cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Western yew management in British Columbian forests : recommendations for conservation-based management strategies for species protection
Creators: name: Woods, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Western yew or Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia Nutt.) is an ancient conifer that has been a component of British Columbian Coastal and Interior forests for millions of years. Yew is not uncommon within its range, with distribution patterns ranging from scattered to dense patches depending on the site. However, the species is fairly sensitive as it is slow growing with a narrow ecological range. Past lessons of overexploitation for the species’ anticarcinogen properties have shown how easily it is to virtually eliminate yew from stands where it naturally occurs. Harvesting practices continue to be a serious threat to Western yew and with limited species conservation forest legislation in the province, there appears to be little consideration for this tree’s ecological services and importance to First Nations groups. The essay provides a literature review on Western yew, describing its major characteristics, ecological and social significance, and threats to its health and sustainability. The report then analyses the potential direction of Western yew management in BC’s forests by discussing the first steps to innovative forest practices provided by the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Auditor General’s report on BC’s forest practices. The implementation of Western yew protection in BC forest management is then discussed using the Haida Gwaii Strategic Land Use Agreement as a primary example of a species specific conservation strategy. Given the success of this strategy, the report recommends similar approaches to be executed in other forest districts within the province in order to encourage the conservation of Western yew throughout its natural range.
La voce e la risonanza. Dal grido in una caverna alla performance di Stimmung
Creators: name: Giomi, Andrea
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2012

description: Che rapporto lega l’immagine della materialità del suono prodotta dal corpo sonoro in risonanza ad una possibile lettura fenomenologica dell’eco come oggettivazione della voce? L’autore cerca di dar ragione del concetto di voce in eco, come  oggettivazione dell’evento sonoro attraverso una analisi puntuale di Stimmung di Karlheinz Stockhausen.

La scelta del brano è motivata dall 'interesse che questo brano dimostra nei confronti di una tecnica musicale, il canto armonico, che mette in gioco in maniera coerente l'intuizione del corpo come cavità e le sue proprietà risonantiche. In questa prospettiva acquistano particolare rilievo le interferenze che coniugano le componenti performative al disegno che deve sostenere il costituirsi di regole nell’elaborazione formale del brano: tale intreccio porta alla luce il livello impersonale ed intersoggettivo della dimensione dell’ascolto musicale.
description: De Musica, 2012: XVI
title: Zeremonien und Verfahren: zur politischen Kultur im frühneuzeitlichen Europa
Creators: name: Brakensiek, Stefan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Die Beschäftigung mit politischen Zeremonien und Verfahren im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit lässt auch Rückschlüsse zur Erklärung der Gegenwart zu, so Stefan Brakensiek in seinem Beitrag.
description: The article deals with political culture in early modern Europe. It investigates how princely or monarchical governments addressed themselves to their subjects, to what extent authorities used forms of cooperation, and how individuals or different societal groups were regularly integrated into domainal communication. It reveals that subjects in subordinate positions participated in the political process either through conflict with their lordships or in the form of consensual proceedings. Dominion rested on some kind of selective cooperation between government and individuals or certain cohorts of subjects, and always on regular cooperation with the various unpaid chairmen of the communities. These relationships permitted considerable chances for participation, but even those subjects who were involved in permanent exchanges of communication or cooperation could scarcely claim to hold fixed and documented rights to participate: they had to rely on pragmatic habits of participation, which were a by-product of the everyday business of the practice of dominion. The growing significance of written norms and the documentation of procedures in writing, and the emergence of competing authorities created an institutional framework that enhanced empowering interactions. On the one hand the proceedings of the authorities provided channels of communication that widened the scope of action for subjects, and, to some extent, opened the gates for their participation. On the other hand these empowering interactions contributed to the intensification of dominion, mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 70
Quantifying wave propagation in a chain of FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons
Creators: name: Goulefack, L. Messee
name: Masoller, C.
name: Yamapi, R.
name: Anteneodo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding how external stimuli propagate in neural systems is an important challenge in the fields of neuroscience and nonlinear dynamics. Despite extensive studies over several decades, this problem remains poorly understood. In this work, we examine a simple ``toy model'' of an excitable medium, a linear chain of diffusely coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons, and analyze the transmission of a sinusoidal signal injected into one of the neurons at the ends of the chain. We measure to what extent the propagation of the wave reaching the opposite end is affected by the frequency and amplitude of the signal, the number of neurons in the chain and the strength of their mutual diffusive coupling. To quantify these effects, we measure the cross-correlation between the time-series of the membrane potentials of the end neurons. This measure allows us to detect the values of the parameters that delimit different propagation regimes.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures
title: Nützliche Molekülketten: Nanoporen und nanoskalige Schichten aus funktionalen Polymeren für die selektive Trennung von Biomolekülen und -partikeln
Creators: name: Ulbricht, Mathias
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 660

description: Funktionale Makromoleküle lassen sich als Bausteine für eine Vielzahl an Nanostrukturen verwenden. Allerdings ist die Komplexität der Funktionen von synthetischen Polymeren deutlich geringer als die von Biomakromolekülen und anderen biologischen Strukturen. Wichtige Schritte in Richtung komplexerer Funktionen synthetischer Makromoleküle werden vor allem durch kontrollierte Polymerisationen erreicht. Die industrielle Umsetzung zu neuen funktionalen Polymermaterialien ist unterschiedlich aufwändig. Mathias Ulbricht prognostiziert, dass sich das Anwendungsspektrum von synthetischen Polymeren kontinuierlich in immer neue Felder erweitern wird.
description: The field of functional polymers is much more diverse than that of the commonly known and successfully used “plastic” materials for all kinds of construction purposes. The development of synthetic functional macromolecular architectures from organic building blocks is very dynamic, and many fascinating biomimetic concepts are driven by possible applications in biotechnology. With the help of examples from our own research work, it is demonstrated that synthetic polymers, especially those with well-defined structures obtained from controlled polymerizations, are most versatile for the creation of a large variety of nanostructures. Ultrafiltration membranes for size-based separations of proteins and other nanoparticles can be obtained by controlled phase separation of polymer solutions. The incorporation of tailored block copolymers leads to additional functions, for instance, an ultrafiltration separation capability which can be “switched” by stimuli such as environmental conditions (e.g., pH value or temperature). The surface functionalization with grafted functional copolymers leads to materials where either the unwanted, nonspecific adsorption of proteins is very efficiently reduced (nanoscale grafted antifouling coatings), or the specific recognition of proteins can be used for fast and efficient mass separation (macroporous protein adsorbers). Beyond the described examples in membrane materials and technologies, there is a huge potential for such tailored, “smart” polymeric non-materials in sensors, microsystems, biomaterials and many other relevant fields.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 32
Additional file 1 of Osteoporosis in nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Tanaka, Hiromu
name: Asakura, Takanori
name: Suzuki, Shoji
name: Okamori, Satoshi
name: Kusumoto, Tatsuya
name: Ogawa, Takunori
name: Uno, Shunsuke
name: Morita, Atsuho
name: Lee, Ho
name: Namkoong, Ho
name: Kamata, Hirofumi
name: Sato, Yasunori
name: Uwamino, Yoshifumi
name: Nishimura, Tomoyasu
name: Ishii, Makoto
name: Fukunaga, Koichi
name: Hasegawa, Naoki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Comparison of the percentage of osteoporosis stratified by age group between male patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease and in the Japanese general population. Figure S2. Serum estradiol (E2) level represented as a continuous variable among normal bone mineral density (BMD), osteopenia, and osteoporosis groups. Because the serum E2 level under the limit of detection for a chemiluminescent immunoassay was <10 pg/mL, all cases with E2 <10 pg/mL were equated with an E2 of 10 pg/mL. Figure S3. T-score stratified by serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels (normal ≥30 ng/ml; insufficiency <30 ng/ml and ≥20 ng/ml; deficiency <20 ng/ml) (A). Comparison of serum 25OHD status among normal bone mineral density (BMD), osteopenia, and osteoporosis groups (B). Table S1. Characteristics of the population in whom estradiol (E2) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were measured.
title: Vorreiter im europäischen Einigungsprozess: der Rhein-Maas-Raum
Creators: name: Engelbrecht, Jörg
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Ein Blick in die Geschichte des Rhein-Maas-Raumes verdeutlicht die These von Jörg Engelbrecht, dass Europa sich nicht auf zentraler, sonder vielmehr auf regionaler Ebene manifestiert.
description: During the Middle Ages and up until the 18th century, any notion of Europe was related to the reach of Latin Christianity. Thus major parts of modern day Europe (e.g. Russia) were not regarded as being European. Throughout the centuries there have been various concepts of “Europe”, and even the current European Union hardly matches the continent as a whole. But there are regions of common history and culture which form a microcosm of Europe as a whole. Such regions are Scandinavia, the Baltic States and the Rhine-Maas-Region. The latter comprises, roughly speaking, the Benelux-States plus North Rhine-Westphalia. However, the boundaries of this region can vary depending on the angle from which you look at it. In some ways it resembles an amoeba, which makes the region reflect a central aspect of European history as a whole. The regionalization of Europe, which is one of the central aims of the European Union, started from here and made the Rhine-Maas-Region a model for the future shape of Europe.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 84
title: Heilsame Flaschenpost: Nanokapseln als Trägersysteme in der Medizin
Creators: name: Mayer, Christian
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540

description: „Magic Bullets“ bezeichnen in der Chemie so genannte polymere Nanokapseln, die medizinisch genutzt werden können. Christian Mayer berichtet in seinem Beitrag über aktuelle Erfolge und Desiderate der diesbezüglichen Forschung.
description: Dispersed polymer nanocapsules can serve as nano-sized drug carriers to achieve controlled release as well as efficient drug targeting. Equipped with site-specific markers or guided by magnetic forces, they may transport an active ingredient to a specific tissue, hereby allowing for lower dosages and a significant reduction of side effects. In that sense, nanocapsules could represent the “magic bullet” for a pharmaceutical therapy. In principal, nanocapsules can be prepared by four different approaches: interfacial polymerization, interfacial precipitation, interfacial deposition, and self assembly procedures. All these procedures offer their individual advantages and disadvantages when it comes to the design of optimized drug carrier systems. The most important capsule parameters such as capsule radius distribution, the capsule surface, the thickness and, above all, the permeability of the capsule membrane and its thermal or chemical decomposition, can be controlled within wide margins. The success of the encapsulation process as well as the permeability of the capsule membranes is efficiently determined with adapted methods of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Examples for optimized capsule systems are shown which represent present developments used for a magic bullet approach. They include the transfer of genes, the application for tumor treatment, and the function as artificial oxygen carrier for artificial blood replacement. In combination with efficient preparation procedures, nanocapsule dispersions allow for new and promising approaches in many kinds of pharmaceutical therapies.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 44
Additional file 1 of Recombination rates in pigs differ between breeds, sexes and individuals, and are associated with the RNF212, SYCP2, PRDM7, MEI1 and MSH4 loci
Creators: name: Brekke, Cathrine
name: Berg, Peer
name: Gjuvsland, Arne B.
name: Johnston, Susan E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Distribution of crossover counts per gamete before filtering (LR). The distribution of crossover count per gamete plotted for the LR breed as an example. The x-axis is the autosomal crossover count for a gamete and the y-axis is the count of how many gametes had a particular crossover count.
title: Fluchthilfe: die Internationale Weltkarte (IWK) und die europäische Vermessung der Welt
Creators: name: Schneider, Ute
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Bei der Internationalen Weltkarte handelt es sich um eines der in Europa angeregten Großprojekte, die am Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts mit großem Elan entstanden und das sich bis in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zog. Ute Schneiders Artikel geht vor allem auf den Einsatz der Weltkarte im Ersten Weltkrieg ein. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die britische Kartenproduktion, die sich zwischen den Anforderungen im Felde und den Möglichkeiten der Heimat bewegte.
description: Although maps were of great importance during the First and Second World Wars, we do not know very much about their use. Apart from the official maps, the British War Office provided captured soldiers with a special range of maps hidden in playing cards, Monopoly games and other devices free from suspicion. One of these maps was the International Map of the World (IMW), an international project brought into being by European geographers at the end of the 19th Century. It was as much an expression of the globalization process at the end of the century as itFrom the outset the project shifted between national interests and international co-operation and during the two world wars both the Germans and the Allies used the sheets of the map for their own purposes, of course under observance of secrecy.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 92
Pre-sorting strategies : sub-alpine fir industrial trial
Creators: name: Ukpabi, Houston
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Spruce-Pine-Fir (SPF) lumber is composed of different wood species with different drying properties. One comprising species, sub-alpine fir, has low permeability and the presence of wet pockets makes it challenging to dry. The projected increase in harvesting of sub-alpine fir has caused many mills to review how they can improve the way they dry wood of this species. An industrial trial was conducted to determine if the implementation of sawmill pre-sorting could be used to effectively dry sub-alpine fir after it was pre-sorted in the woodlands. The results of the trial showed that the use of three sorts could effectively dry 90 percent of the sub-alpine fir. In addition, balancing the variability between moisture sorts will achieve matching final moisture content variability between the dry sort group and mid sort group. The work is beneficial for mills with a desire of an increased production of higher margin SPF lumber.
Evaluation of Biofield Treatment on Physical, Atomic and Structural Characteristics of Manganese (II, III) Oxide
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: In Mn3O4 , the crystal structure, dislocation density, particle size and spin of the electrons plays crucial role in modulating its magnetic properties. Present study investigates impact of Biofield treatment on physical and atomic properties of Mn3O4 . X-ray diffraction revealed the significant effect of biofield on lattice parameter, unit cell volume, molecular weight, crystallite sizes and densities of treated Mn3O4 . XRD analysis confirmed that crystallinity was enhanced and dislocation density was effectively reduced by 80%. FTIR spectroscopic analysis revealed that Mn-O bond strength was significantly altered by biofield treatment. Electronic spin resonance analysis showed higher g-factor of electron in treated Mn3O4 as compared to control, along with altered spin-spin atomic interaction of Mn with other mixed valance states. Additionally, ESR study affirmed higher magnetization behaviour of the treated Mn3O4 . The results demonstrated that treated Mn3O4 ceramic could be used as an excellent material for fabrication of novel magnetic data storage devices.
Additional file 2 of Recombination rates in pigs differ between breeds, sexes and individuals, and are associated with the RNF212, SYCP2, PRDM7, MEI1 and MSH4 loci
Creators: name: Brekke, Cathrine
name: Berg, Peer
name: Gjuvsland, Arne B.
name: Johnston, Susan E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Effect of inbreeding on ACC. NFID are the total number of unique FID, mean F is the mean inbreeding coefficient, and E_BLUE F is the estimated effect of inbreeding with standard errors in parenthesis.
title: Anorganische Nanopartikel: Anwendungen in der Medizin
Creators: name: Epple, Matthias
name: Sokolova, Viktoriya
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540
subject: 610

description: In diesem Beitrag schildern Viktoriya Sokolova und Matthias Epple den gegenwärtigen Stand der biomedizinischen Forschung für Silber-, Gold-, Magnetit- und Calciumphospat-Nanopartikel. Ausgewählte Beispiele veranschaulichen den aktuellen Forschungsstand.
description: Nanoparticles offer many unexplored possibilities in biomedicine. The controlled delivery of drugs and the direction into malignant or infected tissue in particular will have a bright future when a reliable and selective addressing has been finally accomplished. To achieve this goal, drug-loaded nanoparticles must be developed, and the work of chemists is necessary to attach specialised molecules on to their surface. To assess the biological action, a strong collaboration between bioscientists and physicians is necessary; both to assure the optimal biological action and to exclude possible adverse effects well in advance. The high mobility of nanoparticles in the body due to their small size should not be underestimated. They have the ability to travel into many organs, including the brain. It is therefore essential to pre-empt any adverse effects or accumulations well in advance of a clinical trial. Such investigations are not easy because it is difficult to detect nanoparticles in the body due to their small size. Furthermore, there are still many open questions concerning the fundamental biological action of nanoparticles that need to be elucidated. Many kinds of nanoparticles are known, many have been tested in biological systems, and some are in clinical trials. Our examples come partially from fundamental research and from clinical research, and in some cases; the pathway to a clinical application still has to be travelled.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 54
title: Einigungspläne: europäischer Widerstand im Zweiten Weltkrieg und die Renaissance Europas
Creators: name: Loth, Wilfried
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Es waren vor allem die Katastrophen in der Geschichte Europas, insbesondere der Zusammenbruch der Nationalstaaten des europäischen Kontinents unter dem Ansturm der nationalsozialistischen Expansion und der Zivilisationsbruch im Zeichen der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft über Europa, die zu einer Rückbesinnung auf die Werte der europäischen Tradition geführt haben. Eine genaue Analyse der Diskussionen im Widerstand gegen Hitlers Europa kann zeigen, dass die Institutionen des vereinten Europas geschaffen wurden, um Freiheit, Demokratie und Frieden in Europa besser zu schützen als in der Vergangenheit.
description: During World War II the political debate among people resisting Nazi tyranny and crime led to a new consideration of European values. Democratic forces of different countries and different ideological traditions, from the conservatives to the socialists, agreed that a federal union of European states was necessary in order to secure freedom, democracy and social welfare, to establish an enduring peace and to find a solution to the disturbing “German problem”. Governments in exile prepared regional arrangements in post-war Europe and discussed the design of a European community. When the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the new superpowers after the collapse of the German empire most of the European anti-fascists strived for a Europe of “Third Force” preventing a division of Europe and another World War. It was only after Stalin’s rejection of the Marshall Plan that the European movement decided to start European integration in the western part of the old continent.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 102
FA064TQ_FC1.2_update_bioinfo_result3888.zip
Creators: name: Sun, Xiangfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: In this study, we intervene the expression level of lncRNA Ftx in cardiomyocytes cultured in vitro and analyze its effects on the downstream proteomics. The aim of this study is to determine the biological effect and regulatory mechanism of lncRNA Ftx on myocardial cells, and further explore its effects on cardiac diseases.
Paesaggi sonori di campane: immagini e categorie in dialogo tra Feld, Schafer, Husserl e Hegel
Creators: name: Stallone, Miriam
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2012

description: Il saggio ricostruisce in modo accurato il concetto di risonanza e di paesaggio sonoro, mettendo in dialogo le varie interpretazioni del concetto di corpo sonoro, attraverso Feld, Schafer, Husserl e Hegel. L’uso della metafora della campana e di quella di sonorità irraggiante permette di portare alla luce una serie di complesse interpretazioni relative al rapporto suono evento espressione e di ricostruire la genesi filosofica del concetto stesso di paesaggio sonoro.
description: De Musica, 2012: XVI
La voce e lo spazio
Creators: name: Collisani, Amalia
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2012

description: Recensione a Carlo Serra, La voce e lo spazio. Per un’estetica della voce, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2011. Presentazione a Palermo, libreria Feltrinelli, 20 settembre 2011.
description: De Musica, 2012: XVI
title: “Europeans only”: Europa als Leitbild, Vorbild und Zerrbild in Südafrika, 1948 bis 2008
Creators: name: Marx, Christoph
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Über den europäischen Einfluss auf die Apartheidszustände in Südafrika berichtet der Essener Historiker Christoph Marx in seinem Beitrag.
description: The heterogeneous population of South Africa during different periods developed very diverging images of Europe. Whereas the majority of the population took European democracy as the lodestar of their fight for citizenship and equality, many white inhabitants of South Africa had an ambivalent relationship to the continent of their origin. English-speaking whites looked to Britain as their “home”. Afrikaners, who began settling in South Africa in 1652, saw Europe or certain European countries less as a place to which they felt tied by bounds of loyalty and nostalgia. They rather regarded Europe as the place of origin of a superior European civilisation. Afrikaners in particular had an ambivalent relationship to Europe, since the political aim foremost on the agenda of Afrikaner nationalist organisations was independence from the British Empire and the repudiation of democracy and political institutions they regarded as alien. This made many of them amenable to right-wing movements in Europe during the interwar years, which witnessed the emergence of antiparliamentarian organisations in South Africa too. During the apartheid years, South African politicians defended their policy of racial segregation as a defence of European civilisation. They saw themselves as an outpost of Europe in Africa and part of the struggle for retaining European values against communism, which was equated with and racialised as “Asian”. After the end of apartheid in 1994, cultural Africanism developed an ideology of authenticity (Ubuntu) which was formulated as the opposite of despicable “Western” values. On the other hand, the African National Congress held on to western political institutions, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law. The goal of an African Union as propagated by South African president Thabo Mbeki has similarities with the European Unification process, but the deficit of democratic institutions in many African states may prevent the success of an African Renaissance.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 116
An analysis on : the potential of prefabricated construction industry
Creators: name: Chiu, Stephen Tse-Lun
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Prefabricated houses are constructed with components manufactured off-site. In the past, prefabricated homes were often criticized as being monotonic and poor in quality; however, recent modernist movement has stirred interest in prefabricated building methods once again. Industry leaders argue and debate on almost all aspects of prefabrications. This paper focuses on six factors of prefabrication: cost, time, quality, environment, design capability and safety. Based on analysis, it was found that the greatest strength of prefabricated housing lies in its cost and time saving, and the greatest weaknesses lies in prefabricated housing’s incapability to deliver customized designs.
La voce, corpo reale e fantasma
Creators: name: Mazzocchi, Mauro
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2012

description: Sulla scia di alcune riflessioni di Derrida, Barthes e Lacan, si cerca di determinare lo statuto dell'oggetto sonoro e della sua modalizzazione vocale.
description: De Musica, 2012: XVI
La voce minimale
Creators: name: Bolis, Jacopo Leone
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2013

description: Il presente articolo analizza l'utilizzo dell'elemento vocale all'interno delle logiche compositive e estetiche del minimalismo musicale statunitense attraverso lo studio di alcune composizioni a firma di Steve Reich (It’s gonna rain, Come Out), Philip Glass (Einstein on the beach - Knee play 5) e Terry riley (Church of Anthrax, Descending Moonshine Dervishes, Atlantis Nath).
description: De Musica, 2013: XVII
title: Prächtig gediehen?: Die Europäische Union in der Karikatur
Creators: name: Hiepel, Claudia
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Die Europäische Union im Wandel der Zeiten analysiert Claudia Hiepel anhand einiger Karikaturen, die „Milestones“ des immer noch andauernden europäischen Integrationsprozesses darstellen.
description: Caricatures and cartoons are deeply rooted in European tradition. Their history is closely linked to the formation of the liberal democratic public and its forms of communication. Europe itself, commonly synonymous with European integration, is traditionally an important subject for European cartoonists. This essay focuses on the history of the process of political integration in Western Europe seen through the lens of European cartoonists. It sets out to present a representative selection of cartoons from different stages in the historical process and from different national points of view. Cartoons by their nature cast a critical light on mistakes of personalities or institutions. Furthermore, they represent the view on Europe that is held by public opinion. The essay argues and tries to demonstrate that cartoons are a valuable source for historians on the perception of the history of European integration. It is hence a plea for taking cartoons seriously as a source of historical research.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 34Geschichtswissenschaft - Europa: Geschichte und Kultur, p. 130
BuildingBlock: A Hybrid Approach for Structured Building Generation
Creators: name: Huang, Junming
name: Wang, Chi
name: Li, Letian
name: Huang, Changxin
name: Dai, Qiang
name: Xu, Weiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Three-dimensional building generation is vital for applications in gaming, virtual reality, and digital twins, yet current methods face challenges in producing diverse, structured, and hierarchically coherent buildings. We propose BuildingBlock, a hybrid approach that integrates generative models, procedural content generation (PCG), and large language models (LLMs) to address these limitations. Specifically, our method introduces a two-phase pipeline: the Layout Generation Phase (LGP) and the Building Construction Phase (BCP).
 LGP reframes box-based layout generation as a point-cloud generation task, utilizing a newly constructed architectural dataset and a Transformer-based diffusion model to create globally consistent layouts. With LLMs, these layouts are extended into rule-based hierarchical designs, seamlessly incorporating component styles and spatial structures.
 The BCP leverages these layouts to guide PCG, enabling local-customizable, high-quality structured building generation. Experimental results demonstrate BuildingBlock's effectiveness in generating diverse and hierarchically structured buildings, achieving state-of-the-art results on multiple benchmarks, and paving the way for scalable and intuitive architectural workflows.
description: SIGGRAPH 2025 (Conference Track)
La rivoluzione percussiva di John Cage
Creators: name: Bolis, Jacopo Leone
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2013

description: Il presente articolo indaga l'evoluzione del linguaggio compositivo di John Cage soffermandosi in particolare sul profondo legame estetico e espressivo che il compositore statunitense ebbe con gli strumenti a percussione. Tale particolare legame, riscontrabile fin dalle primisse attività compositive di Cage, fornisce una interessante chiave di lettura per comprendere il pensiero filosofico alla base dell'agire musicale del celebre e proteiforme compositore e 'inventore di genio' statunitense.
description: De Musica, 2013: XVII
Supplementary document for Antenna-based reduced IR absorbers for high performance microbolometers - 6137345.pdf
Creators: name: Rao, S Jagan Mohan
name: Kim, Dai-Sik
name: Namgung, Seon
name: Lee, Dukhyung
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Word document containing the additional study
3-017-StackedCoffeeFiltersFalling-ModelingScenario
Creators: name: Winkel, Brian
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: Data on free falling 2, 4, 6, and 8 stacked coffee filters is offered. Students form a model using a resistance term proportional to velocity, velocity squared, or velocity to some general power. Parameters need to be estimated and models compared.
Kaskaden-Photooxygenierung von Tetrahydrocarbazolen und Hexahydrocyclohepta[b]indolen zu Bausteinen der Alkaloidsynthese
Creators: name: Frahm, Mario
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: Die durch Licht vermittelte katalytische Singulett-Oxygenierung des Hexahydrocyclohepta[b]indol wurde untersucht. Nach erfolgter Optimierung erfolgte die Isolierung und Untersuchungen des Reaktionsmechanismus. Zusätzliche Aufnahme von Zeit-Umsatzprofilen ermöglichte die Postulierung des Reaktionsmechanismus. Als nächstes wurden verschiedenen Derivate zu den entsprechenden Halbaminalen umgesetzt. Abschließendend erfolgte die Einbindung der Kaskaden-Photooxygenierung in die Naturstoffsynthese von Mersicarpin und die Umsetzung zweier funktionalisierter Carbazol-Derivate zu Mersicarpin-Analoga.
title: Nano und Bio im Kontakt: Nanopartikel und Proteine
Creators: name: Treuel, Lennart
name: Zellner, Reinhard
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Es wird in letzter Zeit intensiv diskutiert, ob die positiven materialwissenschaftlichen Effekte von Nanopartikeln nicht auch gleichzeitig negativ im biologischen Bereich sind. Die Interaktion von Proteinen und Nanopartikeln hängt von der chemischen Zusammensetzung und der Oberfläche des Nanomaterials ab, aber auch von der Größe und der Zusammensetzung des Proteins. Lennart Treuel und Reinhard Zellner arbeiten an der zuverlässigen Vorhersage solcher Interaktionen.
description: In this article we describe methods and results of the interactions of selected proteins with selected nanoparticles. The method applied in order to investigate the impact of nanoparticles on the secondary structure of proteins is circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. It is shown that in the case of bovine serum albumin (BSA), the secondary α-helix structure is lost to a significant extent when silver or gold nanoparticles are added to the solution. This is explained by the formation of association complexes, the stability of which depends on whether or not the metallic surfaces are accessible to the protein. In the case of polymeric surfaces, these interactions are considerably weaker. In addition to CD spectroscopy, we have developed and applied Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for the investigation of the response of selected bonds of proteins in their interactions with nanoparticles. In the case of metallic nanoparticles, where the Raman signals are enhanced in the presence of nanoparticles due to the SERS surface effect, this enhancement can be used to identify the structural elements of the protein which are most affected by the interaction with the nanoparticles. The aim of this work is to identify the nature of protein/nanoparticle interaction and to describe how this depends on chemical and surface chemical composition of the nanomaterial, as well as on the size and composition of individual proteins. Ultimately we are aiming at developing a predictive tool for such interactions.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 64
title: Giftiges Gold: Konsequenzen der Verkleinerung
Creators: name: Schmid, Günter
name: Brandau, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540
subject: 610

description: Gold, wie auch andere Metalle, verändern beim Verkleinern in den Nanometerbereich ihre bekannten Eigenschaften spontan und dramatisch. Es gelten dann nicht mehr die klassischen physikalischen Gesetze für makroskopische Metalle, sondern quantenmechanische Regeln. Hieraus erfolgen völlig neue Anwendungsmöglichkeiten, die einen nicht unerheblichen Teil der derzeitigen Nanowissenschaften prägen. Zum Beispiel besitzt Gold auf der Nanometerskala die Fähigkeit mit DNA zu interagieren. Darüber hinaus zeigen Gold-Nanopartikel größenabhängig eine ausgeprägte Zelltoxizität, indem sie unter anderem Mitochondrien schädigen, was sehr schnell zum Zelltod durch Nekrose führt.
description: Gold and other metals spontaneously and dramatically change their known properties if reduced in size to the nanometre scale. The classical physical laws for macroscopic metals are then no longer valid, but quantum mechanical rules, especially reflected by the formation of discrete electronic energy levels instead of the three-dimensional electron gas in bulk metals. From this, completely novel applications follow, representing a significant part of current nanosciences. From a biological point of view, it is important to note that gold nanoparticles are far from being as inert as has been expected for a long time. On the contrary: on the nanometre scale gold has the ability to interact with DNA. Moreover, gold nanoparticles show pronounced size-dependent cell toxicity by inducing the formation of intracellular reactive oxygen species which damage the mitochondria. As a consequence, the energy metabolism in the cell collapses, leading to a fast cell-death by necrosis. The question whether gold nanoparticles can be used in tumour therapy cannot be conclusively answered. For sure, a better tumour targeting will be necessary that could be reached for example by using ligands modified by “anchor molecules”. By proving the toxicity of Au 1.4 MS, numerous questions can be asked. For instance, it should be investigated which effects will occur by inhalation in order to be able to evaluate them in the present fine-dust discussion.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 37Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Nano meets Bio, p. 74
Growth of Massive Black-Holes in FFB Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
Creators: name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Stone, Nicholas C.
name: Chowdhury, Dhruba Dutta
name: Gilbaum, Shmuel
name: Li, Zhaozhou
name: Mandelker, Nir
name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scenario of feedback-free starbursts (FFB), which predicts excessively bright galaxies at cosmic dawn as observed using JWST, may provide a natural setting for black hole (BH) growth. This involves the formation of intermediate-mass seed BHs and their runaway mergers into super-massive BHs with high BH-to-stellar mass ratios and low AGN luminosities. We present a scenario of merger-driven BH growth in FFB galaxies and study its feasibility. BH seeds form within the building blocks of the FFB galaxies, namely, thousands of compact star clusters, each starbursting in a free-fall time of a few Myr before the onset of stellar and supernova feedback. The BH seeds form by rapid core collapse in the FFB clusters, in a few free-fall times, sped up by the migration of massive stars due to the young, broad stellar mass function and stimulated by a `gravo-gyro' instability due to internal cluster rotation and flattening. BHs of $10^4 M_\odot$ are expected in $10^6 M_\odot$ FFB clusters within sub-kpc galactic disks at $z \sim 10$. The BHs then migrate to the galaxy center by dynamical friction, hastened by the compact FFB stellar galactic disk configuration. Efficient mergers of the BH seeds will produce $10^{6-8} M_\odot$ BHs with a BH-to-stellar mass ratio $\sim 0.01$ by $z \sim 4-7$, as observed. The growth of the central BH by mergers can overcome the bottleneck introduced by gravitational wave recoils if the BHs inspiral within a relatively cold disk or if the escape velocity from the galaxy is boosted by a wet compaction event. Such events, common in massive galaxies at high redshifts, can also help by speeding up the inward BH migration and by providing central gas to assist with the final parsec problem. The cold disk version of the FFB scenario provides a feasible route for the formation of supermassive BHs.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Mayer, Christian
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: 610

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 36Naturwissenschaften/Medizin: Kernmagnetische Resonanz, p. 6
Improvvisazione e non linearità. Riflessioni su “Oscillazioni”
Creators: name: Cosottini, Mirio
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2013

description: Il rapporto fra nonlinearità e improvvisazione musicale grazie all'analisi e allo studio della partitura di un brano musicale che contiene segni musicali in notazione standard e grafica. Se l'uso della notazione musicale tradizionale veicola contenuti musicali fondamentalmente lineari, il segno grafico consente di aprire il campo all'improvvisazione e all'esecuzione di contenuti musicali nonlineari.
description: De Musica, 2013: XVII
Recensione a «Gestalt Theory» vol. 31, n. 2 (numero monografico dedicato a Carl Stumpf)
Creators: name: Moro, Nadia
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2013

description: Recensione a Silvia Bonacchi, Geert-Jan Boudewijnse (Eds.), «Gestalt Theory» (numero monografico dedicato a Carl Stumpf), vol. 31 (2009), n. 2, pp. 99-228, s.i.p.; Carl Stumpf, La rinascita della filosofia. Saggi e conferenze, a cura di Riccardo Martinelli, Quodlibet, Macerata 2009, pp. XLIII-265, € 32,00.
description: De Musica, 2013: XVII
Material trends in residential decking
Creators: name: Kostiw, Mark T.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Over the past two decades the North American market for residential decking has experienced significant growth that has been forecast to continue into the future. Materials commonly used for deck surfaces include; treated wood, naturally durable wood and wood plastic composites. While in the past ten years treated wood has held it’s portion of the market, naturally durable species have lost a significant share of the decking market. Wood plastic composites were introduced into the market in the early 1990’s and have experienced exponential growth that is predicted to continue into the future. Almost all decks built today are framed with treated lumber, however dissatisfaction with the quality and longevity of treated wood framing has left it susceptible to new market entrants. Recommendations are also provided for manufactures in the treated wood and wood plastic decking industry.
Luciano Berio – Sequenza I
Creators: name: Notaristefano, Mario
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2013

description: La Sequenza per flauto Sequenza I (1958) di Luciano Berio è probabilmente il brano più celebre di tutta la cosiddetta Gazzelloni Musik, nonché una delle opere più importanti per flauto solo del XX secolo. Venne pubblicata nel 1958 utilizzando di una notazione innovativa, la notazione proporzionale. Nel 1992 Berio la ripubblicò in notazione tradizionale. La comparazione delle due versioni ci permetterà di interrogarci sul valore di quest'opera in quanto opera aperta.
description: De Musica, 2013: XVII
ТЕМАТИЧЕСКАЯ ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ КАК СРЕДСТВО ОБУЧЕНИЯ УСТНОЙ РЕЧИ В   ТЕХНИЧЕСКОМ ВУЗЕ
Creators: name: Муслимова, Рано
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье рассматриваются возможности использования тематической презентации как средства обучения устной речи. Представлены основные требования и этапы работы над презентацией. Произведен анализ ошибок, допускаемых студентами при создании презентации.
L'eco sonora del gesto. Appunti per una ricerca sperimentale sul concetto di corpo sonoro  nelle performance interattive
Creators: name: Giomi, Andrea
Publisher: name: De Musica
Year: 2014

description: Com'è sotto gli occhi di tutti, l'avvento delle tecnologie digitali in ambito artistico ha radicalmente modificato non solo il modo in cui le pratiche performative si sono approcciate alla creazione di nuovi linguaggi espressivi ma anche e sopratutto il nostro modo di fruire l'opera d'arte secondo paradigmi percettivi tecnologicamente orientati. Ad oggi, uno degli aspetti più interessanti dell'ibridazione tra ricerca artistica e tecnologica riguarda l'impiego sempre più esteso di sistemi responsivi in grado di captare ed interpretare il comportamento del performer e tradurlo in un contenuto virtuale visivo o sonoro. Il corpo, inerendo alla griglia sensoriale imposta dallo strumento fa di questo un'estensione, una protesi, un'eco sonora, dell'apparato senso-motorio (ma anche neurale). La tesi centrale di questo testo è che a partire da un tale fenomeno sia possibile una significativa quanto originale rielaborazione del concetto di corpo sonoro.
description: De Musica, 2014: XIX