia norica Frech, 1890: 39-40, pl. 3, fig. 9, pl. 10, figs 1-5, pl. 13, figs 1-7, pl. 18, fig. 17.
Montlivaltia cupuliformis Reuss, 1854: 74, 102, pl. 6 fig. 16-17.
Distichophyllia norica – Roniewicz 1989: 39, pl. 6, fig. 2-4 (cum syn.).
Distichophyllia sp. 2 – Vasseur 2018: 178-179, fig. 3.30.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Syntypes BSP AS X II 46, 48, Reuss 1854: 74, 102, pl. 6, fig. 16-17. TYPE HORIZON. — Zlambach beds, Triassic. TYPE LOCALITY. — Grosser Zlambach graben. STUDIED SAMPLES. — Two specimens: CPUN 2303 A1-3, CPUN AM16188-15. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Amellagou (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Solitary, conical corallum, elliptical in outline. Radial elements are slightly bicuneiform costosepta for the first order, thin for the last ones, often in zigzag and organized in 3 or 4 size orders following a relatively strict hexameral symmetry. Septa are compact, free, ornamented with strong granules sometimes angular on lateral faces and seem to have a more or less wavy zigzag midseptal line that the poor preservation does not allow to confirm. No columella but an axial fossa elongated that defines a bilateral symmetry. Endotheca made of peripheral vesicular dissepiments.Wall parathecal.An epicostal epitheca s.l. seems to cover the external parts of the corallum. Calicular diameter: 26 to 28 mm – Distance between calice centers: 55 to 70 mm – Septal density: 2 to 3 per 2 mm.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
The present species has no equivalent among Triassic Distichophyllia in terms of number of septa and hierarchy of septal thickness. It differs from the other Distichophyllia described herein by the big size and the particular shape of the lateral granules of septa. In addition, this species differs from Distichophyllia pauciseptata n. sp. by a higher number of septa, a pronounced bilateral symmetry, a less defined hexameral symmetry and also less bicuneiform septa. The endotheca seems less abundant and costal parts are smaller. These characters make this species close to Distichophyllia cf. norica described thereafter. The synonymy with M. cupuliformis is not certain that is why we prefer to keep the name norica to describe this species despite the anteriority of M. cupuliformis.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on pages 1244-1248, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Schepers, Stephan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
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GPU accelerated onboard data processing for downlink optimisation.
Creators: name: Davidson, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020
Subjects: Earth observation
onboard
image compression
image processing
FPGA
GPU
space
satellites
radiation
error resilience

description: The dimensionality and volume of raw payload data generated onboard Earth Observation (EO) satellites has increased beyond the capabilities of satellite downlink technologies, as a result a bottleneck in the data delivery chain has developed. This data bottleneck must be alleviated in order for EO satellites to efficiently deliver the quality and quantity of payload data now expected by its reliant applications. In this thesis, hardware architectures, processing algorithms and software design are aspects explored towards a solution. As a result, a new onboard satellite data processing architecture is proposed. The key novelties of the proposed system are the use of a Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), to facilitate state-of-the-art image processing, and the highly flexible nature of the architecture, enabling an adaptive processing chain that can be deployed across numerous platforms and missions. In addition, the research documented in this thesis aims to demonstrate the viability and evaluate the advantages of using low-power GPUs in an onboard data processing system. Onboard suitable GPU optimised software development approaches are proposed and practically assessed by leveraging the state-of-the-art image compression algorithm, CCSDS-123, as a case study. Firstly, application development for maximised processing throughput is investigated using hyperspectral and multispectral EO data sets. The processing throughput, compression ratio and power consumption of the new CCSDS-123 image compression GPU application are assessed and characterised for a desktop GPU and the onboard representative low power NVIDIA Jetson TX1 GPU platform. Secondly, software based error injection experiments are leveraged to investigate the error resilience of the CCSDS-123 GPU application. This is a vital area of research which is required to facilitate the wider acceptance and use of GPU devices in space and safety critical applications, where errors are possible and cannot be tolerated. Using these results new error mitigation techniques are also proposed and evaluated.
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Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
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