cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Recent case studies and advances of the magnetotelluric method in geothermal exploration
Creators: name:  Samrock ,   Friedemann
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The magnetotelluric (MT) method is a well-established tool in geothermal exploration. Case studies from all over the world and from different geothermal settings have proven its effectiveness, when it comes to subsurface reservoir characterization and the successful siting of geothermal wells. A reason for MT being a popular tool in geothermal exploration is that the bulk electrical conductivity of the subsurface, as recovered by MT, can be used as a proxy for key geothermal parameters. For example, fluid saturation and connectedness, hydrothermal alteration and active magmatic heat sources all significantly influence electrical conductivity and appear as electrically conducting zones in the subsurface. In the field, MT surveying benefits from little manpower requirements, low environmental impact and from the fact that natural electromagnetic source signals are permanently present everywhere on the globe. Whilst MT is successfully used in sparsely populated regions, challenges arise when it comes to MT exploration in populated areas. Here, data acquisition is prone to noise issues that arise from local infrastructure that make MT often too cumbersome for commercial applications. The interpretation of MT data is improving continuously with the development of powerful numerical modelling tools. 3-D subsurface models with flexible meshes that adapt to topography and varying data resolution allow one to characterize geothermal systems from their surface manifestations down to their deeper roots in the lower crust. We present case studies from three high-temperature geothermal systems in the East African Rift, where MT is successfully used to image magmatic reservoirs that drive convection of hydrothermal fluids. As demonstrated, recovered MT models of these systems play a key role when it comes to the successful siting of geothermal wells, which are commonly drilled into permeable up-flow zones above shallow magmatic reservoirs. In another case study from an intermediate-temperature geothermal system in the Mongolian Hangai, we demonstrate how large datasets with more than 300 MT stations can be acquired by small academic teams. However, the interpretation of MT subsurface models from such intermediate-temperature systems in non-volcanic terrains is less straight forward and requires more a priori knowledge and interdisciplinary strategies as compared to MT studies of high-temperature volcanic geothermal systems.
Determination of blast affected zones and allowable explosive loads in opencast mines
Creators: name: Grześkowiak, Arkadiusz
name: Patla, Sławomir
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: opencast mining, blasting, interactions range

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Value-oriented approach to home energy assessment process design
Creators: name: Wu, FuJu
name: Riley, David R.
name: Leicht, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: While significant investments have been made to advance energy auditing methods to reduce energy consumption in the residential sector, homeowners are still challenged to take action and realize energy savings on their utility bills. Key challenges facing homeowners in need of energy efficiency improvements were found to be: 1) lack of information, 2) lack of financing, and, 3) lack of skilled workforce (2009 CEQ report). Recent research examining home energy auditing has revealed significant process waste, including audits that do not lead to energy upgrades; distrust between auditors and homeowners; a tendency for audits to lead only to one time improvements as opposed to continuous improvement. In response, variable types of home energy audit practices and strategies are emerging, including standardization of training and rating programs, as well as alternative methods to lower the costs of audits through partial “assessments.” This research takes a value-oriented approach to study the energy audit process of residential homes, and seeks to elevate the effectiveness and efficiency of home energy assessments through process design. The objectives of this research are: 1) To characterize “on-site” value delivery during a 90 minute home energy assessment, 2) to present relationships between building trust and deliver value via a model, and 3) to explore how these trust-value relationships influence homeowners’ decision making to take action in a manner of home improvements. In addition to home energy audit sectors, elevation of value distribution and trust relationship in a productive process, not only enhance distributing characterized value during operation, but also increase identification of linkages between specific tasks and the accumulation of trust leading to action on behalf of participants in the design and construction industry.
Ostrowiec formation sandstones from Opoczno and Zarnów area as an architectural stone
Creators: name: Guzik, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: architectural sandstones, lithology, properties

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
A Theory-Led Evaluation of a Scalable Intervention to Promote Evidence-Based, Research-Informed Practice in Schools to Address Attainment Gaps
Creators: name: Hofmann, Riikka
name: Ilie, Sonia
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: attainment gap
evidence-based education
research-engaged schools
school effectiveness and school improvement
cultural-historical activity theory
theory of change
theory-led evaluation
relational agency
transformative agency
educational equity

description: Evidence-based practice is a salient solution that has been presented to address the persistent educational attainment gap linked to economic disadvantage. However, most schools do not engage with research, and we know little about facilitating school-led research use at scale. Linking different approaches to studying educational effectiveness, equity and change, and drawing on cultural-historical activity theory, this study develops intermediate theory about the mechanisms influencing institutions’ success in using research. In the context of the Opportunity Area Programme, supporting place-based interventions in the UK’s most socio-economically disadvantaged regions, we conducted a theory-led evaluation of the Evidence-Based Practice Fund (EBPF), aimed at supporting school-led research engagement to improve learning outcomes. We analysed the documentation of 83 EBPF projects, 8 focus groups, and a school survey. We demonstrate that enabling schools to address locally identified needs motivates research engagement but formulating these as stimulus for change requires scaffolding. Schools were keen but needed re-translation to use research to address those challenges. Low-key school-to-school support was found adequate. Leadership support and collaboration were significant but require relational expertise and professional learning to be effective. This study demonstrates that the use of research by schools at scale is possible and can transform a school’s agency in developing their own practice to improve equity.
Mechanical ravelly rock mining by dozer ripper. Process and application
Creators: name: Kasztelewicz, Zbigniew
name: Bodziony, Przemysław
name: Patyk, Michał
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: scrapers, bulldozers, ripper accessories, mechanical mining of rock

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Development model of the roads network based on an analysis of the issued invitations for tender
Creators: name: Machniak, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: state of the construction of highways, forecast of the road network development

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Supplementary document for Polarization-multiplexed full-space metasurface simultaneously with ultrawide-angle antireflection and large-angle retroreflection - 6108639.pdf
Creators: name: chu, zuntian
name: Li, Tiefu
name: Wang, Jiafu
name: jia, yuxiang
name: JIANG, JINMING
name: Zhu, Ruichao
name: Li, Lei
name: Qu, Shaobo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Analysis of the crushing system in the Lubin ore mine
Creators: name: Malewski, Jerzy
name: Paszkowska, Gabriela
name: Źrebiec, Marcin
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: ore processing, crushing, modernization, economics

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Supplementary Material from Initial source of heterogeneity in a model for cell fate decision in the early mammalian embryo
Creators: name: Robert, Corentin
name: Prista von Bonhorst, Francisco
name: De Decker, Yannick
name: Dupont, Geneviève
name: Gonze, Didier
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: During development, cells from a population of common progenitors evolve towards different fates characterized by distinct levels of specific transcription factors, a process known as cell differentiation. This evolution is governed by gene regulatory networks modulated by intercellular signalling. In order to evolve towards distinct fates, cells forming the population of common progenitors must display some heterogeneity. We applied a modelling approach to obtain insights into the possible sources of cell-to-cell variability initiating the specification of cells of the inner cell mass into epiblast (Epi) or primitive endoderm cells (PrE) in early mammalian embryo. At the single-cell level, these cell fates correspond to three possible steady states of the model. A combination of numerical simulations and bifurcation analyses predicts that the behaviour of the model is preserved with respect to the source of variability and that cell–cell coupling induces the emergence of multiple steady states associated with various cell fate configurations, and to a distribution of the levels of expression of key transcription factors. Statistical analysis of these time-dependent distributions reveals differences in the evolutions of the variance-to-mean ratios of key variables of the system, depending on the simulated source of variability, and, by comparison with experimental data, points to the rate of synthesis of the key transcription factor NANOG as a likely initial source of heterogeneity.
Application of the jig beneficiation operation for minerals recovery from mining waste deposits
Creators: name: Matusiak, Piotr
name: Kowol, Daniel
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: mining landfill, reclamation, pulse classifier

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
SOVET ITTIFOQINING G'ARBIY VILOYATLARIDAN KO'CHIRILGAN SANOAT KORXONALARINING FARG'ONA VILOYATI HUDUDIGA JOYLASHTIRILISHI
Creators: name: Atabayeva, Nigoraxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada Sovet Ittifoqining g‘arbiy hududlaridan Ikkinchi jahon urushi yillarida evakuatsiya qilingan sanoat korxonalarining Farg‘ona viloyatiga joylashtirilishi va uning iqtisodiy, ijtimoiy ahamiyati tahlil qilinadi. Korxonalarni ko‘chirish jarayonida mavjud resurslar, logistika, ishchi kuchi va mintaqaviy infratuzilma kabi omillar qanday hal qilingani haqida yoritiladi. Shu bilan birga, mazkur jarayon mintaqaning keyinchalik sanoat markazlaridan biriga aylanishiga qanday turtki bo‘lgani ko‘rsatiladi.
Principles, characteristics, and methodology to develop a project management assessment tool at the construction project level
Creators: name: Sanjuan, Antonio G.
name: Froese, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper describes the principles, characteristics, and methodology to develop a conceptual approach and a preliminary project management assessment tool based on an integrated framework of international project management (PM) standards and construction projects success factors. Previous PM assessment tools have been designed to measure organizations’ PM practices, and individuals’ knowledge of PM. After completing these assessment tools, individuals or organizations would identify their strengths, weaknesses and training needs. These tools, though powerful, do not assess what is actually implemented on a specific project. The intention is to develop an assessment tool that diagnoses an organization and an individual project manager by what was actually implemented in a specific project. By assessing what was actually implemented in a project and comparing this with the project results, it could be possible determine the strengths, weaknesses, and value of PM in a construction organization, as well as to benchmark PM best practices. Three types of questions will be used: context questions, PM implementation questions, and project results questions. Each question will have a reference to one or more of the international PM standards. Each question will evaluate the quality or the frequency of the PM implementation, which could be a competence, knowledge, tool, technique, process, or practice. This paper discusses the question design methodology for developing the tool using the resource management knowledge area as an example. Finally, the assessment tool is tested with 18 construction projects executed by different organizations.
Royex generation II – gas generator with the opportunities
Creators: name: Rajczakowski, Grzegorz
name: Nowak, Adam
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: gas generator, igniter, rock mining process

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Rire et Résistance dans la littérature ourdoue au Pakistan
Creators: name: Haque, Shahzaman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: humour au Pakistan
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi
L'humour dans l'Islam
L'humour dans la littérature ourdoue

description: Cette communication portera sur la place de l’humour au sein de la littérature ourdoue, et plus particulièrement dans l’environnement pakistanais suite à la post-colonisation et à la partition de l’Inde en deux pays –l’Inde et le Pakistan en 1947. Pendant les trois régimes militaires, il nous semble opportun de s’intéresser à la période de 1977-1987 (de Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq), lorsque l’humour était devenu un outil de résistance par une poignée d’écrivains pakistanais, et notamment par un auteur ourdouphone, Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi (1923-2018). Si, d’une part, Zia-ul-Haq permet de prospérer le genre de l’humour dans la littérature ourdoue, fort probablement pour détourner l’attention de son peuple de l’état politique de son pays, de son côté, Yusufi crée sa niche étant le rare écrivain à sensibiliser le peuple contre le régime militaire par le truchement de l’humour.
Analysis of noise emission for selected crushing devices
Creators: name: Saramak, Agnieszka
name: Naziemiec, Zdzisław
name: Saramak, Daniel
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: mineral aggregates, noise, crushers

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Kracht, Klaus mit Gerhard Leins: Japanische Geistesgeschichte - Fachtexte. Mit einer Einführung von Olof G. Lidin
Creators: name: Hack, Annette
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 33 (1989): ASIEN (Oktober)
Research for generating 3D model from laser scanner data removed noise
Creators: name: Tanaka, Shigenori
name: Imai, Ryuichi
name: Nakamura, Kenji
name: Kawano, Kouhei
name: Kubota, Satoshi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Construction CALS/EC is introduced in public works projects over the whole life cycle for the purpose of reduction of the construction period, quality guarantee, and cost reduction. Especially recently, environmental improvement of the information-oriented construction using 3D data attracts attention for engineering works stage. In the construction site, it is expected to create 3D model from the point cloud data obtained by surveying the site with the total station or the laser scanner. However, it is necessary to solve the problem of how to handle the great amount of point cloud data obtained at the survey based on their characteristics, as well as the problem of required accuracy for the information-oriented construction. The authors have devised a technique to make 3D model of the river embankment, which satisfy the required accuracy of the information-oriented construction from a large quantity of point cloud data. This technique used the point cloud data of the river embankment measured with the laser scanner and DM data of it. Then, the boundary line (breakline) between the crown surface and the slope face of the river embankment is extracted automatically to create 3D model on CAD. However, the following problems were revealed; the freshness depending on the update cycle of DM data, and wrong extraction of a breakline due to the noise such as the vegetation between the crown surface and the slope face of the river embankment. In this research, we devised a method for automatically extracting a breakline by inferring the crown surface area of the river embankment from the point cloud data, and a method for removing any point cloud data that are the noise such as the vegetation on the crown surface of the embankment. Then we performed evaluation experiments and proved the usability of the devised solution.
Selected aspects of rational ”Braszowice” magnesite deposits management
Creators: name: Stefanicka, Mariola
name: Pierzga, Adam
name: Majchrzak, Wojciech
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: rock mining, waste-free production, comprehensive utilization of minerals

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Physical activity in public space: insights from a global community of practice applying photovoice as a tool for digital participatory place analysis
Creators: name: Köckler, Heike
name: Shrestha, Rehana
name: Aslam, Atif Bilal
name: Berger, Tania
name: Börner, Susanne
name: Cheung, Clement
name: Fabian, Carlo
name: Shankavaram, Hiranmayi
name: Shrestha, Reshma
name: Shrestha, Sadichchha
name: Simon, Daniel
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: physical activity
subject: healthy urban development
subject: knowledge co-production
subject: public space
subject: online photovoice
subject: 610 - Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Physical activity in open spaces is a crucial topic of urban health around the globe. As cities and everyday life differ a lot in specific urban contexts, places for physical activity may vary in shape, perception and use by local people. A group of researchers from eight countries in Europe, South America and Asia used the same online-photovoice application to explore places in their cities regarding physical activity in public spaces. Using the same application in eight countries with diverse local participants, we collected a rich basis for a reflection on methodological issues, the usability of the online-photovoice application and determinants of physical activity in public spaces in contrasting cities. The paper aims to provide traceable documentation of a collaborative learning activity with an online-photovoice application. In doing so, results are presented from researchers’ self-reflection as a global community of practice on how the online-photovoice approach can be applied to place analysis for healthy urban development at different places with practitioners, communities, and scientists from diverse backgrounds. The paper contributes to a broader problem understanding of physical activity in public open spaces. As one result, we find that including aspects of safety and conflict in public space is highly relevant.
Implementation of construction industry best practices into workflow management systems
Creators: name: Golzarpoor, Behrooz
name: Haas, Carl T.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Several research studies have confirmed that identification and adoption of industry best practices drive performance improvements in terms of cost, schedule, and productivity. Best practices specifications facilitate the reuse of experience within a domain. However, they typically offer abstract suggestions and recommendations that include not only explicit, but also tacit knowledge. Key approaches of adopting and promoting best practices include socialization and face to face interactions, such as meetings, workshops, and training. These approaches, however, are not easily scalable to large capital projects, to provide systematic and consistent adoption of best practices throughout different phases of a project or among different projects. An alternative solution is to transform best practices into processes implementable into workflow management systems. In this paper, well-known best practices in the domain of the construction industry and their common characteristics are investigated. A framework is then established for transforming best practices into structured processes implementable into workflow management systems. Only parts of a best practice can be transformed into a structured process. The proposed framework describes which components of a best practice are more suitable for this transformation. The result is a process with the essence of a best practice that can be embedded into and automated through workflow management systems. This approach of integrating construction industry best practices into workflow management systems, not only facilitates consistent implementation of best practices throughout the project lifecycle and within projects, but also improves conformance to those practices, with the end result of improved capital project performance.
Améliorer les processus de communication sur les chantiers de construction à l'aide des technologies mobiles et des technologies infonuagiques
Creators: name: Frenette, Sébastien
name: Forgues, Daniel
name: Tahrani, Souha
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: L'industrie de la construction est un secteur dans lequel la circulation de l'information, entre les diverses disciplines de projet impliquées, est intense. Paradoxalement, on constate que le secteur de la construction repose sur un processus de communication s'appuyant sur un format papier ainsi que sur des moyens obsolètes, tels que le téléphone, le télécopieur ou le courriel, afin de partager et d’accéder aux données de projet. Pourtant, malgré le fait que les problématiques de circulation de l'information se répercutent sur l'ensemble des phases de construction, on observe que la phase de réalisation est de loin celle qui dépend le plus de l’information et qui, malheureusement, est la moins informatisée. En considérant le rythme avec lequel évoluent les tablettes et les téléphones intelligents, les technologies mobiles (TM) offrent désormais des moyens efficaces afin de remplacer la communication papier sur le chantier par des solutions numériques et infonuagiques. Cet article traite des résultats d’une recherche visant à comprendre comment le déploiement des TM et des technologies infonuagiques peut améliorer l'accès à l'information et faciliter la communication entre les intervenants, lors de la phase de réalisation. L'objectif principal de ce papier est de démontrer les bénéfices à employer ces technologies sur les chantiers lorsqu'orienté vers un contexte d'administration et de gestion de projet. Les résultats de cette recherche s’appuient sur la réalisation de trois études de cas dans lesquelles un total de 58 intervenants ont participé aux diverses étapes de cette étude, échelonnée sur une période de quinze mois. L’ensemble des données est issu de la réalisation d’observations in situ, d’entrevues et de l’envoi de questionnaires.
Japanese Economic Interest in Malaya and Japan-Malaya Relations in Historical Perspective
Creators: name: Denker, Mehmet Sami
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: This article will discuss Japanese-Malayan historical relations before and during World War II. In doing so, I will attempt to trace Malayan-Japanese relations and Japanese orientation towards Malaya until the end of World War II. The objectives of this article are: First, to prove that Japan had an economic interest in Malaya before World War II. Second, to establish the historical pattern of Japanese interests in Malaya and Japanese involvement prior to World War II in the inter-war years. Third, to present some new findings about Japanese involvement in Malaya based on declassified British Military Intelligence Reports on Malaya.
description: Asien, Nr. 33 (1989): ASIEN (Oktober)
Screening efficiency in rotational conical sieve
Creators: name: Wodziński, Piotr
name: Modrzewski, Remigiusz
name: Ławińska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: screening, conical sieve, rotary screen

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Fine grain fractions from basalts processing and their usefulness in ceramics
Creators: name: Wyszomirski, Piotr
name: Szydłak, Tadeusz
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: basalts, fine grain fractions, clinker ceramic products

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Termination of affinity between aggregate and bitumen. Research methods and requirements in different countries
Creators: name: Zięba, Monika
name: Lewandowska, Weronika
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2016
Subjects: affinity, asphalt, aggregate, adhesive, bottled method, method of cooking

description: Mining Science; ISSN 2300-9586
Regionale Kooperation im Südpazifik
Creators: name: Kreuzer, Peter
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: The South Pacific Forum is one of the few international organizations which successfully integrate members of the First and the Third World, thus functioning as bridge, enhancing mutual understanding. By depicting the genesis of the South Pacific Forum, pointing out its organizational structure and its most important policy issues, and by describing the role of the Forum Secretariat (SPEC) in the process of regional political and economic integration, the article tries to find the conditioning factors for the success of the South Pacific Forum. At the same time, the organizational limits are laid open. The article argues that one special feature of the Forum its ad-hoc character and open institutional framework is the paramount cause for both its success and limitations. In finding common political standpoints, which do not include binding economic obligations or even the transfer of state power but offer the chance of an enhanced regional standing in conflicts ordinating and even policy-making agency. In intra-regional policies, the major interests of the participants are often too heterodox to be reconciled by an organization which lacks the power to inflict legal or economic sanctions on its member states. So the main functions of the South Pacific Forum are the creation of distinct South Pacific political, and to some extent even cultural, identity, the integration of the region's views on conflicts involving outside actors, and functioning as clearing-house for intra-regional policy issues, even if "national interests" mostly have top priority for the national leaders.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 33 (1989): ASIEN (Oktober)
Factors impacting selection of construction subcontractors
Creators: name: Dolama, Maryam Ghaffari
name: Sadeghpour, Farnaz
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A considerable portion of the work in construction projects is carried out by subcontractors. The current lowest bid practice, in which the main contractor offers a subcontract to the bidder who submits the lowest price, is considered to leave subcontractors with very low profit margins, and with a lack of motivation to provide high quality work. Selecting appropriate subcontractors is consequently seen as contributing significantly to a project's success. Although subcontractors are mainly selected by the main contractor, as one of the influential contributors to the project, the choice of subcontractor will also affect other project stakeholders such as owners and consultants. The goal of this study is to identify the factors that different project stakeholders consider important when selecting subcontractors, and the extent to which their professional background affects the way they view selection factors used for subcontractors. To this end a questionnaire was designed and distributed among construction industry experts in Alberta, Canada, from three groups of general contractors, owners, and consultants with various professional backgrounds. The survey results verified that the factors identified in the survey were in fact those that were considered in the selection of subcontractors. Based on statistical analysis of the survey results in most cases, respondents from the contractor group associated a different degree of importance to each selection factor compared with consultants and clients. The level of importance associated to each selection factor was found to be more similar among the latter two groups. Interestingly the lowest bid price was not necessarily ranked highest by professionals within all background groups.
Discrimination and the Housing Market
Creators: name: Lepinteur, Anthony
name: Menta, Giorgia
name: Waltl, Sofie R.
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2021
Subjects: Externalities
Housing Markets
Subjective Beliefs

description: Is the housing search hampered by prejudices against sellers of distinct origins? Can native sellers achieve higher prices? Are there peer-effectrs?
An integrated process-based simulation platform for construction project planning
Creators: name: Ismail, Ali
name: Scherer, Raimar
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The application of simulation technique for construction project planning is a very promising but also a challenging field of research. Creating reliable and reusable simulation models is very complex, combined with high costs. This paper presents the development of Construction Simulation Toolkit “CST” and a collaborative simulation portal “ProSIM”, which supports the planning of construction project using discrete-event simulation method. The objective of this research is promoting a wider adoption of simulation in construction industry and support planning of real project using simulation technique through providing a construction-specific simulation toolkit allowing the rapid development of simulation models and an online collaborative platform in order to facilitate the integration of complex construction projects data. CST aims to support planning of production and logistic operations of construction projects in one unified simulation models and running “what if” scenarios in order to support decision making and improve planning quality, while ProSIM aims at enabling the collaboration among the simulation experts and other project design and planning teams.The paper presents the latest research work and the prototype implementation through study cases.
Topic modeling for infrastructure-related discussions in online social media
Creators: name: Nik-Bakht, M.
name: El-Diraby, T. E.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Decision making for construction of modern civil infrastructure not only involves internal stakeholders, but also aims to include interests of as many external stakeholders as possible. In mega-projects, complexity and diversity of stakeholders call for more advanced communication tools and channels. Extensive prevalence of social web as a two-way communication channel during the last decade has caused a paradigm shift in communication among the e-society, and this has attracted the attention of decision makers in the domain of urban infrastructure among other domains. Although having a wide public outreach, the open and unstructured nature of inputs from the e-society results in chaos and makes it difficult to distil knowledge from the contents communicated by the public. This paper presents tools from topic modeling to process such an unstructured data collected from online social media into information which can be plugged into the process of decision making. We use k-means clustering to cluster followers of an infrastructure project on micro-blogging website Twitter based on semantic similarity among their user profile descriptions. This helps profiling the main groups of followers of the infrastructure project and can provide decision makers with valuable hints regarding typology of external stakeholders. We also extend our analysis to project-related tweets through Latent Semantic Indexing, and find the main topics discussed. The latter guide help decision makers understand the public’s major vested interests in the project. We have applied the proposed method to a Light Rail Transit (LRT) mega-project in Toronto, Ontario and have discussed the results.
Examining the trajectory and predictors of post-concussion sleep quality in children and adolescents
Creators: name: Fisher, M
name: Wiseman-Hakes, C
name: Obeid, J
name: DeMatteo, C
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study aimed to 1) determine if post-concussion sleep quality of children and adolescents differed from healthy sleep estimates; 2) describe the trajectory of parameters of sleep quality; 3) determine factors that predict sleep quality outcomes; and 4) compare sleep parameter outcomes between asymptomatic and symptomatic participants at 4 weeks post-concussion. Nightly actigraphy estimates of sleep in 79 children and adolescents were measured throughout 4 weeks post-concussion. Total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE), wake after sleep onset (WASO), number of arousals (NOA), and average arousal length (AAL) were measured. Child and adolescent participants experienced significantly poorer SE and longer WASO duration throughout 4 weeks of recovery and adolescents experienced significantly longer TST. SE significantly improved with time post-injury (p = .047). Older age was associated with longer TST (p = .003) and female sex was associated with longer WASO (p = .025) and AAL duration (p = .044). Week 4 sleep parameter outcomes were not significantly different between asymptomatic and symptomatic participants. The sleep quality of youth is adversely affected by concussion, particularly in females. Sleep quality appears to improve with time but may require more than 4 weeks to return to normal.
Purification of feldspar from colored impurities using organic acids
Creators: name: Vapur, Huseyin
name: Top, Soner
name: Demirci, Seda
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2017
Subjects: microwave
statistical analysis
organic acids
feldspar
chemical extraction

description: Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing; ISSN 2084-4735
Dissolution kinetics of smithsonite in boric acid solutions
Creators: name: Abali, Yuksel
name: Bayca, Salih U.
name: Gumus, Ramazan
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2017
Subjects: zinc borate
smithsonite
reaction engineering
kinetics
leaching
dissolution

description: Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing; ISSN 2084-4735
title: Οι απεικονίσεις μνημείων στην τομή δικαίου πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας και δικαίου πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς
title: Depictions of monuments in the interface of intellectual property and cultural heritage legislation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Κεραμίδας, Στέφανος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά
Πνευματική ιδιοκτησία
Μνημεία
Απεικονίσεις
Ν. 4858/2021
Ν. 2121/1993

description: Πληθώρα ιστάμενων αρχιτεκτονημάτων ή σταθερών καταλοίπων, αρχαιοτήτων και ιστορικών κειμηλίων ευρίσκονται διάσπαρτα στην ελληνική επικράτεια, εκτίθενται ή παραμένουν αποθηκευμένα στα μουσεία της χώρας. Αποτελούν μαρτυρίες του πλούσιου πολιτιστικού κεφαλαίου της και προστατεύονται σύμφωνα με τις προβλέψεις του πρόσφατου Ν. 4858/2021, που κωδικοποίησε το Ν. 3028/2002 και τις λοιπές σχετικές διατάξεις του δικαίου προστασίας της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς στη χώρα μας. Από το εκτενέστατο σύνολο των υλικών μαρτυριών, η παρούσα εργασία θα επικεντρωθεί σε εκείνες που χαρακτηρίζονται, αυτοδίκαια ή μετά τις προβλεπόμενες διαδικασίες, ως μνημεία. Και αυτό γιατί ο συγκεκριμένος χαρακτηρισμός είναι εκείνος που αποτελεί μία πρώτη, κύρια προϋπόθεση για τον έλεγχο της απεικόνισής τους, καθώς σύμφωνα με το υφιστάμενο νομικό πλαίσιο η παραγωγή και χρήση απεικονίσεων μνημείων που ανήκουν στο Δημόσιο υπόκειται σε διαδικασία αδειοδότησης από τις Υπηρεσίες του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού. Βασική επιδίωξη είναι η ανάπτυξη και ανάλυση του ιστορικού της διαμόρφωσης αυτού του πλαισίου και κυρίως του περιεχομένου, των παραμέτρων και των διαδικασιών που έχουν από καιρό εις καιρό θεσπιστεί και έχουν πλέον παγιωθεί με τα προβλεπόμενα στο Ν. 4858/2021 και στα σχετικά κανονιστικά κείμενα. Από την άλλη πλευρά, οι απεικονίσεις εν γένει δύνανται να περιληφθούν στις προβλέψεις του Ν. 2121/1993 για την προστασία της πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας, εφόσον ως άυλες δημιουργίες πληρούν συγκεκριμένες παραμέτρους που ορίζει ο νόμος. Υπό αυτή τη διάσταση, θα εξεταστούν οι οικείες προβλέψεις και θα επιδιωχθεί η σκιαγράφηση των χαρακτηριστικών της απεικόνισης ως πνευματικού έργου καθώς και των πιθανών οριοθετήσεων που υφίστανται σχετικά. Το κύριο ερώτημα εργασίας αφορά στην αντιμετώπιση των απεικονίσεων μνημείων υπό το πρίσμα των δύο δικαιικών κλάδων, εκείνου της προστασίας της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς και αυτού της προστασίας της πνευματικής δημιουργίας. Υφίσταται ένα σημείο τομής που εγκολπώνει περιπτώσεις που άπτονται και των δύο πλαισίων ή, έστω, μπορεί το δίκαιο πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας να αποτελέσει ένα ανανεωτικό πρίσμα για τον τρόπο που αντιμετωπίζονται οι απεικονίσεις μνημείων;
title: Ασφάλεια σε περιβάλλοντα Docker Container
title: Docker Container security
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Πατούνης, Δημήτριος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Docker
subject: Containers
subject: Security
subject: Hardening
subject: Monitoring
subject: Auditing
subject: Compliance
subject: Best practices

description: Η τεχνολογία Docker container πρωτοεμφανίστηκε το 2013 παρουσιάζοντας μια πλατφόρμα ανοιχτού κώδικα που βοήθησε στην επανάσταση προς τη δημιουργία container στην ανάπτυξη λογισμικού. Ο σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η περιγραφή της τεχνολογίας των containers και docker καθώς και η ανάλυση των βέλτιστων πρακτικών για την ανάπτυξή τους.
Διερεύνηση των επιπέδων άγχους και φόβου απο τη νόσηση απο covid-19 σε σχέση με την ποιότητα ζωής. Η περίπτωση των φαρμακοποιών Ν.Αρκαδίας
Creators: name: Θεοδώρα, Παπαπέτρου
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19 (Ασθένεια) -- Ψυχολογικές απόψεις -- Ελλάδα-- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: COVID-19 (Ασθένεια) -- Κοινωνικές απόψεις -- Ελλάδα-- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Εργασιακό άγχος -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Ποιότητα ζωής -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Άγχος
subject: Ανθεκτικότητα
subject: COVID-19
subject: Ποιότητα ζωής
subject: Φαρμακοποιοί
subject: Φόβος
subject: Stress
subject: Resilience
subject: Quality of life
subject: Pharmacists
subject: Fear

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013315 cd
description: ΣΚΟΠΟΣ: Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση των επιπέδων άγχους και φόβου από τη νόσηση από τη νόσο COVID-19 και πως σχετίζονται αυτά τα επίπεδα με την ποιότητα ζωής των Φαρμακοποιών στο νομό Αρκαδίας. Επίσης, διερευνάται η ψυχική ανθεκτικότητα και οι στρατηγικές αντιμετώπισης που επέδειξαν οι φαρμακοποιοί του παρόντος δείγματος. ΜΕΘΟΔΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Η παρούσα έρευνα είναι μία συγχρονική μελέτη σε δείγμα 52 φαρμακοποιών του νομού Αρκαδίας κατά τη χρονική περίοδο από τον Οκτώβριο 2021 έως τον Νοέμβριο 2021. Χρησιμοποιήθηκαν τα ερωτηματολόγια Covid-19 Stress Scale, CD-RISC, PTGI, Brief-COPE και MVQOLI τα οποία συμπληρώθηκαν από τους συμμετέχοντες φαρμακοποιούς. Συνολικά, συλλέχθηκαν 52 πλήρως συμπληρωμένα ερωτηματολόγια, με ποσοστό ανταπόκρισης 77,61%. Συλλέχθηκαν κοινωνικοδημογραφικά στοιχεία και εξετάσθηκαν διάφορες μεταβλητές, όπως το άγχος, ο φόβος, η ανθεκτικότητα, η μετα-τραυματική ανάπτυξη, οι στρατηγικές αντιμετώπισης και η ποιότητα ζωής. Η στατιστική ανάλυση πραγματοποιήθηκε με το πρόγραμμα SPSS 26 για περιβάλλον Windows. ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΑ: Οι φαρμακοποιοί του δείγματος εμφάνισαν χαμηλά προς μέτρια επίπεδα φόβου και στην πλειοψηφία τους, δεν βιώνουν ως τραυματική την πανδημία της νέας νόσου. Ποσοστό 67,3% των φαρμακοποιών ανήκει στην κατηγορία απουσίας στρες και 32,7% στην κατηγορία ήπιου στρες. Οι συμμετέχοντες έχουν μέτρια προς υψηλά επίπεδα ανθεκτικότητας. Ποσοστό 46,2% των συμμετεχόντων βίωσαν θετικές αλλαγές στη ζωή τους σε, τουλάχιστον, μεγάλο βαθμό. Η ευρύτερα χρησιμοποιούμενη μέθοδος αντιμετώπισης στρεσσογόνων καταστάσεων από τους φαρμακοποιούς του παρόντος δείγματος ήταν η θετική/ενεργή αντιμετώπιση και η λιγότερο συχνή, ήταν η χρήση ουσιών. Ένα μικρό ποσοστό των συμμετεχόντων ανέφεραν ότι η ποιότητα ζωής τους είναι πτωχή ή μέτρια (17,3%), ενώ, η πλειοψηφία (82,7%) ανέφερε ότι είναι μέτρια προς υψηλή. Η ποιότητα ζωής επηρεάζεται από την άθληση και τη χαμηλή κατανάλωση αλκοόλ (μη στατιστικά σημαντικά ευρήματα). Υψηλότερο στρες βιώνουν τα άτομα ηλικίας 41-50 ετών. Οι εργαζόμενοι με εμπειρία 11-16 ετών εξέφρασαν περισσότερο αρνητικά αισθήματα (F=2,790, p=0,028) και είχαν περισσότερο στρες έναντι της νόσου COVID-19 (Η=15,411, p=0,005). Τέλος, όσοι δεν νόσησαν φοβούνται περισσότερο κι έχουν μεγαλύτερο στρες για την πιθανότητα να μολυνθούν από τον κορωνοϊό (t=-2,340, p=0,023).
title: Εφαρμογή της αρχιτεκτονικής blockchain για την διαχείριση δικαιωμάτων πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας σε έργα ψηφιακού πολιτισμού
title: Intellectual property management for digital culture assets using blockchain
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Βεργόπουλος, Κωνσταντίνος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Blockchain
subject: Digital art
subject: Intellectual property
subject: Copyright
subject: Digital rights management
subject: Technology adoption
subject: Maturity model
subject: Smart contracts
subject: Consensus
subject: Digital culture
subject: Distributed ledger technology

description: Σε ένα παγκόσμιο οικονομικό περιβάλλον υπερ-εμπορευματοποίησης, οι προσπάθειες αφομοίωσης ψηφιακών μέσων (συμπεριλαμβανομένων αγαθών ψηφιακού πολιτισμού) στην εμπορική πολιτιστική κληρονομιά ήταν μέχρι στιγμής μάλλον ανεπιτυχείς, πιθανώς επειδή είτε τα ψηφιακά αντικείμενα δεν μπορούν εύκολα να αναγνωριστούν ως αντικείμενα που αξίζει να συλλεχθούν είτε τα μέσα δεν είχαν την κατάλληλη ωριμότητα να αντιμετωπίσουν αποτελεσματικά τις σχετικές προκλήσεις. Αυτή η διατριβή διερευνά τη χρήση τεχνολογιών blockchain για την διαχείριση των δικαιωμάτων πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας (ΠΙ) σε αντικείμενα ψηφιακής κληρονομιάς. Η τεχνολογία Blockchain θεωρείται μια από τις επαναστατικές τεχνολογίες που θα έχουν τεράστιο αντίκτυπο στη ζωή μας τις επόμενες δεκαετίες. Οι τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις που προσφέρονται από το blockchain υπόσχονται ευρύ φάσμα χρήσης σε διάφορους τομείς, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του νόμου περί ΠΙ. Προς αυτή τη κατεύθυνση αναλύουμε τον πιθανό αντίκτυπό της τεχνολογίας στην εγγραφή, τη διαχείριση και την επιβολή των δικαιωμάτων ΠΙ. Δεδομένης της υφιστάμενης και ταχέως εξελισσόμενης, τεχνολογικής, οικονομικής και πολιτικής κατάστασης αναλύουμε τη τεχνολογία έναντι νομικών ή κανονιστικών επιλογών συνυπολογίζοντας τις οικονομικές επιπτώσεις της αφομοίωσης της τεχνολογίας.
Structural Inequality and Environmental Health: Differing Adolescent Neural Urbanome Profiles in Black and Latinx Youth
Creators: name: Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Presentation Slides for the Presentation "Structural Inequality and Environmental Health: Differing Adolescent Neural Urbanome Profiles in Black and Latinx Youth," part of the Paper Symposium Impacts of the Built, Natural, and Policy Environments on Adolescent Development at the 2025 SRCD Biennial Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on May 1-3, 2025.
Integrated asset management of water and wastewater infrastructure systems : borrowing from industry foundation classes
Creators: name: Ganjidoost, Amin
name: Haas, Carl T.
name: Knight, Mark A.
name: Unger, Andre J. A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Viewing water and wastewater infrastructure systems from a network or functional viewpoint down to an individual component goes hand in hand with life-cycle management. Therefore, three concepts are incorporated: (1) Strategic Planning; (2) Tactical Planning; and (3) Operational Planning. The data relevant to each of these areas are generated and managed by software applications that operate in isolation. A multi-level integration can link and share data among strategic, tactical, and operational asset management plans. The Industry Foundation Classes schema concept is used to develop a framework to support efficient sharing and management of data and planning information among strategic, tactical and operational asset management plans of the water and wastewater infrastructure systems. The proposed multi-level integration framework is comprised of a comprehensive database of water and wastewater infrastructure physical asset inventory, financial and consumer sectors that stores and manages flow of information through strategic, tactical, and operational asset management plans. Data are identified by reference of time and date (temporal) and by physical relation of data to the location of a facility in the water and wastewater infrastructure networks (spatial). The proposed framework enables the integration and interoperation of various domain-specific software applications through developing and maintaining a multi-level integration of strategic, tactical and operational asset management plans based upon the Industry Foundation Classes data model concept. Municipalities and water utilities can use the findings to make optimized asset management decisions.