cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detecting Deceptive Impression Management Behaviors in Interviews Using Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Auer, Elena Margaret Lawrence
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Deceptive impression management (IM) is often used by applicants in employment interviews to improve their chances of receiving a job offer. Self-report measures of deceptive IM are typically used to evaluate interview faking in a lab setting but are limited when used in practice due to social desirability concerns.  Given this limitation, natural language processing (NLP) has potential as a tool to unobtrusively assess raw interview content and measure deceptive IM. This study examined the use of open and closed-vocabulary NLP approaches for the detection of deceptive IM in mock employment interviews. In general, neither of these approaches successfully predicted deceptive IM. Several possible conclusions based on these findings are discussed. However, given the lack of empirical support for this method, organizations should proceed with caution when deciding to use NLP techniques to predict deceptive IM in employment interviews.
Fibre Inflation and $\alpha$-attractors
Creators: name: Kallosh, Renata
name: Linde, Andrei
name: Roest, Diederik
name: Westphal, Alexander
name: Yamada, Yusuke
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017

description: Fibre inflation is a specific string theory construction based on the Large Volume Scenario that produces an inflationary plateau. We outline its relation to $\alpha$-attractor models for inflation, with the cosmological sector originating from certain string theory corrections leading to $\alpha=2$ and $\alpha=1/2$. Above a certain field range, the steepening effect of higher-order corrections leads first to the breakdown of single-field slow-roll and after that to the onset of 2-field dynamics: the overall volume of the extra dimensions starts to participate in the effective dynamics. Finally, we propose effective supergravity models of fibre inflation based on an ${\overline {D3}}$ uplift term with a nilpotent superfield. Specific moduli dependent $\overline {D3}$ induced geometries lead to cosmological fibre models but have in addition a de Sitter minimum exit. These supergravity models motivated by fibre inflation are relatively simple, stabilize the axions and disentangle the Hubble parameter from supersymmetry breaking.
Towards de Sitter from 10D
Creators: name: Moritz, Jakob
name: Retolaza, Ander
name: Westphal, Alexander
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017

description: Using a 10D lift of non-perturbative volume stabilization in type IIB string theory we study the limitations for obtaining de Sitter vacua. Based on this we find that the simplest KKLT vacua with a single Kahler modulus stabilized by a gaugino condensate cannot be uplifted to de Sitter. Rather, the uplift flattens out due to stronger backreaction on the volume modulus than has previously been anticipated, resulting in vacua which are meta-stable and SUSY breaking, but that are always AdS. However, we also show that setups such as racetrack stabilization can avoid this issue. In these models it is possible to obtain supersymmetric AdS vacua with a cosmological constant that can be tuned to zero while retaining finite moduli stabilization. In this regime, it seems that de Sitter uplifts are possible with negligible backreaction on the internal volume. We exhibit this behavior also from the 10D perspective.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Transverse momentum in double parton scattering: factorisation, evolution and matching
Creators: name: Buffing, Maarten G. A.
name: Diehl, Markus
name: Kasemets, Tomas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017

description: We give a description of double parton scattering with measured transverse momenta in the final state, extending the formalism for factorisation and resummation developed by Collins, Soper and Sterman for the production of colourless particles. After a detailed analysis of their colour structure, we derive and solve evolution equations in rapidity and renormalisation scale for the relevant soft factors and double parton distributions. We show how in the perturbative regime, transverse momentum dependent double parton distributions can be expressed in terms of simpler nonperturbative quantities and compute several of the corresponding perturbative kernels at one-loop accuracy. We then show how the coherent sum of single and double parton scattering can be simplified for perturbatively large transverse momenta, and we discuss to which order resummation can be performed with presently available results. As an auxiliary result, we derive a simple form for the square root factor in the Collins construction of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions.
Determination of the Side-Reaction Coefficient of Desferrioxamine B in Trace-Metal-Free Seawater
Creators: name: Schijf, Johan
name: Burns, Shannon M.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: desferrioxamine B
siderophore
potentiometric titration
stability constant
side-reaction coefficient
seawater
magnesium
calcium

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: Electrochemical techniques like adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry with competitive ligand equilibration (ACSV-CLE) can determine total concentrations of marine organic ligands and their conditional binding constants for specific metals, but cannot identify them. Individual organic ligands, isolated from microbial cultures or biosynthesized through genomics, can be structurally characterized via NMR and tandem MS analysis, but this is tedious and time-consuming. A complementary approach is to compare known properties of natural ligands, particularly their conditional binding constants, with those of model organic ligands, measured under suitable conditions. Such comparisons cannot be meaningfully interpreted unless the side-reaction coefficient (SRC) of the model ligand in seawater is thoroughly evaluated. We conducted series of potentiometric titrations, in non-coordinating medium at seawater ionic strength (0.7 M NaClO4) over a range of metal:ligand molar ratios, to study complexation of the siderophore desferrioxamine B (DFOB) with Mg and Ca, for which it has the highest affinity among the major seasalt cations. From similar titrations of acetohydroxamic acid in the absence and presence of methanesulfonate (mesylate), it was determined that Mg and Ca binding to this common DFOB counter-ion is not strong enough to interfere with the DFOB titrations. Stability constants were measured for all DFOB complexes with Mg and Ca including, for the first time, the bidentate complexes. No evidence was found for Mg and Ca coordination with the DFOB terminal amine. From the improved DFOB speciation, we calculated five SRCs for each of the five (de)protonated forms of DFOB in trace-metal-free seawater, yet we also present a more convenient definition of a single SRC that allows adjustment of all DFOB stability constants to seawater conditions, no matter which of these forms is selected as the “component” (reference species). An example of Cd speciation in seawater containing DFOB illustrates the non-trivial use of different SRCs for polyprotic, polydentate organic ligands.
Additional file 2 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Das Tagebuch des Kurt Weinberg
Creators: name: Zwerger, Veronika
Year: 2009

description: Von Ende 1940 bis Anfang 1941 sammelten sich etwa 120 Kinder und Jugendliche aus den von den Nationalsozialisten besetzten Gebieten in Zagreb. Dort wurden sie von Mitgliedern der Jugendaliyah betreut, während sie auf Einreisezertifikate nach Palästina warteten. Kurz vor Einmarsch der deutschen Truppen in Jugoslawien erhielt ein Teil der Gruppe die ersehnten Papiere und machte sich auf den Weg. Die Zagreb-Kinder, wie sich diese Gruppe nannte, flohen ohne erwachsene Begleitung über Griechenland, die Türkei und Syrien nach Palästina. Dort angekommen, wurden die Jugendlichen auf verschiedene Einrichtungen der Jugendaliyah aufgeteilt. Kurt Weinberg, geboren 1924 in Wien, war eines dieser Zagreb-Kinder. Von November 1940, als er seine Flucht antrat, bis März 1946 führte er Tagebuch. Er beschreibt darin seine Flucht und nach seiner Ankunft in Palästina 1941 in erster Linie Reisen und seine Militärzeit. Dieses Tagebuch ist bisher nicht veröffentlicht und wird hier zur Gänze – nicht zuletzt wegen der Illustrationen - in Abbildungen wiedergegeben. Die Quelle wird in den historischen Kontext eingebettet, was eine Beschäftigung mit mehreren Themen notwendig machte: die Geschichte der Jugendaliyah, Jugoslawien als Flucht- und Transitland, Probleme von jugendlichen Flüchtlingen in Palästina, jüdische Palästinenser in der britischen Armee, Remigration von österreichischen Exilanten aus Israel, die Gattung Tagebuch und nicht zuletzt die Geschichte der Zagreb-Kinder, ein bislang nicht wissenschaftlich bearbeitetes Themenfeld.
Supplemental Material - ‘Holding onto trauma?’ The prevalence and predictors of PTSD, anxiety and depression in police officers working with child abuse, rape and sexual exploitation victims
Creators: name: Foley, Jim
name: Jones, Fergal
name: Hassett, Alex
name: Williams, Emma
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material for Prevalence and predictors of PTSD, anxiety and depression in police officers working with child abuse, rape and sexual exploitation victims by Jim Foley, Fergal Jones, Alex Hassett and Emma Williams in The Police Journal
Realization of a Quantum Integer-Spin Chain with Controllable Interactions
Creators: name: Senko, C.
name: Richerme, P.
name: Smith, J.
name: Lee, A.
name: Cohen, I.
name: Retzker, A.
name: Monroe, C.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Physics
subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum Physics

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: The physics of interacting integer-spin chains has been a topic of intense theoretical interest, particularly in the context of symmetry-protected topological phases. However, there has not been a controllable model system to study this physics experimentally. We demonstrate how spin-dependent forces on trapped ions can be used to engineer an effective system of interacting spin-1 particles. Our system evolves coherently under an applied spin-1 XY Hamiltonian with tunable, long-range couplings, and all three quantum levels at each site participate in the dynamics. We observe the time evolution of the system and verify its coherence by entangling a pair of effective three-level particles (“qutrits”) with 86% fidelity. By adiabatically ramping a global field, we produce ground states of the XY model, and we demonstrate an instance where the ground state cannot be created without breaking the same symmetries that protect the topological Haldane phase. This experimental platform enables future studies of symmetry-protected order in spin-1 systems and their use in quantum applications.
Additional file 3 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3
Realisation of radiographic film for IMRT QA at the Nepean Cancer Care centre
Creators: name: Gehrke, Christopher
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The feasibility of using Kodak X-Omat V radiographic film as an absolute dosimeter for intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) quality assurance (QA) at the Nepean Cancer Care centre was assessed. Several aspects of film dosimetry were addressed: film digitising, film processing and inherent film characteristics. The study included: the reproducibility, uniformity and geometric accuracy of a transmission film digitiser. The constancy for an automated film processor over a range of doses applicable to a single fraction IMRT step and shoot field, and film dose rate and fraction dependence. Equipment included: an AFGA Curix HT-330 processor, DoseLab for QA plan comparison, ePin, ISP EBT Gafchromic film, ImageJ, Kodak X-Omat V Ready Pack radiographic film, NE 2571 and 2581 ion chambers, Philips Pinnacle planning system, RW3 phantoms, Varian 21EX and 2100CD linear accelerators, Victoreen 07-424 and 07-443 single point densitometers, and a Vidar VXR-16 DosimetryPRO digitiser.

Film processing resulted in an 11% error over a period of several months. For film digitising, a 5% optical density variation was measured between central and peripheral parts of the digitiser however this was corrected using DoseLab. Constancy of the light output was greater than 99% and magnification errors were less than 1 mm. Minimal dose rate and fraction dependence were observed for the film and minimal variations (<0.2%) between film manufacture batches were recorded.
Assessment of Chronic Sublethal Effects of Imidacloprid on Honey Bee Colony Health
Creators: name: Dively, Galen P.
name: Embrey, Michael S.
name: Kamel, Alaa
name: Hawthorne, David J.
name: Pettis, Jeffery S.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: Here we present results of a three-year study to determine the fate of imidacloprid residues in hive matrices and to assess chronic sublethal effects on whole honey bee colonies fed supplemental pollen diet containing imidacloprid at 5, 20 and 100 μg/kg over multiple brood cycles. Various endpoints of colony performance and foraging behavior were measured during and after exposure, including winter survival. Imidacloprid residues became diluted or non-detectable within colonies due to the processing of beebread and honey and the rapid metabolism of the chemical. Imidacloprid exposure doses up to 100 μg/kg had no significant effects on foraging activity or other colony performance indicators during and shortly after exposure. Diseases and pest species did not affect colony health but infestations of Varroa mites were significantly higher in exposed colonies. Honey stores indicated that exposed colonies may have avoided the contaminated food. Imidacloprid dose effects was delayed later in the summer, when colonies exposed to 20 and 100 μg/kg experienced higher rates of queen failure and broodless periods, which led to weaker colonies going into the winter. Pooled over two years, winter survival of colonies averaged 85.7, 72.4, 61.2 and 59.2% in the control, 5, 20 and 100 μg/kg treatment groups, respectively. Analysis of colony survival data showed a significant dose effect, and all contrast tests comparing survival between control and treatment groups were significant, except for colonies exposed to 5 μg/kg. Given the weight of evidence, chronic exposure to imidacloprid at the higher range of field doses (20 to 100 μg/kg) in pollen of certain treated crops could cause negative impacts on honey bee colony health and reduced overwintering success, but the most likely encountered high range of field doses relevant for seed-treated crops (5 μg/kg) had negligible effects on colony health and are unlikely a sole cause of colony declines.
title: Kulturelle Identitätskonstruktion in Fremdenverkehrstexten am Beispiel von Südtirol
Creators: name: Todesco, Federica
Year: 2009

description: Das Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit lautet „Kulturelle Identitätskonstruktion in Fremdenverkehrstexten am Beispiel von Südtirol“. Das Ziel liegt darin, zu zeigen, dass in den Tourismusprospekten für deutsch- und italienischsprachige AdressatInnen bestimmte Elemente immer wieder vorkommen, die erlauben, ein kulturelles Profil dieser AdressatInnen zu schildern. Aus der Analyse der Tourismusprospekte ergeben sich also ein deutsches und ein italienisches kulturelles Bild. Wenn man diese zwei Bilder betrachtet, soll man aufpassen, nicht in die Falle der Stereotypisierungen zu geraten. Jeder Mensch ist nämlich einzigartig und nicht nach einer bestimmten Kategorie klassifizierbar.
Additional file 4 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 4
Supplementary Materials from Modelling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus decolonization: interactions between body sites and the impact of site-specific clearance
Creators: name: Poyraz, Onur
name: Sater, Mohamad R. A.
name: Miller, Loren G.
name: McKinnell, James A.
name: Huang, Susan S.
name: Grad, Yonatan H.
name: Marttinen, Pekka
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional figures, tables, and discussion for the paper.
Additional file 5 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 5
sj-docx-2-cat-10.1177_10760296231218711 - Supplemental material for Prognostic Value of Antithrombin Activity Levels in the Early Phase of Intensive Care: A 2-Center Retrospective Cohort Study
Creators: name: Yarimizu, Kenya
name: Nakane, Masaki
name: Onodera, Yu
name: Matsuuchi, Taro
name: Suzuki, Hiroto
name: Yoshioka, Masatomo
name: Kudo, Masaya
name: Kawamae, Kaneyuki
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-cat-10.1177_10760296231218711 for Prognostic Value of Antithrombin Activity Levels in the Early Phase of Intensive Care:
A 2-Center Retrospective Cohort Study by Kenya Yarimizu, Masaki Nakane, Yu Onodera, Taro Matsuuchi, Hiroto Suzuki, Masatomo Yoshioka, Masaya Kudo and Kaneyuki Kawamae in Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
The Binding Effect of Proteins on Medications and Its Impact on Electrochemical Sensing: Antipsychotic Clozapine as a Case Study
Creators: name: Banis, George E.
name: Winkler, Thomas
name: Barton, Patricia
name: Chocron, Sheryl E.
name: Kim, Eunkyoung
name: Kelly, Deanna L.
name: Payne, Gregory F.
name: Ben-Yoav, Hadar
name: Ghodssi, Reza
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2017
Subjects: electrochemistry
clozapine
albumin
alpha-1 acid-glycoprotein
ultrafiltration

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: Clozapine (CLZ), a dibenzodiazepine, is demonstrated as the optimal antipsychotic for patients suffering from treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Like many other drugs, understanding the concentration of CLZ in a patient’s blood is critical for managing the patients’ symptoms, side effects, and overall treatment efficacy. To that end, various electrochemical techniques have been adapted due to their capabilities in concentration-dependent sensing. An open question associated with electrochemical CLZ monitoring is whether drug–protein complexes (i.e., CLZ bound to native blood proteins, such as serum albumin (SA) or alpha-1 acid-glycoprotein (AAG)) contribute to electrochemical redox signals. Here, we investigate CLZ-sensing performance using fundamental electrochemical methods with respect to the impact of protein binding. Specifically, we test the activity of bound and free fractions of a mixture of CLZ and either bovine SA or human AAG. Results suggest that bound complexes do not significantly contribute to the electrochemical signal for mixtures of CLZ with AAG or SA. Moreover, the fraction of CLZ bound to protein is relatively constant at 31% (AAG) and 73% (SA) in isolation with varying concentrations of CLZ. Thus, electrochemical sensing can enable direct monitoring of only the unbound CLZ, previously only accessible via equilibrium dialysis. The methods utilized in this work offer potential as a blueprint in developing electrochemical sensors for application to other redox-active medications with high protein binding more generally. This demonstrates that electrochemical sensing can be a new tool in accessing information not easily available previously, useful toward optimizing treatment regimens.
Ethics Regulation in Social Computing Research: Examining the Role of Institutional Review Boards
Creators: name: Vitak, Jessica
name: Proferes, Nicholas
name: Shilton, Katie
name: Ashktorab, Zahra
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2017
Subjects: ethics
institutional review boards
IRBs
social computing
big data

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: The parallel rise of pervasive data collection platforms and computational methods for collecting, analyzing, and drawing inferences from large quantities of user data has advanced social computing research, investigating digital traces to understand mediated behaviors of individuals, groups, and societies. At the same time, methods employed to access these data have raised questions about ethical research practices. This article provides insights into U.S. institutional review boards’ (IRBs) attitudes and practices regulating social computing research. Through descriptive and inferential analysis of survey data from staff at 59 IRBs at research universities, we examine how IRBs evaluate the growing variety of studies using pervasive digital data. Findings unpack the difficulties IRB staff face evaluating increasingly technical research proposals while highlighting the belief in their ability to surmount these difficulties. They also indicate a lack of consensus among IRB staff about what should be reviewed and a willingness to work closely with researchers.
Additional file 6 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 6
A smart mechatronic base isolation system using earthquake early warning
Creators: name: Lin, Yan-Shing
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering

description: Earthquake is one of the most devastating natural disasters. In the last few decades, many seismic mitigation techniques have been developed. They include passive, semi-active and active control which have been proven their effectiveness in events of earthquakes. Among them, base isolation has been regarded as a mature technology and commercialisation is common in earthquake-prone countries. This technology decouples the main structure from its foundation and effectively lengthens the natural period of vibration, away from resonance vibration. However, the lateral stiffness of base isolation devices is generally too low to resist serviceability lateral forces such as wind and flood which may cause unacceptable lateral movements of the structure. Added lateral stiffness and/or damping is usually required. On the other hand, the Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system which uses different arrival time of seismic P and S waves is readily available in Japan, Taiwan, parts of China and Europe. This technology offers more possibilities for improvement of earthquake mitigation technique.

This project develops a smart mechatronic base isolation system which can be triggered by the EEW system. It uses the earthquake early warning signals and nearby monitoring signals to determine the situation and automatically switches to the appropriate anti-seismic mode. In the first phase of research, a one-dimensional system is developed and tested on an electrical shake table. A prototype smart mechatronic base isolation system is developed. In this prototype design, electromagnetic shear keys which lock the base isolator are released either by simulated EEW signals or on-site accelerometers. The advantage of this design gives the main structure a very strong stiffness under in-service condition (i.e. when there is no ground motion) while maximizing the effectiveness of base isolation when ground motion is anticipated. The system is fully automated, and the main structure is re-entered once ground motion ceases. In the second stage, a two-dimensional base isolation, created by low-friction linear bearings is developed and activation of base isolation is carried out by linear actuators. In the third stage, the system is developed further. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors are added to monitor position of base isolator in real-time, an active control strategy is added into the microcontroller and actuation is carried out by stepper motors. Using the feedbacks provided by the sensor the active base-isolation system re-position the main structure in real-time. The research presented in this thesis opens up new opportunities in future seismic risk mitigation of civil structures. By connecting the EEWS and mechatronic devices, the performance of traditional base isolation system can be enhanced.
sj-pdf-1-ojs-10.1177_23259671231220904 – Supplemental material for Prevalence and Site of Concomitant Osteochondral Injuries in Patients With Acute Lateral Patellar Dislocation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yi, Zhi
name: Jiang, Jin
name: Liu, Jinmin
name: Ma, Ming
name: Chen, Yi
name: Teng, Fei
name: Yang, Ao
name: Liu, Zhongcheng
name: Geng, Bin
name: Xia, Yayi
name: Wu, Meng
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ojs-10.1177_23259671231220904 for Prevalence and Site of Concomitant Osteochondral Injuries in Patients With Acute Lateral Patellar Dislocation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Zhi Yi, Jin Jiang, Jinmin Liu, Ming Ma, Yi Chen, Fei Teng, Ao Yang, Zhongcheng Liu, Bin Geng, Yayi Xia and Meng Wu in Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
MPEC 2024-W77 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 November 23)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 7 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 7
Trust transfer between contexts
Creators: name: Buntain, Cody
name: Golbeck, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: Trust transfer
Trust contexts
Trusting behavior
Investment game

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: This paper explores whether trust, developed in one context, transfers into another, distinct context and, if so, attempts to quantify the influence this prior trust exerts. Specifically, we investigate the effects of artificially stimulated prior trust as it transfers across disparate contexts and whether this prior trust can compensate for negative objective information. To study such incidents, we leveraged Berg’s investment game to stimulate varying degrees of trust between a human and a set of automated agents. We then observed how trust in these agents transferred to a new game by observing teammate selection in a modified, four-player extension of the well-known board game, Battleship. Following this initial experiment, we included new information regarding agent proficiency in the Battleship game during teammate selection to see how prior trust and new objective information interact. Deploying these experiments on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform further allowed us to study these phenomena across a broad range of participants. Our results demonstrate trust does transfer across disparate contexts and this inter-contextual trust transfer exerts a stronger influence over human behavior than objective performance data. That is, humans show a strong tendency to select teammates based on their prior experiences with each teammate, and proficiency information in the new context seems to matter only when the differences in prior trust between potential teammates are small.
title: Bildungssysteme in Polen und Österreich im Vergleich unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bologna-Prozesses
Creators: name: Slaje, Justyna Anna
Year: 2009

description: Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um eine systematisch – fachbezogene Terminologiearbeit, welche als Hilfswerk für Übersetzungstätigkeiten dienen soll. Das primäre Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die für das österreichische und polnische Bildungswesen spezifische und aktuelle Terminologie herauszuarbeiten und zu dokumentieren. Neben der Fachterminologie ist es weiters wichtig, möglichst übersichtlich das gegenwärtige österreichische und polnische Bildungssystem gegenüberzustellen, sowie einen historischen Abriss darzustellen, um der Zielgruppe die für die Übersetzungstätigkeiten wichtigen Informationen in einer kurzen und übersichtlichen Form zu liefern. Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist demnach eine historische Herleitung sowohl des österreichischen als auch des polnischen Bildungssystems. Unter dem Motto „Wer die Gegenwart besser verstehen möchte, soll sich zunächst mit der Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen“ wird ein Rückblick in die Geschichte der Bildungssysteme der beiden Länder ausgearbeitet. Diese einleitenden Ausführungen finden sich im Kapitel 2 der Arbeit wieder. Weiters wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich denn die polnischen und österreichischen Bildungswege heutzutage präsentieren (Kapitel 3 und 4). Darunter fallen Aufbau und Beschaffenheit der Elementar-, Primär-, Sekundär- und Tertiärsektoren in beiden Ländern. Im Zusammenhang mit der Analyse des Hochschulwesens wird ein Abschnitt dem Bologna-Prozess gewidmet. Im terminologischen Teil der Arbeit wird zunächst ein Kapitel der Terminologielehre gewidmet, danach folgt ein deutsch – polnisches und polnisch – deutsches Glossar über Bildungssysteme. Die im Glossar angeführten Definitionen sind relativ ausführlich, um die Termini möglichst umfassend zu bestimmen. Das Thema ‚Bildungssysteme’ ist äußerst weitläufig, und kann im Rahmen einer Diplomarbeit nicht abschließend behandelt werden. Daher konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf: a) allgemeine Bestimmungen, b) Bildungseinrichtungen und c) den Bologna - Prozess. Bei der Beschreibung der Schultypen, werden lediglich die bei der Übersetzungstätigkeit wesentlichsten Informationen in Form einer Übersicht dargestellt. Darüber hinaus gehende Bereiche, wie die Bildungsverwaltung oder die Bildungsfinanzierung, aber auch Sonderschulwesen und Erwachsenenbildung konnten nicht mehr Eingang in die vorliegende Arbeit finden.
Corolla chirality does not contribute to directed pollen movement in Hypericum perforatum (Hypericaceae): mirror image pinwheel flowers function as radially symmetric flowers in pollination
Creators: name: Diller, Carolina
name: Fenster, Charles B.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: Disassortative mating
enantiomorphic contort aestivation
floral symmetry
mirror image
pollination
rotational symmetry

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: Corolla chirality, the pinwheel arrangement of petals within a flower, is found throughout the core eudicots. In 15 families, different chiral type flowers (i.e., right or left rotated corolla) exist on the same plant, and this condition is referred to as unfixed/enantiomorphic corolla chirality. There are no investigations on the significance of unfixed floral chirality on directed pollen movement even though analogous mirror image floral designs, for example, enantiostyly, has evolved in response to selection to direct pollinator and pollen movement. Here, we examine the role of corolla chirality on directing pollen transfer, pollinator behavior, and its potential influence on disassortative mating. We quantified pollen transfer and pollinator behavior and movement for both right and left rotated flowers in two populations of Hypericum perforatum. In addition, we quantified the number of right and left rotated flowers at the individual level. Pollinators were indifferent to corolla chirality resulting in no difference in pollen deposition between right and left flowers. Corolla chirality had no effect on pollinator and pollen movement between and within chiral morphs. Unlike other mirror image floral designs, corolla chirality appears to play no role in promoting disassortative mating in this species.
Additional file 8 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 8
Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013
Creators: name: Feng, Kuishuang
name: Davis, Steven J.
name: Sun, Laixiang
name: Hubacek, Klaus
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
description: Fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the United States decreased by ~11% between 2007 and 2013, from 6,023 to 5,377 Mt. This decline has been widely attributed to a shift from the use of coal to natural gas in US electricity production. However, the factors driving the decline have not been quantitatively evaluated; the role of natural gas in the decline therefore remains speculative. Here we analyse the factors affecting US emissions from 1997 to 2013. Before 2007, rising emissions were primarily driven by economic growth. After 2007, decreasing emissions were largely a result of economic recession with changes in fuel mix (for example, substitution of natural gas for coal) playing a comparatively minor role. Energy–climate policies may, therefore, be necessary to lock-in the recent emissions reductions and drive further decarbonization of the energy system as the US economy recovers and grows.
Activation of the endoplasmic reticulum stress response in skeletal muscle of G93A*SOD1 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice
Creators: name: Chen, Dapeng
name: Wang, Yan
name: Chin, Eva R.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
skeletal muscle
endoplasmic reticulum stress
misfolded proteins
muscle atrophy
protein synthesis
unfolded protein response

description: Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.
“The opposite of poverty”: global debt and human rights
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Aisling
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380301
subject: History of economic thought
classificationCode: 440703
subject: Economic development policy
classificationCode: 440899
subject: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: The crisis of unsustainable debt in poor countries that began in the 1970’s has not been resolved despite massive and sustained civil society mobilisations on the issue and the best efforts of International Financial Institutions and Northern governments. As a result of the financial crisis of 2007-08, debt crisis is now a global phenomenon. It is the argument of this thesis that the continued requirement to service unsustainable debt in poor countries forces governments to violate economic and social rights. Furthermore, the democracy, accountability and transparency deficits which plague the infrastructure and processes of the institutions responsible for resolving the crisis are increasingly problematic. Using a critical interpretive approach, this research argues for a human rights approach to debt workout, which places the human person and the environment, rather than the market, at the centrepiece of social arrangements.

This research contends that where governments of poor countries are prioritising the debt-servicing requirement over the satisfaction of core obligations to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, they are in violation of it. It also draws upon Bietz’s (2009) understanding of human rights as a public political practice as a way to conceive of a practical framework within which more expansive problems of global poverty and inequality can be addressed.
title: DEEM — Differential Evolution with Elitism and Multi-populations
Creators: name: Machaček, Jan
name: Siegel, Simon
name: Zachert, Hauke
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2025

description: This paper introduces DEEM (Differential Evolution with Elitism and Multi-populations), a novel heuristic
optimisation algorithm of the Differential Evolution family. DEEM integrates elitism and multi-population
strategies to improve convergence speed and accuracy. Additionally, a diversity-based restart strategy is
employed to significantly reduce the algorithm’s susceptibility to being trapped in local minima. The influence
of algorithm parameter choices on optimisation success is demonstrated through a sensitivity study. The
algorithm’s effectiveness is validated against benchmark functions from CEC 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2022,
showing superior performance compared to state-of-the-art DE algorithms. Additionally, DEEM’s application is
showcased through a complex optimisation problem in the field of geotechnical engineering: the calibration
of advanced constitutive models for predicting the stress–strain behaviour of soils under monotonic and cyclic
loading. This calibration process is notably time-consuming. DEEM not only achieves better objective values
but also does so in fewer iterations, thus significantly reducing computational time.
Applications of Climate Downscaling in the Main Hawaiian Islands: Balancing Climate Modelers’ Products and Impact Modelers’ Expectations
Creators: name: Helweg, David
name: Keener, Victoria
Publisher: name: NCCWSC/CSC
Year: 2017

description: High-resolution projections of future terrestrial climate conditions for the high Hawaiian islands (Hawaiʻi Island, Maui Nui, Oʻahu, and Kauaʻi) have been developed using statistical and dynamical downscaling methods. A “Workshop on Climate Downscaling and its Application in the High Hawaiian Islands” (https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20161102) was held in 2015 to address questions from natural resource managers about how to integrate climate-related projections into their resource management decisions. Since the 2015 workshop, additional climate modeling has been done. New projections for the same places using familiar modeling techniques remained dissimilar, and a completely new modeling effort appears to be producing results unlike either of the two familiar methods. This report summarizes a second workshop, convened in April 2017 by the Pacific Islands Climate Science Center and Pacific RISA. The 2017 workshop focused on discussion of climate modelers’ products and resource climate impact modelers’ expectations. The climate impact modelers are the initial users of downscaled climate projections, and are the active transformers and translators of that information in the pathway between applications of climate prediction science by natural resource managers. The workshop brought together climate modelers and impact modelers working on Hawaiian climate systems, as well as colleagues working on similar issues in Alaska and the Caribbean. In addition to continued support to the climate adaptation community of practice in Hawai‘i, outcomes described in this report include development of modeling narratives for nontechnical audiences, technical guidance for modeling future climate and its impacts, as well as areas for future research.
title: Migration als "Erfolgsgeschichte"
Creators: name: Kreid, Johanna
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt Schwierigkeiten wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Art, mit denen Migranten in Österreich konfrontiert sein können. So werden im theoretischen Teil die geschichtlichen Entwicklungen, sowie Probleme im Schulsystem und am Arbeitsmarkt umrissen. Ebenso zeigt die Diplomarbeit, welche Faktoren den Aufstieg von Migranten in Österreich erschweren können. Ein Kapitel widmet sich der Zweiten Generation. Aus diesem Theorieteil ergaben sich schließlich zentrale Kategorien, die das Leben und den Aufstieg der Zweiten Generation beeinflussen: Die soziale und ökonomische Situation im Elternhaus, der Spracherwerb, die Bildung, erlebte Diskriminierungen, die Berufslaufbahn, und die Beziehung zum Herkunftsland. Im empirischen Teil ist jedem meiner Interviewpartner ein Kapitel gewidmet: Ich befragte sieben Menschen (aus Ungarn, Ex-Jugoslawien, Türkei, Polen, Nigeria), die alle der Zweiten Generation angehören und als Kinder nach Österreich kamen. Meine Fragestellung lautete: Warum haben es gerade diese Menschen der Zweiten Generation „geschafft“, und welche Erklärungen bieten ihre Lebensläufe dafür? Ich führte mit allen Interviewpartnern narrative Interviews durch. Die oben genannten Kategorien arbeitete ich aus den Interviews heraus und setzte sie zueinander in Beziehung. Es zeigte sich, dass die Mehrheit meiner Interviewpartner aus Elternhäusern kam, in denen sie nicht in ökonomisch prekären Situationen leben mussten. Zwei der Interviewten wiederum stammten aus der Türkei, und deren Eltern kamen als „Gastarbeiter“ nach Österreich. Es zeigten sich in der Analyse vielfältige Strategien und Wege, wie die Befragten zu ihrer Ausbildung und ihren Berufen kamen. Ebenso widmet sich ein Kapitel der Initiative black austria, anhand deren Beispiel gezeigt werden soll, wie sich Migrantenorganisationen Gehör verschaffen können.
The optimisation of a method for total selenium analysis and application to cereal grain foods
Creators: name: Elis, Elis
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Cereal based foods, including breakfast cereals and Asian noodles are potentially good sources of selenium. Although these are major foods consumed globally, their contribution to dietary intakes of selenium is unclear. In addition, there has been very limited research into the effect of processing steps on the analysis and apparent retention of selenium. The low levels typically present in foods and the presence of multiple chemical forms of the element provide significant analytical challenges to research in this area. Therefore, the aims of this study were firstly to evaluate and validate procedures for extraction and measurement of selenium in wheat flour. Secondly, the procedure has been applied to analysis of selenium in cereal foods. The methods employed were firstly validated using wheat-based reference materials and then samples of various breakfast cereals as well as d ifferent styles of Asian noodles were analysed. Selenium was extracted using closed- vessels by microwave digestion with a mixture of nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide, followed by determination through Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). The optimum conditions for selenium determination in cereal based foods involved the digestion of 0.1 g samples using 1 mL of nitric acid and 1 mL of hydrogen peroxide. The addition of 1% (v/v) methanol was found to enhance the sensitivity of the ICP-MS system. Two particular isotopes of selenium (77 and 82) could be effectively employed in the analysis and there was no significant decrease in total selenium in the digested extracts during storage for up to twelve days under refrigeration and room temperature conditions. Good precision levels were obtained and the total selenium levels in the breakfast cereal samples ranged from 0.059 to 0.378 µg/g. For white salted noodles the values varied between 0.057 and 0.712 µg/g, for yellow alkaline noodles, 0.1 09 to 0.265 µg/g and 0.077 to 0.284 µg/g for fried instant noodles. There was no apparent change observed in total selenium during the processing of fried instant noodles, indicating the effectiveness of the extraction method developed here. It is concluded that microwave digestion is an effective approach to sample extraction, the procedures validated in this study are suitable for cereal grain foods and that there is considerable variation in the selenium contents of breakfast cereal and Asian noodle products.
Additional file 9 of Development and validation of a patient reported experience measure for experimental cancer medicines (PREM-ECM) and their carers (PREM-ECM-Carer)
Creators: name: Sawyer, Chelsea S.
name: Taylor, Sally
name: Carter, Louise
name: Stanworth, Melissa
name: Davies, Michelle
name: Thistlethwaite, Fiona
name: Taylor, Jo
name: Eastwood, Charlotte
name: Yorke, Janelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 9