cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Martian Crustal Magnetic Field As Seen From Mg And Maven
Creators: name: B. Langlais
name: E. Thébault
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mars, MAVENS

description: The magnetic figure of Mars was essentially constrained by the high quality measurements of Mars Global Surveyor (1996-2006). While the orbital parameters of this mission returned repetitive measurements on the night side (2:00 am) at a nearly constant altitude of 400km, the low altitude measurements were very sparse.

The MAVEN mission (since 2014) is on an elliptical orbit around Mars, which provides a wealth of measurements at different local times and altitudes. With now almost three years of available measurements, it is possible to combine MAVEN and MGS observations and to compute a high resolution model of the martian magnetic field.

This new model supersedes previously published models. It is based on Equivalent Source Dipoles (ESD), a discrete approach which benefits from the varying data distribution. It is converted into a spherical harmonics (SH) model which is stable up to degree 137, and can be used to predict the magnetic field at the surface of Mars with an unprecedented accuracy.
Induction and repression effects on CYP and transporter protein abundance by azole mixture uptake in rat liver
Creators: name: Hammer, Helen
name: Schmidt, Flavia
name: Heise, Tanja
name: Knebel, Constanze
name: Dabrowski, Alexander
name: Planatscher, Hannes
name: Kneuer, Carsten
name: Marx-Stoelting, Philip
name: Pötz, Oliver
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: ABC transporter
azole fungicides
cytochrome P450
Immunoaffinity-based mass spectrometry
liver toxicity
pesticides
pesticide mixtures
SLC transporter

description: Detection of mixture effects is a major challenge in current experimental and regulatory toxicology. Robust markers are needed that are easy to quantify and responsive to chemical stressors in a broad dose range. Several hepatic enzymes and proteins related to drug metabolism like cytochrome-P-450 (CYP) enzymes and transporters have been shown to be responsive to pesticide active substances in a broad dose range and are therefore good candidates to be used as markers for mixture toxicity. Even though they can be well quantified at the mRNA level, quantification on the protein level is challenging because most of these proteins are membrane bound. Here we report the development of mass spectrometry-based assays using triple-x-proteomics (TXP) antibodies in combination with targeted selected ion monitoring (tSIM) to quantify changes of protein levels due to exposure to mixtures of pesticide active substances. Our results indicate that changes on the protein level of CYP1A1, ABCB2, ABCC3 are in line with observations on the mRNA and enzyme activity level and are indicative of mixture effects. Therefore, the tests are promising to reveal effects by chemical mixture effects in toxicological studies in rats.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc904; ISSN 1611-2156
Zn-Mediated Selective Reduction of Nitroarenes: A Sustainable Approach for Azoxybenzenes Synthesis
Creators: name: Ghosh, Arnab
name: Limaye, Akshay S.
name: N., Manjunatha K.
name: Patil, Siddappa A.
name: Dateer, Ramesh B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Zn-Mediated Selective Reduction of Nitroarenes: A Sustainable Approach for Azoxybenzenes Synthesis
Optical Light Curve of 4FGL J0935.3+0901: A Flaring Black Widow Candidate
Creators: name: Halpern, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I obtained time-series photometry of the compact binary candidate for the Fermi source 4FGL J0935.3+0901. Superposed on the 2.44 hr orbital modulation are day-to-day variations and frequent flaring as seen in several redback and black widow millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The short orbital period favors a black widow. While the modulation of $\leq 1$ mag is smaller than that of most black widows, it could indicate a low orbital inclination. Although a published optical spectrum shows strong emission lines, the light curve evinces pulsar heating of the companion star rather than accretion-disk emission of a transitional MSP. Emission lines and flaring occur in the same objects, probably powered by shocks between the relativistic pulsar wind and a wind driven off the companion star. I also recovered the period in photometry from the Zwicky Transient Facility. A phase-connected ephemeris derived from MDM Observatory and ZTF data spanning 4 years yields a period of 0.10153276(36) days and an epoch for the ascending node of the putative pulsar.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, corrected references, published in ApJ Letters
Aluminized Polyborate: A New and Eco-friendly Catalyst for the Synthesis of Symmetrical N,N’-Di(aryl/alkyl)formamidines
Creators: name: Mali, Anil S.
name: Bandivadekar, Priyanka
name: Chaturbhuj, Ganesh U.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Aluminized Polyborate: A New and Eco-friendly Catalyst for the Synthesis of Symmetrical N,N’-Di(aryl/alkyl)formamidines
Live Births Fell in Brazil after the Link between the Zika Virus and Microcephaly Was Widely Publicized
Creators: name: Marteleto, Letícia J.
name: Guedes, Gilvan
name: Coutinho, Raquel Z.
name: Weitzman, Abigail
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: Zika virus
microcephaly
Brazil
live births

description: The Zika virus was first reported in Brazil in 2014. In late 2015, Brazil’s Ministry of Health announced the association between the Zika virus and microcephaly, which was followed by intense national and international media coverage. Government officials subsequently released statements recommending that women postpone pregnancies. The authors use monthly data on live births and other data sources to show that the number of live births fell in 2016 approximately 9 months after the publicized link between the Zika virus and microcephaly. Declines were observed across all educational groups and all but the oldest age groups and in both the northeastern and southern states examined in more detail.
The Size-Mass Relation of Post-Starburst Galaxies in the Local Universe
Creators: name: Chen, Xinkai
name: Lin, Zesen
name: Kong, Xu
name: Liang, Zhixiong
name: Chen, Guangwen
name: Zhang, Hong-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the size--mass relation for local post-starburst (PSB) galaxies at $z\lesssim0.33$ selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8. We find that PSB galaxies with stellar mass ($M_*$) at $10^9~M_{\odot}
description: 16 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Wenn Angst dein Leben kontrolliert : Teilhabe am Leben mit einer Angststörung
Creators: name: Casty, Annalene
name: Bischof, Selina
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: Angststörung
Einschränkung
Fallbeispiel
ICF
Panikströrung
Partizipation
Phobie
615.8515: Ergotherapie

description: Einleitung und Hintergrund: Angststörungen gehören zu den häufigsten psychischen Erkrankungen. Untersuchungen zeigen eine klare Zunahme der Krankheitsfälle in den vergangenen Jahren auf. Leidet eine Person unter einer Angststörung, kann sie durch diese zwangsläufig so stark beeinflusst werden, dass ihre persönlichen Interessen gänzlich in den Hintergrund geraten.
Ziel: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, spezifische Einschränkungen von Menschen mit einer Angststörung in ihren verschiedenen Lebensbereichen aufzuzeigen.

Methode: Das Vorgehen der Literaturrecherche und die verwendete Literatur werden entsprechend aufgezeigt. Die Methode beschreibt unter anderem die kritische Evaluation der Hauptliteratur sowie die festgelegten Ein- und Ausschlusskriterien.

Relevante Ergebnisse: Es wurden 31 Fallbeispiele aus zwölf literarischen oder Fachwerken zusammengetragen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass in den interpersonellen Interaktionen und Beziehungen sowie in der Mobilität die erheblichsten Einschränkungen bestehen. Gesamthaft gesehen sind bei einer Angststörung jedoch alle Lebensbereiche der Partizipation eingeschränkt.

Schlussfolgerung: Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt eine klare Forschungslücke in der Primärliteratur auf. Fachpersonen sollen die Betroffenen mit einer Angststörung unterstützen, ihre Teilhabe
in allen Lebensbereichen ermöglichen. Für die Ergotherapie bedeutet dies, dass sie die Integration in das soziale Umfeld und die Gesellschaft von Betroffenen frühzeitig ermöglichen sollen. Um eine bessere Akzeptanz in der Gesellschaft zu erreichen, sollte die Bevölkerung zukünftig auf besser das Krankheitsbild der Angststörung sensibilisiert werden.
Interference Management for Over-the-Air Federated Learning in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Zhibin
name: Zhou, Yong
name: Shi, Yuanming
name: Zhuang, Weihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning (FL) over resource-constrained wireless networks has recently attracted much attention. However, most existing studies consider one FL task in single-cell wireless networks and ignore the impact of downlink/uplink inter-cell interference on the learning performance. In this paper, we investigate FL over a multi-cell wireless network, where each cell performs a different FL task and over-the-air computation (AirComp) is adopted to enable fast uplink gradient aggregation. We conduct convergence analysis of AirComp-assisted FL systems, taking into account the inter-cell interference in both the downlink and uplink model/gradient transmissions, which reveals that the distorted model/gradient exchanges induce a gap to hinder the convergence of FL. We characterize the Pareto boundary of the error-induced gap region to quantify the learning performance trade-off among different FL tasks, based on which we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the sum of error-induced gaps in all cells. To tackle the coupling between the downlink and uplink transmissions as well as the coupling among multiple cells, we propose a cooperative multi-cell FL optimization framework to achieve efficient interference management for downlink and uplink transmission design. Results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm achieves much better average learning performance over multiple cells than non-cooperative baseline schemes.
description: This work has been accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Data collaboration canvas : facilitating data innovation between organizations
Creators: name: Ebert, Nico
name: Dal Fuoco, Alice
name: Geppert, Tim
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2021
Subjects: 005: Computerprogrammierung, Programme und Daten
330: Wirtschaft

description: The Data Collaboration Canvas (DCC) is a visual framework that allows users to generate ideas for sharing data across (or within) organizations. It can be used by organizations that want to explore the potential of data innovation with other organizations at an early stage of the collaboration to create mutual added value. This simple, visual structuring aid can, among other things, be employed in workshops to identify common potential and hurdles of collaboration.
The DCC helps to identify opportunities for data collaboration between companies or within an organization (e.g., between different divisions or departments).
An Improved Procedure for the Synthesis of Amantadine Hydrochloride
Creators: name: Vu, Binh Duong
name: Phan, Thi Phuong Dung
name: Van Tran, Thi
name: Nguyen, Phuong Linh
name: Phan, Dinh Chau
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: An Improved Procedure for the Synthesis of Amantadine Hydrochloride
ROI-Constrained Bidding via Curriculum-Guided Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Wang, Haozhe
name: Du, Chao
name: Fang, Panyan
name: Yuan, Shuo
name: He, Xuming
name: Wang, Liang
name: Zheng, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is an important mechanism in modern online advertising systems. Advertisers employ bidding strategies in RTB to optimize their advertising effects subject to various financial requirements, especially the return-on-investment (ROI) constraint. ROIs change non-monotonically during the sequential bidding process, and often induce a see-saw effect between constraint satisfaction and objective optimization. While some existing approaches show promising results in static or mildly changing ad markets, they fail to generalize to highly dynamic ad markets with ROI constraints, due to their inability to adaptively balance constraints and objectives amidst non-stationarity and partial observability. In this work, we specialize in ROI-Constrained Bidding in non-stationary markets. Based on a Partially Observable Constrained Markov Decision Process, our method exploits an indicator-augmented reward function free of extra trade-off parameters and develops a Curriculum-Guided Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (CBRL) framework to adaptively control the constraint-objective trade-off in non-stationary ad markets. Extensive experiments on a large-scale industrial dataset with two problem settings reveal that CBRL generalizes well in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution data regimes, and enjoys superior learning efficiency and stability.
description: Accepted by SIGKDD 2022
Preparation of 2,3-Diarylthiazolidin-4-one Derivatives Using Barium Sulfate Nano-Powders
Creators: name: Taghrir, Hadi
name: Ghashang, Majid
name: Khabnadideh, Soghra
name: Rezaei, Zahra
name: Mottaghipisheh, Javad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Preparation of 2,3-Diarylthiazolidin-4-one Derivatives Using Barium Sulfate Nano-Powders
Introduction Aux Systèmes D'Exploitation
Creators: name: Khaoula ElBedoui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: système exploitation, informatique

description: Ce travail fournit une présentation sur les systèmes d'exploitation
description: {"references": ["http://www.foad-mooc.auf.org/IMG/pdf/cours-systeme_d_exploitation_se_.pdf", "https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/15145-introduction-to-operating-systems/view"]}
Feature Selection using e-values
Creators: name: Majumdar, Subhabrata
name: Chatterjee, Snigdhansu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the context of supervised parametric models, we introduce the concept of e-values. An e-value is a scalar quantity that represents the proximity of the sampling distribution of parameter estimates in a model trained on a subset of features to that of the model trained on all features (i.e. the full model). Under general conditions, a rank ordering of e-values separates models that contain all essential features from those that do not. The e-values are applicable to a wide range of parametric models. We use data depths and a fast resampling-based algorithm to implement a feature selection procedure using e-values, providing consistency results. For a $p$-dimensional feature space, this procedure requires fitting only the full model and evaluating $p+1$ models, as opposed to the traditional requirement of fitting and evaluating $2^p$ models. Through experiments across several model settings and synthetic and real datasets, we establish that the e-values method as a promising general alternative to existing model-specific methods of feature selection.
description: accepted in ICML-2022
CHemical RISk calculator (CHRIS) – Bulk chemicals
Creators: name: Regulatory Science Tool Admin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The bulk chemical module of the CHRIS enables users to conduct screening level risk assessments to aid in the biocompatibility evaluation of bulk additives and impurities in polymeric medical device components, excluding color additives. These assessments can assist device manufacturers by providing immediate feedback on whether the presence of the bulk chemical would require additional justification and/or testing to demonstrated acceptable biological risk.
Von der Vorsorge zur Sorge : eine Arbeit über Erfahrungen und Bedürfnisse von Paaren, welche  sich während der Schwangerschaft für ein Kind mit einer diagnostizierten Fehlbildung entscheiden
Creators: name: Henzen, Pia
name: Roost, Myrjam
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: Prenatal diagnosis
Experiences
Needs
Fetal anomaly
Pregnancy
618: Geburtsmedizin und Hebammenarbeit

description: Hintergrund: Durch die Entwicklung der Pränataldiagnostik und die Veränderung in der Population der Schwangeren sind Eltern zunehmend von einer pränatalen Diagnose betroffen. Bedürfnisse von Eltern, welche die Schwangerschaft nach einer diagnostizierten Fehlbildung weiterführen, sind wenig erforscht. In diesem Feld sind weitere Untersuchungen notwendig.

Ziel: Diese themengeleitete Arbeit hat zum Ziel, Erfahrungen und Bedürfnisse von Eltern zu erfassen, welche sich nach einer pränatal diagnostizieren Behinderung für die Weiterführung der Schwangerschaft entschieden haben. Diese werden auf die Auf-gaben der Hebammenbetreuung während der verbleibenden Schwangerschaft und der Geburt bezogen.
Methode: Zur Beantwortung der Frage wurde eine Literaturrecherche durchgeführt. Die Daten von fünf Studien, zwei Erfahrungsberichten und einem Ratgeber werden analysiert und diskutiert, um im Anschluss Empfehlungen für die Praxis abzugeben.

Ergebnisse: Die Eltern wünschen sich eine klare, ehrliche, empathische, vorausschauende und kontinuierliche Betreuung durch ein breites Netz von Fachpersonen. Eltern suchen Informationen zu Hilfsorganisationen, das Gespräch zum Thema des Einbezugs ihres Umfeldes und sie benötigen Unterstützung in ihren Bewältigungsstrategien.
Schlussfolgerung: Betreuende Gesundheitsfachkräfte sollten die Bedürfnisse von betroffenen Paaren individuell erfassen. Die Hebamme stellt eine geeignete Koordinationsperson dar, welche die Paare in ihren Coping-Strategien unterstützen und Verknüpfungen zu nötigen Ressourcen herstellen kann.
Bilateral Dependency Optimization: Defending Against Model-inversion Attacks
Creators: name: Peng, Xiong
name: Liu, Feng
name: Zhang, Jingfen
name: Lan, Long
name: Ye, Junjie
name: Liu, Tongliang
name: Han, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Through using only a well-trained classifier, model-inversion (MI) attacks can recover the data used for training the classifier, leading to the privacy leakage of the training data. To defend against MI attacks, previous work utilizes a unilateral dependency optimization strategy, i.e., minimizing the dependency between inputs (i.e., features) and outputs (i.e., labels) during training the classifier. However, such a minimization process conflicts with minimizing the supervised loss that aims to maximize the dependency between inputs and outputs, causing an explicit trade-off between model robustness against MI attacks and model utility on classification tasks. In this paper, we aim to minimize the dependency between the latent representations and the inputs while maximizing the dependency between latent representations and the outputs, named a bilateral dependency optimization (BiDO) strategy. In particular, we use the dependency constraints as a universally applicable regularizer in addition to commonly used losses for deep neural networks (e.g., cross-entropy), which can be instantiated with appropriate dependency criteria according to different tasks. To verify the efficacy of our strategy, we propose two implementations of BiDO, by using two different dependency measures: BiDO with constrained covariance (BiDO-COCO) and BiDO with Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (BiDO-HSIC). Experiments show that BiDO achieves the state-of-the-art defense performance for a variety of datasets, classifiers, and MI attacks while suffering a minor classification-accuracy drop compared to the well-trained classifier with no defense, which lights up a novel road to defend against MI attacks.
description: Accepted to KDD 2022 (Research Track)
How Food Pantries Help Mitigate Food Insecurity
Creators: name: Alwahabi, Zuhrah
name: Ates, Aaron
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
name: Alwahabi, Zuhrah
name: Ates, Aaron
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: Background - Food pantries do not collect data on the individual foods households receive, making it difficult to measure the aid they provide and limiting their reporting to only pounds of food distributed and number of households assisted. This infographic uses data collected on the actual food choices for 2,031 households receiving aid from a food pantry in 2018, allowing us to illustrate their assistance provided for different sized households both in terms of the amount of calories acquired and the amount of money saved. After viewing the infographic and noticing the per person benefits are much larger for smaller households, this food pantry altered their food distribution strategy to reduce the inequities of their assistance.
description: Data Source: Alwahabi, Z. 2019. A Food Pantry’s Contribution Towards the Needs-Gap. (Master’s Thesis). Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Retrieved from https://shareok.org/handle/11244/10460.
Polarometric Method of Plasma Diagnostics
Creators: name: Oganesyan, Koryun B.
name: Dzierdzega, Krzysztof
name: Kopcansky, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarization plane rotation angle of probe signal in plasma is calculated. The estimates of the residual gas average density and the average magnitude of the magnetic field in a cesium plasma based on the effects of Faraday and Cotton-Mouton in probe laser field has been found. It is shown, that polarization plane rotation angle depends on resonance detuning of incident laser wave and transition frequency of medium atoms, magnetic field strength, and matrix element.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Forecasting cosmic acceleration measurements using the Lyman-$α$ forest
Creators: name: Dong, Chenxing
name: Gonzalez, Anthony
name: Eikenberry, Stephen
name: Jeram, Sarik
name: Likamonsavad, Manunya
name: Liske, Jochen
name: Stelter, Deno
name: Townsend, Amanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from end-to-end simulations of observations designed to constrain the rate of change in the expansion history of the Universe using the redshift drift of the Lyman-$α$ forest absorption lines along the lines-of-sight toward bright quasars. For our simulations we take Lyman-$α$ forest lines extracted from Keck/HIRES spectra of bright quasars at $z>3$, and compare the results from these real quasar spectra with mock spectra generated via Monte Carlo realizations. We use the results of these simulations to assess the potential for a dedicated observatory to detect redshift drift, and quantify the telescope and spectrograph requirements for these observations. Relative to Liske et al. (2008), two main refinements in the current work are inclusion of quasars from more recent catalogs and consideration of a realistic observing strategy for a dedicated redshift drift experiment that maximizes $\dot{v}/σ_{\dot{v}}$. We find that using a dedicated facility and our designed observing plan, the redshift drift can be detected at $3σ$ significance in 15 years with a 25m telescope, given a spectrograph with long term stability with $R=50,000$ and 25% total system efficiency. To achieve this significance, the optimal number of targets is four quasars, with observing time weighted based upon $\dot{v}/σ_{\dot{v}}$ and object visibility. This optimized strategy leads to a 9% decrease in the telescope diameter or a 6% decrease in the required time to achieve the same S/N as for the idealized case of uniformly distributing time to the same quasars.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: The evolution of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles: Theoretical, conceptual, and methodological advances
Creators: name: Macdowall, W
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2022

description: The British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) has been conducted every ten years since 1990. So far there have been three surveys in which more than 45,000 people have been interviewed. Over its 30-year history, the survey has evolved in both scope and methodology, and the disciplines represented within the team have expanded. In this research paper style thesis, the evolution of Natsal is examined under three themes: Theme one concerns advances in theoretical perspectives regarding the very nature of human sexuality and the fundamental question of whether, and to what extent, sexual behaviour is innate and fixed by our biology or is acquired and socially learned. The theoretical perspective adopted is obviously no trivial matter; the lens we apply to any situation governs how we understand the determinants of it and the approach we take to influence or change it. Theme two centres on conceptual factors and, in particular, the emergence of sexual health as a concept relevant to public health, and within that the transition from a focus on sexual ill-health to sexual well-being. Although the term ‘sexual health’ is used globally in policy, practice and academia, it has a short history and its meaning, and application, has varied considerably. Theme three relates to questions of methodology and the tools we use to try and measure and understand sexuality and advance sexual health, specifically the shift from single disciplinary perspectives to multi-disciplinarity. Each of the three themes is illustrated through the three papers that form the body of the thesis.
Vitalitätsbeurteilung von Jungbäumen in innerstädtischen Brennpunkten : Praxisbeispiel Turbinenplatz
Creators: name: Vögelin, Marc
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Subjects: Betula pendula
Turbinenplatz
Gehölzbeurteilung
Vitalitätsbeurteilung
Baumpflege
580: Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: In dieser Arbeit wird anhand eines Praxisbeispiels das Aufnehmen, Bewerten und Optimieren des Allgemeinzustandes von Jungbäumen im innerstädtischen Kontext untersucht. Durch Literaturrecherche und korrektes Interpretieren der Körpersprache von Bäumen sollen Rückschlüsse auf Missstände im Bestand gezogen werden können. Die Bäume werden mit einem im Rahmen dieser Studie erarbeiteten Gehölzanalysewerkzeug erfasst, welches auf die Bedingungen zugeschnitten ist und zielorientiert versucht Lösungsansätze für einen stabilen und vitalen Baumbestand hervorzubringen. Basierend auf der Analyse der Gehölze werden die Bäume kategorisiert, um den Allgemeinzustand zu beschreiben. Für die verschiedenen Kategorien werden Handlungsfelder skizziert. Diese Handlungsfelder reichen von einfachem Monitoring bis hin zu der Fällung und anschliessender Neupflanzung. Die Aufnahme mit dem in dieser Arbeit entstandenen Gehölzanalysewerkzeug hat sich bewährt, da es sehr gut auf das vorliegende Praxisbeispiel zugeschnitten ist. Das Werkzeug beschränkt sich auf sichtbare Elemente. Informationen zu Umwelteinflüssen, Wurzelraum und Wurzelwachstum sind in der Aufnahme nicht enthalten.
description: In this study the recording, evaluation and optimization of the general conditions of Young trees in inner cities is shown based on a practical example. Through literature Research and correct interpretation of the body language of trees, serious deficits in the tree population should be determined. The trees are recorded with a tree analysis tool developed in the context of this study, which is aligned to the conditions and tries to produce purposeful solutions for a stable and vital tree population. Based on the Analysis of the trees, the trees are categorized in order to describe their general condition. Areas of action are worked out for the various categories. These areas of action include very different measures for the trees, from simple monitoring, all the way to felling and subsequently replanting. The inclusion with the tree analysis tool developed in this study has proven itself useful, as it is very well adjusted to the existing practical example. The tool is limited to visible elements. Information on environmental influences, root space and root growth are not included.
Interferometric cavity ring-down technique for ultra-high Q-factor microresonators
Creators: name: Biasi, Stefano
name: Franchi, Riccardo
name: Pavesi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microresonators (MRs) are key components in integrated optics. As a result, the estimation of their energy storage capacity as measured by the quality factor (Q) is crucial. However, in MR with high/ultra-high Q, the surface-wall roughness dominates the intrinsic Q and generates a coupling between counter-propagating modes. This splits the usual sharp single resonance and makes difficult the use of classical methods to assess Q. Here, we theoretically show that an interferometric excitation can be exploited in a Cavity Ring-Down (CRD) method to measure the ultimate Q of a MR. In fact, under suitable conditions, the resonant doublet merges into a single Lorentzian and the time dynamics of the MR assumes the usual behavior of a single-mode resonator unaffected by backscattering. This allows obtaining a typical exponential decay in the charging and discharging time of the MR, and thus, estimating its ultimate Q by measuring the photon lifetime.
description: 5 pages and 2 figures
Good, fast and cheap : strategies for project controlling
Creators: name: Steinegger, Rolf
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2019
Subjects: Project Controlling
Triangle
Costs
Deadline
System property
658.404: Projektmanagement

description: To meet the customers’ needs, project managers have to balance costs, deadlines and system properties (scope and characteristics). As soon as the service performance falls below the planned values, it can become tricky to define a strategy to still meet the needs.
Dipolar spin-waves and tunable band gap at the Dirac points in the 2D magnet ErBr3
Creators: name: Wessler, C.
name: Roessli, B.
name: Krämer, K. W.
name: Stuhr, U.
name: Wildes, A.
name: Braun, H. B.
name: Kenzelmann, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological magnon insulators constitute a growing field of research for their potential use as information carriers without heat dissipation. We report an experimental and theoretical study of the magnetic ground-state and excitations in the van der Waals two-dimensional honeycomb magnet ErBr3. We show that the magnetic properties of this compound are entirely governed by the dipolar interactions which generate a continuously degenerate non-collinear ground-state on the honeycomb lattice with spins confined in the plane. We find that the magnon dispersion exhibits Dirac-like cones when the magnetic moments in the ground-state are related by time-reversal and inversion symmetries associated with a Berry phase πas in single-layer graphene. A magnon band gap opens when the dipoles are rotated away from this state, entailing a finite Berry curvature in the vicinity of the K and K' Dirac points. Our results illustrate that the spin-wave dispersion of dipoles on the honeycomb lattice can be reversibly controlled from a magnetic phase with Dirac cones to a topological antiferromagnetic insulator with non-trivial valley Chern number.
Cecyrina Walker
Creators: name: Zhao, Qing
name: Bu, Wen-Jun
name: Liu, Guo-Qing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Cecyrina

description: Key to the three species of Cecyrina Walker
1. Body blackish or brown, with one distinct longitudinal ridge, extending from the middle of pronotum to apex of scutellum; dilation of protibia wide, width more than one fourth of length of protibia......................................... 2
- Body reddish, with five distinct longitudinal ridges on pronotal surface and three longitudinal ridges on scutellum; dilation of protibia narrow, width only one sixth of length of protibia (Fig.7).................................. C.rubra sp. nov.
2. Dilation of protibia narrow, only one fourth of length of protibia; pronotum with five mottled yellowish stripes; legs reddishbrown................................................................................... C. flata sp. nov.
- Dilation of protibia wide, about half the length of protibia; pronotum with mottled yellowish spots and one ridge; legs blackish................................................................................. C. platyrhinoides Walker
description: Published as part of Zhao, Qing, Bu, Wen-Jun & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2016, The genus Cecyrina Walker, 1867, with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae), pp. 309-319 in Zootaxa 4114 (3) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/267104
COVID-19 Impact on Activity for Smaller Agricultural Processing and Marketing Firms During May 17-23, 2020
Creators: name: Hughes, David W.
name: Hughes, David W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: COVID-19
subject: food
subject: system
subject: sales

description: This fact sheet analyzes responses to a U.S. Census Bureau survey of U.S. businesses to provide a snapshot of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on business activity. The analysis focuses on small agricultural processing and marketing firms. The small business pulse survey is being conducted for nonfarm, single-location employment businesses with at least one but less than 500 employers and with annual receipts of at least $1,000. The sampled businesses include all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. While the survey has been conducted on a weekly basis since April 26 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020), the data analyzed here is from the most recently reported week, May 17-23, 2020. While the survey asked several questions, all reported values are for a single question: “Overall, how has this business been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?” We also limit our discussion to sectors that process or market agricultural products in either the food (e.g., food manufacturers or grocery stores) or nonfood (e.g., textile mills or paper manufacturers) areas. For comparison, the impact across all surveyed businesses is reported, as well.
Urban Spatial Structure and the Potential for Vehicle Miles Traveled Reduction: The Effects of Accessibility to Jobs within and beyond Employment Sub-centers
Creators: name: Boarnet, Marlon G.
name: Wang, Xize
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This research examines the relationship between urban polycentric spatial structure and driving. We identified 46 employment sub-centers in the Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area and calculated access to jobs that are within and beyond these sub-centers. To address potential endogeneity problems, we use access to historically important places and transportation infrastructure in the early 20th century as instrumental variables for job accessibility indices. Our Two-stage Tobit models show that access to jobs is negatively associated with household vehicle miles traveled in this region. Among various accessibility measures, access to jobs outside sub-centers has the largest elasticity (-0.155). We examine the location of places in the top quintile of access to non-centered jobs and find that those locations are often inner ring suburban developments, near the core of the urban area and not far from sub-centers, suggesting that strategies of infill development that fill in the gaps between sub-centers, rather than focusing on already accessible downtowns and large sub-centers, may be the best land use approach to reduce VMT.
Molekulare Diagnostik für den Umweltsektor
Creators: name: Palmisano, Marilena
name: Wohler, Christian
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2012
Subjects: 572: Biochemie

description: Überall dort, wo Lupe und Bestimmungsschlüssel keine Klarheit mehr verschaffen, eröffnen genetische Analysen den Forschenden neue Erkenntnisse und vertiefte Einblicke. Das Institut für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen, IUNR, nutzt diese Entwicklung mit dem Aufbau der Molekularbiologie im Agrar- und Umweltsektor für institutsinterne Dienstleistungen sowie als F&E-Partner.
Supplementary document for Video-rate high-resolution single-pixel nonscanning photoacoustic microscopy - 5876722.pdf
Creators: name: chen, ningbo
name: Yu, Jia
name: Liu, liangjian
name: Xu, Zhiqiang
name: Gao, Rongkang
name: Tao, Chen
name: Song, Liang
name: Zheng, Wei
name: Liu, Chengbo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Supplement 1
DigiTac: A DIGIT-TacTip Hybrid Tactile Sensor for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch
Creators: name: Lepora, Nathan F.
name: Lin, Yijiong
name: Money-Coomes, Ben
name: Lloyd, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning combined with high-resolution tactile sensing could lead to highly capable dexterous robots. However, progress is slow because of the specialist equipment and expertise. The DIGIT tactile sensor offers low-cost entry to high-resolution touch using GelSight-type sensors. Here we customize the DIGIT to have a 3D-printed sensing surface based on the TacTip family of soft biomimetic optical tactile sensors. The DIGIT-TacTip (DigiTac) enables direct comparison between these distinct tactile sensor types. For this comparison, we introduce a tactile robot system comprising a desktop arm, mounts and 3D-printed test objects. We use tactile servo control with a PoseNet deep learning model to compare the DIGIT, DigiTac and TacTip for edge- and surface-following over 3D-shapes. All three sensors performed similarly at pose prediction, but their constructions led to differing performances at servo control, offering guidance for researchers selecting or innovating tactile sensors. All hardware and software for reproducing this study will be openly released. Project website: www.lepora.com/digitac. Project repository: www.github.com/nlepora/digitac-design.
description: 7 pages. Published in RA-L and accepted in IROS 2022
Thickness optimization of the output power and effective thermoelectric figure of merit of thin thermoelectric generator
Creators: name: Seki, Kazuhiko
name: Mukaida, Masakazu
name: Wei, Qingshuo
name: Ishida, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional thermoelectric figure of merit and the power factor are not sufficient as a measure of thin film quality of thermoelectric materials, where the power conversion efficiency depends on the film dimensions. By considering the film size, the effective thermoelectric figure of merit and effective Seebeck coefficient are introduced to guarantee that the maximum energy conversion efficiency increases as the effective thermoelectric figure of merit increases. Similarly, the effective power factor is defined. By introducing typical material properties for Bi$_2$Te$_3$ and PEDOT, we study the thickness dependence of the effective figure of merit and the effective power factor.
description: 4 figures
Optimal Dithering Configuration Mitigating Rayleigh-Backscattering-Induced Distortion in Radioastronomic Optical Fiber Systems
Creators: name: Nanni, Jacopo
name: Giovannini, Andrea
name: Lenzi, Enrico
name: Rusticelli, Simone
name: Wayth, Randall
name: Perini, Federico
name: Monari, Jader
name: Tartarini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Radioastronomic applications where the Analog Radio-over-Fiber technology is used for the antenna downlink, detrimental nonlinearity effects arise because of the interference between the forward signal generated by the laser and the Rayleigh backscattered one which is re-forwarded by the laser itself toward the photodetector. The adoption of the so called dithering technique, which involves the direct modulation of the laser with a sinusoidal tone and takes advantage of the laser chirping phenomenon, has been proved to reduce such Rayleigh Back Scattering - induced nonlinearities. The frequency and the amplitude of the dithering tone should both be as low as possible, in order to avoid undesired collateral effects on the received spectrum as well as keep at low levels the global energy consumption. Through a comprehensive analysis of dithered Radio over Fiber systems, it is demonstrated that a progressive reduction of the dithering tone frequency affects in a peculiar fashion both the chirping characteristics of the field emitted by the laser and the spectrum pattern of the received signal at the fiber end. Accounting for the concurrent effects caused by such phenomena, optimal operating conditions are identified for the implementation of the dithering tone technique in radioastronomic systems.
description: 11 pages. Accepted for Journal of Lightwave Technology
The impact of hydropower on microbial diversity and community structure in floodplains
Creators: name: Antenen, Nadine
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: Habitat heterogenity
T-RFLP
Residual flow
Hydropeaking
333: Bodenwirtschaft und Ressourcen
577: Ökologie

description: Within freshwater ecosystems, floodplains are among the most diverse ecosystems on earth but the increasing human demand for water, energy and food resulted in a decrease of biodiversity. Even though hydropower is often seen as “green energy”, it creates several negative impacts on riverine systems. In order to produce energy, river water is abstracted and released, leading to hydropeaking and residual flow sections, both representing a major disturbance on the natural functions and dynamics of a river. The ecological impact of hydropower production on riverine systems has been extensively investigated, however, mostly focusing on structural aspects. The present study focused on the microbial diversity and community structure in three hydrologically different floodplain sections, two impacted by hydropower and one in a natural reference system.

Abiotic characteristics of habitats and genetic fingerprinting (T-RFLP) of the microbial communities were used to assess differences and similarities between and within these regimes. Within the latters we investigated sediments of seven different floodplain habitat types over a sampling period of one and a half year (summer 2015 until autumn 2016) consisting of six sampling seasons. Six abiotic parameters (temperature, water content, total organic matter, total nitrogen, total carbon and grain size distribution) were used to analyse patterns amongst habitats, regimes and seasons. Organic matter, water content, total nitrogen and total carbon content showed significant differences between the habitats whereas of the regimes the hydropeaking showed relevant influences on abiotic factors. Furthermore, we could illustrate several relationships between abiotic factors and microbial diversity, mainly within the same habitats and regimes as the distinct abiotic properties were highlighted. While the microbial communities clearly differ between aquatic and terrestrial habitats as well as between seasons, there are little differences among the regimes.

Linking abiotic characteristics, shaped by the hydrological regimes, to microbial diversity and community structure allows the consideration of the latter as possible indicators of disturbances in river systems. The use of the genetic fingerprinting technique (T-RFLP) proved to be an appropriate method to gain first insights into patterns of microbial diversity and communities. In this context, the results from this study are a first contribution towards assessments of disturbances by microbial diversity and community analysis and possibly to a future development of a functional indicator for disturbance.