cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Auxiliary verb constructions in Modern Spoken Kazakh
Creators: name: GYORFI, DAVID
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: The Turkic language Kazakh has a remarkably large set of eighteen auxiliary verbs, which express various tense-aspect-modality (TAM) values in combination with a lexical verb. This thesis presents the first multivariate analysis of auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) to precisely define the function and distribution of every auxiliary in Modern Spoken Kazakh.

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description: Based on corpus data and first-hand fieldwork, I demonstrate that contemporary Kazakh has 28 AVCs, each with a distinctive function. I argue that some morphologically or syntactically ambiguous constructions, hitherto analyzed as AVCs, should be treated as lexical verbs in separate clauses. Previously undescribed AVCs are described, including an unexpected case of stem alternation. The distributional analyses demonstrate that some AVCs are sensitive to syntactic parameters, such as the independence of the clause they head. Others are expressions of a purely semantic feature and thus are insensitive to syntax, such as the modal abilitative. Thus, AVCs are grouped into six classes in order to contrast distinctive distributional behavior with characteristics shared across constructions. The analysis assumes that auxiliaries are periphrastic and thus are part of the lexical verb’s paradigm. Therefore, alongside AVCs, synthetic TAM expressions are investigated and the results include precise descriptions and a novel contrastive analysis of three past tense expressions.

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description: The description is complemented by an HPSG style analysis in order to present the system using a rigorous, feature-based approach. This is the first attempt to formalize a large auxiliary system with implemented solutions that lay the grounds for future work on the diachrony of auxiliaries. I propose novel semantic features that account for distinctions including boundedness, phase specification and focus. The main contribution is a systematic, synchronic, fine-grain examination of every Kazakh auxiliary verb, which makes this complex system available for the general linguist, as well as specialists of TAM and periphrasis.
Isokinetic evaluation of knee joint flexor and extensor muscles after tibial eminence fractures
Creators: name: Melzer, Piotr
name: Głowacki, Maciej
name: Głowacki, Jakub
name: Misterska, Ewa
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2014
Subjects: tibial eminence fracture; surgical treatment; isokinetic evaluation

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2014; ISSN 1509-409X
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Müller, Michaela
name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
3-D multi-scale modeling of deformation within the weld mushy zone
Creators: name: Zareie Rajani, Hamid Reza
name: Phillion, André
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: The deformation of the fusion weld mushy zone, as a critical factor in solidification cracking, has been simulated by combining a 3D multi-scale model of solidification and microstructure with a deformation model that includes the effects of solidification shrinkage, thermo-mechanical forces and restraining forces. This new model is then used to investigate the role of welding parameters on the deformation rate of micro liquid channels during Gas Tungsten Arc welding of AA6061. It is shown that the internal normal deformation rate due to solidification shrinkage and also the external normal deformation rate caused by external forces are both highest for the micro liquid channels at the center of the mushy zone where solidification cracks usually occur. Furthermore, the model shows that welding travel speed and welding current strongly influence the deformation rate of the weld mushy zone and consequently the solidification cracking susceptibility of the weld. The model can be also used to link micro-scale phenomena with the macro-scale characteristics of solidification cracking during welding.
Towards rationalisation of membrane protein crystallisation: modelling complex experimental systems
Creators: name: APOSTOLOPOULOU, VIRGINIA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: Membrane proteins are proteins that are part of or interact with the cellular membrane. They
description: are the largest family of proteins and responsible for a vast range of cellular functions, which
description: makes them one of the most important drug targets. The precondition to the understanding of
description: the function and mechanisms of any protein is to know its structure. The most successful way to
description: determine protein structures is through X-ray crystal diffraction. For the X-ray experiments, we
description: need protein crystals. Proteins are notoriously difficult to crystallise, but the task becomes even
description: more challenging for membrane proteins. The bottleneck of the crystallisation process is finding
description: the right crystallisation conditions. That is mostly due to the high number of parameters that
description: are involved in these experiments. Crystallisation methods for membrane proteins rely heavily
description: on error-and-trial methods, that are time-consuming. Rational and more efficient experimental
description: design is pivotal in getting more membrane protein structures.
description: The work presented in this thesis aims to do exactly that: rationalise parts of the process
description: of crystallising membrane proteins. I combined analysis of experimental data with modelling to
description: improve our ability to predict mixing time scales for conditions typical of protein crystallisation
description: and look at the effects of convection and of diffusion through dialysis crystallisation membranes.
description: I showed how to determine when convection occurs and how to estimate its effect on mixing
description: times. To my knowledge, this is the first time that the diffusion of crystallisation reagents
description: through a semi-permeable membrane was studied in the context of protein crystallisation dialysis
description: experiments. Moreover, I used new approaches to assists experimental design by developing a web
description: application that can be used during the screening process. Finally, I applied machine learning
description: (ML) algorithms on membrane crystallisation screening data to prove that automating certain
description: steps of membrane proteins crystallisation is possible. Predictions made by ML algorithms are
description: comparable to the experiments made during the optimisation of screening conditions. Analysis
description: of physicochemical properties of salts and polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecular weights used in
description: the screens, showed that the screens could be simplified by considering only the ionic strength
description: and the PEG volume fraction. This has demonstrate that the experimental time and cost could
description: be reduced significantly, with the use of ML models during the experimental design process.
Reisen im Land der Pagoden
Creators: name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Klaus R. Schröder, Faszination Myanmar (Burma). Reisen im Land der Pagoden. Westerstede: Dr. Hans-R. Grundmann GmbH, 2002.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
Befreiung des Handels aus den Fängen des Militärs – Burma: Fairer Handel, 'Deglobalisierung' und andere Alternativen?
Creators: name: Oehlers, Alfred
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: In internationalen Kreisen hat sich die Debatte über handelsbezogene Fragen in den letzten Jahren stark vorwärts bewegt. Durch eine Reihe erfolgreicher Proteste und Kampagnen angestoßen, konstruierten progressive Wissenschaftler und Aktivisten einen wirksamen Gegenentwurf in Opposition zu der von den führenden westlichen kapitalistischen Staaten und der von internationalen Organisationen wie der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO), der Weltbank und dem Internationale Währungsfonds (IMF) favorisierten Agenda. Obwohl im Zuge der terroristischen Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 in den USA Rückschläge in Kauf genommen werden mussten, ist der Schwung wieder da und die Debatte geht weiter.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
Development of Novel Cathode Materials and Gel Polymer Electrolyte for Aluminium Ion Batteries
Creators: name: Zhang, Juyan
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Rechargeable aluminium ion batteries (AIBs) are one of the most promising battery technologies for future large-scale energy storage, due to the high theoretical volumetric capacity, low cost, and high safety. However, the low capacity of intercalation-type cathode materials and poor reversible ability of conversion-type cathode materials reduce the competitiveness of AIBs in practical applications. In this research work, a nanoscale FeF3@expaned graphite (EG) composite has been synthesised as a novel conversion-type cathode material for AIBs. Moreover, a single-wall carbon nanotube-modified separator (SWCNT-G/F) has been introduced into the system, which significantly restricts the shuttle effect of the intermediate product of FeF3. The assembled AIB exhibits a satisfactory reversible specific capacity of 266 mAh g-1 at a current density of 60 mA g-1 after 200 cycles, and a good Coulombic efficiency approaching 100% after 400 cycles at a current density of 100 mA g-1. Ex-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) have been applied to explore the energy storage mechanism of FeF3 in AIBs for the first time. On the other hand, the safety issue of ionic liquid remains another factor that limits the development of AIBs. Herein, a gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) has been successfully synthesised via an innovative method where no solvent or initiator was utilised in the polymerisation process. The application of GPE significantly reduces the corrosivity and enhances the moisture sensitivity of EMIC ionic liquid, as well as improving the reversible ability of the AIBs. The FeF3@EG-based AIB with 0.8g-EMIC-gel electrolyte exhibits a reversible capacity of 204.5 mAh g-1 after 1000 cycles at a current density of 100 mA g-1 and stable rate performance for 600 cycles with a Coulombic efficiency of approximately 95%. In addition, CuF2, another transition metal fluoride with similar physical and chemical properties to FeF3, has also been studied as a candidate cathode for AIBs. In comparison to FeF3, CuF2-based AIBs exhibit severe capacity decay and low reversible capacity due to the absence of the intermediate phase (i.e., AlFeF5 in FeF3-based AIBs) during the redox process and high solubility of the intermediate product (CuCl) in the ionic liquid electrolyte. In fact, the findings in this thesis are conceived to serve as guidance for the successful design of low cost and high discharge capacity AIBs for large-scale energy storage and are also meaningful for the fundamental understanding of the metal fluorides cathodes for AIBs. Additionally, the study provides unprecedented insight into novel conversion type cathode materials for AIBs.
Understanding the Role of Support in Recovery from Problem Gambling
Creators: name: Penfold, Katy Louise
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Problem gambling (PG) affects millions of people worldwide and is associated with substantial
description: mental, physical, relationship and financial harms. However, due to a fundamental lack of
description: research – with some suggesting the field is 20-30 years behind other addiction research –
description: problem gambling is not properly understood and there remains no clear pathway to treatment.
description: Furthermore, little is known about how gamblers experience the different interventions available.
description: Gamblers Anonymous (GA) is the most widely available form of support, though little is known
description: about the efficacy of the programme, the experience of its members or the social processes
description: underlying it. This thesis aimed to address this gap in the literature through two qualitative and
description: two quantitative studies. Firstly, study 1 used a qualitative design (N=10) to explore gamblers’
description: experiences of problem gambling interventions. The results indicated that participants preferred
description: Gamblers Anonymous to other interventions including either group or one to one CBT due to the
description: positive social aspects and because it was led by gamblers who were perceived to be ‘the
description: experts’. Next, study 2 used a qualitative design (N=21) to explore GA members experiences of
description: attending meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that the online
description: meetings provided a salvation during this time, but were not able to sufficiently replicate feelings
description: of connection associated with physical presence. This resulted in members behaving more
description: individualistically and less collectively than in face-to-face meetings. Study 3 was an
description: experimental vignette-based questionnaire study (N=249) which explored the impact of meeting
description: format on participants’ experiences of online GA meetings. Specifically, the study evaluated the
description: impact of having the screen on or off and found that camera use had no significant effect on the
description: therapeutic or social elements of online GA meetings, nor on group identification or quality of
description: life. Finally, study 4 was a cross-sectional questionnaire study which explored the role of social
description: support in problem gambling recovery, finding that belonging and being a member of GA
description: predicted lower gambling urges whilst higher social support predicted better quality of life.
description: Overall, the findings of these studies suggest that GA is the preferred treatment for problem
description: gambling which provides social support and a sense of belonging to its members, and that both
description: these elements of social connection predict differing elements of recovery.
Remote ischaemic preconditioning in intra-abdominal cancer surgery
Creators: name: PAPADOPOULOU, AIKATERINI
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: "The thesis is organised in three chapters. The first chapter analyses postoperative morbidity and the mechanisms of action of ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC). The second chapter is a systematic review on the use of RIPC in non-cardiac non-vascular (NCNV) surgery and the third chapter describes a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in NCNV surgery.
description: Remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC) has been investigated as a simple intervention to potentially reduce postoperative morbidity. A systematic review of the published literature identified 36 RCTs investigating the effect of RIPC in NCNV surgery. The meta-analysis concluded that RIPC was associated with positive outcomes including lower postoperative serum creatinine, lower neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, improved oxygenation and shorter length of hospital stay; however, the results were limited by considerable heterogeneity and therefore further evidence is required.
description: Subsequently, a double blinded pilot RCT was conducted that included 47 patients undergoing surgery for intra-abdominal (gynaecological, pancreatic and colorectal) malignancies. The patients were randomized into intervention (RIPC) or control group. The primary outcome was feasibility and the main secondary outcome was postoperative morbidity including serum troponin and the urinary biomarkers tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2 and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 (TIMP-2*IGFBP-7).
description: The recruitment target was reached and the protocol procedures were followed. The intervention group developed fewer surgical complications at 30 days (4.5% vs. 33%), 90 days (9.5% vs. 35%) and 6 months (11% vs. 41%), adjusted P 0.033, 0.044 and 0.044 respectively. RIPC was a significant independent variable for lower overall postoperative morbidity survey (POMS) score, OR 0.79 (95% CI 0.63 to 0.99) and fewer complications at 6 months including pulmonary OR 0.2 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.92), surgical OR 0.12 (95% CI 0.007 to 0.89) and overall complications, OR 0.18 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.74).
description: Our study showed that RIPC may improve outcomes following intra-abdominal cancer surgery and that a larger trial would be feasible. "
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Schepers, Stephan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
MIP 2024 | Heft 2
Creators: name: Jeweilige Autor/Innen
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2024

description: Die bundesweiten Demonstrationen in Reaktion auf das Potsdamer „Remigrationstreffen“ haben die Debatte über ein Verbot der AfD neu entfacht. Welchen rechtlichen und politischen Hürden begegnet ein solcher Schritt, auch in Anbetracht wirksamer Selbstviktimisierungsstrategien der AfD? Wie gehen andere Länder mit vergleichbaren Bedrohungen für die Demokratie um? Diese Ausgabe der MIP stellt die zum Teil erweiterte Fassung der Beiträge dar, die im Rahmen des gleichnamigen Online-Symposiums auf dem Verfassungsblog erschienen sind.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2024): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften – Sonderausgabe „Das Parteiverbot in Deutschland und Europa“ in Kooperation mit Verfassungsblog und Stiftung Wissenschaft & Demokratie
A Malfunctioning System
Creators: name: Donato, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2024

description: The Italian Constitution is founded on a strong anti-fascist sentiment, which united all the political forces represented in the Constituent Assembly. Nonetheless, party bans do not represent a serious threat to neo-fascist movements. Despite a constitutional provision and an ordinary law regulating the issue, their use has so far been limited to associations of minor size and relevance.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2024): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften – Sonderausgabe „Das Parteiverbot in Deutschland und Europa“ in Kooperation mit Verfassungsblog und Stiftung Wissenschaft & Demokratie
Contactless Payments with Provable Protection Against Proximity-based Attacks
Creators: name: IVEY, SAMUEL JOHN
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: In Mastercard’s contactless payment protocol called RRP (Relay Resistant Protocol), the reader is tasked with measuring the round-trip times of the message-exchanges between itself and the card, to ensure that they do not take too long. If this communication does take too long, a relay attack may be suspected and the transaction should be dropped. A recent paper of Financial Crypto 2019 [12] raises some questions with respect to this type of relay-protection in contactless payments. Namely, the authors point out that the reader has no incentive to protect against relaying, as it may stand to gain from illicit payments. The paper defines the notion of such a rogue reader colluding with a MiM attacker, specifically in the context of contactless payments; the paper dubs this as collusive relaying. Two new protocols, PayBCR and PayCCR, which are closely based on Mastercard’s RRP and aim to achieve resistance against collusive relaying, are presented therein. Yet, in the FC19 paper, there is no formal treatment of the collusive-relaying notion or of the security of the protocols.
description: In this thesis, after exploring the related literature in distance bounding and its applications in cases similar to those described above, we lift the ideas presented in the FC19 paper out of the specifics of RRP-based payments to the generic case of distance bounding. Thus, we set to answer the wider question of what it would mean if RTT-measuring parties (readers, cards, or others) cheat and collude with proximity-based attackers (i.e., relayers or other types) and how this may be caught. To this end, we present a new distance-bounding primitive (validated distance-bounding) and two new security notions: strong relaying and strong distance-fraud. We also provide a formal model that, for the first time in distance-bounding, caters for dishon- est RTT-measurers. In this model, we prove that the new contactless payments in the FC19 paper, PayBCR and PayCCR, attain security with respect to strong relaying. Finally, we define one other primitive (validated and audited distance-bounding), which, in fact, emulates more closely the PayCCR protocol in the Financial Crypto 2019 paper; this is because, contrary to the line introducing them, we note that PayBCR and PayCCR in fact differ in construction and security guarantees especially in those that go past relaying and into authentication.
Staatliche Schutzpflichten gegen Rassismus statt AfD-Verbot
Creators: name: Barskanmaz, Cengiz
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2024

description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2024): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften – Sonderausgabe „Das Parteiverbot in Deutschland und Europa“ in Kooperation mit Verfassungsblog und Stiftung Wissenschaft & Demokratie
Nur Gerüchte und Vermutungen – keine Beweise: Schwere Unruhen in Kambodscha belasten Verhältnis zu Thailand
Creators: name: Schepers, Stephan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Bei schweren Unruhen in Phnom Penh sind ein Thailänder getötet und die thailändische Botschaft sowie mehrere Hotels und Geschäfte von Thailändern zerstört worden. »Es liegen uns Berichte über drei zerstörte Hotels und einen toten Hotelmitarbeiter vor«, sagte ein Sprecher der thailändischen Armee in Bangkok.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
Die Pflicht zum Demokratieschutz
Creators: name: Hölzen, Katharina
name: Marandi, Nina Alizadeh
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2024

description: Wenn über die wehrhafte Demokratie gestritten wird, ist der Ruf nach einer starken Zivilgesellschaft nicht fern. „Verfassungsschutz von unten“, „wehrhafte Demokratie light“, „ziviler Verfassungsschutz“, „intellectual militancy“ oder „konfliktfähige Zivilgesellschaft“ lauten die Forderungen. Fast alle Diskussionsbeiträge der laufenden Debatte haben gemeinsam, dass sie die Zivilgesellschaft in die Pflicht nehmen. Dabei ist es der Staat, der primär in die Verantwortung genommen werden muss. Sowohl Verfassungsrecht als auch Unionsrecht konkretisieren eine staatliche Pflicht zum Demokratieschutz. Entsprechend ist es staatliche Aufgabe, zivilgesellschaftliche Räume zu stärken und zu schützen.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2024): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften – Sonderausgabe „Das Parteiverbot in Deutschland und Europa“ in Kooperation mit Verfassungsblog und Stiftung Wissenschaft & Demokratie
Implementation challenges and opportunities for HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) among young men in Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Knight, Rod E.
name: Small, Will
name: Thomson, Kim
name: Gilbert, M.
name: Shoveller, Jean
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Despite evidence supporting the preventative potential of HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP), scientific experts and community stakeholders have suggested that the success of TasP at the population level will require overcoming a set of complex and population-specific implementation challenges. For example, the factors that might influence decisions to initiate ‘early’ treatment have yet to be thoroughly understood; neither have questions about the factors that enhance or impede their ability to achieve long-term adherence to ARVs or the social norms regarding various treatment regimens been examined in detail. This knowledge gap may hamper opportunities to effectively develop public health practices that are informed by the various challenges and opportunities related to TasP implementation and scale up. Methods Drawing on 50 in-depth, individual interviews with young men ages 18–24 in Vancouver, Canada, this study examines young men’s perspectives regarding factors that might affect their engagement with TasP. Results While findings from the current study indicate young men generally have a high receptiveness to TasP, our findings also identify key social and structural forces that will warrant ongoing consideration for TasP implementation. For example, participants described how an enhanced awareness regarding treatment (including awareness of the universal availability of treatment in Vancouver) would be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to decide to endorse TasP. Their decisions about engaging in HIV care in the context of TasP (e.g., HIV testing, treatment initiation, long-term adherence) also appear to be contingent on their ability to negotiate or ‘balance’ the risks and benefits to themselves and others. The findings also offer insight into the complex and sometimes controversial narratives that continue to emerge regarding risk compensation practices in the context of TasP. Conclusion Based on the results of this study, we identify several areas that hold promise for informing the effective scale up of TasP, including new information regarding implementation adaptation strategies.
Development of a near zero temperature coefficient of resistance electroceramic composite for heating applications
Creators: name: Manisa, Victor Kitso
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: The current material used as Dyson space heater is BaTiO3 (BT) (operating temperature ~ 200 °C). BT has a temperature dependent electric resistance behaviour, which presents challenges for temperature control in a heater. The engineering challenge in this work was therefore to design a material with temperature independent electrical conduction: near zero temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR). Different formulations of multiwall carbon nanotube–alumina (MWCNT–Al₂O₃) and graphene oxide–alumina (GPO–Al₂O₃) composites were prepared. Electrical conduction at room temperature was achieved in some of the composites due to percolation of the conducting phase. An investigation of the degradation of electrical conductivity was used to identify potential stable operating regimes in which these materials could be used as heaters. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) using the Ozawa–Flynn–Wall method and thermal ageing studies, were used to determine the kinetic parameters of a pressureless sintered 2wt% MWCNT–1550 °C composite, and a 3wt% GPO–1400 °C composite. TGA on the 2wt% MWCNT–1550 °C composite resulted in an activation energy for the decomposition of the MWCNT as 182 ± 19 kJ/mol, with an estimated lifetime of ~3.0 ± 0.1 years when cycling at 340 °C with the failure of the heater defined as a 0.5 % loss in MWCNT mass in the composite. The 3wt% GPO–1400 °C composite had an activation energy for GPO degradation of 195 ± 68 kJ/mol and, an estimated thermal lifetime of 8.7 ± 0.8 years for similar parameters. The testing of samples as heaters (power output), and comparison of thermal conductivities of the samples showed that the 2wt% MWCNT–1550 °C and the 2wt% GPO–1400°C–ox composites performed better than the BT samples. The near zero TCR, thermal stability and power output results achieved, are key towards use of these composite materials as space heaters.
Rote-Khmer-Tribunal: Wann kommt der Tag der Befreiung? Welche Bedenken halten die Regierung von einer Verurteilung der Roten Khmer ab?
Creators: name: Weiß, Raimund
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Am 7. Januar feierte Kambodscha den Tag der Befreiung vom Pol-Pot- Regime. Damals, im Jahr 1979, beendete eine kambodschanische Widerstandsallianz mit Unterstützung Vietnams die Schreckensherrschaft der Roten Khmer, unter welcher in nur drei Jahren mehr als 1,5 Millionen Menschen ermordet wurden. Chea Sim, neben Premierminster Hun Sen der zweitmächtigste Mann der regierenden Kambodschanischen Volkspartei (CPP) ließ bei einer Feier zu gegebenem Anlass verlauten: »Wir alle sprechen unseren tiefsten Respekt für die Seelen von Millionen unschuldiger Menschen aus, welche ihr Leben unter dem Genozid-Regime der Roten Khmer verloren haben. (...) Die Regierung Kambodschas spricht ihre volle Unterstützung ('strongly support') für die Einrichtung eines Rote-Khmer- Tribunals aus.« Doch bisher ist es nur bei Lippenbekenntnissen der kambodschanischen Regierung geblieben.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
Biomechanical analysis of the handball in Australian football
Creators: name: Parrington, Lucy
name: Ball, Kevin
name: MacMahon, Clare
name: Taylor, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: he handball pass in Australian Football has become increasingly important in recent years. However, important technical elements of handballing have not been identified in the scientific literature. The purposes of this study were to provide a descriptive analysis of the handball through the evaluation of a player considered to have good technique, to compare handballs for maximal speed and accuracy, and to compare preferred and non-preferred hands. Three-dimensional data were collected from one elite level Australian Football player using Optotrak Certus. The player performed three handballs for maximal speed and three handballs for accuracy with both the preferred and non-preferred hand. Linear hand speed, linear shoulder speed, shoulder angular velocity and elbow angular velocity were larger in the maximal speed condition. Differences in the development of hand speed were found for preferred and non-preferred hands.
An artificial neural network approach and sensitivity analysis in predicting skeletal muscle forces
Creators: name: Vilimek, Miloslav
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2014
Subjects: Elbow Joint, Muscle Force Prediction, Neural Network, Sensitivity Analysis

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2014; ISSN 1509-409X
Kinematic Analysis of the finger exoskeleton using MATLAB/Simulink
Creators: name: Nasiłowski, Krzysztof
name: Awrejcewicz, Jan
name: Lewandowski, Donat
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2014
Subjects: Kinematic, finger exoskeleton, MATLAB/Simulink

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2014; ISSN 1509-409X
Sex-based differences in rates, causes, and predictors of death among injection drug users in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Dong, Huiru
name: Marshall, Brandon David Lewis
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017

description: In the present study, we sought to identify rates, causes, and predictors of death among male and female injection drug users (IDUs) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, during a period of expanded public health interventions. Data from prospective cohorts of IDUs in Vancouver were linked to the provincial database of vital statistics to ascertain rates and causes of death between 1996 and 2011. Mortality rates were analyzed using Poisson regression and indirect standardization. Predictors of mortality were identified using multivariable Cox regression models stratified by sex. Among the 2,317 participants, 794 (34.3%) of whom were women, there were 483 deaths during follow-up, with a rate of 32.1 (95% confidence interval (CI): 29.3, 35.0) deaths per 1,000 person-years. Standardized mortality ratios were 7.28 (95% CI: 6.50, 8.14) for men and 15.56 (95% CI: 13.31, 18.07) for women. During the study period, mortality rates related to infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) declined among men but remained stable among women. In multivariable analyses, HIV seropositivity was independently associated with mortality in both sexes (all P < 0.05). The excess mortality burden among IDUs in our cohorts was primarily attributable to HIV infection; compared with men, women remained at higher risk of HIV-related mortality, indicating a need for sex-specific interventions to reduce mortality among female IDUs in this setting.
Why Party Bans Often Don’t Work: How an Attempt to Ban Turkey’s AKP Backfired
Creators: name: O'Donohue, Andrew
name: Tecimer, Cem
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2024

description: What can be a effective legal strategy for protecting democracy? Party bans are not a long-term solution or substi-tute for systemic political reforms. Although the tools of “militant democracy” may be useful, the Turkish case suggests that targeted legal interventions, rather than sweeping party bans, may be more effective at safeguarding democracy.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2024): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften – Sonderausgabe „Das Parteiverbot in Deutschland und Europa“ in Kooperation mit Verfassungsblog und Stiftung Wissenschaft & Demokratie
ESS kNowledge Exchange Map of Opportunities (ESS NEMO)
Creators: name: Warren, George W.
name: Marshall, Harry
name: Brockett, Beth F. T.
name: Seymour, Valentine
name: Christie, Ian
name: Exadaktylos, Theofanis
name: Gilbert, Nigel
name: Hadfield, Amelia
name: Hartley, Sarah
name: Jones, Christopher R.
name: Kass, Gary
name: Marselle, Melissa R.
name: Padda, Gurpreet
name: Walshe, Rory A.
name: Gatersleben, Birgitta
Publisher: name: University of Exeter
Year: 2024
Subjects: Environmental social science
Knowledge exchange
Research impact

description: The Environmental Social Science kNowledge Exchange Map of Opportunities (ESS NEMO) is a package of systems maps and associated documentation that show the groups, organisations and individual actors that environmental social scientists could engage with in knowledge creation and/or exchange in the UK. ESS NEMO is a tool that, among other rationales, aims to promote greater collaboration and trust between environmental social scientists, and with other groups that may not traditionally be included in ESS activities. Environmental Social Science (ESS) is defined as the systematic study of people and their social and their non-human physical environment (their habitat) (Gatersleben et al., forthcoming). The information presented in ESS NEMO reflects the situation as of 10th July 2024. It is acknowledged that the landscape is dynamic, and changes frequently over time.
title: Brunnenmeister, Emil
title: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
titleType: Subtitle
title: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
name: Eberle, Henrik
Publisher: name: Historisches Datenzentrum Sachsen-Anhalt,Institut für Landesgeschichte (Sachsen-Anhalt)
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: History
classificationCode: 4023025-9
subject: Halle (Saale)
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4023025-9
classificationCode: 4006804-3
subject: Biografie
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4006804-3
classificationCode: 4166546-6
subject: Landesgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4166546-6
classificationCode: 4051181-9
subject: Sachsen-Anhalt
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4051181-9
classificationCode: 1048495779
subject: Universität Halle (Saale) | Halle (Saale)
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1048495779
classificationCode: 2024276-1
subject: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | Halle (Saale); Wittenberg
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/2024276-1
classificationCode: 4020517-4
subject: Geschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/4020517-4
classificationCode: 7504326-9
subject: Universitätsgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/7504326-9
classificationCode: 7504427-4
subject: Wissenschaftsgeschichte
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/7504427-4
subject: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt
subject: Catalogus Professorum Halensis
classificationCode: 120134756
subject: Eberle, Henrik | 1970– | Historiker
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/120134756
classificationCode: 117638196
subject: Brunnenmeister, Emil | 1854–1896 | Jurist
valueUri: https://d-nb.info/gnd/117638196

description: Das Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt versammelt in Erst- und Zweitveröffentlichung oder zu Zwecken der Langzeitarchivierung Biografien von Menschen aus und in Sachsen-Anhalt. Integriert wurde der Catalogus Professorum Halensis, der durch Mitarbeitende des Instituts für Geschichte der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg entstand. Dabei handelt es sich um ein bio-bibliografisches Online-Lexikon zu den Professoren der Universität Halle zwischen 1694 und 1968. Die Texte wurden vor allem von Henrik Eberle und anderen Mitarbeitenden zwischen 2005 und 2010 recherchiert und erstellt. Etliche Artikel zum Zeitraum 1694 bis 1817 verfasste Julia Schopferer. Bei der Überführung in das Biografienportal wurden die Lebensangaben neu recherchiert und Metadaten über Verfahren des Named Entity Recogniton erschlossen. Automatisiert erkannt wurden Personennamen, Ortsbezeichnungen und Körperschaften, die in der hier vorhandenen RTF-Datei indexiert vorliegt. Zudem wurden diese mit GND-Einträgen abgeglichen. Weiterhin erfolgte ein Abgleich mit der „Ontologie der historischen, deutschsprachigen Amts- und Berufsbezeichnungen“. Die Texte liegen im Jahr 2024 in zweifacher Ausgabe im Catalogus Professorum Halensis des Universitätsarchivs und des Biografienportals des Historischen Datenzentrums Sachsen-Anhalts vor. Sie werden hier für die Langzeitarchivierung der ursprünglichen Fassung archiviert.
description: https://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/
description: Biografienportal Sachsen-Anhalt: https://www.histdata.uni-halle.de/
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
Still Alive?
Creators: name: Subiela, Lluís
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2024

description: Party ban in Spain was effective in the fight against Herri Batasuna and terrorism. Fortunately, in Spain today, there is no terrorism threatening democracy linked to a specific political party. Today, the Basque radical left-wing and pro-independence parties comply with the law. This is the understanding of the Constitutional Court, most of the doctrine and a large part of society. However, Spanish democracy presents other problems and risks, some of them shared with other European countries. But problems such as polarisation, populism and institutional deterioration cannot be solved by this mechanism. Currently, the outlawing of parties has only been proposed for (especially Catalan) pro-independence parties.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2024): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften – Sonderausgabe „Das Parteiverbot in Deutschland und Europa“ in Kooperation mit Verfassungsblog und Stiftung Wissenschaft & Demokratie
title: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 64 Nr. 3 (2023): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
title: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Burgen Und Schlösser-Zeitschrift Für Burgenforschung Und Denkmalpflege
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2024

description: (vorerst nur Inhaltsverzeichnis)
description: Inhalt
Titelei
Graphene oxide sponges for multipurpose water treatment applications
Creators: name: Martin, Adela
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Metaldehyde is a pesticide used extensively to control slugs and snails on farms and gardens and it was frequently detected in drinking water above regulatory limits. Metaldehyde is highly persistent in the environment and its recalcitrance to conventional water treatment processes led to its ban in the UK. This study investigated the potential of graphene oxide sponges, to remove metaldehyde from aqueous solutions and to also inactivate microbial populations when functionalised with metal nanoparticles. The graphene oxide sponges were self-assembled from graphene oxide dispersion in the presence of L-ascorbic acid, and subsequently thermally treated and freeze-dried. Physical characterisations revealed they form a highly interconnected network with pore size below 0.5 μm. Raman analysis revealed that the intensity ratio that expresses the defects in the carbon structure, increased from 1.44 in pristine sponges to 2.02 in metal sponges due to incorporation of metal nanoparticles in the graphene matrix. Spectroscopic investigations into the chemical structure indicated high content of oxygen containing functional groups on the sponge surface which suggest that they are favourable for micropollutant removal.

description:

description: Pristine graphene oxide sponges removed 95% of initial metaldehyde concentrations of 30 mg/L. Adsorption data were fitted to the Langmuir isotherm model that revealed a maximum adsorption capacity of 24.19 mg/g. A pseudo-second order kinetic model was applied, providing a maximum adsorption rate of 0.021 g/mg min. Competing humic acids had no impact on the adsorption performance and adsorption was favoured for low pH values. Regeneration of the sponges at temperatures below 140°C is a potential solution to reuse the graphene oxide sponges, at low cost and with no loss in the adsorbent material. Zinc oxide and silver oxide enriched sponges were tested for their antiseptic effect on E. coli and S. aureus achieved inactivation rates of 99.13 % and 100% respectively. Leaching tests established the formation of a strong functionalised substrate which was safe for use in water treatment.

description:

description: In conclusion, this research provided the proof-of-concept evidence that graphene oxide sponges do have the potential to remove metaldehyde from aqueous solutions. Furthermore, zinc oxide and silver oxide enriched sponges can also provide excellent inactivation rates for microbial populations. Taking this forward, the potential to achieve these effects simultaneously merits further investigation.
Eine gute Ordnung im Datengarten verbessert die Ernte – Was bedeutet Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM)
Creators: name: Meyer, Romy
Publisher: name: Science Blog Hochschule Nordhause
Year: 2024
Subjects: FDM
FAIR-Prinzipien
Forschungsdatenmanagement

description: Dieser Beitrag im Science Blog der Hochschule Nordhausen bietet einen Einstieg ins Forschungsdatenmanagement und widmet sich der Bedeutung von guter Datenordnung in Sinne der FAIR-Prinzipien; abrufbar unter URL: https://www.hs-nordhausen.de/science-blog/. Er ist entstanden im Rahmen des BMBF geförderten und aus NextGenerationEU-Mitteln finanzierten FDM-HAWK Projekts an den Thüringer Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften (FKZ: 16FDFH107C).
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2003): GlobAlternativen? Fairer Handel und Verbraucherschutz in Südostasien
Full 3D Modelling of Scenes with Complex Surface Reflectance
Creators: name: ADDARI, GIANMARCO
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Many industrial fields such as digital entertainment and heritage preservation make use of 3D reconstruction techniques to produce digital copies of objects from the real world. From the advent of 3D computer vision, researchers have been exploring a broad variety of approaches to infer scene geometry from visual input, tackling increasingly more complex classes of objects while improving the modelling accuracy. To date, however, many of these techniques still operate under simplifying assumptions on the reconstructed scene surface reflectance, effectively restricting the range of objects that can be correctly reconstructed. Helmholtz Stereopsis is a technique that allows to perform 3D reconstruction regardless of the surface reflectance of the target object. The technique exploits a principle from Physics called Helmholtz reciprocity, which describes the reversibility of light transport paths. Despite the advantages this brings, most Helmholtz Stereopsis formulations to date have been limited to 2.5D reconstruction, and the few exceptions do not achieve global optimality guarantees in the full 3D domain. To address this gap, there is a need for better scene modelling techniques that are not only agnostic to surface reflectance but capable of achieving a full 3D reconstruction.
description: The main contribution of this work is the introduction of a family of full 3D Helmholtz Stereopsis approaches. The contributed methods are divided in view-dependent and full 3D approaches. The view-dependent formulations consist in producing multiple 2.5D surfaces obtained from different view-points around the object. The full 3D techniques are instead divided in a volumetric formulation, which estimates the target surface occupancy in a voxel grid, and a mesh-based formulation, which optimises the vertices position of an initialisation topology. Additional methods are presented to perform segmentation in Helmholtz datasets and to handle visibility where incomplete geometric data is available. All presented approaches are evaluated on both synthetic and real datasets, including novel datasets contributed as part of this research.
description: The first mobile Helmholtz Stereopsis capture setup is also introduced in this work, consisting of two cameras equipped with external flashes. The setup is used to produce the aforementioned datasets, which are utilised in the evaluation section of each methodology presented and could be adopted in the future to benchmark new Helmholtz Stereopsis formulations. An extensive analysis is also carried out to understand how the cameras position in a Helmholtz setup influences the reconstruction outcome and modelling accuracy. In particular, so called degenerate configurations are studied and the results obtained are leveraged to maximise the reconstruction outcome of Helmholtz Stereopsis setups and to improve the fusion process in the view-dependent approaches.