cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hybrid photoanodes for visible light-driven water oxidation: the beneficial and detrimental effects of nickel oxide cocatalyst
Creators: name: Longchin, Pimchanok
name: Mitoraj, Dariusz
name: Reyes, Oliver Mendoza
name: Adler, Christiane
name: Wetchakun, Natda
name: Beranek, Radim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: polymeric carbon nitride
subject: water splitting
subject: charge separation
subject: oxygen evolution reaction
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Titanium dioxide
subject: Photoelectrochemistry
subject: Titandioxid
subject: Fotoelektrochemie

description: AbstractHybrid photoanodes comprising polymer-based light absorbers coupled to oxygen-evolving cocatalysts represent a promising, yes still underdeveloped, approach to photoelectrochemical splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. In this study, we investigate nickel oxide (NiOx) nanoparticles as a water oxidation catalyst in hybrid photoanodes based on polymeric carbon nitride (CNx) supported on electron-collecting mesoporous TiO2 support. The performance of the resulting TiO2–CNx/NiOx photoanodes is evaluated with respect to our previous results on hybrid TiO2–CNx photoanodes modified with IrOx and CoO(OH)x cocatalysts. The deposition of NiOx into TiO2–CNx photoanodes enhances significantly the photocurrent (from <8 μA to >250 μA cm–2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE) under visible light irradiation (λ > 420 nm, ∼200 mW cm−2) and triggers the photoelectrocatalytic oxygen evolution. No oxygen evolution was observed without a cocatalyst. As compared to photoanodes modified with IrOx or CoO(OH)x, the TiO2–CNx/NiOx photoanodes excel by the very negative photocurrent onset potential (0 V vs. RHE), which we ascribe to good hole-extracting properties of NiOx. However, the comparatively low Faradaic efficiencies for oxygen evolution (∼18%) and dramatically decreased operational stability of the photoanodes indicate that the extracted holes do not efficiently oxidize water to dioxygen, but instead accumulate in the NiOx particles and increase thus the oxidative photodegradation of the photoanodes. Our study highlights the fact that employing outstanding electrocatalysts like NiOx in photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems does not necessarily lead to satisfactory results, especially when the photoelectrode cannot be operated at optimal pH due to light absorber stability issues.
Approaches to interdependency: early design exploration across architectural and engineering domains
Creators: name: Nicholas, Paul
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: While 3D digital design tools have extended the reach of architectural and engineering designers within their own domains, an approach to practice whereby the architect designs (synthesises), the engineer solves (analyses) and the fabricator makes – in that order –have limited the opportunities for the two disciplines to collaborate during the early design phase. While it is suggested that 3D
digital design tools can facilitate a more integrated approach to early design exploration, this idea remains largely untested in practice.

My research considers the extent to which the 3D digital environment might offer different modes of interaction, and potentially new forms of interdependent working, between architectural and engineering designers. My central proposition is that the 3D digital environment can enable interdependent approaches to design which intersect crucial aspects of architectural and engineering exploration during the early design phase which, before the entry of the computer, were otherwise impossible to affect.

A framework for the enquiry is developed firstly through selected organisation theory and design literature and secondly with information gathered from experts in the field via interview. The proposition has been tested through practice-based projects undertaken during a three year postgraduate internship within the Melbourne Australia office of the engineering consultancy Arup. Exploring this problem within the constraints and possibilities of live practice, a ‘living laboratory’, represents a key contribution of the thesis.
Designing the design: establishing boundary conditions for designing parametrically
Creators: name: Maher, Andrew
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3301
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: During the more than 40 year period since the computer was introduced to architecture, architects have had an ambiguous relationship with the adoption of the computing paradigm to design practice. Recently in architecture, a form of software in which geometric form is controlled through the definition of parameters and application of constraints, has been adopted for architectural use. It is known as parametric software and was originally developed for the aerospace and manufacturing industries. Its adoption to architecture as a technology transfer presents as many challenges as opportunities.

This research investigates what happens in practice, or the border between research and practice, when designing for parametric modelling. The aim of the research was to establish some of the boundary conditions when designing and working with parametric models in architecture. A methodology of practice-based case study research, in which parametric models were designed and tested and several case studies were employed.

The findings are structured around three themes, each focussing on boundary conditions at various stages of a parametric model. These include descriptions of the effort expended to structure a parametric design and design its schema. Once a model has been established a design space, the boundary conditions for how architects might traverse the model are investigated. Finally the resultant implications of parametric models in the broader construction sector are explored.
Additional file 3 of Examining the influence of global smoking prevalence on stroke mortality: insights from 27 countries across income strata
Creators: name: Abeysekera, Isuri
name: De Silva, Roshinie
name: Silva, Disuri
name: Piumika, Lakindu
name: Jayathilaka, Ruwan
name: Rajamanthri, Lochana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3
Sensory spatiality: tangible and intangible dynamics in interior architectural design
Creators: name: Knueppel, Gabriele
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: If interior architects consider spatial environments as a set of dynamic and multi-layered conditions for human occupation, rather than as fixed physical form, what then are ways of mapping, communicating and designing with such ephemeral qualities? This proposition was my incentive to explore new tools and techniques beyond the conventional methods used in interior architectural design practices. My research has specifically focussed on visual and auditory relationships within the human occupation of spatial environments and questioned how sensory, spatial and temporal conditions of interior architectural design shape human behaviours, movement and interaction. Using research through design as my investigative framework, six PhD projects have contributed to new knowledge and ways of practising within the field of interior architecture. In these project works I developed novel techniques of mapping and documenting multi-sensory, tangible and intangible forces and flows by using digital technologies, such as sound and video recordings, as key tools for designing. Through this research I have not only been able to augment my own practice as a designer of sensory, spatial and temporal interior environments, but also to offer other interior architecture practices new tools and techniques that can be used at different stages of the design process.
Additional file 4 of Examining the influence of global smoking prevalence on stroke mortality: insights from 27 countries across income strata
Creators: name: Abeysekera, Isuri
name: De Silva, Roshinie
name: Silva, Disuri
name: Piumika, Lakindu
name: Jayathilaka, Ruwan
name: Rajamanthri, Lochana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 4
Associations of family functioning and social support with psychopathology in children of mentally ill parents : multilevel analyses from different rating perspectives
Creators: name: Sell, Marlit
name: Barkmann, Claus
name: Adema, Bonnie
name: Daubmann, Anne
name: Kilian, Reinhold
name: Stiawa, Maja
name: Busmann, Mareike
name: Winter, Sibylle M.
name: Lambert, Martin
name: Wegscheider, Karl
name: Wiegand-Grefe, Silke
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Parental mental illness
subject: Family functioning
subject: Social support
subject: Multi-informant data
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Mentally ill parents
subject: Child psychopathology
subject: Child support
subject: Child of impaired parents; Psychology
subject: Psychisch Kranker
subject: Eltern
subject: Familienleben

description: Offspring of mentally ill parents is at heightened risk for psychological symptoms. The identification of environmental factors that predict their mental health is crucial for the development of preventive and therapeutic measures. In the current study, we addressed the combined role of family functioning and social support by taking mentally ill patients’, their partners’, and children’s perspectives into account. The cross-sectional sample included n=195 families (195 patients, 127 partners, and 295 children). Family members completed questionnaires related to family functioning, social support as well as parental and child psychopathology. We conducted multilevel analyses to investigate the associations with internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Family functioning and social support were significantly associated with child internalizing and externalizing problems. However, results varied depending on the rating perspective. We found significant interaction effects of family functioning and social support on child psychopathology. The findings point to the importance of family functioning and social support as potential targets for interventions. Findings should be replicated in future longitudinal studies.
title: Die Angestellten als Konterrevolutionäre in der Kritischen Theorie
Creators: name: Schaffellner, Barbara Elisabeth
Year: 2009

description: Anknüpfend an Kracauers Betrachtungen über die Weimarer Angestellten der 1920-er Jahre gewinnt die Kritische Theorie aus der Analyse des Angestellten einen Sozialcharakter, der zuletzt sämtliche diagnostizierte Gesellschaftspathologien in sich vereint. Der Angestellte vollendet die Regression der Menschengattung im Faschismus, er ist das passive Opfer, das keine Gegenwehr leistet, lässt sich willenlos die vom Kapitalismus gewünschte Pseudo-Identität abverlangen und reproduziert schon aufgrund seiner narzisstisch geschädigten Persönlichkeitsstruktur verlässlich die falschen Bedürfnisse der herrschenden Gesellschaft. Der Angestellte fungiert damit in der Kritischen Theorie als ausgesprochener „Klassenverräter“, er repräsentiert den Nicht- bzw. geradezu den Konter-Revolutionär und entlarvt sich als Stehkragenproletarier, der die Einsicht in sein Proletariersein verweigert und damit jeden Revolutionsgedanken verhindert. Er ist es auch, der sich mit seinem Wahrnehmungs-, Identitäts- und Bewusstseinsproblem in der Dialektik der Aufklärung zur gesamten Menschengattung multipliziert. Der kritische Blick bleibt bis in die 1960-er Jahre auf die Reproduktion von Herrschaft und Ideologie konzentriert, wobei sich der Angestellte als jenes Subjekt oder besser gesagt: Nicht-Subjekt erweist, das sich am allerbesten für das Vorhaben eignet, die Wirkungen von Kulturverfall und Identitätsverlust durchzubuchstabieren. Die theoretischen Abstraktionen, die dabei geleistet werden, bleiben bis in Adornos Spätschriften erhalten, wodurch sich entgegen allem programmatischen Nominalismus mit dem Sinnbild des Angestellten genau das Vorurteil reproduziert, das die Kritische Theorie selbst aufs schärfste bekämpft.
Material exploration and engagement: Strategies for investigating how multifunctional materials can be used as design drivers in architecture
Creators: name: Bohnenberger, Sascha
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Since the early 2000s, primarily research-based projects have focused on the use of new materials such as shape-memory alloys, light-emitting diodes (LED), film-encased photovoltaic cells and thermochromic paints. These materials offer a wide range of outstanding possibilities to the construction industry through their capacity to sense and respond to external environmental stimuli.
However, the advent of smart materials – multifunctional materials that are designed by chemists, physicists and biologists - pose challenges for design practices exploring such innovations.
Given the rich potential of these emerging materials and technologies for architecture, I was intrigued to know: what is necessary to introduce these materials in architecture?
In this thesis, I report on design strategies that involve extrinsic and intrinsic material properties. My research strategies included the use of digital design tools, physical computing and haptic-intuitive workflows in order to bypass a lengthy iterative design and analysis process through rapid intuitive feedback.
My research demonstrates the necessity of both a digital and physical interaction with previously little- or un-used engineered advanced materials, if the use of those materials is to drive change in the overall material system.
This proposition is developed and tested by practice-based research and design explorations. Centred on the idea of material-driven design processes, my research addresses the work of architects, engineers and materials scientists and locates opportunities for working together within a trans-disciplinary environment. Having direct interaction with materials and their behaviours generates an awareness of the material possibilities that enables architects to engage with engineers and materials scientists. In considering both theoretical and practical implications, my research contributes to the discussion of multifunctional materials as they emerge and their applications within architecture.
Cathode materials and chemistries for magnesium batteries: challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: Li, Zhenyou
name: Häcker, Joachim
name: Fichtner, Maximilian
name: Zhao‐Karger, Zhirong
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: cathode–electrolyte interfaces
subject: electrode materials
subject: magnesium batteries
subject: magnesium‐ion diffusion
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Magnesium ions
subject: Kathode

description: Rechargeable magnesium batteries hold promise for providing high energy density, material sustainability, and safety features, attracting increasing research interest as post-lithium batteries. With the progressive development of Mg electrolytes with enhanced (electro-)chemical stability, tremendous efforts have been devoted to the exploration of high-energy cathode materials. In this review, recent findings related to Mg cathode chemistry are summarized, focusing on the strategies that promote Mg2+ diffusion by targeting its interaction with the cathode hosts. The critical role of the cathode–electrolyte interfaces is elaborated, which remains largely unexplored in Mg systems. The approaches to optimization of cathode–electrolyte combinations to unlock the kinetic limitations of Mg2+ diffusion, enabling fast electrochemical processes of the cathodes, are highlighted. Furthermore, representative conversion chemistries and coordination chemistries that bypass bulk Mg2+ diffusion are discussed, with particular attention given to their key challenges and prospects. Finally, the hybrid systems that combine the fast kinetics of the monovalent cathode chemistries and high-capacity Mg anodes are revisited, calling for further practical evaluation of this promising strategy. All in all, the aim is to provide fundamental insights into the cathode chemistry, which promotes the material development and interfacial regulations toward practical high-performance Mg batteries.
title: Coexistence Conservation: Time to Change the Paradigm
Creators: name: Tobajas, Jorge
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: This letter to the editor recommends that coexistence conservation should be recognized as a new discipline within conservation biology with vast potential for the future of biodiversity conservation. The term “coexistence conservation” must be broadened to accommodate different techniques and their development, regardless of the context of invasive species.
title: Auswirkungen von Informationstechnologien auf Spannungsverhältnisse in interorganisationalen Gesundheitsnetzwerken
Creators: name: Teckert, Özlem
name: Litfin, Thorsten
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medizinische Dokumentation
subject: Medizinische Informatik
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Immens steigende Kosten und die Zunahme chronisch Kranker erfordern eine effektivere und effizientere Patientenversorgung, die das fragmentierte und spezialisierte deutsche Gesundheitssystem mit seinen verschiedenen Sektoren und Professionen nicht leisten kann. Eine entlang der Wertschöpfungskette[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)
sj-pdf-1-etp-10.1177_10422587221121290 – Supplemental material for Unsuccessful Equity Crowdfunding Offerings and the Persistence in Equity Fundraising of Family Business Start-Ups
Creators: name: Rossi, Alice
name: Vanacker, Tom
name: Vismara, Silvio
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-etp-10.1177_10422587221121290 for Unsuccessful Equity Crowdfunding Offerings and the Persistence in Equity Fundraising of Family Business Start-Ups by Alice Rossi, Tom Vanacker and Silvio Vismara in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
title: Alexander Dubček und Władysław Gomułka
Creators: name: Schreiber, René Patrik
Year: 2009

description: Die Aufstände von 1956 und 1968 wurden von der Sowjetunion unterschiedlich behandelt. Zum einen wurde der Aufstand in Polen von den Polen selbst ohne Blutvergießen beendet, jedoch in Ungarn sah man eine Bedrohung der sozialistischen Welt und schlug den Aufstand nieder. In der Tschechoslowakei hatte man gehofft, den Aufstand ohne militärische Invention, beenden zu können. Doch im August 1968 wurde der Aufstand niedergeschlagen. Diese Arbeit versucht die Persönlichkeiten Dubček und Gomułka in ihren jeweiligen Kontexten zu vergleichen. Dabei beginnt sie bei der Auswanderung und Rückkehr der Eltern, ehe sie dann die eigentlichen Protagonisten beleuchtet. Durch zentrale Themen sollen die Zwischenkriegszeit in Polen, der Tschechoslowakei und der UdSSR sein, dann die Vorgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkrieges, der Weltkrieg selbst und die Nationalen Aufstände der Polen und Slowaken, ehe dann die Neuordnung Europas und die Entwicklung Polens und der Tschechoslowakei zur Volksdemokratie beschrieben werden. Als nächstes soll ein Blick auf die „Säuberungen“ der 1950er Jahre geworfen werden die in den 1960er Jahren vor Rehabilitierungskommission bzw. in Polen schon 1956 wiederaufgenommen wurden. Nach den „Säuberungen“ soll eine Darstellung der unterschiedlichen Entwicklung in Polen als „Reformland“ einerseits und der Tschechoslowakei als „Stalinistisches Regime“ anderseits beleuchtet werden. Anschließend soll der Reformkurs der Tschechoslowakei und der sowjetische Weg Polens aufgezeigt werden. Die vorletzten Kapitel zeigen die Vorgeschichte zum Prager Frühling und seine Auswirkungen auf die sozialistischen Nachbarn auf. Des Weiteren soll in den Kapiteln auch das Verhältnis Dubček-Brežnev, Gomułka-Brežnev und Dubček-Gomułka aufgezeigt werden. Im letzten Kapitel soll der Versuch des unmittelbaren Vergleichs der beiden Persönlichkeiten stattfinden.
Quantum coherence in ion channels: resonances, transport and verification
Creators: name: Vaziri, Alipasha
name: Plenio, Martin B
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Ion channels
subject: Ionenkanal

description: Recently it was demonstrated that long-lived quantum coherence exists during excitation energy transport in photosynthesis. It is a valid question up to which length, time and mass scales quantum coherence may extend, how one may detect this coherence and what, if any, role it plays in the dynamics of the system. Here we suggest that the selectivity filter of ion channels may exhibit quantum coherence, which might be relevant for the process of ion selectivity and conduction. We show that quantum resonances could provide an alternative approach to ultrafast two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy to probe these quantum coherences. We demonstrate that the emergence of resonances in the conduction of ion channels that are modulated periodically by time- dependent external electric fields can serve as signatures of quantum coherence in such a system. Assessments of experimental feasibility and specific paths towards the experimental realization of such experiments are presented.
Additional file 5 of Examining the influence of global smoking prevalence on stroke mortality: insights from 27 countries across income strata
Creators: name: Abeysekera, Isuri
name: De Silva, Roshinie
name: Silva, Disuri
name: Piumika, Lakindu
name: Jayathilaka, Ruwan
name: Rajamanthri, Lochana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 5
title: Geriatrische Frührehabilitation mittlerer Dauer im deutschen DRG-System unterfinanziert
Creators: name: Bobrowski, Christoph
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medizinische Dokumentation
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Im deutschen OPS-2017 [ref:1] wird der Umfang der multimodalen geriatrischen Komplexbehandlung (GKB) in drei Stufen eingeteilt, über die Codes 8-550.0, 8-550.1 und 8-550.2. Ein Sprung der Vergütung ist beim Übergang von 8-550.0 (mindestens 10 Therapieeinheiten (TE)[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)
title: Intelligente Patientenakte
Creators: name: Müller-Mielitz, Stefan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medizinische Dokumentation
subject: Medizinische Informatik
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Digitale und originär elektronische Dokumentation von Patientendaten ermöglicht eine neue Herangehensweise in der Präsentation und Nutzung der digitalen Akten.    Fragestellung: Welche Schritte wurden bisher in Krankenhäusern unternommen, eine konsolidierte Akte zu erreichen?[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)
title: Populationsbasierte Anteile an Krebs Geheilter in Deutschland
Creators: name: Haberland, Jörg
name: Baras, Nadia
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Epidemiologie
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Überlebensaussichten von Krebspatienten werden in der Epidemiologie vielfach mittels relativer 5- bzw. 10-Jahresüberlebensraten beschrieben. Diese stellen jedoch nur jeweils Momentaufnahmen in den Überlebenszeiten dar. Parametrische Heilungsmodelle suchen dagegen nach [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)
Portrait-Sitting Database website
Creators: name: Kanter, Dawn
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360102
subject: Art history
classificationCode: 460903
subject: Information modelling, management and ontologies

description: What is a portrait sitting?A portrait sitting is a moment of interaction between an artist, a sitter (the person who is portrayed) and sometimes others, from which a portrait is typically produced.
What is the portrait-sitting database?The portrait-sitting database is a collection of information about portrait sittings, specifically, sittings for British portraits 1900-1960 and, predominantly, portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.
What is the portrait-sitting ontology?The portrait-sitting ontology is a formal specification of the objects, concepts and relationships that make up knowledge about portrait sittings. It is the framework, according to which the data in the portrait-sitting database has been structured.
Who is behind this project?The portrait-sitting ontology and data are products of my (Dawn Kanter's) PhD research at The Open University. The project is titled Collecting and Connecting Portrait Sittings: A Re-evaluation of Portrait-Sitting Accounts in Enhancing Knowledge and Understanding of British Portraiture 1900-1960. The website itself is one product of a 3-month placement with the Knowledge Media Institute. Both the research and placement are funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP.
title: Zeitlicher Verlauf der Intervallkarzinomrate und der Brustkrebsentdeckungsrate im Mammographie-Screening-Programm – Evaluation von Qualitätsparametern anhand der Daten des Epidemiologischen Krebsregisters Niedersachsen
Creators: name: Urbschat, Iris
name: Gnas, Linda
name: Pauly, Frauke
name: Hecht, Gerold
name: Kieschke, Joachim
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Epidemiologie
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Die Evaluation des Mammographie-Screenings wird vom Epidemiologischen Krebsregister Niedersachsen (EKN) seit dem Beginn des Modellprojekts Weser-Ems (2002-2005) begleitet. In den Jahren 2005-2008 wurde das Mammographie-Screening-Programm (MSP) flächendeckend in Niedersachsen implementiert. Der [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)
Unsteady pressure sensing on a MAV wing for control inputs in turbulence
Creators: name: Marino, Matthew
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis presents the results of systematic studies in which the effects of turbulence and how it impacts the aerodynamic performance of a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) are described. Flow visualization experiments mapping the dynamic nature of the flow over the MAV’s wing lead into the study of pressures on a MAV wing and how this can be used as an input to an autopilot system to mitigate the effects of turbulence. A MAV was tested under two different turbulence conditions (Ti = 1.2% & 7% Lxx = 0.23m) in the RMIT Industrial Wind Tunnel at a Reynolds number of 120,000. Force balance measurements revealed insignificant change in aerodynamic coefficients and derivatives when tested in the two difference turbulence conditions, a result not found in similar low Reynolds number tests involving flat plate airfoils. Force balance data also revealed increased wing performance offering greater lift production at angles of attack where separated flow would normally occur. Unsteady pressures were measured on a pressure tapped 3D NACA2313 wing in the two turbulence flow conditions. The introduction of freestream turbulence improved the time-averaged wing performance by delaying stall for the high turbulence flow condition, a result also found in the force balance data. Smoke flow visualization revealed unsteady flow mechanics at angles of attack greater than 15 degrees with the shear layer undergoing unsteady attachment and detachment at random time intervals. The shear layer was also seen to roll up and form a vortical core, which formed and burst at random intervals. Vortical core formations correlated to time varying pressure data with broad suction peaks formed near the wing leading edge before traversing across the wings chord. The vortical core flow mechanics was assumed to be a result of the oncoming flow vector relative to the wings angle of attack. Despite the unsteady nature of the pressure field, it was discovered that a single chord-wise pressure tap held high correlation (r > 95%) to the chord-wise integration of Pressure Coefficient (Cp) suggesting a linear relationship for angles of attack below stall for frequencies up to 25Hz. Thus a single chord-wise pressure tap can be used to approximate the integrated chord-wise Cp at various span-wise locations. The relationship between local and integrated Cp, per span-wise segment, could also be defined through a low-turbulence flow condition, as differences in the linear equations linking local and integrated pressure were insignificant and fell within the margin of error. With pressure taps placed at various locations across the span, measured pressure can be used to approximate span-wise sectional lift and furthermore be resolved around the aircraft centreline to produce a Turbulence Induced Rolling moment (TIR). TIR signal can be implemented into a control loop feedback system working in tandem with an IMU to form the basis of a MAV roll stabilization system, primarily for MAV flight in turbulent flow conditions.
title: Edukation von Menschen mit Adipositas
Creators: name: Birkner, Katharina
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Ätiologie, der Epidemiologie, mit den Einflussfaktoren von Adipositas, sowie mit der Edukation und Prävention von übergewichtigen und adipösen Menschen. Der Schwerpunkt wird auf die Edukation und Prävention von Menschen mit Übergewicht und Adipositas gelegt, die der weiteren Verbreitung von Adipositas Einhalt gewähren sollen. Adipositas wird als eine chronische Gesundheitsstörung verstanden und kann durch verschiedene Faktoren, wie beispielsweise eine positive Energiebilanz, zu wenig Bewegung, genetische und psychosoziale Faktoren etc. begünstigt werden. Mit Hilfe des Body-Maß-Index werden Größe und Gewicht und deren Verhältnis zueinander berechnet. Übergewicht wird ab einem BMI von > 25 kg/m² definiert, Adipositas ab > 30 kg/m². Bei Kindern und Jugendlichen wird anhand von Altersperzentilen das Übergewicht (90. - 97. Perzentile) und die Adipositas (ab der 97. Perzentile) definiert. Die Edukation soll gezielt betroffene Menschen informieren, insbesondere Wissen über die Entstehung und Konsequenzen von Adipositas vermitteln. Die Patientenedukation ist gerade für die Pflege ein bedeutendes Thema. Zu den Kernaufgaben der Pflegepersonen gehört unter anderen das Informieren, Schulen und Beraten von Menschen mit chronischen Krankheiten, aber auch von Menschen mit Übergewicht und Adipositas. Leider fehlen im deutschsprachigen Raum bisher die notwendigen Grundlagen für die Entwicklung von Edukationsmaßnahmen, im Gegensatz zu den angloamerikanischen Ländern.
description: The present paper deals with the issue obesity and its etiology, epidemiology and its influencing factors. The main focus lies on the patient education and prevention of people with overweight and obesity. Obesity is a chronic health disease with lots of different influencing factors, for example, nutrition with high energy and fat, no physical activity, genetic factors etc. With the aid of the body mass index (BMI) it is possible to calculate overweight. Overweight is defined by a BMI > 25 kg/m² and obesity by a BMI of > 30 kg/m². The up growth of children depends on their age and their sex and so there is a different method for children, which is called Percentile. Overweight is defined from the 90th to 97th centile, obesity from the 97th centile. Patient education is necessary to inform people with obesity, to impart knowledge about this disease and its consequences. Patient education is very essential to nursing. It’s a new and important topic and for caregivers major tasks are information, counselling and education. In countries like the USA, Canada and Great Britain, educative measures are already an integral part of nursing. In the Germanspeaking countries essential basics are still missing, which would be necessary to develop education measures.
title: Development of a fluid treatment strategy to enable combined raw material and freshwater recovery from geothermal fluids
Creators: name: Goldberg ,  Valentin
name: Winter ,  Daniel
name: Nitschke ,  Fabian
name: Morata ,  Diego
name: Koschikowski ,  Joachim
name: Kohl ,  Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The energy transition and the associated need for non-energy, mineral raw materials have prompted the German government to expand research and development activities along the entire value chain. It is well known that the highly mineralized thermal waters that circulate during the extraction of geothermal energy have, in some cases, significant enrichments of economically strategic elements such as lithium, rubidium, antimony or magnesium. The extraction of mineral resources from thermal waters is still challenging in terms of process technology, but new sustainable methods are paving the way for economic extraction as an alternative to conventional hard rock mining. Due to the overall high salt concentrations, selective separation of scale-forming minerals in a pretreatment stage is necessary to avoid scalings or membrane fouling in the later process steps. The focus of this study is on controlling silicate precipitation, which is expected to occur due to temperature changes and proceeding concentration cycles, which are required for raw material and freshwater extraction. The treatment and an associated precipitation process must be cost-effective, integrable into the power plant process, and selective for silica but must not affect the concentration of valuable elements. In a multi-step and interdisciplinary process, a treatment strategy was developed and implemented in a large-scale prototype. In this study, the development of the silica processing strategy from laboratory to prototype design is described. Finally, the construction and implementation of a large-scale prototype with promising field results are presented.
title: Bivariate random effects meta-analysis assessing test accuracy when using the cerebrospinal fluid CXCL13 for diagnosis of acute Lyme neuroborreliosis
Creators: name: Pfirrmann, Markus
name: Manz, Kirsi M.
name: Rupprecht, Tobias A.
name: Fingerle, Volker
name: Lechner, Christian
name: Koedel, Uwe
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biometrie
subject: Epidemiologie
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: The utility of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) CXCL13 for diagnosis of acute Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) has been debated [ref:1]. Our study’s aim was to evaluate its overall diagnostic accuracy through bivariate random effects meta-analysis.    Methods: Electronic searches [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)
Additional file 1 of Epigenetic MLH1 silencing concurs with mismatch repair deficiency in sporadic, naturally occurring colorectal cancer in rhesus macaques
Creators: name: Deycmar, Simon
name: Johnson, Brendan J.
name: Ray, Karina
name: Schaaf, George W.
name: Ryan, Declan Patrick
name: Cullin, Cassandra
name: Dozier, Brandy L.
name: Ferguson, Betsy
name: Bimber, Benjamin N.
name: Olson, John D.
name: Caudell, David L.
name: Whitlow, Christopher T.
name: Solingapuram Sai, Kiran Kumar
name: Romero, Emily C.
name: Villinger, Francois J.
name: Burgos, Armando G.
name: Ainsworth, Hannah C.
name: Miller, Lance D.
name: Hawkins, Gregory A.
name: Chou, Jeff W.
name: Gomes, Bruno
name: Hettich, Michael
name: Ceppi, Maurizio
name: Charo, Jehad
name: Cline, J. Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. 78 gene hotspot panel applied for tumor variant calling in rhesus CRCs. Table S2. RT-qPCR – probe and amplicon context sequences. Table S3. Rhesus-specific TaqMan assays to assess DNA methylation in bisulfite-converted DNA. Fig. S1. Co-localization of mutated codons in rhesus macaque CRC compared to tumor variants in human cancers. Fig. S2. Chromosomal instability is a widespread feature of rhesus CRC. Fig. S3. Transcriptomics data suggests extracellular matrix deposition and degradation and a widely immunosuppressed microenvironment in rhesus CRCs. Fig. S4. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis of rhesus CRC transcriptomics. Fig. S5. Cohort wide changes in DNA methylation levels. Fig. S6. Transcription factor binding sites in the promoter regions of MLH1, CACNA1G, CDKN2A, CRABP1, and NEUROG1. Fig. S7. Monte-Carlo simulations of intrinsic DNA topology upon DNA methylation. Fig. S8. Topological departure of TFAP2A binding motif in MLH1 promoter upon experimentally confirmed DNA methylation. Fig. S9. Spearman correlation of clinical and molecular parameters.
title: Critical Raw Materials for the Energy Transition
Creators: name: Goodenough ,  Kathryn
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The global objective of achieving net zero emissions is driving significant decarbonisation of energy and transport, with a shift towards renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. It is now widely recognised that this will drive significant increases in demand for a range of minerals and metals, including lithium, graphite, manganese, nickel and cobalt (used in batteries) and the rare earth elements (used in magnets in motors). There are concerns about the security of supply of some of these raw materials, and the increasing demand cannot be met solely by recycling; mining of primary resources will be essential. All of these raw materials can be derived from a range of geological sources, and many deposits are already known, but continued exploration is important. However, a range of other challenges can also impact the raw materials value chain; these may relate to mineral processing, social and environmental impacts, economics and politics. This talk will provide an overview of some of our recent and ongoing research on sustainable exploration, mining, and value chains for critical raw materials for the energy transition.
The german version of the mobile app rating scale (MARS-G): development and validation study
Creators: name: Messner, Eva-Maria
name: Terhorst, Yannik
name: Barke, Antonia
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Stoyanov, Stoyan
name: Hides, Leanne
name: Kavanagh, David
name: Pryss, Rüdiger
name: Sander, Lasse
name: Probst, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mHealth
subject: Mobile App Rating Scale
subject: Assessment
subject: Scale development
subject: DDC 000 / Computer science, information & general works
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Wireless communication systems in medical care
subject: Mobile apps
subject: App (Programm)
subject: Technikbewertung
subject: Rating

description: Background: The number of mobile health apps (MHAs), which are developed to promote healthy behaviors, prevent disease onset, manage and cure diseases, or assist with rehabilitation measures, has exploded. App store star ratings and descriptions usually provide insufficient or even false information about app quality, although they are popular among end users. A rigorous systematic approach to establish and evaluate the quality of MHAs is urgently needed. The Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) is an assessment tool that facilitates the objective and systematic evaluation of the quality of MHAs. However, a German MARS is currently not available. Objective: The aim of this study was to translate and validate a German version of the MARS (MARS-G). Methods: The original 19-item MARS was forward and backward translated twice, and the MARS-G was created. App description items were extended, and 104 MHAs were rated twice by eight independent bilingual researchers, using the MARS-G and MARS. The internal consistency, validity, and reliability of both scales were assessed. Mokken scale analysis was used to investigate the scalability of the overall scores. Results: The retranslated scale showed excellent alignment with the original MARS. Additionally, the properties of the MARS-G were comparable to those of the original MARS. The internal consistency was good for all subscales (ie, omega ranged from 0.72 to 0.91). The correlation coefficients (r) between the dimensions of the MARS-G and MARS ranged from 0.93 to 0.98. The scalability of the MARS (H=0.50) and MARS-G (H=0.48) were good. Conclusions: The MARS-G is a reliable and valid tool for experts and stakeholders to assess the quality of health apps in German-speaking populations. The overall score is a reliable quality indicator. However, further studies are needed to assess the factorial structure of the MARS and MARS-G.
Microfluidic disturbances and their impact on platelet aggregation
Creators: name: Tovar Lopez, Francisco
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Multi-disciplinary areas of research like biomechanics or mechanobiology is providing new insights, perspective and scientific frameworks to better understand complex biophysical processes. A particularly interesting bio-physical process is blood clotting. The mechanical aspects of blood flow and its impact on blood cell responses are not well understood, but can be studied from a robust perspective through the implementation of different engineering tools including computational simulations, experiments, and microtechnologies.
 The aim of this thesis was to gain insight into the haemodynamics on experiments recently performed in-vivo on mice and in-vitro using capillaries in blood flow. Using this insight a micro-fluidic platform tailored to study the mechanical effects driving blood platelet aggregation independent of biochemical triggers was developed. Detailed account of the haemodynamics of in-vivo and in-vitro experiments are presented as well as the design, fabrication, characterisation of a microfluidic platform that utilizes microcontractions to test blood dynamics under different scenarios of dynamic strain-rates. The microfludics platform was characterized using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and micro-Particle Image Velocimetry. New proof-of-concept blood perfusion experiments that illustrate the versatility of the device are also presented. The newly created platform has been instrumental in elucidating a new mechanism of platelet aggregation that occurs independent of the commonly accepted soluble agonist mediated pathways[1].
 The main contribution of this work was building evidence through simulations and the fabrication of a microfluidic platforms to support the claim that with the chemical mechanisms of aggregation blocked, dynamic strain-rates produced by a micro-contraction, are able to produce platelet aggregation and thrombus formation. The microfluidics platform presented facilitates the detailed analysis of the effects of haemodynamics parameters on the rate and extent of platelet aggregation and will be a useful tool to elucidate the haemodynamics and platelet mechano-transduction mechanisms, underlying this mechanicaldependent process.
Using triggers in a practice-led research methodology to challenge the conventions of communication design.
Creators: name: Farlie, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In this research, I am using an understanding of visual communication that holds that design is more than a spontaneous creative act – it can be studied and used as part of a research project that examines the design process itself . This project seeks to re-position design as a mode of questioning, with an emphasis on exploring the nature of communication design practice and how to extend it, rather than creating and reflecting on new design activities. The works explore assumptions about design and provokes a fresh consideration of communication design practice that will have operational significance. To appropriate words used to describe the work of the 2011 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Tomas Tranströmer, I was looking for a design approach that would ‘find a fresh way into reality’. As Faust states, ‘When we reframe design through a discourse, designing on a meta level, we are actually designing design, as we are giving design a different meaning, changing frame to include or exclude what we do or don’t consider as a part of the field’ (Faust 2010, p. 109). This highlights the potential of a design to reframe communication design and to broaden traditional boundaries to trigger a challenge to the conventions of communication design. This moves the conversation about sustainable design away from discussions of materials and message, and onto the underlying ideas of design culture and the frameworks that create received ideas about design norms. The research process helped me reimagine the role of both the designer and design audience. This kind of exploration is an underdeveloped area in sustainable design research. Sustainable design often fails to reference a wider consideration of the conceptual framework of communication design practice. Sustainable design needs to engage with the culture of consumption and its unsustainable demand for resources (Jackson 2009) and the social effects of communication design. The concepts of sustainable communication design practice are largely undeveloped, beyond minimising the environmental impact of communication design within a commercial context – for example, by using paper from a sustainable source, using soya-based inks, minimising the practice’s energy use and avoiding working for clients with environmentally unsound practices. Although these considerations are important, their scope is not broad enough to address or halt the damage being done to the world’s ecosystems (United Nations 2011, Jackson 2009). This research attempts to harness the full potential of communication designers to create social change through critical engagement with design practice.
title: Regular Surveys Rescue Wildlife: What a Lucky and Unlucky Individual Tsukuba Clawed Salamander
Creators: name: Hsu, Chia-Hsuan
name: Kang, Jiefeng
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: The Tsukuba clawed salamander (Onychodactylus tsukubaensis), native to Japan's Tsukuba mountain areas, faces peril from human activities and climate change. Classified as critically endangered by both the Japanese Ministry of Environment and the IUCN Red List, limited research has been conducted since its identification as a distinct species. Monthly surveys initiated in August 2023 aimed to understand its ecology. During a December 2023 survey, a remarkable encounter unfolded: a trapped individual salamander was discovered, initially assumed dead but miraculously alive. Despite an ulcerated tail wound, the salamander's survival presents a hopeful outcome for this endangered species. Uncertain of the cause, we maintain our commitment to regular surveys, believing they offer opportunities not only for research but also to rescue and safeguard wildlife, reinforcing our dedication to the conservation cause.