cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Honey, we need to talk about the future
Creators: name: Wallenborn, Johanna Teresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In a world balancing between crisis and transformation, we need to infuse public dialogue with new visions of the future. Using (critical) futures studies and futures literacy, we can challenge the status quo and invite a diversity of voices to imagine and redefine what lies ahead. Beyond academia, this is a call to action to see the future as a canvas for imagination that requires collective effort. The ‘Making Sense of the Future’ toolkit, based on futures studies methods, provides an introductory pathway to futures thinking. This blog post explains the theoretical underpinning on which the toolkit is centred and briefly outlines its practical exercises.
The structure of single- and mixed-species, second-growth stands of Western hemlock and Western redcedar
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Varga, Pal
name: Montigny, Louise E. M. De
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The structure of a forest stand is characterized by: (a) species composition, (b) age, (c) size (diameter and height), and (d) spatial (horizontal and vertical) arrangement of the trees. Depending on the species, site, and disturbance history, the stand structure varies with time, thus providing a snapshot of a particular development stage. Research on growth and stand structure has shown that the spatial distribution of trees is one of the key determinants of stand productivity. Forest inventories and ecological surveys carried out in British Columbia (BC) have shown that the structure of naturally established, unmanaged stands varies from simple (single-species, single-storied, and even-aged) to complex (multi-species, multi-storied, and uneven-aged). Only a few studies have quantitatively characterized this range of structural complexity, with nearly all studies focusing on old-growth stands. BC forest policy requires that harvested areas be regenerated with a mixture of tree species whenever a mixture is suited to the site. This policy is based upon the assumption that under appropriate conditions, increases in stand productivity, reliability, and/or biodiversity can be attained in mixed-species stands. This assumption has not yet been tested for forest ecosystems. One mechanism by which different tree species can reduce crown competition for light is through vertical separation (the development of multiple canopy strata). Canopy stratification is not easily recognized in mixed-species stands, particularly when species have similar shade tolerance and height growth patterns, and no quantitative methods have been developed to detect stratification. The diameter frequency distribution of two-storied stands have been characterized by inverted J-shaped as well as modal curves. Although it would be more appropriate to characterize stand structure by height frequency distributions, these distributions have not been developed. We suggest that (i) a stand is stratified if there are distinct, quantitatifiable modes in the size distribution; either diameter, height, or crown height, and (ii) height or crown height distributions will be the most sensitive measures. To characterize the structure of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) (Hw) and western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don in Lamb.) (Cw) second-growth stands, and to investigate its influence on tree growth, we (1) described and compared size (diameter, height, and crown height) frequency distributions in single- and mixed-species stands, (2) determined whether mixed-species stands develop a stratified canopy, and (3) examined whether interactions between hemlock and redcedar affect tree growth.
Research proposal: Evolve and Conquer: Using immersive video games to teach Evolution in Action
Creators: name: Olson, Randy
name: Hintze, Arend
name: Adami, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Education

description: The Adami Lab studies evolution in many different computational environments, including the popular game development platform Unity3D, which supports our research in 3D virtual physics environ- ments. A group of students in our lab (R. Olson, J. Schossau, and D. Phillips) started a game project with the preliminary title Evolve and Conquer (E&C), a real time strategy game which incorporates the core principles of evolution: inheritance, variation, and natural selection. E&C immerses the player in a world governed by these evolutionary principles, allowing the player to experience evolution in action first-hand as a core aspect of the game mechanics. The player must understand the core principles of evolution in order to prevail and either overcome or learn to coexist with an evolving computer opponent.
Research proposal: Darwin vs. DARPA: Evolution of a Neural Controller to play Tetris
Creators: name: Olson, Randy
name: Knoester, David
name: Hintze, Arend
name: Miikkulainen, Risto
name: Adami, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: The goal of the DARPA-funded SyNAPSE project is to build a microprocessor-based machine that mimics many of the characteristics of biological neural networks (i.e., high connectivity, synapse plastic- ity, and scale). The proposed device is termed a neuromorphic machine, and recent simulations have indeed approached biological scale. However, while SyNAPSE has been demonstrated on a variety of tasks, from optical character recognition and classification to control of quadrotor helicopters, it has done so at a cost of $42 million. In contrast, the BEACON-funded DvD (“Darwin vs. DARPA”) project has demonstrated the evolution of logic circuits that outperform SyNAPSE on optical character recognition for 1/1000th of the cost. In this phase of the DvD project, we now turn our attention to a more complex task: Evolving logic circuits that play the computer game “Tetris.”
Research proposal: Evolution of the Dorsal-Ventral gene regulatory network in Drosophila species
Creators: name: Olson, Randy
name: Arnosti, David
name: Adami, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gene regulation in animals is arguably at least as important as the genes that are being regulated. Animal body plans, their structures and in particular the functions that the animal morphology provides, are the consequence over time and space of successive regulatory and developmental processes. Gene regulation in animals is a highly complex process, and can be likened to a computation that the regulatory machinery performs. Often, single genes are regulated by a complex network of genes with activators, repressors, attenuators and the like, and the elucidation of these networks has taken molecular and develop- mental biologists decades. But while we know a tremendous amount about how genes and their associated proteins evolve, much less is known about how regulatory systems evolve. We know the basic building blocks: multiple transcription factor binding sites that regulate the expression of other transcription factors that ultimately lead to the expression of the regulated gene. Each transcription factor has a specific affinity to its binding site, and binding sites can interact either synergistically or antagonistically. If we compare the regulatory regions for the same gene across species in the same family, we can see sometimes significant differences in the regulatory sequence. Are these differences adaptive? How do regulatory networks change in response to changes, either in the environment or in response to a change in body size? In the proposed work, we will analyze the gene regulatory network or “cis-regulatory module” (CRM) that regulates the patterning of a fly embryo in the dorsal-ventral axis. This is a well-studied system for which expression and sequence data is available from the Arnosti lab, and aligned homologous CRMs have been collected. Yet, we do not know in detail how evolution affects such systems. What are the “operators” that evolution uses to change these networks? A computational analysis of the regulatory region of 12 Drosophila species will help us move towards a better understanding of how regulatory systems evolve.
Impact of land-use patterns on water quality characteristics of Rambiarrah stream in Kashmir Himalaya
Creators: name: Islam, Sheikh Tajamul
name: Bhat, Sami Ullah
name: Hamid, Aadil
name: Pandit, Ashok Kumar
name: Sabha, Inam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Water quality characterization of Himalayan streams that provide variety of ecosystem services including drinking water to zooming population is indispensable. In this background, water quality characterization of the Rambiarrah watershed was carried out from Autumn 2016 to Summer 2018, which revealed that all the drinking water quality parameters were within the prescribed limits of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Beauru of Indian Standards (BIS) except total coliform (TC) and fecal coliform (FC). Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) displayed 3 clusters, cluster I, II, III with least, moderate and high anthropogenic disturbance respectively. Principal component analysis (PCA) recognized 4 principal components (PCs) and explained a cumulative variance of 70.3%. Redundancy analysis (RDA) highlighted that agriculture, built-up, and plantation land-use classes explained 55% of the variance, while as 57% of the variance was highlighted by observable sensory features (waste disposal, sewage inflow and mineral extraction). The water quality index (WQI) varied from excellent to very poor water quality category. Physico-chemical parameters like pH, EC, TDS, TH, Ca2+, and Mg2+ decipher significant effective weights at upstream sites while as microbial load (TC and FC) highlighted significant effective weights at mid and downstream sites. The spatial–temporal pattern of water quality and aquascape landscape interrelationship identified in this study will contribute to the water quality management endeavor.
New height growth models for western larch in British Columbia
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Brisco, David James
name: Nigh, Gordon D. (Gordon Donald)
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.) is a locally important species in the Nelson Forest Region, and to a lesser extent, in the Kamloops Forest Region. Its range extends from west of the Rockies to Okanagan Lake, and north to Salmon Arm, in the IDF, ICH, MS, and ESSF biogeoclimatic zones. Prior to this study, the site index curves developed for western larch in western Montana were used to model height and estimate site index in British Columbia. It has been suggested that these curves may not adequately reflect the height growth patterns of western larch in BC. Differences could arise from genetics, different methods of selecting sample trees, or climatic differences. The objective of this project was to produce accurate height growth models for western larch in BC.
MPEC 2025-J13 : 2020 QL7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
ANALYSIS OF PUNISHMENT MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES CHARACTERIZING A PERSON WHO COMMITTED A CRIME (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CRIMINAL LAW OF UZBEKISTAN)
Creators: name: Muslimov, Ikram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, the author analyzes the circumstances that facilitate the punishment characterizing the person who committed the crime, which is taken into account when prescribing punishment, within the framework of the criminal law of Uzbekistan. In particular, the importance of a minor person and a pregnant woman as an mitigating condition for committing a crime is highlighted. The recognition of the culprit's state of pregnancy as a punishment mitigating condition is an expression of the state's concern for the protection of the health of the expectant mother and child, while the criminalization of a minor is recognized as a punishment mitigating condition criminal law is a valid expression of the humanitarian principle.
Impact of Land-use Patterns on Water Quality Characteristics of Rambiarrah Stream in Kashmir Himalaya
Creators: name: Islam, Sheikh Tajamul
name: Bhat, Sami Ullah
name: Hamid, Aadil
name: Pandit, Ashok Kumar
name: Sabha, Inam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Water quality characterization of Himalayan streams that provide variety of ecosystem services including drinking water to zooming population is indispensable. In this background, water quality characterization of the Rambiarrah watershed was carried out from Autumn 2016-Summer to 2018, which revealed that all the drinking water quality parameters were within the prescribed limits of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Beauru of Indian Standards (BIS) except total coliform (TC) and fecal coliform (FC). Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) displayed 3 clusters, cluster I, II, III with least, moderate and high anthropogenic disturbance respectively. Principal component analysis (PCA) recognized 4 principal components (PCs) and explained a cumulative variance of 70.3%. Redundancy analysis (RDA) highlighted that agriculture, built-up, and plantation explained 55% of the variance, while as 57% of the variance was highlighted by observable sensory features (waste disposal, sewage inflow and mineral extraction). The water quality index (WQI) varied from excellent to very poor water quality category, Physico-chemical parameters like pH, EC, TDS, TH, Ca2+,and Mg2+ decipher significant effective weights at upstream sites while as microbial load (TC and FC) highlighted significant effective weights at mid and downstream sites. The spatial-temporal pattern of water quality and aquascape landscape interrelationship identified in this study will contribute to the water quality management endeavor.
Iwo Amelung, Anett Dippner (Hgg.): Kritische Verhältnisse. Die Rezeption der Frankfurter Schule in China
Creators: name: Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Broken Hearts: Writing the Representation of Trauma and Trauma Recovery in a Post-Trauma Romance Novel
Creators: name: Kindleysides, Alicia
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 529999
subject: Other psychology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory

description: This PhD research thesis, titled Broken hearts: writing the representation of trauma and trauma recovery in a post-trauma romance novel, comprises a creative artefact and accompanying reflective exegesis. The primary aim of the thesis is to make an original contribution to the fields of literary theory, trauma theory, and literary trauma theory by formally identifying, defining, and providing an example of a new subgenre of romance coined ‘post-trauma romance’ (PTR). 
The creative artefact, a novel titled The love healer, serves as an example of PTR, by combining the subgenre’s three proposed elements: trauma representation, trauma recovery representation, and a romance narrative. Narrated from a multiple first-person point of view, The love healer opens with a journal entry by trauma survivor, Neoma Alban, detailing the progress she has made on her recovery journey. The journal entry also shows her awaiting a year-long reunion with her love interest, and former trauma recovery facilitator, Emerson Novak … a man with his own traumatic past. The novel details their individual trauma experiences, post-trauma effects, and subsequent recovery journeys alongside their unfolding romance. By the end of the novel, readers will wonder who the titular ‘love healer’ is, hinting at the underlying message that there are no definitive answers on the road to trauma recovery. 
The accompanying reflective exegesis investigates the writing techniques––drawn from literary theory, trauma theory, and literary trauma theory, alongside a ‘lived experience lens’ and feminist framework––employed in crafting The love healer. It also provides evidence to support the formal identification and definition of post-trauma romance as a unique and new subgenre of romance. 
Several other important findings pinpointed throughout the PhD journey are also discussed, including the Vital Signs Scan, 8F/9F Trauma Response Model, and ‘Fade’ trauma response.
Monika Gänßbauer: Confucianism and Social Issues in China the Academician Kang Xiaoguang. Investigations into NGOs in China, the Falun Gong, Chinese Reportage, and the Confucian Tradition
Creators: name: Kunze, Rui
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: Asien, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Carnet nº 4, commencé à Novorossiïsk (p. 100)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 10-7-1929
James W. Heisig, Timothy W. Richardson, Robert Rauther: Vereinfachte Hanzi lernen und behalten. Bedeutung und Schreibweise der häufigsten chinesischen Schriftzeichen - Band 1
Creators: name: Regler, Sonja
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Forest floor nutrient properties in single- and mixed-species stands of Western hemlock and Western redcedar
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Collins, D. Bradley
name: Montigny, Louise E. M. De
name: Feller, M. C. (Michael Charles)
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The influence of tree species on forest soils has been the subject of study for at least a century. Of particular interest have been western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) and western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don) – two of the most common tree species in coastal and southern British Columbia, but each with a different nutrient amplitude. It has generally been found that acid, mycogeneous Mor humus forms develop in hemlock stands, while less acid and more zoogenous Mormoder, Moder, or even Mull humus forms develop in redcedar stands. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of hemlock and redcedar, growing separately and together, on forest floor nutrient properties. The questions addressed were: (1) does each stand type have unique forest floor nutrient properties? and (2) can any forest floor nutrient property discriminate between stand types?
Research proposal: Integrating computational science with biology to study collective animal behavior
Creators: name: Olson, Randy
name: Adami, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This is a three-page research proposal that we wrote for funding requests. In this document, we propose an integration of our digital swarm evolution platform with a biological system to study the evolution of simulated prey behavior in response to predation. Particularly, we are looking to establish whether the predator confusion effect exists, and whether it can select for swarming behavior in groups of evolving prey that initially move randomly.
Aging induced changes on NEXAFS fingerprints in individual combustion particles
Creators: name: Zelenay, Veronika
name: Mooser, René
name: Tritscher, Torsten
name: Křepelová, Adela
name: Heringa, Maarten F.
name: Chirico, Roberto
name: Prévôt, André SH.
name: Weingartner, Ernest
name: Baltensperger, Urs
name: Dommen, Josef
name: Watts, B.
name: Raabe, Jörg
name: Huthwelker, Thomas
name: Ammann, Markus
Publisher: name: Copernicus
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 550 - Geowissenschaften

description: Abstract. Soot particles can significantly influence the Earth's climate by absorbing and scattering solar radiation as well as by acting as cloud condensation nuclei. However, despite their environmental (as well as economic and political) importance, the way these properties are affected by atmospheric processing of the combustion exhaust gases is still a subject of discussion. In this work, individual soot particles emitted from two different vehicles, a EURO 2 transporter, a EURO 3 passenger car, and a wood stove were investigated on a single-particle basis. The emitted exhaust, including the particulate and the gas phase, was processed in a smog chamber with artificial solar radiation. Single particle specimens of both unprocessed and aged soot were characterized using near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS) and scanning electron microscopy. Comparison of NEXAFS spectra from the unprocessed particles and those resulting from exhaust photooxidation in the chamber revealed changes in the carbon functional group content. For the wood stove emissions, these changes were minor, related to the relatively mild oxidation conditions. For the EURO 2 transporter emissions, the most apparent change was that of carboxylic carbon from oxidized organic compounds condensing on the primary soot particles. For the EURO 3 car emissions oxidation of primary soot particles upon photochemical aging has likely contributed as well. Overall, the changes in the NEXAFS fingerprints were in qualitative agreement with data from an aerosol mass spectrometer. Furthermore, by taking full advantage of our in situ microreactor concept, we show that the soot particles from all three combustion sources changed their ability to take up water under humid conditions upon photochemical aging of the exhaust. Due to the selectivity and sensitivity of the NEXAFS technique for the water mass, also small amounts of water taken up into the internal voids of agglomerated particles could be detected. Because such small amounts of water uptake do not lead to measurable changes in particle diameter, it may remain beyond the limits of volume growth measurements, especially for larger agglomerated particles.
MPEC 2024-P65 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 August 5)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Jacques Leibowitch, "Evaluating the effectiveness of anti-retroviral drug therapy on peripheral cellular infectious viral end-points"
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111031798146
Classification of high-elevation, non-forested plant communities in coastal British Columbia
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
name: Brett, Bob
name: Qian, H.
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Non-forested ecosystems dominate high elevation sites in coastal British Columbia, yet there has never been a comprehensive classification or mapping of all high-elevation community types. The objective of this study is to collate and expand upon previous classifications, and thereby to increase our understanding of the habitats and composition of these plant communities.
The Current Legal Basis and  Governance Structures of the EU's Defence Activities
Creators: name: Szép, Viktor
name: Wessel, Ramses
name: Sabatino, Ester
name: Gebhard, Carmen
name: Simon, Edouard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This Working Paper explores the current legal basis and governance structures of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and other areas with defence implications. It provides a summary of ground rules to address the boundaries of enhancing the functioning of the CSDP and reveal the possibilities that are offered by the existing legal framework. The paper emphasises that the current Treaty framework allows the use of the so-called “sleeping beauties”, including the potential use of Article 44 of the Treaty on European Union. The latter may contribute to achieving the EU’s strategic objectives by allowing a group of Member States to perform a task in the EU’s interest. The paper also highlights recent actions taken to increase defence collaborations and industrial activities, which are expected to boost the coordination and effectiveness of EU defence policy and to foster the competitiveness of the European defence industry.
Lesson Plan for a 1-Hour Undergraduate Discussion Session on Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnostics using Next Generation Sequencing
Creators: name: Bergman, Casey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This document provides an example lesson plan for a 1-hour discussion session at the undergraduate level on noninvasive prenatal diagnostics using next generation sequencing. The goals of this discussion session are to: 1) introduce students to concept of noninvasive prenatal genetic testing using next generation sequencing; 2) provide students with ability to evaluate evidence for the technology underlying new genetic testing methods; and 3) provide students with the background to interpret results of a diagnostic test for trisomy 21.
Vincent Houben, Mona Schrempf (Hgg.): Figurations of Modernity. Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective
Creators: name: Schröter, Susanne
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
5. DGA-Nachwuchstagung. „Asien in Bewegung: Politischer, kultureller und gesellschaftlicher Wandel einer Weltregion"
Creators: name: Müller, Armin
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Wissen schaffen, Wissen nutzen - Perspektiven aus Japan und Deutschland, Auftaktveranstaltung der Japan-Wochen an deutschen Hochschulen
Creators: name: Holdgrün, Phoebe S.
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Species diversity and floristic relationships of the understory vegetation in black spruce and trembling aspen stands in the boreal forest of British Columbia
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Qian, H.
name: Krestov, Pavel
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The boreal forest is confined to the Northern Hemisphere and is the most continuous and extensive forest in the world. In North America boreal forest extends from the Pacific to Atlantic coast spanning over 10° latitude. White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), black spruce (P. mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are among the dominant tree species. Black spruce and trembling aspen may form pure stands and occupy similar sites as their edaphic amplitudes overlap; however, spruce is rare on water-deficient sites and aspen does not tolerate excess water. Despite many studies conducted in the North American boreal forest, little is known about relationships between the boreal understory vegetation and softwood or hardwood canopy species in different climate regions. Furthermore, the variation in species diversity and succession between the stands dominated by coniferous trees and those dominated by broadleaved trees within the same region is unknown. The objectives of this study are to determine (1) the difference in the species diversity and floristic composition of understory vegetation between black spruce and trembling aspen stands within the same climatic region, and (2) how the species diversity and floristic composition of understory vegetation in each stand type vary with climate, and soil moisture and soil nutrient conditions.
Lesson Plan for One Hour Undergraduate Discussion Session on Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnostics using Next Generation Sequencing
Creators: name: Bergman, Casey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This document provides an example lesson plan for a 1-hour discussion session at the undergraduate level on noninvasive prenatal diagnostics using next generation sequencing. The goals of this discussion session are to: 1) introduce students to concept of noninvasive prenatal genetic testing using next generation sequencing; 2) provide students with ability to evaluate evidence for the technology underlying new genetic testing methods; and 3) provide students with the background to interpret results of a diagnostic test for trisomy 21.
Descriptive sensory characteristics of cooked mixed rice prepared by a different method using Rate-All-That-Apply and Quantitative Descriptive Analysis
Creators: name: Sopheavi Mao
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cooked mixed rice, Consumer acceptability, Cooking method, Rate-All-That-Apply

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 25, 1, 1-14
Lesson Plan for a 1-Hour Undergraduate Discussion Session on Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnostics using Next Generation Sequencing
Creators: name: Bergman, Casey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This document provides an example lesson plan for a 1-hour discussion session at the undergraduate level on noninvasive prenatal diagnostics using next generation sequencing. The goals of this discussion session are to: 1) introduce students to concept of noninvasive prenatal genetic testing using next generation sequencing; 2) provide students with ability to evaluate evidence for the technology underlying new genetic testing methods; and 3) provide students with the background to interpret results of a diagnostic test for trisomy 21.
Policy Decomposition: A Framework for Discovery of Control Hierarchies for Efficient Policy Optimization with Suboptimality Estimates
Creators: name: Khadke, Ashwin Rajendra
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Control Systems, Robotics and Automation

description:  Optimal Control is a popular formulation for designing controllers for dynamic robotic systems. Under the formulation, the desired long-term behavior of the system is encoded via a cost function and the policy, i.e. a mapping from the state of the system to control commands, to achieve the desired behavior is derived by solving an optimization problem. A fundamental challenge in scaling up policy optimization to complex systems is that the computational requirement scales exponentially with the dimensionality of the state-space. Owing to this curse of dimensionality simplifying hierarchies are employed to reduce the computational burden. Very often, these hierarchies are hand-designed based on intuitions about the system’s dynamics, and do not account for their effect on the system’s closed-loop behavior under the resulting policies. The systematic design of hierarchies to simplify controller synthesis is a critical and active area of research and is the focus of this work. 
This thesis introduces Policy Decomposition, a framework that alleviates the curse of dimensionality by algorithmically reducing a complex policy optimization problem into a hierarchy of simpler subproblems that are much more tractable to solve. Two standout features of this framework are its ability to 1) automatically propose control hierarchies and 2) estimate a priori how the control performance under policies resulting from different hierarchies compares with the optimal policy. Additionally, we develop search methods based on Genetic Algorithm and Monte Carlo tree search to automatically discover promising hierarchies. Therefore, those that dramatically reduce the required computation in policy optimization while sacrificing minimally on control performance can be readily identified. The framework is agnostic to the choice of policy representations and optimization algorithms. We demonstrate the generality of the Policy Decomposition framework by applying it towards finding hierarchies for several robotic systems, including the control of a simplified biped, and a quadcopter. Furthermore, we present results using Policy Iteration with look-up table based policy representations as well as more modern methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization with neural network policies. The discovered hierarchies either outperform heuristically constructed ones in closed-loop performance or provide dramatic reductions in required compute with marginally suboptimal control performance.
Institutionen in der Entwicklung Ostasiens: Der Beitrag der experimentellen Ökonomie
Creators: name: Pascha, Werner
name: Storz, Cornelia
name: Taube, Markus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Asien in Europas Außen- und Wirtschaftspolitik - Welche Aufgaben ergeben sich für Nichtregierungsorganisationen
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Exploring digitalisation: Indigenous perspectives from Puno, Peru
Creators: name: Vilchez, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Indigenous communities offer valuable insights on alternatives to our typical global economy and how to build sustainable digital businesses. In this blog post, Paul Vilchez reflects on his observations during a recent visit to Quechua communities in Puno. Here, digital technologies emerge as a tool of empowerment and economic independence. What can we learn from the intersection of ancestral wisdom and innovation to reshape our approach to build digital companies?
Weingartener Asien-Gespräche 2011: „Das moderne Asien - Multiple Formen, singuläre Entwicklungen"
Creators: name: Christ, Simone
name: Wiedemann, Anke
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
The genetic component of biodiversity in forest ecosystems
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, Aristotelis C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: What is the position of genetic diversity in biodiversity texts and strategies? How does this apply to forest biodiversity and what can be done manage forests sustainably? The importance of forest genetic diversity as a component of biodiversity.
Conceptions of Intellectual Giftedness among Elementary and Secondary School Teachers Involved in Fast-Learner Education Programs
Creators: name: Aranas, Therese June
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Education

description: This is an abstract of the master's thesis I completed in 2010 which led to the conferment of my degree in Master of Arts in Teaching Special Education. The first upload of this abstract, which I accidentally deleted, got more than a hundred (100+) views in two weeks.
Vegetation and soil nutrient properties of Black spruce and Trembling aspen ecosystems in the boreal black and white spruce zone
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Kayahara, Gordon J.
name: Krestov, Pavel
name: Qian, H.
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Changes in forest ecosystem vegetation also bring about changes to the associated soil. In order to maintain forest productivity, it is important to know the effects of tree species upon the soil, especially the influence of deciduous versus coniferous tree species. Many deciduous species increase pH, nitrogen, base saturation and/or accumulation of organic matter in the forest floor. The chemical properties of the forest floor may, in turn, influence the chemical properties of the underlying mineral soil. If a tree species significantly alters the soil, then silviculturists may consider crop rotation between deciduous and coniferous trees or growing mixed-species stands to maintain greater nutrient availability and maintain site productivity. Trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and black spruce (Picea mariana) may occupy similar sites in the North American boreal forest. Shade-intolerant aspen is generally a seral species while shade-tolerant black spruce can be a seral species but also forms a major component in late successional stages. This study investigated differences in nitrogen-related soil properties between trembling aspen and black spruce stands on upland sites in the BWBS zone of northeastern BC. We asked two questions: (1) are the differences in soil nutrient properties manifested in both forest floor and mineral soil? (2) To what extent are these differences reflected in the floristic composition of understory vegetation?
Phase Transitions in Quantum Microcanonical Equilibrium
Creators: name: Hook, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Thermodynamics
Quantum Mechanics

description: Thesis: Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of London (Imperial College), 2007. Supervisor: Dorje C Brody Collaborators: Carl M Bender, Dorje C Brody, Lane P Hughston Examiners: Professor Des Johnston, Herriot-Watt University (external); Dr Ian RC Buckley, Kings College London

 A mathematically consistent formulation of quantum statistical mechanics is developed for finite-dimensional quantum systems. A quantum microcanon- ical postulate is proposed as a basis for a new equilibrium state of a closed system. Equilibrium is characterised by a uniform distribution on a level sur- face of the expectation value of the Hamiltonian. The distinguishing feature of the proposed equilibrium state is that the corresponding density of states is a continuous function of the energy, and hence thermodynamic functions are well defined for finite quantum systems. The density of states, how- ever, is not in general an analytic function. It is demonstrated that generic quantum systems therefore exhibit second-order phase transitions at finite temperatures, without the consideration of thermodynamic limits. Several examples are investigated in detail to work out their physical characteristics in equilibrium. The energy variance and Fisher information are calculated for systems in microcanonical equilibrium: the new equilibrium ensemble has the physically desirable property that it represents the minimum energy uncertainty state. For a system that has nondegenerate equally spaced en- ergy eigenvalues we have introduced a scaling scheme to consider the limit as the number of energy levels approaches infinity. In this limit, the density of states is shown to converge to a delta-function centred at the intermediate value, (E_max + E_min)/2, of the energy. Determining this limit requires an elaborate asymptotic study of an infinite sum whose terms alternate in sign.
REVIEW OF SOME CASES OF MITIGATION OF PUNISHMENT CHARACTERIZING THE NATURE OF THE CRIME IN THE CRIMINAL LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Muslimov, Ikram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, the author analyzes the mitigating circumstances of punishment, which characterize the nature of the committed crime, which is taken into account when prescribing punishment, within the framework of the criminal law of Uzbekistan. The author conditionally divides the punishment mitigation cases into three groups:
Entwicklung der Forschungskooperationen Deutschlands mit dem asiatisch-pazifischen Raum - Chancen und Herausforderungen
Creators: name: Heinrichs, Gerold
name: Haustein, Stefanie
name: Tunger, Dirk
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)
Comparison of soil acidification and intensity of podzolization beneath decaying wood versus non-woody forest floors in coastal BC
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
name: Kayahara, Gordon J.
name: Chourmouzis, Christine
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Forest managers concerned with maintaining soil productivity must consider the impacts of forestry practices upon the features of a site. One critical feature is the amount and type of organic matter on a site, which may affect soil development. This study addresses the question of whether CWD accumulations increase the intensity of podzolization, thus reducing the long-term productivity of a site.
title: 01_1682
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Development and Validation of the Perceived Deepfake Trustworthiness Questionnaire (PDTQ) in Three Languages
Creators: name: Plohl, Nejc
name: Mlakar, Izidor
name: Aquilino, Letizia
name: Bisconti, Piercosma
name: Smrke, Urška
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Exposure to false information is becoming a common occurrence in our daily lives. New developments in artificial intelligence are now used to produce increasingly sophisticated multimedia false content, such as deepfakes, making false information even more challenging to detect and combat. This creates expansive opportunities to mislead individuals into believing fabricated claims and negatively influence their attitudes and behavior. Therefore, a better understanding of how individuals perceive such content and the variables related to the perceived trustworthiness of deepfakes is needed. In the present study, we developed and validated the Perceived Deepfake Trustworthiness Questionnaire (PDTQ) in English, Italian, and Slovene. This was done in three phases. First, we developed the initial pool of items by reviewing previous studies, generating items via interviews and surveys, and employing artificial intelligence. Second, we shortened and adapted the questionnaire according to experts’ evaluation of content validity and translated the questionnaire into Italian and Slovene. Lastly, we evaluated the psychometric characteristics via a cross-sectional study in three languages (N = 733). The exploratory factor analyses suggested a two-factor solution, with the first factor measuring the perceived trustworthiness of the content and the second measuring the perceived trustworthiness of the presentation. This factorial structure was replicated in confirmatory factor analyses. Moreover, our analyses provided support for PDTQ’s reliability, measurement invariance across all three languages, and its construct and incremental validity. As such, the PDTQ is a reliable, measurement invariant, and valid tool for comprehensive exploration of individuals’ perception of deepfake videos.
The Cambodian Land Market: Development, Aberrations, and Perspectives
Creators: name: Löhr, Dirk
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: In its Land Administration, Management and Distribution Program, the Royal Government of Cambodia proclaimed measures to strengthen the Cambodian land markets and tenure security. However, in the past, the country's land markets suffered severe aberrations caused by price hikes. This affected both urban and rural areas, mainly due to a rollout of urban capital. In particular, these aberrations included the purchase of land purely for speculative reasons, unused and underused plots, which effectively caused a land shortage, as well as the careless sale of land by smallholders on the one hand and land-grabbing on the other. The consequence of this has been an increase in involuntary landlessness, land-poorness, and a rising land concentration. At present, there is still some breathing space - land prices are no longer rising, or are even falling. The price level of land has slipped back to the level of 2007. However, land prices are expected to rise again from 2011 onwards. As in the past, price bubbles in rural areas are mainly expected to arise at locations with a moderate price level, good-quality land, and development expectations, particularly regarding tourism. Experts largely expect future prices to rise in the regions of Krong Preah Sihanouk/Kampot, Battambang/Siem Reap, Kampong Cham/Kratie, and Ratanankiri. Although decelerating forces are also at work now, aberrations on the land market will continue to be possible in the future.
description: Asien, Nr. 120 (2011): ASIEN (Juli)