cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PAS mathematical models to achieve alignment
Creators: name: Arkesteijn, Monique
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: The focus in this chapter is on the component mathematical models of PAS (see Figure 7.1 and Figure 7.2). PAS can only be performed if the system engineers are able to build a mathematical model of the problem situation for each of the pilot studies. In this chapter, I will show that the system engineers were able to do this for all three pilots. Typically, a subset of the alternative is infeasible. When the feasible set of alternatives can be characterized mathematically, the PFM algorithm can search an optimal alternative within this set (either by an exhaustive search or by sampling, depending on the size of the feasible set). Otherwise, if a characterization of the feasible set is not available to the algorithm, the group decision makers – the stakeholders - can propose possible feasible alternatives for consideration. The algorithm can then rate these alternatives. This chapter has the following structure: –– TU Delft pilot for the food facilities in paragraph 7.1; –– TU Delft pilot for lecture halls in paragraph 7.2; –– Oracle’s pilot for office locations in paragraph 7.3; –– Pilot comparison and conclusion in paragraph 7.4. The mathematical models are explained for each of the pilots as follows: the model structure (first subparagraph), the model formulas (second subparagraph) and the optimization tool (third subparagraph). Recall, that in step 5 alternatives are generated in two separate ways: A The group of decision makers self-designs alternatives, use the design constraints to test the feasibility of the design alternatives, and use the PFM algorithm to yield an overall preference score of these feasible design alternatives; B The system engineer generates feasible design alternatives and uses the PFM algorithm to find the feasible design alternative with the highest overall preference score. The decision makers are able to design alternatives (step 5a) with the model that is explained in the first and second subparagraphs. The system engineer is able to generate alternatives (step 5b) with the optimization tool is, as is explained in the third subparagraph. The mathematical models for the pilot studies have been built by the system engineer and the facilitator. The author had the role of the facilitator. The system engineer for the first pilot was Binnekamp, for the second pilot it was Valks with the aid of Barendse, and for the third pilot the system engineers were De Visser with the guidance of De Graaf. Valks and De Visser cooperated in this study as graduate students with the author as their main mentor and Binnekamp, Barendse and De Graaf as their second and/or third mentors.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 12 (2019): Corporate Real Estate Alignment
Discrete approximation of a mixture distribution via restricted divergence
Creators: name: Röver, Christian
name: Friede, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mixture distributions arise in many application areas, for example as marginal distributions or convolutions of distributions. We present a method of constructing an easily tractable discrete mixture distribution as an approximation to a mixture distribution with a large to infinite number, discrete or continuous, of components. The proposed DIRECT (Divergence Restricting Conditional Tesselation) algorithm is set up such that a pre-specified precision, defined in terms of Kullback-Leibler divergence between true distribution and approximation, is guaranteed. Application of the algorithm is demonstrated in two examples.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Discrete Time Analysis of Consolidated Transport Processes
Creators: name: Özden, Eda
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Stochastic
Queueing Theory
Discrete Time Analysis
Consolidation
Milkrun Concept
Hub-and-Spoke Network

description: The objective of this work is to develop models for the analysis of consolidated transport processes. With the discrete time queuing models developed for inventory and vehicle consolidation, in particular milkrun systems, a detailed performance evaluation of different design scenarios can be conducted faster than with simulation. Moreover, it is demonstrated how the models can be connected with each other in form of a network analysis, in order to analyze hub-and-spoke networks.
Characterization of transiting exoplanets by way of differential photometry
Creators: name: Cowley, Michael
name: Hughes, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes a simple activity for plotting and characterizing the light curve from an exoplanet transit event by way of differential photometry analysis. Using free digital imaging software, participants analyse a series of telescope images with the goal of calculating various exoplanet parameters, including its size, orbital radius and habitability. The activity has been designed for a high school or undergraduate university level and introduces fundamental concepts in astrophysics and an understanding of the basis for exoplanetary science, the transit method and digital photometry.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, published in Phys. Educ
Reconstruction of Software Component Architectures and Behaviour Models using Static and Dynamic Analysis
Creators: name: Krogmann, Klaus
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Reverse Engineering
Performance Model
Component-Based Software Architecture
Reengineering

description: Model-based performance prediction systematically deals with the evaluation of software performance to avoid for example bottlenecks, estimate execution environment sizing, or identify scalability limitations for new usage scenarios. Such performance predictions require up-to-date software performance models. This book describes a new integrated reverse engineering approach for the reconstruction of parameterised software performance models (software component architecture and behaviour).
Mechanismen der Kraftübertragung des Reifens auf Schnee und Eis
Creators: name: Gießler, Martin
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Reifekraftübertragung
Schnee
Eis
Kraftschlussgrenze
Formschlussgrenze
Schnee-Schnee-Reibung
Laborversuch

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden analytische Modelle zum Kraft- und Formschluss sowie zur Schnee-Schnee-Reibung vorgestellt, die den Reifen- und Fahrbahneinfluss auf die Kraftübertragung auf Schnee und Eis beschreiben. Mit Hilfe der entwickelten Modelle werden Versuchsergebnisse zum Einfluss wichtiger Betriebsgrößen und zum Einfluss von Reifen- und Fahrbahneigenschaften eingehender analysiert und so die wesentlichen Mechanismen des Kraftübertragungsprozesses auf Winterfahrbahnen identifiziert.
Hybridantriebe für mobile Arbeitsmaschinen : grundlegende Erkenntnisse und Zusammenhänge, Vorstellung einer Methodik zur Unterstützung des Entwicklungsprozesses und deren Validierung am Beispiel einer Forstmaschine
Creators: name: Thiebes, Phillip
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Mobile Arbeitsmaschine
Hybridantrieb
Methodik
Forstmaschine

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt Grundlagen der hybriden Antriebe mit dem Fokus auf die mobilen Arbeitsmaschinen und stellt eine Methodik zur Unterstützung des Entwicklungsprozesses vor. Die Methodik unterstützt einerseits durch eine definierte Vorgehensweise andererseits durch konkrete Werkzeuge. Am Beispiel einer Forstmaschine werden quasi-statische Abschätzungswerkzeuge vorgeführt und deren Vorhersagekraft durch den Vergleich mit dynamischen Simulationen bestimmt.
Within-Brain Classification for Brain Tumor Segmentation
Creators: name: Havaei, Mohammad
name: Larochelle, Hugo
name: Poulin, Philippe
name: Jodoin, Pierre-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Purpose: In this paper, we investigate a framework for interactive brain tumor segmentation which, at its core, treats the problem of interactive brain tumor segmentation as a machine learning problem. Methods: This method has an advantage over typical machine learning methods for this task where generalization is made across brains. The problem with these methods is that they need to deal with intensity bias correction and other MRI-specific noise. In this paper, we avoid these issues by approaching the problem as one of within brain generalization. Specifically, we propose a semi-automatic method that segments a brain tumor by training and generalizing within that brain only, based on some minimum user interaction. Conclusion: We investigate how adding spatial feature coordinates (i.e. $i$, $j$, $k$) to the intensity features can significantly improve the performance of different classification methods such as SVM, kNN and random forests. This would only be possible within an interactive framework. We also investigate the use of a more appropriate kernel and the adaptation of hyper-parameters specifically for each brain. Results: As a result of these experiments, we obtain an interactive method whose results reported on the MICCAI-BRATS 2013 dataset are the second most accurate compared to published methods, while using significantly less memory and processing power than most state-of-the-art methods.
Bowel Anastomosis in Secondary Peritonitis - a Systematic Review
Creators: name: Skovsen, Anders
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digestive System Diseases
subject: Diseases
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: In patients with secondary peritonitis undergoing acute care surgery of the abdomen, is primary anastomosis of small-bowel to small-bowel and small-bowel to large-bowel compared to enterostoma, safe?
PAS stakeholders & activities to achieve alignment
Creators: name: Arkesteijn, Monique
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: PAS consists of three main components; steps, stakeholders & activities, and mathematical models, as explained in chapter 4. In this chapter, the stakeholders & activities are the focal point (see Figure 6.1). By explaining the interactive design process in detail, the reader understands how the stakeholders perform the activities to achieve alignment between the organization and the corporate real estate portfolio. The stakeholders & activities are displayed in the left column of the flowchart in Figure 6.2. There, the stakeholders that are involved are divided in three types: the responsible management (RM), the stakeholders (S) and the facilitator and systems engineer (F & SE). They need to perform two types of activities: interviews and workshops. In the activity interviews, the stakeholders perform steps 1 to 4. In the activity workshops, the stakeholders perform step 5. They design an alternative corporate real estate portfolio and continue designing other alternatives until they mutually agree that the best possible alternative has been made. The activities are finished when, in the last interview, each stakeholder individually confirms the selection of the best alternative. The results of the three pilots have been discussed in chapter 5 including the final input the stakeholders have given in the interviews for steps 1 to 4. The best alternative the stakeholders have chosen in step 6 was also presented. This alternative was designed interactively and iteratively in the workshops in step 5. However, how the stakeholders have designed this alterative has not yet been explained. Since, interactively and iteratively designing alternatives in the mathematical models is a major component of PAS this design process is explained in this chapter. This chapter shows the interfaces that the stakeholders can use when designing alternatives including instructions on how to navigate the model. This chapter presents the pilots as follows: –– Pilot study 1: TU Delft’s food facilities in paragraph 6.1; –– Pilot study 2: TU Delft’s lecture halls in paragraph 6.2; –– Pilot study 3: Oracle’s office locations in paragraph; –– And the pilot study comparison and conclusion in paragraph 6.4. For each pilot study, in the first subparagraph, the design interfaces that the stakeholders have at their disposal, are explained. In the second subparagraph, the stakeholders workshop set up is discussed in which they use the interface to design alternatives. Lastly, in the third subparagraph, the iterative process is discussed. The iteration takes place between step 5 (designiWng alternatives) and step 1 to 4 (variables, curves, weights and constraints).
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 12 (2019): Corporate Real Estate Alignment
Hybrid routing in delay tolerant networks
Creators: name: Mayer, Christoph P.
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hybrid Routing
Delay Tolerant Networks
Mobile Networks
Mobility Modeling
Overlay Networks

description: This work addresses the integration of today\'s infrastructure-based networks with infrastructure-less networks. The resulting Hybrid Routing System allows for communication over both network types and can help to overcome cost, communication, and overload problems. Mobility aspect resulting from infrastructure-less networks are analyzed and analytical models developed. For development and deployment of the Hybrid Routing System an overlay-based framework is presented.
PAS steps to achieve alignment
Creators: name: Arkesteijn, Monique
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: The focus in this chapter is on the component steps of PAS (see Figure 5.1 and Figure 5.2). CRE alignment is achieved, as has been shown in chapter 4, if stakeholders can use PAS successfully. PAS is successful if the stakeholders are able to perform each step of PAS. I assume that the stakeholders can perform steps 1 (specifying decision variables), 3 (assigning weights) and 4 (determining design constraints) because these type of steps are part of other multi criteria decision analysis as well. However, it is not known if stakeholders are able to perform the new step 2 (determining preferences) and step 5a (design alternatives) and are willing to select the alternative with the highest overall preference score in step 6. Preferably, this new alternative has a higher overall preference score than the overall preference score in the current situation. However, if the boundary conditions are strict this is not always possible. PAS has been tested in three pilots. This chapter has the following structure: –– TU Delft pilot for the food facilities in paragraph 5.1; –– TU Delft pilot for lecture halls in paragraph 5.2; –– Oracle’s pilot for office locations in paragraph 5.3; –– Pilot study comparison and conclusion in paragraph 5.4.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 12 (2019): Corporate Real Estate Alignment
Linking in developmental scales
Creators: name: Langer, Michelle M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Developmental test score scales have attracted more interest with recent legislation on educational measurement, yet there remain a surprising number of unanswered methodological questions about score scales. This research examined the effects of the number and difficulty level of linking items, the inclusion of noncommon items, the size of the mean difference between groups, and the sample size in accurately linking a score scale across groups. Data were simulated for binary items based on parameters from the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress Reading Assessment. Item response theory concurrent linking was used for 1,000 replications each under more than 100 conditions. These results were evaluated in terms of bias and random variance of the recovered group mean differences and standard deviations. The results indicated that linking is generally reliable, regardless of other factors, when group means are 2 standard deviations apart or less.
On the Noise Robustness of Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit
Creators: name: Determe, Jean-François
name: Louveaux, Jérôme
name: Jacques, Laurent
name: Horlin, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, the joint support recovery of several sparse signals whose supports present similarities is examined. Each sparse signal is acquired using the same noisy linear measurement process, which returns fewer observations than the dimension of the sparse signals. The measurement noise is assumed additive, Gaussian, and admits different variances for each sparse signal that is measured. Using the theory of compressed sensing, the performance of simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (SOMP) is analysed for the envisioned signal model. The cornerstone of this paper is a novel analysis method upper bounding the probability that SOMP recovers at least one incorrect entry of the joint support during a prescribed number of iterations. Furthermore, the probability of SOMP failing is investigated whenever the number of sparse signals being recovered simultaneously increases and tends to infinity. In particular, convincing observations and theoretical results suggest that SOMP committing no mistake in the noiseless case does not guarantee the absence of error in the noisy case whenever the number of acquired sparse signals scales to infinity. Finally, simulation results confirm the validity of the theoretical results.
STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEINS RECOGNITION BY PRO-APOPTOTIC COMPOUNDS
Creators: name: COSSU, FEDERICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) are negative regulators of apoptosis and their overexpression is observed in many cancer cells, correlating with the inhibition of caspases. IAPs inhibitory function is exploited by the BIR domains, which were firstly identified in baculovirus. Among the IAP family, XIAP (X chromosome-linked IAP) directly inhibits caspases preventing proteolytic cleavage through its BIR2 and BIR3 domains; furthermore, XIAP-BIR1 in a dimeric form recognizes TAB1, a kinase activator, regulating pro-survival pathways. In the last years, cIAPs have become crucial players of the extrinsic pathway; in fact, through the recognition of TRAFs (TNF Receptor Associated Factors) by the cIAP2-BIR1 domain, they are recruited to the TNF-? Receptor Signaling Complex and act as E3 ubiquitin ligases. One of the most promising approaches that have been proposed to inhibit these proteins is represented by the structure-based design of small molecules, named Smac-mimetics, that mimic Smac/DIABLO (Second mitochondria-derived activator of caspases/Direct IAp Binding protein with Low pI), an endogenous antagonist of IAPs. Initially designed in 2001 against the BIR3 domain of XIAP, Smac-mimetics have shown to prevent the inhibitory action of XIAP on initiator and executioner caspases, but also to bind to the BIR3 of cIAPs, inducing their autoubiquitylation and degradation. This work focuses on the cloning, expression and purification of the IAPs constructs of interest and their biochemical and biophysical characterization alone and in the presence of some of the Smac-mimetics from our library. The X-ray technique on crystals and protein solutions allowed a structural study of the protein-ligand complexes at atomic level, favoring the process of drug lead optimization. Furthermore, the screening of libraries of pharmacologically active compounds through in silico docking searches on new targets, such as XIAP- and cIAP2-BIR1, resulted in the discovery of potential new pro-apoptotic leads, whose clinical properties are known. Since in the last months new macromolecular protein complexes have been identified as involved in apoptosis and pro-survival pathways, novel protocols for the expression and purification of cIAP1 and TRAFs full length constructs have been optimized to obtain pure and homogeneous samples ready for the structural characterization.
Neues Konzept für die bedarfsgerechte Energieversorgung des Künstlichen Akkommodationssystems
Creators: name: Nagel, Jörg
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Akkommodationssystem
bedarfsgerecht
Energieversorgung

description: Das Wiederherstellen der Akkommodationsfähigkeit des Auges bei Presbyopie oder nach Kataraktoperationen stellt derzeit eine der größten Herausforderungen der Augenheilkunde dar. Das Künstliche Akkommodationssystem ermöglicht die dauerhafte Wiederherstellung der Akkommodationsfähigkeit. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein neues Konzept für die bedarfsgerechte Energieversorgung des Künstlichen Akkommodationssystems erstellt.
Rethinking Latino immigration: modernity/coloniality and the geopolitics of knowledge in the United States
Creators: name: Wiltberger, Joseph L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Questions around Latino immigration in the United States have become increasingly relevant recently as the country experiences unprecedented demographic transformations. Dominant knowledge and discourses in the U.S., which emerged from a particular Eurocentric geopolitical position, subalternize Latinos according to the logic of modernity/coloniality. Using the question of race as a point of departure, this paper applies Modernity/Coloniality/De-coloniality (MCD) - an emergent theoretical framework that has primarily been used in Latin American contexts - to the situation of Latinos in the U.S. This framework may be especially useful in anthropology, and the potential for integrating the two is explored in a critical analysis of certain widely-held understandings that significantly shape the contemporary U.S. debate on Latino immigration. Highly racialized ways of thinking about Latinos and immigration have been introduced in relation to certain events, ideas, and discourses that prevailed at particular historical moments and in relation to longrange historical processes of modernity/coloniality.
Integrierte Sensoren mit photonischen Kristallen auf Polymerbasis
Creators: name: Schelb, Mauno
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Photonische Kristalle
Wellenleiter
Optische Resonatoren
Integrierte optische Sensoren
Polymere

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Entwicklung integriert optischer Polymersensoren. Dazu wurden, auch durch Massenfertigungstechnologien, verschiedene Integrationskonzepte umgesetzt. Ein Schwerpunkt lag auf der Integration photonischer Kristallschichten mit Kanälen in Teflon und Polymethylmethacrylat. Zudem wurde die Geometrieoptimierung photonischer Kristallschichtkavitäten diskutiert. Hier wurde ein genetischer Algorithmus entwickelt, der eine bisher unbekannte Kavitätengeometrie liefert.
Ein Beitrag zur operativen Produktionsplanung metallurgischer Prozesse
Creators: name: Bartusch, Hauke
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: operative Produktionsplanung
metallurgische Prozesse
Partikel-Schwarm Optimierung
Fließschemasimulation
Dissertation

description: Da Deutschland über wenig Primärrohstoffe zur Metallherstellung verfügt, kommt der operativen Produktionsplanung von Recyclingprozessen eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Solche Prozesse sind aufgrund ihrer chemischen und thermodynamischen Vorgänge durch eine hohe Komplexität und nichtlineare Zusammenhänge gekennzeichnet. Diese Arbeit zeigt eine Möglichkeit zur Maximierung des Deckungsbeitrages solcher Prozesse durch Partikel-Schwarm Optimierung und gekoppelte Fließschemasimulation auf.
Modellbasierte Entwicklung und Konfiguration des zeitgesteuerten FlexRay Bussystems
Creators: name: Heinz, Matthias
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: FlexRay
modellbasierte Entwicklung
Automotive
Bussysteme
Konfiguration

description: Die stetige Erhöhung der Verkehrssicherheit durch immer leistungsfähigere Fahrerassistenzsysteme haben in den letzten Jahren maßgeblich zu einem Anwachsen des Elektrik/Elektronik Anteils im Automobilbau geführt. Diese Arbeit liefert einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Methoden für die modellbasierte Entwicklung und Konfiguration von FlexRay Bussystemen. Dazu wurden verschiedene Verfahren entwickelt, welche sich mit der Realisierung, Konfiguration, Validierung und Test von FlexRay beschäftigen.
Preference-based Accommodation Strategy design and decision approach
Creators: name: Arkesteijn, Monique
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: One of the long-standing issues in CREM is the alignment of an organization’s real estate to its corporate strategy as I have shown in chapter 2. CRE alignment is even defined by some as the raison d’être of CREM, as the range of activities undertaken to attune corporate real estate optimally to corporate performance. Even though extensive research into existing CRE alignment models has provided us with valuable insights into the steps, components and variables that are needed in the alignment process, these models still fall short in two ways. Most models pay little to no attention to the design of a new portfolio and to the selection of a new portfolio that adds the most value to the organization. The Preference-based Accommodation Strategy approach is a design and decision support tool to remedy these shortcomings and thereby enhance CRE alignment. The basic concepts and definitions for PAS have been explained in chapter 3. In this chapter, PAS is presented in its main development phases. The research methods to develop, test and evaluate PAS are explained in paragraph 4.1. In paragraph 4.2 the main concepts and the three components of PAS are explained. Subsequently, these three components are discussed; the steps of PAS in paragraph 4.3, the stakeholders & activities in paragraph 4.4 and the generic mathematical model in paragraph 4.5. In the last paragraph 4.6, the coherence between the three components is explained as well as the conclusion.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 12 (2019): Corporate Real Estate Alignment
Micromechanical finite element simulations of crack propagation in silicon nitride
Creators: name: Wippler, Johannes
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: silicon nitride
finite element simulation
fracture
toughness
structure

description: Silicon nitride is used for challening applications like cutting inserts or forming rolls. The extreme strength and toughness of the material is achieved by an interaction between the microstructure and fracture behaviour on the microlevel. In order to understand these mechanisms, detailed unit cells have been defined and used for the determination of the effective fracture properties. The results have been used for the implementation of an effective continuum damage mechanics model.
Entwicklung eines Energie- und Stoffstrommodells zur ökonomischen und ökologischen Bewertung der Herstellung chemischer Grundstoffe aus Lignocellulose
Creators: name: Haase, Martina
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biomasse
Ökobilanzierung
Kostenschätzung
Modellierung
Bioraffinerie

description: Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Abschätzung der Wirtschaftlichkeit und der Umweltwirkungen der Herstellung chemischer Grundstoffe aus Holz in einer frühen Phase der Prozessentwicklung. Am Beispiel eines Organosolv-Aufschlussverfahrens für Laubholz mit einer anschließenden Trennung der Holzkomponenten Cellulose, Hemicellulose und Lignin wird ein Energie- und Stoffstrommodell zur integrierten ökonomischen und ökologischen Bewertung und Optimierung entwickelt und exemplarisch angewandt.
Basic concepts and definitions of the PAS design and decision system
Creators: name: Arkesteijn, Monique
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: In this chapter, using basic concepts and definitions from management science, decision theory and design methodology, I shall outline the methodological aspects, characteristics and features of the Preference-based Accommodation Strategy (PAS) design and decision system, which I developed for the formation of a corporate accommodation strategy. This outline serves first and foremost as a simple way of representing and modeling the PAS design decision system. It also enables the methodological characteristics of PAS design and decision making to be set out in a way that allows analysis and evaluation of the suitability of the applications of this system in real life corporate accommodation strategy processes. Finally, it should be possible to incorporate past experience into the framework, and to generalize and summarize it in order to benefit the further development of the PAS design decision system. The PAS design decision system will be referred to as PAS. In chapter 2 the existing alignment models were assessed on eight different assessment criteria and it has become clear that decision making receives very little attention in the models. The two main problems were that (1) it remained unclear how alternative CRE strategies are made on portfolio and building level and (2) most problems occur when selecting an alternative; none of the models has an overall performance measure that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative criteria, and uses correct measurement. Although in paragraph 2.2 all assessment criteria have been introduced, some of the concepts will be explained in this chapter. In chapter 2.3 the models have been assessed on their use of correct measurement for instance. In paragraph 3.2 it will be explained what correct measurement is and why it is important. The chapter is structured as follows: –– Fifteen basic concepts underlying the PAS design system are explained in paragraph 3.1; –– Preference measurement as core concept is explained in more detail in paragraph 3.2; –– Preference-Based Design as other core concept is explained in more detail in paragraph 3.3; –– A comparison of the foundations in different scientific field in given in paragraph 3.4; –– The chapter ends with a conclusion and comparison in paragraph 3.5.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 12 (2019): Corporate Real Estate Alignment
Universal set of Dynamically Protected Gates for Bipartite Qubit Networks II: Soft Pulse Implementation of the [[5,1,3]] Quantum Error Correcting Code
Creators: name: De, Amrit
name: Pryadko, Leonid P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model repetitive quantum error correction (QEC) with the single-error-correcting five-qubit code on a network of individually-controlled qubits with always-on Ising couplings, using our previously designed universal set of quantum gates based on sequences of shaped decoupling pulses. In addition to serving as accurate quantum gates, the sequences also provide dynamical decoupling (DD) of low-frequency phase noise. The simulation involves integrating unitary dynamics of six qubits over the duration of tens of thousands of control pulses, using classical stochastic phase noise as a source of decoherence. The combined DD/QEC protocol dramatically improves the coherence, with the QEC alone responsible for more than an order of magnitude infidelity reduction.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Diffraction and Scattering in Launchers of Quasi-Optical Mode Converters for Gyrotrons
Creators: name: Flamm, Jens Hanspeter
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diffraction
Scattering
Oversized Waveguides
Waveguide Antennas
Mode converters

description: In this work different methods for the calculation of diffraction and scattering in launchers of quasi-optical mode converters for gyrotrons are compared, ranked and extended. The extension gives the opportunity to take a tapered average radius of the waveguide antenna into account. The comparison and the extension of the fast field calculation methods for component synthesis opens the possibility to reduce diffraction and stray radiation of reliable and powerful millimeter wave sources.
Isotropization in Bianchi type-I cosmological model with fermions and bosons interacting via Yukawa potential
Creators: name: Ribas, M. O.
name: Samojeden, L. L.
name: Devecchi, F. P.
name: Kremer, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate a model for the early Universe in a Bianchi type-I metric, where the sources of the gravitational field are a fermionic and a bosonic field, interacting through a Yukawa potential, following the standard model of elementary particles. It is shown that the fermionic field has a negative pressure, while the boson has a small positive pressure. The fermionic field is the responsible for an accelerated regime at early times, but since the total pressure tends to zero for large times, a transition to a decelerated regime occurs. Here the Yukawa potential answers for the duration of the accelerated regime, since by decreasing the value of its coupling constant the transition accelerated-decelerated occurs in later times. The isotropization which occurs for late times is due to the presence of the fermionic field as one of the sources of the gravitational field.
description: 5 figures, to appear in Physica Scripta
Durchstimmbare organische Halbleiterlaser
Creators: name: Klinkhammer, Sönke Bastian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: durchstimmbare Laser
organische Halbleiterlaser
organische Laser
DFB-Laser
Flüssigkristalle

description: Seit der ersten Demonstration im Jahr 1960 stellen Laser eine wichtige Lichtquelle für Wissenschaft und Technologie dar. Mit organischen Halbleitermaterialien lassen sich aufgrund der besonderen Materialeigenschaften kompakte, effziente, durchstimmbare, optisch angeregte Laser herstellen. In dieser Arbeit werden verschiedene Möglichkeiten der kontinuierlichen Durchstimmbarkeit von organischen Halbleiterlasern auf Basis verteilter Rückkopplung sowie deren Potential in der Anwendung vorgestellt.
Experimental determination of L X-ray fluorescence cross sections for elements with 45 < Z < 50 at 10 keV
Creators: name: Bonzi, Edgardo
name: Grad, Gabriela
name: Barrea, Raúl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchrotron radiation at 10 keV was used to experimentally determine the Ll, L, LI, LII, LI and LII fluorescence cross sections for elements with 45 < Z < 50, as part of an ongoing investigation at low energies. The measured data were compared with calculated values obtained using coefficients from Scofield, Krause and Puri et al.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Manure with Food and Industry Wastes – Enhanced Biogas Production and Digestate Quality
Creators: name: Crolla, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Manure
Biogas
Co-digestion
Two-phase
Waste
Digestate

description: The Ontario biogas industry is relatively young and the overall objective of this research was to help support the growth of the industry with investigating the use of co-substrates and reactor design to enhance biogas production, recommend guidelines on the operation of full scale systems to optimize performance and characterize digestate quality. Laboratory studies evaluated the use of various substrates in the co-digestion with liquid dairy manure. These studies were used to establish ultimate biogas yields, % volatile solids (VS) reduction and minimum hydraulic retention times (HRTs). Box-Wilson Central Composite design models for corn thin stillage and waste grease (as co-substrates with dairy manure) suggest methane yields optimize with increasing proportion of the feed VS from co-substrates (constant total VS in all assays) and increasing temperatures; however, temperature had a great effect. Bench scale studies were conducted to determine a change in digester design to optimize biogas yields and increase digestate stability. A two-phase digestion system was implemented for co-digestion systems using thin stillage and waste grease with dairy manure, and methane yields showed to increase by over 22% when compared with single-phase systems. Based on current FIT contracts of 18 to 20¢/kWhe, the increased electricity and heat production could make the two-phase system economically attractive for producers. Organic loading rates (OLRs) over 4.4 g VS/L led to digester upset and OLRs of over 4.2 g VS/L·day are not recommended. On-farm anaerobic digester systems were studied for digester performance and digestate quality. Residual biogas potential (RBP) yields were effective at evaluating the stability of digestate and the U.K. PAS 110:2014 limit of 0.45 L biogas/g VS (28 days incubation) was assessed too lenient for the Ontario systems studied. A limit of 0.25 L biogas/g VS after 28 days of incubation or 0.45 L biogas/g VS after 60 days of incubation are recommended. VS reductions ranged from 56 to 76% and easily achieved the O. Reg. 267/03 regulated 50% VS reduction. E.coli and Salmonella were typically 1 to 3 logs CFU/100 mL lower than raw manure and increased HRT did not demonstrate a significant impact on the bacterial log reductions. Intermediate alkalinity (IA)/partial alkalinity (PA) proved to be a valuable tool in determining potential digester upset and has been recommended as a standard performance parameter for on-farm systems.
Neue Methodik zur Modellierung und zum Entwurf keramischer Aktorelemente
Creators: name: Brückner, Bent W.
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Entwicklungsmethodik
Wissensmanagement
Piezokeramik
Messsystem

description: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit einem neuen Gesamtkonzept für die Entwicklung von piezokeramischen Materialien und Bauteilen. Die vorgestellte Methodik ist für die effiziente, nachhaltige und computergestützte Nutzung von experimentellen Daten und von bekanntem Wissen geeignet. Dazu wird ein neues Aktormodell entwickelt. Im zweiten Teil wird ein neues Messsystem zum Monitoring des Schadensfortschrittes konzipiert und umgesetzt. Das Messsystem fügt sich in das neue Gesamtkonzept ein.
The Effects of Aging and Cognitive Strategies on Associative Memory: Not All Associations Are Created Equal
Creators: name: Drouin, Héloïse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: aging
associative memory
strategy
binding

description: Young adults often outperform older adults on tests of associative memory, however, the source of this age-related associative memory deficit is still under debate. There are two main non-mutually exclusive hypotheses: 1) impaired binding processes (i.e. creating and retrieving links between units of information) and; 2) impaired strategic processes (i.e. cognitive control processes that support encoding and retrieval). Although both components are thought to contribute uniquely and interact to support associative memory, they have rarely been studied together. The primary goal of this dissertation is to further characterize associative memory deficits in healthy aging by measuring and controlling binding and strategic processes. Specifically, in this series of three experiments, we studied these two components concurrently by varying the level of demands on binding (i.e. comparing memory for different types of associations) and strategic processes (i.e. varying demands on self-initiated processes). A total N of 97 young adults and 94 older adults studied lists of object-pairs and object-location pairs under intentional encoding conditions. Demands on self-initiated processes were manipulated by increasing the number of foils at test (Experiment 1: 4 alternative forced-choice (AFC), vs. Experiment 2 & 3: 20AFC), and by providing strategy instructions in Experiment 3. We measured the production of strategies with trial-by-trial self-report. In all three experiments, we found that young adults outperformed older adults on object-object memory, but not on object-location memory. Older adults were just as proficient as young adults in generating strategies at study. This remained true even when demands on self-initiated processes increased. However, we found in all three experiments that young adults had greater strategy effectiveness (i.e. accuracy on pairs encoded with a strategy) on the object-object test. In contrast, performance on the object-location task was found to be less related to strategies. Our findings suggest that not all associations are equally affected by aging and that even when strategy production is equivalent between age groups older adults can still be impaired on associative memory. The secondary goal of this dissertation was to explore the contribution of individual variability in age, general cognitive functioning, meta-memory and executive functioning on object-object and object-location memory, strategy production, and strategy effectiveness. Our results highlight the important contribution of executive functioning over and above any effects of age in explaining age-related associative memory decline.
Reifenungleichförmigkeitserregter Schwingungskomfort - Quantifizierung und Bewertung komfortrelevanter Fahrzeugschwingungen
Creators: name: Pies, Daniel
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Reifenungleichförmigkeit
Fahrkomfort
Reifen
Schwingungskomfort
Fahrzeugtechnik
Lenkradschwingung
Sitzschwingung
shimmy
zittern

description: Die Arbeit beschreibt einen durchgängigen Ansatz zur Quantifizierung und Bewertung komfortrelevanter Fahreugschwingungen, welche auf Reifenungleichförmigkeiten zurückzuführen sind. Unter Einsatz neu entwickelter Werkzeuge werden Probandenstudien zur Analyse des menschlichen Einflusses auf komfortrelevante Fahrzeugschwingungen durchgeführt. Dabei lautet die zentrale Hypothese, dass es grundsätzlich möglich ist, subjektive Urteile durch am Fahrzeug erfasste Einzahlkennwerte zu beschreiben.
title: Лабораторный практикум по строительным материалам
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Безбородов В.А.
name:  Грибова Е.Ф.
name:  Ершова С.Г.
name:  Игнатова О.А.
name:  Ильина Л.В.
name:  Каткова Т.Ф.
name:  Коледина А.М.
name:  Кучерова Э.А.
name:  Тацки Л.Н.
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (Сибстрин)
Year: 2014

description: Учебное пособие построено в соответствии с программами курса «Строительные материалы». Изложены методики испытаний основных строительных материалов, даны определения их важнейших свойств, приведены описания испытательного оборудования и средств измерений, применяемых в лабораториях, и рекомендуемые формы оформления результатов испытаний и написания отчетов. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению 08.03.01 «Строительство», а также может быть использовано студентами, обучающимися по направлению 08.04.01 и специальности 08.05.01 «Строительство уникальных зданий и сооружений», всех форм обучения.
description: The manual is in accordance with the programs of the course "Building materials". Set out test methods of basic construction materials, the definitions of their most important properties, provides descriptions of testing equipment and measuring instruments used in laboratories, and the recommended form of registration of test results and writing reports. Designed for students enrolled in the direction 08.03.01 "Construction", and can also be used by students studying in the direction 08.04.01 and specialty 08.05.01 "Construction of unique buildings and structures", all forms of education.
General Relativity
Creators: name: Canuto, V.
name: Goldman, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is an English translation of the Italian version of an encyclopedia chapter that appeared in the Italian Encyclopedia of the Physical Sciences, edited by Bruno Bertotti (1994). Following requests from colleagues we have decided to make it available to a more general readership. We present the motivation for constructing General Relativity, provide a short discussion of tensor algebra, and follow the set up of Einstein equations. We discuss briefly the initial value problem, the linear approximation and how should non gravitational physics be described in curved spacetime.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure
title: Методология и методика социологического исследования
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Шурбе В.З.
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (Сибстрин)
Year: 2008

description: Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов специальности 040201 «Социология», изучающих дисциплины «Методология и методика социологического исследования» и «Методика и техника конкретных социологических исследований». Пособие составлено на основании Государственного образовательного стандарта высшего профессионального образования. Исследовательская культура является важной составляющей общепрофессиональной культуры и подготовки социологов. Пособие дает студентам возможность, выполняя разработанные теоретические и практические задания, формировать и совершенствовать умения и навыки проведения социологических исследований.
description: The textbook is designed for students majoring 040201 Sociology, studying the discipline "Methodology and methods of sociological research" and "Methodology and technique of concrete sociological research." Payment is made on the basis of State educational standard of higher professional education. Research culture is an important component of General culture and training of sociologists. The tutorial provides students with the opportunity, performing theoretical and practical tasks, to build and improve the skills of sociological research.
What If…? Understanding Reasoning Beyond the Text
Creators: name: Guerrero, Tricia A
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Students often struggle to understand complex scientific phenomena from text. While they may be able to demonstrate good memory for what they read, they generally perform more poorly on inference-based questions that depend on their understanding. Inference questions can be further differentiated into those that require the reader to reason about and establish relations between pieces of information found within the text versus those that require the reader to go beyond the information in the text by extending relations into new hypothetical contexts (Reasoning Beyond the Text, RBT). Three studies explored the processes that underlie readers’ ability to reason beyond the text. Experiment 1 interviewed readers as they attempted to answer RBT questions and explored the sources of difficulty that readers face when answering these questions including the processes readers engaged in to understand the question, their reading behaviors, and how they attempted to construct an answer to the question. Interviews showed that readers lack a schema for what this type of question is asking and how to answer it. Experiment 2 tested whether the difficulty associated with answering these questions can be attenuated when readers had better clarification of what this type of question was asking and how to answer it through a test-expectancy manipulation. When readers were provided with an RBT test-expectancy, they performed better on multiple-choice and essay tests that measured memory for concepts in the text as well as the identification of relationships and application of the concepts. Experiment 3 added an adjunct question (AQ) manipulation intended to support readers in engaging in a deeper level of reasoning while reading. AQs provided a limited benefit that extended only to text-based information, and when placed before reading, harmed performance by attenuating the benefits from the RBT test-expectancy.