cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kendiliğinden Gelişen İstem Ekosistemi: Kavramsal Temeller, Yapısal Bileşenler ve İnsan–Yapay Zekâ Bilişsel Ortak Evrimindeki Yeri
Creators: name: Alpay, Faruk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Yapay Zeka
Bilişsel Mimari
İstem Ekosistemi
Dinamik İstem Gelişimi
Insan–YZ Ortak Evrimi
Bağlamsal Adaptasyon
Sürekli Öğrenme
Bilişsel Sistemler
Yapay Bellek Modelleri
Özerk Sistemler
Bağımsız Araştırma
Türk Bilim Tarihi

description: Bu çalışma, büyük ölçekli yapay dil modelleri ve yapay zekâ sistemlerinde, etkileşime dayalı kalıcı öğrenmeyi ve sürekli bağlamsal adaptasyonu mümkün kılacak yeni bir bilişsel yapı önerisi sunmaktadır.

“Kendiliğinden Gelişen İstem Ekosistemi” kavramı, yapay zekâ sistemlerinin önceki etkileşimlerden edindikleri bilgiler ve istemler aracılığıyla, kendi bağlamsal ortamlarını dinamik biçimde büyütmelerini ve zamanla evrimleştirmelerini konu almaktadır.

Çalışma; bilişsel mimari, etik çerçeve, kullanıcı kişiselleştirmesi ve insan–YZ ortak evrimi perspektiflerini bütüncül bir model içerisinde birleştirerek özgün bir yaklaşım ortaya koymaktadır.

Eser, evrensel bilim anlayışı doğrultusunda geliştirilmiş olmakla birlikte, özgün fikirlerin beslendiği kültürel köklere duyulan sorumluluk gereği Türk halkına ithaf edilmiştir.

 

Not: Bu çalışma özel koruma amacıyla arşivlenmiş olup, tam halka açık bir dağıtıma sunulmamıştır.

İlk yayın tarihi: 29 Nisan 2025
A Review on the Humanoid Robot and its Impact
Creators: name: Mukhtar I.B.
name: Lawal M.I.
name: Musa DA M.
name: Umar F. M.
name: Shariff A. M.
name: Bello A.I.
name: Usman B.U.
name: Mustapha A.Y.
name: Deepak D.R.
name: Muhammad A. B
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Humanoids are bipedal, general-purpose robots that are based on the human form factor and are intended to assist humans in order to increase productivity. They can learn and carry out a wide range of tasks, including loading or unloading boxes, transporting containers, and gripping objects. These robots can move and interact to replicate human dexterity and even navigate themselves thanks to their advanced actuators, sensors, on-robot computing, and software. To prepare them for the unpredictability of real-world situations, robots are trained to perform a variety of movements and reactions in simulated environments.
title: Heavy rainfall provokes anticoagulant rodenticides' release from baited sewer systems and outdoor surfaces into receiving streams
title: Heavy rainfall provokes anticoagulant rodenticides' release from baited sewer systems and outdoor surfaces into receiving streams
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Friesen, Anton
name: Regnery, Julia
name: Schulz, Robert S.
name: Parrhysius, Pia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Abwasserbehandlung

description: Prevalent findings of anticoagulant rodenticide (AR) residues in liver tissue of freshwater fish recently emphasized the existence of aquatic exposure pathways. Thus, a comprehensive wastewater treatment plant and surface water monitoring campaign was conducted at two urban catchments in Germany in 2018 and 2019 to investigate potential emission sources of ARs into the aquatic environment. Over several months, the occurrence and fate of all eight ARs authorized in the European Union as well as two pharmaceutical anticoagulants was monitored in a variety of aqueous, solid, and biological environmental matrices during and after widespread sewer baiting with AR-containing bait. As a result, sewer baiting in combined sewer systems, besides outdoor rodent control at the surface, was identified as a substantial contributor of these biocidal active ingredients in the aquatic environment. In conjunction with heavy or prolonged precipitation during bait application in combined sewer systems, a direct link between sewer baiting and AR residues in wastewater treatment plant influent, effluent, and the liver of freshwater fish was established. Moreover, study results confirmed insufficient removal of anticoagulants during conventional wastewater treatment and thus indirect exposure of aquatic organisms in receiving streams via tertiary treated effluents and combined sewer overflows. Nevertheless, further research is required to determine the ecological implications and risks for aquatic organisms as well as fish-eating predators from chronic AR exposure at environmentally relevant concentrations. © 2020 The Author(s).
The Vertex-Switching Reconstruction Problem
Creators: name: Niesink, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Switching on a vertex of a graph involves swapping the sets of neighbours and non-neighbours of the vertex. The resultant graph is called a switch card of the original graph. The switch deck of a graph is the collection of all of its switch cards. The vertex-switch reconstruction problem then asks which graphs (termed non-VSR graphs) cannot be uniquely determined from their switch decks. A review of the published knowledge about this problem is followed by an improved bound on the number of edges in a non-VSR graph, and a bound on the size of the automorphism group of a non-VSR graph. Finally, the results of a computer search are presented, showing that no non-VSR graphs of order 8 or 12 exist.
title: Estudio de la anatomía insular con RM de ultra-alto campo en gemelas monocigóticas.
Creators: name: Pérez Lara, Almudena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
La morfología del cerebro humano varía de forma significativa entre sujetos en cuanto a tamaño,
contorno y complejidad estructural.
Varios estudios han demostrado que estas diferencias están influenciadas de forma significativa por factores...
Topics in complex random matrices and information theory
Creators: name: Ratnarajah, Tharmalingam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: The eigenvalue distribution of both central and noncentral complex Wishart matrices are investigated with the objective of studying several open problems in information theory and numerical analysis, etc. Specifically, the largest, kth largest, and the smallest eigenvalue distributions of complex Wishart matrices and the condition number distribution of complex Gaussian random matrices are derived. These distributions are represented by complex hypergeometric functions of matrix arguments, which can be expressed in terms of complex zonal polynomials. We derive several results on complex hypergeometric functions and zonal polynomials that are used to evaluate these distributions. We also give a method to compute these complex hypergeometric functions. Then the connection between the complex Wishart matrix theory and information theory is formulated. This facilitates the evaluation of the most important information-theoretic measure, the so-called channel capacity. The capacity of the communication channel expresses the maximum rate at which information can be reliably conveyed by the channel. In particular, the capacities of the multiple input, multiple output Rayleigh and Rician distributed channels are fully investigated. We consider both correlated and uncorrelated channels and derive the corresponding channel capacity formulas. These studies show how the channel correlations degrade the capacity of the communication system.
title: Patrón Alveolar Pulmonar. Un reto diagnóstico para el Radiólogo General.
Creators: name: Tienda Flores, Maria Jose
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Lung

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Recordar la anatomía de la unidad funcional básica del parénquima pulmonar para entender la semiología de la lesión alveolar. Describir los signos radiológicos de la afectación del espacio alveolar. Clasificar según la distribución que...
title: Cuestionario breve y calculadora: Dos aliados del radiólogo
Creators: name: García Valiente, Ana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Contrast agents

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Insistir en la revisión de la historia clínica antes de la inyección de un medio de contraste iodado (MCI). Exponer las limitaciones de la cifra de creatinina sérica como predictor de nefrotoxicidad inducida por medios de contraste iodado...
title: Valoración de la articulación témporo-mandibular. Estudio comparativo entre RM de bajo y alto campo.
Creators: name: Bertomeu Vallecillos, Montserrat
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Demostrar que la articulación témporo-mandibular puede evaluarse de forma adecuada tanto en equipos de RM de bajo (0,35T) como de alto campo (1,5T).
(FIG.
1). Revisar las secuencias necesarias para la optimización en el estudio de las diferentes...
The drive for citizenship: Impacts of Bill C-31 membership model, 1985-1996
Creators: name: Ward, John T
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Native American Studies.

description: Bill C-31, an Act to Amend the Indian Act, was passed by the Canadian Parliament on June 28, 1985. It was intended to bring the Indian Act into line with the provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in part by allowing the reinstatement of Indian Status to women who had lost it after marrying non-Aboriginal or non-Status men. It followed from the efforts of Native women Jeannette Lavell and Sandra Lovelace in court appeals over sexual discrimination in the Indian Act. Yet there were many negative reactions to the bill. Bill C-31 introduced rules governing who could be registered as "Indian." It also contained new rules with respect to children born on or after April 17, 1985. This paper argues that these rules discriminate against children with one parent who is not recognized as "Indian" under the new rules. The primary purpose of the bill was to allow Aboriginal people to create their own criteria for managing the membership of bands. However, it caused a number of conflicts and failed to produce the results Aboriginal community hoped for. There were concerns about the increase in the Aboriginal population as people returned to reserves and inadequate funding to meet the needs arising from such population growth. Many Native persons viewed the bill as a mechanism for assimilation and argued that they should have sole responsibility over the regulation of their own memberships. Recent research on Bill C-31 is limited, in that many authors ignore the personal experiences of those who helped create and were affected by the legislation. For the most part, the literature tends to stress the growth of the Native population following the bill's implementation. A more thorough analysis would yield a greater understanding of the bill's impact on First Nations rights and self-determination. This thesis will incorporate an array of primary sources, including summary reports, scholarly studies, statistics, interviews and personal commentaries. An analysis of secondary sources will also reveal the current state of research on the topic, and show how this thesis provides a new perspective by considering matrimonial real property, blood quantum, court cases and legal Status.
HOMILADORLIKDAN KEYIN BACHADONNING GISTOLOGIK O'ZGARISHLARI
Creators: name: Ахмедов, У.Х.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Hozirgi kunda jahon sog‘liqni saqlash tashkilotining malumotlariga qaraganda 300 minga yaqin onalar tug‘iriqdan keying asoratlar tufayli vofot etar ekan. JSST malumotlariga asosan hozirgi kunda homiladorlikdan keyingi asoratar natijasida 500 minga yaqin onalarda bachadon amputatsiyasi amalga oshiriadi. Bularning sabablari turlicha bo‘lib mavzuda shular yoritib o‘tilgan. Bularning barchasi bachadonning tug‘ruqdan keyingi involyusiyasi deb ataladigan jarayonni belgilaydi. Tug‘ilgandan so‘ng darhol uning pastki qismi kindikdan biroz pastda joylashgan. Tug‘ruqdan bir hafta o‘tgach, bachadon tanasi 2 barobar kamayadi va 4-6 haftadan so‘ng uning hajmi va vazni homiladorlikdan oldingi kabi bo‘ladi. Involyutiv o‘zgarishlarning tezligi asosan tug‘ilish akti va tug‘ilish davrining o‘ziga xos xususiyatlari, shuningdek tug‘ilgan bolaning vazni, amniotik suyuqlik miqdori, uterotonikadan foydalanish va boshqalar bilan belgilanadi. O‘z navbatida, bachadon subinvolyusiyasi tug‘ruqdan keyin yiringli-septik asoratlar paydo bo‘lishi uchun xavf omili bo‘lishi mumkin.
An investigation of adaptive acquisition techniques for planar near-field antenna measurements
Creators: name: Parsons, Garrett
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis presents an adaptive technique that uses feedback to provide practical information during a planar near-field measurement scan. The feedback is used to decide with certainty when to terminate the planar near-field measurement process. The developed adaptive planar near-field method utilizes a rectangular spiral-type acquisition pattern to acquire the near-field measurements. At the end of each scan iteration, a set of decision functions are rapidly calculated which provide a quality measurement of the resulting far-zone transformation. The decision functions are based on the far-zone radiated patterns, directivity, and the fractional plane wave spectrum error. The decision functions were evaluated using actual planar near-field data set of five different antennas. These experiments have identified those decision functions that are directly related to antenna performance measures and would allow for the termination of the planar near-field test based on a set of relevant stopping conditions.
Juristisches Gutachten über die Förderung der Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung von Elektro-Altgeräten im Sinne der zweiten Stufe der Abfallhierarchie
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abfall
subject: Rohstoffwiederverwendung
subject: Abfallvermeidung
subject: Elektro- und Elektronik-Schrott
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Dieses Gutachten basiert auf einer Bestandsaufnahme der derzeitigen Praktiken im Bereich der Wiederverwendung. Aufbauend auf den daraus gewonnenen Erkenntnissen untersucht es Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung von Elektroaltgeräten im Sinne der zweiten Stufe der Abfallhierarchie durch deren Institutionalisierung im Elektro- und Elektronikgerätegesetz. Bei der Entwicklung eines entsprechenden Modells war es jedoch der Grundgedanke, bestehende Strukturen und Abläufe so weit wie möglich unverändert zu belassen. Es soll möglichst wenig in die unternehmerische Freiheit der Unternehmen eingegriffen werden, die sich bereits als Wiederverwendungseinrichtung betätigen oder dies zu tun gedenken. Daher werden nur solche Normierungen vorgeschlagen, die als Ergänzung zum bestehenden System minimal notwendig sind. Sollte sich die Tätigkeit als Wiederverwendungseinrichtung dennoch nicht wirtschaftlich ausüben lassen, so ist keine spezielle finanzielle Förderung vorgesehen.
Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Dieses Gutachten basiert auf einer Bestandsaufnahme der derzeitigen Praktiken im Bereich der Wiederverwendung. Aufbauend auf den daraus gewonnenen Erkenntnissen untersucht es Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung von Elektroaltgeräten im Sinne der zweiten Stufe der Abfallhierarchie durch deren Institutionalisierung im Elektro- und Elektronikgerätegesetz. Bei der Entwicklung eines entsprechenden Modells war es jedoch der Grundgedanke, bestehende Strukturen und Abläufe so weit wie möglich unverändert zu belassen. Es soll möglichst wenig in die unternehmerische Freiheit der Unternehmen eingegriffen werden, die sich bereits als Wiederverwendungseinrichtung betätigen oder dies zu tun gedenken. Daher werden nur solche Normierungen vorgeschlagen, die als Ergänzung zum bestehenden System minimal notwendig sind. Sollte sich die Tätigkeit als Wiederverwendungseinrichtung dennoch nicht wirtschaftlich ausüben lassen, so ist keine spezielle finanzielle Förderung vorgesehen.
The Probiotic Compound VSL#3 Modulates Mucosal, Peripheral, and Systemic Immunity Following Murine Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Treatment
Creators: name: Ekmekciu, Ira
name: Von Klitzing, Eliane
name: Fiebiger, Ulrike
name: Neumann, Christian
name: Bacher, Petra
name: Scheffold, Alexander
name: Bereswill, Stefan
name: Heimesaat, Markus M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: probiotics
subject: antibiotics
subject: innate and adaptive immunity
subject: microbiota
subject: fecal microbiota transplantation
subject: secondary abiotic (gnotobiotic) mice
subject: mucosal and peripheral and central immunity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: There is compelling evidence linking the commensal intestinal microbiota with host health and, in turn, antibiotic induced perturbations of microbiota composition with distinct pathologies. Despite the attractiveness of probiotic therapy as a tool to beneficially alter the intestinal microbiota, its immunological effects are still incompletely understood. The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of the probiotic formulation VSL#3 consisting of eight distinct bacterial species (including Streptococcus thermophilus, Bifidobacterium breve, B. longum, B. infantis, Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. plantarum, L. paracasei, and L. delbrueckii subsp. Bulgaricus) in reversing immunological effects of microbiota depletion as compared to reassociation with a complex murine microbiota. To address this, conventional mice were subjected to broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy for 8 weeks and perorally reassociated with either VSL#3 bacteria or a complex murine microbiota. VSL#3 recolonization resulted in restored CD4+ and CD8+ cell numbers in the small and large intestinal lamina propria as well as in B220+ cell numbers in the former, whereas probiotic intervention was not sufficient to reverse the antibiotic induced changes of respective cell populations in the spleen. However, VSL#3 application was as efficient as complex microbiota reassociation to attenuate the frequencies of regulatory T cells, activated dendritic cells and memory/effector T cells in the small intestine, colon, mesenteric lymph nodes, and spleen. Whereas broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment resulted in decreased production of cytokines such as IFN-γ, IL-17, IL-22, and IL-10 by CD4+ cells in respective immunological compartments, VSL#3 recolonization was sufficient to completely recover the expression of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 without affecting pro-inflammatory mediators. In summary, the probiotic compound VSL#3 has an extensive impact on mucosal, peripheral, and systemic innate as well as adaptive immunity, exerting beneficial anti-inflammatory effects in intestinal as well as systemic compartments. Hence, VSL#3 might be considered a therapeutic immunomodulatory tool following antibiotic therapy.
title: Manejo multidisciplinario del osteosarcoma.  Importancia del radiólogo en cada etapa.
Creators: name: Teruel, Analia
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Oncology
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Ilustrar,
a través de casos clínico-patológicos,
las distintas fases del diagnóstico,
tratamiento y seguimiento del osteosarcoma (OSA),
mostrando la importancia del papel del radiólogo en cada...
title: Voluntary CO2 offsetting
title: Voluntary CO2 offsetting
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wolters, Stephan
name: Schaller, Stella
name: Götz, Markus
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimaschutz
subject: carbon offsetting
subject: climate protection
subject: Offsetting
subject: Climate | Energy

description: An increasing number of people are changing their way of life to make a contribution to global climate protection. Only when greenhouse gases can no longer be avoided and reduced, offsetting is the last step for an environmental-friendly footprint. This guide summarises the most important aspects in a concise form to be taken into account in voluntary offsetting. The guide will also help you understand how voluntary offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions works in climate protection projects and explains the most common project types and the terminology used. Source: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: An increasing number of people are changing their way of life to make a contribution to global climate protection. Only when greenhouse gases can no longer be avoided and reduced, offsetting is the last step for an environmental-friendly footprint. This guide summarises the most important aspects in a concise form to be taken into account in voluntary offsetting. The guide will also help you understand how voluntary offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions works in climate protection projects and explains the most common project types and the terminology used.
title: Utilidad de la tomografía computarizada multidetector (TCMD) en el diagnóstico de las complicaciones posquirúrgicas de la cirugía abdominal
Creators: name: Gil Martín, Ana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Small bowel
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Surgery
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Abscess
subject: Infection

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Objetivos docentes ; 1.
Exponer el protocolo óptimo de TCMD según el tipo de complicación posquirúrgica que se sospeche. 2.
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos normales en el postoperatorio inmediato,
así como las complicaciones...
Food consumption, nutrient intake, and dietary patterns in Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots in Ghana
Creators: name: Galbete, Cecilia
name: Nicolaou, Mary
name: Meeks, Karlijn A.
name: Aikins, Ama De-Graft
name: Addo, Juliet
name: Amoah, Stephen K.
name: Smeeth, Liam
name: Owusu-Dabo, Ellis
name: Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin
name: Bahendeka, Silver
name: Agyemang, Charles
name: Mockenhaupt, Frank P.
name: Beune, Erik J.
name: Stronks, Karien
name: Schulze, Matthias B.
name: Danquah, Ina
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: RODAM
subject: dietary patterns
subject: sub-Sahara African populations
subject: principal component analysis
subject: nutrition transition
subject: nutrient intake
subject: diet
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: West African immigrants in Europe are disproportionally affected by metabolic conditions compared to European host populations. Nutrition transition through urbanisation and migration may contribute to this observations, but remains to be characterised. Objective: We aimed to describe the dietary behaviour and its socio-demographic factors among Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots living different Ghanaian settings. Methods: The multi-centre, cross-sectional RODAM (Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants) study was conducted among Ghanaian adults in rural and urban Ghana, and Europe. Dietary patterns were identified by principal component analysis. Results: Contributions of macronutrient to the daily energy intake was different across the three study sites. Three dietary patterns were identified. Adherence to the ‘mixed’ pattern was associated with female sex, higher education, and European residency. The ‘rice, pasta, meat, and fish’ pattern was associated with male sex, younger age, higher education, and urban Ghanaian environment. Adherence to the ‘roots, tubers, and plantain’ pattern was mainly related to rural Ghanaian residency. Conclusion: We observed differences in food preferences across study sites: in rural Ghana, diet concentrated on starchy foods; in urban Ghana, nutrition was dominated by animal-based products; and in Europe, diet appeared to be highly diverse.
Silicon Photonic Biosensors Using Label-Free Detection
Creators: name: Luan, Enxiao
name: Shoman, Hossam
name: Ratner, Daniel M.
name: Cheung, Karen C.
name: Chrostowski, Lukas
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Thanks to advanced semiconductor microfabrication technology, chip-scale integration and miniaturization of lab-on-a-chip components, silicon-based optical biosensors have made significant progress for the purpose of point-of-care diagnosis. In this review, we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in evanescent field biosensing technologies including interferometer, microcavity, photonic crystal, and Bragg grating waveguide-based sensors. Their sensing mechanisms and sensor performances, as well as real biomarkers for label-free detection, are exhibited and compared. We also review the development of chip-level integration for lab-on-a-chip photonic sensing platforms, which consist of the optical sensing device, flow delivery system, optical input and readout equipment. At last, some advanced system-level complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip packaging examples are presented, indicating the commercialization potential for the low cost, high yield, portable biosensing platform leveraging CMOS processes.
Supplementary document for Surface Plasmon Resonance Effect on Laser Trapping and Swarming of Gold Nanoparticles at Interface - 4767580.pdf
Creators: name: Huang, Chih-Hao
name: Kudo, Tetsuhiro
name: BRESOLÍ-OBACH, ROGER
name: Hofkens, Johan
name: Sugiyama, Teruki
name: Masuhara, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Physics not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Document
Health Risk Assessment of Air Pollution: assessing the environmental burden of disease in Europe in 2021
Creators: name: Kienzler, Sarah
name: Soares, Joana
name: Plaß, Dietrich
Publisher: name: ETC-HE
Year: 2023

description: This report presents the results of the environmental burden of disease (EBD) assessment related to air pollution in 2021 for the 27 Member States of the European Union and an additional 14 European countries (Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, and Türkiye). The estimations differentiate the EBD by three individual pollutants, fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3), considering all-cause mortality as well as cause-specific mortality and morbidity. For the analyses, various burden of disease indicators were used, such as attributable deaths (AD), years of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD), disability-adjusted life years (DALY) and attributable hospitalisation cases. In 2021, long-term exposure to concentration levels above the WHO Air Quality Guideline levels of PM2.5 and NO2, resulted in 293 000 and 69 000 AD from all natural causes, respectively. There were 27 000 AD related to short-term exposure to O3. For EU27, the number of AD is 253 000, 52 000 and 22 000, respectively. When considering both the number of deaths and the age at which it occurs, the YLL (YLL per 100 000 inhabitants) is 2 936 000 (618) for long-term exposure to PM2.5 and 740 000 (132) to NO2, and 299 000 (54) due to short-term exposure to O3. For EU27, YLL (YLL per 100 000 inhabitants) are 2 584 000 (584), 532 000 (120), 234 000 (53), respectively. When comparing long-term exposure, both all-cause and cause-specific analyses point to PM2.5 as the pollutant with the highest burden. The cause-specific analyses resulted in 2 528 363 DALY in all countries or 2 310 387 DALY in the EU27. The burden attributable to NO2 was considerably lower, with 634 721 DALY and 403 788 DALY in all countries and in the EU27, respectively. Looking at the single disease entities, ischemic heart disease contributed the most to the overall burden of PM2.5, with 759 303 DALY in all countries and 704 525 DALY in the EU27. The lowest burden was related to Asthma (children), with 25 932 and 23 969 DALY in all countries and the EU27, respectively. For NO2, the highest disease burden was associated with diabetes mellitus (314 574 DALY; EU27: 197 031 DALY) and the lowest with asthma (adults) (all countries: 115 425 DALY; EU27: 62 460 DALY). No corresponding indicators were calculated for O3, yet short-term exposure to O3 was associated with 15 986 attributable hospital admissions in the selected European countries. When comparing the results, it is important to note that different age groups (i.e. children, adults, and elderly) were considered in the estimates, according to the relevant concentration-response functions. © European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment, 2023
Parody and the horizons of fiction in nineteenth-century English Canada.
Creators: name: Dyer, Klay.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: One of the key characteristics of the comic discourse of parody is a complex double-structuredness that allows it to inscribe a sense of difference at the heart of the similarities often informing constructions of literary traditions and cultural continuities. Parody is, to use Mikhail Bakhtin's terms, a vari-directional double-voiced discourse that simultaneously draws on a reader's familiarity with textual and discursive antecedents while at the same time encouraging a dialectical reconsideration of the appropriateness and relevance of those models in light of the cultural milieu into which such models were imported. Victorian Canada was a culture defined by such a period of transition. Dedicated to inscribing a sense of common heritage with Old World traditions, most writers and thinkers in Victorian Canada aimed for the creation of a unifying national culture that they believed could distinctively and appropriately represent. Canada to itself in terms of familiar Old World conventions. Such key concepts as land and landedness, and such vital activities as reading and writing, came to be defined within such arguments according to Old World codes and standards. For prominent Canadian fiction writers of the nineteenth century, parody was understood as an appropriate discourse for exploring more fully both the aspirations and anxieties burdening an emerging nation struggling toward cultural self-definition. Avoiding a monologic transplantation of Old World textual models or cultural presumptions, these writers, while acknowledging the acceptance and appeal of such Old World benchmarks within a still nascent culture, challenge their contemporaries to reconsider this inhibitive reliance on textual and discursive structures imported from other places and other times. They encourage an imaginative exploration of other ways of representing Canada's distinctiveness, insistently laying bare the limitations inherent in a naive confidence in the portability of literary conventions and cultural presumptions. Including as part of their own narratives the very structures they set out to question, Canadian parodists emphasize how identity is the product of testing rather than accepting preestablished imaginative and literary boundaries. The rise to prominence of Stephen Leacock in the early decades of this century signals both an epistemic shift in Canada and a radical transformation of this country's parodic spirit. Moving in his parodies toward a more transnational vision of Canada and Canadian concerns, Leacock at the same time recognizes in the parodic a vital source of kindliness. Whereas parody is for his Victorian counterparts a strategy for defining and nurturing a sense of distinctly Canadian culture, for Leacock it becomes vitally allied to survival in a world of crumbling foundations.
Electrolytes and interphases in sodium‐based rechargeable batteries: recent advances and perspectives
Creators: name: Eshetu, Gebrekidan Gebresilassie
name: Elia, Giuseppe Antonio
name: Armand, Michel
name: Forsyth, Maria
name: Komaba, Shinichi
name: Rojo, Teofilo
name: Passerini, Stefano
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: CEI
subject: SEI
subject: sodium rechargeable batteries
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Additives
subject: Electrolytes
subject: Safety
subject: Additiv
subject: Elektrolyt
subject: Interphase

description: Sodium batteries (SBs) are seen as a sustainable alternative for electrochemical energy storage. However, progresses on electrolytes is required to enable future commercialization. A comprehensive review of the status, and the prospects of various Na‐ion electrolytes, including solvents, salts, additives, electrode/electrolyte interphases, and potential hazards, is presented. For sodium (Na)‐rechargeable batteries to compete, and go beyond the currently prevailing Li‐ion technologies, mastering the chemistry and accompanying phenomena is of supreme importance. Among the crucial components of the battery system, the electrolyte, which bridges the highly polarized positive and negative electrode materials, is arguably the most critical and indispensable of all. The electrolyte dictates the interfacial chemistry of the battery and the overall performance, having an influence over the practical capacity, rate capability (power), chemical/thermal stress (safety), and lifetime. In‐depth knowledge of electrolyte properties provides invaluable information to improve the design, assembly, and operation of the battery. Thus, the full‐scale appraisal of both tailored electrolytes and the concomitant interphases generated at the electrodes need to be prioritized. The deployment of large‐format Na‐based rechargeable batteries also necessitates systematic evaluation and detailed appraisal of the safety‐related hazards of Na‐based batteries. Hence, this review presents a comprehensive account of the progress, status, and prospect of various Na+‐ion electrolytes, including solvents, salts and additives, their interphases and potential hazards.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 278 (36. Jg.), Januar 2006
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
A low-impact strategy for capturing better emergency department injury surveillance data
Creators: name: Brubacher, Jeffrey
name: Shih, Yuda
name: Weng, Jian Ting
name: Verma, Rahul
name: Evans, David C.
name: Grafstein, Eric
Publisher: name: BMJ
Year: 2022

description: Objectives: Injury prevention should be informed by timely surveillance data. Unfortunately, most injury surveillance only captures patients with severe injuries and is not available in real time, hampering prevention efforts. We aimed to develop and pilot a simple injury surveillance strategy that can be integrated into routine emergency department (ED) workflow to collect more robust mechanism of injury information at time of visit for all injured ED patients with minimal impact on workflow. Methods: We reviewed ED injury surveillance systems and considered ED workflow. Forms were developed to collect injury-related information on ED patients, and refined to address workload concerns raised by key stakeholders. Research assistants observed ED staff as they registered injured patients and noted the time required to collect data and any ambiguities or concerns encountered. Inter-observer agreement was recorded. Results: Injury surveillance questions were based on a modification of the International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI). Research assistants observed 222 injured patients being admitted by registration clerks. The mean time required to complete the surveillance form was 64.9 seconds (95%CI:59.9-69.9) for paper-based forms (120 cases) and 44.5 seconds (95%CI:41.7-47.4) with direct electronic data entry (102 cases). Interobserver agreement (24 cases) was 100% for intent (Kappa=1.0) of injury and 96% for mechanism of injury (Kappa=0.74). Conclusions: We report a simple injury surveillance strategy that ED staff can use to collect meaningful injury data in real time with minimal impact on workflow. This strategy can be adapted to enhance regional injury surveillance efforts.
Supplementary document for Surface Plasmon Resonance Effect on Laser Trapping and Swarming of Gold Nanoparticles at Interface - 4767580.pdf
Creators: name: Huang, Chih-Hao
name: Kudo, Tetsuhiro
name: BRESOLÍ-OBACH, ROGER
name: Hofkens, Johan
name: Sugiyama, Teruki
name: Masuhara, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Optical Physics not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Document
Animal-Free human whole blood sepsis model to study changes in innate immunity
Creators: name: Messerer, David Alexander Christian
name: Vidoni, Laura
name: Erber, Maike
name: Stratmann, Alexander Elias Paul
name: Bauer, Jonas Martin
name: Braun, Christian Karl
name: Hug, Stefan
name: Adler, Anna
name: Nilsson Ekdahl, Kristina
name: Nilsson, Bo
name: Barth, Eberhard
name: Radermacher, Peter
name: Huber-Lang, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: neutrophil granulocytes
subject: blood physiology
subject: ex vivo whole blood model
subject: principles of the 3Rs
subject: neutrophil dysfunction
subject: oxidative burst
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Inflammation
subject: Granulocytes
subject: Blood physiological phenomena
subject: Neutrophils
subject: Shock, Septic
subject: Phagocytosis
subject: Receptor, Anaphylatoxin C5a
subject: Lipopolysaccharides
subject: Sepsis
subject: Neutrophiler Granulozyt
subject: Entzündung
subject: Sepsis

description: Studying innate immunity in humans is crucial for understanding its role in the pathophysiology of systemic inflammation, particularly in the complex setting of sepsis. Therefore, we standardized a step-by-step process from the venipuncture to the transfer in a human model system, while closely monitoring the inflammatory response for up to three hours. We designed an animal-free, human whole blood sepsis model using a commercially available, simple to use, tubing system. First, we analyzed routine clinical parameters, including cell count and blood gas analysis. Second, we demonstrated that extracellular activation markers (e.g., CD11b and CD62l) as well as intracellular metabolic (intracellular pH) and functional (generation of radical oxygen species) features remained stable after incubation in the whole blood model. Third, we mimicked systemic inflammation during early sepsis by exposure of whole blood to pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Stimulation with lipopolysaccharide revealed the capability of the model system to evoke a sepsis-like inflammatory phenotype of innate immunity. In summary, the presented model serves as a convenient, economic, and reliable platform to study innate immunity in human whole blood, which may yield clinically important insights.
title: A Role for the Transcription Factor Nk2 Homeobox 1 in Schizophrenia
title: Convergent Evidence from Animal and Human Studies
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Malt, Eva A.
name: Juhasz, Katalin
name: Malt, Ulrik F.
name: Naumann, Thomas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: brain development
subject: GABA
subject: NKX2-1
subject: Schizophrenia
subject: thyroid hormones
subject: calcium
subject: immune system
subject: brain
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder with diverse mental and somatic symptoms. The molecular mechanisms leading from genes to disease pathology in schizophrenia remain largely unknown. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have shown that common single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with specific diseases are enriched in the recognition sequences of transcription factors that regulate physiological processes relevant to the disease. We have used a “bottom-up” approach and tracked a developmental trajectory from embryology to physiological processes and behavior and recognized that the transcription factor NK2 homeobox 1 (NKX2-1) possesses properties of particular interest for schizophrenia. NKX2-1 is selectively expressed from prenatal development to adulthood in the brain, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, lungs, skin, and enteric ganglia, and has key functions at the interface of the brain, the endocrine-, and the immune system. In the developing brain, NKX2-1-expressing progenitor cells differentiate into distinct subclasses of forebrain GABAergic and cholinergic neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. The transcription factor is highly expressed in mature limbic circuits related to context-dependent goal-directed patterns of behavior, social interaction and reproduction, fear responses, responses to light, and other homeostatic processes. It is essential for development and mature function of the thyroid gland and the respiratory system, and is involved in calcium metabolism and immune responses. NKX2-1 interacts with a number of genes identified as susceptibility genes for schizophrenia. We suggest that NKX2-1 may lie at the core of several dose dependent pathways that are dysregulated in schizophrenia. We correlate the symptoms seen in schizophrenia with the temporal and spatial activities of NKX2-1 in order to highlight promising future research areas.
Why the world needs superheroes
Creators: name: Burke, Liam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Superheroes were born in the United States in the late 1930s as a four-colour rebuttal to the misery of the Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe. Today, superheroes are no longer confined to America, or even the comic book page. From Marvel movies to convention cosplay, superheroes have never enjoyed greater visibility. Earlier this year, for instance, parts of Sydney were shut down as the Make-a-Wish Foundation and NSW police worked together to help nine-year-old Domenic Pace become Iron Boy. After rescuing a "kidnapped" reporter and facing down baddies on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, Pace was awarded a Commissioner's Award for Gallantry before a cheering crowd. In anticipation of the upcoming Superhero Identities Symposium in Melbourne, we interviewed 100 fans and celebrities to better understand why the world needs superheroes. We wanted to find out what these icons mean to people, as the genre reaches heights of popularity not seen since its origins on the comic book page.
Density functional theory studies on sulfur−polyacrylonitrile as a cathode host material for lithium−sulfur batteries
Creators: name: Bertolini, Samuel
name: Jacob, Timo
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Luminescence
subject: Carbon
subject: Solvents
subject: Electrolytes
subject: Polymers
subject: Lumineszenz
subject: Kohle
subject: Lösungsmittel
subject: Elektrolyt
subject: Polymere

description: Cyclized polyacrylonitrile, which can be obtained by vulcanization of polyacrylonitrile with sulfur, is an electron-conductive polymer that can be used as a host material in lithium–sulfur batteries. Using density functional theory, we investigated the interaction between a surrounding electrolyte and the polymeric sulfur–polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) electrode. In particular, we focused on different configurations, where the system contains 1,3-dioxane as a solvent and can have (i) polysulfide (PS) solvated in the electrolyte, (ii) a PS attached to the polymer backbone, (iii) lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) as a salt dissolved in the electrolyte, and (iv) both PS and LiTFSI dissolved in the electrolyte. We found that the polymer, when having a hydrogen vacancy at a carbon atom (undercoordinated carbon) of the polymer backbone, is able to not only capture a PS from the electrolyte but also decompose and bind to the solvent and/or remove lithium from the PS. During this capturing process, the polysulfide might undergo S–S bond cleavage and recombination, accompanied by a charge transfer between the polysulfide and polymer. Thus, cyclized polyacrylonitrile not only is an interesting host material but also acts as an active material, together with sulfur, by capturing Li from the polysulfide.
Methodik für die Evaluation der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
Creators: name: Kind, Christian
name: Kaiser, Theresa
name: Gaus, Hansjörg
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Folgen des Klimawandels
subject: Anpassung
subject: Bewertung
subject: Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
subject: Anpassung an den Klimawandel
subject: Klimaanpassung
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Der vorliegende Bericht enthält die für die Evaluation der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategiean den Klimawandel(DAS ) entwickelte Evaluationsmethodik, eine Beschreibung der zur Anwendung kommenden Erhebungsinstrumente sowie die Vorstellung der Herangehensweise, mit der die Methodik entwickelt wurde. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Der vorliegende Bericht enthält die für die Evaluation der Deutschen ⁠Anpassungsstrategie⁠ an den ⁠Klimawandel⁠ (⁠DAS⁠) entwickelte Evaluationsmethodik, eine Beschreibung der zur Anwendung kommenden Erhebungsinstrumente sowie die Vorstellung der Herangehensweise, mit der die Methodik entwickelt wurde.
Is technology outpacing compulsory voting?
Creators: name: Brent, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Deep beneath the statistical returns for last year’s federal election lurks a troubling indicator. Our tradition of compulsory voting is set to collide with technology, with unpleasant consequences for hundreds of thousands of Australians. The problem isn’t the record low turnout rate among voters, although it’s related to that. The official House of Representatives figure for the 2016 election was 91.0 per cent, down from 93.2 per cent in 2013 and the lowest turnout since the introduction of compulsory voting in 1924. Those numbers are misleading. Official turnout was low because of the excellent state of the electoral rolls, which are estimated by the Australian Electoral Commission to contain 95 per cent of people in the country eligible to vote – the most complete electoral roll in recent history and, possibly, since the first Commonwealth roll was constructed in 1902. Turnout as a proportion of estimated eligible voters – as opposed to names on the roll – actually increased a little on 2013, from 86.2 to 86.4 per cent. This, due to the improved roll, was a very fine thing. This figure points to the contradiction at the heart of our system.