cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ursachenanalyse potentialinduzierter Degradation an der Rückseite bifazialer Silizium-Solarzellen mit passiviertem Emitter und passivierter Rückseite
Creators: name: Sporleder, Kai
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530

description: In dieser Arbeit wird die potentialinduzierte Degradation (engl. potential-induced degradation, „PID“) an der Rückseite bifazialer Solarzellen der PERC-Technologie (engl. passivated emitter and rear cell) -untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass zwei unterschiedliche PID an der Rückseite auftauchen. Unterschieden werden kann zwischen einem korrosiven PID-Effekt (PID-c; engl. corrosive), der zu irreversiblen Leistungsverlusten führt. Die bei PID-c erstmals beobachtete Oxidation des Siliziumwafer unterhalb der Aluminiumoxidschicht wird auf Verunreinigungen im Herstellungsprozess zurückgeführt. Als zweite Ursache wird PID durch Depolarisation (PID-p, engl. polarization) beobachtet. PID-p zeigt einen charakteristischen zeitlichen Verlauf und lässt sich durch eine Sammlung positiver Ladungen in der Siliziumnitrid-Beschichtung und eine einhergehende Kompensation der Feldeffektpassivierung erklären. Ursachen der Mechanismen werden modellhaft behandelt.
description: In this dissertation, potential-induced degradation (PID) at the rear side of bifacial silicon solar cells with passivated emitter and rear (PERC) is investigated. From the experiments it is demonstrated that two different PIDs occur on the rear side. First, a corrosive PID effect (PID-c) is observed which leads to irreversible power losses. The oxidation of the silicon wafer below the aluminum oxide layer, was observed for the first time in PID-c and is attributed to impurities in the manufacturing process. Second, PID due to de-polarization (PID-p) is observed. PID-p shows a characteristic transient and can be explained by a storage of positive charges in the silicon nitride layer and an associated compensation of the field-effect passivation. Models for the underlying mechanisms are discussed.
Aerosol exposure of staff during dental treatments: a model study
Creators: name: Melzow, Florentina
name: Mertens, Sarah
name: Todorov, Hristo
name: Groneberg, David A.
name: Paris, Sebastian
name: Gerber, Alexander
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aerosols
subject: Oral medicine
subject: Dental staff
subject: Dental suction
subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Due to exposure to potentially infectious aerosols during treatments, the dental personnel is considered being at high risk for aerosol transmitted diseases like COVID-19. The aim of this study was to evaluate aerosol exposure during different dental treatments as well as the efficacy of dental suction to reduce aerosol spreading. Methods: Dental powder-jet (PJ; Air-Flow (R)), a water-cooled dental handpiece with a diamond bur (HP) and water-cooled ultrasonic scaling (US) were used in a simulation head, mounted on a dental unit in various treatment settings. The influence of the use of a small saliva ejector (SE) and high-volume suction (HVS) was evaluated. As a proxy of aerosols, air-born particles (PM10) were detected using a Laser Spectrometer in 30 cm distance from the mouth. As control, background particle counts (BC) were measured before and after experiments. Results: With only SE, integrated aerosol levels [median (Q25/Q75) mu g/m(3) s] for PJ [91,246 (58,213/118,386) mu g/m(3) s, p < 0.001, ANOVA] were significantly increased compared to BC [7243 (6501/8407) mu g/m(3) s], whilst HP [11,119 (7190/17,234) mu g/m(3) s, p > 0.05] and US [6558 (6002/7066) mu g/m(3) s; p > 0.05] did not increase aerosol levels significantly. The use of HVS significantly decreased aerosol exposure for PJ [37,170 (29,634/51,719) mu g/m(3) s; p < 0.01] and HP [5476 (5066/5638) mu g/m(3) s; p < 0.001] compared to SE only, even reaching lower particle counts than BC levels for HP usage (p < 0.001). Conclusions: To reduce the exposure to potentially infectious aerosols, HVS should be used during aerosol-forming dental treatments.
title: Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Australia)
title: Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Australia)
Creators: name: Crotty, Martin
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Soziale Situation
subject: o.P. Australien
subject: Australia
subject: Social aspects
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918

description: Despite the rhetoric at the war’s outbreak of how Australia would stand united beside its British motherland, and in direct contrast to the public memory of World War I in Australia as an episode that brought the nation together, the Great War was a deeply divisive experience for Australians. Ethnic, sectarian and class differences had been successfully accommodated in the nation that federated in 1901 through mutual tolerance and a series of compromises. But the strains of war generated discontent, bitterness, conflict and division, to which the government responded with a range of repressive measures.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Chandra X-ray observations of Abell 1835 to the virial radius
Creators: name: Bonamente, M.
name: Landry, D.
name: Maughan, B.
name: Giles, P.
name: Joy, M.
name: Nevalainen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first Chandra detection of emission out to the virial radius in the cluster Abell 1835 at z=0.253. Our analysis of the soft X-ray surface brightness shows that emission is present out to a radial distance of 10 arcmin or 2.4 Mpc, and the temperature profile has a factor of ten drop from the peak temperature of 10 keV to the value at the virial radius. We model the Chandra data from the core to the virial radius and show that the steep temperature profile is not compatible with hydrostatic equilibrium of the hot gas, and that the gas is convectively unstable at the outskirts. A possible interpretation of the Chandra data is the presence of a second phase of warm-hot gas near the cluster's virial radius that is not in hydrostatic equilibrium with the cluster's potential. The observations are also consistent with an alternative scenario in which the gas is significantly clumped at large radii.
description: MNRAS in press; 13 pages, 10 figures
Āʼishah al-Bāʻūniyyah: The Life and Poetry of a Medieval Damascene Scholar
Creators: name: Ullah, Sahar Ishtiaque
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Arabic literature
Love poetry, Arabic
Arabic poetry
Literature, Medieval

description: Contrary to popular beliefs about the lack of women intellectuals and the decline of Arabic literary production in medieval Muslim societies, the sixteenth-century Damascene scholar Āʼishah al-Bāʻūniyyah is considered one of the most prolific women writers of the medieval period. Most recently, she has been translated for the first time into English and has been described as composing more works in Arabic than any other woman prior to the twentieth century; however, very little is known about her and her works in American and European academia and within a larger context in which Arab and Muslim societies are popularly vilified as historically misogynist and anti-culture. This talk will introduce and shed light on the life and poetry of Āʼishah al-Bāʻūniyyah. Specifically, I will closely read her Wine Ode in T, the Tā’iyyah, and demonstrate Al-Bāʻūniyyah’s performance of scholarly citation and engagement with other famous medieval writers along with unique departures in rhetorical style. During a time when histories are irreparably being destroyed in Syria and other parts of the Arabic and Muslim world, highlighting an Arabic love poem by a medieval Muslim woman is a small contribution to resisting the erasure and vilification of a people.
Trees and Vegetables: AFINET UK RAIN meeting. The Organic Grower Issue 42
Creators: name: Steel, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: silvoarable; horticulture; organic

description: On a crisp, cold January morning, Charlotte joine dthe 'Trees and Vegetables' Agroforestry Innovation Networks (AFINET) visit to Duchy Home Farm, Gloucestershire. In this article for The Organic Grower, Charlotte reports on the inspirational day.
title: La Courtine, Mutiny of
title: La Courtine, Mutiny of
Creators: name: Cockfield, Jamie H.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Russland
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Meuterei
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Russia
subject: Mutiny

description: This article details the mutiny of two Russian brigades sent to France in World War I. The less rebellious of the two was finally disciplined and used to suppress the unruly brigade in 1917 in what might be termed the first battle of the Russian civil war. Afterwards, remnants of both brigades were formed into the Russian Legion of Honor and returned to the front and fought loyally for France until the end of the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Μελέτη του ακαθάριστου σχηματισμού παγίου κεφαλαίου σε επιλεγμένες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες
title: Study of the gross fixed capital formation in selected european countries
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Θεοδωρής, Δημήτριος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ακαθάριστο Εγχώριο Προϊόν
subject: Μέθοδοι υπολογισμού Ακαθάριστου Εγχώριου Προϊόντος
subject: Επένδυση
subject: Ακαθάριστος σχηματισμός παγίου κεφαλαίου
subject: Απλή γραμμική παλινδρόμηση
subject: Gross domestic product
subject: Calculation of gross domestic product
subject: Investment
subject: Gross fixed capital formation
subject: Simple linear regression

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η μελέτη του ακαθάριστου σχηματισμού παγίου κεφαλαίου και η εξέταση της επίδρασης του στο ακαθάριστο εγχώριο προϊόν. Αρχικά, στην παρούσα εργασία, αναπτύσσονται οι μέθοδοι υπολογισμού του ΑΕΠ. Παρουσιάζεται συνοπτικά η σχέση πληθωρισμού και ακαθάριστου εγχώριου προϊόντος και εξετάζεται αν μπορεί το ΑΕΠ να χρησιμοποιηθεί ως αξιόπιστος δείκτης οικονομικής ευημερίας. Στη συνέχεια, παρουσιάζεται μια βασική συνιστώσα του ΑΕΠ, η επένδυση. Γίνεται διάκριση μεταξύ δημόσιας και ιδιωτικής επένδυσης και παρουσιάζεται η έννοια του ακαθάριστου σχηματισμού παγίου κεφαλαίου όπως αυτή ορίζεται από το σύστημα εθνικών λογαριασμών. Γίνεται αναφορά σε έννοιες που σχετίζονται με την επένδυση όπως ο πολλαπλασιαστής των επενδύσεων, η οριακή αποδοτικότητα του κεφαλαίου και οι προσδιοριστικοί παράγοντες της επένδυσης. Στο τρίτο μέρος, πραγματοποιείται η εμπειρική ανάλυση. Πραγματοποιώντας απλή γραμμική παλινδρόμηση με τη μέθοδο ελαχίστων τετραγώνων, σε ένα δείγμα σαράντα παρατηρήσεων, τα τρίμηνα της περιόδου 2013 – 2022, για δέκα χώρες της Ευρώπης, προκύπτουν τα συμπεράσματα για τη σχέση μεταξύ του ακαθάριστου σχηματισμού παγίου κεφαλαίου και του ΑΕΠ. Προκύπτει μια ικανοποιητική ερμηνευτική ικανότητα του γραμμικού μοντέλου εκτίμησης και ο έλεγχος στατιστικής σημαντικότητας του όρου β της παλινδρόμησης επιβεβαιώνει την αξιοπιστία του εκτιμηθέντος υποδείγματος και την ύπαρξη γραμμικής σχέσης εξάρτησης μεταξύ του ακαθάριστου σχηματισμού παγίου κεφαλαίου και του ακαθάριστου εγχώριου προϊόντος.
title: Martyrs/Separatists, Syrian and Lebanese
title: Martyrs/Separatists, Syrian and Lebanese
Creators: name: Çiçek, M. Talha
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Osmanisches Reich
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. Syrien
subject: Turkey--Politics and government--1909-1918
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Syria--History--1516-1918

description: The terms "martyrs" and "separatists" refer to the decentralist Arabists of Syria who were executed by Cemal Pasha during World War I as a result of their alleged plot to separate the Syrian land from the Ottoman Empire.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Agroforestry 2017: improving productivity for farmers and foresters. The Organic Grower. Issue 40
Creators: name: Sumption, Phil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agroforestry; conference; United Kingdom

description: The UK's first national agroforestry conference was held on Thursday 22nd June at Cranfield University and organised by the Woodland Trust, Royal Forestry Society and Soil Association. It was a sell-out event of 250 attendees including farmers, foresters, landowners and researchers who joined together to explore the benefits and practicalities of bringing more trees onto farmland, and taking farming into forests. This article from The Organic Grower magazine reports on the conference.
Language acquisition in its developmental context
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Children--Language
Child development
Language acquisition
Developmental psychology

description: At the close of the 20th century, several influential theories of language acquisition had emerged out of nativist theories in linguistics or logical arguments in the philosophy of language. This review of this last generation of theory and research in language acquisition emphasizes, in contrast, explicitly psychological theories of language development. Acquiring language is always a psychological task for the child, not a logical one, and the linguistic problems to be solved are always embedded in personal and interpersonal contexts. Developments in affect, cognition, and social interaction provide the driving force for acquiring a language: Affect promotes engagement with the physical and personal world for learning and for sustaining intersubjectivity with other persons. Cognitive development yields conceptual knowledge and the symbolic capacity for the mental representations that language expresses and that result from interpreting the expressions of others. Social developments press the child to learn a language to share contents of mind with other persons and thereby assume a place in culture and society. All aspects of development come together for acquiring language. When we put all the effort at explanation, instead, into only one or another aspect of development or into only the words and linguistic structures of the adult language the child needs to learn, the result is a loss of perspective on the psychology of the child. It is also a loss of perspective on language itself and the power of expression it provides as children move from the origins of language in infancy to acquiring a vocabulary of words, combining words in phrases and simple sentences, the beginnings of complex syntax, and learning language in and for conversations.
Knowledge and understanding risk factors and preventive measures for osteoporosis in women: results of a survey in 502 women with and without a migration background
Creators: name: Taghvaei, Reza
name: Dimitrova, Desislava
name: Karaman, Murat
name: Sehouli, Jalid
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Migrants
subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Knowledge
subject: Preventive measures
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Osteoporosis is a disease of the skeletal system associated with loss of bone mass and an increased risk of fractures affecting women more often than men. Identification of the knowledge about osteoporosis and its preventive methods is the backbone of any awareness program. This study investigates the knowledge with a special focus on women with and without a migration background. Methods: Data from systematic patient interviews based on a questionnaire were collected at three different sites in Berlin between February and June 2021. The survey included questions assessing migrant background, demographic characteristics, lifestyle habits including physical exercise and smoking, prevention by vitamin D intake and bone densitometry, and information on personal and family medical history. According to the responses, a scale was created to assess the level of knowledge of preventive osteoporosis measures. The ethic committee of the Charite, Medical faculty has approved this study. SPSS (version 24.0) was used for the statistical analyses. Results: The survey of 502 female patients revealed that 25% had low and 34% no previous knowledge of osteoporosis. Older age and a better education level correlate with a higher knowledge. Patients with gynecologic cancer are less well informed. There is a significant difference in vitamin D intake between migrant and non-migrant women (57% vs. 49%). There were no significant differences regarding the use of bone densitometry. Conclusion: Knowledge of osteoporosis and the possibility of a bone densitometry as well as the implementation of preventive measures is low among women. Therefore, informing patients better should be a priority, with particular attention on the risks and needs of women with a migration background. Specific programs for women with and without migration background should be developed to increase the awareness of osteoporosis.
Untersuchungen zur neuen Komponente Tic23 der chloroplastidären Proteinimportmaschinerie
Creators: name: Bauer, Nadine
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Der Import kerncodierter Proteine in die Chloroplasten ist von essenzieller Bedeutung für die Pflanzenzellen. Dabei spielen Importkomplexe der äußeren (TOC) und inneren Chloroplastenhülle (TIC), wie beispielsweise der 1 MDa TIC-Komplex, eine entscheidende Rolle. Als hochmolekulare Proteinkomplexe sind diese aus vielen Untereinheiten aufgebaut. In Untersuchungen mit Arabidopsis thaliana wurde die Assoziation eines bisher unbeschriebenen Proteins, genannt Tic23, mit dem 1 MDa TIC-Komplex entdeckt. Mit der Charakterisierung ebendieses Tic23 befasst sich die vorliegende Arbeit. Im Speziellen wurden vergleichende Analysen der T-DNA-Insertionsmutante tic23-1 mit der Mutante des Homologs pss1 hinsichtlich Phänotyp, Proteinimport und Hitzestressantwort durchgeführt. Dabei wurde festgestellt, dass die Mutante tic23-1 durch eine reduzierte Proteinabundanz von Tic23 einen hellgrünen Phänotyp ausbildet. Jedoch hatte die Mutation keine Auswirkung auf den chloroplastidären Proteinimport selbst. Die Untersuchungen zur Hitzestressantwort zeigten, dass die Mutante tic23-1 im Vergleich zum Wildtyp resistenter gegenüber Hitzestress war.
description: The import of nuclear-encoded proteins into the chloroplasts is of essential importance for plant cells. The translocons of the outer (TOC) and inner chloroplast envelope membrane (TIC), such as the 1 MDa TIC complex, play a crucial role. These high-molecular protein complexes consist of many subunits. In previous studies the association of a previously undescribed protein, called Tic23, with the 1 MDa TIC complex was discovered in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. The present work deals with the characterization of this protein Tic23. In the T-DNA insertion mutant tic23-1 and the mutant of the homolog pss1 were comparative analyzed with regard to phenotype, protein import and heat stress response. It was found that the mutant tic23-1 develops a pale green phenotype due to a reduced protein abundance of Tic23. However, the mutation had no effect on the protein import into the chloroplasts itself. The studies of the heat stress response showed that the mutant tic23-1 was more resistant to heat stress than the wild type.
Können Maschinen Rechtsfälle entscheiden?
Creators: name: Campos Sasdelli, Diogo
Publisher: name: Universität Vechta
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Normenlogik
subject: Rechtslogik
subject: Rechtsinformatik
subject: Logik
subject: Rechtsphilosophie
subject: DDC Sachgruppen::100 - Philosophie und Psychologie::100 - Philosophie

description: In dieser Dissertation wird die Frage untersucht, ob die Rechtsprechung – verstanden als die richterliche Tätigkeit, Rechtsurteile zu fällen – durch den Einsatz von Maschinen automatisiert werden kann. Die Arbeit besteht aus insgesamt 44 Paragrafen (0-43), wobei die Paragrafen 0-2 einer Präzisierung der Titelfrage „Können Maschinen Rechtsfälle entscheiden?“ gewidmet sind und die übrigen in drei Hauptteile gruppiert werden: 1. Normenlogik; 2. Rechtslogik. 3. Beantwortung der Frage und Schlussbemerkungen. Die Beantwortung der Titelfrage wird auf die Beantwortung zweier, präziser formulierter Fragen zurückgeführt: Der sog. Herleitungsfrage (kann die Rechtsfindung auf einen Algorithmus reduziert werden?) und der sog. Verkündungsfrage (kann die Verkündung des Ergebnisses der Rechtsfindung auf einen Algorithmus, reduziert werden?). Eine positive Antwort auf die Herleitungsfrage setzt den Aufbau eines geeigneten Kalküls der Normenlogik voraus. Dementsprechend fokussiert sich der erste Teil der Arbeit auf die Analyse der verschiedenen Ansätze zum Aufbau der Normenlogik. Im zweiten Teil der Untersuchung geht die Dissertation aufgrund der festgestellten Probleme betreffend den Aufbau der Normenlogik die Perspektive von der Logik zur Rechtstheorie bzw. zur juristischen Methodenlehre über. Im Ergebnis werden im dritten Teil der Arbeit die Herleitungs- und die Verkündungsfrage negativ beantwortet. Die negative Antwort auf die Herleitungsfrage fußt darauf, dass die im zweiten Teil der Dissertation angeführten Voraussetzungen für eine Kalkülisierbarkeit des Rechts nicht erfüllt sind. Dieses Ergebnis basiert einerseits auf der sog. ontologischen Auffassung zum Normbegriff sowie andererseits auf der festgestellten Imprädikativität der juristischen Methodenlehre. Die negative Antwort auf die Verkündungsfrage basiert wiederum auf der sog. volitiven Dimension der Rechtsprechung.
Excitonic Effects on Optical Absorption Spectra of Doped Graphene
Creators: name: Yang, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed first-principles calculations to study optical absorption spectra of doped graphene with many-electron effects included. Both self-energy corrections and electron-hole interactions are reduced due to the enhanced screening in doped graphene. However, self-energy corrections and excitonic effects nearly cancel each other, making the prominent optical absorption peak fixed around 4.5 eV under different doping conditions. On the other hand, an unexpected increase of the optical absorbance is observed within the infrared and visible-light frequency regime (1 ~ 3 eV). Our analysis shows that a combining effect from the band filling and electron-hole interactions results in such an enhanced excitonic effect on the optical absorption. These unique variations of the optical absorption of doped graphene are of importance to understand relevant experiments and design optoelectronic applications.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures; Nano Lett., Article ASAP (2011)
title: Remembrance day: 11 November 1922-Today (France)
title: Remembrance day: 11 November 1922-Today (France)
Creators: name: Dalisson, Rémi
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. Frankreich
subject: Erinnerung
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--France
subject: Collective memory

description: As early as 1915, France considered celebrating those who died for the nation. After four years of debate among political parties and veterans, 11 November became a national holiday in 1922. From the very beginning, the meaning of the ritual was complex and contested. This article will describe the long deliberation over the choice of commemorative date, its evolution and the controversies regarding the celebration, including the present questioning of its very existence.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Hydrogen generation in a multi-channel membrane reactor
Creators: name: Vigneault, Alexandre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: A novel Multi-Channel Membrane Reactor (MCMR) has been developed for the decentralized production of hydrogen via Steam Methane Reforming (SMR). The concept alternates steam reforming gas channels to produce the hydrogen and Methane Catalytic Combustion (MCC) gas channels to provide the heat of reaction. A palladium-silver (Pd/Ag) membrane inside each reforming gas channel shifts the reaction equilibrium, and produces pure hydrogen in a single vessel. A steady-state, non iso-thermal and two-dimensional modeling of the concept was first developed. Sensitivity analyses from the simulations indicated the importance of fast kinetics and thick catalyst coating layers (>80 mm) to avoid limitations from the catalyst. An innovative hot substrate air-spray coating method was developed, and thick layer of catalysts (>240 µm) with good adherence under sonication were obtained. A lab-made Ru MgO-La₂O₃/ y-Al₂O₃ catalyst, with carrier and promoters pre-aged by steam, and coated on pre-oxidized Fecralloy, was found to be suitable for the reforming channel. On the combustion side, commercial Pd y-Al₂O₃ catalysts were successfully coated on stainless steel support. Kinetics parameters were estimated for both reforming and combustion catalysts. A proof-of-concept MCMR was designed and built. Results showed that a methane conversion of 87% was achievable with a pure hydrogen output (99.995%). The reforming experimental results were adequately predicted for a wide range of operating conditions. On the combustion side, the experimental conversions were below the model expectations, likely because of flow distribution and catalyst stability issues. It is shown that the MCMR concept has the potential to give hydrogen yield per reactor volume, and per mass of catalyst, about one order of magnitude higher than for alternate membrane reactor technologies.
Brane-Antibrane Backreaction in Axion Monodromy Inflation
Creators: name: Conlon, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the interaction potential between D5 and anti-D5 branes wrapping distant but homologous 2-cycles. The interaction potential is logarithmic in the separation radius and does not decouple at infinity. We show that logarithmic backreaction is generic for 5-branes wrapping distant but homologous 2-cycles, and we argue that this destabilises models of axion monodromy inflation involving NS5 brane-antibrane pairs in separate warped throats towards an uncontrolled region.
description: 12 pages
title: Balisier :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Canna

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
title: Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Australia)
title: Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Australia)
Creators: name: Wise, Nathan
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Australien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Arbeiterbewegung
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Australia
subject: Labor movement

description: The First World War caused great upheavals within the Australian labour movement. The period 1914-1918 saw the highest national union membership being recorded alongside the greatest number of working days ever lost on an annual basis to industrial action. And yet, this is an aspect of Australia’s history that is scarcely documented in detail. As such, and as this survey article will demonstrate, scholars seeking to understand the history of labour movements, trade unions and strikes within Australia during the First World War must cast a broad net, and canvas both general histories and more focused case studies, in order to understand the broad impact of war on Australia.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Parsimonious Parameterization of Age-Period-Cohort Models by Bayesian Shrinkage
Creators: name: Venter, Gary
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Actuarial science
Cohort analysis
Markov processes

description: Age-period-cohort models used in life and general insurance can be over-parameterized, and actuaries have used several methods to avoid this, such as cubic splines. Regularization is a statistical approach for avoiding over-parameterization, and it can reduce estimation and predictive variances compared to MLE. In Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation, regularization is accomplished by the use of mean-zero priors, and the degree of parsimony can be optimized by numerically efficient out-of-sample cross-validation. This provides a consistent framework for comparing a variety of regularized MCMC models, such as those built with cubic splines, linear splines (as ours is), and the limiting case of non-regularized estimation.
title: Colonial Society (Indochina)
title: Colonial Society (Indochina)
Creators: name: Brocheux, Pierre
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Indochina
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Gesellschaft
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Indochina
subject: War and society

description: When World War I broke out, the military conquest of the countries located between China, Siam and the South China Sea had been over for two decades. Nonetheless, French rule in Indochina was not entirely established and the exploitation of economic resources had only just begun. Globally, the region’s societies and cultural identities had not yet significantly changed. Initially, local inhabitants reacted to foreign intrusion defensively and conservatively. Nevertheless, the Asian transformations in Japan and China had strong repercussions in Indochina, principally in Vietnam. This exposé focuses on Vietnam, where the seeds of modernization fermented most visibly. Initially a European conflict, WW1 indirectly influenced the process of social, cultural and political change in the region.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Myasthenia gravis - a retrospective analysis of e-mail inquiries made to a patient organisation and specialized center to uncover unmet needs from patients and caregivers
Creators: name: Stein, Maike
name: Hoffmann, Sarah
name: Gerischer, Lea
name: Stascheit, Frauke
name: Legg, David
name: Meisel, Andreas
name: Lehnerer, Sophie
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Myasthenia gravis
subject: Counselling
subject: Patient organisation
subject: Unmet needs
subject: E-mail
subject: Social legislation
subject: COVID-19
subject: Caregiver
subject: Medical inquiries
subject: Specialized care
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background and aims: Myasthenia Gravis requires expert treatment from specialized neurologists. In Germany, this treatment is mainly provided by 18 Integrated Myasthenia Centers (iMZ) accredited by the German Myasthenia Gravis Association (DMG). The DMG is a large and well-organized patient organisation that is regarded as a trusted source for disease-specific information. The aim of this study was to analyse the type of requests that each of these institutions receives in order to identify any potential unmet needs regarding the availability of advice for patients and caregivers. This data can then be used in further research to tailor modern digital communication tools to the specific needs of MG patients. Methods: Counselling requests sent via e-mail to both institutions were extracted for defined examination periods and divided into a period 'before COVID-19 pandemic' (01.07.2019-31.12.2019) and 'during COVID-19 pandemic' (01.07.2020-31.12.2020). Requests were then analysed using four main categories: medical requests, organisational issues, COVID-19 and social legislation inquiries. Results: One thousand seven hundred eleven requests for advice were addressed to DMG and iMZ Charite. Most inquiries directed to the DMG (47%; n = 750) were related to medical issues, most frequently to side effects of medications (n = 325; 20%) and questions about treatment (n = 263; 16%), followed by inquiries regarding organisational issues (26%; n = 412). About half of the inquiries (n = 69; 58%) to the iMZ Charite were related to medical issues and almost one in three inquiries concerned organisational issues (n = 37; 30%). About one in ten inquiries concerned socio-legal matters (iMZ: n = 7; 6% and DMG: n = 177; 11%). During the pandemic, COVID-19 related issues accounted for 8% (n = 6) of inquiries at iMZ, and 16% (n = 253) at DMG. Conclusions: MG sufferers have a high demand for timely advice. In the current setting, they address their requests to both iMZs and the DMG via e-mail. Our findings confirm that the DMG is highly trusted by patients and caregivers and is used to obtain second opinions. A relevant proportion of requests to the iMZ could be answered more effectively through standardized responses or improved process management. The implementation of modern digital solutions, including telemedicine, for communication between patient and specialist should be evaluated in further research.
Social innovation on the ground: Accessible and evidence-based tools for social innovators
Creators: name: Bow Valley College
Publisher: name: Research and Innovation
Year: 2021
Subjects: social innovation
project planning
social innovation facilitators
social innovation barriers
evidence-based tools

description: In keeping with the findings and recommendations of the research study, Social Innovation on the Ground: Accessible and Evidence-Based Tools for Social Innovators—in particular the awareness of the challenges and needs of people working on the front lines of social innovation—this resource was developed to help with the planning and development of social innovation. A learning module comprised of three units was created. The units are intended as appropriate for part of a college curriculum, as a continuing education course, as a professional development opportunity for innovation staff, or simply for individuals who are interested in learning the “how to” of social innovation. The three units are entitled: I. Building Effective Social Innovation Ideas II. Project Planning III. Successfully Communicating and Building Relationships. The contents of the units build upon findings from the research and seek to address its conclusions. Units were designed by members of the research team along with curriculum development experts from Bow Valley College’s Teaching & Learning Enhancement unit.
Experiences of Home-living Vulnerable Older Adults with Clinical Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Grohé, Johanna
name: Gellert, Paul
name: Kessler, Eva-Marie
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: everyday experience
subject: mental health
subject: loneliness
subject: social isolation
subject: grounded theory
subject: resilience
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives: Little is known about the diversity of older adults’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. We therefore investigated the pandemic experiences of home-living vulnerable older adults with depression, an understudied subpopulation. Methods: We conducted unstructured interviews with N= 20 older (60+ years) adults with clinical depression receiving care in their homes in June and again in December 2020. Interviews were coded according to the grounded theory approach. Results: We identified eight themes. Participants described feeling disconnected before and during the pandemic, which they attributed to their physical impairments and old age. Their social relations with family, medical providers, and caregivers helped them feel connected. Participants did not feel significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but they missed social and physical contact. During the pandemic, isolation was normalized. Participants therefore experienced loneliness due to their isolation, but also a sense of togetherness with the rest of society. Isolation within the home was re-framed as cocooning, which provided a sense of autonomy. Participants nevertheless expressed resignation. Conclusions: Home-living vulnerable older adults with depression experienced loneliness but also a degree of relief during the pandemic. Clinical implications: Positively re-framing isolation and the stability of formal caregiving helped participants endure feeling disconnected during the pandemic.
title: Dicke Bertha
title: Dicke Bertha
Creators: name: Storz, Dieter
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Dicke Berta
subject: o.P. Paris guns

description: In the First World War, the German Empire had two models of 42-inch mortars: the "Gamma-device" (caliber length L/16) and the "M-device" (L/12). For camouflage reasons, both were called "short naval guns." They were special ordnances for fighting modern fortifications. The name "Big Bertha" was not standardized and was applied to both models, though it was occasionally related more narrowly to the "M-device." The origin of the name is unclear. A connection to the name of the main shareholder of Friedrich Krupp AG, Bertha Krupp, has not been established.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
The importance of language for language development: Linguistic determinism in the 1980s
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1981
Subjects: Child development
Language acquisition
Developmental psychology
Cognition in children

description: The semantic and syntactic functions of verbs are the major aspects of linguistic complexity that contribute to the cognitive requirements for learning language between two and three years of age. Several contrastive categories of verbs emerged from our studies with action/state as the largest and most general. Contrastive subcategories of action verbs were locative/nonlocative action, durative/nondurative action, and completive/noncompletive action. The subcategories of state verbs were volitional/epistemic/notice/communication states. The psychological and linguistic validity of these semantic categories rests on their being coextensive with major grammatical developments and/or their sequential development.
title: Haldane, Richard Burdon
title: Haldane, Richard Burdon
Creators: name: Mitchinson, Bill
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount
subject: Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount, 1856-1928

description: Liberal Secretary of State for War 1905-1912. Haldane’s reforms of the British Regular Army and its auxiliaries were instrumental in ensuring that Britain could dispatch an expeditionary force to assist the Belgians and French in August 1914.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Rheology and processing of high-density polyethylenes (HDPEs) : effects of molecular characteristics
Creators: name: Ansari, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In this study, the linear viscoelastic properties of two series of Ziegler-Natta and metallocene HDPEs (ZN-HDPEs and m-HDPEs respectively) of broad molecular weight distribution (MWD) have been studied. Relationships between the zero-shear viscosity and molecular weight (Mw) and molecular weight distribution show that the breadth of the molecular weight distribution (MWD) for m-HDPEs plays a significant role. Other interesting correlations between the crossover modulus and steady state compliance with MWD of both these classes of polymers have also been derived. Finally, the steady-shear viscosities from capillary rheometry are compared with LVE data to check the applicability of the empirical Cox-Merz rule. It is shown that the original Cox-Merz rule is approximately applicable for HDPEs for narrow to moderate MWD and fails for those HDPEs having a wide MWD due to the occurrence of wall slip. The processing behavior of both series of HDPEs was investigated. Their melt fracture behaviour was studied primarily as a function of Mw and MWD, and operating conditions i.e. temperature and geometrical details and type of die (capillary, slit and annular). It is found that sharkskin and other melt fracture phenomena are very different for these two classes of polymers, although their rheological behaviors are nearly the same for many of these. It is also found that critical conditions for the onset of various melt fracture phenomena depend significantly on the type of die used for their study. The slip behaviour of these resins was also studied as a function of Mw and MWD. It is found that the slip velocity increases with decrease of Mw, which expected to decay to zero as the Mw approaches a value with characteristic molecular dimension similar to surface asperities. For HDPEs that exhibit stick-slip transition (narrow to moderate MWD), the slip velocity has been found to increase with increase of polydispersity. The opposite dependence is shown for HDPEs of wider molecular weight distribution that do not exhibit stick-slip transition. A criterion is also developed as to the occurrence or not of the stick-slip transition which is found to depend strongly on Mw and its distribution.
Berlin Registry of Neuroimmunological entities (BERLimmun): protocol of a prospective observational study
Creators: name: Sperber, Pia S.
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Zimmermann, Hanna G.
name: Bahr, Lina S.
name: Chien, Claudia
name: Rekers, Sophia
name: Mähler, Anja
name: Böttcher, Chotima
name: Asseyer, Susanna
name: Duchow, Ankelien Solveig
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Ruprecht, Klemens
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Schmitz-Hübsch, Tanja
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multiple sclerosis (MS)
subject: Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)
subject: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
subject: Myelin-oligodendrocytic-glycoprotein
subject: associated disease (MOGAD)
subject: Optic neuritis
subject: Prospective observational study
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Large-scale disease overarching longitudinal data are rare in the field of neuroimmunology. However, such data could aid early disease stratification, understanding disease etiology and ultimately improve treatment decisions. The Berlin Registry of Neuroimmunological Entities (BERLimmun) is a longitudinal prospective observational study, which aims to identify diagnostic, disease activity and prognostic markers and to elucidate the underlying pathobiology of neuroimmunological diseases. Methods: BERLimmun is a single-center prospective observational study of planned 650 patients with neuroimmunological disease entity (e.g. but not confined to: multiple sclerosis, isolated syndromes, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders) and 85 healthy participants with 15 years of follow-up. The protocol comprises annual in-person visits with multimodal standardized assessments of medical history, rater-based disability staging, patient-report of lifestyle, diet, general health and disease specific symptoms, tests of motor, cognitive and visual functions, structural imaging of the neuroaxis and retina and extensive sampling of biological specimen. Discussion: The BERLimmun database allows to investigate multiple key aspects of neuroimmunological diseases, such as immunological differences between diagnoses or compared to healthy participants, interrelations between findings of functional impairment and structural change, trajectories of change for different biomarkers over time and, importantly, to study determinants of the long-term disease course. BERLimmun opens an opportunity to a better understanding and distinction of neuroimmunological diseases.
title: War Bonds
title: War Bonds
Creators: name: Bruendel, Steffen
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsfinanzierung
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: War finance

description: The governments of all belligerent countries issued special loans to finance their expenditure after the war began. To mobilize the financial resources of their peoples required concerted war bonds propaganda. War bonds were seen as the home front’s contribution to victory.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Inspiring trust and risk in online discussion
Creators: name: Marquart, Matthea S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Classroom environment
Web-based instruction
Trust

description: This session will describe ways to build a respectful and supportive classroom community that encourages participation from all students and deepens opportunities for peer learning. Drawing from how community was created in an online course on racial identity development at the School of Social Work, this interactive session will consider how to build community in courses across a variety of departments.