cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Politics of part-time work in the age of liberalisation: social reproduction and working time policies in Austria, 1970-2018
title: The politics of part-time work in the age of liberalisation: social reproduction and working time policies in Austria, 1970-2018
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Nenning, Larissa
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Part-time work
subject: Liberalisation
subject: Social reproduction
subject: Working time policies
subject: Austria

description: Labour relations have been radically transformed in high income welfare states since the 1970s. The growth of part-time work has been a key dimension of this process, albeit one that has seldom been critically analysed in relation to the politics of liberalisation. This thesis examines the politics of part-time work in Austria from the 1970s to the late 2010s. From the mid-1980s, Austria’s ruling coalitions pursued a path of coordinated, gradual liberalisation by introducing different incentives for individual part-time working, until this consensus started to break down in the 2010s. This thesis examines the political drivers of the new politics of part-time work in Austria, and what they tell us about the role of working time policies in processes of liberalisation more broadly. Using a qualitative historical-comparative methodology, it compares changes in the actor strategies and the regulation of part-time work across different policy fields from mid-1970s to late 2010s, including care policy, unemployment policy and labour market policy. This thesis argues that the politics of part-time work was characterised by three interrelated dynamics: Firstly, the slowdown of capitalist growth and the liberalisation of the global economy pressured political elites to find new ways to secure capital accumulation which heightened class conflict over working time. Secondly, labour weakening due to rising unemployment and slowed capitalist growth, coupled with the already limited bargaining power of women and racialized minorities, facilitated social partnership compromises over working time flexibilisation. This contributed to the third dynamic, which is that Conservative and business organisations were able to develop new social reproductive imaginaries that promoted part-time work as an indispensable part of managing labour supply as well as individualising other costly issues of social reproduction such as retirement, care provision and skills development. These social reproductive imaginaries became shared and modified by parts of the Left too and shaped policy over time. Overall, the thesis provides new insights into the relationships between working time and welfare policies in the crisis management of liberalisation. It challenges narratives of inevitable liberalisation by evidencing the contested politics of working time and the role of changing gendered class relations and imaginaries.
IPBES Invasive alien species assessment, data management report for Chapter 3. Section: International institutions and organizations
Creators: name: IPBES Technical Support Unit For The Assessment Of Invasive Alien Species
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data management report

description: Section 3.2.5.1 assesses the role of international institutions and organizations as drivers of biological invasions for chapter 3 of IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control. The experts conducted a systematic review to report on the existing knowledge on this driver. This systematic review consists in the main source of evidence for the section. In addition, further references suggested by internal reviewers (ZOD and FOD) and external reviewer (FOD) were revised and included, when appropriate.
Return Me – If You Can 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the EU Return Directive – A Success Story?
Creators: name: Progin-Theuerkauf, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: EU law
Return
Irregular migrantion
Detention
Right to be heard
Asylum

description: The EU Return Directive will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in 2018. As part of the Schengen Acquis, this Directive is also binding for Switzerland. This Working Paper analyses whether the Directive has actually achieved its aim of setting up a “fair and transparent regime for returns”, by pointing out four major problems, also identified by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Assessing the Feasibility of Developing a Federated ERP System
Creators: name: Gall, Michael
name: Grechenig, Thomas
name: Bjerre, Mogens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In past years ERP Systems have become one of the main components within the corporate IT structure. Several problems exist around implementing and operating these systems within companies. In the literature one can find several studies about the problems arising during the implementation of an ERP system. The main problem areas are around the complexity of ERP systems. One vision to overcome some of these problems is federated ERP. Federated ERP systems are built of components from different vendors, which are distributed within a network. All components act as one single ERP system from the user perspective. The decreased complexity of such a system would require lower installation and maintenance cost. Additional, only the components which are needed to cover the company's business processes would be used. Several theories around this concept exist, but a feasibility assessment of developing a federated ERP system has not been done yet. Based on a literary analysis of existing methods for feasibility studies, this paper is applying strategic planning concepts and referential data from the traditional ERP development to provide a first assessment of the overall feasibility of developing a platform for federated ERP systems. An analytical hierarchical approach is used to define effort and effect related criteria and their domain values. The assessment as the criteria is done in comparison to the development of a classical ERP system. Using the developed criteria, a net present value calculation is done. The calculation of the net present value is done on an overall, not company specific level. In order to estimate the weighted average cost of capital, the values from successful software companies are used as a baseline. Additional potential risks and obstacles are identified for further clarification.
Media Cultures of Value: Economy, Politics, and Art in Web3
Creators: name: Bennke, Johannes
name: Schaub, Mirjam
name: Schneider, Nathan
name: Schröter, Jens
name: Seidler, Paul
name: Becker, Katrin
name: Hilsberg, Viktoria
name: Niebling, Laura
name: Richter, Sebastian R.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
subject: Schlagwort 1

description: Values don’t just fall from the sky. They are shaped by media, infrastructure, and social practices. With new protocols and media objects – such as smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs – Web3 not only extends platform capitalism but also redefines value, labor, and community. While these technologies reinforce proprietary markets and corporate governance structures, they simultaneously open up alternative new ways of organizing life, challenging traditional economic and social models. This issue builds on the hybrid workshop “Digital Biedermeier – or Radical Democratic Utopia? NFTs as Interfaces of Cryptocurrencies”, organized by Johannes Bennke at the Humboldt University Berlin and Mirjam Schaub at University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg in October 2023. The issue brings together eight contributions by media scholars, artists, and curators who examine different media cultures of value – exploring protocols, infrastructures, labor, NFTs, art, and political stakes of Web3 governance.
title: Die Rolle der Schönheit in der Nachhaltigkeit von Architektur
title: The role of beauty in the sustainability of architecture
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Höhn, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 720 Architektur
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Schönheit
subject: Natur
subject: Sustainability
subject: Beauty
subject: Nature

description: Die Nachhaltigkeitsbetrachtung erfolgt im Horizont von Architektur nach wie vor überwiegend rational, technisch; die emotionale, sinnliche Seite bleibt dabei meist unbeachtet. Da der Mensch jedoch die Umwelt über zwei Wahrnehmungskanäle aufnimmt 3 den Verstand und die Sinne 3 ist eine Berücksichtigung der sinnlichen Ebene zwingend notwendig. Eine ausschließlich rationale Betrachtung wird dem Menschen in seiner Ganzheit, als fühlendem Wesen, als Teil der Natur nicht gerecht. Darüber hinaus bedingen unser hoher Ressourcen- und Energieverbrauch als auch unsere Emissionen die Notwendigkeit einer Werteverschiebung; auch weil die Art, wie wir nach wie vor Häuser bauen, wie auch unser gesamtes Wirtschaftssystem immer noch zu sehr bestimmt ist von einer linearen Verbrauchswirtschaft bzw. der Vorstellung eines unendlichen Wachstums. Sachverhalte wie der Klimawandel und die Corona-Pandemie, die jeweils in dem gleichen Phänomen 3 dem immer stärkeren Eingriff in unsere Ökosysteme 3 begründet sind, verstärken die Notwendigkeit, humanistische, emotionale Werte und somit auch Schönheit wieder stärker in den Vordergrund zu rücken und gleichzeitig der Natur und ihren Ökosystemen wieder mehr Respekt entgegenzubringen. Dabei sind Nachhaltigkeit, Schönheit und Natur 3 im Kontext von Architektur 3 die zentralen Begriffe der vorliegenden Arbeit. Es soll darum gehen, zu beweisen, dass Nachhaltigkeit in der Architektur nur möglich ist, wenn Schönheit bedacht wird. Schönheit unterliegt dabei einer universellen Verständigung über sie; sie ist also keine subjektive Einschätzung und beruht durchaus auf objektiven Voraussetzungen. Diese Arbeit gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die möglichen Mängel die durch das Nichtbeachten von Schönheit entstehen können. Dabei beschreibt Nachhaltigkeit eine Ganzheit aus Rationalität und Emotionalität. Zu einer solchen umfassenden Betrachtung gehört daher auch die Einbeziehung sinnlicher Aspekte wie Schönheit als ein Grundbedürfnis des Menschen. Schlussendlich führt die Untersuchung zu einer Denkrichtung, die auch zum Ziel hat, Fehler, wie sie in der Vergangenheit vor allem beim Wiederaufbau begangen wurden, in der Gegenwartsarchitektur zu vermeiden. Das bedeutet, dem Menschen und der Natur in der Planung und Realisierung von Architektur die notwendigen Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten einzuräumen. Denn der Intellekt, das Rationale, umfasst das Dasein des Menschen nicht vollständig. Vor allem aber verdeutlicht sie im Hinblick auf die Lebenswirklichkeit, den notwendingen Zusammenhang zwischen Schönheit, Natur und Nachhaltigkeit.
Ausstellungskalender
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 3 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Supplementary Information - Chuliver et al. (2021)
Creators: name: Chuliver, Mariana
name: Grosso, Jimena
name: Fontanarrosa, Gabriela
name: Fratani, Jessica
name: Ferraro, Daiana Paola
name: Duport-Bru, Ana Sofía
name: Schneider, Rosio Gabriela
name: Casagranda, María Dolores
name: Pereyra, Laura
name: Vicente, Natalin
name: Salica, María José
name: Medina, Regina Gabriela
name: Bessa, Carla
name: Semhan, Romina
name: Vera, Miriam Corina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gender inequities in herpetology: the case of the Argentine community - Supplementary Information
Table S1. Gender proportion in directors board of the AHA during 1982–2021, and list of the active members of the AHA during the 2019–2021 period with their gender and the year of their first published paper. Abbreviations: W = women; M = men.
Table S2. Gender proportion in the organizing committees of the Argentine Congress of Herpetology, and dataset of gender distribution among the different types of presentation during the 1999–2019 period.
Table S3. Answers of the survey performed to the attendants to the 20th Argentine Congress of Herpetology in 2019.
Figure S1. Graphical outcomes of the simulations performed to obtain the probability of having the observed number of women participating in main conferences of congress (left) and acting as chair members in the AHA (right).
The analogy between optical beam shifts and quantum weak measurements
Creators: name: Dennis, Mark R
name: Götte, Jörg B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe how the notion of optical beam shifts (including the spatial and angular Goos-Hänchen shift and Imbert-Federov shift) can be understood as a classical analogue of a quantum measurement of the polarization state of a paraxial beam by its transverse amplitude distribution. Under this scheme, complex quantum weak values are interpreted as spatial and angular shifts of polarized scalar components of the reflected beam. This connection leads us to predict an extra spatial shift for beams with a radially-varying phase dependence.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures. IoP style
Lilli Fischel, Die Karlsruher Passion und ihr Meister
Creators: name: Halm, Peter
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Lilli Fischel, Die Karlsruher Passion und ihr Meister. Karlsruhe (1952). Verlag G. Braun. 65 S. und 66 Abb., 1 Farbtafel.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 4 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Phase Separation and Magnetic Order in K-doped Iron Selenide Superconductor
Creators: name: Li, Wei
name: Ding, Hao
name: Deng, Peng
name: Chang, Kai
name: Song, Canli
name: He, Ke
name: Wang, Lili
name: Ma, Xucun
name: Hu, Jiang-Ping
name: Chen, Xi
name: Xue, Qi-Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alkali-doped iron selenide is the latest member of high Tc superconductor family, and its peculiar characters have immediately attracted extensive attention. We prepared high-quality potassium-doped iron selenide (KxFe2-ySe2) thin films by molecular beam epitaxy and unambiguously demonstrated the existence of phase separation, which is currently under debate, in this material using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. The stoichiometric superconducting phase KFe2Se2 contains no iron vacancies, while the insulating phase has a \surd5\times\surd5 vacancy order. The iron vacancies are shown always destructive to superconductivity in KFe2Se2. Our study on the subgap bound states induced by the iron vacancies further reveals a magnetically-related bipartite order in the superconducting phase. These findings not only solve the existing controversies in the atomic and electronic structures in KxFe2-ySe2, but also provide valuable information on understanding the superconductivity and its interplay with magnetism in iron-based superconductors.
Towards Cost-Effective Storage Provisioning for DBMSs
Creators: name: Zhang, Ning
name: Tatemura, Junichi
name: Patel, Jignesh M.
name: Hacıgümüş, Hakan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data center operators face a bewildering set of choices when considering how to provision resources on machines with complex I/O subsystems. Modern I/O subsystems often have a rich mix of fast, high performing, but expensive SSDs sitting alongside with cheaper but relatively slower (for random accesses) traditional hard disk drives. The data center operators need to determine how to provision the I/O resources for specific workloads so as to abide by existing Service Level Agreements (SLAs), while minimizing the total operating cost (TOC) of running the workload, where the TOC includes the amortized hardware costs and the run time energy costs. The focus of this paper is on introducing this new problem of TOC-based storage allocation, cast in a framework that is compatible with traditional DBMS query optimization and query processing architecture. We also present a heuristic-based solution to this problem, called DOT. We have implemented DOT in PostgreSQL, and experiments using TPC-H and TPC-C demonstrate significant TOC reduction by DOT in various settings.
description: VLDB2012
Boullées Treatise on Architecture
Creators: name: Horn-Oncken, Alste
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Boullées Treatise on Architecture, edited by Helen Rosenau, London 1953, Alec Tiranti Ltd. 131 Seiten, 57 Abb.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 4 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Global Attractivity in Nonlinear Higher Order Difference Equations in Banach Algebras
Creators: name: Sedaghat, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Nonlinear higher order difference equations with linear arguments (containing linear forms within nonlinear maps of the space) are well-defined on Banach algebras. The scalar forms of these equations (i.e., with real variables and parameters) have appeared frequently in the literature. By generalizing existing results from real numbers to algebras and using a new result on reduction of order, new sufficient conditions are obtained for the convergence to zero of all solutions of nonlinear difference equations with linear arguments. Where reduction of order is possible, these conditions extend the ranges of parameters for which the origin is a global attractor even when all variables and parameters are real numbers.
description: 19 pages, 28 references
PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL (STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE-CEMENT CONCRETE PAVEMENT)
Creators: name: HAWI FAYERA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Improper management of waste steel scrubs from steel industry highly affect the environmental and damage caused by improper management of waste steel scrubs (steel fibers) increased over the past years creating a relevant problem to been solved. The study intent to examine the mechanical properties of Steel fiber reinforced concrete using fiber produced from waste steel scrubs from steel industry. The experimental test was done for cube, small beam, cylinder concrete which containing steel scrubs of different volume fraction 0.5%, 0.75%, 1% 1.25% 1.5% by adding admixture. As laboratory test result showed all mechanical properties’ improved for 28 days when compare with 7 days of curing. The result obtained from test depending on volume fraction for the compressive strength increased by 16.85% when 0.5% , 23.39% ,30.18% ,35.64% for 0.75% , 1% and 1.25% and 42.95 for 1.5% when compare with plain concrete. Finding for flexural strength show that it increased by 17.65% for 0.5% fiber volume and 22.55%, 27.21% , 32.6%, 41.91% respectively for 0.75%, 1% 1.25% and 1.5% .The last finding for splitting tensile strength improved by 18.88% for 0.5% and 25.17%, 45.10%, 61.53% 76.92 % respectively for 0.75%,1%,1.25% , 1.5% when compare with plain concrete. A waste scrubs having same geometrical characteristics was use in the mixtures at different percentages have good bond performance
Hinweise zur Urheberrechtsreform
Creators: name: Gerstenberg, Ekkehard
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 6 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Klaus Lankheit, Die Zeichnungen des kurpfälzischen Hofbildhauers Paul Egell (1691—1752)
Creators: name: Müller, Theodor
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Klaus Lankheit, Die Zeichnungen des kurpfälzischen Hofbildhauers Paul Egell (1691—1752).
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 6 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, Breve historia de la pintura española
Creators: name: Soehner, Halldor
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, Breve historia de la pintura española. Cuarta ed. revisada y ampliada). Ed. Tecnos, S. A., Madrid, 1953, 657 S., 240 T., 8 FT., 25 X 18 cm.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 7 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Parsec-Scale Behavior of Blazars during High Gamma-Ray States
Creators: name: Jorstad, S.
name: Marscher, A.
name: Agudo, I.
name: Harrison, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the γ-ray light curves of the blazars, constructed with data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, with flux and polarization variations in the VLBI core and bright superluminal knots obtained via monthly monitoring with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz. For all blazars in the sample that exhibit a high γ-ray state on time scales from several weeks to several months, an increase of the total flux in the mm-wave core is contemporaneous with the γ-ray activity (more than a third of the sample). Here we present the results for quasars with the most extreme γ-ray behavior (3C 454.3, 3C 273, 3C 279, 1222+216, and 1633+382). The sources show that in addition to the total flux intensity behavior, a maximum in the degree of polarization in the core or bright superluminal knot nearest to the core coincides with the time of a γ-ray peak to within the accuracy of the sampling of the radio data. These argue in favor of location of many of γ-ray outbursts in blazars outside of the broad line region, either in the vicinity or downstream of the mm-wave VLBI core.
description: 2011 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C110509
THE ROI OF INTEGRATION: MEASURING THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF IMC CAMPAIGNS FOR SEASONING PRODUCTS IN TAMIL NADU
Creators: name: GOVINDA BISWAS
name: Dr. TR. KALAI LAKSHMI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Seasoning Industry, Tamil Nadu, IMC, ROI, Marketing Effectiveness, Consumer Behaviour, Brand Positioning.

description: Abstract

The traditional seasoning industry in Tamil Nadu has long been shaped by local tradition yet finds itself navigating changing tides. Consumer tastes evolve swiftly, bringing novel demands. This probing work explores the domain of Integrated Marketing Communication endeavours for regional seasoning brands, homing in on quantifying their Return on Investment. By reviewing how synchronized strategies fare, valuable lessons emerge for companies aiming to refine campaigns and multiply benefits. Lengthy yet lively commercials roll on television alongside brief radio ads and online videos, as brands synchronize varied touchpoints to optimize reach. Market data is mined to gauge each tactic's impact and inform refined plans. Early results show promise that well-orchestrated diversions across mediums may offer winning recipes for maximizing profits in this evolving marketplace.
Decentralized Control of Cooperative Systems: Categorization and Complexity Analysis
Creators: name: Goldman, C. V.
name: Zilberstein, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decentralized control of cooperative systems captures the operation of a group of decision makers that share a single global objective. The difficulty in solving optimally such problems arises when the agents lack full observability of the global state of the system when they operate. The general problem has been shown to be NEXP-complete. In this paper, we identify classes of decentralized control problems whose complexity ranges between NEXP and P. In particular, we study problems characterized by independent transitions, independent observations, and goal-oriented objective functions. Two algorithms are shown to solve optimally useful classes of goal-oriented decentralized processes in polynomial time. This paper also studies information sharing among the decision-makers, which can improve their performance. We distinguish between three ways in which agents can exchange information: indirect communication, direct communication and sharing state features that are not controlled by the agents. Our analysis shows that for every class of problems we consider, introducing direct or indirect communication does not change the worst-case complexity. The results provide a better understanding of the complexity of decentralized control problems that arise in practice and facilitate the development of planning algorithms for these problems.
Dually Labeled Neurotensin NTS1R Ligands for Probing Radiochemical and Fluorescence-Based Binding Assays
Creators: name: Ertl, Fabian J.
name: Kopanchuk, Sergei
name: Dijon, Nicola C.
name: Veikšina, Santa
name: Tahk, Maris-Johanna
name: Laasfeld, Tõnis
name: Schettler, Franziska
name: Gattor, Albert O.
name: Hübner, Harald
name: Archipowa, Nataliya
name: Köckenberger, Johannes
name: Heinrich, Markus R.
name: Gmeiner, Peter
name: Kutta, Roger Jan
name: Holliday, Nicholas D.
name: Rinken, Ago
name: Keller, Max
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Assays; Fluorescence; Ligands; Peptides and proteins; Receptors
subject: 540 Chemie

description: The determination of ligand–receptor binding affinities plays a key role in the development process of pharmaceuticals. While the classical radiochemical binding assay uses radioligands, fluorescence-based binding assays require fluorescent probes. Usually, radio- and fluorescence-labeled ligands are dissimilar in terms of structure and bioactivity, and can be used in either radiochemical or fluorescence-based assays. Aiming for a close comparison of both assay types, we synthesized tritiated fluorescent neurotensin receptor ligands ([3H]13, [3H]18) and their nontritiated analogues (13, 18). The labeled probes were studied in radiochemical and fluorescence-based (high-content imaging, flow cytometry, fluorescence anisotropy) binding assays. Equilibrium saturation binding yielded well-comparable ligand–receptor affinities, indicating that all these setups can be used for the screening of new drugs. In contrast, discrepancies were found in the kinetic behavior of the probes, which can be attributed to technical differences of the methods and require further studies with respect to the elucidation of the underlying mechanisms.
Violation of the holographic bulk viscosity bound
Creators: name: Buchel, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by gauge theory/string theory correspondence, a lower bound on the bulk viscosity of strongly coupled gauge theory plasma was proposed in arXiv:0708.3459. We consider strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma compactified on a two-manifold of constant curvature beta. We show that the effective (1+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic description of the system is governed by the bulk viscosity violating the bound of arXiv:0708.3459, once beta<0.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Particle Monte Carlo simulation of string-like colloidal assembly in 3 dimensions
Creators: name: Norizoe, Yuki
name: Kawakatsu, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As an extension of the former study on 2-dimensional systems, we simulate phase behavior of polymer-grafted colloidal particles in 3 dimensions by molecular Monte Carlo technique in the canonical ensemble. We use a spherically symmetric square-step repulsive interaction potential, which has been obtained using self-consistent field calculation. In previous articles, we have studied these model colloids in 2 dimensions and found that these particles, although their interaction is purely repulsive, self-assemble into a string-like assembly, in a narrow region of physical parameter sets. In the present work, we show the existence of the string-like assembly in 3-dimensional systems and study the statistical properties of the arrangement of these strings. The average string length diverges around the region where the melting transition line and the percolation transition line cross, which has also been found in 2 dimensions.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas
Creators: name: Maksymov, Ivan S.
name: Staude, Isabelle
name: Miroshnichenko, Andrey E.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional antennas, which are widely employed to transmit radio and TV signals, can be used at optical frequencies as long as they are shrunk to nanometer-size dimensions. Optical nanoantennas made of metallic or high-permittivity dielectric nanoparticles allow for enhancing and manipulating light on the scale much smaller than wavelength of light. Based on this ability, optical nanoantennas offer unique opportunities regarding key applications such as optical communications, photovoltaics, non-classical light emission, and sensing. From a multitude of suggested nanoantenna concepts the Yagi-Uda nanoantenna, an optical analogue of the well-established radio-frequency Yagi-Uda antenna, stands out by its efficient unidirectional light emission and enhancement. Following a brief introduction to the emerging field of optical nanoantennas, here we review recent theoretical and experimental activities on optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas, including their design, fabrication, and applications. We also discuss several extensions of the conventional Yagi-Uda antenna design for broadband and tunable operation, for applications in nanophotonic circuits and photovoltaic devices.
Tafeln
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 8 Nr. 7 (1955): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Addressing the Discriminatory Effects of the EU Geo-blocking Regulation on Minority Groups
Creators: name: Röggla, Marc
Publisher: name: Eurac Research
Year: 2025

description: The EU Geo-blocking Regulation (EU) was designed to foster fairness and non-discrimination in the digital single market. However, despite its aims, the Regulation discriminates against specific minority groups, in particular linguistic and cultural minorities and residents of border regions. MIDAS has participated in the initiative launched by the European Commission to evaluate the Regulation, known as [call for evidence for an evaluation](https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14416-Geo-blocking-Regulation-evaluation_en). This is the extended version of the statement that MIDAS submitted during the feedback phase that ended on 11 March 2025.
Anisotropic Dark Energy Bianchi Type III Cosmological Models in Brans Dicke Theory of Gravity
Creators: name: Shamir, M. Farasat
name: Bhatti, Akhlaq Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main purpose of this paper is to explore the solutions of Bianchi type $III$ cosmological model in Brans Dicke theory of gravity in the background of anisotropic dark energy. We use the assumption of constant deceleration parameter and power law relation between scalar field $ϕ$ and scale factor $a$ to find the solutions. The physical behavior of the solutions has been discussed using some physical quantities.
description: 14 pages, accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Physics. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0910.5787
Mitteilung des Verbandes Deutscher Kunsthistoriker
Creators: name: Buddensieg, Tilmann
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (1970): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
The association of intimate partner violence during pregnancy with preterm birth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Genet Melak Alamene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Background: Preterm birth is a significant and growing public health problem leading to increased neonatal morbidity and mortality. Intimate partner violence during pregnancy is one of the factors that affect not only women’s health but also the health of the newborn. However, the association between intimate partner violence during pregnancy and preterm birth was not adequately studied in Ethiopia.

Objective: To assess the association between intimate partner violence during pregnancy and preterm birth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Methods: A facility-based age-matched case-control study was conducted among 420 women [140 cases (women who had preterm births) and 280 controls (women who had term births)] in six public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Data was collected using a structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire. A woman who reported the experience of at least one act of violent act, either physical or sexual or emotional or controlling behaviours by an intimate partner during the index pregnancy period was considered exposed to intimate partner violence during pregnancy. Descriptive statistics were computed to describe the characteristics of study participants
B+-tree Index Optimization by Exploiting Internal Parallelism of Flash-based Solid State Drives
Creators: name: Roh, Hongchan
name: Park, Sanghyun
name: Kim, Sungho
name: Shin, Mincheol
name: Lee, Sang-Won
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Previous research addressed the potential problems of the hard-disk oriented design of DBMSs of flashSSDs. In this paper, we focus on exploiting potential benefits of flashSSDs. First, we examine the internal parallelism issues of flashSSDs by conducting benchmarks to various flashSSDs. Then, we suggest algorithm-design principles in order to best benefit from the internal parallelism. We present a new I/O request concept, called psync I/O that can exploit the internal parallelism of flashSSDs in a single process. Based on these ideas, we introduce B+-tree optimization methods in order to utilize internal parallelism. By integrating the results of these methods, we present a B+-tree variant, PIO B-tree. We confirmed that each optimization method substantially enhances the index performance. Consequently, PIO B-tree enhanced B+-tree's insert performance by a factor of up to 16.3, while improving point-search performance by a factor of 1.2. The range search of PIO B-tree was up to 5 times faster than that of the B+-tree. Moreover, PIO B-tree outperformed other flash-aware indexes in various synthetic workloads. We also confirmed that PIO B-tree outperforms B+-tree in index traces collected inside the Postgresql DBMS with TPC-C benchmark.
description: VLDB2012
„Modern(e): Umbrüche in Kunst und Architektur“
Creators: name: Plein, Irene
name: Grafe, Grit
Publisher: name: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege, Bd. 48 Nr. 4 (2019)
The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Performance of Microcredit Institutions in Morocco
Creators: name: ELBAKOUCHI MOUNIR
name: NOURI KHALID
name: LOULIDI LAMIAE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This research analyzes the impact of digitalization on the performance of microcredit institutions in Morocco. By focusing on the automation of operations, digital access, cybersecurity, and the expansion of mobile services and online platforms, the study evaluates how these dimensions influence efficiency, cost reduction, and financial inclusion in the microfinance sector.

Data was collected through interviews with executives and questionnaires sent to various key stakeholders within microcredit institutions. The data analysis, conducted using multivariate statistical tools, revealed that the digitalization of operations significantly improves operational efficiency by automating processes and reducing processing times. Digital access has expanded financial inclusion by facilitating access to services for marginalized populations, while cybersecurity enhances customer trust by protecting sensitive data.

The results show that the expansion of mobile services and online platforms reduces operational costs by decreasing reliance on physical branches and optimizing management processes. In conclusion, digitalization constitutes a crucial lever for improving the performance of microcredit institutions, with significant implications for efficiency, accessibility, and security. Institutions should continue to invest in these technologies to enhance their impact and support greater financial inclusion.
Quantification of depletion-induced adhesion of Red Blood Cells
Creators: name: Steffen, Patrick
name: Verdier, Claude
name: Wagner, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Red blood cells (RBC) are known to form aggregates in the forms of rouleaux due to the presence of plasma proteins under physiological conditions. Rouleaux formation can be also induced in vitro by the addition of macromolecules to the RBC solution. Current data on the adhesion strength between red blood cells in their natural discocyte shapes mostly rely on indirect measurements like flow chamber experiments, but on the single cell level data is lacking. Here we present measurements on the dextran induced aggregation of red blood cells by use of atomic force microscopy based single cell force spectroscopy (SCFS). The effects of dextran concentration and molecular weight on the interaction energy of adhering RBCs was determined. The results are in good agreement with a model based on the depletion effect and former experimental studies.
Ein „Weltkloster“ für Oberschwaben
Creators: name: Widmaier, Jörg
Publisher: name: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege, Bd. 48 Nr. 4 (2019)
COVID-19 in german competitive sports: protocol for a prospective multicenter cohort study (CoSmo-S)
Creators: name: Niess, Andreas Michael
name: Widmann, Manuel
name: Gaidai, Roman
name: Gölz, Christian
name: Schubert, Isabel
name: Castillo, Katty
name: Sachs, Jan Philipp
name: Bizjak, Daniel Alexander
name: Vollrath, Shirin
name: Wimbauer, Fritz
name: Vogel, Azin
name: Keller, Karsten
name: Burgstahler, Christof
name: Quermann, Anne
name: Kerling, Arno
name: Schneider, Gerald
name: Zacher, Jonas
name: Diebold, Katharina
name: Grummt, Maximilian
name: Beckendorf, Claudia
name: Buitenhuis, Johannes
name: Egger, Florian
name: Venhorst, Andreas
name: Morath, Oliver
name: Barsch, Friedrich
name: Mellwig, Klaus-Peter
name: Oesterschlink, Julian
name: Wüstenfeld, Jan
name: Predel, Hans-Georg
name: Deibert, Peter
name: Friedmann-Bette, Birgit
name: Mayer, Frank
name: Hirschmüller, Anja
name: Halle, Martin
name: Steinacker, Jürgen Michael
name: Wolfarth, Bernd
name: Meyer, Tim
name: Böttinger, Erwin
name: Flechtner-Mors, Marion
name: Bloch, Wilhelm
name: Haller, Bernhard
name: Roecker, Kai
name: Reinsberger, Claus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: return to sport
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: COVID-19
subject: Sports medicine
subject: Sports
subject: Myocarditis
subject: Exercise
subject: Athletes
subject: COVID-19
subject: Sportmedizin
subject: Sport
subject: Sportler
subject: Sportlerin
subject: Myokarditis
subject: Körperliche Belastung

description: Objective: It is unclear whether and to what extent COVID-19 infection poses health risks and a chronic impairment of performance in athletes. Identification of individual health risk is an important decision-making basis for managing the pandemic risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 in sports and return to play (RTP). Methods: This study aims 1) to analyze the longitudinal rate of seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in German athletes, 2) to assess health-related consequences in athletes infected with SARS-CoV-2, and 3) to reveal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in general and of a cleared SARS-CoV-2 infection on exercise performance. CoSmo-S is a prospective observational multicenter study establishing two cohorts: 1) athletes diagnosed positive for COVID-19 (cohort 1) and 2) federal squad athletes who perform their annual sports medical preparticipation screening (cohort 2). Comprehensive diagnostics including physical examination, laboratory blood analyses and blood biobanking, resting and exercise electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiography, spirometry and exercise testing added by questionnaires are conducted at baseline and follow-up. Results and Conclusion: We expect that the results obtained, will allow us to formulate recommendations regarding RTP on a more evidence-based level.
Von Stuttgart in die Welt
Creators: name: Steudle, Andrea
Publisher: name: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege
Year: 2019

description: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege, Bd. 48 Nr. 4 (2019)
Reinforcement Learning for Agents with Many Sensors and Actuators Acting in Categorizable Environments
Creators: name: Celaya, E.
name: Porta, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we confront the problem of applying reinforcement learning to agents that perceive the environment through many sensors and that can perform parallel actions using many actuators as is the case in complex autonomous robots. We argue that reinforcement learning can only be successfully applied to this case if strong assumptions are made on the characteristics of the environment in which the learning is performed, so that the relevant sensor readings and motor commands can be readily identified. The introduction of such assumptions leads to strongly-biased learning systems that can eventually lose the generality of traditional reinforcement-learning algorithms. In this line, we observe that, in realistic situations, the reward received by the robot depends only on a reduced subset of all the executed actions and that only a reduced subset of the sensor inputs (possibly different in each situation and for each action) are relevant to predict the reward. We formalize this property in the so called 'categorizability assumption' and we present an algorithm that takes advantage of the categorizability of the environment, allowing a decrease in the learning time with respect to existing reinforcement-learning algorithms. Results of the application of the algorithm to a couple of simulated realistic-robotic problems (landmark-based navigation and the six-legged robot gait generation) are reported to validate our approach and to compare it to existing flat and generalization-based reinforcement-learning approaches.
Reducing Metadata Errors in an IR with Distributed Submission Privileges
Creators: name: Lyon, Colleen
name: Cofield, Melanie
name: Borrego, Gilbert
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2015
Subjects: metadata

description: The distributed nature of many repositories means that standardizing metadata input is very difficult. At the University of Texas at Austin, there are over 50 people who have permission to upload content to the UT Digital Repository (UTDR). Out of that 50, there are two full-time staff members who have management responsibilities for the repository. The limited number of staff responsible for managing UTDR means that frequent metadata clean-up isn’t possible. We’ve instituted an approach that combines limited data clean-up with a transformed training process. Training focuses on clearly communicating overall metadata standards, the creation of metadata guidelines to be used as necessary for individual collections, and a focus on better defining the input guidelines for each Dublin Core (DC) metadata field. We are working one-on-one with student workers to familiarize them with the new guidelines and are communicating with repository submitters via listservs and in-person meetings. The new guidelines were rolled out recently, and we expect to see a decrease in the number of records requiring editing. We will present examples from our new guidelines, suggestions for successful communication methods with stakeholders, and provide information regarding the incidence of errors since implementing the new training.
description: Poster presented at Open Repositories 2015 in Indianapolis, IN