cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparison of three Statistical Classification Techniques for Maser Identification
Creators: name: Manning, Ellen M.
name: Holland, Barbara R.
name: Ellingsen, Simon P.
name: Breen, Shari L.
name: Chen, Xi
name: Humphries, Melissa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We applied three statistical classification techniques - linear discriminant analysis (LDA), logistic regression and random forests - to three astronomical datasets associated with searches for interstellar masers. We compared the performance of these methods in identifying whether specific mid-infrared or millimetre continuum sources are likely to have associated interstellar masers. We also discuss the ease, or otherwise, with which the results of each classification technique can be interpreted. Non-parametric methods have the potential to make accurate predictions when there are complex relationships between critical parameters. We found that for the small datasets the parametric methods logistic regression and LDA performed best, for the largest dataset the non-parametric method of random forests performed with comparable accuracy to parametric techniques, rather than any significant improvement. This suggests that at least for the specific examples investigated here accuracy of the predictions obtained is not being limited by the use of parametric models. We also found that for LDA, transformation of the data to match a normal distribution in the input parameters led to big improvements in accuracy. The different classification techniques had significant overlap in their predictions, further astronomical observations will enable the accuracy of these predictions to be tested.
description: 17 pages (plus online only appendix), 10 figures, 9 tables Accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia on 11 March 2016 (ID: PAS-15112.R1)
Entwicklung einer Auswertemethode für bruchmechanische Versuche an kleinen Proben auf der Basis eines Kohäsivzonenmodells
Creators: name: Mahler, Michael
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2016
Subjects: Größeneffekt
Kohäsivzonenmodell
J-R Kurve
duktil
spröd
Size effect
cohesive zone model
J-R curve
ductile
brittle

description: In dieser Arbeit wird die Bruchzähigkeit mit Hilfe einer Methode basierend auf Versuchen an kleinen Proben vorhergesagt. Hierfür wird der Bruchprozess inklusive des Risswachstums mit Hilfe der FEM und dem Kohäsivzonenmodell beschrieben. Die Versuche an kleinen Proben dienen zur Parameterbestimmung. Danach kann mit diesem Kohäsivzonenparametersatz eine große Probe simuliert werden. Die an dieser Probe vorhergesagte Bruchzähigkeit erfüllt die Größenbedingungen der entsprechenden Norm.
Arginase in the vasculature
Creators: name: Huynh., Ngan Ngoc
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Detection of Faint BLR Components in the Starburst/Seyfert Galaxy NGC 6221 and Measure of the Central BH Mass
Creators: name: La Franca, Fabio
name: Onori, Francesca
name: Ricci, Federica
name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Marconi, Alessandro
name: Sani, Eleonora
name: Vignali, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last decade, using single epoch virial based techniques in the optical band, it has been possible to measure the central black hole mass on large AGN1 samples. However these measurements use the width of the broad line region as a proxy of the virial velocities and are therefore difficult to be carried out on those obscured (type 2) or low luminosity AGN where the nuclear component does not dominate in the optical. Here we present the optical and near infrared spectrum of the starburst/Seyfert galaxy NGC 6221, observed with X-shooter/VLT. Previous observations of NGC 6221 in the X-ray band show an absorbed (N_H=8.5 +/- 0.4 x 10^21 cm^-2) spectrum typical of a type 2 AGN with luminosity log(L_14-195 keV) = 42.05 erg/s, while in the optical band its spectrum is typical of a reddened (A_V=3) starburst. Our deep X-shooter/VLT observations have allowed us to detect faint broad emission in the H_alpha, HeI and Pa_beta lines (FWHM ~1400-2300 km/s) confirming previous studies indicating that NGC 6221 is a reddened starburst galaxy which hosts an AGN. We use the measure of the broad components to provide a first estimate of its central black hole mass (M_BH = 10^(6.6 +/- 0.3) Msol, lambda_Edd=0.01-0.03), obtained using recently calibrated virial relations suitable for moderately obscured (N_H<10^24 cm^-2) AGN.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Policy Brief 1
Creators: name: Gruber, Marika
name: Zupan, Kathrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: migrant integration
rural development

description: In this first policy brief, we present policy recommendations to strengthen the positive impact of migrants on rural development, aiming to build immigration destinations and to initiate and strengthen rural development by migrant’s integration. We are going to discuss required framework conditions in order to profit from the benefits immigration can bring to rural areas. Therefore, elaborated measures and governance processes at all political levels in the MATILDE countries and at European level will focus on the possible changes of legal framework on rural development and on suggestions for the private sector (economy, NGOs, associations or the civil society), to make rural development and the use of the benefits from migration a joint project in rural regions.
Generation of 30-fs pulses from a diode-pumped graphene mode-locked Yb:CaYAlO4 laser
Creators: name: Ma, Jie
name: Huang, Haitao
name: Ning, Kaijie
name: Xu, Xiaodong
name: Xie, Guoqiang
name: Qian, Liejia
name: Loh, Kian Ping
name: Tang, Dingyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stable 30 fs pulses centered at 1068 nm (less than 10 optical cycles) are demonstrated in a diode pumped Yb:CaYAlO4 laser by using high-quality chemical vapor deposited monolayer graphene as the saturable absorber. The mode locked 8.43 optical-cycle pulses have a spectral bandwidth of ~ 50 nm and a pulse repetition frequency of ~ 113.5 MHz. To our knowledge, this is the shortest pulse ever reported for graphene mode-locked lasers and mode-locked Yb-doped bulk lasers. Our experimental results demonstrate that graphene mode locking is a very promising practical technique to generate few-cycle optical pulses directly from a laser oscillator.
description: 15 pages,6 figures
Planning for and Against Vehicular Homelessness
Creators: name: Giamarino, Christopher
name: Brozen, Madeline
name: Blumenberg, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Shelter is a necessity, yet approximately 17 out of every 10,000 people in the United States are unhoused. Public attention to homelessness has centered on individuals sitting and sleeping in public spaces. However, as many as 50% of the unsheltered live in vehicles. For people sleeping in vehicles, finding a safe place to park is an ongoing challenge, further complicated by the growing number of ordinances restricting vehicular dwelling. We drew on point-in-time count data from the Los Angeles (CA) Homeless Services Authority to examine spatial patterns of vehicular homelessness in Los Angeles from 2016 to 2020. We tested the relationship between the presence of vehicle regulations and the number of people sleeping in vehicles. Although the data likely underestimated vehicular homelessness, we found that ordinances directly reduced the number of people living in vehicles in particular census tracts. On average, cities with citywide and overnight bans had greater impacts on people sleeping in vehicles than cities with less restrictive ordinances. However, the indirect effects in neighboring tracts were stronger and demonstrate the role of these ordinances in simply shifting the vehicular homeless between areas. Given the slow pace of delivering permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness, cities should reduce the harm and precariousness of living in vehicles. Strategies to do this include the reform of punitive vehicle towing and vehicle dwelling regulations. Safe parking programs can provide individuals with a safe place to park their vehicles at night, offer ancillary services, and deter harassment from neighborhood residents and the police. Longer term, transformative change will require additional policies and programs to place people into permanently affordable housing.
Some desultory remarks concerning algebraic cycles and Calabi--Yau threefolds
Creators: name: Laterveer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C15, 14C25, 14C30

description: We study some conjectures about Chow groups of varieties of geometric genus one. Some examples are given of Calabi-Yau threefolds where these conjectures can be verified, using the theory of finite-dimensional motives.
description: 10 pages, to appear in Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, comments very welcome !
Fetal brain damage in sheep following administration of lipopolysaccharide into the utero-placental circulation
Creators: name: Hutton., Lisa C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development CPD in Algeria and England: A Comparative Study of MFL Teachers in Medea and London
Creators: name: Abdat, Amina
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2023

description: This study explores how Modern Foreign Language (MFL) teachers in two research contexts in Algeria and England perceived their experiences with Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The study also explored the factors that MFL teachers perceived to have either supported or hindered them from engaging with CPD more profitably. The research is timely and original because it is the first empirical research that brings the two contexts together to document MFL teachers’ perceptions of their engagement with CPD. It explores theories of workplace learning, focusing on Situated Learning Theory (SLT) to help unpack the different layers involved in teacher learning. These include the influence of government policy; the institutional learning environment; as well as teachers’ individual dispositions to learning, which forms the conceptual framework for the thesis. Research methods used to collect data in this study were non-participant observation and individual semi-structured interviews. Observations took place during formal CPD sessions of teachers and data was collected from these sessions using field notes. This helped gain an understanding of the CPD provision in the Algerian and English context. Individual semi-structured interviews were held with ten MFL teachers from each of the research contexts to gain an in-depth understanding of their experiences and engagement with CPD. Interviews were also held with two CPD coordinators from Algeria and one CPD coordinator from England to investigate the nature and purpose of the CPD sessions in the eyes of the CPD coordinators. Data analysis was carried out using thematic analysis to provide deeper understandings of teachers’ perceptions of CPD. The study identified teachers’ CPD as a complex phenomenon with an amalgam of influences that impacted upon their learning. There are significant factors affecting MFL teachers’ engagement with CPD including governmental policies that have promoted a culture of performativity and accountability in schools; the expansiveness, and/ or the restrictiveness of the institutional learning environment; as well teachers’ 3 individual dispositions to engage in CPD opportunities. While the findings of this research have provided greater insight into the CPD provision for MFL teachers in both research contexts, it is hoped that it will also inspire for further research that would bring more light to the professional needs of MFL teachers in different educational contexts. Myriad factors need to be considered when planning for formal and informal activities of CPD in secondary schools for MFL teachers. Based on the practical implications of this study, suggestions have been made to guide future CPD provision and make suggestions for school leaders, researchers, and policy makers to bring about changes to MFL teachers’ engagement with CPD and practice.
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans
Creators: name: Fu, Xinyu
name: Li, Chaosu
name: Zhai, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Planners need to read plans to learn and adapt current practice. Planners may struggle to find time to read and study lengthy planning documents, especially in emerging areas such as climate change and urban resilience. Recently, natural language processing (NLP) has shown promise in processing big textual data. We asked whether planners could use NLP techniques to more efficiently extract useful and reliable information from planning documents. By analyzing 78 resilience plans from the 100 Resilient Cities Network, we found that results generated from topic modeling, which is an NLP technique, coincided to a large extent (80%) with those from the conventional content analysis approach. Topic modeling was generally effective and efficient in extracting the main information of plans, whereas the content analysis approach could find more in-depth details but at the expense of considerable time and effort. We further propose a transferrable model for cutting-edge planners to more efficiently read and study a large collection of plans using machine learning. Our methodology has limitations: Both topic modeling and content analysis can be subject to human bias and generate unreliable results; NLP text processing techniques may create inaccurate results due to their specific method limitations; and the transferable approach can be only applied to big textual data where there are enough sufficiently long documents. NLP represents a valuable addition to the planner’s toolbox. Topic modeling coupled with other NLP techniques can help planners to effectively discover key topics in plans, identify planning priorities and plans of specific emphasis, and find relevant policies.
Calibration of evolutionary diagnostics in high-mass star formation
Creators: name: Molinari, Sergio
name: Merello, Manuel
name: Elia, Davide
name: Cesaroni, Riccardo
name: Testi, Leonardo
name: Robitaille, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolutionary classification of massive clumps that are candidate progenitors of high-mass young stars and clusters relies on a variety of independent diagnostics based on observables from the near-infrared to the radio. A promising evolutionary indicator for massive and dense cluster-progenitor clumps is the L/M ratio between the bolometric luminosity and the mass of the clumps. With the aim of providing a quantitative calibration for this indicator we used SEPIA/APEX to obtain CH3C2H(12-11) observations, that is an excellent thermometer molecule probing densities > 10^5 cm^-3 , toward 51 dense clumps with M>1000 solar masses, and uniformly spanning -2 < Log(L/M) < 2.3. We identify three distinct ranges of L/M that can be associated to three distinct phases of star formation in massive clumps. For L/M <1 no clump is detected in CH3C2H , suggesting an inner envelope temperature below 30K. For 1< L/M < 10 we detect 58% of the clumps, with a temperature between 30 and 35 K independently from the exact value of L/M; such clumps are building up luminosity due to the formation of stars, but no star is yet able to significantly heat the inner clump regions. For L/M> 10 we detect all the clumps, with a gas temperature rising with Log(L/M), marking the appearance of a qualitatively different heating source within the clumps; such values are found towards clumps with UCHII counterparts, suggesting that the quantitative difference in T - L/M behaviour above L/M >10 is due to the first appearance of ZAMS stars in the clumps.
description: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Accepted
We Are Here
Creators: name: Kim, Annette M.
name: Kang, Kristy H.A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: With diversifying metropolises, American cities are being called upon to democratize heritage and recognize under-represented groups. Planners need strategies for fostering inclusive places of belonging that also build a cohesive civic polity. Our research project focused on the case of Los Angeles (CA), whose city council has evolved and managed “community naming” and other culture signage projects outside the purview of established heritage conservation programs. We created a database of 266 ethnic culture naming projects, mapped them, and interviewed the citizens and public servants involved in these projects to understand what needs this alternative cultural recognition process fills as well as the operational issues and lessons learned. We found that ethnic groups have sought official recognition of their presence and places of belonging that are not necessarily based on architectural excellence, property ownership, or historic significance. The city needed to formalize the processes for city-approved place naming and signage to promote transparency and cooperation between different groups. However, the current process involved mapping and managing symbolic space like physical property, which unnecessarily exacerbated competition and conflict. Instead, contemporary ethnic urbanism patterns have called for an alternative spatial concept and mapping that does not emphasize borders, but rather the centers of cultural gravity, and acknowledges the reality of physically interwoven communities. City leaders can help foster civic participation as well as multicultural cooperation by creating transparent, simple processes for ethnic groups to request symbolic cultural spaces that are officially recognized by the city through signage and maps. Planners could contribute by innovating new ways to map cultural spaces as centers of community that overlap and intersperse with other cultures rather than as exclusive territories to distribute.
Optical Polarization Möbius Strips and Points of Purely Transverse Spin Density
Creators: name: Bauer, Thomas
name: Neugebauer, Martin
name: Leuchs, Gerd
name: Banzer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tightly focused light beams can exhibit electric fields spinning around any axis including the one transverse to the beams' propagation direction. At certain focal positions, the corresponding local polarization ellipse can degenerate into a perfect circle, representing a point of circular polarization, or C-point. We consider the most fundamental case of a linearly polarized Gaussian beam, where - upon tight focusing - those C-points created by transversely spinning fields can form the center of 3D optical polarization topologies when choosing the plane of observation appropriately. Due to the high symmetry of the focal field, these polarization topologies exhibit non trivial structures similar to Möbius strips. We use a direct physical measure to find C-points with an arbitrarily oriented spinning axis of the electric field and experimentally investigate the fully three-dimensional polarization topologies surrounding these C-points by exploiting an amplitude and phase reconstruction technique.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; additional supplementary materials with 4 pages, 3 figures
Multi-dimensional policy-recommendation matrix
Creators: name: MATILDE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: development policy
policy recommendation
matrix

description: The report 'Multi-dimensional policy-recommendation matrix' shows the interrelation between social, economic, integration and regional development policies. The implementation of the matrix and the collection of results from each MATILDE partner was coordinated by CUAS.The policy recommendations consider different fields of action, all government levels from local to EU level and different groups of TCNs and are based on a mixed-methods approach. Thus, the qualitative and quantitative MATILDE results of WP3 and 4 as well as the results of participatory action research of WP5 were included.Furthermore, as a final step in WP6, at least one policy roundtable was organised by each research partner. There, the pre-validated policy recommendations were jointly drafted, supplemented, adapted and validated. These were then transferred to the matrix and show recommendations and solutions on three levels of interconnectedness (government levels, areas of integration and groups of migrants).
Quantitation of immune competence in renal transplant patients
Creators: name: Hutchinson., Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Transiente Elastographie der Leber und Leberfunktions-Scores in der präoperativen Risikoabschätzung bei metabolischer Chirurgie
Creators: name: Tapking, Christian
name: Nickel, Felix
name: Sollors, Janina
name: Kohlhas, Laura
name: Müller, Sebastian
name: Senft, Jonas
name: Billeter, Adrian
name: Kenngott, Hannes Götz
name: Linke, Georg Richard
name: Fischer, Lars
name: Müller, Beat Peter
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die transiente Elastographie (FibroScan) bietet mittels speziellem Ultraschall eine nichtinvasive Alternative zur Leberbiopsie. Anhand der gemessenen Lebersteifigkeit lässt sich die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Fibrosierung der Leber errechnen. Ziel der Studie ist es, eine optimierte und[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
A lower bound for the isoperimetric deficit
Creators: name: Cufí, Julià
name: Reventós, Agustí
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we provide a Bonnesen-style inequality which gives a lower bound for the isoperimetric deficit corresponding to a closed convex curve in terms of some geometrical invariants of this curve. Moreover we give a geometrical interpretation for the case when equality holds.
description: 12 pages
title: One-Anastomosis Jejunal Interposition with Gastric Remnant Resection (Branco-Zorron Procedure): Successful Management of Severe Chronic Hypoglicemia Post Gastric Bypass – Pilot Clinical Series
Creators: name: Zorron, Ricardo
name: Branco, Alcides
name: Sampaio, Jose
name: Junghans, Tido
name: Bothe, Claudia
name: Pratschke, Johann
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Postprandial chronic hypoglycaemia following gastric bypass for obesity is considered a late manifestation of the dumping syndrome. The anatomic and physiologic changes of the operation may lead to uncommon but difficult to treat complication as hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia with neuroglycopenia.[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
The Sun as a planet-host star: Proxies from SDO images for HARPS radial-velocity variations
Creators: name: Haywood, R. D.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Unruh, Y. C.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Lanza, A. F.
name: Llama, J.
name: Deleuil, M.
name: Fares, R.
name: Gillon, M.
name: Moutou, C.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Segransan, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sun is the only star whose surface can be directly resolved at high resolution, and therefore constitutes an excellent test case to explore the physical origin of stellar radial-velocity (RV) variability. We present HARPS observations of sunlight scattered off the bright asteroid 4/Vesta, from which we deduced the Sun's activity-driven RV variations. In parallel, the HMI instrument onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory provided us with simultaneous high spatial resolution magnetograms, Dopplergrams, and continuum images of the Sun in the Fe I 6173A line. We determine the RV modulation arising from the suppression of granular blueshift in magnetised regions and the flux imbalance induced by dark spots and bright faculae. The rms velocity amplitudes of these contributions are 2.40 m/s and 0.41 m/s, respectively, which confirms that the inhibition of convection is the dominant source of activity-induced RV variations at play, in accordance with previous studies. We find the Doppler imbalances of spot and plage regions to be only weakly anticorrelated. Lightcurves can thus only give incomplete predictions of convective blueshift suppression. We must instead seek proxies that track the plage coverage on the visible stellar hemisphere directly. The chromospheric flux index R'_HK derived from the HARPS spectra performs poorly in this respect, possibly because of the differences in limb brightening/darkening in the chromosphere and photosphere. We also find that the activity-driven RV variations of the Sun are strongly correlated with its full-disc magnetic flux density, which may become a useful proxy for activity-related RV noise.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016 January 20) Supplementary Files available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.17630/bb43e6a3-72e0-464c-9fdd-fbe5d3e56a09
GUÍAS DE EXPLORACIÓN PARA ESCOLARES DE LA RED LATINOAMERICANA DE LOS CIENTÍFICOS DE LA BASURA. MANUAL DEL DOCENTE
Creators: name: De Veer, Diamela
name: Honorato, Daniela
name: Leyton, Ailin
name: Sepúlveda, José Miguel
name: Thiel, Martin
name: Vásquez, Nelson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Latin American countries
Citizen science
Exploration of the environment
Schoolchildren

description: Support material for teachers who participate with their group of schoolchildren in the Exploration Activities of the Latin American Network of the Litter Scientists (ReCiBa for Spanish acronym; Red Latinoamericana de Científicos de la Basura), which involves schoolchildren in a school citizen science program focussing on marine litter research in the eleven Latin American countries with coast along the Pacific Ocean.
description: Additional information about the project in http://www.reciba.org/es/
title: Neue effektive Trainingsmethoden in der Laparoskopie mittels „low budget“ Trainern
Creators: name: Bajaeifer, Khaled
name: Glatzle, Jörg
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: In der Chirurgie ist die Ausbildung von Assistenten essentiell. In der laparoskopischen Chirurgie erfolgt die praktische Ausbildung häufig an teuren Trainern in speziell eingerichteten Trainingszentren. Die Lernkurve in den Trainingszentren ist hoch, die „Verlernrate“ [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Electric field induced structural changes of water confined between two graphene layers
Creators: name: Mario, Sobrino Fernández
name: Neek-Amal, M.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An external electric field changes the physical properties of polar-liquids due to the reorientation of their permanent dipoles. For example it should affect significantly the physical properties of water confined in a nanochannel. The latter effect is profoundly enhanced, if the field is applied along the nanochannel. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we predict that an in-plane electric field applied parallel to the channel polarizes water molecules which are confined between two graphene layers, resulting in distinct-ferroelectricity and electrical hysteresis. We found that electric fields alter the in-plane order of the hydrogen bonds: reversing the electric field does not restore the system to the non-polar initial state, instead a residual dipole moment remains in the system. Our study provides insights into the ferroelectric state of water when confined in nanochannels and shows how this can be tuned by an electric field.
Studies on dopamine receptors, GABAA [subscript] receptors, and nitric oxide synthase in the neurochemical pathology of schizophrenia
Creators: name: Hussain., Tabasum Parveen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Analyse eines dreistufigen Trainingsprogrammes in der minimal-invasiven Chirurgie (MIC) in Bezug auf den Lernerfolg sowie verschiedener Einflussfaktoren auf das Outcome
Creators: name: Dürsch, Markus
name: Vogelsang, Veronika
name: Schlitt, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: MIC Techniken haben in alle operativen Fächer Einzug gehalten. Die angewandten Techniken und Instrumentarien werden stetig vielfältiger und verfeinert. Jedoch mangelt es aktuell an strukturierten Trainingsprogrammen, um den Studierenden und Weiterbildungsteilnehmern diese Techniken[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Interference Management in Massive MIMO HetNets: A Nested Array Approach
Creators: name: Feng, Mingjie
name: Mao, Shiwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The nested array, which is implemented by nonuniform antenna placement, is an effective approach to achieve O(N^2) degrees of freedom (DoF) with an antenna array of N antennas. Such DoF refers to the number of directions of incoming signals that can be resolved. With the increased number of DoF, an important application of nested array is to nullify the interference signals from multiple directions. In this paper, we apply nested array in a massive MIMO heterogeneous network (HetNet) for interference management. With nested array based interference nulling, each base station (BS) can nullify a certain number of interference signals. A key design issue is to select the interference sources to be nullified at each BS. We formulate this problem as an integer programming problem. The objective is to maximize the sum rate of all users, subject to BS DoF constraints. We propose an approximation scheme to solve this problem and derive a performance upper bound. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme effectively improves the sum rate and achieves a near optimal performance.
title: Anwendungssicherheit und Verträglichkeit der tetravalenten lebend-attenuierten Influenza-Vakzine (qLAIV) bei Kindern in der Grippesaison 2014/2015 in Deutschland
Creators: name: Wartenberg, Florian
name: Störmann, Johannes
name: Bittner-Brewe, Judith
name: Schmidt-Wankel, Franziska
name: Rose, Markus
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Obwohl die pädiatrische Influenza für die öffentliche Gesundheit klinisch wie ökonomisch von enormer Bedeutung ist, werden die bestehenden Impfempfehlungen der Fachgesellschaften nicht ausreichend umgesetzt. Da elterliche Sorge um Anwendungssicherheit und Verträglichkeit[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 24. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Infektiologie (DGPI)
Land and Water Resources: A Policy Guide
Creators: name: , Land
name: , Land
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The establishment of a USDA Land and Water Policy Committee and the preparation of this report were authorized in Secretary’s Memorandum No. 1464, August 24, 1961. The initial Committee assignment was to review the present and prospective land, forest, and water resource situation, appraise implications for Department activities, and prepare policy and program recommendations. In formulating and carrying out land and water programs, the Department will cooperate with other Federal agencies, also with State and local agencies. The guiding principles and recommended policy presented are designed to provide a comprehensive and long-range framework for orienting the formulation and operation of Department land and water programs and activities so as to improve the well-being of farm people and of all citizens. The target year selected was 1980 and projections to that date were based on influences expected to affect levels and trends in such factors as population growth, economic activity, technology, yields, imports and exports, and the requirements of the various uses competing for land and water resources. The projections used should be regarded primarily as reflecting likely directions of change rather than as precise expectations. Material variations in the plausible range of particular projections such as crop yields, population, and exports would significantly affect the calculated resource requirements.
description: This report is a revision of a preliminary report distributed to participants in a National Conference on Land and People called by the Secretary of Agriculture on January 15, 1962.
title: Diagnostische Wertigkeit der 68Gallium-PSMA PET/CT zu Beurteilung des Therapieansprechens von Patienten mit metastasiertem, hormonsensitivem Prostatakarzinom unter primärer Hormonchemotherapie
Creators: name: Seitz, A.K.
name: Krönke, M.
name: Luther, S.
name: Heck, M.M.
name: Horn, T.
name: Retz, M.
name: Gschwend, J.E.
name: Schwaiger, M.
name: Eiber, M.
name: Maurer, T.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die Aussagekraft der konventionellen Bildgebung zur Beurteilung des Therapieansprechens bei Patienten (Pt.) mit metastasiertem Prostatakarzinom (PCa) unter Systemtherapie ist limitiert. Insbesondere die Abgrenzung einer Tumorprogression gegenüber therapieassoziierten Effekten gestaltet[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 42. Gemeinsame Tagung der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie
Policy Brief 2
Creators: name: Gruber, Marika
name: Zupan, Kathrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: migration
labour market integration

description: The second policy brief offers policy recommendations to increase the labour market integration of migrants in rural and mountainous areas, aiming to counteract the aforementioned challenges caused by the demographic change, such as depopulation and labour shortage. In this policy brief, we are discussing required framework conditions to profit from immigration and an early labour market integration of migrants. Therefore, the elaborated measures and governance processes at all political levels in the MATILDE countries and at European level will be considered to contribute towards shaping the legal framework on economic integration of international workforce.
A History of the Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Bulge
Creators: name: Matteucci, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: The Galaxy; Chemical abundances; The Galactic bulge

description: I will start from Mike’s PhD when he worked on the metallicity distribution function of Galactic bulge stars. That was, I think, the first paper on that subject. Two years later, I published a paper on the chemical evolution of the bulge, aimed at reproducing Mike’s district. In that paper, I made predictions on the [alpha/Fe] ratios expected in bulge stars and in 1994 McWilliam & Rich provided the first measures of these ratios. The main conclusion from a comparison between model results and data was that the bulk of bulge stars should have formed very quickly in a burst. After then, a long series of papers appeared on the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge and I will review the results of these papers until the present me.
The IBIS soft gamma-ray sky after 1000 INTEGRAL orbits
Creators: name: Bird, A. J.
name: Bazzano, A.
name: Malizia, A.
name: Fiocchi, M.
name: Sguera, V.
name: Bassani, L.
name: Hill, A. B.
name: Ubertini, P.
name: Winkler, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report here an all-sky soft gamma-ray source catalog based on IBIS observations performed during the first 1000 orbits of INTEGRAL. The database for the construction of the source list consists of all good quality data available from launch in 2002 up to the end of 2010. This corresponds to $\sim$110 Ms of scientific public observations with a concentrated coverage on the Galactic Plane and extragalactic deep exposures. This new catalog includes 939 sources above a 4.5 sigma significance threshold detected in the 17-100 keV energy band, of which 120 represent previously undiscovered soft gamma-ray emitters. The source positions are determined, mean fluxes are provided in two main energy bands, and are reported together with the overall source exposure. Indicative levels of variability are provided, and outburst times and durations are given for transient sources. Comparison is made with previous IBIS catalogs, and those from other similar missions.
description: 65 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ Supplements
title: Selbstbild und erektile Dysfunktion 45-jähriger Männer in Deutschland
Creators: name: Kögel, A.M.
name: Dinkel, A.
name: Marten-Mittag, B.
name: Baron, J.
name: Albers, P.
name: Arsov, C.
name: Hadaschik, B.
name: Hohenfellner, M.
name: Imkamp, F.
name: Kuczyk, M.
name: Gschwend, J.E.
name: Herkommer, K.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Psychische Faktoren stehen häufig in Zusammenhang mit sexuellen Problemen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen erektiler Funktion und Selbstbild von Männern. Das Selbstbild eines Menschen besteht aus Wahrnehmungen bezüglich seiner selbst und wird[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 42. Gemeinsame Tagung der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie
title: Libidostörung bei Mann und Frau – Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten
Creators: name: Schwindl, B.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Die Libido unterliegt bei den Geschlechtern hoher Variabilität begründet in evolutionsbiologisch-genetischer, hormoneller, psycho-deduktiver, intrapersoneller und paardynamischer Entwicklung. Insbesondere Frauen leiden bis zu einem Drittel unter einem Mangel. Methodik: Es[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 42. Gemeinsame Tagung der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie
Gonadotrophin responses to pulsatile gonadotrophin releasing hormone
Creators: name: Hurley., David Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Balmer line shifts in quasars
Creators: name: Sulentic, J. W.
name: Marziani, P.
name: Del Olmo, A.
name: Zamfir, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We offer a broad review of Balmer line phenomenology in type 1 active galactic nuclei, briefly sum- marising luminosity and radio loudness effects, and discussing interpretation in terms of nebular physics along the 4D eigenvector 1 sequence of quasars. We stress that relatively rare, peculiar Balmer line profiles (i.e., with large shifts with respect to the rest frame or double and multiple peaked) that start attracted attentions since the 1970s are still passable of multiple dynamical interpretation. More mainstream objects are still not fully understood as well, since competing dynamical models and geometries are possible. Further progress may come from inter-line comparison across the 4D Eigenvector 1 sequence.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science, Special Issue on Line Shifts in Astrophysics and Laboratory Plasma
title: Comparison of subjective and physiological stress levels in home and office work environments
Creators: name: Harper, M
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2023

description: Work stress is a major problem to individuals and society, with prolonged periods of stress often leading to health issues and reduced productivity. COVID-19 has increased the incidence of individuals working in a mixture of home and office-based environments, with each location presenting its own stressors. Identification of stress levels in each environment will allow individuals to better plan how to mitigate stress and boost productivity. In this project, differences in stress levels are predicted in each work environment from individuals’ physiological responses and subjectively reported stress and productivity. Initial work on the project focused upon development of a system for the detection of dementia-related difficulties through the wearable-based tracking of physiological indicators. As such, a review of the available commercial and laboratory devices available for tracking physiological indicators of dementia-related difficulties was conducted. Furthermore, no publicly available physiological dataset for predicting difficulties in dementia currently exists. However, a review of the methods for collecting such a dataset and the impact of COVID-19 found that it is impractical and potentially unethical to conduct an experiment with people with dementia during the pandemic. As such, a pivot in research was necessitated. Comparing the stress levels of individuals working in home and office environments was selected. A data collection experiment was then performed with 13 academics working in combinations of home and office environments. Descriptive statistical features were then extracted from both the physiological and questionnaire data, with the relationships between attributes and features calculated using various advanced data analytics and statistical approaches. The resultant correlation coefficients and statistical summaries of stress were used to evaluate relationships between stress and work environment at different times of day, different days of the week, and while performing different activities. A bagged tree machine learning model was trained over the data, achieving 99.3% accuracy when evaluated using 10-fold cross validation. When tested on the purely unseen instances it achieved 56% accuracy corresponding to inter-class stress classification, however a testing accuracy of 73.7% was achieved using principal component analysis for dimensionality reduction and the dataset is balanced using Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique.
Precise measurements of optical Feshbach resonances of $^{174}$Yb atoms
Creators: name: Kim, Min-Seok
name: Lee, Jeongwon
name: Lee, Jae Hoon
name: Shin, Y.
name: Mun, Jongchul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present precise measurements of the optical Feshbach resonances (OFRs) of $^{174}$Yb atoms for the intercombination transition. We measure the photoassociation (PA) spectra of a pure $^{174}$Yb Bose-Einstein condensate, and determine the dependence of OFRs to PA laser intensities and frequencies for four least bound vibrational levels near the intercombination transition. We confirm that our measurements are consistent with the temporal decay of a BEC subjected to a PA beam in the vicinity of the fourth vibrational level from the dissociation limit.
On a second numerical index for Banach spaces
Creators: name: Kim, Sun Kwang
name: Lee, Han Ju
name: Martin, Miguel
name: Meri, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46B04, Secondary 46B20, 47A12

description: We introduce a second numerical index for real Banach spaces with non-trivial Lie algebra, as the best constant of equivalence between the numerical radius and the quotient of the operator norm modulo the Lie algebra. We present a number of examples and results concerning absolute sums, duality, vector-valued function spaces\ldots which show that, in many cases, the behaviour of this second numerical index differs from the one of the classical numerical index. As main results, we prove that Hilbert spaces have second numerical index one and that they are the only spaces with this property among the class of Banach spaces with one-unconditional basis and non-trivial Lie algebra. Besides, an application to the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numerical radius is given.
description: 35 pages