cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kompetanse i og om kollektivtrafikken
Creators: name: Hoff, Annelese Holden
name: Osland, Oddgeir
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: I dette paperet vil vi presentere en undersøkelse av hvordan norsk offentlig sektor har organisert arbeidet med kollektivtransport på vei, og hvilke ressurser som brukes til arbeidet med å legge til rette for kollektivtransport når det gjelder omfang og fordeling av kompetansen om kollektivtransport. Bakgrunnen for dette arbeidet er de store organisatoriske endringene i norsk samferdselssektor de siste 10-15 år har endret betingelsene for eierskap og forvaltning av kunnskap og kapital i samferdselssektoren, herunder endrede krav til innsikt og kompetanse om hva som skal til for å legge til rette for et godt kollektivtilbud. Undersøkelsen viser a) hvilken bakgrunn de som arbeider med kollektivtransport har, b) hvor kompetansen om kollektivtransport er plassert i forvaltningen, c) hvilke oppgaver dette omfatter og d) hvordan de som arbeider med dette uttrykker at betingelsene for å utføre jobben er. Kollektivkompetanse kan defineres som 1) kunnskap om planlegging og drift av kollektivsystemet og 2) kunnskap om hvordan prioriterere og samordne kollektivtransport med andre transportformer. Etter det vi kjenner til, har det ikke vært gjennomført noen systematisk undersøkelse av kollektivkompetanse i norsk forvaltning. I vår undersøkelse kartlegger vi i hvilken grad aktørene selv mener de har adekvat kompetanse til å utføre de oppgavene de er tillagt. Hovedkilder til dette arbeidet er kvalitative data om ansvarsdeling innen kollektivtransporten og intervjuer med sentrale aktører med ansvar for kollektivtransport i fylkeskommunene, administrasjonsselskap og Statens vegvesen. Informasjonen fra disse intervjuene er supplert med funn i tidligere arbeider som berører dette temaet, og som også har gitt inspirasjon til denne kartleggingen. Undersøkelsen viser at utfordringen i norsk kollektivtransportforvaltning ikke oppfattes å være utilstrekkelig kompetanse, men heller manglende kapasitet til å utføre oppgavene. Det er stor variasjon i hvordan fylkeskommunene organiserer arbeidet med kollektivtransport, både når det gjelder offentlig kjøp av transporttjenester og med hensyn til interne og eksterne samarbeidsformer. Videre er det også variasjon i den formelle kompetansen mellom de ulike fylkeskommunene, samtidig som de ulike fylkenes geografiske trekk (for eksempel om det er noen store byer i fylket) har betydning for tilgang på kompetanse i og utenfor organisasjonene.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
A thesis of clinical research and practice: Part A: ‘Quality of life in individuals with Locked-In Syndrome: A systematic review’; Part B: 'Experiences of family in partners of people with Locked-In Syndrome: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis'; Part C: Summary of clinical practice and assessments
Creators: name: Clifton, Catherine Helen
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Locked-in syndrome (LIS) is a rare neurological condition, where an individual
description: experiences quadriplegia, mutism and lower cranial nerve paralysis, but is awake and
description: conscious and does not experience cognitive impairment. Part one of this portfolio presents a
description: systematic review examining the quality of life in individuals with LIS. Seven themes
description: summarised the QoL experiences of the people with LIS, including choosing and receiving
description: appropriate care; access to communication; coping and living with LIS; thoughts of death and
description: dying; mood; functional impact of physical health and satisfaction with relationships. This
description: review suggests that clinicians should consider the domains identified in this review when
description: working with patients with LIS.

description:

description: The second part of this portfolio presents an empirical paper that explored family
description: changes from the perspective of partners of individuals with LIS after they had developed
description: LIS. Three superordinate themes emerged from the analysis, including ‘Disruption to the
description: Family Lifecycle’, ‘Change in the Closeness/Distance of Family Relationships’ and ‘Change
description: in the Partner’s Life’. Understandings from this study could be applied into clinical settings
description: in rehabilitation interventions involving family members, as well as residential settings and
description: clinicians working with partners preparing to take their partners with LIS home from hospital.
Farlige og fejlagtige fodgængerfelter i Oslo
Creators: name: Sørensen, Michael W. J.
name: Mosslemi, Marjan
name: Akhtar, Juned
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: Formålet med forgængerfelter er at forbedre fodgængernes forhold med hensyn til deres fremkommelighed, sikkerhed og tryghed. Tidligere fandtes der i Norge ingen kriterier for, hvor fodgængerfelter kan opmærkes. Rigtig mange felter er derfor blevet opmærket i Norge. I erkendelse af at fodgængerfelter ikke er et entydigt trafiksikkerhedstiltag påbegyndte Statens vegvesen i 2002 en vurdering af hensigtsmæssigheden af denne praksis. Det medførte, at Statens vegvesen udgav en håndbog i 2007 med kriterier for, hvor nye fodgængerfelter kan og bør opmærkes. Håndbogen kan også bruges ved vurderingen af eksisterende fodgængerfelter. Med udgangspunkt i bl.a. disse kriterier er Statens vegvesen og flere norske kommuner gået i gang med at foretage inspektion af eksisterende fodgængerfelter på deres vejnet. Transportøkonomisk institutt (TØI) har for Statens vegvesen Region øst foretaget inspektion af 85 fodgængerfelter på statsveje i Oslo med en hastighedsgrænse på 50 km/t. Formålet med inspektionen har været at undersøge fodgængerfeltskriterierne, risikoniveau samt udformning og vedligeholdelse af fodgængerfeltet med henblik på at anbefale løsninger, som kan medvirke til at forbedre fodgængernes sikkerhed i fodgængerfelterne. Inspektionen omfatter trafiktælling, tælling af fodgængere og cyklister, hastighedsmåling, observation af konflikter, ulykkesanalyse og besigtigelse af hvert fodgængerfelt. Inspektionen viser, at kriterierne ikke er opfyldt i 26 fodgængerfelter. Seks har for højt hastighedsniveau og 20 har for få fodgængere. Der er høj eller middel risiko for bløde trafikanter i henholdsvis 12 og 50 fodgængerfelter. Disse felter karakteriseres bl.a. ved mange ulykker, høj hastighed, dårlig oversigt, lang krydsningsafstand, mere end to kørespor i samme retning og/eller mangelfuld opmærkning, skiltning og vejbelysning. Der er registreret mange fejl, mangler og uhensigtsmæssigheder i 40 fodgængerfelter. Den mest hyppige anmærkning er til skiltning. Herefter følger vejbelysning, oversigt og opmærkning. TØI vurderer, at 23 fodgængerfelter bør fjernes, 16 fodgængerfelter bør opgraderes væsentligt og ét fodgængerfelt bør flyttes. I 35 fodgængerfelter bør der foretages små eller få ændringer. Kun for 10 fodgængerfelter er det ikke nødvendigt at gennemføre tiltag. Det kan umiddelbart virke som en høj andel af fodgængerfelterne, som er sikkerhedsmæssige problematiske. Resultatet stemmer dog overens med resultaterne fra andre lignende projekter. Denne og andre undersøgelser bekræfter, at der er et stort behov for en systematisk gennemgang af eksisterende forgængerfelter i norske byer. Det er tænkeligt, at lignende gennemgange af fodgængerfelter med fordel kan foretages i Danmark.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Engaging with legitimacy : An examination of lay participation in the criminal courts.
Creators: name: Kirby, Amy
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This study adopted a qualitative approach, comprising in-depth interviews and observations at four courts, to examine the perceived legitimacy of the court process among members of the public who come into direct contact with the criminal courts. Examining the extent to which members of the public, or ‘lay participants’, engaged with the court process provided a valuable means of assessing the degree to which the courts are perceived to occupy legitimate authority among those that they serve. In this thesis, engagement is characterised in one of five ways, ‘active alignment’, ‘passive alignment’, ‘dull compulsion’, ‘resistance’ and ‘withdrawal’, based upon the extent to which an individual is aligned with, and participates in, the court process. The findings point to evidence of weak levels of engagement, particularly among court users, such as complainants, defendants and prosecution witnesses, who have the least power but most at stake in the process. This is indicative of legitimacy deficits which, if unaddressed, limit the degree to which the courts can continue to claim to be valid holders of power. The findings suggest that perceptions of legitimacy can be cultivated in two ways. This is firstly through the use of lay adjudicators, namely juries and lay magistrates, who – despite challenges arising from the visibility of the perceived benefits of lay decision-making in practice – were found to confer legitimacy on the criminal courts. Secondly, engagement could be cultivated through the presence of ‘procedurally just’ interactions between court users and those who occupy positions of power within the courts. However, the strength of the latter claims, this thesis concludes, should not be overstated because in order to fully enhance perceptions of legitimacy there is a need to look beyond the confines of the courtroom and towards issues in wider society that shape the experiences of court users.
Exploring the relationship between aspects of cognitive and meta-cognitive function and the workplace success of dyslexic people.
Creators: name: Leather, Carol Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Objective: To explore how cognitive and metacognitive function influences workplace success in dyslexic adults. Background: Prior research suggests that dyslexic adults experience difficulties with executive functioning and developing metacognitive skill, in addition to continuing problems with literacy. This thesis proposes that these difficulties may affect their performance at work. This research therefore aims to investigate these aspects of cognitive and metacognitive function to discover how they relate to workplace success. These findings will provide evidence to inform interventions for dyslexic adults in the workplace. Method: Three studies were conducted. The first study (n=180 dyslexics) established the workplace success criteria: job satisfaction, self-efficacy, academic qualifications and financial success; and explored the relationship with cognitive function in terms of planning and executive attention (the Cognitive failures questionnaire, Broadbent et al.,1982)). The second study (n=116 dyslexics) assessed the participants’ metacognitive skills, confidence and problem solving and investigated the relationships with workplace success criteria. The third study (n=60 dyslexics) assessed executive functioning skills of updating, inhibition and shifting (Miyake et al., 2000) and explored the relationships with workplace success criteria. The data from all three studies were compared with a non-dyslexic control group (n= 30). Variations between the dyslexic and control groups on metacognitive and executive skill were anticipated, and the relationships between these differences and workplace success were investigated. Results: Study 1 found that cognitive failures were related to aspects of workplace success in dyslexics, and that dyslexics experienced more cognitive failures than the control group. But there were no differences between dyslexic and controls in planning or overall workplace success. Study 2 found that metacognitive skill was related to aspects of workplace success in both dyslexics and controls. Dyslexics had less metacognitive self-understanding than controls, but other aspects of metacognition were similar. Study 3 found no clear relationship between executive function and workplace success, but dyslexics performed less well than controls in aspects of working memory. Conclusion: Dyslexic participants attained comparable levels of workplace success despite deficits in working memory processes and self-understanding, and weaker literacy skills. However similar workplace success could not be attributed to compensatory use of metacognitive skills by dyslexics because dyslexics did not have greater metacognitive skill. Possible explanations and recommendations for further research are discussed.
Motorcykelulykker
Creators: name: Reiff, Lars Klit
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: HVU har i sit sjette tema undersøgt 41 ulykker med motorcykler. Det primære formål var at finde frem til de faktorer, der udløste ulykkerne. Og på denne baggrund at identificere indsatsområder til nedbringelse af antallet af motorcykelulykker. I det følgende vil hovedresultaterne og HVU’s efterfølgende opfølgningsaktiviteter blive præsenteret.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Schepers, Stephan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Udvidet dødsulykkestatistik
Creators: name: Hemdorff, Stig
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: For at få et bedre kendskab til faktorerne bag de alvorligste ulykker er der igangsat et 3-årigt projekt med en udvidet analyse af alle dødsulykker. Projektet er støttet med 16 mio. kroner fra Regeringens Grønne Transport Pulje. I forbindelse med projektet vil der blive registreret et antal yderligere oplysninger, som ikke indgår i den almindelige ulykkesstatistik.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Buddha und Bier – Massiver Alkoholkonsum wird zum gesellschaftlichen Problem
Creators: name: Tappe, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Von den wenigen Symbolen, die als nationale Marker das Land Laos repräsentieren, hat die markante Tiger-Silhouette auf dem Logo der Beerlao-Brauerei weltweit Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Ausländer wie Einheimische sind gleichermaßen dem Gebräu mit seinem Marktanteil von 99 Prozent verfallen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Die Uhr tickt – Persönliche Betrachtungen zum Thema Lifestyle
Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Laos holt auf. Viele der neuen Trends werden aus Thailand übernommen – der Stoff aus dem die laotischen Teeny-Träume sind.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Investigation of the antibacterial and antiviral properties of compounds from natural sources.
Creators: name: Ezra, Lorraine
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: In this work two lichen species (Cladonia portentosa and Ramalina farinacea) were investigated. Lichen have been used as antimicrobials, perfume and dye ingredients. Five known compounds were isolated from C. portentosa and seven known compounds were isolated from R. farinacea. Antibacterial activity investigation was carried out for four compounds isolated from these lichen the compounds were: (-)-usnic acid (43), olivetocarboxylic acid (45), perlatolic acid (46) and atranorin (49). Their activity was investigated against seven different bacteria, Escherichia coli (90, 91, 93, 94, 98), Salmonella Enteritidis (446, 496), Klebsiella pneumonia (97), Acinetobacter baumannii (210, 211), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2, 92), Staphylococcus aureus (NCTC 12493) and Enterococcus faecalis (ATCC 29212). All compounds were active at high concentrations. In Larix decidua bark two active compounds (larixol and larixyl acetate) have previously been isolated and are being developed for use in the agrochemical Larixyne ®. To extract the compounds traditional solvents such as methanol were used. In this work, two environmentally friendly natural deep eutectic solvents, choline chloride / lactic acid (1:1 mol) and choline chloride / malonic acid (1:1 mol), were investigated. It was determined that the NADES successfully extract larixol and larixyl acetate from ground L. decidua bark. Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat, with some pathogens demonstrating resistance to all currently available commercial antimicrobials. With few novel antimicrobials in the pharmaceutical pipeline, treatments for bacterial infections, particularly those caused by Gram-negative bacteria, are extremely limited. In this work synergy between the natural product vanillin and the commercially available antibiotic colistin was investigated against various Gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Typhimurium and Esherichia coli). It was determined that the combination has a synergistic relationship against Gram-negative bacteria. Traditionally, the leaves of Sambucus ebulus are used to treat Newcastle’s Disease Virus in chicken. In this work the antiviral activity of the oil of the S. ebulus plant, its main component (isovaleric acid) and three compounds of a similar structure to isovaleric acid (menthyl isovalerate, benzyl isovalerate and levulinic acid) were investigated. Three main types of fluorometric antiviral assays were carried out: combined, therapeutic and prophylactic. The oil was found to be active against NDV therefore supporting its traditional use. Isovaleric acid and other compounds were found to have some activity against NDV.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Vejbelægningens indflydelse på partikelforureningen (PM10) på stærkt trafikerede gadestrækninger i Danmark
Creators: name: Ellemann, Thomas
name: Wåhlin, Peter
name: Ketzel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: Luftbåren partikelforurening giver anledning til en betydelig mængde sundhedsskadelige effekter. Massen af partikler med diameter under 10 μm (PM10) har i København til og med 2008 ligget over EU’s grænseværdier for PM10. Fra 2008 til 2009 faldt årsmiddelværdien af PM10 med 6 μg/m3 på målestationen på H.C. Andersens Boulevard, København, således at grænseværdierne overholdes i 2009. Faldet skete forholdsvis brat efter august 2008, hvor der blev lagt ny belægning på H.C. Andersens Boulevard. Ændringerne i døgnvariationen af PM10 og grundstofsammensætningen i PM10 før og efter den nye belægning viser, at årsagen til det store fald skyldes en stor reduktion i de partikler, som hvirvles op fra vejen grundet trafikken. Vejbelægningen har dermed stor indflydelse på PM10 på stærkt trafikerede gadestrækninger. Der blev også set et mindre fald i PM2,5, men der kræves flere undersøgelser for at vurdere, hvor stor en del af dette fald, som skal tilskrives den nye belægning.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Zwischen den Stühlen – Die 8X-Generation zwischen Konfuzianismus und Harajuku Mode
Creators: name: Kürten, Sandra
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Während die nationalen Regierungen Malaysias und Singapurs ihrer Jugend eine zunehmende »Verwestlichung« vorwerfen, orientiert sich die junge vietnamesische Bevölkerung in den Städten bei der Wahl ihres Lebensstils überwiegend an ökonomisch erfolgreichen Ländern der eigenen Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Microablation of gold nanolayers by direct write lithography
Creators: name: Sawant, Prashant D.
name: Livingston, Peter
name: Nicolau, Dan V.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The laser ablation is widely used for the formation of metal nanoparticles, nanorods, nanodisks, nano-networks and polymeric microchannels. This paper reviews the results obtained when using of the microablation of the gold layers that are tens of nanometer think deposited on various transparent surfaces, such as Poly(tert-butyl methacryalate), Poly(methyl methacrylate) -PMMA, Polydioxymethyl siloxane, PDMS, and glass, with a low power laser (low fluences of 4-500 µJ/cm2, 337nm wavelength and 4ns pulses). The microablation results in the preferential formation of gold wire-like nanostructures at the edges and across the ablated channels on PMMA and PTBMA; and of gold nanoparticles on glass and PDMS. This contrasting behavior is explained by the presence of gas-generating pyrolysis on PMMA or PTBMA as opposed to lack of it on glass and PDMS.
The Effect of Attentional Regulation on Reinforcement Learning, Feedback Processing and Dopamine Signalling.
Creators: name: KNYTL, PAUL JOSEPH
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: Meditation is an ancient endeavour. Presently, besides religious practice, it forms the basis for a number of clinical and non-clinical interventions. Despite this, much is yet to be understood about the neural mechanisms underpinning it. The goal of this thesis is to develop, test and refine a theory – cortico-striatal feedback-loop theory (CSFLT) – which proposes that attentional regulation influences reinforcement learning and feedback processing via alteration of striatal dopaminergic signalling.
description: Using behavioural, electrophysiological, and pharmacological methods, I will test two predictions from CSFLT. First, that attentional regulation practices such as focused attention meditation (FAM) or dysregulation practices such as media-multitasking (MM) will be respectively associated with positively or negatively biased reinforcement learning and feedback processing characteristics. Second, that these differences in reinforcement learning and feedback processing are respectively due to elevated or reduced tonic dopamine levels in the striatum.
description: I will show that experienced meditators exhibit positively biased reinforcement learning, driven in large part by reduced sensitivity to negatively valenced feedback. I will also show that media multitasking is associated with slower response speed on the flanker task, and that this in turn is associated with poorer ability to learn from positively valenced feedback. I present findings from a longitudinal study of FAM where I report that FAM causes participants to improve their executive attention, and flanker response speed. The improvement in flanker response speed is also associated with an improvement in positive reinforcement learning and a more negative feedback related negativity (FRN) to positive feedback. Finally, I use the dopaminergic prodrug cocareldopa (levodopa and carbidopa) to show that tonic dopamine is not the cause of changes in reinforcement learning and feedback processing due to FAM. Rather, the findings are consistent with a mechanism that begins with enhanced striatal D1 signalling and, with increasing meditation practice, results in reduced striatal D2 sensitivity. These findings have important implications for our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning FAM and also point to the possibility that FAM could be used to improve disordered reward processing.
Der »erworbene Status« – »Neue Konsumenten« als globale Schlüsselgruppe für wirtschaftliche und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit?
Creators: name: Waibel, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Erfolge der seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre eingeleiteten Doi Moi-Reformen führten in ganz Vietnam und insbesondere in den Metropolen zu einem enormen Anstieg privater Einkommen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
ASMS 2020 Reboot: MassBank Europe – a success story of community efforts
Creators: name: Schulze, Tobias
name: Meier, Rene
name: Neumann, Steffen
name: Oberacher, Herbert
name: Schymanski, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: MassBank
Compound Databases
Community
Suspect lists
FAIR

description: MassBank Europe was established in 2011 and created an active community of contributors of mass spectral records and software developers based in life science and environmental chemistry. Besides the acquisition of new records, a main community focus of the last years was the renewal of the server software and the interoperability and integration with chemical and mass spectral databases (e.g. PubChem, MoNA, GNPS, Wikidata). The goal is to make MassBank fully compliant to the FAIR rules. Another challenge of community mass spectral databases is the availabily of relevant data in the library. In this case, smart suspect lists of chemicals of interest can help to share processing efforts and costs of data acquisition.
Neue Töne am Mekong: grenzüberschreiend – Von Schlachtfeldern zu Marktplätzen
Creators: name: Siebert, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Der Reisende staunt: Lange Zeit war der Begriff »Indochina« als Abgrenzung französischer Kolonialmacht und Schlagwort mehrerer Kriege in Südostasien verpönt und historisch belastet gewesen. Heute wird Indochina wieder selbstverständlich gebraucht, um eine Großregion zu benennen, wo aus tödlichen Schlachtfeldern lebendige Marktplätze geworden sind. Weniger Ideologien als vielmehr Kapitalismus und Konsum bestimmen Wirtschaft und Werte. Money hat lautstark Marx verdrängt: grenzübersehreiend.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
International spillovers of US monetary and fiscal policies on small open economies
Creators: name: Boye, Omar
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This thesis focuses on the spillover effects of US monetary and fiscal policies on some of its main trading partners. The first chapter examines the cross-border macroeconomic effects of US monetary policy shocks on Canada and Mexico. To do this, we depart from the standard two-country VAR models routinely used in the literature by adopting a proxy VAR approach. In particular, we employ the first-stage model averaging method to construct an optimal instrument for US monetary policy shocks. The main finding of this chapter is that US monetary policy shocks have a significant impact on Canada’s macroeconomic variables, but not so for those of Mexico. The second chapter provides a theoretical model of the spillover effects of monetary policies based on various competing price regimes. It investigates the impact of the US monetary policy on its two neighbours, Canada and Mexico, under two different pricing regimes: Producer Currency Pricing (PCP); and Dominant Currency Pricing (DCP). We use a New Keynesian DSGE model to explain the transmission channels of monetary policy under various pricing systems. We find that in a Likelihood race, the model with DCP outperforms the model with PCP. Furthermore, by analysing the variance decomposition of business cycle fluctuations, the dominant role of foreign monetary shock in overall fluctuations is observed. The third chapter focuses on the second wing of the domestic policy which is fiscal policy. Since the recent financial crisis of 2007/08, the spillover effects of fiscal policies have become increasingly important in the wake of the zero interest rate lower bound. Using SVARs with external instruments and data on macroeconomics variables from the UK and Canada, we find that shocks to the US fiscal policy cause the trade balance in the UK to increase, while they cause the Canadian dollar to appreciate against the US dollar.
Laser Metal Deposition as Repair Technology for a Gas Turbine Burner Made of Inconel 718
Creators: name: Petrat, Torsten
name: Graf, Benjamin
name: Gumenyuk, Andrey
name: Rethmeier, Michael
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: laser metal deposition
subject: Inconel 718
subject: additive manufacturing
subject: maintenance
subject: repair
subject: overhaul

description: Maintenance, repair and overhaul of components are of increasing interest for parts of high complexity and expensive manufacturing costs. In this paper a production process for laser metal deposition is presented, and used to repair a gas turbine burner of Inconel 718. Different parameters for defined track geometries were determined to attain a near net shape deposition with consistent build-up rate for changing wall thicknesses over the manufacturing process. Spot diameter, powder feed rate, welding velocity and laser power were changed as main parameters for a different track size. An optimal overlap rate for a constant layer height was used to calculate the best track size for a fitting layer width similar to the part dimension. Deviations in width and height over the whole build-up process were detected and customized build-up strategies for the 3D sequences were designed. The results show the possibility of a near net shape repair by using different track geometries with laser metal deposition.
Nichts wird so gerne konsumiert wie – Konsumkritik: Lifestyle und Konsum in Südostasien
Creators: name: Willer, Ragnar K.
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die theatralische Inszenierung der Warenwelt zieht nicht nur den Konsumenten an, sondern auch den Wissenschaftler, was diese Ausgabe der südostasien beweist, die sich mit »Lifestyle und Konsum«, einem in den Asienwissenschaften im deutschsprachigen Raum nur geringe Beachtung findenden Forschungsgebiet, widmet. Um kulturelle Phänomene in Südostasien besser verstehen zu können, gilt es jedoch auch, die typische Alltagsgestaltung von Menschen und sozialen Gruppen zu untersuchen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Sustainable Generation Expansion Planning with renewables: A case study of Bahrain
Creators: name: ALABBASI, ABDULLA ISA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: Bahrain was the first Gulf Cooperation Country (GCC) to discover oil. Since then, oil has become the keystone of the country's economic development, reflecting on all sectors, particularly power generation. This underlines the difficulty of shifting from well-established oil-based power production to renewable energy. Nevertheless, a significant milestone was achieved in January 2017, when the Sustainable Energy Unit (SEU) launched the National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP). The plan sets the roadmap for identifying the most appropriate renewable resources for Bahrain and its best technologies. Special attention should be paid to Sustainable Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) for Bahrain's electrical system with renewables. This is because Bahrain's government is committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and has incorporated them into its action plan since 2015.
description: The sustainability theme in the energy system interacts with different research areas, and it requires a multidimensional approach to cover its impact on the national grid, environment, economy and other sectors. This study aims to assist Bahrain's policymakers in evaluating the renewable energy technologies for sustainable growth of the generation sector by suggesting an Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) based on a combination of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). After evaluating the derived indicators from seventy-three studies by experts and applying the selection principles, fifteen indicators are selected for constructing the AHP model. The AHP model outcomes revealed that wind turbines are the most appropriate technology for Bahrain. Then, the ANN model is structured based on the generated cases from the AHP model. The Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm is used for processing the data with a hyper tangent sigmoid and a linear function for the hidden layer and output layer of the ANN model. The scenario analysis demonstrates that the IDSS can be used with confidence to explore the effect of each criterion and sub-criterion on the sustainable growth of the electrical grid in Bahrain.
Inhalt und Impressum
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2008): Dabei sein ist alles: Lifestyle & Konsum in Südostasien
Beyond ethics: a community platform to secure moral integrity
Creators: name: Raar, Jean
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Stakeholders perceive the role of accountants to reflect trust, honesty, impartiality, fairness and transparency. The aim of this paper is to explore avenues to strengthen the moral integrity of professional bodies and their members. The resulting recommendations include a community or 'milieu' approach.
Verfassungsmäßig garantierte Militärherrschaft
Creators: name: Bey, Ulrike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: 20 Jahre nachdem die Verfassung von 1974 außer Kraft gesetzt wurde, haben die Menschen in Burma über ein neues Grundgesetz abgestimmt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 3 (2008): Talking about Revolution: Die 68er – Damals und heute
Air pollution, neighbourhood and maternal-level factors modify the effect of smoking on birth weight: a multilevel analysis in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Erickson, Anders C
name: Ostry, Aleck
name: Chan, Hing M
name: Arbour, Laura
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Maternal smoking during pregnancy negatively impacts fetal growth, but the effect is not homogenous across the population. We sought to determine how the relationship between cigarette use and fetal growth is modified by the social and physical environment. Methods: Birth records with covariates were obtained from the BC Perinatal Database Registry (N = 232,291). Maternal smoking status was self-reported as the number of cigarettes smoked per day usually at the first prenatal care visit. Census dissemination areas (DAs) were used as neighbourhood-level units and linked to individual births using residential postal codes to assign exposure to particulate air pollution (PM2.5) and neighbourhood-level attributes such as socioeconomic status (SES), proportion of post-secondary education, immigrant density and living in a rural place. Random coefficient models were used with cigarettes/day modeled with a random slope to estimate its between-DA variability and test cross-level interactions with the neighbourhood-level variables on continuous birth weight. Results: A significant negative and non-linear association was found between maternal smoking and birth weight. There was significant between-DA intercept variability in birth weight as well as between-DA slope variability of maternal smoking on birth weight of which 68 and 30 % respectively was explained with the inclusion of DA-level variables and their cross-level interactions. High DA-level SES had a strong positive association with birth weight but the effect was moderated with increased cigarettes/day. Conversely, heavy smokers showed the largest increases in birth weight with rising neighbourhood education levels. Increased levels of PM2.5 and immigrant density were negatively associated with birth weight, but showed positive interactions with increased levels of smoking. Older maternal age and suspected drug or alcohol use both had negative interactions with increased levels of maternal smoking. Conclusion: Maternal smoking had a negative and non-linear dose-response association with birth weight which was highly variable between neighbourhoods and evidence of effect modification with neighbourhood-level factors. These results suggest that focusing exclusively on individual behaviours may have limited success in improving outcomes without addressing the contextual influences at the neighbourhood-level. Further studies are needed to corroborate our findings and to understand how neighbourhood-level attributes interact with smoking to affect birth outcomes.
Matching Observed Public Route Choice Data to a GIS Network
Creators: name: Anderson, Marie K.
name: Rasmussen, Thomas K.
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: This paper is motivated by a growing interest in providing insight into route choices of public transport users. Observations on route choices are collected in the Danish National Travel Survey (Transportvaneundersøgelsen, TU) where respondents describe their chosen route (e.g., modes, times, origins, destinations). In this paper methods are developed to match these data to a GIS network in order to be able to compare the observed routes with routes generated by means of a GIS application. The GIS network is a schedule-based public transport network containing addresses, train stations, bus stops, transfers, train lines, bus lines and a road network. The method developed is able to identify the train stations used, identify the bus stops used, map observations onto relevant links with knowledge of line used and points travelled through (origin, bus stops, train stations, and destination).
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Interrogating Androgen Receptor Function Using Novel Androgen Receptor Inhibitor Dual Compounds In Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Maylin, Zoe Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the most common cancer in men, accounting for 7% of all cancer
description: deaths. The Androgen Receptor (AR) is a main driver of PCa, playing a significant role in the
description: progression and development of the disease and therefore therapies to combat its signalling
description: are standard-of-care treatments in the clinic. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) aims to
description: reduce free androgens to castration levels to quell AR signalling; however, failure of ADT often
description: leads to the progression of disease to Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC).
description: Therapeutic options for CRPC are limited and mostly palliative, whereby further resistance
description: mechanisms often occur and therefore improvements of treatments are paramount for the
description: quality of life for patients. A resistant tumour phenotype is often as a consequence of
description: dysregulation of AR signalling due to treatment selection pressure against hormone therapies
description: such as Enzalutamide. These are often mutations in the AR which cause increased copy
description: numbers of the AR gene and thus protein, receptor promiscuity caused by gain-of-function
description: mutations with the Ligand-binding domain (LBD) or the emergence of constitutively active AR
description: Variants. Currently, the mechanisms of hormone therapy resistance are not fully understood
description: and there are no standard-of-care therapies against the AR mutants.

description:

description: This thesis aims to understand the different clinical presentations of hormone therapy
description: resistance and tests the efficacy of novel dual-targeting AR inhibitors for the treatment of
description: CRPC.
Asienhaus-Bibliothek: Neueingänge
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 3 (2008): Talking about Revolution: Die 68er – Damals und heute
Langsigtet efterspørgsel efter transport
Creators: name: Brems, Camilla
name: Jensen, Thomas
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: Der er en stigende interesse for at identificere og modellere den langsigtede efterspørgsel efter transport. Artiklen beskriver indledningsvist en del af bag- grunden for denne interesse. Efterfølgende beskrives den teoretiske tilgang til fastlæggelsen af den langsigtede efterspørgsel i første version af Landstrafik- modellen. Her skelnes mellem den første identifikation af sammenhænge og den efterfølgende implementering. Datagrundlaget beskrives, og selv om estimationerne først skal være afsluttede i sommeren 2011, beskrives de før- ste indikationer på sammenhænge mellem baggrundsvariable og efterspørgsel efter transport formuleret ved antal ture og transportarbejde.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
The Demand Model of the Danish National Model
Creators: name: Rich, Jeppe
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2010

description: In the present paper the structure of the demand model framework for the new Danish national model is outlined. It involves a discussion at two levels. At the framework level, we discuss how demand is modelled in a number of parallel sub-models and how these are linked. An issue is to represent all transport but on the other hand avoid double counting. At the sub-model level, special attention is given to the week-day model as well as the international component of the model. The model for week-day traffic represents the most important components with respect to overall mileage and congestion and is therefore particularly important from a policy point of view. The international models are relevant because these are central to the Fehmarn Belt application of the model to be finished in the first quarter of 2012. For the international models we consider segmentation and nesting structure for the international day model, the transit model, and the overnight model. Finally, we discuss how trip chains of higher dimensions can be represented in a matrix form applicable for the assignment procedure.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Structure-property relationships in waterborne colloidal elastomers.
Creators: name: Richardson, Philip
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: In this thesis the competition between crystallisation and coalescence during the film formation of semi-crystalline polymers has been investigated. Two scenarios of film formation for semi-crystalline polymers have been proposed depending on the relative rates of crystallinity and coalescence. Experimental results have shown evidence for both scenarios depending on the film formation conditions. Additionally, it has been shown that it is possible to transition between scenarios after film formation using a heat treatment process. Blending of semi-crystalline and amorphous polymers has been shown to provide intermediate mechanical properties than the two constituent materials. This has held true for blends of the same species of polymer and blends of different polymer species. It has been shown that blending colloidal polymers can be used to tune the properties of the resulting film in order to achieve intermediate mechanical properties when compared to the constituent materials. The leaching behaviour of coagulant dipped films has been investigated. In addition to the expected surfactant leaching, a variety of other molecules have been identified using SIMS. All of the constituent monomers have been identified leading to the conclusion that it is likely that oligomer chains are leached from the film in addition to surfactant.
Opportunity distance rather than psychic distance in entrepreneurial firm internationalisation
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Sanjay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Extending recent opposition to “psychic distance” as a summary indicator of firm internationalisation, this paper argues that while “psychic distance” affects internationalisation decisions it fails to explain how internationalisation decisions are made by firms in a globalising world today, particularly entrepreneurial technology firms which often internationalise early. It draws from the opportunity paradigm in entrepreneurship literature and posits that entrepreneurial internationalisation decisions are primarily driven by opportunity perception of the entrepreneur. With illustrative data from eight entrepreneurs in the technology space, the paper argues that opportunity perception and psychic distance perception are individual level perceptions of the entrepreneur that combine to determine internationalisation action/intention decisions. This theory building paper proposes “opportunity distance” as a combination metric to explicate entrepreneurial firm internationalisation better.
Sicherheit contra Menschenrechte?
Creators: name: Grabowski, Maike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nationale Sicherheitsgesetzgebung im Namen der Terrorsbekämpfung und Menschenrechtsschutz in Asien und Deutschland.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 24 Nr. 3 (2008): Talking about Revolution: Die 68er – Damals und heute