cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China
Creators: name: Ge, Yuhao
name: Lehmann, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal employment relationships or selfemployed or less happy than their non-displaced counterparts. We also look at health and psychic costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or wage penalties, while urban displaced workers incur very large costs in terms of these two outcomes. These results point to segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only migrants among the displaced experience a lowered incidence of self-employment. Also, health costs and psychic costs can be linked to displacement although these costs are not prevalent in a uniform fashion. Stratification of the data by gender, level of development and ownership seems important as it shows substantial heterogeneity of the costs of job loss across these dimensions.
Additional file 1 of Combined lifestyle factors on mortality among the elder population: evidence from a Chinese cohort study
Creators: name: Sun, Changqing
name: Liu, Huimin
name: Xu, Fei
name: Qin, Ying
name: Wang, Panpan
name: Zhou, Qianyu
name: Liu, Dandan
name: Jia, Shanqun
name: Zhang, Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. HRs and 95%CIs for the mortality risks of healthy lifestyle among the elderly in China. Table S2. HRsand 95% CIs for the mortality risks of healthy lifestyle among the elderly by age in China. Table S3. HRs and 95%CIs for the mortality risks of lifestyle among the elderly in China. Table S4. HRs and 95%CIs for the mortality risks of lifestyle among the elderly by age in China.
Normal cyclic polytopes and cyclic polytopes that are not very ample
Creators: name: Hibi, Takayuki
name: Higashitani, Akihiro
name: Katthän, Lukas
name: Okazaki, Ryota
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B20 (Primary) 05E40, 05E45 (Secondary)

description: Let $d$ and $n$ be positive integers with $n \geq d + 1$ and $τ_{1}, ..., τ_{n}$ integers with $τ_{1} < ... < τ_{n}$. Let $C_{d}(τ_{1}, ..., τ_{n}) \subset \RR^{d}$ denote the cyclic polytope of dimension $d$ with $n$ vertices $(τ_{1},τ_{1}^{2},...,τ_{1}^{d}), ..., (τ_{n},τ_{n}^{2},...,τ_{n}^{d})$. We are interested in finding the smallest integer $γ_{d}$ such that if $τ_{i+1} - τ_{i} \geq γ_{d}$ for $1 \leq i < n$, then $C_{d}(τ_{1}, ..., τ_{n})$ is normal. One of the known results is $γ_{d} \leq d (d + 1)$. In the present paper a new inequality $γ_{d} \leq d^{2} - 1$ is proved. Moreover, it is shown that if $d \geq 4$ with $τ_{3} - τ_{2} = 1$, then $C_{d}(τ_{1}, ..., τ_{n})$ is not very ample.
description: 17 pages
Limiting spectral distribution of sample autocovariance matrices
Creators: name: Basak, Anirban
name: Bose, Arup
name: Sen, Sanchayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) of the sample autocovariance matrix (ACVM) converges as the dimension increases, when the time series is a linear process with reasonable restriction on the coefficients. The limit does not depend on the distribution of the underlying driving i.i.d. sequence and its support is unbounded. This limit does not coincide with the spectral distribution of the theoretical ACVM. However, it does so if we consider a suitably tapered version of the sample ACVM. For banded sample ACVM the limit has unbounded support as long as the number of non-zero diagonals in proportion to the dimension of the matrix is bounded away from zero. If this ratio tends to zero, then the limit exists and again coincides with the spectral distribution of the theoretical ACVM. Finally, we also study the LSD of a naturally modified version of the ACVM which is not non-negative definite.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/13-BEJ520 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
An X-band GaAs MMIC down converter suitable for doppler sensors
Creators: name: Masini, Leonardo
name: Santarelli, Alberto
name: Vannini, Giorgio
name: Caliumi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1997
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A 9.9 % 10.7GH z down converter circuit, suitable for anti-burglar alarm systems, has been designed and realized in GaAs MMIC technology. The circuit transmits an RF signal towards a target and receives its frequency-shifted (Doppler effect) reflection, detecting possible movements of the target. In the paper a schematic description and details about the design methodology for the Di­electric Resonator oscillator and the Dual-FET mixer are given. Small and large signal measurements on the realized circuit are also presented.
Der Einfluss des TM-PC-Systems auf die Regeneration des tubulären Kompartiments in Folge einer akuten Schädigung bei vorbestehender diabetischer Nierenerkrankung
Creators: name: Breitenstein, Lukas
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nierenkrankheit
subject: Pathophysiologie
subject: 612.463

description: Die Zahl der Patienten, die an Diabetes mellitus (DM) leiden, wächst von Jahr zu Jahr. Bisher etablierte Therapien der Folgeerkrankungen, wie der diabetischen Nephropathie (dNP), zielen auf eine Verlangsamung des Krankheitsverlaufs ab. Allerdings entstehen durch vaskuläre und mitochondriale Dysfunktionen sowie eine vermehrte Bildung von reaktiven Sauerstoffspezies (ROS) maladaptive Veränderungen, die eine vorzeitige stressbedingte Seneszenz verbunden mit einer verminderten Zellplastizität hervorrufen. In diesem Zusammenhang kommt es zu einer vermehrten Expression von p53 und p21, die einen Zellzyklusarrest induzieren und ein proinflammatorisches und profibrotisches Milieu schaffen. Dadurch sind Patienten im Rahmen der chronischen Nierenerkrankung prädisponiert für einen schweren Krankheitsverlauf nach akuten Nierenschädigungen (AKI). Daraus resultiert ein häufigerer Einsatz von Nierenersatzverfahren sowie eine erhöhte Mortalität. Wir stellen die Hypothese auf, dass diese gesteigerte Vulnerabilität durch eine Beeinträchtigung des Thrombomodulin (TM)-Protein C (PC)-Systems begünstigt wird. Im Kontext der dNP kommt es zu einem Verlust endothelialen TM, wodurch die Konzentration des aktivierten Protein C (aPC) sinkt. Dieses besitzt neben seiner antikoagulatorischen Wirkung auch zytoprotektive Eigenschaften. Wir zeigen, dass eine Anhebung der aPC-Konzentration den p21-induzierten Zellzyklusarrest sowohl in vitro als auch in vivo aufheben und eine Regenerationsfähigkeit der Nierentubuluszellen wiederherstellen kann. Dabei erhöht das aPC die Proliferationskapazität des tubulären Kompartiments und verbessert Parameter der Nierenfunktion. Diese Arbeit zeigt, dass die Vorbehandlung mit aPC die Regenerationsfähigkeit tubulärer Nierenzellen verbessern und den Schweregrad einer AKI reduzieren kann und somit Potential besitzt, als Prophylaxe für chronisch nierenkranke Risikopatienten zum Einsatz zu kommen.
GaAs preamplifier and LED driver for use in cryogenic and highly irradiated environments.
Creators: name: CHRISTOFOROU, Y.
name: ROSSETTO, 0.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1997
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A low power dissipation, fast response and reasonable noise performance GaAs MESFETs preamplifier, able to work at low temperatures (89°K) and under high radiation dosis (>10Mrad), is presented. Attention is given to noise modeling for an application to particle detectors front-end electronics. Noise optimization can be achieved through careful layout design of the preamplifier's input transistor. This preamplifier is intended to be followed by a GaAs LED-Driver both working under the same physical conditions. A GaAs preamplifier and LED driver circuit has been designed and test results are presented and discussed in this paper.
Bose-Einstein condensation of 85Rb by direct evaporation in an optical dipole trap
Creators: name: Marchant, A. L.
name: Händel, S.
name: Hopkins, S. A.
name: Wiles, T. P.
name: Cornish, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a simple method for the creation of Bose-Einstein condensates of $^{85}$Rb by direct evaporation in a crossed optical dipole trap. The independent control of the trap frequencies and magnetic bias field afforded by the trapping scheme permits full control of the trapped atomic sample, enabling the collision parameters to be easily manipulated to achieve efficient evaporation in the vicinity of the 155 G Feshbach resonance. We produce nearly pure condensates of up to $4\times10^4$ atoms and demonstrate the tunable nature of the atomic interactions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Die Typ I Interferon Antwort und cGAS-Expression im humanen Melanom
Creators: name: Bach, Nils Leonard
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Melanom
subject: 616.99407

description: Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Expression von cGAS sowie der Typ I Interferon Antwort und CD8+ Infiltration im humanen Melanom. Dafür wurden Serienschnitte von 50 ausgewählten Melanompräparaten der Universitätshautklinik Magdeburg immunhistochemisch für cGAS, MxA als Marker der Typ I Interferon Antwort, CD8+ Infiltrat sowie HMB45 gefärbt und mikroskopisch untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigten eine positive Korrelation sowie eine Kolokalisation der Expression von MxA - und somit Typ I Interferon Antwort - und CD8+ Infiltration in den ausgewählten Melanomen. Die cGAS Expression korrelierte nicht mit der MxA Expression. Es zeigte sich eine verstärkte cGAS Expression bei dickeren und somit prognostisch schlechteren Tumoren. Die Überlebenszeit ab Erstdiagnose zeigte keine signifikanten Unterschiede bei der Unterscheidung von Tumoren mit einer großflächigen intraturmoralen Expression (MxALevel 2-4) und einer geringflächigen MxA-Expression (MxA-Level 1). Das Ergebnis bestätigt die These, dass die Typ I Interferon Produktion im Tumor zu einem verstärktem CD8+ Infiltrat führt.
Innovation, firm strategy and patent litigation
Creators: name: Minns, Steven E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This thesis comprises three chapters with the enforcement of intellectual property rights as a central theme. The first chapter explores the effect of patent ‘thickets’ on litigation propensity. Patent thickets, involve fragmented ownership rights, which lead to the anticommons problem, and unclear property boundaries which lead to uncertainty. I distinguish between these two aspects of patent thickets and argue that an important reason for unclear claims is the increase in technological diversity associated with multi-component technologies. I develop theory that predicts that both ownership fragmentation and technological diversity have a positive causal impact on litigation propensity and that these effects are higher for small firms. Empirical analysis provides evidence for the hypotheses. In the second chapter, I examine the appropriation hazards inherent in strategic alliances. Adopting a network perspective, I develop and test a theoretical framework that predicts when knowledge appropriation is likely to occur between partners. I show that different types of embeddedness in the network (relational, structural or positional) affect the likelihood that firms will engage in knowledge appropriation and litigious behavior. I also show that, not only is the competitive environment between a firm and its partner relevant (in that firms are more likely to sue each other if they are competitors), but that the competitive environment of all firms in the network affects litigation hazard. The third chapter investigates whether small firms are at a disadvantage in seeking to enforce patents and whether an aspect of the market for innovation, the trading of patents, helps small firms to overcome difficulties in enforcement. The first part examines whether small firms are more likely to litigate their patents and whether lawsuit durations are greater than large firms, establishing that small firms do incur a disproportionately large burden of cost in protecting their intellectual property. I extend previous work in this area by considering case outcomes and differences across industries. I then examine whether traded patents by small firms to large firms are more likely to be litigated, and find that the market for innovation in the form of patent trades is associated with increased litigation.
title: War Aims and Peace Discussions (USA)
title: War Aims and Peace Discussions (USA)
Creators: name: Cooper, John Milton
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: USA
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Diplomatie
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Diplomatic history
subject: World War, 1914-1918--United States

description: From the outbreak of World War I, Woodrow Wilson pursued two goals: a non-punitive peace settlement to end the conflict and a reformation of world politics through an international peace-keeping organization to prevent such wars in the future. Before the United States entered the war, Wilson pursued mediation and “peace without victory.” After intervention, he seized the leadership of Allied war aims by proclaiming his Fourteen Points which set out a liberal peace program. Although Wilson’s effort failed to keep Bolshevik Russia in the war, it did eventually induce Germany to stop fighting without invasion, thereby shortening the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Thromboembolische Ereignisse beim männlichen Mammakarzinom unter der Therapie mit Tamoxifen
Creators: name: Bernreiter, Anna-Lena
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Brustkrebs
subject: Mann
subject: Tamoxifen
subject: Thromboembolie
subject: 616.99449

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit hatte die Zielsetzung, die Häufigkeit thromboembolischer Ereignisse beim männlichen Mammakarzinom unter Tamoxifentherapie zu ermitteln und mögliche Risikofaktoren zu identifizieren. Zwischen Mai 2009 und November 2017 wurden 506 Männer mit Brustkrebs in die Registerstudie „Mammakarzinom des Mannes“ an der Universitätsfrauenklinik Magdeburg aufgenommen. Nach Anwendung der Ausschlusskriterien verblieben 225 Männer für die Analyse. 9,3% dieser Männer entwickelten im Laufe der Tamoxifenbehandlung thromboembolische Erkrankungen. Auffällig ist, dass 85,7% dieser Thromboembolien in den ersten 18 Monaten nach Beginn der Tamoxifeneinnahme vorkamen. Bezogen auf alle Follow-up-Zeiträume traten die häufigsten thromboembolischen Ereignisse mit 4,6% zwischen dem 12. und 18. Einnahmemonat auf. Nach dem Follow-up-Monat 36 wurden keine weiteren Thromboembolien unter Tamoxifentherapie registriert. Der Kenntnisgewinn über ein hohes Vorkommen von Thromboembolien, besonders in den ersten eineinhalb Jahren der Tamoxifenbehandlung, sollte im klinischen Alltag bedacht werden.
A Low-Dimensional Perceptual Space for Intuitive BRDF Editing
Creators: name: Shi, Weiqi
name: Wang, Zeyu
name: Soler, Cyril
name: Rushmeier, Holly
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Perception

description: Understanding and characterizing material appearance based on human perception is challenging because of the highdimensionality and nonlinearity of reflectance data. We refer to the process of identifying specific characteristics of material appearance within the same category as material estimation, in contrast to material categorization which focuses on identifying inter-category differences [FNG15]. In this paper, we present a method to simulate the material estimation process based on human perception. We create a continuous perceptual space for measured tabulated data based on its underlying low-dimensional manifold. Unlike many previous works that only address individual perceptual attributes (such as gloss), we focus on extracting all possible dimensions that can explain the perceived differences between appearances. Additionally, we propose a new material editing interface that combines image navigation and sliders to visualize each perceptual dimension and facilitate the editing of tabulated BRDFs. We conduct a user study to evaluate the efficacy of the perceptual space and the interface in terms of appearance matching.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Perception
description: 191
description: 203
description: Weiqi Shi, Zeyu Wang, Cyril Soler, and Holly Rushmeier
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Perception
Die Auswirkungen von Alkoholkonsum auf das angeborene Immunsystem gesunder Probanden
Creators: name: Haag, Florian Lukas
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunsystem
subject: Alkoholkonsum
subject: Immuntoxikologie
subject: 616.079

description: Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die Auswirkungen von Alkohol in Relation zu Zeit und Dosis auf das angeborene Immunsystem darzustellen. Dafür wurde ein Versuchsaufbau mit 22 gesunden Probanden gewählt. Die Probanden tranken über vier Stunden hinweg in regelmäßigen Abständen eine vorher berechnete Menge eines Whiskey-Cola-Mischgetränkes, um innerhalb von vier Stunden nach Versuchsbeginn eine Blutalkoholkonzentration von 1‰ zu erreichen. Über diesen Zeitraum wurde ihnen zu vordefinierten Zeitpunkten Blut abgenommen, um daraus Leukozyten, Granulozyten und Monozyten zu isolieren. Es wurden Zellzahl, Produktion von reaktiven Sauerstoffspezies (ROS), Phagozytoseaktivität und Apoptoseaktivität bestimmt. Es konnte sowohl eine Auswirkung des Alkoholkonsums auf die Zellzahlen als auch eine veränderte ROS-Produktion sowie eine verminderte Phagozytoseaktivität beschrieben werden. Ebenso wurde verstärkte Apoptoseaktivität gezeigt. Des Weiteren wurden funktionelle Veränderungen der einzelnen Monozyten Subsets mit einer anfänglich vermehrten Freisetzung der klassischen, gefolgt von einem Shift zu den nicht-klassischen Monozyten gezeigt. Überdies wurden Modulationen im Adhäsionsverhalten und der Toll-Like Receptor 4-Expression der Monozyten beobachtet. Zusätzliche Analysen der Ursachen für die systemischen Auswirklungen des Alkohols auf Leukozyten ergaben eine systemisch erhöhte Konzentration des intestinalen Fatty Acid Binding Proteins als Biomarker für die Darmpermeabilität insbesondere bei männlichen Probanden.
title: Film/Cinema (USA)
title: Film/Cinema (USA)
Creators: name: DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: USA
subject: Film
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--United States
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war

description: The American film industry became a cultural and business powerhouse during World War I. It developed within a protected market freed of competition from abroad. The industrial course toward consolidation set before 1914 and innovative film style later named Classical Hollywood Cinema made the movies intrinsic to American popular culture. During the war, the film industry applied the principal of “practical patriotism”: the notion that it was appropriate and useful to help fight the war on the home front and to further its own economic interests, as it made choices affecting the production, distribution, and exhibition of motion pictures.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Making Sense of the War (The Netherlands)
title: Making Sense of the War (The Netherlands)
Creators: name: Brolsma, Marjet
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Niederlande
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Neutraler Staat
subject: Öffentliche Meinung
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Netherlands
subject: Neutrality

description: This article deals with the collective narratives Dutch intellectuals drew upon to make sense of the Great War as well as to explain the role and identity of the Netherlands as a neutral nation. These different narratives, which changed over time, co-existed and partially conflicted with one another. But mainly, they need to be understood in an international context, as their construction was, to a large degree, in response to international debates and foreign cultural propaganda activities, as well as to the changing image of Dutch neutrality in the belligerent states.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Germany
title: Germany
Creators: name: Hirschfeld, Gerhard
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Deutschland
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Germany

description: When war broke out, in light of increasingly inflexible constellations and alliances among European powers, Germany was initially hoping to keep the war limited to Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Soon the conflict involved Russia, Germany, France, and Great Britain, and early war enthusiasm soon declined. In 1915, German armies in the west faced a series of major enemy offensives, which they would repel. 1916 saw military defeats and crises, with supplies deteriorating due to the British naval blockade and severe losses suffered by the German forces. German operational and strategic concepts changed in 1917. Ground forces successfully went on the defensive, while unrestricted submarine war was unsuccessful. When armistice in the east ended the two-front war in late 1917, Germany focused on the spring offensive of 1918. It was a failure, not least due to American forces. At home, military defeat in 1918 allowed for revolutionary constitutional reforms.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Redirecting or reducing demand? the efficacy of Chinese government efforts to control the housing market
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This paper examines the success of Chinese government policies in restricting housing market activity. The focus is whether policies designed to restrict speculation and cool the higher end of the housing market, succeeded in doing so, and if successful, did they result in an overall reduction in activity. The particular government interventions we examine are the restrictions on lending imposed from late 2010 to early 2011 that targeted the higher end market by only affecting units over 90 square meters in size. As well as targeting only one segment of the market, these policies were not implemented uniformly across cities. Our identification strategy is to exploit the differential restrictions across unit size to assess the effects of these policies on overall activity, the targeted high-end market, and housing sub-markets less affected by restrictions. The empirical analysis uses a panel data from nine Chinese cities that aggregates activity by sub-markets from 2006Q1 to 2013Q4. The detail in the data allow us to look at relative activity by housing sub-market within individual cities, the difference that we exploit to identify the effects of the government restrictions.
A trajectorial interpretation of Doob's martingale inequalities
Creators: name: Acciaio, B.
name: Beiglböck, M.
name: Penkner, F.
name: Schachermayer, W.
name: Temme, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We present a unified approach to Doob's $L^p$ maximal inequalities for $1\leq p
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP878 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Wartime and Post-war Societies (The Netherlands)
title: Wartime and Post-war Societies (The Netherlands)
Creators: name: Kristel, Conny
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Niederlande
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Netherlands

description: The Dutch were not just passive bystanders of the war. They reflected on the nature and consequences of modern warfare and on the position of their country in the world. Their responses to and reflections on the war were influenced by the neutral position of the Netherlands. While reservations about military violence were dominant in popular reactions, people were extremely interested in the details of modern warfare. After the war, commemoration initially focused on the mobilisation and neutrality. In the 1920s the pacifist memory of the war as mass suffering in an allegedly senseless conflict prevailed until the Second World War.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
title: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
Creators: name: Greiner, Florian
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
subject: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge

description: The ''Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.'' (German War Graves Commission or VDK) was established after the First World War to protect German war graves. During the Weimar Republic it developed into a powerful organization with a large membership. Shaped primarily by the educated middle class, it pursued socially conservative goals and strove to promote national solidarity through shared commemoration of the war dead. In 1933 the VDK performed a voluntary ''Gleichschaltung'' and quickly collaborated with the new National Socialist regime.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Vittoria Mutilata
title: Vittoria Mutilata
Creators: name: Sullivan, Brian R.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Italien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Italy

description: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s phrase “mutilated victory” infers that Italy’s wartime sacrifices went unrewarded, but excessive Italian demands and inept diplomacy in Paris provoked French and American intransigence. Italian disatisfaction with the peace settlement also obscured significant gains. Austria-Hungary’s disintegration removed a great threat and the collapse of the European empire opened Balkan markets to Italian penetration.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Additional file 5 of Degradome sequencing reveals an integrative miRNA-mediated gene interaction network regulating rice seed vigor
Creators: name: Zhou, Shiqi
name: Huang, Kerui
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Hu, Yingqian
name: Xiao, Yuchao
name: Chen, Ting
name: Yin, Mengqi
name: Liu, Yan
name: Xu, Mengliang
name: Jiang, Xiaocheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S6. Red frame displayed the source data for Fig. 10A.
title: Salandra, Antonio
title: Salandra, Antonio
Creators: name: Marcuzzi, Stefano
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Salandra, Antonio
subject: Salandra, Antonio, 1853-1931

description: Antonio Salandra was an important Italian politician in the early 20th century. When the Great War broke out, he was prime minister of Italy and had a decisive yet controversial role in the Italian intervention.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Visuell-kognitive Leistungen im Freizeit- und Leistungssport am Beispiel von Handball und Fechten
Creators: name: Koppelwiser, Theresa
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sportler
subject: Visuelle Wahrnehmung
subject: Kognitive Kompetenz
subject: 613.704

description: Es existieren multifaktorielle Einflussfaktoren auf die sportliche Leistung. Die Identifikation und Opti-mierung relevanter Fähigkeiten der Athleten zur Verbesserung ihrer sportlichen Leistungsfähigkeit ist von wissenschaftlichem Interesse. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob Leistungssportler bessere visuelle und kognitive Fähigkeiten aufweisen als Freizeit- bzw. Nichtsportler und ob es sportartspezifische Unter-schiede (Handball vs. Fechten) gibt. Getestet wurden 121 Probanden im Alter zwischen 14 und 59 Jahren. Entsprechend ihrer sportlichen Aktivität erfolgte die Einteilung in folgende 4 Gruppen: Freizeitsportler (n = 42) und Leistungssportler (n = 79) mit den Untergruppen Fechten (n = 24), Handball (n = 35) und andere Sportarten (n = 20). Mittels ophthalmologischer Verfahren zur Prüfung der peripheren Wahrnehmung, des Stereosehens und des afferenten dynamischen Sehens sowie einer psychometrischen Testbatterie zur Erfassung der kognitiven Leistungen (Einfachwahl- und Zweifachwahl-Reaktionsschnelligkeit, geteilte Aufmerksam-keit) wurde der gruppenspezifische Vergleich dieser Fähigkeiten zwischen Freizeitsportlern und Leis-tungssportlern als auch zwischen Fechtern und Handballern (Mannschafts- vs. Einzelsportart) durch-geführt. Die Ergebnisse wiesen lediglich vereinzelt signifikante Unterschiede beim Stereosehen hinsichtlich der visuellen Fähigkeiten in Abhängigkeit von der sportlichen Aktivität oder dem Sportprofil auf. Innerhalb der kognitiven Testungen zeigten die Leistungssportler eine deutlich kürzere Einfachwahl-Reaktions-zeit und die Freizeitsportler schnellere visuelle Antwortzeiten im Test zur geteilten Aufmerksamkeit. Im Sportartenvergleich präsentierten sich die Handballer den Fechtern im Einfachwahl-Reaktionstest sowie in der geteilten Aufmerksamkeit insgesamt überlegen.
title: Submarines and Submarine Warfare
title: Submarines and Submarine Warfare
Creators: name: Karau, Mark D.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Unterseebootkrieg
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine

description: During the First World War the German government made extensive use of submarines, initially against warships and then, as the war progressed, most heavily against merchant shipping. However, the sinking of neutral merchantmen eventually led to diplomatic crises with neutral nations and to war between Germany and the United States.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Heegaard Floer genus bounds for Dehn surgeries on knots
Creators: name: Jabuka, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57R58

description: We provide a new obstruction for a rational homology 3-sphere to arise by Dehn surgery on a given knot in the 3-sphere. The obstruction takes the form of an inequality involving the genus of the knot, the surgery coefficient, and a count of L-structures on the 3-manifold, that is spin-c structures with the simplest possible associated Heegaard Floer group. Applications include an obstruction for two framed knots to yield the same 3-manifold, an obstruction that is particularly effective when working with families of framed knots. We introduce the rational and integral Dehn surgery genera for a rational homology 3-sphere, and use our inequality to provide bounds, and in some cases exact values, for these genera. We also demonstrate that the difference between the integral and rational Dehn surgery genera can be arbitrarily large.
description: Typos corrected, added additional background information. To appear in Journal of Topology. 21 pages, 6 figures
Activated protein C reverses epigenetically sustained p66Shc expression in plaque-associated macrophages in diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Gadi, Ihsan-Ur-Rehman Khan
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Arteriosklerose
subject: Diabetes mellitus
subject: Oxidativer Stress
subject: 616.136

description: Impaired activated protein C (aPC) generation is associated with atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. Diabetes-associated atherosclerosis is characterized by the hyperglycaemic memory, e.g. failure of disease improvement despite attenuation of hyperglycaemia. Therapies reversing the hyperglycaemic memory are lacking. Here we demonstrate that hyperglycaemia, but not hyperlipidaemia, induces the redox-regulator p66Shc and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in macrophages. p66Shc expression, ROS generation, and a proatherogenic phenotype are sustained despite restoring normoglycemic conditions. Inhibition of p66Shc abolishes this sustained proatherogenic phenotype, identifying p66Shc-dependent ROS in macrophages as a key mechanism conveying the hyperglycaemic memory. The p66Shc-associated hyperglycaemic memory can be reversed by aPC via protease-activated receptor-1 signalling. aPC reverses glucose-induced CpG hypomethylation within the p66Shc promoter by induction of the DNA methyltransferase-1 (DNMT1). Thus, epigenetically sustained p66Shc expression in plaque-macrophages drives the hyperglycaemic memory, which – however – can be reversed by aPC. This establishes that reversal of the hyperglycaemic memory in diabetic atherosclerosis is feasible.
GaAs pixel detectors with integrated electronics: experimental basis and feasibility study
Creators: name: Bertuccio, G.
name: Canali, C.
name: Cetronio, A.
name: De Geronimo, G.
name: Giannini, F.
name: Graffitti, R.
name: Lanzieri, C.
name: Longoni, A.
name: Nava, F.
name: Orengo, G.
name: Padovini, G.
name: Peroni, M.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1997
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: This work aims to study the feasibility of the integration, on the same chip, of GaAs pixel detectors and front-end electronics employing GaAs MESFETs or HEMTs. Interest of a full GaAs integrated systems are in X and y-ray spectroscopy and imaging for scientific, industrial and medical applications. The current status and recent experimental results regarding radiation detectors on semi-insulating GaAs are presented. Measurements of the relevant parameters of GaAs FETs suitable for the stringent requirements of a spectroscopy-graded front-end amplifier are analysed. Some still open problems regarding the detector-electronics integration are highlighted.
A controlled-NOT gate in a chain of qubits embedded in a spin field-effect transistor and its process tomography
Creators: name: Unoki, Makoto
name: Nakazato, Hiromichi
name: Yuasa, Kazuya
name: Yoh, Kanji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the realizability of the controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate and characterized the gate operation by quantum process tomography for a chain of qubits, realized by electrons confined in self-assembled quantum dots embedded in the spin field-effect transistor. We have shown that the CNOT gate operation and its process tomography are performable by using the spin exchange interaction and several local qubit rotations within the coherence time of qubits. Moreover it is shown that when the fluctuation of operation time and the imperfection of polarization of channel electrons are considered as sources of decay of fidelity, the process fidelity of CNOT decreases at most 5% by the fluctuation of the operation time and its values of 0.49 and 0.72 are obtained for polarizations of the channel spin 0.6 and 0.8, respectively.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
title: The Church (Spain)
title: The Church (Spain)
Creators: name: Ruiz Sánchez, José-Leonardo
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spanien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Spain

description: The Spanish church identified with Pope Benedict XV’s efforts in favour of neutrality and in search of peace: this position also coincided with the choice made by the Spanish liberal governments. Generally speaking, however, Catholic groups (clergy, media, lay organizations and related political parties), sympathised with the Central Powers and were hostile to the Entente. Progressive and left-wing parties supported the latter. Only the episcopacy, after the actions taken by foreign Catholic clergy, modified its initial approach.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Rolling tachyons for separated brane-antibrane systems
Creators: name: Israel, Dan
name: Kiefer, Flavien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider tachyon condensation between a D-brane and an anti-D-brane in superstring theory, when they are separated in their common transverse directions. A simple rolling tachyon solution, that describes the time evolution of the process, is studied from the point of view of boundary conformal field theory. By computing the boundary beta-functions of the system, one finds that this theory is conformal, hence corresponds to an exact solution of the string theory equations of motion. By contrast, the time-reversal-symmetric rolling tachyon is not conformal. These results put constraints on the space-time effective actions for the system.
description: 40 pages, no figures; version 2 : published version
Multichannels GaAs MMIC front-ends for  GAS chamber particle detectors
Creators: name: Orengo, G.
name: Cardarelli, R.
name: Chiostri, V.
name: Johansen, E.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1997
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A front-end circuit composed of a high gain pulse amplifier cascaded by a threshold comparator has been designed for application in readout electronics of particle detectors. A prototype realized with a 8CH full custom chip in GaAs technology by GIGA foundry for application in gas chamber particle detector (RPC) is described. The chip exhibits a 0.2 mV minimum threshold, 150 MHz bandwidth and 50 mW per channel of power consumption.
title: Charleroi, Battle of
title: Charleroi, Battle of
Creators: name: Le Gall, Erwan
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Charleroi / Schlacht
subject: Charleroi, Battle of, Charleroi, Belgium, 1914

description: The Battle of Charleroi (21-23 August 1914), in which General Charles Lanrezac’s Fifth Army was nearly surrounded by German First, Second and Third Armies, was one of the deadliest combats that occurred in the first weeks of World War One. Although Charleroi has been overshadowed by events such as the Somme or the ''Chemin des Dames'', this battle has not been totally forgotten.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Einflussfaktoren auf den Verlauf und die Therapie beim Poplitealarterienaneurysma
Creators: name: Eckert, Ronja Vanessa
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Aneurysma
subject: Arteria poplitea
subject: 616.133

description: Hintergrund: Das Poplitealarterienaneurysma (PAA) ist zwar das zweithäufigste Aneurysma des Menschen, jedoch insgesamt eine extrem seltene Erkrankung. Es mangelt an Studien, die klinische Einflussfaktoren untersuchen. Patienten und Methodik: Von Januar 1994 bis einschließlich Dezember 2015 befanden sich N=88 Patienten und Patientinnen mit der Hauptdiagnose „Aneurysma der A. poplitea“ stationär im Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg. Die Daten zu Patienten, Krankheitsverlauf und Therapiemethoden wurden aus den Epikrisen, radiologischer und OP-Dokumentation sowie aus Ambulanzakten retrospektiv erhoben. Ergebnisse: Die Symptomatik bei Erstvorstellung des Patienten ist signifikant mit der Thrombosierung des Aneurysmas assoziiert (p=0,049), während der Querdurchmesser des Aneurysmas keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf diese zeigt (p=0,591). Die Bypassoffenheit hängt signifikant vom OP-Material (autolog vs. alloplastisch, p=0,024 im Log-Rank-Test; p=0,004 in der Cox-Regression) ab. In der Cox-Regression sind außerdem das Alter (pro ein Jahr älter Risikoverringerung um 9%, p=0,014) und der Thrombosierungsgrad (Teilthrombosierung vs. vollständige Thrombosierung p=0,011) signifikante Einflussfaktoren auf die verschlussfreie Überlebenszeit eines Bypasses. Es konnten keine relevanten Einflussfaktoren auf das amputationsfreie Überleben gefunden werden. Schlussfolgerungen: Die Thrombosierung eines Aneurysmas scheint mehr Einfluss auf den klinischen Verlauf und das Outcome zu haben als bisher angenommen. Weitere Studien sollten diese Erkenntnis validieren.
title: Minorities in Germany (Denmark)
title: Minorities in Germany (Denmark)
Creators: name: Schultz Hansen, Hans
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nordschleswig
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Schleswig (Germany and Denmark)
subject: History--20th century

description: The Danish minority in North Schleswig in northern Germany (''Sønderjylland'' in Danish) sought unification with Denmark. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, leading figures in this minority were interned. As German nationals, young men from this minority were subject to compulsory military service. These soldiers sometimes experienced discrimination. Several thousand of the Danish minority were killed, injured, or taken prisoner during the war. Many deserted and fled to Denmark. Even though the region more or less escaped direct military action, living conditions were deeply affected by the war. The Danish government led a strict policy of neutrality during the war. The defeat of Germany in 1918 reopened the border issue and in 1920 referenda in the region resulted in the current Danish-German border.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
A surface containing a line and a circle through each point is a quadric
Creators: name: Nilov, Fedor
name: Skopenkov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J26, 51M04

description: We prove that a surface in real 3-space containing a line and a circle through each point is a quadric. We also give some particular results on the classification of surfaces containing several circles through each point.
description: Improved exposition, 4 figures added
Novel base doping profile for improved speed and power
Creators: name: Rehder, E. M.
name: Cismaru, C.
name: Zampardi, P. J.
name: Welser, R. E.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: We have experimentally studied the effect of twonewbase doping profiles on the base transit time of a GaAs npn heterojunction bipolar transistor.  The doping in a region close to the collector is reduced either by a doping grade or a stepwise reduction.  Quasi-electric fields resulting from these doping gradients increase the minority carrier velocity and the beta of large area transistors. By focusing these doping changes adjacent to the collector, the amount of low-doped base material and the resulting increase in base sheet resistance can be minimized.  For both a step change in doping or graded doping change a 10% decrease in base transittime is achieved while only causing a 4 % increase in base sheet resistance.The impacton base transit time is confirmed with fT data on small areadevices.
Messung des Nervenwasserdurchflusses mittels Phasenkontrastmagnetresonanztomographie in ventrikuloperitonealen Ableitungen mit magnetisch verstellbaren Ventilen
Creators: name: König, Rebecca Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Liquor cerebrospinalis
subject: Shunt
subject: Kernspintomografie
subject: 616.07548

description: Die Überprüfung einer ventrikuloperitonealen Ableitung auf eine Fehlfunktion ist eine wieder-kehrende Aufgabe im neurochirurgischen Alltag. Derzeit erfolgt dies durch herkömmliche radi-ologische Bildgebung mittels Messung der Ventrikelweite und wenn möglich Vergleich anhand von Referenzbildern. Bei unklaren Ergebnissen ist eine chirurgische Revision häufig die einzige Alternative. In Studien konnte mehrfach gezeigt werden, dass die Phasenkontrastmagnetreso-nanztomographie (PC-MRT) bei 1,5 T eine zusätzliche Möglichkeit zur Überprüfung in Shunt-systemen ohne magnetische Komponenten darstellt. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht daher, ob mittels PC-MRT bei 3 T im Bereich des Ventrikelkatheters in ventrikuloperitonealen Ableitungen mit magnetisch verstellbarem Ventil der Liquordurchfluss nachgewiesen werden kann. Die zugrundeliegenden Sequenzen wurden zunächst an einem Phantom getestet. Mit Hilfe dieser Sequenzen wurden schließlich zwölf Hydrozephalus-Patienten unterschiedlicher Genese mit Shuntsystem untersucht und die Messungen sowohl im Hinblick auf Artefaktüber-lagerung als auch Durchflussgeschwindigkeit ausgewertet. Die entstehenden Artefakte in der PC-Bildgebung waren in vivo deutlich ausgeprägter als unter den Idealbedingungen im Modell. Bei drei Patienten zeigte sich das Untersuchungsgebiet vollständig artefaktüberlagert. Sechs Patienten mit kommunizierendem Hydrozephalus und drei Patienten mit nicht-kommunizieren-dem Hydrozephalus konnten ausgewertet werden. Bei den drei Patienten mit nicht-kommuni-zierendem Hydrozephalus wurde der Liquordurchfluss eindeutig nachgewiesen. Insgesamt sprechen die vorliegenden Ergebnisse für die PC-MRT als ergänzende Möglichkeit zur Über-prüfung von ventrikuloperitonealen Shuntsystemen mit magnetisch verstellbarem Ventil.