cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Lithium (Li) mineral characterization of drill cores and hand specimens: supporting exploration with rapid mineralogy mapping
Creators: name: Menzies, Andrew
name: Ferreira, Jorge
name: Avila, Paula
name: Kelly, Nigel
name: Tagle, Roald
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Batteries are a key part of the energy transition. Lithium(Li)-ion batteries are currently the main source of energy storage in the market and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future. Lithium is currently regarded as a “critical mineral” both for central role in rapidly developing electric technologies and a predicted shortfall in production versus expected demand. Therefore, identification of new resources is both economically and strategically important, driving a boom in Li exploration.

Like other metals, exploration for hard-rock lithium resources faces the challenge of how to bridge scales and dimensions of observations, from field-scale (in 3D-4D) down to laboratory-based imaging and analysis (3D-2D). Moreover, the ability to identify and characterize Li mineralogy present in a sample is important in understanding potential economics of a deposit, including the required mineral processing to extract the Li resource. Combined micro-XRF and Automated Mineralogy (AMICS) is capable of high-speed analysis at the micrometer scale that can identify a wide range of Li mineralogy non-destructively in minimally prepared drill core samples, thus providing valuable information early in exploration. This case study will present mineral characterization from a number of potential lithium resources in Portugal. Preliminary results suggest significant added value of the micro-XRF approach, where a much-improved mineral-textural understanding aids exploration and ongoing evaluation of deposit potential.
Additional file 1 of Hypoglycaemia in older home-dwelling people with diabetes- a scoping review
Creators: name: Hermann, Monica
name: Heimro, Lovise S.
name: Haugstvedt, Anne
name: Hernar, Ingvild
name: Sigurdardottir, Arun K.
name: Graue, Marit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1. Medline search strategy (Literature search performed July 2nd 2018).
title: Puberty in a Mesozoic reptile
Creators: name: Li, Qiang
name: Liu, Jun
name: Klein, Nicole
name: Nakajima, Yasuhisa
name: Sander, P. Martin
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
The histology of bone can be preserved virtually unaltered for hundreds of millions of years in fossils from all environments and all vertebrate taxa, giving rise to the flourishing field of paleohistology. The shafts of long bones are formed by the apposition of periosteal bone tissue, similar to the growth of wood, and preserve (an often cyclical) record of the growth of the individual and events in its life history. One such event is sexual maturation or puberty, during which hormonal changes transform the juvenile into a sexually mature adult. Puberty has been well studied in humans and some other living vertebrates. Here we describe puberty in Keichousaurus, a small sexually dimorphic and live-bearing marine reptile from Middle Triassic rocks of SW China, about 240 million years old. Using a combination of bone histology and morphology, we detected puberty as one of four life stages (the others being foetus, juvenile, and adult). Adult Keichousaurus males have a more robust humerus than females with pronounced muscle attachment sites and a triangular shaft cross section. Mid-shaft sections of the humeri of the males show the transition from the rounded juvenile cross section to the triangular adult cross section, as reflected in the contour of the growth marks. This shape change is produced by differential bone apposition of the periosteum, presumably triggered by sex hormones, as in humans, and influenced by changes in loading regime during puberty. This is the first report of puberty in a fossil amniote.
Homoclinic orbits and chaos in a pair of parametrically-driven coupled nonlinear resonators
Creators: name: Kenig, Eyal
name: Tsarin, Yuriy A.
name: Lifshitz, Ron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of a pair of parametrically-driven coupled nonlinear mechanical resonators of the kind that is typically encountered in applications involving microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS). We take advantage of the weak damping that characterizes these systems to perform a multiple-scales analysis and obtain amplitude equations, describing the slow dynamics of the system. This picture allows us to expose the existence of homoclinic orbits in the dynamics of the integrable part of the slow equations of motion. Using a version of the high-dimensional Melnikov approach, developed by Kovacic and Wiggins [Physica D, 57, 185 (1992)], we are able to obtain explicit parameter values for which these orbits persist in the full system, consisting of both Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian perturbations, to form so-called Shilnikov orbits, indicating a loss of integrability and the existence of chaos. Our analytical calculations of Shilnikov orbits are confirmed numerically.
title: Responses of alluvial river networks to environmental change: Integrating geomorphic and stratigraphic archives
Creators: name: McNab, Fergus
name: Schildgen, Taylor F.
name: Turowski, Jens M.
name: Wickert, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Alluvial river networks are key components of sedimentary systems. They transport sediment, supplied from eroding source regions, to downstream depositional sinks. Their slopes and the rates at which they transport sediment are controlled by their water and sediment supplies, which are sensitive to environmental conditions: temperature and precipitation rates influence erosion rates, and hence sediment supply; precipitation rates are also a first order control on water supply. Changes in sediment and water supply therefore drive changes in channel slope, which may be preserved in fluvial terrace sequences, and sediment-transport rates, which may be preserved in downstream stratigraphic records. Consequently, if we can understand this behaviour, we may be able to use geomorphic and stratigraphic archives to reconstruct past environmental change and its influence on landscapes. Here, we apply a physically based model describing the coupled evolution of sediment transport and slope along alluvial rivers. We show that aggradation, incision, and variation in sediment-transport rates can be damped and lag significantly behind environmental change, depending on the forcing timescale, and on network geometry and hydrology. When water supply is varied, variation in sediment output can in some cases be amplified and appear to lead the imposed forcing. These effects should be taken into account when interpreting fluvial terrace and sedimentary records. Contrasting patterns of aggradation and incision compared with sediment-transport rates implies that integrating information from geomorphic and stratigraphic archives will provide deeper paleo-climatic insights and a powerful test of our understanding of sedimentary systems.
Sex, drugs, and genes: Illuminating the moral condemnation of recreational drugs
Creators: name: Karinen, Annika
name: Wesseldijk, Laura
name: Jern, Patrick
name: Tybur, Joshua
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: drug condemnation
subject: drugs
subject: evolutionary psychology
subject: genetic effects
subject: morality
subject: sociosexuality
subject: twin study

description: Data, scripts, and materials for Sex, drugs, and genes: Illuminating the moral condemnation of recreational drugs.
Häufigkeit von Fege- und Schlagspuren inner- und ausserhalb der Tageseinstände von Rothirschen im Berner Mittelland
Creators: name: Kupferschmid, Andrea Doris
name: Georgin, Arthur
name: Willisch, Christian
Publisher: name: Schweizerischer Forstverein
Year: 2023

description: Im Schweizer Mittelland hat die Zahl der Rothirsche in den vergangenen Jahren zugenommen. Auch räumlich haben sich die Tiere ausgebreitet. Im Längwald (BE) haben wir untersucht, wie häufig Bäume an Orten mit unterschiedlicher Rothirschpräsenz (Tageseinstände, Transitzonen, Bereiche ohne bestätigte Präsenz) Fege- und Schlagspuren aufwiesen, welche Baumarten betroffen waren und ob diese Spuren durch Rothirsch oder Reh verursacht wurden. Fege- und Schlagspuren wurden signifikant häufiger im inneren Bereich der Rothirsch-Tageseinstände festgestellt. Die häufigsten Baumarten im Längwald waren Fichte, Weisstanne, Ahorn und Buche. Die Weisstanne wurde häufiger gefegt und geschlagen als die Fichte. Die Buche und der Ahorn wiesen wenig Fegeund Schlagspuren auf. Prozentual am häufigsten wurden Waldföhre, Douglasie und Kastanie gefegt und geschlagen. Die meisten Bäume waren nur leicht betroffen. Höhe und Ausdehnung der Wunden lassen den Schluss zu, dass der Grossteil der Spuren innerhalb und direkt ausserhalb der Tageseinstände durch Rothirsche verursacht wurde. Dies bedeutet, dass in künftigen Gebieten der Rothirsche zumindest lokal in deren Tageseinständen mit mehr Fege- und Schlagschäden zu rechnen ist.
title: The Muskau Arch - a geomorphological and geophysical approach on glacial tectonics
Creators: name: Donke, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
The Muskau Arch (MA) is located in the border area of the federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony and Poland.

The Muskau Arch is part of the main Warthian terminal moraine in Germany. With its U-shaped form, it is the southernmost extension of the Warthe glaciation in Germany. The width reaches c. 20 km and the arc depth c. 22 km.

The morphology of the Muskau Arch is characterized by compression, folding and overthrusting of Tertiary strata. Including special features, such as a multitude of Gieser structures or folded Pleistocene channel deposits. The so-called Gieser (Wendish Jeser/ jezero: swamp) are terrain furrows with a maximum depth of 20 m, a width of 10 m to 30 m and a length of up to several kilometers. Thus they represent a characteristic geomorphological element. They were formed by weathering and oxidation of the tertiary lignite seams, which were folded by glacial deformations.

In addition to these structures, there are further glacial forms in the area of the Muskau Arch, which are partly visible in the morphology and partly can only be mapped as glacial structures by geological exploration.

In this Study glacitectonic structures (i.e. diapirs, rupture structures, folding and faulting) are analysed and reconstructed focussing on scales, depth range characteristic shapes. These structural geological investigations were based on geophysical methods (near-seismic, gravimetry, geoelectric soundings and mapping as well as borehole geophysical measurements).
Observational Scan Induced Artificial CMB Anisotropy
Creators: name: Liu, Hao
name: Li, Ti-Pei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To reliably detect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is of great importance in understanding the birth and evolution of the Universe. One of the difficulties in CMB experiments is the domination of measured CMB anisotropy maps by the Doppler dipole moment from the motion of the antenna relative to the CMB. For each measured temperature the expected dipole component has to be calculated separately and then subtracted from the data. A small error in dipole direction, antenna pointing direction, sidelobe pickup contamination, and/or timing synchronism, can raise significant deviation in the dipole cleaned CMB temperature. After a full-sky observational scan, the accumulated deviations will be structured with a pattern closely correlated to the observation pattern with artificial anisotropies on large scales, including artificial quadrupole, octopole etc in the final CMB map. Such scan-induced anisotropies on large scales can be predicted by the true dipole moment and observational scan scheme. Indeed, the expected scan-induced quadrupole pattern of the WMAP mission is perfectly in agreement with the published WMAP quadrupole. With the scan strategy of the Planck mission, we predict that scan-induced anisotropies will also produce an artificially aligned quadrupole. The scan-induced anisotropy is a common problem for all sweep missions and, like the foreground emissions, has to be removed from observed maps. Without doing so, CMB maps from COBE, WMAP, and Planck as well, are not reliable for studying the CMB anisotropy.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Yukawa Alignment in a Multi Higgs Doublet Model: An effective approach
Creators: name: Serodio, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the two Higgs doublet model, natural flavour conservation can be achieved through the use of a discrete Z2 symmetry. A less restrictive condition is the requirement of alignment in the Yukawa sector. So far, alignment has been an anzatz, not rooted in a specific model. In this letter we present a model for alignment, which starts with 2+N Higgs doublets, with natural flavour conservation imposed by a discrete symmetry. Only two of these scalars couple to the fermions, the other N scalars are in a hidden sector. Assuming that the two scalar doublets coupled to fermions are heavy, their decoupling leads to an effective Yukawa interaction. The latter connects the fermions and the scalars of the hidden sector, and exhibits the same Yukawa coupling matrix for each of the N scalars.
description: 7 pages
title: Vital effects in biogenic carbonates in triple oxygen isotope space
Creators: name: Herwartz, Daniel
name: Klipsch, Swea
name: Bajnai, David
name: Raddaz, Jacek
name: Davies, Amelia
name: Gischler, Eberhard
name: Fiebig, Jens
name: Pack, Andreas
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Carbonate δ18O and Δ47 are used to reconstruct paleotemperatures. Because biogenic carbonate does not form in full equilibrium with seawater, species-specific temperature calibration curves are required for accurate temperature estimates. Apparent growth temperatures derived from corals, however, are generally inaccurate due to large and variable kinetic isotope effects, often termed “vital effect”. Triple oxygen isotope systematics can help identify if an organism forms carbonate in equilibrium with ambient water or not and thus if the δ18O and Δ47 values provide accurate paleotemperatures. In addition, the chemical nature of the “vital effect” can be identified, because individual kinetic effects fall on characteristic trajectories in triple oxygen isotope space.

To examine these concepts a series of cold water and warm water corals as well as brachiopods are analyzed for δ18O and δ17O (expressed as Δ’17O) using the CO2 spectrometer (TILDAS; Aerodyne Research) installed in Göttingen. Samples formed in equilibrium are expected to fall on the equilibrium curve. Most samples fall below the curve providing evidence that their oxygen isotope composition is biased by kinetic effects. We suggest that the “vital effect” in corals is dominated by a CO2 absorption effect. Similar conclusions are derived from dual clumped (Δ47 and Δ48) isotope analyses of the same samples [1]. These authors suggested to correct for kinetic effects by back extrapolation to the “dual clumped” equilibrium line. The same concept can be applied in triple oxygen isotope space by back-extrapolation to the “triple oxygen isotope” equilibrium line.

[1] Davies et al. (2022). GCA 338, 66–78.
title: Strategies for Developing Student Geoscience Identity
Creators: name: Locke, Sharon M
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Countries around the world are reporting a decline in student interest in geoscience careers, even as the need for trained geoscientists who can help solve global challenges in sustainability is becoming more urgent. This “geoscience crisis” is attributed to learners’ insufficient exposure to geosciences in the school curriculum, resulting from both lack of content and low teacher confidence in geoscience topics. Our team developed and studied an extracurricular programme of field excursions and mentored research to increase geoscience career interest among students who were in their first or second year of university but had not yet chosen their degree programme. Using the conceptual framework of social influence, the research team employed longitudinal surveys and interviews to examine geoscience identity and sense of belonging in the geosciences. The results showed that the programme had positive outcomes, with student geoscience identity emerging or increasing as students progressed. Field excursions led by an interdisciplinary faculty team were the pivotal component for increasing students’ belief that they could become a geoscientist and for enhancing student awareness of the importance of geosciences to society. The project affirms the critical need to increase teacher knowledge and skills to teach earth system science in field settings at primary and secondary level, well in advance of students choosing their university major. Field trip design should include activities that ask students to apply geoscience understandings to future Earth scenarios. This teaching approach reinforces for students that the geoscience profession has a role in our sustainable future.
The nature of allegory : spatial tropes in medieval and early modern allegorical narratives
Creators: name: Bergen, Richard Angelo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation offers an analysis of spatial tropes, amounting to an explication of geographic symbolism in allegorical narratives. In the past, the genre-defining trope of allegory has overwhelmingly been personification, which involves metaphors of psychic interiority or abstraction made into characters. However, topographical metaphors are at least as frequent and arguably as prominent in these stories. If allegory is best defined as extended metaphor, the key trope of these stories involves spatial extension for the metaphor of the way or the road in these narratives, with their various sites of instruction and conflict. This work of research proposes and analyzes seven morphogenetic topologies in allegorical narratives: 1) the use of abstract labels for places, 2) distribution of the fragments of a self throughout a series of places indicating psychic inflection in landscape, 3) references to the “book of nature” in tandem with narrative moments or digressions for the application of hermeneutical methods to topographical structures, 4) indexical symmetries or contraventions of normal spatial scale (mimesis), 5) the tying of abstract topic to differentiated topography, 6) the embodiment in space of significative temporalities, 7) and spatial disorientation vis-à-vis gestures toward a sub specie aeternitatis. The basis for these tropes can be found in habits of mind developed in allegorical interpretations of epics and the Bible, cosmological encyclopedias and medieval works of De Natura Rerum, as well as arts of memory. This dissertation also aims to show that although allegorical works constantly subvert “realism”, they still reveal intense interest in “local”, “literal”, and “historical” concerns of a topographical or architectural nature. A majority of the analysis of this dissertation is done in primary consideration of several key authors (William Langland, Stephen Hawes, Edmund Spenser, and John Bunyan), whose works represent different instantiations of allegory in the Late Medieval and Early Modern eras.
Additional file 2 of Rationale and design of the validation of bladder health instrument for evaluation in women (VIEW) protocol
Creators: name: Lukacz, Emily S.
name: Constantine, Melissa L.
name: Low, Lisa Kane
name: Lowder, Jerry L.
name: Markland, Alayne D.
name: Mueller, Elizabeth R.
name: Newman, Diane K.
name: Rickey, Leslie M.
name: Rockwood, Todd
name: Rudser, Kyle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Marine Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. 1-Day Bladder Diary. Demonstrates 24 h frequency volume diary used as criterion measure.
Ultimate on-chip quantum amplifier
Creators: name: Astafiev, O.
name: Abdumalikov, A. A.
name: Zagoskin, A. M.
name: Pashkin, Yu. A.
name: Nakamura, Y.
name: Tsai, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report amplification of electromagnetic waves by a single artificial atom in open 1D space. Our three-level artificial atom -- a superconducting quantum circuit -- coupled to a transmission line presents an analog of a natural atom in open space. The system is the most fundamental quantum amplifier whose gain is limited by a spontaneous emission mechanism. The noise performance is determined by the quantum noise revealed in the spectrum of spontaneous emission, also characterized in our experiments.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures + supplemenntary materials accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Zukünftige ambulante Grundversorgung: Einstellungen und Präferenzen von Medizinal- und Gesundheitsfachpersonen ausgewählter Berufsgruppen
Creators: name: Brandt, Sophie Karoline
name: Essig, Stefan
name: Balthasar, Andreas
Publisher: name: Schweizerisches Gesundheitsobservatorium
Year: 2023

description: Die Medizinal- und Gesundheitsfachpersonen sehen sich in der zukünftigen ambulanten Grundversorgung mit vielen Veränderungen konfrontiert. Welche Einstellungen und Präferenzen haben sie diesbezüglich? Die vorliegende Studie der Universität Luzern und von Interface Politikstudien Forschung Beratung stellt fest: Für Gesundheitsfachpersonen ist die Übernahme der Verantwortung für den Erstkontakt und für einen Teil der Behandlung eine vielversprechende Möglichkeit, ihre Arbeit in der ambulanten Grundversorgung attraktiver zu machen. Interprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit sowie Gesundheitsnetzwerke und Gesundheitszentren als Organisationsformen stossen auf grosses Interesse. Zudem sind die Medizinal- und Gesundheitsfachpersonen bereit, sich vermehrt zugunsten von Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention zu engagieren.
title: A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications
Creators: name: Hu, Yi-Wei
name: Li, Qiang
name: Liu, Jun
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
After the devastating Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction, several new groups of large predators invaded the sea in the early part of the Triassic, including sauropterygians, ichthyosauromorphs and thalattosaurs. Among these predators, sauropterygians are the most abundant group in terms of the generic/species diversity. Here we report a new species of Pachypleurosauria (Sauropterygia: Eosauropterygia) from a recently discovered Lagerstätten in the Upper Member of Anisian Guanling Formation. The only known specimen of the new species was collected from Muta village, Luxi County, Yunnan Province, South China. Our new phylogenetic analysis based on a novel data matrix recovered the new taxon as a sister group to Dianmeisaurus. The new phylogenetic analysis also collapsed the monophyly of traditionally recgonized Eusauropterygia. Pistosauridea, Majiashanosaurus, and Hanosaurus comprise the consecutive sister groups to a new clade including Pachypleurosauria and Nothosauroidea. A monophyletic Pachypleurosauria, of which the clade consisting of Dianmeisaurus and Panzhousaurus occupy the basal-most position, is recovered by this study. The clade consisting of Dawazisaurus and Dianopachysaurus forms the sister group to remaining pachypleurosaurs included in this study. Since Dianmeisaurus, Panzhousaurus, Dawazisaurus and Dianopachysaurus are all exclusively known from South China, we suggest that pachypleurosaurs had a paleobiogeographic origin in the eastern Tethys.
Detecting genus in vertex links for the fast enumeration of 3-manifold triangulations
Creators: name: Burton, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.1; G.4; I.1.2

description: Enumerating all 3-manifold triangulations of a given size is a difficult but increasingly important problem in computational topology. A key difficulty for enumeration algorithms is that most combinatorial triangulations must be discarded because they do not represent topological 3-manifolds. In this paper we show how to preempt bad triangulations by detecting genus in partially-constructed vertex links, allowing us to prune the enumeration tree substantially. The key idea is to manipulate the boundary edges surrounding partial vertex links using expected logarithmic time operations. Practical testing shows the resulting enumeration algorithm to be significantly faster, with up to 249x speed-ups even for small problems where comparisons are feasible. We also discuss parallelisation, and describe new data sets that have been obtained using high-performance computing facilities.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; v2: minor revisions; to appear in ISSAC 2011
title: The Challenge of Adversarial Machine Learning
Creators: name: Churilla, Matt
name: Van Houdnos, Nathan
name: Beveridge, Robdert
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023

description: This SEI Blog post examines how machine learning systems can be subverted through adversarial machine learning, the motivations of adversaries, and what researchers are doing to mitigate their attacks.
Additional file 1 of Rationale and design of the validation of bladder health instrument for evaluation in women (VIEW) protocol
Creators: name: Lukacz, Emily S.
name: Constantine, Melissa L.
name: Low, Lisa Kane
name: Lowder, Jerry L.
name: Markland, Alayne D.
name: Mueller, Elizabeth R.
name: Newman, Diane K.
name: Rickey, Leslie M.
name: Rockwood, Todd
name: Rudser, Kyle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Marine Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. 2-Day Bladder Diary. Demonstrates 2 day voiding symptom and frequency diary used as criterion measure.
title: Developing an EU International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management to support UNRMS
Creators: name: Dobnikar, Meta
name: Miletić, Snježana
name: Horváth, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Sustainable use of mineral resources that we need for energy storage, power generation and the transition to climate neutrality, and which is at the same time more efficient and integrated, can be achieved by orchestrated activities to harmonise and careful manage data on reserves and resources. This makes an opportunity to build on EU level mineral intelligence by developing a capacity building and knowledge centre in support to the United Nations Resource Management System (UNRMS). UNRMS is represented by the principles and requirements on sustainable resource management, set by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

On that purpose the Horizon Europe´s Coordination and Support Action acronymed GSEU is establishing the Geological Service for Europe, which will include an EU International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management (EU ICE SRM). The objective of the EU ICE SRM will be promotion and capacity building on the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) - an international scheme for the classification and management of energy, mineral and raw material resources (UNECE, 2023) that takes into account the degree of confidence, technical feasibility and social-economic-environmental aspects of a project.

The EU ICE SRM will thus support UNRMS by capacity building and promotion of the resources needed to accomplish the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UNECE, 2020). It will operate as a network of partners and experts to assist the decision makers and key stakeholders in resource management.

References:

UNECE, 2020: Criteria for ICE-SRM Designation

https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/energy/se/pdfs/UNFC/ICE-SRM/20200925_EGRM-11-2020-INF3_ICE.SRM_Criteria___ToR_Final.pdf

UNECE, 2023: What is UNFC? https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/What-is-UNFC_E.pdf
title: Legal framework for CCS – Overview and first lessons learnt
Creators: name: Kemper, Johanna
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
The advancement of CCS-techniques is a significant tool to mitigate climate change and achieve net zero emissions. On European Level, the CCS-Directive (2009/31/EG) provides for a legal framework for, i.a., exploration and storage permits for storage sites, monitoring during and after the operational phase, requirements for closure and transfer of responsibility. The member states and associated countries have implemented these rules into national legislation. This contribution aims to, firstly, provide an overview over the regulatory framework in Europe and exemplary member states. It seeks to, secondly, outline first practical experiences from individual approval processes and to, thirdly, draw conclusions for further implementation. In this part, the focus will be on the evolving legal framework in Germany, i.p. the necessary legislative steps and possible accelerating tools.

Wintershall Dea is actively involved in developing CCS-solutions: The first Carbon Storage Project “Greensand” marks a milestone, demonstrating how CCS can move across borders through an international infrastructure that connects emissions sources with storage capacities. In the first quarter of 2023, the leading consortium partners INEOS and Wintershall Dea received the storage license from the Danish authorities and concluded the pilot phase with a first injection in the world’s first cross-border, offshore CO2 storage project. Wintershall Dea holds or has a applied for further storage licenses in Norway and the Netherlands. This allows to tackle the procedural law issues targeted in this contribution from a practical angle.
title: State of the Art: Summary of the geoscientific content in German curricula
Creators: name: Mauerberger, Alexandra
name: Fahry-Seelig, Tamara
name: Hlawatsch, Sylke
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
We analyzed the curricula of the natural science teaching subjects of all federal states in Germany regarding their geoscientific content. With this information we can better address the demand of teacher trainings and provide the corresponding geoscientific topics. We can also approach the ministries of education to develop geoscience curricula for all 16 federal states as well as the national Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) in order to include geoscience education in standards for education and teacher training.

To provide a quantitative evaluation, we compared the German curricula with the International Geoscience Syllabus (IGS) and developed a classification scheme. The higher the ranking, the larger is the combability with the IGS which can be regarded as a good standard. Classification criteria are geoscientific content, education time, interdisciplinary relation to other subjects, application examples, experiments, level of guidance and grade.

The curricula in Germany are highly heterogeneous, both in their content and their level of description. Geoscience school syllabuses are available for upper secondary schools (SEKII) in Baden-Württemberg and Bayern. In these states also the teacher education and trainings have been organized during the past years. Need of improvement is especially seen for Hamburg and Niedersachsen where we found hardly any geoscientific references and also the description of the curricula is very poor.
The diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy center as a probe of random fluctuations in a nuclear spin ensemble
Creators: name: Laraoui, Abdelghani
name: Hodges, Jonathan S.
name: Ryan, Colm
name: Meriles, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New schemes that exploit the unique properties of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are presently being explored as a platform for high-resolution magnetic sensing. Here we focus on the ability of a NV center to monitor an adjacent mesoscopic nuclear spin bath. For this purpose, we conduct comparative experiments where the NV spin evolves under the influence of surrounding 13C nuclei or, alternatively, in the presence of asynchronous AC fields engineered to emulate bath fluctuations. Our study reveals substantial differences that underscore the limitations of the semi-classical picture when interpreting and predicting the outcome of experiments designed to probe small nuclear spin ensembles. In particular, our study elucidates the NV center response to bath fluctuations under common pulse sequences, and explores a detection protocol designed to probe time correlations of the nuclear spin bath dynamics. Further, we show that the presence of macroscopic nuclear spin order is key to the emergence of semi-classical spin magnetometry.
description: 30 pages, 4 figures
title: The ambivalent sexism inventory : a social psychological evaluation
Creators: name: Masser, Barbara
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: The aim of the thesis is to establish the (statistical) validity and predictive utility of the Hostile Sexism (HS) and Benevolent Sexism (BS) subscales of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI). The thesis investigates whether scores on the HS and BS scales can tell us who will discriminate against women. An analysis of the literature suggests that, as in racism research, there is now a discrepancy between attitudes towards women (gauged on traditional measures) and discriminatory behaviour. Specifically, attitudes appear more egalitarian whilst behavioural measures still indicate discrimination. One explanation given for this discrepancy focuses on the attitude measures used. The literature suggests that if ‘contemporary’ attitudes are assessed then an attitude-behaviour link should be observed. One measure designed to assess these ‘contemporary attitudes’ is the ASI, consisting of the HS and BS scales. The empirical work begins (Study 1, 3 samples, N=1325) with an assessment of the psychometric properties and the appropriateness of the ASI for use in a British context and establishes the construct validity of the measures. Studies Two (N=61) and Three (N=47) investigate hostile and benevolent sexism using experimental designs and a social cognition approach (reaction time measures). The results of these suggest that hostile and benevolent sexism may be directed towards a particular ‘type’ of women and that hostile sexists may engage in stereotype suppression. The fourth study (N=58) investigates the ‘stereotype suppression’ proposition within an experimental design. Studies Five to Eight (N’s=86, 85, 57 and 71) focus on the subtyping hypothesis suggested by the results of Studies Two to Four and evaluate the implications of HS and BS scale scores for more overt responses. These establish that under specific conditions the scores on the HS scale do predict who will engage in discriminatory behaviour towards women. In addition the results suggest that high hostile sexists may apply different norms to their behaviour than to other people’s. Scores on the BS scale are related to more positive attitudes towards women who fit the ‘traditional’ subtype. It is concluded that whilst both the HS and BS scales of the ASI are statistically valid, the HS scale has, at present, the superior predictive utility. Under specific conditions scores on the HS scale relate to a number of indices of discrimination against women. In contrast, scores on the BS scale only relate to more positive evaluations of ‘traditional’ women. Directions for future research are outlined.
Collinear solution to the general relativistic three-body problem
Creators: name: Yamada, Kei
name: Asada, Hideki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The three-body problem is reexamined in the framework of general relativity. The Newtonian three-body problem admits Euler's collinear solution, where three bodies move around the common center of mass with the same orbital period and always line up. The solution is unstable. Hence it is unlikely that such a simple configuration would exist owing to general relativistic forces dependent not only on the masses but also on the velocity of each body. However, we show that the collinear solution remains true with a correction to the spatial separation between masses. Relativistic corrections to the Sun-Jupiter Lagrange points L1, L2 and L3 are also evaluated.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
Urban policy making through analysis of crowdsourced data
Creators: name: Georgieva, Ana D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Policy Cloud at MajorCitiesEurope 2021 - 13th to 15th October.  Policy Cloud joined the MajorCitiesEurope 2021 conference with a plenary presentation about the pilot project Urban policy making through analysis of crowdsourced data in the city of Sofia - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13 at 12:10 PM CEST Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria and the biggest political, administrative, cultural and educational centre in the country, with a current population of 1,8 million inhabitants. The municipality of Sofia is constantly working to improve the urban environment and meet the challenges that the city is facing. Evidence-based policy making is crucial for addressing urban challenges in a cost-efficient way. Through its involvement in Policy Cloud, the Sofia Municipality will address urban policy as a critical success factor in improving the overall urban environment of the city. Policy design will be adapted based on analysis of big data sourced from the following sectors: Transport, parking and road infrastructure Waste collection and waste disposal Cleanliness of public spaces Ecology, green systems Violation of public order Others, of importance to citizens
title: Conceptual Change Research in Geosience Education
Creators: name: Felzmann, Dirk
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
Conceptual change research is an important field of science education research. This also applies to geoscience education (e.g. Guffey & Slater 2020). Despite the high importance of student conceptions for successful learning processes (Hattie 2017), a decline in conceptual change research can be observed in recent years (Potvin et al. 2020).

This presentation aims to provide an overview of conceptual change research in geoscience education. Building on the reviews by Cheek 2010, Francek 2013, Guffey & Slater 2020, the current state of reconstructing geoscience student conceptions will be outlined. Emphasis is placed on the specific challenges of learning geoscience content: the enormous temporal and spatial dimensions and the high complexity.

Finally, current approaches of conceptual change research (e.g. “embodied cognition”, cf. Amin 2015, “conceptual prevalence”, cf. Potvin & Cyr 2017) are discussed in their potential for further research in geoscience education.

The lecture is aimed at interested geoscientists who are only partially familiar with didactic theories. Examples from my own research on student conceptions (glaciers: Felzmann 2017, climate zoning) serve as illustration.
Additional file 3 of Rationale and design of the validation of bladder health instrument for evaluation in women (VIEW) protocol
Creators: name: Lukacz, Emily S.
name: Constantine, Melissa L.
name: Low, Lisa Kane
name: Lowder, Jerry L.
name: Markland, Alayne D.
name: Mueller, Elizabeth R.
name: Newman, Diane K.
name: Rickey, Leslie M.
name: Rockwood, Todd
name: Rudser, Kyle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Marine Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Judge Rating Scale. Demonstrates data collection form used for judge ratings of bladder health.
title: From rivers to the sea: determination and tracing of TCEs in natural waters
Creators: name: Ebeling, Anna
name: Klein, Ole
name: Zimmermann, Tristan
name: Rust, Bettina
name: Wippermann, Dominik
name: Faust, Svenja
name: Irrgeher, Johanna
name: Pröfrock, Daniel
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2023

description:
TCEs have a wide-spread range of applications and are released into the aquatic environment in various ways. For their sound determination in natural waters not only new analytical methods are needed but also reference materials for method validation. Even though a wide variety of certified reference materials (CRMs) of different water matrices are available, certified values of many elements, especially TCEs, do not exist. In this study, an online preconcentration method coupled with ICP-MS/MS was used for the quantification of 34 elements among which are 21 TCEs. The method was applied to 17 water CRMs and measured data is combined with a comprehensive literature review on non-certified values in the CRMs resulting in the suggestion of consensus values for various TCEs.

The method is applied to a set field samples from German rivers and from the North Sea in order to trace different inputs of TCEs into the aquatic environment: In and Ga ware analyzed as tracers for offshore wind farms where they are applied in corrosion protection systems. The Gd anomaly was used as a proxy of coastal and riverine inputs into the North Sea in an attempt to differentiate anthropogenic from geogenic signal. The concentrations in seawater ranged between 0.011 ng L-1 ± 0.001 ng L-1 and 0.27 ng L-1 ± 0.15 ng L-1 for In and between 1.37 ng L-1 ± 0.05 ng L-1 and 4.9 ng L-1 ± 0.5 ng L-1 for Ga and Gd anomalies of up to 4 were found in the North Sea.
Strongly suppressed 1/f noise and enhanced magnetoresistance in epitaxial Fe-V/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions
Creators: name: Herranz, D.
name: Bonell, F.
name: Gomez-Ibarlucea, A.
name: Andrieu, S.
name: Montaigne, F.
name: Villar1, R.
name: Tiusan, C.
name: Aliev, F. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alloying Fe electrodes with V, through reduced FeV/MgO interface mismatch in epitaxial magnetic tunnel junctions with MgO barriers, notably suppresses both nonmagnetic (parallel) and magnetic (antiparallel) state 1/f noise and enhances tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR). A comparative study of the room temperature electron transport and low frequency noise in Fe1-xVx/MgO/Fe and Fe/MgO/Fe1-xVx MTJs with 0 <= x <= 0.25 reveals that V doping of the bottom electrode for x < 0.1 reduces in nearly 2 orders of magnitude the normalized nonmagnetic and magnetic 1/f noise. We attribute the enhanced TMR and suppressed 1/f noise to strongly reduced misfit and dislocation density.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Health professionals’ willingness to share responsibility and strengthen interprofessional collaboration: a crosssectional survey
Creators: name: Brandt, Sophie Karoline
name: Essig, Stefan
name: Balthasar, Andreas
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Background Doctors’ unwillingness to share responsibility acts as a major barrier to interprofessional collaboration (IPC). Educating both doctors and allied health professionals in taking on or relinquishing responsibility could enhance IPC. Yet there is no evidence that these educational efforts increase IPC willingness. This study aims to (1) compare the willingness to take on or relinquish responsibility for decision-making in patient care and their willingness to strengthen IPC between members of five main health professions, and (2) investigate associations between the willingness to take on or relinquish responsibility and the willingness to strengthen IPC. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey targeting pharmacists, doctors, medical practice assistants, nurses, and physiotherapists in Switzerland. Group differences were assessed, and associations were examined using multivariable logistic regression analyses. Results Overall, 3670 health professionals participated. Members of all allied health professions were highly willing to take on more responsibility for decision-making for patient care (ranging from 74.3% to 86.5%). Medical practice assistants (52.3%) and nurses (46.8%) were highly willing to relinquish responsibility, less so pharmacists (34.2%) and physiotherapists (37.8%); doctors were torn between high (49.2%) and neither high nor low willingness (38%). Members of all professions were highly willing to strengthen IPC (ranging from 76.4 to 91.2%). We found a strong, statistically significant relationship between willingness to take on more responsibility and willingness to strengthen IPC (OR = 5.30, p < .001). The relationship between willingness to relinquish responsibility and willingness to strengthen IPC was smaller (OR = 3.30, p < .001). Conclusion Increasing the health professionals’ willingness to take on responsibility is crucial to strengthen IPC. Increasing the willingness to relinquish responsibility would likely be less effective. Actions required include educational and political efforts to transfer responsibility to allied health professionals and to enable health professionals to decide when it is appropriate to take on or relinquish responsibility. Given the willingness of many health professionals to strengthen IPC, substantial potential in practice is evident.
On the Black-Hole/Qubit Correspondence
Creators: name: Borsten, L.
name: Duff, M. J.
name: Marrani, A.
name: Rubens, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T30

description: The entanglement classification of four qubits is related to the extremal black holes of the 4-dimensional STU model via a time-like reduction to three dimensions. This correspondence is generalised to the entanglement classification of a very special four-way entanglement of eight qubits and the black holes of the maximally supersymmetric N = 8 and exceptional magic N = 2 supergravity theories.
description: 32 pages, very minor changes at the start of Sec. 4.1. Version to appear in The European Physical Journal - Plus