cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Morphing integrated quadrotor robot for forest applications
Creators: name: Zheng, Peter
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Climate monitoring is a critical step towards understanding and mitigating natural disasters. Needing to monitor sizable spreads of land, ecologists turn to quadrotor robots. Simple and cost-effective to operate, quadrotor remote sensing bridges the gap between manned aerial surveillance and ground-based ecological monitoring methods. Yet the need for manual sampling remains. This is especially true of densely forested areas; the canopy cover limits the useful data generated with above-canopy sensing. Just as the remote forest understories are treacherous for ecologists to navigate, robots face similar difficulties. Operating in confined spaces and far from the electrical grid, manoeuvrability and endurance become critical performance limiters. Production and maintenance also pose challenges in remote locations with limited logistical support. For aerial robots to be productive in forests, they must become more compact and adaptable to their environment. This thesis addresses this aim and its challenges through the application of morphing designs on quadrotor robots. I explored the use of conventional morphing designs, using multi-part assemblies with rigid-body joints, such as bearings and ball joints. Utilising this design concept, I created multiple prototype tiltrotor-quadrotor robots. But as I strived to create lighter and more compact robots, conventional morphing designs became limited in their scalability and possible morphologies. Thus, I applied metamorphic designs with compliant mechanisms, creating robots that can fold their body to interact with and perch on trees. The range of prototype robots demonstrates how morphing aerial robots can adapt to and take advantage of their environment to enhance their capabilities. Each robot showcases a different morphing quadrotor design. These robotic systems are analytically and numerically studied, experimentally characterised, and compared to identify the broader insights of morphing quadrotor design. The unique shape-shifting abilities of the presented robots created performance trade-offs. But it is evident that a morphing quadrotor integrates capabilities without substantial increases in size or weight. Overall, integrated morphing design is an effective solution towards creating aerial robots for working within confined and changing natural environments.
title: Formale Basisanforderungen an Bachelorarbeiten/Masterarbeiten
title: Bachelortheses/mastertheses - Formal Standards
Creators: name: Seibold, Sven M.
name: Linssen, Ruth
name: Schnitzler, Carolina C.
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 000 Allgemeines, Wissenschaft

description: In dem Text werden allgemeine Anforderungen an Bachelorarbeiten/Masterarbeiten erläutert. Zunächst wird auf formale Anforderungen eingegangen wie beispielsweise Aufbau, Formatierung, Titelblatt, Verzeichnisse, Anhang. Es folgt eine knappe Einfährung in Quellentypen, Quellensuche, Quellenangaben sowie Quellenkritik.
Preliminary results for RR Lyrae stars and Classical Cepheids from the Vista Magellanic Cloud (VMC) Survey
Creators: name: Ripepi, V.
name: Moretti, M. I.
name: Clementini, G.
name: Marconi, M.
name: Cioni, M. R.
name: Marquette, J. B.
name: Tisserand, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Vista Magellanic Cloud (VMC, PI M.R. Cioni) survey is collecting $K_S$-band time series photometry of the system formed by the two Magellanic Clouds (MC) and the "bridge" that connects them. These data are used to build $K_S$-band light curves of the MC RR Lyrae stars and Classical Cepheids and determine absolute distances and the 3D geometry of the whole system using the $K$-band period luminosity ($PLK_S$), the period - luminosity - color ($PLC$) and the Wesenhiet relations applicable to these types of variables. As an example of the survey potential we present results from the VMC observations of two fields centered respectively on the South Ecliptic Pole and the 30 Doradus star forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The VMC $K_S$-band light curves of the RR Lyrae stars in these two regions have very good photometric quality with typical errors for the individual data points in the range of $\sim$ 0.02 to 0.05 mag. The Cepheids have excellent light curves (typical errors of $\sim$ 0.01 mag). The average $K_S$ magnitudes derived for both types of variables were used to derive $PLK_S$ relations that are in general good agreement within the errors with the literature data, and show a smaller scatter than previous studies.
description: 7 pages, 6 figure. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science. Following a presentation at the conference "The Fundamental Cosmic Distance Scale: State of the Art and the Gaia Perspective", Naples, May 2011
title: Facets of verb meaning
title: A distributional investigation of German verbs
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Roberts, William
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Semantik
subject: Verb
subject: lexikalisch
subject: Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache
subject: maschinelles Lernen
subject: semantics
subject: verb
subject: lexical
subject: natural language processing
subject: machine learning
subject: 410 Linguistik
subject: GC 7012
subject: GC 9352

description: Diese Dissertation bietet eine empirische Untersuchung deutscher Verben auf der Grundlage statistischer Beschreibungen, die aus einem großen deutschen Textkorpus gewonnen wurden. In einem kurzen Überblick über linguistische Theorien zur lexikalischen Semantik von Verben skizziere ich die Idee, dass die Verbbedeutung wesentlich von seiner Argumentstruktur (der Anzahl und Art der Argumente, die zusammen mit dem Verb auftreten) und seiner Aspektstruktur (Eigenschaften, die den zeitlichen Ablauf des vom Verb denotierten Ereignisses bestimmen) abhängt. Anschließend erstelle ich statistische Beschreibungen von Verben, die auf diesen beiden unterschiedlichen Bedeutungsfacetten basieren. Insbesondere untersuche ich verbale Subkategorisierung, Selektionspräferenzen und Aspekt. Alle diese Modellierungsstrategien werden anhand einer gemeinsamen Aufgabe, der Verbklassifikation, bewertet. Ich zeige, dass im Rahmen von maschinellem Lernen erworbene Merkmale, die verbale lexikalische Aspekte erfassen, für eine Anwendung von Vorteil sind, die Argumentstrukturen betrifft, nämlich semantische Rollenkennzeichnung. Darüber hinaus zeige ich, dass Merkmale, die die verbale Argumentstruktur erfassen, bei der Aufgabe, ein Verb nach seiner Aspektklasse zu klassifizieren, gut funktionieren. Diese Ergebnisse bestätigen, dass diese beiden Facetten der Verbbedeutung auf grundsätzliche Weise zusammenhängen.
description: This dissertation provides an empirical investigation of German verbs conducted on the basis of statistical descriptions acquired from a large corpus of German text. In a brief overview of the linguistic theory pertaining to the lexical semantics of verbs, I outline the idea that verb meaning is composed of argument structure (the number and types of arguments that co-occur with a verb) and aspectual structure (properties describing the temporal progression of an event referenced by the verb). I then produce statistical descriptions of verbs according to these two distinct facets of meaning: In particular, I examine verbal subcategorisation, selectional preferences, and aspectual type. All three of these modelling strategies are evaluated on a common task, automatic verb classification. I demonstrate that automatically acquired features capturing verbal lexical aspect are beneficial for an application that concerns argument structure, namely semantic role labelling. Furthermore, I demonstrate that features capturing verbal argument structure perform well on the task of classifying a verb for its aspectual type. These findings suggest that these two facets of verb meaning are related in an underlying way.
Search for the decay Bs0 -> mu mu with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: The ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A blind analysis searching for the decay Bs0 -> mumu has been performed using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. With an integrated luminosity of 2.4 fb^(-1) no excess of events over the background expectation is found and an upper limit is set on the branching fraction BR(Bs0 -> mu mu) < 2.2 (1.9) x10^(-8) at 95% (90%) confidence level.
description: 12 pages plus author list (25 pages total), 8 figures, 7 tables, revised author list, matches published PLB version
The Effects of Maternity Leave on Children's Birth and Infant Health Outcomes in the United States
Creators: name: Rossin, Maya
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper evaluates the impacts of unpaid maternity leave provisions of the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on children's birth and infant health outcomes in the United States. My identification strategy uses variation in pre-FMLA maternity leave policies across states and variation in which firms are covered by FMLA provisions. Using Vital Statistics data and difference-in-difference-in-difference methodology, I find that maternity leave led to small increases in birth weight, decreases in the likelihood of a premature birth, and substantial decreases in infant mortality for children of college-educated and married mothers, who were most able to take advantage of unpaid leave. My results are robust to the inclusion of numerous controls for maternal, child, and county characteristics, state and year fixed effects, and state-year interactions, as well as across several different specifications.
Linkage between mechanical properties and phase transformations in a 301LN austenitic stainless steel
Creators: name: Maréchal, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In this work, the deformation mechanisms of an austenitic stainless steel (grade 301LN) have been investigated with particular attention on the strain-induced phase transformations from austenite to ε and α’ martensites. The average grain size of this alloy was varied in the range 0.5-28 µm, and two strain paths, namely uniaxial tension and simple shear, were analyzed. At the macroscopic level, the work-hardening response was examined in relation to the formation of ε and α’ martensites, followed by X-ray phase quantification and Feritscope measurements. At a microscopic level, the microstructures after deformation were investigated using electron back-scatter diffraction, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the grain size refinement was responsible of a change in nucleation mechanisms of α’-martensite, thereby affecting the macroscopic volume fraction of α’-martensite. The switch from tension to shear was not found to affect the mechanisms of formation of ε and α’ martensites, but significantly reduced the work-hardening, an effect too large to be attributed to the slight reduction of the kinetics of α’ volume fraction. The stresses borne in the α’-martensite were quantified using a novel method based on the magnetomechanical effect. These stresses, together with the determination of the intrinsic constitutive laws of austenite and α’-martensite, were used to design a one-dimensional physically-based model of the work-hardening in this alloy. This model, based on the “dynamic composite" effect of the formation of fresh α’-martensite in austenite, successfully predicted the measured stress-strain behaviour in tension, as well as the tensile instabilities encountered in this class of materials.
Assessing Infrastructure Constraints on Business Activity in Kumasi, Ghana
Creators: name: Baker, Ginger
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
Finance

description: The primary objective of this study is to assess current infrastructure in the metropolitan region of Kumasi and to understand better how that infrastructure either helps or hinders commercial activities. The secondary goal of this analysis is to identify key areas of opportunities for infrastructure investment that could enable existing and emerging businesses to thrive.
Modeling the temporal relationship between contributing factors and injury severities in rural single-vehicle alcohol-impaired driving crashes: Insights from random parameters logit models in the means and variances
Creators: name: Yan, Xintong
name: He, Jie
name: Wu, Guanhe
name: Zhang, Changjian
name: Liu, Ziyang
name: Wang, Chenwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Alcohol-impaired driving (A-ID) crashes have been acknowledged as fatality-concentrated while there is a limited understanding of how contributors relating to A-ID influence crash severity and lead to more severe injuries in rural areas. The current paper utilized North Carolina crash data to investigate the unobserved heterogeneity and temporal stability of the rural single-vehicle A-ID crash injury-severity determinants over a five-year period from 2014–2018. Crash injury severities were estimated using a group of random parameters logit models in the means and variances with three categories of injury-severity determined as outcome variables including no injury, minor injury, and severe injury. Explanatory variables were selected across multiple factors that could be classified as roadway characteristics, environmental characteristics, crash characteristics, temporal characteristics, vehicle characteristics and driver characteristics. The temporal stability of the models was examined through a series of likelihood ratio tests. Marginal effects were also adopted to analyze the temporal stability of the explanatory variables. The result uncovers an overall temporal instability. Some contributors present relatively temporal stability such as female, turning, passenger car, motorcycle, vehicle age (5-9 years old), speed limit (<45 mph), curved segment, dry road surface, animal collision and overturned collision. Curved segment and dry road surface are found to consistently increase the possibility of severe injuries in rural alcohol-involved crashes. This paper can provide insights into preventing single-vehicle A-ID crashes and could potentially facilitate the development of single-vehicle A-ID crash injury mitigation policies in rural areas. More studies could be conducted adopting the advanced data-driven methods for A-ID crash prediction.
Corporate governance reform in Japan and South Korea: Two paths of globalization
Creators: name: Ahmadjian, Christina L.
name: Song, Jaeyong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Commerce

description: This paper examines the effect of global pressures on local institutions in a comparative study of corporate governance reform in Japan and South Korea. In the literature on business systems and institutional change, globalization often appears as a monolithic force that either overwhelms all in its path through convergence or is rejected. In this paper, we demonstrate that globalization, in the form of the spread of Anglo-American corporate governance to East Asia, resulted in neither convergence nor rejection, but rather, in two different paths of change. We argue that differences in patterns of reform stemmed from the divergent ways in which local actors-the state, shareholder activists, and large corporations-interacted with each other, and with foreign investors, to respond to external pressures. Two key factors defined these interactions: resource dependencies on global capital, and the way in which local actors framed the concept of corporate governance to fit their ideologies and advance their own interests.
title: Die Balanced Scorecard als Führungsinstrument zur Herbarbeleg-Digitalisierung
title: The Balanced Scorecard as a management tool for the digitalization of herbar specimens
Creators: name: Täschner, Marc
name: Jaspersen, Thomas
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 650 Management

description: Neben circa 22.000 verschiedenen kultivierten Pflanzenarten besitzt die Zentraleinrichtung Botanischer Garten und Botanische Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM) ca. 3,8 Millionen konservierter Pflanzenbelege aus aller Welt in seinem Herbarium. Diese Herbarbelege dienen als Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Über die Erstellung digitaler Kopien kann das Versenden des empfindlichen Materials verhindert und der Zugang für Forscher erheblich erleichtert werden. Die Prozesse und Methoden der Digitalisierung werden in Herbar Digital untersucht, um eine Senkung der Kosten zu ermöglichen. In dem vorliegenden Arbeitspapier wird der Einsatz einer Balanced Scorecard als Steuerungsinstrument der Herbarbeleg-Digitalisierung untersucht. Das Instrument misst die Zielerreichung und unterstützt so Entscheidungen der Führung. Vision und Strategie der Unternehmung werden in mehreren Perspektiven operationalisiert. Für jedes Ziel sind Indikatoren, Sollwerte, Istwerte und Maßnahmen zu definieren. Die Istwerte werden zu den Indikatoren und Zeitpunkten verdichtet und zeigen so den Zielerreichungsgrad an. In einem individuellen Dashboard werden die Ziele, Indikatoren, Zielwerte, Maßnahmen und weitere Informationen angezeigt und können kommentiert werden. Die Planwerte sind die Basis für den operativen Planungsprozess. Die Struktur sieht vor, dass die Ziel-Dashboards aller Organisationseinheiten einer Hochschule schließlich zu Sub- und Teil-Balanced Scorecards miteinander verknüpft werden können. Es ergibt sich je nach Sachverhalt eine Übersicht über die Ziele und korrespondierenden Indikatoren sowie deren Entwicklung und Maßnahmen. Dies wird am Beispiel der Herbarbeleg-Digitalisierung verdeutlicht.
Trade and the Environment in Developing Economies
Creators: name: Copeland, Brian R.
name: Gulati, Sumeet
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: Through reviewing the experience of seven countries (Armenia, Cambodia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Vietnam), this paper draws general lessons on the macroeconomic and adjustment policies that are best suited to foster growth, employment and poverty reduction under conditions of transition from centrally planned to regulated, market-based economies. The state-led, export-oriented transition strategies of China and Vietnam have been the most successful. They have opened their economies gradually and been cautious in liberalizing their financial systems and capital accounts and privatizing their state-owned enterprises. While their fiscal policies have been expansionary, their monetary policies have tended to be more restrictive. Also, neither has opted for a completely flexible exchange rate regime. While Cambodia has also followed an export-led strategy, the state's management of the economy has been much weaker. It has rapidly liberalized its current and capital account and made itself perilously dependent on external demand and development assistance. As a consequence, the Government has little control over fiscal and monetary policies. Armenia, Kyrgyz Republic and Mongolia have implemented "shock therapy" policies, rapidly privatizing and liberalizing their economies, and experiencing, as a result, catastrophic drops in output and incomes. Swift trade liberalization has led to de-industrialization and ballooning trade deficits. Even during recovery, these countries have had restrictive fiscal and monetary policies, hampering their prospects for growth, employment and poverty reduction. By contrast, Uzbekistan has been cautious in opening up and liberalizing its economy, following an import-substitution strategy instead of one oriented to exports. Its state-managed transition strategy has dictated a slow process of trade liberalization, financial liberalization and privatization. By actively using counter-cyclical fiscal and monetary policies, it has achieved macroeconomic stabilization without experiencing a severe recession.
title: Kompetenzprofil für das Studium der Religions- und Gemeindepädagogik
Creators: name: Piroth, Nicole
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200 Religion, Religionsphilosophie

description: Die dargestellte Kompetenzmatrix beschreibt die in reliigons- und gemeindepädagogischen Bachelorstudiengängen zu erwerbenden Kompetenzen entlang von fünf inhaltlichen Kompetenzfeldern und orientiert sich dabei an den Kompetenzkategorien (Wissen - Fertigkeiten - Personale Kompetenz) des Deutschen Qualifikationsrahmens (DQR). 
Diese Kompetenzmatrix ist Grundlage des Zwei-Fächer-Bachelorstudiengangs „Religionspädagogik und Soziale Arbeit“ an der Hochschule Hannover, der gleichermaßen für eine Berufstätigkeit als DiakonIn bzw. GemeindepädagogIn und als SozialarbeiterIn qualifiziert.
Education Needs Assessment for Kisumu City, Kenya
Creators: name: Maoulidi, Moumie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Managerial economics
Education and state
School management and organization
Africans
Women's studies

description: The current needs assessment report takes stock of recent achievements in the education sector and highlights remaining challenges that need to be addressed in order for Kisumu to achieve the United National Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015, which means ensuring that all children have access to primary education and reducing gender disparities at every level. Data and information gathered during the mission indicate that the demand for education in Kisumu has surged since the introduction of free primary education (FPE) in 2003 and that there has been progress towards greater parity between boys and girls at the primary school level. However, this needs assessment finds that the city still faces several challenges that threaten to undermine the attainment of the MDGs in education.
High contrast imaging and thickness determination of graphene with in-column secondary electron microscopy
Creators: name: Kochat, Vidya
name: Pal, Atindra Nath
name: S., Sneha E.
name: S., Arjun B.
name: Gairola, Anshita
name: Shivashankar, S. A.
name: Raghavan, Srinivasan
name: Ghosh, Arindam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a new method for quantitative estimation of graphene layer thicknesses using high contrast imaging of graphene films on insulating substrates with a scanning electron microscope. By detecting the attenuation of secondary electrons emitted from the substrate with an in-column low-energy electron detector, we have achieved very high thickness-dependent contrast that allows quantitative estimation of thickness up to several graphene layers. The nanometer scale spatial resolution of the electron micrographs also allows a simple structural characterization scheme for graphene, which has been applied to identify faults, wrinkles, voids, and patches of multilayer growth in large-area chemical vapor deposited graphene. We have discussed the factors, such as differential surface charging and electron beam induced current, that affect the contrast of graphene images in detail.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Beyond reuse : spolia's implications in the early Christian Church
Creators: name: Grzesiak, Larissa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: When Vasari used the term spoglie to denote marbles taken from pagan monuments for Rome’s Christian churches, he related the Christians to barbarians, but noted their good taste in exotic, foreign marbles. Interest in spolia and colourful heterogeneity reflects a new aesthetic interest in variation that emerged in Late Antiquity, but a lack of contemporary sources make it difficult to discuss the motives behind spolia. Some scholars have attributed its use to practicality, stating that it was more expedient and economical, but this study aims to demonstrate that just as Scripture became more powerful through multiple layers of meaning, so too could spolia be understood as having many connotations for the viewer. I will focus on two major areas in which spolia could communicate meaning within the context of the Church: power dynamics, and teachings. I will first explore the clear ecumenical hierarchy and discourses of power that spolia delineated through its careful arrangement within the church, before turning to ideological implications for the Christian viewer. Focusing on the Lateran and St. Peter’s, this study examines the religious messages that can be found within the spoliated columns of early Christian churches. By examining biblical literature and patristic works, I will argue that these vast coloured columns communicated ideas surrounding Christian doctrine. In addition to proposed ideological functions related to triumph (both in the Church’s emergence as a legal religion and the luxurious benefaction of the emperor), and interiorization (the idea that architecture reflected how Christian religious experience was turning inward), I will argue that spoliated columns had the capacity to communicate three major tenets of Christian salvation to their viewers – the concepts of rebirth, the Church’s mission of proselytization, and the fulfilment of salvation in an embodiment of Heavenly Jerusalem.
Low AC loss in the REBCO stator of a 1 MW motor for aviation
Creators: name: Pardo, Enric
name: Ján, Kováč
name: Lubomír, Kopera
name: Radislav, Reis
name: Francesco, Grilli
name: Eva, Berberich
name: Thomas, Reis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Superconducting motor, hybrid and electric aricraft, computer modelling

description: Oral presentation at the Applied Superconductivity Conference 2020
A process evaluation of the quality improvement collaborative for a community-based family planning learning site in Uganda
Creators: name: Wynne, Leigh
name: Kirunda, Ramadhan
name: Mubiru, Frederick
name: Rakhmanova, Nilufar
name: Kim, Christine
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2019

description:
Background: High-quality family planning (FP) services have been associated with increased FP service demand and use, resulting in improved health outcomes for women. Community-based family planning (CBFP) is a key strategy in expanding access to FP services through community health workers or Village Health Team (VHTs) members in Uganda. We established the first CBFP learning site in Busia district, Uganda, using a quality improvement collaborative (QIC) model. This process evaluation aims to understand the QIC adaptation process, supportive implementation factors and trends in FP uptake and retention. Methods: We collected data from two program districts: Busia (learning site) and Oyam (scale-up). We used a descriptive mixed-methods process evaluation design: desk review of program documents, program monitoring data and in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Results: The quality improvement (QI) process strengthened linkages between health services provided in communities and health centers. Routine interaction of VHTs, clients and midwives generated improvement ideas. Participants reported increased learning through midwife mentorship of VHTs, supportive supervision, monthly meetings, data interpretation and learning sessions. Three areas for potential sustainability and institutionalization of the QI efforts were identified: the integration of QI into other services, district-level plans and support for the QIC and motivation of QI teams. Challenges in the replication of this model include the community-level capacity for data recording and interpretation, the need to simplify QI terminology and tools for VHTs and travel reimbursements for meetings. We found positive trends in the number of women on an FP method, the number of returning clients and the number of couples counseled. Conclusions: A QIC can be a positive approach to improve VHT service delivery. Working with VHTs on QI presents specific challenges compared to working at the facility level. To strengthen the implementation of this CBFP QIC and other community-based QICs, we provide program-relevant recommendations.
Solvent-free multi-component synthesis of unsymmetrical bis(indolyl)alkanes with Lewis acid-surfactant-SiO2 as nanocatalyst
Creators: name: Wu, Zhiqiang
name: Wang, Gang
name: Li, Zhenliang
name: Feng, Enke
name: Liang, Yanping
name: Zhan, Haijuan
name: Liu, Wanyi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Herein we report the multicomponent synthesis of the bis(indolyl)methane derivatives in a ball mill. The reaction was carried out under solvent-free conditions using only the Lewis acid-surfactant-SiO2 composite nanocatalyst (LASSC) prepared in situ. The unsymmetrical bis(indolyl) methane derivatives containing nitro or fluorine substitution with a yield of 72%–92% were obtained in a short reaction time. Within we verified that under the action of the combined catalyst of AlCl3·6H2O + SDS + SiO2, the method of preparing unsymmetrical bis(indolyl)methane by mechanical grinding without solvent has obvious advantages. Finally, we inspected that the catalysis system can be used eight times without a significant decrease in activity.
NECCTON Plan for exploitation, dissemination and communication (D2.1)
Creators: name: Heard, J
name: Derval, C
name: Giunta, V
name: Steenbeck, J
name: Romero, L
name: Ciavatta S
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: NECCTON aims at transforming the European capability to predict and protect the biodiversity of marine ecosystems. New modelling products of fisheries, pollution and benthic habitats will enable the Copernicus Marine Service to better inform ocean policy makers, managers and the public. This document lays out the projects plan to exploit, disseminate and communication the project outcomes.
title: Situative Risikofaktoren von Korruption – Gelegenheit allein macht keine Diebe
Creators: name: Seibold, Sven M.
name: Linssen, Ruth
name: Schön, Felix
name: Heber, Frank
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: In diesem Beitrag werden die Ergebnisse von sieben Datenhebungen zur Relevanz situativer Risikofaktoren für Korruption aus den Jahren 2010 bis 2013 vorgestellt. In fünf quantitativen Datenerhebungen wurden folgende sechs Faktoren untersucht: Dauer der Korruptionsbeziehung, Vorteilshöhe, Art der Vorteilsempfänger, Entdeckungswahrscheinlichkeit, Vorliegen einer persönliche Notlage und situative Unsicherheit. In zwei qualitativen Datenerhebungen wurde mit offenen Fragen nach situativen Einflussfaktoren von Korruption gefragt. Erwartungswidrig erwiesen sich die untersuchten Faktoren als weitgehend irrelevant für die Bewertung von Korruption sowie für das Meldeverhalten bei beobachteter Korruption. Zu vermuteten ist, dass situative Risikofaktoren nicht unmittelbar, sondern indirekt über vom Umfeld geteilte mögliche Rechtfertigungen korrupter Handlungen im Alltag wirken. Die durchgängig nicht signifikanten Ergebnisse lassen daran zweifeln, dass korruptes Handeln maßgeblich durch situative Risikofaktoren beeinflussbar ist.
description: The results of seven surveys, which were collected from 2010 to 2013 and which investigated the influence of situational factors on corruption, are described. In five quantitative surveys six situational factors were investigated: Duration of a corrupt relationship, size of a bribe, recipient of a bribe, detection risk, personal situation and situational uncertainty. In two qualitative surveys participants were asked what situational factors corrupt behavior is influenced by. Contrary to expectations the situational factors had basically no influence on the rating of corruption and the willingness to report observed acts of corruption. It seems likely that situational factors do not influence corruption and its rating directly, but may rather influence corruption indirectly through shared justifications. Due to the not significant results it seems doubtful that situational factors influence the willingness to act corruptly decisively.
title: Abschlussbericht zur Hauptuntersuchung „Großtagespflegestellen in Niedersachsen“
Creators: name: Runge, Kornelia
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Die vorliegende Ausführung bezieht sich ausschließlich auf die, im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Großtagespflegestellen in Niedersachsen“ durchgeführte, Hauptuntersuchung zur pädagogischen Qualität in sieben Großtagespflegestellen. Die Ergebnisse der darüber hinaus stattgefundenen schriftlichen Befragungen der kommunalen Träger werden nur im Kontext zu den untersuchten Betreuungssettings berücksichtigt. Neben der Datenerhebung mittels der Tagespflegeskala-R wurde im Anschluss an die Beobachtungen ein leitfadengestütztes Interview mit den anwesenden Kindertagespflegepersonen geführt. Weitere Informationen wurden aus Dokumenten wie Satzungen, Konzeption, Flyer und Internetauftritt gewonnen.
Die Ergebnisse werden in diesem Bericht in Form von sieben Thesen dargestellt. Die Erste These bezieht sich ausschließlich auf die Daten der TAS-R Untersuchung. Die Thesen zwei bis sieben wurden aus dem o.g. gesamten empirischen Material abgeleitet.
Als Instrument zur Erfassung der pädagogischen Qualität in den ausgewählten Großtagespflegestellen (GTPS) wurde die Tagespflegeskala-R (Tietze, Knobeloch, Gerszonowiec, 2011, überarbeitete Version) eingesetzt. Die TAS-R basiert auf der Family Day Care Rating Scale (FDCRS) von Harms, Cryer und Clifford (2003). Sie wurde bereits in vielen wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen bzw. Studien genutzt und ist als internationales Instrument zur Erfassung von pädagogischer Qualität in Kindertagespflegestellen anerkannt.
Investigations on the contribution of AtNRT2.6 gene to nitrate transport in Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Nandanavanam, Ranganayaki
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Completion of the Arabidopsis genome helped to identify seven members of the NRT2 family (Nitrate Regulated Transport) that encode high-affinity nitrate transport. Extensive genetic and physiological studies have confirmed the primary role of AtNRT2.1 in induced high-affinity nitrate transport (IHATS). Moreover it is evident that AtNRT2.1 demonstrates functional association with another gene, AtNAR2 that functions as a part of a two-component system at the plasma membrane for the IHATS. Here we have investigated the contribution of AtNRT2.6 gene to nitrate transport by combining molecular and physiological studies in Arabidopsis thaliana WT, Atnrt2.6 T-DNA mutant and a AtNRT2.6:GFP transformant line of Arabidopsis thaliana. RT-PCR data from un-induced and nitrate re-induced plants demonstrated the constitutive expression of AtNRT2.6 gene in roots, shoots and in flowers. The transcript levels and tissue specific expression of AtNRT2.6:GFP in root cortical cells and in pollen have confirmed the previous AtNRT2.6
Education Needs Assessment for Blantyre City, Malawi
Creators: name: Torre, Katharine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Managerial economics
Educational evaluation
Africans
Education and state
School management and organization

description: As a Millennium City, Blantyre, Malawi, is the site of new needs assessments, interventions and planned investments aimed at helping the city achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Education has been identified as a critical component of poverty alleviation and socioeconomic development.This needs assessment finds that with an annual per capita investment of $22 between 2010 and 2015, Blantyre City can achieve the Millennium Development Goals in education.
Near-field thermal radiation transfer controlled by plasmons in graphene
Creators: name: Ilic, Ognjen
name: Jablan, Marinko
name: Joannopoulos, John D.
name: Celanovic, Ivan
name: Buljan, Hrvoje
name: Soljačić, Marin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that thermally excited plasmon-polariton modes can strongly mediate, enhance and \emph{tune} the near-field radiation transfer between two closely separated graphene sheets. The dependence of near-field heat exchange on doping and electron relaxation time is analyzed in the near infra-red within the framework of fluctuational electrodynamics. The dominant contribution to heat transfer can be controlled to arise from either interband or intraband processes. We predict maximum transfer at low doping and for plasmons in two graphene sheets in resonance, with orders-of-magnitude enhancement (e.g. $10^2$ to $10^3$ for separations between $0.1μm$ to $10nm$) over the Stefan-Boltzmann law, known as the far field limit. Strong, tunable, near-field transfer offers the promise of an externally controllable thermal switch as well as a novel hybrid graphene-graphene thermoelectric/thermophotovoltaic energy conversion platform.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 3 of Profile of copper-associated DNA methylation and its association with incident acute coronary syndrome
Creators: name: Long, Pinpin
name: Wang, Qiuhong
name: Zhang, Yizhi
name: Zhu, Xiaoyan
name: Yu, Kuai
name: Jiang, Haijing
name: Liu, Xuezhen
name: Zhou, Min
name: Yuan, Yu
name: Liu, Kang
name: Jiang, Jing
name: Zhang, Xiaomin
name: He, Meian
name: Guo, Huan
name: Chen, Weihong
name: Yuan, Jing
name: Cheng, Longxian
name: Liang, Liming
name: Wu, Tangchun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Figure S1: The flowchart of the study. Figure S2: Distribution of plasma copper concentrations in five panels. Figure S3: Regional association plot of Cu meta-analysis results within and surrounding the EBF4 gene.
title: Makerspace in der Stadtbibliothek Göttingen : Machbarkeitsstudie und Risikoanalyse
Creators: name: Becker, Marco
name: Bode, Christiane
name: Bordihn, Andrea
name: Ewald, Kathrin
name: Feyen, Verena
name: Heitfeldt, Claudia
name: Kanzok, Christian
name: Meyer, Sonja
name: Rother, Katja
name: Wohlleben, Verena
name: Krompholz-Roehl, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Bei dem Konzept Makerspace handelt es sich um ein niedrigschwelliges Angebot, das für alle Besucher Anreize, Ideen und Unterstützung bieten kann. Durch den Faktor des gemeinsamen Lernens werden soziale Grenzen überbrückt und neue Netzwerke gebildet, implizites Wissen wird ausgetauscht und Lernen neu erfahren. Der Makerspace bietet eine Bühne, um eigene Erfahrungen auszutauschen, Wissen an Interessierte weiterzugeben oder gemeinschaftlich an einem kreativen Projekt zu arbeiten. Als Ort des Lernens und der Information, aber auch als Treffpunkt bieten öffentliche Bibliotheken einen idealen Rahmen für ein entsprechendes Angebot. Das modulare Makerspace-Konzept ermöglicht ihnen, die Angebote ganz nach ihren Bedürfnissen und Ansprüchen auszurichten. Vorhandene Medienbestände können in die Makerspace-Aktivitäten eingebunden werden. Makerspaces sind vielversprechende Zukunftsmodelle kollektiver Erfahrungsräume und bieten Platz für eine inklusive Lernwerkstatt für die Gemeinschaft. Aufgrund der vorliegenden Analyse empfiehlt das Projektteam für die Stadtbibliothek Göttingen mit dem Koffermodul zu starten, um die Teilnehmer und Mitarbeiter nicht zu überfordern. Die räumlichen Gegebenheiten lassen aber in einem späteren Stadium auch die Module Schrank und Raum zu. Diese Erweiterungen sollten von der Nutzung und der Nachfrage abhängig gemacht werden.
Handsaw quiver varieties and finite W-algebras
Creators: name: Nakajima, Hiraku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B37 (Primary) 14D21 (Secondary)

description: Following Braverman-Finkelberg-Feigin-Rybnikov (arXiv:1008.3655), we study the convolution algebra of a handsaw quiver variety, a.k.a. a parabolic Laumon space, and a finite W-algebra of type A. This is a finite analog of the AGT conjecture on 4-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with surface operators. Our new observation is that the C^*-fixed point set of a handsaw quiver variety is isomorphic to a graded quiver variety of type A, which was introduced by the author in connection with the representation theory of a quantum affine algebra. As an application, simple modules of the W-algebra are described in terms of IC sheaves of graded quiver varieties of type A, which were known to be related to Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. This gives a new proof of a conjecture by Brundan-Kleshchev on composition multiplicities on Verma modules, which was proved by Losev, in a wider context, by a different method.
description: 31 pages; v.2 The main result was proved earlier by Losev in a wider context by a different method; v.3 typos corrected
title: Biopolymers - facts and statistics
Creators: name: IfBB-Institut Für Biokunststoffe Und Bioverbundwerkstoffe
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 660 Technische Chemie

description: The IfBB – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites is a research institute within the Hochschule Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, which was established in 2011 to respond to the growing need for expert knowledge in the area of bioplastics. With its practice-oriented research and its collaboration with industrial partners, the IfBB is able to shore up the market for bioplastics and, in addition, foster unbiased public awareness and understanding of the topic. As an independent research-led expert institution for bioplastics, the IfBB is willing to share its expertise, research findings and data with any interested party via the Internet, online and offline publications or at fairs and conferences. In carrying on these efforts, substantial information regarding market trends, processes and resource needs for bioplastics is being presented here in a concise format, in addition to the more detailed and comprehensive publication and “Engineering Biopolymers”1.

One of our main concerns is to furnish a more rational basis for discussing bioplastics and use fact-based arguments in the public discourse. Furthermore, “Biopolymers – facts and statistics” aims to provide specific, qualified answers easily and quickly for decision-makers in particular from public administration and the industrial sector. Therefore, this publication is made up like a set of rules and standards and largely foregoes textual detail. It offers extensive market-relevant and technical facts presented in graphs and charts, which means that the information is much easier to grasp. The reader can expect comparative market figures for various materials, regions, applications, process routes, agricultural land use or resource consumption, production capacities, geographic distribution, etc.
description: Biopolymers - facts and statistics, 2
Estimation and Inference of Special Types of the Coefficients in Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression Models
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhi
name: Mei, Chang-Lin
name: Yu, Hua-Yi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) models have been widely used to explore spatiotemporal nonstationarity where all the regression coefficients are assumed to be varying over both space and time. In reality, however, constant, only temporally varying, and only spatially varying coefficients might also be possible depending on the underlying effects of the explanatory variables on the response variable. Therefore, the development of inference and estimation methods for such special types of the coefficients is essential to the deep understanding of spatiotemporal characteristics of the regression relationship. In this article, an average-based approach, relying on a modified estimation of the conventional GTWR models, is proposed to calibrate the GTWR models with the special types of the coefficients, on which a statistical test is formulated to simultaneously infer constant, temporally varying, and spatially varying coefficients. The simulation study shows that the test method is of valid Type I error and satisfactory power and the average-based estimation method yields more accurate estimators for the special types of the coefficients. A real-life example based on Beijing house prices is given to demonstrate the applicability of the test and estimation methods as well as the extensibility of the test in model selection.
title: Entwicklung eines Verfahrens zur automatischen Sammlung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung multimedialer Open-Access-Objekte mittels der Infrastruktur von Wikimedia Commons und Wikidata
Creators: name: Blümel, Ina
name: Cartellieri, Simone
name: Heller, Lambert
name: Wartena, Christian
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Idee zum Projektantrag der TIB Hannover und Hochschule Hannover in der DFG-Ausschreibung: „Open-Access-Transformation“ vom 2.6.2014 im Bereich „Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme“ (LIS), eingereicht am 30.10.2014