cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ecosystem Health of Lake Vänern – Past, Present and Future Research
Creators: name: G. Dave
name: M. Munawar
name: S.-Å. Wängberg
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: The large lakes of Sweden (Vänern, Vättern, Mälaren, and Hjälmaren) have been monitored for more than four decades for water quality conditions to assess the impact of eutrophication from anthropogenic activities. Lake Vänern is basically an oligotrophic lake that showed signs of eutrophication, notably the emergence of algal blooms in the coastal areas (1967–1968). The lake was also contaminated due to the discharge of pulp and paper effluents including metals like mercury. However ecosystem-based information is lacking for Lake Vänern. Consequently a symposium was organized in 2012 by the University of Gothenburg, Mötesplats Vänersborg and the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society to: assess the current status of the health of Lake Vänern's ecosystem, identify knowledge gaps and develop a road map for the future. In this regard, Lake Vänern was compared with the North American Great Lakes to learn from their extensive, long-term data sets. A special issue devoted to the “State of Lake Vänern Ecosystem” (SOLVE) symposium was published in Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management (17:4) including keynotes and contributed papers. The conclusions shown in the appendix summarize the authors' contributions. Most of the papers covered Lake Vänern, but some were directed towards monitoring and management of Great Lakes in general, and others addressed co-operation under the auspices of international agreements and directives. Based on the background information provided by the SOLVE symposium and its publication in the special issue, the conveners decided that a synthesis of the symposium with recommendations for the future would be useful in boosting ecosystem research in Lake Vänern.
Size-Resolved Penetration Through High-Efficiency Filter Media Typically Used for Aerosol Sampling
Creators: name: N. Zíková
name: J. Ondráček
name: V. Ždímal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: We have developed a new, fully controlled filter testing device and have used it to measure size-resolved penetration through a typically used filtration media for (not only) atmospheric aerosol sampling. 20 membrane and fiber filter pieces (mixed cellulose ester filters, Polytetrafluoroethylene filters, quartz fiber filters, glass fiber filters, and Polycarbonate filters) of various manufacturers and filter codes were examined. High variability in the penetration curve shapes, most penetrating particle size (MPPS) (from 20 nm to 90 nm) and penetration maxima (from 0.001 % to almost 100 %) has been found. The dependence of pressure drop on face velocity generally agrees with theory, the comparison of penetration at various face velocities proved the theoretical equations being able to determine MPPS only partially correctly. Although the variability within an individual filter of the same code is not negligible, it is small compared to the differences between the various filter types. The results not only differed from the information provided by the manufacturers, but in many cases also provided information otherwise unavailable, although affecting the sampling and also the ability of comparison with theory. To have enough information for the proper choice of the filter for a given purpose, it would be necessary to have not only total penetration given from the DOP standard measurement, but the MPPS, penetration maximum value and pressure drop as well.
Unified total syntheses of the antibiotic macrolides aldgamycin N and mycinamicin IV & de novo syntheses of their carbohydrate units
Creators: name: Späth, Georg
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Totalsynthese
subject: Antibiotika
subject: Makrolide
subject: Monosaccharide
subject: 540
subject: Antibiotika
subject: Makrolide

description: The present thesis provides a unified total synthesis approach to the 16-membered macrolide antibiotics aldgamycin N and mycinamicin IV. Both natural products represent two distinct series of macrolide targets, which are characterized by a highly conserved “eastern” acid half but subtle variations within their macrocyclic frameworks, as well as their specific glycosides. The unified total syntheses are enabled by the swift assembly of the macrocyclic frameworks by merging individual carbonyl and alkyne modules as the two main synthetic fragments and the subsequent ruthenium-catalyzed transformation of the C–C triple bonds into the key functionalities distinguishing the individual targets. The eastern carbonyl fragments are reached from a single common terminal alkene building block formed on multi-gram scale by an asymmetric vinylogous Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction. Wacker oxidation of the common alkene terminus provides a ketone as the anchor point towards aldgamycin N, while an unprecedented stereo- and branch-selective hydroformylation at this site controlled by a literature-reported rhodium complex furnishes an aldehyde to serve as the handle for the preparation of mycinamicin IV. After combination of these fragments with their respective alkyne counterparts by carbonyl addition and closure of the macrolactone rings by an unusual stannoxane-mediated transesterification, the individual target moieties are forged using ruthenium-catalyzed transformations of the propargylic alcohols obtained from the carbonyl additions. Specifically, these late-stage key steps comprise a regioselective hydrostannation/Chan-Lam-type oxygenative coupling sequence to unveil the acyloin of aldgamycin N, and a rare example of a rearrangement of a secondary propargylic alcohol into the unsaturated ketone of mycinamicin IV. Completion of the target syntheses by attachment of the carbohydrates proved challenging and required close attention to both the timing of the glycosidation events and the exact glycosylation conditions employed. Systematic screening of the glycosylation conditions showcases the crucial distinction in reactivity between different silyl triflates for the activation of trichloroacetimidate donors. The rare branched-chain octose D aldgarose and the basic amino sugar D desosamine, required as the 4,6 dideoxy carbohydrates at the C5 position of both natural products, are also reached by a unified approach. The employed common building block is synthesized using an enantioselective hetero-Diels Alder reaction, and intermediates of both de novo syntheses may serve the practical preparation of other naturally occurring 4,6 dideoxy sugars as well as derivatives thereof.
Cost concerns, not the guidelines, drive clinical care of IBD during COVID pandemic in a resource limited setting
Creators: name: Sharma, Vishal
name: Shukla, Jayendra
name: Suri, Vikas
name: Jena, Anuraag
name: Mukerjee, Anirudh
name: Mandavdhare, Harshal S
name: Bhalla, Ashish
name: Dutta, Usha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cost concerns, not the guidelines, drive clinical care of IBD during COVID pandemic in a resource limited setting
Magnetic endoscopic imaging as a rational investment for specific colonoscopies: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Tan, Xiangzhou
name: Yang, Weimin
name: Wichmann, Doerte
name: Huang, Changhao
name: Mothes, Benedikt
name: Grund, K.E.
name: Chen, Zhikang
name: Chen, Zihua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Magnetic endoscopic imaging (MEI) was regarded as an adjuvant device to improve procedural efficacy and patients’ comfort during colonoscopy. Several electronic databases were searched to identify eligible studies. Based on the heterogeneity of included studies, random-effects or fixed-effects models were used to calculate pooled risk ratios (RR), risk difference (RD) or mean difference (MD) along with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Twenty-one randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were selected for meta-analysis, with a total of 7,060 patients. Although there is a slightly lower risk of cecal intubation failure with the adjuvant of MEI (RD 3%; P The clinical benefits of MEI could be exaggerated. However, MEI has considerable advantages in technically difficult colonoscopies, the assistance for inexperienced colonoscopists, loop resolving, and lesion localization.
Additional file 1 of Dialectical Observation of Controllable Electrodeposited Ni Nanocones: the Unification of Local Disorder and Overall Order
Creators: name: Ruiqing Zou
name: Saidi Xiang
name: Wang, Jian
name: Yuhe Li
name: Gu, Lin
name: Yanyan Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1:.Figure S1. The supplementary of multi-dimensional growth mechanism of global order and local disorder
Extremal and functional dependence between continuous random variables
Creators: name: Strothmann, Christopher
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Copulas
subject: Komplette Abhängigkeit
subject: Randabhängigkeit
subject: 510
subject: Kopula
subject: Mathematik

description: Describing and measuring the dependence between random variables is crucial to inform decisions regarding investments, policies, or even public safety. As the well-known coefficient of correlation cannot discriminate between independence and dependence in nonlinear settings, many other dependence concepts and corresponding measures of dependence have been proposed in the literature. This thesis investigates different dependence concepts for continuous random variables, while a special focus is placed on two particular dependence concepts, namely tail dependence and complete dependence. In the first part of the thesis, we define the tail dependence ordering to consistently compare the degree of extremal dependence encoded in different sets of random variables and discuss corresponding measures of tail dependence, which include the well-known tail dependence coefficient as a special case. Furthermore, we provide conditions under which the tail dependence ordering is equivalent to a localized version of the usual stochastic dominance order. Afterwards, we investigate the tail behaviour of the (generalized) Markov product for copulas and introduce an analogous product structure for tail dependence functions. While this product is similar to the Markov product of copulas in several ways, for instance, regarding its algebraic properties or its connection to a class of linear operators, it exhibits a distinct reduction property allowing us to characterize the dynamic behaviour of n-fold iterates of the Markov product. In the second part, we introduce a novel approach to rearrange a copula C into a unique stochastically increasing copula C↑. By combining measures of concordance such as Spearman's ρ or Kendall's τ with this rearrangement, we construct new measures of complete dependence. These so-called rearranged dependence measures are shown to possess various advantageous properties, e.g. they fulfil the data processing inequality, and are consistent with the underlying concordance measure. Lastly, we consider the theoretical properties of stochastically increasing copulas in more detail. This class of copulas exhibits improved convergence and order properties and includes various well-known copula families such as Gaussian or extreme-value copulas. Most importantly, stochastically increasing copulas fulfil a reduction property very similar to that of tail dependence functions, thus allowing us to characterize idempotents and n-fold iterates as ordinal sums of the independence copula.
D1.12 - Ontology-based digital marketplaces for Industry Commons v1
Creators: name: Chiacchiera, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ontology
Data
Standardisation
Digital marketplaces
Industry Commons

description: OntoCommons (958371) is a Coordination & Support Action funded by the European Commission under the Research and Innovation Framework Programme, Horizon 2020 (H2020). This document contains information on researched by OntoCommons Beneficiaries. Any reference to content in this document should clearly indicate the authors, source, organisation, and publication date. The document has been produced with the funding of the European Commission. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the OntoCommons Consortium, and it cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission. The authors of this document have taken any available measure in order for its content to be accurate, consistent and lawful. However, neither the project consortium as a whole nor the individual partners that implicitly or explicitly participated in the creation and publication of this document hold any sort of responsibility that might occur as a result of using its content.
Experimental assessment of hygrothermal properties of clay – sunflower (helianthus annuus) and rape straw (brassica napus) bio-composites
Creators: name: Brouard, Y.
name: Belayachi, N.
name: Ranganathan, M.
name: Hoxha, D.
name: Méo, S.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this investigation is the experimental characterization of the hygric and thermal properties of four clay/vegetable aggregates mixtures. In order to evaluate the hygrothermal behavior of these biocomposites based on different aggregates, moisture buffer value, sorption/desorption isotherm and thermal conductivity were investigated here. This work is carried out in the framework of the BIOCOMP project which aims to develop those locally produced biocomposites to be used as building’s interior insulating plasters. This, to offer refurbishment solutions for vernacular buildings in Touraine, Center of France. Sunflower stem and rape straw are considered as agricultural byproducts aggregates whereas local clay is used as binder. In this study, the samples were prepared with the following vegetables: rape straw, sunflower bark, sunflower pith and a mix of sunflower pith and bark. For a same binder:aggregates and water;binder weight ratio, we obtained samples with different densities and different properties depending on the aggregates. The hygric and thermal performances of those mixtures make them competitive in comparison to hemp-lime concrete and could therefore offer a wider variety of refurbishment solutions having a low embodied energy.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 2 (2017): Special Issue - ICBBM 2017
Differential Responsiveness in Europe: The Effects of Preference Difference and Electoral Participation
Creators: name: Peters, Yvette
name: Ensink, Sander J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: As a core principle of contemporary democracy, political representation has been the subject of numerous studies. In particular, responsiveness has been thoroughly examined and research suggests that policies tend to reflect citizens’ preferences. However, it has also been argued that, in some instances, responsiveness systematically reflects the preferences of the rich better than those of the poor, hence violating a second democratic principle, that of political equality. While much research has focused on the United States, this study tests whether differential responsiveness also occurs in European democracies and enquires about the structural factors that may cause such inequality. The article examines to what extent the preference gap between the rich and the poor as well as the level of electoral participation can account for variation in differential responsiveness. To do this, a dataset including information on 25 European countries from 2002 to 2010 is constructed and analysed using time-series cross-sectional methods. The findings suggest that European democracies experience differential responsiveness and that the preference gap and level of turnout partly account for this.
The effect of cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) on the water permeability of early aged oil well cement
Creators: name: Dousti, M. R.
name: Boluk, Y.
name: Bindiganavile, V.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2017

description: Well cementing is one of the most crucial steps in any well completion. Oil well cement paste is employed to fill the annulus between the casing string and the well bore. However, since the cementing process takes place at the end of the drilling process, a satisfying and acceptable job may not be performed. When pumped inside the annular space between the casing and the ground formation, oil well cement has to isolate and protect the casing from any kind of damage. Therefore, the durability of the cement paste utilized in oil well cementing is extremely important. In the absence of aggregates, concerns arise both in the short term performance including fluid loss (filtration) and flowability, and in the long term as in shrinkage cracking and permeability of the cementitious slurry. Nowadays, various commercial additives are produced and employed in oil well cements to address the durability issues. In this study, cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) is utilized as a replenishable and non-toxic additive to oil well cement paste, in order to reduce the permeability of the system. Early aged hollow cylindrical specimens dosed with CNC were tested by using a pressurized permeability cell. Furthermore, the water permeability of the specimens were evaluated using Darcy’s law for laminar flow. The results were then compared to the water permeability of neat oil well cement paste with no additive.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 2 (2017): Special Issue - ICBBM 2017
Interstitial Cells of Cajal are Decreased in Patients with Gastroschisis Associated Intestinal Dysmotility
Creators: name: Zani-Ruttenstock, Elke
name: Zani, August
name: Paul, Anu
name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
name: Niyi Ade-Ajayi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Structural Biology
Medicine
Cell Biology
Pathology

description: Background Gastroschisis associated intestinal dysmotility (GAID) is poorly understood. Animal experiments suggest that interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), play an important role. Methods Infants with gastroschisis (GS) and GAID (time to full feed > 42 days) were selected. Age matched GS and control (NEC, ileal atresia, malrotation, and volvulus) samples from primary (T1) and secondary (T2) time points underwent standard histopathology and immunohistochemistry for identification of ICC, followed by evaluation of ICC numbers, distribution, morphology, relation to ganglion cells, and myenteric plexus architecture. Groups were compared using parametric and non-parametric tests. Main Results Twelve patients had samples available for histopathological evaluation. GAID patients had a significantly lower total number of ICC than controls (3 vs. 8, P < 0.0029). ICC number at T1 was 2.5 vs. 6, P=0.0629 and significantly lower at T2. (3.5 vs. 11, P=0.0124). GAID patients did not show a significant increase of ICC from T1 to T2. Controls showed a significant increase of ICC over time (6 vs. 11, P=0.0408). Conclusion Intestinal samples from infants with GAID who underwent stoma formation demonstrated fewer ICC than controls. There was no improvement or cell recovery during the study period. The ability to modulate ICC may have significant implications for the management of GAID.
title: Developing the ruins of the past: cultural heritage preservation and urban regeneration of a historical site in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Almadi, Rasha A.
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2023

description: The overarching aim of this study is to investigate urban regeneration methods to revive historical ruins in the United Kingdom through a case study approach, preserving cultural heritage whilst balancing economic and social development. Winchester was chosen as the case study location due to its historical and cultural significance. The research approach involved theoretical and empirical methods, considering, social, economic, historical, cultural, and environmental aspects in addition to the built environment. Site visits, observational studies and a local stakeholder listening exercise were all conducted as part of the research design process. The study identified areas for potential regeneration within the case study, emphasising the need to improve the connection between Winchester High Street and Cathedral. The proposed interventions aimed to positively impact the area through creating more dynamic social spaces, enhancing visitor movement and duration of stay while preserving cultural heritage.
No go for a flow
Creators: name: Carta, Federico
name: Mininno, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: supersymmetry
enhancement
conformal
flow
central charge
computer
Coulomb

description: We prove that a very large class of $15502$ general Argyres-Douglas theories cannot admit a UV lagrangian which flows to them via the Maruyoshi-Song supersymmetry enhancement mechanism. We do so by developing a computer program which brute-force lists, for any given 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theory $\mathcal{T}_{\text{IR}}$, all possible UV candidate superconformal lagrangians $\mathcal{T}_{\text{UV}}$ satisfying some necessary criteria for the supersymmetry enhancement to happen. We argue that this is enough evidence to conjecture that it is impossible, in general, to find new examples of Maruyoshi-Song lagrangians for generalized Argyres-Douglas theories. All lagrangians already known are, on the other hand, recovered and confirmed in our scan. Finally, we also develop another program to compute efficiently Coulomb branch spectrum, masses, couplings and central charges for $(G,G')$ Argyres-Douglas theories of arbitrarily high rank.
Influence of habitat structure and environmental regime on spatial distribution patterns of macroinvertebrate assemblages associated with seagrass beds in a southern Gulf of Mexico coastal lagoon
Creators: name: Ávila, Enrique
name: Yáñez, Benjamín
name: Vazquez-Maldonado, Laura Elena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Seagrass meadows are important for their ecological functions and ecosystem services, including habitat and shelter for a high diversity of species. The present study aims to assess the spatial distribution patterns of macroinvertebrate assemblages associated with Thalassia testudinum beds in a tropical coastal lagoon of the southern Gulf of Mexico. Environmental variables and core samples were taken from three shallow beds with different degrees of exposure to wind-driven waves: protected, exposed and semi-exposed. A total of 40 benthic macroinvertebrate species were recorded, molluscs being the most important group in terms of diversity and abundance. The highest species richness was recorded at the semi-exposed site (31 species), while the highest abundance was at the exposed site (5207 ind. m−2). Despite inter-site variations in environmental variables and physical descriptors of seagrass (seagrass biomass, shoot density, leaf length), the species richness and abundance of macroinvertebrates correlated only with seagrass biomass. Multivariate analyses showed a clear separation of macroinvertebrate assemblages into two main groups according to the degree of exposure of the sites as exposed/semi-exposed or protected. It was also determined that seagrass biomass, hydrodynamism, sedimentation/resuspension rates and the proportion of coarse particles in the sediment appear to be the variables that best explain the differences between sites. These findings support the importance of including sites with different degrees of exposure in assessing the biodiversity of seagrass beds at the landscape scale, because species composition, species richness and the abundance of associated fauna may vary considerably between sites within the same coastal region according to a combination of biotic and abiotic factors.
Forschungsdaten - Rechte und gute wissenschaftliche Praxis
Creators: name: Dr. Elisabeth Böker
name: Brettschneider, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Forschungsdaten
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Rechte an Forschungsdaten
Forschungsdatenlebenszyklus
Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis

description: Forschungsdaten - Rechte und gute wissenschaftliche Praxis  Warum betreiben wir Forschungsdatenmanagement? Wem gehören eigentlich die Forschungsdaten? Und was ist dabei in Bezug auf die DFG Leitlinien zur guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis zu beachten? Diese drei Fragen beantworten wir in dem praxisnah angelegten Schulung "Forschungsdaten – Rechte und gute wissenschaftliche Praxis". Dies sind die Foliensätze zur Schulung. Die Module sind zudem auch einzeln publiziert: 1. Warum Forschungsdatenmanagement?  2. Wem „gehören“ Forschungsdaten? 3. Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis im Forschungsdatenmanagement Dr. Elisabeth Böker arbeitet am Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum der Universität Konstanz und ist Projektkoordinatorin der baden-württembergisches Landesinitiative bw2FDM. Zudem hat sie die Chefredaktion der Informationsplattform forschungsdaten.info inne.
 Peter Brettschneider arbeitet ebenfalls am Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum der Universität Konstanz. Er ist als Fachreferent Rechtswissenschaften und Projektmitarbeiter der baden-württembergisches Landesinitiative bw2FDM tätig.
Form perception and neural feedback: insights from V1 and V2
Creators: name: Jeans, Rhiannon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience

description: In the brain, every cortical inter-area feedforward projection shares a reciprocal feedback connection. Despite its pervasive nature in the brain, our understanding of the functional role of neural feedback in form perception remains incomplete, particularly in behaving animals. This problem is addressed in humans with a novel form completion paradigm. Seven subjects (5 female) had their EEG waveforms analysed using three linear models showing non-significant differences between stimulus conditions designed to produce differences by manipulating neural feedback to V1. Two of these subjects (one female), in addition to EEG waveforms, had combined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) cortical maps that allowed anatomically close areas such as V1 and V2 to have their signals decomposed and neural feedback inferred. Differences between stimulus conditions arose once signals had been divided into V1 and V2. Significant differences (p < .05) for one subject in V1 and V2 suggests cortical interactions at 100ms and 350ms. This suggests the form completion paradigm has utility at investigating the influence of the V2 far receptive field surround on V1, given future given signal to noise issues are resolved.
title: Investigation of the mixed-symmetric one-quadrupole phonon 2⁺₁,ms state of the heavy nucleus ²⁰⁴Hg
Creators: name: Stegmann, R.
name: Stahl, C.
name: Rainovski, G.
name: Pietralla, N.
name: Möller, T.
name: Lettmann, M.
name: Janssens, R. V. F.
name: Carpenter, M.
name: Zhu, S.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: Low-energy quadrupole-collective excitations of isovector character, the so-called states with proton-neutron mixed-symmetric character (MSS), have been investigated in ²⁰⁴Hg which is the sole stable nucleus in the straight vicinity of ²⁰⁸Pb exhibiting a 2π — 2ν structure. A ¹²C(²⁰⁴Hg,²⁰⁴Hg*)¹²C projectile Coulomb-excitation experiment at 890MeV was performed at Argonne National Laboratory using the ATLAS accelerator. γ-rays originating from the decay of the excited states of ²⁰⁴Hg were detected using the GAMMASPHERE spectrometer. The measured Coulomb-excitation yields provide the B(M1) and the B(E2) strength distributions which unambiguously reveal the 2⁺₃ state at 1948 keV as the one-phonon MSS of ²⁰⁴Hg.
Soziale Arbeit in Unternehmen: Eine Analyse aus einer soziokulturell-animatorischen Perspektive
Creators: name: Herger, Martina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Die vorliegende Bachelor-Arbeit betrachtet das Arbeitsfeld der Sozialen Arbeit in privatwirtschaftlichen Betrieben aus einer soziokulturellen Perspektive und leitet daraus mögliche Handlungsfelder der Soziokulturellen
 Animation ab. Dies geschieht anhand der folgenden vier zentralen Fragestellungen: 1. Wie funktionieren Unternehmen und 2. wie wirkt sich dies auf die Soziale Arbeit im Betrieb aus, 3. wie sollte Soziale Arbeit im Betrieb
 aussehen, wenn Soziokulturelle Animation ein Teil davon sein soll, 4. welche Rahmenbedingungen und Unternehmensprinzipien sind für eine Umsetzung von Soziokultureller Animation notwendig, was können
 Fachpersonen der Soziokulturellen Animation tun, um ihr soziokulturelles Fachwissen im Bereich der Sozialen Arbeit im Betrieb künftig einzubringen? Den Fragestellungen entsprechend werden die bisherigen Entwicklungen
 in Kapitel zwei und drei beleuchtet, in Kapitel drei wird ein Überblick über das aktuelle Arbeitsfeld der Sozialen Arbeit in Betrieben gegeben, in Kapitel vier abgeleitet, welche Kompetenzen der Soziokulturellen
 Animation für die Soziale Arbeit im Betrieb nutzbar sind und welche Rahmenbedingungen dafür gegeben sein müssten. Im Rahmen der Bachelor-Arbeit wird sichtbar, dass die Entwicklungen in den Unternehmungen
 und die daraus resultierenden Arbeitsmodelle sowohl Potential als auch Herausforderungen für soziokulturelle Arbeitsweisen bieten. In Kapitel fünf werden als Beispiel drei mögliche Profile der Soziokulturellen
 Animation konstruiert, um mögliche Wirkungsfelder der Soziokultur aufzuzeigen. Am Ende zeigt ein Blick in die Zukunft, welche nächsten Schritte Interessierte weiterverfolgen müssten, wenn sie eine Zusammenarbeit
 anstreben möchten.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask be 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202001
Synthesis, characterization and electrocatalytic behavior of cobalt and iron phthalocyanines bearing chromone or coumarin substituents
Creators: name: Chohan, Sumayya
name: Booysen, Irvin Noel
name: Mambanda, Allen
name: Akerman, Matthew Piers
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Cobalt and iron phthalocyanines (Pcs) bearing peripherally tetra-substituted chromone (chr) or coumarin (cou) moieties were formulated and characterized by UV–Vis and FTIR spectroscopy, ESI-TOF mass spectrometry, and elemental analysis. The structural elucidations of the ligands, 4-(chromone-7-oxy)phthalonitrile (1) and 4-(4-(trifluoromethyl)-coumarin-7-oxy)phthalonitrile (2) were complemented by NMR spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray analysis (for 1). The redox properties of the complexes were investigated via voltammetry and the subsequent voltammetric assignments were corroborated by UV–Vis spectroelectrochemistry. Each metal complex displayed four redox processes of which their Pc ring oxidations are irreversible and the remaining redox couples are quasi-reversible. Utilizing the respective metallophthalocyanines, modified working electrodes were prepared by electropolymerization and their electrocatalytic activities toward nitrite oxidation were explored. All the metal complexes showed an increase in nitrite oxidation currents and a minor decrease in oxidation potentials which is indicative of electrocatalysis. The trend of electrocatalytic activity was found to be as follows: CoPc–chr (3) > FePc–cou (4) > CoPc–cou (5).
Living wall influence on microclimates: An indoor case study
Creators: name: Gunawardena, KR
name: Steemers, K
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Subjects: 51 Physical Sciences
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

description: Abstract To address the call for developing passive climate resilience strategies, the project examines the influence and effectiveness of utilising vertical greening for reducing space-conditioning loads of urban buildings and surrounding microclimates. By examining this focus, the project aims to improve the design of urban built environments that would in turn lead to health and wellbeing enhancements of their growing populations. The purpose of this paper is to present preliminary findings from a monitoring campaign carried out at an indoor atrium case study in Cambridge, UK. Key parameters monitored included soil, surface, and air temperature; relative humidity; and surface air movement. Results obtained show relatively lower air temperature and higher relative humidity levels proximate to the living wall. Wintertime monitoring has also indicated a surface flow pattern that demonstrates the presence of a modest downdraught effect. Although these modifications are modest in magnitude, they could still offer significant localised thermal comfort benefit to building occupants, as well as potential for contributing to a reduced space-conditioning load.
title: Improvement of the healthcare service system: the upper northern hospital network of Thailand
Creators: name: Paiyarom, Chalisa
name: Kasemset, Chompoonoot
name: Khwanngern, Krit
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2021

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Organizacja i Zarządzanie, 84, 125-143
Synthesis, characterization and electrocatalytic behavior of cobalt and iron phthalocyanines bearing chromone or coumarin substituents
Creators: name: Chohan, Sumayya
name: Booysen, Irvin Noel
name: Mambanda, Allen
name: Akerman, Matthew Piers
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Cobalt and iron phthalocyanines bearing peripherally tetra-substituted chromone (chr) or coumarin (cou) moieties were formulated and characterized by UV-Vis and FT-IR spectroscopy, ESI-TOF mass spectrometry and elemental analysis. The structural elucidations of the ligands, 4-(chromone-7-oxy)phthalonitrile (1) and 4-(4-(trifluoromethyl)-coumarin-7-oxy)phthalonitrile (2) were complemented by NMR spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray analysis (for 1). The redox properties of the complexes were investigated via voltammetry and the subsequent voltammetric assignments were corroborated by UV-Vis spectroelectrochemistry. Each metal complex displayed four redox processes of which their Pc ring oxidations are irreversible and the remaining redox couples are quasi-reversible. Utilizing the respective MPcs, modified working electrodes were prepared by electropolymerization and their electrocatalytic activities towards nitrite oxidation were explored. All the metal complexes showed an increase in nitrite oxidation currents and a minor decrease in oxidation potentials which is indicative of electrocatalysis. The trend of electro-catalytic activity was found to be as follows: CoPc-chr (3) > FePc-cou (4) > CoPc-cou (5).
On the exploitation of DCT-traces in the Generative-AI domain
Creators: Orazio Pontorno
Luca Guarnera
Sebastiano Battiato
Publisher: name: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Year: 2024

description: Deepfakes represent one of the toughest challenges in the world of Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics, especially considering the high-quality results obtained with recent generative AI-based solutions. Almost all generative models leave unique traces in synthetic data that, if analyzed and identified in detail, can be exploited to improve the generalization limitations of existing deepfake detectors. In this paper we analyzed deepfake images in the frequency domain generated by both GAN and Diffusion Model engines, examining in detail the underlying statistical distribution of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients. Recognizing that not all coefficients contribute equally to image detection, we hypothesize the existence of a unique ``discriminative fingerprint", embedded in specific combinations of coefficients. To identify them, Machine Learning classifiers were trained on various combinations of coefficients. In addition, the Explainable AI (XAI) LIME algorithm was used to search for intrinsic discriminative combinations of coefficients. Finally, we performed a robustness test to analyze the persistence of traces by applying JPEG compression. The experimental results reveal the existence of traces left by the generative models that are more discriminative and persistent at JPEG attacks.
When will my PLC support Mirai? The security economics of large-scale attacks against Internet-connected ICS devices
Creators: name: Dodson, M
name: Beresford, AR
name: Thomas, DR
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2020
Subjects: 46 Information and Computing Sciences
4604 Cybersecurity and Privacy
16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

description: For nearly a decade, security researchers have highlighted the grave risk presented by Internet-connected Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Predictions of targeted and indiscriminate attacks have yet to materialise despite continued growth of a vulnerable population of devices. We investigate the missing attacks against ICS, focusing on large-scale attacks enabled by Internet-connected populations. We fingerprint and track more than 10\,000 devices over four years to confirm that the population is growing, continuously-connected, and unpatched. We also track 150\,000 botnet hosts, monitor 120 global ICS honeypots, and sift 70 million underground forum posts to show that the cybercrime community has little competence or interest in the ICS domain. Attackers may be dissuaded by the high cost of entry, the fragmented ICS population, and limited onboard resources; however, this justification is incomplete. We use a series of case studies to develop a security economics model for large-scale attacks against Internet-connected populations in general, and use it to explain both the current lack of interest in ICS and the features of Industry 4.0 that will make the domain more accessible and attractive to attackers.
title: The social life of money among Ghanaian Londoners
Creators: name: Puskas, Ashley
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2020

description: This thesis is an ethnographic examination of the social role that money plays in the lives of Ghanaian Londoners, and sits at the intersection of money and community making. By focusing on money’s presence in four key spheres of social interaction for my informants (remittance giving, Christian faith, love and marriage and households), I am able to trace money’s integral role in the lives of the members of this community. By drawing on moral economies and wealth in people frameworks, this work seeks to demonstrate how my informants preserve certain understandings of personhood and cultural practices in London’s neoliberal environment by productively adapting them to navigate and negotiate life in the diaspora. These practices, which embed social relations within monetary exchange and vice versa, then inform the value they attribute to money and perceptions of market economies. I also demonstrate how these different forms of monetary transaction operate alongside different timescales of reciprocity, allowing my informants to strategically address short, mid and long term needs and goals. Thus, my informants tactically engage with different transactions in different realms of social interaction at different times in their life course to address both near and distant futures. Therefore, this work represents a contribution to anthropological theory on timescales of reciprocity. Furthermore, this work provides a contribution to the empirical anthropological literature through its examination of intimate relations, changing gender norms and gendered divisions of labour in households with regard to monetary expenditure and ownership. This demonstrates the extent to which migration, gendered expectations, customary values, and Christian Pentecostal beliefs all intersect to impact the ways that money impacts gender relations in the diaspora.
Hygrothermal behaviour of a hemp concrete block, experimental and numerical results
Creators: name: Asli, M.
name: Brachelet, F.
name: Antczak, E.
name: Defer, D.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2017

description: Most building materials, and more particularly bio-based materials, are subjected to hygrothermal transfers in the environment in which they are disposed. These transfers depend on the thermophysical characteristics and the ambient humidity and temperature conditions. In this environment and despite these variations, the material must be able to ensure in a sustainable manner, the functions for which it was implemented (thermal, mechanical, acoustic ...). In this paper we treated the coupled heat and mass transfer within bio-based building material problematic. We have chosen the hemp concrete and we proceed as follow: a thermophysical characterizations are done, in order to obtain the thermal, hygroscopic and physical properties of hemp concrete. These values are then used as input parameters for a numerical modelling. Philip and De Vries mathematical model which predicts heat and mass transfer within porous media is implemented. The model takes into account thermal and hygric transfer phenomenon. For the purpose of the model validation, experimental facility is carried out, which consist of monitoring a sample made of hemp concrete. The temperature and relative humidity are recorded with temperature and humidity sensors placed at the interface and inside the material. The sample is positioned into the wall of laboratory, in order to separate the inside and the outside conditions. The sample is submitted to real indoor and outdoor ambient conditions. We aim to investigate the hygrothermal behaviour of hemp concrete and observe its response versus ambient variation on the one hand, and to assess the mathematical model’s ability to predict the hygrothermal behaviour on the other hand. The experimental and the modelled results are compared and then discussed.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 2 (2017): Special Issue - ICBBM 2017
Defect engineering applied on zirconium(IV)-based MOFs to improve encapsulation of β-alanine
Creators: name: Barandika, Gotzone
name: Muguruza, Asier R.
name: Fernandez de Luis, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Metal Organic Frameworks
Alanine
Adsorption

description: This work reports on the MOF-type compound UiO-66 (nominal formula is
 [Zr6O4(OH)4(BDC)6]) [2] and some derivatives that have been used as hosts for antibacterial
 agent guest β-alanine.
Assessment of hygrothermal behaviour of an experimental timber-framed house
Creators: name: Guernouti, S.
name: Borderon, J.
name: Gauvrit, J.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2017

description: The context of very high energy efficiency and the development of bio-materials bring new questions about heat and mass transfer and their impact on the actual energy performance, comfort, health and the risk of components degradation. This is particularly true for old buildings built before 1948 with very hygroscopic materials. If the humidity has an effect on the thermal performance of the building envelope, it influences also the interaction between the building and it constituent materials and the air indoor quality, and therefore, the effects on the comfort and occupant health (risk of mould growth). Indeed, the preservation of envelope components is based on a hygrothermal balance of parts that constitute it. Any intervention on buildings that shifts this balance can cause disorders. In particular, a thermal insulation of walls when it's poorly designed or badly implemented can generate condensation in walls or on their surfaces and cause structural pathologies. To provide some answers to these questions, an experimental timber-framed cell was constructed. It allows the study of both global and detailed hygrothermalbehavior at both wall and building scales. It is a timber-framed and cob cell with two zones (dry and wet) of about 16m² with two mechanical systems of ventilation (double-flow ventilation and Positive Input Ventilation). The aim of this paper is to present the hygrothermalbehavior of this cell without and with insulation under several boundaries condition. The experimental cell and its monitoring set-up are presented. Four configurations are studied: Case1: without both ventilation and insulation; Case2: with mechanical ventilation and without insulation; Case3: with both mechanical ventilation and internal thermal insulation; Case4: without ventilation and with internal thermal insulation. The indicators of hygrothermal comfort and of risks of pathologies related to humidity are calculated and compared for the studied configurations.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 2 (2017): Special Issue - ICBBM 2017
Mixed-effect models for longitudinal responses with different types of dropout: an application to the Leiden 85-plus study
Creators: name: A. Spagnoli
name: J.J. Houwing-Duistermaat
name: M. Alfó
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology

description: Longitudinal studies on cognitive functioning in geriatric populations usually cover short follow-up times and may be influenced by different sources of selection: only a portion of the designed sample may agree to participate in the study, and only some of the participants may complete the study. Motivated by a real-life data example, we discuss a variance component model with two peculiar features. First, we account for differences in individual status when entering the study by defining a flexible association structure between baseline and subsequent responses, where individual characteristics influencing entrance and participation in the follow-up are jointly modelled. Second, since we may argue that death and non-participation could not be treated as equivalent reasons for dropout, we introduce a pattern mixture model that takes into account the information on the time spent in the study and the reasons for dropout. The model is applied to data on cognitive functioning from the Leiden 85+ study, and its performance is analysed through a large-scale simulation study.